What is it that makes a person free? That's certainly an appropriate question for this Fourth of July weekend. What makes us free?

By the way, do you know what famous event we will really be commemorating this week? Not sure? A little rusty on your sixth-grade civics? Well you're in good company. According to Chuck Colson, a recent Gallup poll reveals that one out of every four Americans doesn't know that July Fourth commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Even more amazing, the same number can't tell you which country we declared independence FROM.

This is the weekend that we celebrate our freedom.

And, in our lessons from the epistles, St. Paul writes, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by…