In an increasingly complex world, 2025 presents an opportunity for America to refocus on the foundations that made it great: faith, entrepreneurship, and family. These three pillars have always been at the heart of a thriving nation, and they hold the key to a brighter, more united future.
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Faith: The Guiding Principle
Faith has historically been a cornerstone of American life, providing both moral direction and a sense of purpose. In 2025, a renewed commitment to faith can foster hope and resilience in the face of social and economic challenges.
Communities grounded in faith are often more unified, charitable, and resilient. Faith-based organizations can address pressing societal issues like homelessness, addiction, and mental health by offering support that government programs may lack. Moreover, faith encourages individuals to strive for higher moral standards, creating a ripple effect of positive change throughout society.
In 2025, policymakers and leaders should empower faith-based initiatives and protect religious freedoms. These efforts will ensure that faith remains a source of strength, guiding individuals and communities toward a prosperous future.
Entrepreneurship: Fueling Innovation and Prosperity
The entrepreneurial spirit has always been the backbone of the American economy. From the industrial revolution to the tech boom, entrepreneurs have driven innovation, created jobs, and built the world’s largest economy. In 2025, fostering entrepreneurship is more critical than ever.
With the right policies—such as reducing burdensome regulations, lowering taxes, and encouraging small business growth—the U.S. can unlock its full economic potential. Empowering individuals to create and innovate will not only generate wealth but also strengthen local communities.
Entrepreneurship is about more than just financial success. It’s a mindset of resilience, creativity, and problem-solving. These qualities are essential for tackling modern challenges, from supply chain issues to the shift toward renewable energy. In 2025, America must prioritize entrepreneurship as a pathway to prosperity and independence.
Family: The Bedrock of Society
Strong families are the foundation of a thriving nation. They provide stability, teach values, and nurture the next generation of leaders and innovators. Yet, the American family has faced increasing strain in recent decades due to economic pressures, cultural shifts, and policy decisions that often overlook the importance of family life.
In 2025, the U.S. must focus on supporting families through pro-family policies. Tax incentives for families, affordable childcare options, and better work-life balance initiatives can help parents thrive while raising strong, well-rounded children. A society that values and invests in its families reaps long-term rewards, including lower crime rates, higher educational achievement, and greater civic engagement.
Moreover, cultural efforts to celebrate and promote traditional family values can restore a sense of unity and purpose. Media, education, and community organizations all have a role to play in uplifting the family as a central pillar of American success.
The Path Forward
For America to thrive in 2025, these three pillars must work in harmony. Faith instills moral direction and purpose, entrepreneurship drives innovation and economic growth, and strong families provide the stability and values necessary for a flourishing society.
Leaders at every level—from the White House to local communities—must prioritize policies and initiatives that strengthen these foundations. Educational institutions should emphasize the importance of entrepreneurship and family values, while faith-based organizations should be empowered to address societal challenges.
Conservative values of self-reliance, personal responsibility, and community support are central to this vision. By embracing these principles, America can overcome its current challenges and chart a path to greater prosperity, unity, and hope.
A Renewed American Dream
As we look toward 2025, the opportunity to rebuild and thrive is within reach. Faith, entrepreneurship, and family success are not just ideals—they are actionable solutions that can restore the American Dream for future generations. By returning to these core principles, the U.S. can create a society where individuals and communities flourish together.
The journey to a thriving America begins with each of us—strengthening our faith, supporting entrepreneurship, and prioritizing family. Together, we can ensure that 2025 marks the start of a new era of American greatness.
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Hi, Welcome to Anchored in Oklahoma. Thank you so much for joining me. My name is Ark Thompson, out here and Broken Arrow. Hopefully you guys are having a great day.
If you’re listening outside of the State of the Sooner, State of Oklahoma, welcome. This will be a short podcast. I wanted to just find out from you. This is just kind of some questions for you.
Then I’m going to give you what I’m gonna be doing twenty twenty five. Optimistic or you negative about the upcoming year? What things are you looking forward to? What things maybe are you apprehensive about? Would you say twenty twenty four has been a year of growth, kind of stagnant or maybe a few steps backwards. The good news is together, as we march along here on Anchor to Oklahoma, prayer fully and through scriptures and thro encouraging each other, we’re gonna have a good twenty twenty five. This is our first full week of starting this new podcast.
I do want to think those of you that have been downloading the podcast, we’re seeing increasing numbers. Please show this with your friends and family on Spotify and Apple and i heeart and other places. Twenty twenty five, I’m lining it up. I’ll be going on Apple TV and Roku to go along with the podcast, and we’ll have articles coming out.
We’re gonna be focusing on entrepreneurship. I’m starting a small business after the first of the year. It’d be be a deals so it’d be an app you can download to get some of the discounts and promotions here and Broken Arrow. So I know quite a bit about entrepreneurship, so we’ll be we’ll be talking about that for you small business owners or for those of you that own a business maybe things are struggling, or if you’re considering it, or if you know a family member that is a business owner.
So we’ll be we’ll be talking about entrepreneurship, quite a bit, self improvement, mister Christian will be encouraging people. We have a little planning on coming out with some short books, ebooks on marriage, on children, raising children, iron ship, iron sharpening, iron for men, maybe even some booklets on cooking recipes. Maybe even when a corny one on jokes, who knows. Because we have to live, we have to we got to loosen up a little bit.
But unfortunately, even though I like to talk about business and I like to talk about faith and self improvement. We are going to have to, unfortunately frequently look into the political world as we’ll be discussing hopefully less and less national news as if you’ve been listening. My whole goal is to try to encourage people to get behind with Elon Musk and that Ramaswami is what they’re going to be doing, and hopefully the Trump administration and saying yes, we can close that department, we can shrink that department. We can with Patel cash or cash ptel coming and maybe we’re going to close down FBI buildings and put people across the country and get us get our eyes off of Washington, d C.
So that is my hope. But we are going to have to cover politics local, state, and then when NASA, sorry federal and because of the collateral damage that Obama’s I believe puppeted Biden administration has done, we are going to be looking to the courts, the federal courts and the Supreme Court to continue to shoot down terrible policies. So we’re going to be covering politics, entrepreneurship, self improvement. We’ll have roundtable discussions.
But the way you can help me for the upcoming year is to share this, to follow the podcast, to follow the website anchored in Oklahoma dot com, and then I’ll get your feedback and we together can make a difference in our lives and our friends’ lives, our families’ lives, maybe people at the church in the state, and then across the country. Paul said in Phlippians three thirteen, Now I’m going I’m going through the Book of Acts with my wife. So if you’re not a Christian, here is some of the philosophy and some of the way that I look at things. Depression, suicides, increasing frustration in our country.
A lot of people that I meet, even here in Oklahoma, they’re carrying burdens that they’re not designed to carry, emotionally and physically. A lot of regrets, a lot of frustrations, and oh, I shouldn’t have trusted that person. Why did I date that person, Why did I marry that person, Why did I take that job? That person ripped me off, that person was rude, I got passed over for a promotion, And there’s this and then it festers. Right in the Christian world, there’s an oppression that comes from the demonic world.
When you start to look in sight and then grovel and then you don’t want to forgive. Paul in the Book of Acts, his name was Saul before he was converted to faith in Jesus Christ, was actually the persecutor and prosecutor of the new Christian faith. You would actually go in and would have family members Christians taken away, killed, put into slavery. But one of the first acts that is recorded in the Book of Acts is Saul who wants to put down this new sect called the way Christians.
There was a young Christian named Stephen that was performing, you know, miraculous works and was preaching the Gospel, and so he got called in to the religious leaders that didn’t want their authority to be challenged, and he told them, well, you you’re the problem, religious leaders. You killed the Messiah. So of course that that that got him in trouble. So they took him out to stone him.
And Saul, who became Paul later, was the kind of the authority figure at the stoning that they the other people coming to kill this young Christian were laying their coats. They were giving kind of an homage or you are the man, You’re the you’re the you’re the driver behind us. Having this authority to do this. Well.
Later, after Paul, after all of this, after becoming personally ministered to by Jesus Christ, knocked off a horse on the way to round up more Christians. He wrote to the church and Philippians, brothers and sisters. I did not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do.
I’m encouraging you today. This one thing you must do to get victory over any type of depression, sadness, frustration. This isn’t medical bias. This is a spiritual recommendation, and I think kind of a mandate for me, this one thing, Paul.
If Paul could do this, if Saul could do this, you can do this. You need to take the weights that you’re carrying around, the burdens on your back. There was a Christian cartoon. I forgot what it was called, but it was about this whole idea.
Paul said. It’s one thing I do forgetting what is behind me and straining toward what is ahead, this burden, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God had called me Heaven worred in Christ, Jesus. This one thing I do, Paul said, forgetting the things that are behind I press on you need to do that. In twenty twenty five.
If you’re a big Trump supporter, he’s won. He won, so he’s gonna he’s gonna be sworn in, and he’s got the House, Senate and the President and obviously his cabinet. So what do you What do you do now? You work locally to support him. You want your cities.
We want the state of Oklahoma. If you’re not in Oklahoma, you want your state, your officials, your House US representatives and senators. You want them on board for liberty’s sake. So twenty twenty five, love your families, be active in your community, let go of any type of regrets or strains or things that are behind you.
Make sure that you have learned from those mistakes. And it’s not like you’re messing up today and suddenly you’re going to be magical on the first Know you let go though of the things that you you could. We can’t go back and change what we did. We can only repent of ask for forgiveness from those we’ve wronged that we have access to.
But God, if you’re a believer in Jesus Christ and have been saved, He is faithful andjust to forgive us of our sins. So we need to Pilgrim’s Progress was if you want, if you want a good idea what I’m talking about, go watch pilgrims pro Progress wherever you stream your television from. Course, it’s not easy, but if we’re going to be I’m anchored in Oklahoma because I’m anchored in Christ in Oklahoma, and my wife and I prayed and we ended up in Oklahoma by choice, and we love the state. But individually we now still need to make a difference in Broken Arrow.
We need to make a difference in Tulsa County. We need to make a difference in the state. You wherever you live, live in such a manner that people want to they want to know what you know, they want to follow because you’re heading in the right direction. And we want to We want to throw off these shackles of the Biden administration, this Marxism, this idea of diversity, equity inclusion, classifying people by skin came again, and by who you sleep with and by who you claim to be.
And we want to start protecting children so they’re not getting puberty blockers, going through surgeries to mutilate their bodies because while they don’t even know how to drive yet, they’ve been convinced by some very mentally disturbed people adults that maybe they’re maybe they’re in their own bodies. So those are things we can work on, but that needs to be done at the local level, because we are going to be praying and pushing for the reduction of the federal government. And when I guarantee you with the small federal government in Oklahoma and now, the conservative states are growing because low taxation, upper mobility, their scholarships, there’s opportunities for education, but the state leadership of states like Oklahoma or working to protect the liberties of the citizens of their states. Here, the residents of the state of Oklahoma, we’re gonna I think twenty twenty five when it’s out, when it’s over, we’re going to look back and go awesome, because we’re going to make a difference and leave it up to God.
But we are going to be feet on the street. We’re going to be voices for good things, and we’re going to be more positive people. And I’m excited about it. If you’re a Christian and you just like to go through the Bible, I do a podcast called Christian Talk with Eric Thompson.
It’s just me going through the Bible with you, chapter by chapter, So download that too. Every you know, every day I try to. So we’re gonna have a great year here on anchored in Oklahoma, wherever you live, hopefully you’re anchored in Missouri, are anchored in Texas, anchored in Florida, whatever. And I even have a little sound effect here.
This is that wherever you are, this is what should have happened. You should be anchored where you’re at, which means you are there. You’re not floating around, You’re not tossed around, You’re there. Be present, Be joyful, be confident, be firm in your convictions, live by your principles, don’t bend, don’t try to be liked for the sake of being liked.
And if we do this together here on anchored in Oklahoma, and the people are gonna say what are you guys up to? That’ll help us to grow, That will help us to come out with more resources. Over on Finnisharrace dot com, I’ll be coming out with courses for Christians dealing with family issues. Faith men going to be coming out with booklets then you’ll be able to download. It’s going to be a good year, so hopefully you’re looking forward to it.
Hopefully you have plans for New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day. If you’re if you’re if you’re alone, guess what, You now got a little community here over at anchor in Oklahoma. If you’re Christian, you’ve got your church. You’ve always got Jesus Christ closer than a brother.
So you’re never really alone unless you want to be alone. And then guess what, you can’t get away from God, so you’re never really alone. Put off the things that are ensnaring you. If you’re depressed, your your what what might be causing depression is unmet expectations or regrets.
Let them go, I said, go watch pilgrims progress until you get it. Get in the Bible starting in John chapter one, be in touch and they’ll be surprised how things can turn around in the upcoming year. Hope that was encouragement to you, and I’m looking forward to I guess said, seeing what God’s gonna do you again. If you want to get hold of me Eric at Anchored in Oklahoma dot com or download the podcast for going through the Bible Christian Talk with Derek Thompson.
God bless you guys. Take care.
Churches in my area and probably across the USA were nearly wiped out by the wrongful COVID response of shutting everything down.
It is time for revival and a mass turning to God.