Obedience in the Gulf
Chaplain Eddie Cook, a 2002 graduate of Southeastern Seminary, baptizes Pfc. Dustin Robey in the Persian Gulf. Robey is among more than 100 men Cook has baptized while deployed in the Middle East.
by Tracy Wilcox, The Fayetteville (NC) Observer
They sent over whizz-bangs (mortars) and later, big shells, which fell in close proximity to where I was working. I had buried seven of these fallen heroes, when my Guardian Angel said to me, 'get way from here, quickly.' I obeyed instantly, and had got away twenty five yards in a slanting direction from the enemy's fire when a big shell landed right on the very spot where I had been standing just a few seconds before. All I got was a shower of earth."
(Padre) McKenzie wrote to his wife to put her mind at ease: "I know now that if I pay heed and obey God I shall continue unharmed until my work is finished, so if I fall on the field, you will know the reason."
Fighting McKenzie: Anzac Chaplain, by Colin Stringer
Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!