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TeacherAide Case For Freedom SESSION 1 HANDS ON How
did you know which ones were fake? How
difficult was it to tell which ones were true? How
can this apply to your spiritual life? Jesus
raising from the dead and offering free salvation to man is weird thing to some
people. How can you convince others that it is true? What
are some things that you heard about Christ that may be false? SPOT
THE NOT QUIZ Can
you spot the not? We'll soon find out! Below there are ten things that are
amazing facts, events or feats. You have to decide which ones are false and
which ones are true. Circle the items that you think are false. 1.
A man named Jeff Jay broke the record for walking on the
tallest pair of stilts -- over 60 feet high! 2.
Tony Evans has created the world's biggest ball of rubber bands -- six million
of them! And dropped them out of an airplane to see how high it would bounce. 3.Eric
Barone will broke a land speed world record on a bicycle, by pedaling downhill
at 107 miles per hour.
6.
Peter Lynn built a kite that needs to be tied to 2 automobiles just to keep it
from blowing away! It's 210 feet long and 72 feet wide. 7.
Hindus in Northern India consider the urine of cows to be sacred, so every
morning before leaving for work, they wait for the cow to urinate and apply it
to their heads and faces. 8.Christopher
Wall was born with his heart outside of his body and today lives a normal life. 10.
Karoly Kiss is able to sculpt -- a tiger, an airplane, an elephant -- in just 30
seconds using a piece of ordinary chewing gum and only his tongue and teeth! ILLUSTRATING
THE POINT Have
you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of
Independence? Five
signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the
revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and
died from wounds or hardships of the revolutionary war. They
signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven
were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means,
well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well
that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter
Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the
seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and
died in rags. Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to
move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and
his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty
was his reward. Vandals
or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall,
Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle
of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had
taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General
George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died
bankrupt. Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed
his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's
bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and
his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and
caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few
weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston
Such
were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution.
These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken
men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more.
Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: “For the support of
this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence,
we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honor.” I
THOUGHT I HEARD YOU SAY
“Freedom
has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be
daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots,
it will wither and die.” -Dwight
D. Eisenhower “Those
who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” -Abraham
Lincoln “Freedom
is the oxygen of the soul.” -Moshe
Dayan “Freedom
means choosing your burden.” -Hephzibah
Menuhin “Men
fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from
themselves.” -Author
Unknown
-Frederick
Douglass “Freedom
is nothing else but a chance to be better.” -Albert
Camus
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