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“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13 A battle »

“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth. And after my skin »

“But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” -Hebrews 5:14 The American G.I. Rifleman Doug Hester tumbled out of the beach landing craft with his fellow Infantry soldiers into the same path of three »

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “18 Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness, and rivers in »

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ.” Philippians 3:20 If you are a native-born American, you can easily claim that you were fortunate to be born into the greatest »

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “Love one another as I have loved you.” John 13: 34-35 My world is made up of me, myself, and I. As a self-thinking, self-absorbed human being, we tend to consider ourselves as a world unto ourselves. In a »

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “Last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared unto me.” 1 Corinthians 15:8 We are now in the period of the 40 days between Resurrection Sunday, Easter, and Jesus’ ascension into heaven. During that time, the resurrected »

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God, our Savior, and of Christ Jesus, our hope.” 1 Timothy 1:1 The Apostle Paul begins his first epistle to Timothy with what might appear to you a switch »

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “Simon Peter climbed aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn.” John 21:11 Only the apostle John records this fishing expedition of the disciples »

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.” Luke 24:27 In a walk to Emmaus the afternoon of Resurrection Day, Jesus met and walked with two of »

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “He is not here, for He has risen, as He said. Come, see the place where He lay.” Matthew 28:6 The Scriptures do not tell us anything about the actual resurrection instance; they only tell us about the empty »

By Chaplain (Col) Stephen W. Leonard, USA, Ret. “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and »