FReeper Canteen ~ Guest Military Chaplain ~ OUR COVENANT WITH GOD ~ December 9, 2007

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[Brad’s Gramma]

 

 

 

 

 

"AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS"

Matthew 28:20

One morning I stood on the bluffs overlooking the coast at Camp Pendleton. I spied an amphibious naval vessel just off shore. As I stood watching, it came into full view, then disappeared as the early morning fog came and went. The ship was always there, but it was only visible part of the time.

It spoke to me of the reality of God's presence. The truth is God is always there, but our changing moods affect our ability to see. It's good days and bad days again, or would you believe, it can change moment by moment. In the times when vision is less clear, it's truly faith that helps us see and enables us to believe enough to keep trying.

So, live by faith. Trust in the Lord and keep looking ahead. God is with us in the confusion of life.

CAPT R. C. Brooks, CHC, USNR

 

[Brad’s Gramma]

Dear God:
I ask that no Airman, Coast Guardsman,
Marine, Sailor, Soldier or National Guardsman
Feel alone or forgotten.
Please guide the people of Free Republic to
The FR Canteen Post Office
So they can e-mail a service man or woman today.
AMEN

Some of these links are broken. I’m using this post out of respect to Mr. Tonkin as he used this for his first post. My apologies, I’d change the broken links if I could.


Dear Lord, help me to overcome my fears of today, and to look to You
from Whom comes my strength. Teach me to love my enemies and trust in
You, for You have told me that You will always be there when I need a
friend. Lord, I can carry a heavy burden upon my shoulders and as long as
I have You to lead and guide me, my burdens will be light. Amen.

Dear God:
I ask that no Airman, Coast Guardsman,
Marine, Sailor, Soldier or National Guardsman
Feel alone or forgotten.
Please guide the people of Free Republic to
The FR Canteen Post Office
So they can e-mail a service man or woman today.
AMEN

[SevenofNine]

MINEEEE

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yep! Yours! Have a blessed Sunday, Seven!

[Old Sarge]

Thank you, Grammy, for the Sunday News!

[SevenofNine]

Well I wasn’t online this morning there is report that our fav ex Aussie PM John Howard told Aussie Sunday Telegraph he won’t badmouth Kevin Rudd in public he think that being PM is hard gig it so true

Wash Post b***hing why Bush didn’t know about destroy CIA video of water tortute

[Brad’s Gramma]

God bless you, Old Sarge.

[monkapotamus]

I want some pancakes.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Click on the pic and I'll guide you
to the start of today's
Guest Military Chaplain Service





Please stop in and say a prayer of protection for the military.
Prayers from all denominations are needed.

                                          


Sunday Liberty starts after the Guest Military Chaplain's Service!

[SevenofNine]

OH MONK you want post Norms website LOL!

[monkapotamus]

Using a canvas tarpaulin for a church and packing cases for an altar, a Catholic Navy chaplain holds mass for Marines at Saipan in memory of those who lost their lives during the initial landings. June 1944.

[SevenofNine]

Well Aussie Sunday telegraph that scientists are claim it is polar bear who are destroy enviorment

Enviroment NO WAY i doubt it them and Looter guy

[laurenmarlowe]

United States Marine Corps Band~National Anthem

[SevenofNine]

Just damnnn Tomkow look like your fellow Chicagoland residents turn out droves in Barek and Oprah rally today according to Ap wire

Drudge has shocker more African American young women are going over to Hillary side over Barek side

[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

Andrea Bocelli ~ Domine Deus

Andrea Bocelli ~ Sancta Maria

Casting Crowns ~ Father, Spirit, Jesus

Casting Crowns ~ Set Me Free

Chris Tomlin ~ Holy Is The Lord

Chris Tomlin ~ King Of Glory

Westminster Cathedral Choir ~ Ave Maria

Westminster Cathedral Choir ~ Cantate Domino

Eden's Bridge ~ Praise The Holy Lord Above

Eden's Bridge ~ I Lift Up My Eyes

Libera ~ Be Still My Soul

Libera ~ Silent Night

 

 

[PROCON]

“So, live by faith. Trust in the Lord and keep looking ahead.”

A big Thank You to Capt. Brooks..SALUTE!!

Thanks Brad’s Gramma!! And my tagline to you and yours!!

[PROCON]

Hiya Kathy,

Do you ever sleep?!

[Kathy in Alaska]

To our Military -

Thank you for protecting us. Sleep well and safe.
May you be protected. May your families' hearts be at ease.

Thank you to our Allies.

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To those of our Military and Allies who gave their all,
- May your souls rest in peace. May your families be comforted.
May your/our country always remember.

[The Mayor]

December 9, 2007

Blue Christmas

READ: Isaiah 53:1-6

Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. —Isaiah 53:4

A growing number of churches are holding annual Blue Christmas services for those faced with grief and loss. The holiday season’s emphasis on happiness and good cheer often makes people who are dealing with heartbreak feel even worse.

An Associated Press article quoted a pastor who described the Blue Christmas service as “an opportunity for people to come and be in the presence of God and acknowledge their grief and despair and loneliness and give it to God.” One participant added, “And it’s a good place to have a cry and no one will mind.”

During the Christmas season, we often read Isaiah’s prophecies of the coming Messiah who would be born of a virgin (Isa. 7:14) and called “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” (9:6). But perhaps we should also include the words of Isaiah 53: “He is . . . a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. . . . Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows . . . . And by His stripes we are healed” (vv.3-5). The psalmist reminds us that “[The Lord] heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds” (Ps. 147:3).

If you’re hurting this Christmas, remember: Jesus came to save us, to help us, and to heal us.

Whenever darkness grips your soul
And you are tempted to despair,
Remember Christ’s unfailing love,
And trust His faithful, tender care.  —Sper

 Jesus provides an oasis of grace in the desert of grief.

Bible in One Year:   Daniel 11-12; Jude

[SandRat]

2Ch 6:14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, [there is] no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and [shewest] mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:

2Ch 15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

Psa 25:10 All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Hbr 8:10 For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: