Actor and professing Kirk Cameron hopes that his children's books will bring about a "great awakening" in the United States in response to the country's moral decline. According to The Christian Post, the "Growing Pains" actor recently held a storybook hour on Saturday at the James M. Duncan Branch of the Alexandria Public Library in Virginia. He read his book Pride Comes Before the Fall, which he wrote in collaboration with Brave Books Publishing.
In addition to the library event, held just outside of Washington D.C., Cameron also spoke at Stone Ridge and Stephens City, which are still located in northern Virginia.
Under Brave Books, Cameron has written three children's books: As You Grow, Pride Comes Before the Fall, and The Fox, The Fair and the Invention Scare. The books highlight the necessity of acknowledging the fruit of the spirit, humility, and loving your enemies, respectively.
Prior to reading the children's book, Cameron led attendees in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and singing "God Bless America". As he read the book, pages from the story were shown on a screen in the background. At the conclusion of the story hour, Cameron ended with a prayer and encouraged the children in the audience to befriend one another.
In an interview with The Christian Post, Cameron explained what motivated him to start writing children's books.
"I'm actually a grandfather now," he said.
"As a grandfather and as a father of six children, I care a lot about what we do in our generation because it will determine so much of what our children live with, the world that they'll grow up in," Cameron added. "I want to ... write books and talk to people for as long as I can about turning their hearts toward God, turning their hearts back toward their home, raising their children, not outsourcing their parenting to government institutions that have lesser goals and motives for those children than their own parents do."
The actor also shared his desire to see children "love their country and appreciate what so many men and women did to sacrifice in order to give us a country with so much opportunity, so much freedom and so much prosperity," adding, "I want to do my part to make sure that continues and increases."
He hopes that the See You at the Library events and working with Brave Books would serve as "a perfect tee-up for another great awakening in America."
He noted previous great awakenings in America's "revivals" where "people's eyes open, and they see the trouble that they're in, and they turn their hearts back to God, and they experience a refreshing and a renewal of the principles that lead to human flourishing again."
"Those revivals have always taken place during times of moral decline, spiritual apathy, economic collapse, and political corruption. …We're seeing a bunch of that right now."
"I want to communicate to people that now is the time to lean into your faith, to your courage, to your family and regain a vision of victory, not only a pie in the sky 'let's just get to heaven' victory, but a steak on the plate cultural victory in our lifetime," he concluded.
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Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer and content creator. He is a contributing writer for CrosswalkHeadlines and the host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast devoted to sound doctrine and biblical truth. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary.