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12/01/2025

Let’s truly make this a December to remember!

11/27/2025

Thankful today for God’s goodness and remembering those who are away from home defending freedom on this Thanksgiving holiday!

05/24/2025

Remember the difference this weekend!

02/11/2025

This year marks the 250th year of the US Army’s Chaplain Corps!

For God and Country!

12/25/2024

The FIRST “Christmas”, which began a chain of events that would forever change mankind, for the better: His birth, His sinless life lived out before the world, the Cross, the Tomb, and Resurrection Sunday!

While we celebrate His birth today, may we also remember that the Lord of Lords and King of Kings was born to die.

And that He died so that we may have life. (2 Corinthians 5:15). The greatest gift at Christmas is the Son that God gave to the world so that by believing we might have life everlasting (John 3:16).

Christians, as we celebrate the birth of our Lord today, may we do so, as we anticipate His return. May we say with the Apostle, “even so, Come, Lord Jesus!” May it be today!

Merry Christmas!

11/11/2024

Happy Veterans Day to All Veterans!

Today we consider the word Honor.

What does it mean to Honor our Veterans?

The dictionary provides the following simply yet effective definition for honor, “high respect or great esteem.”

To this the Bible adds, ““Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.” (Romans‬ ‭13‬:‭7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬)

For us to honor our Veterans begins by showing them respect with our words. We can do this in how we talk about them. What do we say about the brave men and women of the Armed Forces? We can also do this by thanking them for answering our Nation’s call to serve.

But there is another way we can honor our Veterans. We can show them respect and esteem by living in tune with the examples set forth by honorable service. The Army has certain values that all Soldiers are expected to exhibit (loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, personal courage). We can all use these as guides for how we live each day, and how we treat one another. In doing so, we honor the memories and legacy of those men and women who bravely fought to secure the freedoms we enjoy in our great country. May we use our freedoms to serve others, not just ourselves. This is most honorable.

So as we see Veterans today, we may “thank them for their service,” but may we also be living lives that are worthy of the sacrifices they made for us and our Nation.

May God bless!

07/05/2024

As we celebrate the Independence Day holiday in America this weekend, may we reflect on what freedom truly is (and what it is not).

True freedom isn’t being free from all authorities, rules, guidance or expectations. It isn’t the condition where one gets to do what he wants, when he wants, how he wants, without any consequences. (That is a condition of bo***ge to the human will, which is enslaved to sin and its evil, self-fulfilling desires.)

Freedom, or liberty, is the attitude enjoyed when the right authority is maintained in our lives.

This is the liberty that is championed in Paul’s writing the Galatian believers.

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bo***ge.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5‬:‭1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Liberty, and true freedom, is gained only by believing the gospel and asking God to forgive and save us through Jesus’s death on the cross. (See Romans 10:9-10)

Therefore, ultimate freedom includes the opportunity to live under God’s rule knowing that His ways are best.

What about the freedom that is celebrated on July 4th? There is freedom to be enjoyed in relationship to civil authority. Civil freedom is born out of the establishment and submission to an earthly authority which parallels God’s good guidance, protection and provision. Civil freedom includes the liberty to recognize God’s supremacy in our lives and so worship Him (hence the 1st amendment in the Bill of Rights).

Therefore, the best leaders on earth are servant-leaders, like Jesus, willing to wash feet in service to those He loved (and would ultimately die for).

Let us pray for leaders who personally model leadership the way that Jesus did. May we pray for our country.

Let us strive to lead in our homes, churches, and communities in a way that honors God as the ultimate authority.

Let us submit to the Word of God and its perfect guidance so that we may enjoy ultimate freedom.

Go in peace, Be free.

06/06/2024

Thankful and humbled by the sacrifice of so many before.

05/10/2024

May God bless all you military spouses!

05/03/2024

A prayer for everyday life from a believer who lived nearly 1,000 years ago.

“Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon, Where there is discord, unity.
Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is error, truth.
Where there is despair, hope. Where there is sadness, joy.
Where there is darkness, light.
For it is in giving, that we receive.
It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned.
It is in dying, that we are born to eternal life.”
— Giovanni Bernardone

May this be your prayer today and everyday!

12/23/2023

Remembering everyone deployed this holiday season.

Though the numbers are not as large as those deployed during WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, or the Wars on Global Terrorism, there are still servicemen and servicewomen far from home this holiday season.

Stay safe until you return home to those you love!

God bless you and Merry Christmas!

12/07/2023

Today we remember, not to place blame on a current people or nation, but to never forgot the sacrifices of our country and the service of the brave!

December 7, 1941

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