Birthday Bill Signing

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Written By Thann Bennett

America’s 249th birthday—July 4, 2025—was celebrated with fireworks, BBQs, and the signing of the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” After months of negotiating and drafting, the U.S. House and U.S. Senate finally approved joint language just in time for the bill to be signed into law on Independence day. The 870-page bill went through numerous iterations, and both legislative chambers had dramatic drawn-out votes on the way to approval. The bill-turned-law makes significant changes to U.S. tax law, as well as spending programs.

Analysis and eternal perspective: Most of the discussion about the One Big Beautiful Bill will be around the pros and cons of it. Nearly everyone (including supporters) will have mixed reviews about the legislation itself. While it is more feasible to enact one large piece of legislation rather than dozens of smaller ones, the tradeoff results in a negotiated package in which there is something for everyone to both like and dislike.

For The Equipped community, America’s 249th birthday—and the look ahead to the 250thnext year—is a prolonged opportunity to express gratitude for the earthly freedom you enjoy (many of us are Americans, while all of us live as ambassadors in this temporary home as we journey to eternity). It is also a perfect moment to re-center our focus on our primary mission—that of making disciples in every corner of the globe (Matt. 28:18-20).

No matter how you view the One Big Beautiful Bill, you have an awesome, breathtaking co-mission with the God of the universe. There is no higher calling.

The following article originally appeared in Thann’s “The Equipped” Weekly Newsletter. For more information on Thann’s weekly email, click here.

Thann Bennett

Thann Bennett is the Founder and President of Every Good Work, which exists to equip Jesus followers for a life of impact. His weekly newsletter, The Equipped, helps Jesus followers engage current events through a lens of the True and the beautiful. Thann and his wife, Brooke, are co-Founders of A Fearless Life, which works to find and fund a family for every adoption-eligible foster child in America. Thann has more than two decades of high-level public policy experience, with a particular focus on the U.S. Congress and the United Nations. He is the author of In Search of the King and My Fame His Fame. Thann and Brooke live in southern Maryland with their three children: Jude, Gambrell, and Hope, as well as a host of farm animals. The Bennetts are longtime members of the National Community Church family in Washington, D.C.

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