President Trump Will Attend National Prayer Breakfast Thursday

President Donald Trump will attend the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, the Associated Press reported. Every president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has attended the annual bi-partisan event, which is held on the first Thursday of every February and began in 1953. Like past presidents, Trump will deliver remarks during the event.

In 2016, President Barack Obama spoke on 2 Timothy 1:7, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

“Faith is the great cure for fear. Jesus is a good cure for fear. God gives believers the power, the love, the sound mind required to conquer any fear,” Obama said. He also spoke about the importance of interfaith cooperation, The Christian Post reported.

This year Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in California and author of The Purpose Driven Life, is scheduled to speak. He said in a Facebook video that the 2016 election “really divided America,” the Post reported.

“Everybody wants to have peace, but who wants to make peace? Who wants to bring peace? Well, as Christians, we are called to do that,” Warren said.

Some notable speakers from past breakfasts include former Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, whose keynote address criticizing Obamacare spring springboarded his political popularity in 2013, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and rock singer Bono.