equipping the saints for the work of ministry – ephesians 4:12
Even in their death, these brave young Ugandans thwarted the evil the king intended. They welcomed the privilege of dying as martyrs for Christ Their attitude bewildered the executioners and soldiers who were ordered to kill them. One of the executioners later remarked that the prisoners acted as if they were going to a wedding. . .
I first wrote about the submariner that I knew as Dennis, who was like a big brother to me, many years before I ever wrote a Memorial Day Tribute. It was, possibly, the first time I ever wrote a poem.
The Body of Christ, the Christian Church that began with 11 Jewish men and other Jewish disciples — empowered by Holy Spirit — had better, as one, condemn this latest act of hatred and anti-Semitism.
As a Salvation Army office, my mom encountered a lot of broken humanity herself. But with all that, she seemed the epitome of the verse in James 1 that talks about keeping oneself “unspotted by the world.”