Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Thank you for coming by for a CUP! May you be encouraged this day!
Let us come together and pray for each others needs. This CUP is FULL for you! Amen!
Many of you know that Shari Hardway Johnson of West Virginia writes for us here at FGGAM….her hubby, David is the Assistant Fire Chief in Grantsville, West Virginia. Please click on this link and pray with us, Shari has asked for your prayers. ………
Tragedy In Calhoun County West Virginia, 3 Die In House Fire
This is an excellent read:
Accountability And Discernment
In today’s edition of ‘The World We Live In’ at 12:05pm MT on KDAZ AM730 we will discuss God’s Word: Accountability and Discernment. From the on going protests over the Police shootings in Albuquerque to World Vision and same-sex marriage……..we see what happens when we don’t apply God’s Word to our lives. Please join us in prayer that peace covers Albuquerque. We are praying that nobody get’s hurt in these protests, there is a better way. PRAYER! AMEN!
More and more of you are listening on line right here on our web site, FGGAM.ORG , at KDAZ AM730 streaming audio!
We also thank all of you who are going to our media page to listen to our sermons and past programs!
For God’s Glory Alone we go forth!
One of my best friends ever, 83 year old Marv Boone, radio legend, for years the news voice of Cleveland and at WFRN radio in South Bend/Elkhart, Indiana, lays in a hospital bed this morning fighting for his life. He suffered a stroke about 2 weeks ago now. Marv’s wife Shirley shared with me a poem Marv wrote for her on New Years Day of this year………………
To My Treasured Wife….
You are the happiness in my life
as the year begins anew
When God created woman
He must have thought of you.
You are so very special
the best of a chosen few
When God created woman
He must have thought of you.
Happy New Year My Darling Wife,
All My Love
You Adoring Husband
Shirley cried while reading this poem to me over the phone……tears of a precious and treasured marriage.
And that is what I pray over my and your marriage today……the love Marv and Shirley share in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ is at the center of this marriage.
Please pray for Marv and Shirley.
Kelly’s Word For The Day~
Thank you to all of you who make FGGAM part of your day! For God’s Glory Alone we had our 200,000th visitor over night since Feb. 1st 2013.
I posted this yesterday ass we approached the milestone of 200,000……..
We are jumping for joy on this Lord’s Day! FGGAM is so blessed to share with you here on the Lord’s Day we are about to have our 200,000th guest! PRAISE GOD! Since Feb. of 2013. Thank YOU Lord what we are doing with this little ministry! LONDON ENGLAND ranks as our 10th reached city!!!! WE LOVE YOU SO LORD! My life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus. Acts 20:24. Use us more……more and more Lord for Your will.
As far as Countries are concerned for FGGAM, America is number 1, then United Kingdom, Canada, India, Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, Germany, Netherlands and France.
Top 10 Sates: New Mexico, California, Texas, Arizona, New York, Florida, Minnesota, Illinois, Georgia and Colorado.
Top 10 States Cities: Albuquerque, Mobile users, Tempe, New York, Los Angeles, Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, Houston, Chicago, London
Demographics: The Lord give us direct instructions when we started FGGAM, REACH YOUNG PEOPLE!
Look at this! PTL! 18 to 24 years of age: 27.50% and 25 to 34 years of age 33.50%!!!! PRAISE GOD!
Thank you to all of our 34 volunteer writers. We also thank all those who support FGGAM financially each month to keep this bus rolling for Jesus Christ! Amen!
We go forth with our Preaching, teaching, counseling, news and inspiration. For God’s Glory Alone!
Our mission remains to reach one person at a time for Jesus Christ.
This story at FGGAM is getting read this morning…it was posted months ago.but for some reason people’s hearts are led to this…….
This is a wonderful story by Michael T. Powers – SIX BOYS AND 13 HANDS. We Thank Vietnam War Vet Rick Stambaugh of Albuquerque, NM for submitting. If you have a Patriotic article you would like to send us, please do toradiodewey@aol.com We pray this is the first of many that we post in honor of Independence Day. I am as Patriotic as they come, having been born on July 4th!!
Each year I am hired to go to Washington, DC, with the eighth grade class from Clinton, Wisconsin, where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation’s capital, and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall’s trip was especially memorable.
On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima Memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history — that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II.
Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, ‘Where are you guys from?’
I told him that we were from Wisconsin . ‘Hey, I’m a cheese head, too! ‘Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.’
(It was James Bradley who just happened to be in Washington, DC, to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington, DC, but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we received that night.
When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.)‘My name is James Bradley and I’m from Antigo, WI. My dad is on that statue, and I wrote a book called ‘Flags of Our Fathers’. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me.
‘Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team. They were off to play another type of game. A game called ‘War.’ But it didn’t turn out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don’t say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old – and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about it.
(He pointed to the statue) ‘You see this next guy? That’s Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire . If you took Rene’s helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph…a photograph of his girlfriend Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima . Boys. Not old men.
‘The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the ‘old man’ because he was so old. He was already 24. When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn’t say, ‘Let’s go kill some Japs’ or ‘Let’s die for our country’ He knew he was talking to little boys.. Instead he would say, ‘You do what I say, and I’ll get you home to your mothers.’
‘The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona . Ira Hayes was one of them who lived to walk off Iwo Jima . He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, ‘You’re a hero’ He told reporters, ‘How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?’
So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down, drowned in a very shallow puddle, at the age of 32 (ten years after this picture was taken). Jonny Cash recorded a song in his honor, The Ballad of Ira Hayes written by Peter LaFarge.
‘The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from Hilltop, KY. A fun-lovin’ hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, ‘Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn’t get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night.’ Yes, he was a fun-lovin’ hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother’s farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away.
‘The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John Bradley, from Antigo, WI, where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite’s producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say ‘No, I’m sorry, sir, my dad’s not here. He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don’t know when he is coming back.’ My dad never fished or even went to Canada . Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell ‘s soup. But we had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn’t want to talk to the press.
‘You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn’t see himself as a hero. Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, ’cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a combat caregiver. On Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died on Iwo Jima , they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help with the pain.
‘When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, ‘I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.’
‘So that’s the story about six nice young boys. Three died on Iwo Jima , and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.’
Suddenly, the monument wasn’t just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero.
Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless.
We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us to live in, freely, but also at great sacrifice.
Let us never forget from the Revolutionary War to the current War on Terrorism and all the wars in-between that sacrifice was made for our freedom…please pray for our troops.
Remember to pray praises for this great country of ours and also …please pray for our troops still in murderous places around the world.
STOP and thank God for being alive and being free due to someone else’s sacrifice.
God Bless You and God Bless America .
REMINDER: Every day that you can wake up free, it’s going to be a great day.
One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th grade students in DC that is not mentioned here is that if you look at the statue very closely and count the number of ‘hands’ raising the flag, there are 13. When the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, he simply said the 13th hand was the hand of God.AWESOME READ! AMEN!Please tell all your friends for news and inspiration go to FGGAM.ORG www.fggam.orgThere are over 5,000 posts, WOW! Almost 6,000 now! for you to read!
