This is the tenth episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). This particular message explores the unique cultural demands of the American Frontier. If you wanted to survive and be free on the frontier of America, you needed to stand your ground when the bullies tested your mettle. How similar that is to our spiritual lives. When the Bully, known as the Devil, tests our mettle, what does he find?