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Celebrate a Veteran this week!
On October 8th, 1918, an Army corporal from the mountains of Tennessee did an amazing thing while fighting in World War I. Alvin York, a shy young man, who didn’t even want to go to war, performed so well in the line of duty he would later be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. York, who had been converted to Christ after being known as a “hell-raiser”, struggled with going to war because Jesus had taught that we should be peacemakers. However, he finally reasoned from the Bible that, as he would say,
“If a man can make peace by fighting, then he is a peacemaker.”
His patrol was moving behind German lines who were ‘dug in’ within deep trenches. The Germans discovered York and his troop, and opened fire. The American patrol was pinned down and York would later report that the bushes all around him were shot to pieces, yet he was miraculously spared. At great risk to his life he worked his way around the hillside where he could see the Germans entrenched above his men. With his Tennessee sharp-shooting skills he began to pick off the German soldiers one at a time, until he had single-handedly killed twenty-five of them; and silenced thirty-five machine guns! He then Continue reading
We have just witnessed perhaps the hardest fought campaign in the history of Presidential elections. And, at the time of this writing, the winner has still not been legally declared. So what do we, who are committed to Jesus Christ, do now? Number one, we continue to pray: More on that in a moment. Secondly, we learn the hard lesson—and admit it—that we have to change the way we are educating our children. The fact that socialists (which means, God-hating) people can come so close to taking over our government should drive us all to our knees, crying out to God to show us why we’ve let liberty come so close to extinction—to show us why our children are turning to socialism!
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