

America the Beautiful: A Prayer For Our 250th Birthday
Few songs capture the heart of America as beautifully as America the Beautiful. Written by Katharine Lee Bates, the hymn is not merely a celebration of the nation’s landscape, heritage, and history—it is a petition that America would be, and remain, a nation marked by virtue, courage, justice, sacrifice, and divine blessing. As we reflect on each stanza, let us turn its words into prayer. O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties


Happy Memorial Day and Pentecost Sunday!
By Robert Anthony May 24th This year Memorial Day and Pentecost almost fell on the same day. Of course Memorial Day traces it's roots back to the Civil War is a memorial for all our soldiers and military men who gave their lives in the line of duty, preserving freedom for this nation. Pentecost was the day the Holy Spirit was given to Jesus' brand new apostles and is widely accepted as the birth day of His Church. What a powerful time of remembrance this weekend! We a


How Can We Prepare Ourselves to Meet God Face to Face?
By Robert Anthony May 19, 2026 Adam walked with God. So Adam must have learned something about meeting with God face to face. It’s such a curious story—how the Lord chose to begin His creation. I often think about it. He could have started the world quite differently—really any way He wanted to… The Lord could have made tens of thousands of men out of the dirt. He could have given Adam hundreds of wives (to multiply the earth faster). God could have made Adam and Eve on the s


IT IS FINISHED!!
John 19:30, Jesus cried out, “It Is Finished!” Many of us have heard these words, but what do these words really mean? What was finished ? The Greek word is “tetelestai,” which stands for completed, accomplished, paid in full. What was completed? What was accomplished? Do we understand the scale of what just happened? We often do not. Let me provide a few examples of key biblical events and describe them in different ways. Why? Because God often understates the magnitude of w


The Best Message For These Last Days
By Robert Anthony March 25 th 2026 I think we have been duped. We have been convinced that the end of all things is a loss. We read all the worst parts of the Bible and we are missing the Huge Glaring Good News staring us right in the face!! It’s all over! The suffering is over. The pain is over. The unfairness, the injustice, the sickness and disease, the sadness and sorrow: it’s all over. We, even as Christians, tend to read the worst parts of the Bible and fear











