An Open Letter To Veterans for Veterans Day

To those who have served in our military,

Thank you for serving our country.  

Some of you have had to serve in combat, and you've risked your life for freedom.

Growing calloused to death is something that is a risk for those who have seen more death and have had to use a weapon against other human beings.

You have likely seen things that you can never forget.

There can be long-lasting effects to having lived through traumatic circumstances.

Whatever the case, you know that freedom is costly and life is not something to be taken for granted.

Because I care about you, I want you to know the truth that can set you free in an even greater way.

God created you and me.  Yet we have rebelled against Him.  We've broken His Law.  Lying, lusting, stealing, murdering, gossiping, committing adultery or premarital sex or homosexuality, profaning His name, and loving anything more than Him are examples of rebellion against Him.

God is light and there is no darkness in Him at all.  He is holy, and we all deserve His just wrath and punishment.  He is the eternal Judge.  Because of who He is, an eternity in Hell is just punishment.

But God...in mercy God sent His only Son (fully God and fully man) to be born of a virgin, to live a perfectly righteous life that none of us can.  He did miraculous signs attesting to who He is.  Jesus came to earth to die.  The perfect God-man suffered and shed His blood on a Roman cross taking the punishment for sinners who are guilty.  He suffered agony and was killed willingly for the sins of everyone who would ever believe.  This was planned from eternity.  Jesus rose from the dead which was witnessed to by many people.

He is the one who will judge the living and the dead.  He is the way, the truth, and the life.  No one can come to the Father but through Him.

He sent His Spirit to dwell in those who trust in Him.

I urge you to be reconciled to God, to turn from sin and to trust in Christ alone for eternal life.

Those who trust in Him will be with Him forever, and whatever we suffer in this life cannot compare to the joy of eternity with Him.

Please read the 66 books of the Bible.

So, thank you again so much for your willingness to risk your life for my temporal life, and in turn I am giving you the good news that God can use to save your eternal soul that you might have eternal life.

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Transgenders In The Military • Medical Stories

Response To "Transgenders" In The Military

Recently someone on Facebook asked how to respond to friends with gentleness and respect ...basically when they are defending having "transgenders" in the military.

This was my response:

God created male and female, and so there is no such thing as a transgendered person. 

Wanting to be something you're not cannot change what God made you. 

Transgenderism is a deception, and it breeds distrust and may cause many relational problems. I also believe that men & women shouldn't be out there together as soldiers, and furthermore, as a Christian, I don't see women on the battlefield as being something God desires. 

Women were not made the same as men no matter how much they desire to be like men and no matter how capable they are in many ways. 

Soldiers shouldn't entangle themselves in the affairs of everyday life, and mixing genders and gender confusion is a distraction from the real goal of fighting the enemy. Sadly, many affairs go on in the military as it is, and putting someone created by God as a female in the midst of males...or a male in the midst of females....increases the danger of immoral relationships distracting from what people should be about.

(I borrowed from 2 Timothy 2:4.)

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Medical Stories & Gospel Tracts

I've been in medical buildings quite a lot lately with pain.

There are so many others out there suffering.

In the ER, I heard a man describing how a lady got dragged by her car.

I listened outside a doctor's office to a lady who was suffering, but she didn't know what all was wrong.

I heard a man who came into the doctor's office who had part of his hospital care denied by Medicare.

He was an old man, and I felt so sorry for him.  He was getting bills for thousands of dollars, and he hadn't wanted to be kept at the hospital.  

A doctor had wanted him to stay.  It seems that he can't afford to pay the bill.

I wished I could help. He was talking to the ladies at the check-in.

When I was waiting at the lab for an x-ray, a worker came out and told a couple waiting that the lady of the couple needed to go to the ER.  

Apparently, earlier tests had come back and shown something.

All I could do was pray.

God knows all of these things are going on.

It is good that we have been reading a section of a book recently on Jesus being The Ruler Of The Waves.

I placed Gospel tracts at some places I went, and I watched as the lady my sister talked with began to read one.  

I hope & pray that others will read the tracts.

These people in trouble need the Gospel.

Update: The tract that the lady picked up and started to read has still been there when I've been back to that waiting room (more than once).  

I saw another person pick it up and start to read it the last time that

I was there!

I hope this encourages other Christians to find ways to spread the Gospel!