Great Begins with Good: A Call to Spiritual Renewal, Collectors Edition($24.99Value)

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In the summer of 1776, a group of Americans signed a document that launched the most remarkable experiment in self-government the world had ever seen. Two hundred and fifty years later, the question Alexis de Tocqueville asked when he arrived in America is still the right one: What makes a free people good enough to stay free? Great Begins with Good is pastor and theologian Dr. Brent Gentzel's answer and his call to the generation that will carry America into its next chapter. Drawing on ten virtues woven through the American story (Faith, Humility, Respect, Ingenuity, Courage, Compassion, Stewardship, Conviction, Equality, and Grace), this book traces each virtue through the lives of real men and women who chose to be good when it was costly. George Washington walking away from power three times. Harriet Tubman going back into danger thirteen times. George Washington Carver praying over his laboratory every morning. Four military chaplains giving away their life jackets on a sinking ship. These are not sanitized heroes. This book tells the whole truth about its witnesses, their courage and their failures, because only real people, shaped by real grace, can show us what goodness actually looks like. But Great Begins with Good is not ultimately a history book. It is a pastoral argument: that American goodness has never come from Washington, D.C. It has come from homes, churches, and communities where people are being formed — slowly, faithfully — in the way of Jesus. And that if a new generation of Americans is going to keep what was handed to them, the work begins the same place it always has. Not in politics. Not in policy. In the quiet renewal of the human heart. Great Begins with Good is written for pastors, teachers, parents, and anyone who loves this country enough to ask hard questions about what will sustain it. A companion Read Along Edition — designed for families and classrooms — is also available, so the same stories and Scriptures can be encountered across generations. ISBN: 979-8-9959650-0-8 Published by Animating Ventures