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The Hand That Held Us
Paperback
Christian LivingGeneral ChristianityRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Publisher: Thomas Andrufski
Published: Aug 19 2026
Pages: 600
Weight: 2.26
Height: 1.21 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
A nation that sought God in trouble, forgot Him in comfort - and can still come home.
For four hundred years, something has held America together that no textbook can quite explain.
A fog that rose over a trapped army at exactly the right hour. A fleet scattered by a storm before it ever reached our shores. A single iron screw - aboard a leaking ship no one can fully account for - that held a beam, and with it a colony.
The Hand That Held Us traces that story across twenty-five chapters and four centuries, from Plymouth to the plague year. But it does something most patriotic histories won't: it tells the whole truth. The revivals and the sins, sometimes on the same page. The church that built the hospitals, the orphan homes, and the schoolhouses of a young nation - and then, slowly and without deciding to, let much of it slip from her hands.
Every quotation is real. Every source is documented.
This is not the story of a perfect people. The wonder was never that God helped the righteous. It is that He held an imperfect nation - through war and plague, through faithfulness and forgetting - and never quite let go.
Written by a pastor of more than forty years' preaching, richly illustrated in full color, and now including a study page for all twenty-five chapters - with reflection questions, Scripture, and summaries - The Hand That Held Us is written for readers, for families, and for churches ready to remember where they came from.
When the trouble came, they sought Him.
When the trouble passed, they slipped away.
And when the mercy came, they stayed.
Read the story of the Hand that has never let go.
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