A Heroic Journey

The Holy Family – Milestones and Miracles

Sculpted by J.Seward Johnson, dedicated at the Crystal Cathedral in 1999

J. Seward Johnson is world-renowned for his lifelike painted bronze depictions of people in real-life situations, for example, a sculpted businessman seated on a bench reading a newspaper, or a father teaching his child to ride a bike. Seward's bronze figures are so lifelike that people often sit or stand next to them, never realizing that the figures are not living, breathing human beings.

It was in this spirit that Mr. Johnson conceived The Holy Family, a very lifelike and life-size bronze depiction of Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus on their flight into Egypt.

For the first time, Johnson used glass eyes in these figures to duplicate the gloss and depth of the real human eye. He also chose to depict the infant Christ with highly reflective polished stainless steel skin to convey the idea that, in Jesus, each of us sees our own reflection.

This beautiful bronze masterpiece, gifted to the Crystal Cathedral by Dr. Keith C. and Elaine J. Wold (Johnson's sister), was unveiled and dedicated on Sunday, January 31, 1999. Thousands of visitors who come to the Crystal Cathedral to attend The Glory of Christmas, and throughout the year, have their photograph taken next to The Holy Family, a one-of-a-kind work of art.

More about J. Seward Johnson

After an early career as a painter, Johnson turned his talent to sculpture. Since then, he's created more than 250 life-size cast bronze figures currently featured in private collections in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia, as well as in prominent places such as in Rockefeller Center and near World Trade Center's "Ground Zero" in New York City, and in Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver, Canada.

Johnson, the grandson of the founder of Johnson & Johnson, grew up as heir to one of America's largest fortunes. He could have lived a life of leisure, but instead chose to be actively involved in art and an array of other interests; he is president of a large oceanographic research institute in Florida, publisher of a science magazine, and founder of an off-Broadway theater in New York.

Maria Fury “Beat the Odds” with Heroic Faith

In the blink of an eye, life can change forever... as Maria Fury discovered in the spring of 2005. Maria had worked at the Crystal Cathedral for seven years as Secretary to Dr. Robert H. Schuller. She loved her work. Life was good. She had made many friends in her time at the Crystal Cathedral and believed with all her heart that the work she was doing for Dr. Schuller, day in and day out, reached way beyond the ordinary. "I never felt like I was just doing work," Maria shared in a letter to Dr. Schuller's son-in-law, Jim Coleman. "I always felt that I was sharing God's word with millions of people on behalf of the Crystal Cathedral."

One day while at work, Maria started having excruciating pain in her lower back. By the next morning her pain was so unbearable that her husband Dan rushed her to the hospital. The doctors immediately ran tests on her where they discovered a spot, confirming a short while later that she had Stage IV pancreatic cancer (the cancer had already metastasized in her liver). So, how does someone even begin to respond to news like that? Maria responded with heroic faith! And with the "effective and fervent prayers" of many, the exercise of good-health practices while undergoing rigorous chemotherapy treatments, and leaning heavily on the support of friends and family...Maria "beat the odds" of pancreatic cancer and survived far beyond what her doctors either predicted or expected. "Stage IV is not my cancer stage," Maria used to tell Dr. Schuller who thought of her like a sister. "My cancer stage is to live, survive and work for you!" And she did... for FOUR more years!

Maria Fury's heroic faith victoriously carried her across the "finish line" on August 28, 2009 when she passed from this life to the next. And like the great Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, his friend in the faith, Maria now shouts these words with joy from heaven, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day - and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing" (2 Timothy 4:7-8).

Unfold your understanding of "The Lord’s Prayer" every day in 2010.

English author and poet, Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) wrote a delightful tale titled Five Children and It. The story begins when a family of children discovers an ancient sand-fairy who agrees to grant them one wish each day. However, not foreseeing that bad as well as good can happen when we get our way, the children experience more trouble than happiness with each wish.

Some think prayer is telling our wishes to God, hoping to get our way when he grants them. However, it is much more. To teach his disciples and all of us how to pray, Jesus gave us a model prayer, "The Lord's Prayer" (Matthew 8:9-13), which is more about growing a trusting relationship with our heavenly Father than getting what we want from him. As we grow in faith, our prayers become less a wish list and more an intimate conversation with God.

YOU can unfold your understanding of "The Lord's Prayer" every day in 2010 with the help of the Hour of Power 40th Anniversary Lord's Prayer Wall Calendar for Possibility Thinkers.

Through the calendar pages, you will grow your personal prayer life daily as "The Lord's Prayer" guides you to... ... God, ... give God to be the Lord of your life,... God to meet your needs, ...ask God's , and ...feel the embrace of his . This calendar may also serve as your 2010 appointment calendar. Each day's square is large enough for you to...jot down appointments...add birthday and anniversary reminders...or note other dates you need to remember.

Included with the calendar is a sheet of stickers that you may apply to your calendar whenever you want to PRAISE God, give him PERMISSION to act, PETITION him, experience his PARDON, or feel his PROTECTION. By the end of 2010, you'll look back through this unique calendar and be reminded in so many ways of how, throughout the year, you have powerfully and profoundly interacted with the living God!

This special 40th anniversary edition calendar is also our way of celebrating the miraculous way God has moved in the hearts of people all across America and around the world to keep his word alive and on the air through the Hour of Power. And that forty-year history of positive ministry can be extended another forty years and beyond only with YOUR help. There is no other way. YOUR financial gifts are what make the Hour of Power possible.

Thank you for being part of God's positive answer to our prayers today as you send your gift with your request for your own 2010 Lord's Prayer Calendar!

Choose to Live the Abundant Life!

By Robert H. Schuller

One of my dear friends, the late Dione Neutra, was the adoring and supportive wife of internationally famed, Gold Medal architect, Richard Neutra, for over 40 years. (He designed our first church sanctuary, greatly influencing my view of architecture.) After Richard died, Dione surprised everyone by developing a tremendous, dynamic life on her own. The extraordinary vocal and cello music she once played to inspire her husband through creative blocks, she now shared with many. The positive way she encouraged her husband when he was down, she used to encourage others. Dione, who frequently wrote to us, sent one letter in which she said, "People are astounded at my vitality. Some people even tell me that I don't seem to get any older, but all I have to do is take one look in the mirror to know that's not true."

Why was Dione so surprised by this vitality in her life? For the many years she was married to Richard, she saw only her talented architect husband as someone who could inspire others. But I'll never forget the discovery about herself she shared next: "I may be getting old, but what I've come to realize is that... my life has always had purpose. There's always another task to be done, a need to be filled, a goal to be accomplished. And I've nearly always enjoyed whatever it is I've had to do. But even when I didn't enjoy it, I've been able to recognize that whatever was disagreeable to me was just a fact of life and through it I've learned patience and perseverance. My life has been full. And I continue to marvel at the fact that I can inspire others through my life. It's a mystery."

Dione Neutra reminds me that abundant living begins with living for a purpose. My life has purpose. So does yours! Abiding in God's abundance, reminds us why we are alive!

Accepting God’s Forgiveness Is Where Abundant Living Begins

Can you imagine the feeling of being utterly exposed? Of having your deepest, darkest secret or sin paraded in front of you for the whole world to see? The woman depicted in Dallas Anderson's monumental bronze sculpture, Love Without Condemnation, certainly could. You can read her story in John 8:1-11.

This important account from the life of Christ reminds us that God finds value and tremendous worth in everyone, and that our greatest "sin" is being separated from him. In this sculpture, we see Jesus placing himself squarely between the accused woman and those who condemned her...and he does the same for each of us today.

Three men face the accused woman. They are proud, religious, and unrelenting. Rocks in hand, they've come prepared to render punishment. One of the men is the accused woman's husband. With him are two "experts" of the Law. One of them holds the written law and seems to be rather sadly pointing out the unfortunate reality of the woman's situation. He looks sympathetic, but his hands are tied-after all, rules are rules. The third man stands firm, uncompromising in his strict judgment of the woman.

Jesus bends to the ground and begins writing in the dust. The men keep pressing Jesus hoping he will render a "guilty" verdict. But he doesn't. Rather, Jesus gets up and says to them, "Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone" (John 8:7).

Jesus' words immediately cut to the core of the husband's heart. He drops his stone and walks away...as do each of the woman's accusers. Only Jesus and the woman are left standing there. Then Jesus asks her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" "No one, sir," she replies. "Then neither do I condemn you. Go now and leave your life of sin."

It is interesting to note that the sculptor of this wonderful work of art chose to show Christ's robe overlapping the covering of the woman, reminding us that Christ's forgiveness will always cover our sin. And his forgiveness is the beginning of abundant living. Anderson's sculpture, Love Without Condemnation, is located just outside the north wall of the Crystal Cathedral's famous Memorial Gardens. It is surrounded by lush green landscaping and a quiet stream beckoning all who pass by to stop and take in the beauty and meaning of its message.

About the Sculptor Love Without Condemnation is one of three works of art sculpted for the Crystal Cathedral grounds by internationally acclaimed sculptor, Dallas Anderson.

Mr. Anderson is a graduate of St. Olaf's College in Minnesota and trained at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He taught at Brigham Young University before joining Robert Schuller in Garden Grove as an artist-in-residence at the Crystal Cathedral in the early 1980s.

Proclaiming the Good News of Abundant Life in Bad-News Times

In 1946, Hollywood producer/director Frank Capra released a film that was considered a "flop" financially, yet remains one of today's most popular Christmas movies and has been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made.

It's a Wonderful Life, starring James Stewart and Donna Reed, takes place in the fictional town of Bedford Falls shortly after World War II. It traces the life of George Bailey whose mounting personal and financial troubles plunge him into an abyss of despair on Christmas Eve. Guardian angel, Clarence, arrives in George's hour of need to help him see, through a series of flashbacks, all the people he's touched and the difference he's made in his community. As a result, George discovers a life-saving truth: his has been a WONDERFUL life.

If someone were to ask you if you've had a "wonderful life" this year, what would your response be? For some, 2009 was brimming with good news, success stories, and joyful memories. For others it was filled with dashed hopes, failed dreams, financial upsets, and broken relationships. But no matter what your response, here's some GREAT news: Jesus Christ came into the world to fulfill this promise: "I have come that you might have life, and...have it more abundantly" (John 10:10, NKJV). Jesus did not call us to live the Christian life just to secure our eternity. He called us to a life that is full and overflowing and wonderfully abundant.

The positive message of abundant life is what the Hour of Power has proclaimed for nearly 40 years! And what a difference it's made! Tens of thousands of persons from around the world have written to tell us how the Hour of Power has helped them in their times of need, how we've touched their lives in profound ways, that we've even saved their lives through our faith-filled, hope-filled, positive, loving televised church services. These words are GOOD NEWS to us and remind us every day how essential our message is to the world. It's because of generous friends like you that the Hour of Power continues to bring the Good News of abundant life to the world week after week. Today, we need your help as much as ever.

As a way of saying thank you, we will send you our 2009 Hour of Power "Angel of Praise" hand-blown glass Christmas ornament. Inscribed on it in gold lettering are the words of Jesus who promised, "I have come that you might have life, and...have it more abundantly." This "Angel of Praise" stands three inches tall, with arms stretching upward and a face expressing praise for the Good News of Christmas- God has come in human flesh with the promise of abundant life! Please write to Dr. Schuller today to ask for your 2009 Hour of Power "Angel of Praise" Christmas ornament. The gift you send will keep the Good News of the Hour of Power encouraging hearts and homes around the globe.

Kristy Cavinder... Flying High Full of Life

Behind the scenes of the Glory of Christmas.

On June 28, Kristen (Kristy) Cavinder was crowned Miss California 2009-only one achievement of many for this exceptional 21-year-old. From Crystal Cathedral's perspective, Kristy Cavinder has always been a bright and rising star. Kristy "grew up" at the Crystal Cathedral, with her parents and grandmother filling key church roles. And Kristy has found meaningful ways to put her unique talents to work in this ministry, as well.

A child dancer in The Glory of Christmas and The Glory of Easter in 1999, Kristy soared to new heights (90 feet to be exact) as a flying angel ('04) and solo dancer ('05-'08). "Being part of the 'Glories' was a lifelong dream," Kristy revealed. "I remember attending the 'Glories' at five years old and telling my grandmother that I had to become a dancer. She told me to practice so I could jump over the fountains without getting my dress wet-and I did! I've been dancing for 17 years and don't intend to stop any time soon. I've been blessed with the opportunity to share my love of dance and love of the Lord with thousands of people each year."

Kristy, who minored in dance at the University of Southern California (USC) and studied at New York City's American Ballet Theater, has also danced in the Disney Resort's "Electrical Light Parade" and "Parade of Dreams."

Kristy's education also included Crystal Cathedral Schools where she took an active leadership role. "During my senior year," Kristy explained, "I started the 'Broadway Our Way' program. I realized that our school provided an incredible arena to give younger students older role models to look up to." That program eventually grew into the GEL (Growing Exceptional Ladies) program where junior high girls continue to meet with senior high mentors, discussing issues like self-confidence, making healthy choices, and growing in relationship with the Lord.

Recently hired as Crystal Cathedral Children's Ministry's Team Leader, Kristy is also a parttime USC student until she graduates in December and goes on to attend graduate school next spring. As Miss California, Kristy looks forward to competing in the Miss America pageant in January 2010. When asked what this competition has meant to her, Kristy responded, "I thought it would be a fun way to perform and earn scholarship money, but it has bettered me in every area of my life. I've become more confident, poised and capable, and more refined in my ballet talent. I've also learned how to stand strong in my beliefs and ideals. I'm honored to be Miss California and hope that this title will help me encourage and equip young people to dream big and realize that, with God, they have the potential to do anything." Flying high among the stars is this "angel" of ours- Kristy Cavinder!

Let Your Daily Living Become Joyful Giving

By Robert H. Schuller

My mother had a very tough life. She was married to a good man who raised crops on an Iowa farm through some terribly difficult years. I saw my mother have some low days and I discovered what she did to change a gloomy mood into a blooming mood.

When apples were in season she would pick them, peel them, slice them, and then roll out a pie crust to bake an apple pie. Everybody was happy in the household as she started whistling and singing hymns while making her apple pies. She made each pie heaping with apples and sprinkled in lots of cinnamon. My mother never made just one pie; most of the time she made two. And she'd always say, "One is for my family. The other one is for someone who needs it." And she would often send me down the road to deliver that second pie to someone who was sick or had a very meager income. My mother had discovered that the way to put joy into life was to "forget about yourself and do something beautiful in a wonderful way for somebody else." She understood well the joy that comes through giving.

If you want to be a truly miserable person, just be as selfish as you can. I have never seen a twinkling, happy, enthusiastic person who is also stingy. It just doesn't work. Next time you're having a "down" day, recall an experience where you were really up. I can tell you when it was. It was the time you listened to somebody who needed to be heard or comforted. Or it was the time you prayed a prayer or gave a word of encouragement and positively lifted someone's spirit. It was the time you packaged a very treasured and gorgeous gift and gave it to someone you deeply love.

Jesus said, "If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it" (Matthew 10:39, NLT). Let your daily living become daily giving and you will have a life filled with JOY!

The Joy of Giving

Sculpted by Mehri Danielpour Weil

God can do tremendous things through a person who doesn't care who gets the credit!

An example of this selflessness is found in Luke 21:1-4, where Jesus stood watching masses of people flowing into the Jerusalem temple just as millions of people today stream into their own houses of worship. The rich and the poor, the educated and the illiterate, the proud and the humble, the self-confident and the insecure-all were there that day.

As was the custom, the offering was collected in a box as people entered into or departed from the temple. The rich took great delight in watching their sizeable donations fall into the offering box within eyeshot of everyone. But, out of the massive crowd, Jesus noticed just one person—a woman who’d been without a husband and provider for a number of years, yet still managed to sustain her meager existence with extremely limited resources. Jesus watched the widow reach down for her tiny, tattered bag, hold it up to her weary face, peer in to see its contents, and then tip it upside down to allow two tiny coins to fall into her open palm. Without hesitating, she dropped both coins quietly into the collection box.

Having observed this, Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly...this poor widow has given more than all the rest of them. For they have given a tiny part of their surplus, but she...has given everything she has” (Luke 21:3-4, NLT).

The Joy of Giving bronze statue, sculpted by Mehri Danielpour Weil, is a lovely, yet simple, depiction of the story in Luke 21 about the woman who gave all that she had to God...not a portion of abundance...but all that she had. This bronze is a tribute to the tens of thousands of persons on the lower end of the economic scale who give their financial support week after week, month after month, year after year to make the ministry message of the Hour of Power possible.

About the Sculptor

Born in Teheran, Iran, Mehri Danielpour Weil immigrated to the United States with her parents and two brothers at the age of eight. Raised in New York, she studied there until 1965 when she moved to Florida with her husband, Sayid, and their two children, Debbie and Richard.

Most of Mehri's sculptures since 1968 have been commissioned work including over two hundred busts of children, adults, heads of state, corporate executives and well-known sports figures. Today she enjoys sculpting large architectural figures, including the life-size bronze she created for the Crystal Cathedral in 1999, The Joy of Giving, now located in the ministry's Welcoming Center in Garden Grove, California.

Out of the ashes... four tiny angels!

The blessing of Christian community.

On November 22, 2008, while New Zealanders Rowan and Margaret Smiley were away in Auckland, the power supply to their house shorted out. Consequently, their kauri (all-wood) villa burned to the ground. Here's their story...

The Monday after the fire, we visited the burn site with our pastor. When we returned to our home all that was left was some charcoal and the shells of the refrigerators. Everything was gone; the heat had been so intense that the brass taps had disappeared, and the glass and pewter had melted. Trees 100 meters away had caught fire. Among the debris we sighted some white objects. As we cleared away the rubble, there in the ashes were four tiny china angels from a set of six that we had collected from the Crystal Cathedral Ministries over the years. Three of the four were intact, the fourth was split perfectly in two and we were able to repair it.

The survival of these angels, in what must have been intense heat, has been told over and over by us and by the Crystal Cathedral Ministries staff in Australia. It has caused many to think about God and what they believe. We are so blessed to have a fantastic community surrounding us and caring friends and family around the country and the world. This experience has affirmed in us a number of valuable lessons:

1. People matter.

2. It is harder to receive than to give.

3. God doesn't send adversity, but he does give us the strength to handle it.

4. You can witness even when you aren't present.

5. God can take our worst nightmares and use them for good. We are so very grateful for the support and prayers from the team at this ministry!

Rowan & Margaret Smiley

Christ Rising

Sculpted by Frederick Hart

This wonderfully flowing and anatomically perfect display of the human form, by one of America's pre-eminent contemporary sculptors, brilliantly combines two of Christianity's most recognized symbols. Here, Frederick Hart takes the shape of the cross and the image of the crucifix and transforms them into a crucified, yet living Savior, rising with his arms and pierced hands outstretched, forever reminding us of the cross and the priceless value of his sacrifice upon it.

This beautiful piece, which was a gift from architect Dale Johnson, can be seen in the Chapel in the Sky at the top of the Richard Neutra designed Tower of Hope on the grounds of the Crystal Cathedral.

About the Sculptor

Frederick Hart (1943 - 1999) was an American sculptor who was best known for his public monuments and works of art in bronze, marble, and clear acrylic (a technique he pioneered and coined as "sculpting with light"). Hart is recognized for creating work that is classically traditional in its adherence to the idealized human figure, radical in its sensuality, and innovative in its materials.

He gained international stature for his The Creation Sculptures on the west façade of Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The Creation Sculptures were completed in 1990 almost twenty years after Hart began work on them. In 2004, Frederick Hart was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States Government - only one of numerous prestigious awards Hart received for his work.

Hart's legacy is diverse and widespread. He was an inventive revolutionary. His works are physical and sensuous, yet spiritual, direct, graceful and subtle. Though his life was cut short (he died in 1999, two days after doctors discovered he had lung cancer), the influence and beauty of Frederick Hart's work lives on through his art, rippling out from the Crystal Cathedral and around the world.

Watch a Ripple Turn into a Wave of New Ideas

Some years ago I took a trip to Israel. One morning while there, I took a motorboat ride across the Sea of Galilee. Suddenly, in the middle of the lake, the operator of the boat cut the motor. I wondered for a moment if we were out of gas. When I inquired, the man said, "No. I thought it would be nice, Dr. Schuller, if you could just listen to the quietness out here." Soon the boat stopped rocking and the only sounds we heard were those of water lapping gently against the stern of the boat and the magnificent silence of the centuries as we sat in the very same sea Jesus had fished more than 2,000 years earlier.

We may think we know the answers to all of the important questions in our lives. We may think we have our philosophies, ideologies, theology, and psychology all neatly packaged and labeled and feel safe and secure in our knowledge. That's when it's time to cut the motor, to pause and be still and recognize the mighty presence of God, and to ask ourselves: "Am I ready for a new idea?"

Summer offers you and me an opportunity to slow down, to cut the motors of our busy lives, to sit expectantly allowing the ripple of quietness to inspire within us a wave of new ideas. Who knows where just one thought, one new idea, might take you or me in the weeks, months, and years ahead if we stop long enough to let God speak in the summer quiet.

- Robert H. Schuller

Nick Vujicic: The Blessing of an Extraordinary Life

Nick Vujicic's motto is "No arms. No legs. No worries!"

Born without limbs, Nick has achieved the seemingly impossible in his brief 25 years. Faced with countless challenges and obstacles, God has given Nick the strength to rise above what others might call impossible.

As a child growing up in Australia, Nick could not attend a mainstream school because of his physical disability, but God gave his mother the strength to fight, and the law was changed. Though Nick liked school, he often experienced rejection and cruelty because of his physical difference. "It was hard," Nick admits, "but with the support of my parents, I developed attitudes and values that helped me overcome those challenges."

Today, Nick has an unquenchable passion to share through his ministry (lifewithoutlimbs.org) the hope and genuine love he has experienced. "God has used me in countless schools, churches, prisons, orphanages, hospitals, stadiums, and individual encounters to let people know how very precious they are to him." Nick has told more than two million people in over 19 nations that "God took my life-one that others might regard as having no significance, filled me with his purpose, and showed me his plans to move hearts and lives toward him. Like me, God can help you overcome your life challenges, too." Nick Vujicic believes that if you have the passion to do something and if it's God's will, you will achieve it in good time. For example, Nick enjoys "normal" pursuits such as swimming, music, and fishing. But, how do you fish if you don't have arms? With a fishing rod with an electronic reel!

"As humans, we continually put limits on ourselves for no reason," Nick observes. "What's worse is that we put limits on God who can do all things. Instead of focusing on our capability, we need to concentrate on our availability and God's ability."

In late 2007, Nick depended on the Lord's ability to create a way for him to reach the maximum number of people, and the way was realized in part this year when Dr. Schuller invited him to be one of America's Positive Television pastors on the Hour of Power. Nick's optimistic approach, outgoing personality, and exuberant love for God resonated not only with Dr. Schuller but also with Hour of Power viewers who created quite a "buzz" on hourofpower.org following his March 15th message. Be sure to tune in to experience the blessing of this extraordinary life when Nick returns to the Hour of Power on July 12.

America & The Hour of Power

Blessed to Be a Blessing

It's been said that, as the first Constitutional Convention met in 1787, delegates from the thirteen original colonies faced a tremendous crisis. So split in their views, the founding fathers were seriously considering abandoning the idea of a constitution altogether when Benjamin Franklin rose to his feet and said, "Gentlemen, if it is true that not one single petal of a flower falls to the ground without escaping God's attention, will the distress of this nation go unheeded? Let us, therefore, determine to seek God's face." The delegates fell to their knees and prayed for God's direction and unity.

A great nation always has a great history. No nation endures for long that does not depend on God.

This July, as we celebrate our nation's birthday, we are reminded that "the nation whose God is the Lord" (Psalm 33:12) will be BLESSED by the God in whom its citizens put their trust. Without God, we are nothing. With God, all things are possible. We echo those sentiments at the Crystal Cathedral Ministries. God has impressively blessed this ministry over the years. In 2009-in spite of economic downturn and future uncertainties-the Hour of Power remains the longest-running, one-hour weekly-televised church service in history. That's amazing! That's a miracle! That's a blessing...thanks to persons like YOU who have continued to support the noncommercially sponsored Hour of Power for 40 years!

Millions of people have found strength for all of life's experiences through the televised worship service that upholds and shares godly values like democracy, freedom and justice-the hallmarks of a great nation-even as we proclaim to the world the unfailing love of God.

In celebration of America's 233rd birthday, we have produced a beautifully designed small book containing one of Robert H. Schuller's most celebrated messages-I Am the American Flag. This original composition, which received the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation's 1973 Principal Award for the most outstanding sermon in the United States, has been delivered by Dr. Schuller many times on the Hour of Power, as well as in convention halls and arenas across America. The inspirational 27-page book is filled with spectacular four-color photographs that make our American history come alive. I Am the American Flag is the third of six outstanding Hour of Power Book Club offers for 2009.

This keepsake book is our gift to you this month for your faithful support of this ministry, which helps the Hour of Power to continue to bless people with inspiring, uplifting, hope-filled messages every week.

Write to us TODAY or call 1-800-549-6177. America and the world need our message. We urgently need YOUR help. Together we can be a blessing!