Peter Lillback at the Circa History Guild

On Friday evening and Saturday morning, Dr. Peter Lillback  spoke at the Circa History Guild about his two books Washington's Sacred Fire and Wall of Misconception.  For those of you who aren't up to reading a 700 page biography of Washington yet, he says they are working on putting out a 200-300 page abridged edition of Sacred Fire. 

Dr. Lillback is the president of Westminster Theological Seminary, Senior Pastor at Proclamation Presbyterian Church, and the Founder/President of The Providence Forum. 

Here's a quote from the introduction to Sacred Fire:

"George Washington's Sacred Fire intends to convince you that when all the available evidence is considered, the only viable conclusion is that George Washington was a Christian and not a Deist.  What enflamed Washington's passion and stirred his heart was that which was sacred to his soul---his utter dependence on the hand of Divine Providence."

Washingon's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation

"Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me 'to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness;

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the People of these United States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be;

That we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks...for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government...particularly the national one now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed...to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue."