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This Tuesday, President Trump will be reading 2 Chronicles 7:11–22 from the Oval Office.
This Tuesday, President Trump will be reading 2 Chronicles 7:11–22 from the Oval Office as part of “America Reads the Bible,” a weeklong event commemorating 250 years of the Bible in America. The event features 500 participants reading Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation. It’s an amazing endeavor that the nation is ripe for, because I believe that a revival has already begun.
We are long past due for the kind of revival that sees thousands of people pouring into the streets, filling stadiums, and banging down church doors to praise their God.
But it won’t just be about singing and praying; it will be a fight for survival as the ship of state desperately weathers the storm waves that have been assailing it.
Many of us felt the reality of those raging waves during the memorial for Charlie Kirk. Yet instead of being overwhelmed by traumatic grief over the loss of one of America’s most influential Christians, God stilled the storm and lifted us above the pain into a profound place of peace and joy.
Across the land, people are showing a fresh hunger for the Bible and the things of God. Let me share a personal story that illustrates this.
I recently went through a severe health crisis that could have ended badly. I don’t mind admitting I suffered a great deal. After a two-month illness that suddenly worsened, I was admitted to the hospital through the E.R. For nearly a week while awaiting surgery, pain and uncertainty filled my days. My only real distraction was the occasional YouTube video on my phone.
Just prior to my hospital stay, I had stumbled upon a YouTube livestream of a 72-hour continuous Bible reading from a church in Oklahoma. I was intrigued — I had never seen anything like it. Yet these kinds of Scripture marathons are not new. They have taken place in Protestant and nondenominational churches for years, often tied to holy days or special seasons. I later learned that Seedline International has helped organize public Bible readings across multiple states. This event that President Trump is participating in, “America Reads the Bible,” just came on my radar as well. Planned in honor of America’s 250th birthday, it’s described as “a spiritual celebration of our nation’s founding ideals and a call to rediscover the truth that still anchors us today.”