Jul
29
Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Editor’s Note: “Nobody but a soldier knows what war is really like, but the next best thing may be reading Donovan Campbell’s Joker One.” from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no [...]
Jul
26
Do The Math – A Lesson on Worry
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD is the Rock eternal. —Isaiah 26:3,4 In a recent conversation with a chaplain concerning Christian radio stations in our [...]
Jul
22
Fear of Dying
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Then He said to them all: “If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Me will save it.” [...]
Jul
15
When Jesus Passes By
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” [...]
Jul
5
True Freedom
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Therefore, if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. —John 8:36 I opened my email first thing this morning and read a message from a sweet military wife whose husband is in Afghanistan. She had enjoyed the prior posting, “God Bless America”—especially [...]
Jun
28
Hebrews 10:25 Encouragement
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. — Exodus 20:8 Like most of you I have been TDY or deployed more times than I can count—away from my own family and my church family. One of the temptations during those times apart is to [...]
Jun
17
Faith That is Bulletproof
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “Unless the LORD had helped me, I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave. I cried out, ‘I am slipping!’ but Your unfailing love, O LORD, supported me. When doubts filled my mind, Your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer.” — [...]
Jun
14
Askin’ for Trouble!
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength! — Proverbs 24:10 Think back to your childhood for a moment. After doing something you would come to regret, were you ever told by your parents that you were “just askin’ for trouble” [...]
May
17
Talking to Yourself
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence. — Psalm 42:5 Has loneliness during deployment caused you to “talk to yourself”? Do [...]
May
13
When Surrender Means Victory
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Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’ — Jeremiah 29:11 From the first week of her new husband’s deployment to Iraq until he came [...]