[Dubya]

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

[manna]

Great story!

[Byron_the_Aussie]

"...some of my time in the (Gallipoli) trenches was employed burying British dead, that had laid in the field for a fortnight. Going forth with pick and shovel, I sought to give these heroes a Christian burial. In doing this one morning, I had occasion to go onto a ridge in full view of the enemy from two points. They started shelling, evidently thinking I was one of the (trench) digging party.

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

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Thanks for the heartwarming post. I was converted to the Gospel while on active duty some 32 years ago, and my life overall has been increasingly blessed as a result of the two good brothers who taught and led me back to the Savior...

[hope]

Beautiful story!

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!