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Captain’s Blog #81

December 11, 2008 on 10:23 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

WITH OR WITHOUT GOD??

I finally was able to get through to the cell phone number in Oklahoma and gradually the story unfolded. Seems that the lives of precious people to us, a family belonging to the church we pastored a lifetime ago in the early 1980’s, had suddenly been turned upside down. This family had two sons who now were in their late 20’s and early 30’s.  For 2 pizzas (worth $42) the younger son had been shot and killed, suddenly leaving behind a new family with a 2 week old baby girl.

What followed as I listened to the heartbroken older brother and the father, was deeply moving! In the midst of the ‘valley of the shadow of death’, a loud, clear, resounding testimony to perspective that only has one explanation…   a God who is not theory, acquainted with grief, grace that is real.

“Harmon, if you talk to people…    please ask them to pray for the young men involved in the murder…   pray for them…   that somehow God would use this and bring good out of it and they might know Him.”

This mission-field certainly spans the ocean both directions. Please pray for the family of Jeremy Moore and please pray for those involved in his murder.