Good afternoon.This is your “Message of Hope” from the Grant Street Church of Christ in Decatur.

Students of history tell us that the average age of the world’s great civilizations has been 200 years with progressions through these cycles:

From bondage to spiritual faith.

From spiritual faith to great courage.

From great courage to liberty.

From liberty to abundance.

From abundance to selfishness.

From selfishness to dependency.

From dependency to bondage.

Pray for our leaders – and our voters as well.