Sermons for Veteran's Day
Spiritual Veterans - 2 Timothy 2:1-17
Alton Coleman
Advice from a Veteran - Psalm 27:1-14
By Brian Atwood
Veterans of War - Romans 13:7
By Steve Shepherd
Veterans of Spiritual Warfare - Deuteronomy 32:30-31
By Mike Rickman
Becoming a Soldier’s Shield - 1 Samuel 12:23
By Terry Laughlin
Remembering Veterans and God - Philippians 2:4
By Bruce Ball
God’s Veteran - Galatians 6:17
By Ron Hicks
What We Owe a Veteran - Luke 23:26-46
By David Rigg
Veterans for the Lord - Psalm 18:28-36
By James May
Are You A Veteran? - 2 Timothy 2:3-4
By J. Bernard Taylor
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The Source for National Security: "It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation’s humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence." -John Adams
Source: Presidential Prayer Team Update for March 21, 2003
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This week I saw the much-publicized film Saving Private Ryan. The movie graphically portrayed the landing of US forces on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. After viewing the gruesome carnage in the Steven Speilberg movie, I saw a Nightline episode in which several survivors of D-Day discussed their feelings about the film. One man said he thanked the famous director for depicting D-Day as it really was. When asked what enabled those brave men to take that beach at such a cost, the grizzled veteran said, "It wasn’t the flag, it wasn’t freedom. It was because my buddies were getting shot to pieces and I had to help them." The armed service calls this "unit cohesion." It is the same concept that helps the church assault the gates of hell. We call it brotherhood ... teamwork! We are all in this together!
Source: From Gene Edwards’ sermon: “Why giving is Teamwork”
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Newsman Howard Smith tells a wonderful remark from Winston Churchill the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. After the fall of France to the Nazis in May, 1940, until December 1941, Great Britain basically fought the war against Germany alone. President Roosevelt did what he could to help the British, but too many voices in America called on him to keep out of “another of Europe’s wars.” In London, when Winston Churchill received news of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he knew exactly how this nation would respond. He is said to have uttered, “So- we have won!” I can imagine that when the Lord Jesus went to the cross and His disciples scattered, when the nails were driven in and the forces of hell were cackling with glee, when the Savior breathed his last and it looked like all His work had come to naught, an angel in heaven turned to another and said, “So- we have won.”
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I served as an airborne Ranger platoon leader (paratrooper) in the First Air Cavalry Division during the Vietnam War. Our company was hacked up pretty badly by the enemy during one mission. When our platoon’s survivors returned to base camp, we all trudged down the muddy path to our tent. As the men took their places in their bunks, the number of empty bunks became apparent. Men put their faces in their hands and sobbed like children. Each of us wondered if our bunk would be empty at the end of the next mission. Fortunately, there was something we could always count on to help keep our sanity...late in the evening, long after the sun had gone down, a distant bugle could be heard playing "Taps." When that haunting, nostalgic song was played, all activity in the battalion area came to a screeching halt. Conversations would stop and men would sit back in their bunks, listening to what had to be the most poignant sound I have ever heard. Now, years later, as I look back on the horrors of that combat, I remember that unknown bugler who played "Taps" so late every night. It seemed that, if only for a few moments, we were assured that someone was up there, sending us renewed hope through those twenty-four simple notes. THE WORDS TO "TAPS" Day is Done, Gone the sun, From the lakes, from the hills, from the sky. All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh.
Source: Bill Scheibler, Vietnam veteran, Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Citation: Taps: Notes from a Nation’s Heart. Richard H. Schneider. New York: Harper Collins, 2002, p. 78.
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