What is the Liberty Tree? Do you know its legacy within American history? Dr. Lillback teaches us the importance of the Liberty Tree and what its historic symbol represents.      

Speaker 1: This is Providence Today, and we’re standing here at Christ Church in Philadelphia. One of the great places of our Founding Fathers, where they worshiped as members and also as representatives of the American people and they came to the Continental Congress. This particular marker is very impressive to me because it reminds […]

Dr. Peter A. Lillback: This is Providence Today. We’re here in Philadelphia, and we’re standing by the historic Christ Church. Christ Church is a historic Anglican Church, and it’s the birthplace of the modern Episcopal Church. It was hard to be a church of England after the American revolution, as you can well understand. And […]

Speaker 1: This is Providence today, and we’re in the city of Philadelphia, the birthplace of the United States. There’s so many great stories that are here to tell about how, our founding fathers gave us the nation we enjoy every day, as well as the great document, that shape how we govern ourselves and […]

Speaker 1: This is Providence Today, and we’re in the city of Philadelphia, the birthplace of the United States. There’s so many great stories that are here to tell about how our founding fathers gave us the nation we enjoy every day, as well as the great documents that shape how we govern ourselves and […]

Speaker 1: You are here in Philadelphia. And this spot that you’re now viewing is where Robert Morris had a magnificent home that he gave to General Washington, who had now had become President Washington, as the government moves from New York, where Washington was inaugurated to Philadelphia, where the government would operate for the […]

Dr. Peter Lillback: This is Providence Today. Welcome to Philadelphia, where we’re looking at some of the great places where faith and freedom have come together behind me is an extraordinary statue of Benjamin Franklin. As you look at it, you can see close up that it has images of keys. These keys were collected […]

Speaker 1: Welcome to Providence today. We’re standing in front of the National Constitution Center. And if you take a look at the wall, you’ll see the opening of the Constitution, the Preamble. These words are remarkable because they begin with the three words, “We, the People,” and this reminds us that America’s government is […]

Speaker 1: I’m standing in front of the wonderful place of the birth of American constitutionalism and our American independence. This is called Independence Hall today. That’s not what it was originally called. It was called the Pennsylvania State House and my understanding is that the name of Independence Hall was actually result of Lafayette […]

Dr. Peter A. Lillback: We’re standing by the Liberty Bell exhibit here in Philadelphia. The Liberty Bell, of course, represents the aspiration of freedom, going back to the Pennsylvania Provincial Council that used Leviticus 25:10, proclaimed liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants thereof to celebrate the Jubilee Year, 50 years of William Penn’s […]