FLAG robert-linder-fcFEnjBmm14-unsplash God Most High, who is Three-in-One—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—please deliver America from evil.[1] As we who love You with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength pray, seek Your face, repent of our personal sins, and for the sins of our nation, LORD, honor Your Word—heal our hearts and then our land.[2] In just seven days, we celebrate America’s 250th Birthday, and what a celebration it will be! But as we do, O God, give us the det

FLAG robert-linder-fcFEnjBmm14-unsplash Almost fifty years ago now, my daughter and I took part in America’s 200th Birthday with our church at the time, St. Jacob’s United Church of Christ. Lorrie was only eleven months old and not walking. So, when we marched in Salem, Ohio’s parade down State Street, you guessed it, I carried her the whole way. But at age 23, that wasn’t a problem for me. Lorrie and I sported matching 1776 dresses and bonnets I had made, which remain hang