• Note from the producer
    May 8 2026

    An Invitation to Visit JesusPOD.com

    Thank you for listening to One Nation Under God: The Providential Birth of America, a 250th Anniversary tribute produced by JesusPOD.com. If the stories you just heard stirred something in your heart — the field at Middletown, the fog over Brooklyn, the kneeling general in the snow at Valley Forge — we invite you to continue the journey with us.

    Visit JesusPOD.com for more faith-building audiobooks, Christian books, devotionals, and educational content created to strengthen your walk with Christ and remind you of the God who still moves in the affairs of men and nations.

    At JesusPOD.com you'll find:

    • Christian audiobooks that bring Scripture, history, and revival to life
    • Books and study resources for disciples, pastors, and families
    • Stories of providence, awakening, and the God who has not changed
    • New releases produced regularly for the 250th year of our nation and beyond

    The rider still rides. The wind still blows. The covenant still stands. Join us at JesusPOD.com — and pass this story on to someone who needs to hear that America was born on its knees, and can be reborn the same way.

    God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

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    1 min
  • Chapter 12 — One Nation Under God (1789 — and 2026)
    May 8 2026

    From Washington's unscripted "So help me God" on the balcony of Federal Hall to his Farewell Address warning that religion and morality are "indispensable supports" of free government, the thread reaches forward to the 250th anniversary and asks whether the present generation will keep the covenant it has inherited.

    An Invitation to Visit JesusPOD.com

    Thank you for listening to One Nation Under God: The Providential Birth of America, a 250th Anniversary tribute produced by JesusPOD.com. If the stories you just heard stirred something in your heart — the field at Middletown, the fog over Brooklyn, the kneeling general in the snow at Valley Forge — we invite you to continue the journey with us.

    Visit JesusPOD.com for more faith-building audiobooks, Christian books, devotionals, and educational content created to strengthen your walk with Christ and remind you of the God who still moves in the affairs of men and nations.

    At JesusPOD.com you'll find:

    • Christian audiobooks that bring Scripture, history, and revival to life
    • Books and study resources for disciples, pastors, and families
    • Stories of providence, awakening, and the God who has not changed
    • New releases produced regularly for the 250th year of our nation and beyond

    The rider still rides. The wind still blows. The covenant still stands. Join us at JesusPOD.com — and pass this story on to someone who needs to hear that America was born on its knees, and can be reborn the same way.

    God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

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    47 min
  • Chapter 11 — Franklin's Plea and the Miracle in Philadelphia (Summer 1787)
    May 8 2026

    In a shuttered room in a sweltering summer, an eighty-one-year-old Benjamin Franklin rises from his invalid's chair and asks a deadlocked Constitutional Convention why it has forgotten to pray.

    An Invitation to Visit JesusPOD.com

    Thank you for listening to One Nation Under God: The Providential Birth of America, a 250th Anniversary tribute produced by JesusPOD.com. If the stories you just heard stirred something in your heart — the field at Middletown, the fog over Brooklyn, the kneeling general in the snow at Valley Forge — we invite you to continue the journey with us.

    Visit JesusPOD.com for more faith-building audiobooks, Christian books, devotionals, and educational content created to strengthen your walk with Christ and remind you of the God who still moves in the affairs of men and nations.

    At JesusPOD.com you'll find:

    • Christian audiobooks that bring Scripture, history, and revival to life
    • Books and study resources for disciples, pastors, and families
    • Stories of providence, awakening, and the God who has not changed
    • New releases produced regularly for the 250th year of our nation and beyond

    The rider still rides. The wind still blows. The covenant still stands. Join us at JesusPOD.com — and pass this story on to someone who needs to hear that America was born on its knees, and can be reborn the same way.

    God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

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    35 min
  • Chapter 10 — A Bible for a New People (1782)
    May 8 2026

    Philadelphia printer Robert Aitken risks his fortune to produce the first English Bible printed in America, and a Continental Congress gives it the only scriptural endorsement in its history.

    An Invitation to Visit JesusPOD.com

    Thank you for listening to One Nation Under God: The Providential Birth of America, a 250th Anniversary tribute produced by JesusPOD.com. If the stories you just heard stirred something in your heart — the field at Middletown, the fog over Brooklyn, the kneeling general in the snow at Valley Forge — we invite you to continue the journey with us.

    Visit JesusPOD.com for more faith-building audiobooks, Christian books, devotionals, and educational content created to strengthen your walk with Christ and remind you of the God who still moves in the affairs of men and nations.

    At JesusPOD.com you'll find:

    • Christian audiobooks that bring Scripture, history, and revival to life
    • Books and study resources for disciples, pastors, and families
    • Stories of providence, awakening, and the God who has not changed
    • New releases produced regularly for the 250th year of our nation and beyond

    The rider still rides. The wind still blows. The covenant still stands. Join us at JesusPOD.com — and pass this story on to someone who needs to hear that America was born on its knees, and can be reborn the same way.

    God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

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    37 min
  • Chapter 9 — The Storm at Yorktown (October 1781)
    May 8 2026

    Wind, rain, and a French fleet converge at the Virginia peninsula to trap Cornwallis, closing the war with what Washington himself called an "astonishing interposition of Providence".

    An Invitation to Visit JesusPOD.com

    Thank you for listening to One Nation Under God: The Providential Birth of America, a 250th Anniversary tribute produced by JesusPOD.com. If the stories you just heard stirred something in your heart — the field at Middletown, the fog over Brooklyn, the kneeling general in the snow at Valley Forge — we invite you to continue the journey with us.

    Visit JesusPOD.com for more faith-building audiobooks, Christian books, devotionals, and educational content created to strengthen your walk with Christ and remind you of the God who still moves in the affairs of men and nations.

    At JesusPOD.com you'll find:

    • Christian audiobooks that bring Scripture, history, and revival to life
    • Books and study resources for disciples, pastors, and families
    • Stories of providence, awakening, and the God who has not changed
    • New releases produced regularly for the 250th year of our nation and beyond

    The rider still rides. The wind still blows. The covenant still stands. Join us at JesusPOD.com — and pass this story on to someone who needs to hear that America was born on its knees, and can be reborn the same way.

    God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

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    40 min
  • Chapter 8 — The Forgotten Financier (1777–1781)
    May 8 2026

    The story of Haym Salomon, the Polish-born Jewish broker who funded the Continental Army from his own purse and died penniless so the Revolution could live.

    An Invitation to Visit JesusPOD.com

    Thank you for listening to One Nation Under God: The Providential Birth of America, a 250th Anniversary tribute produced by JesusPOD.com. If the stories you just heard stirred something in your heart — the field at Middletown, the fog over Brooklyn, the kneeling general in the snow at Valley Forge — we invite you to continue the journey with us.

    Visit JesusPOD.com for more faith-building audiobooks, Christian books, devotionals, and educational content created to strengthen your walk with Christ and remind you of the God who still moves in the affairs of men and nations.

    At JesusPOD.com you'll find:

    • Christian audiobooks that bring Scripture, history, and revival to life
    • Books and study resources for disciples, pastors, and families
    • Stories of providence, awakening, and the God who has not changed
    • New releases produced regularly for the 250th year of our nation and beyond

    The rider still rides. The wind still blows. The covenant still stands. Join us at JesusPOD.com — and pass this story on to someone who needs to hear that America was born on its knees, and can be reborn the same way.

    God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

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    38 min
  • Chapter 7 — The Crossing and the Crown of Thorns (1776–1778)
    May 8 2026

    From the Christmas-night crossing of the Delaware with the password "Victory or Death" to the kneeling general in the snow at Valley Forge, listeners follow the darkest and most prayerful hours of the Continental Army.

    An Invitation to Visit JesusPOD.com

    Thank you for listening to One Nation Under God: The Providential Birth of America, a 250th Anniversary tribute produced by JesusPOD.com. If the stories you just heard stirred something in your heart — the field at Middletown, the fog over Brooklyn, the kneeling general in the snow at Valley Forge — we invite you to continue the journey with us.

    Visit JesusPOD.com for more faith-building audiobooks, Christian books, devotionals, and educational content created to strengthen your walk with Christ and remind you of the God who still moves in the affairs of men and nations.

    At JesusPOD.com you'll find:

    • Christian audiobooks that bring Scripture, history, and revival to life
    • Books and study resources for disciples, pastors, and families
    • Stories of providence, awakening, and the God who has not changed
    • New releases produced regularly for the 250th year of our nation and beyond

    The rider still rides. The wind still blows. The covenant still stands. Join us at JesusPOD.com — and pass this story on to someone who needs to hear that America was born on its knees, and can be reborn the same way.

    God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

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    39 min
  • Chapter 6 — The Fog Over Brooklyn (August 1776)
    May 8 2026

    Washington's trapped army escapes across the East River under cover of a miraculous fog, a deliverance that left even skeptical officers reaching for the word "providence".

    An Invitation to Visit JesusPOD.com

    Thank you for listening to One Nation Under God: The Providential Birth of America, a 250th Anniversary tribute produced by JesusPOD.com. If the stories you just heard stirred something in your heart — the field at Middletown, the fog over Brooklyn, the kneeling general in the snow at Valley Forge — we invite you to continue the journey with us.

    Visit JesusPOD.com for more faith-building audiobooks, Christian books, devotionals, and educational content created to strengthen your walk with Christ and remind you of the God who still moves in the affairs of men and nations.

    At JesusPOD.com you'll find:

    • Christian audiobooks that bring Scripture, history, and revival to life
    • Books and study resources for disciples, pastors, and families
    • Stories of providence, awakening, and the God who has not changed
    • New releases produced regularly for the 250th year of our nation and beyond

    The rider still rides. The wind still blows. The covenant still stands. Join us at JesusPOD.com — and pass this story on to someone who needs to hear that America was born on its knees, and can be reborn the same way.

    God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

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    34 min