Today in Marine Corps History: 5 May 1986

In Beirut, Lebanon a UH-1N helicopter carrying the commander of the Americans peacekeeping force, Colonel James Mead, was hit by machine gun fire. The six Marines aboard escaped injury. Colonel Mead and his crew had taken off in the helicopter to investigate artillery and rocket duels between rival Syrian-backed Druze Moslem militiamen and Christian Phalangists that endangered French members of the multinational forces.

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Faith in the Gospel

"Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our of the world. In changes or hearts." ~ Timothy Keller

15 April: Today in Marine Corps History

15 April: Marine Corps operational in the Vietnam War began on Palm Sunday wHMM-362 with Sikorsky UH-34s arrived at Soc Trang in the Delta south of Salgon. The task unit was called "Schufly" and it's first operational eployment involved lifting Vietnamese troops into battle.

Today in Marine Corps History

Marines of the 4th Brigade sffered their first gas attack on the night and early orning hours of 12-13 April when the Germans bombarded the 74th Company, 6h Mnes near Verdun with mstard gas. Nine Marine officers and 305 enlisted Marines were gassed and evacuated, and 30 Marines died from the effects of the gas shells which hit in the middle of reserve area cantonments in which they weresleeping.

Not a Matter of Opinion

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that pople often say aout Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of tings Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." ~ C.S. Lewis from Mere Christianity

What Christianity Offers

NNow the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the life of Christ. If we do, we shall then be sharing a life of Christ. If we do, we shall then be sharing a life which was begotten, which always has existed and always will exist. Christ is the Son of God. If we share in this kind of life we also shall be sons of God. We shall love the Father as He does and the Holy Ghost will arise in us. He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to oher men the kind of lfe He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nohing else. - from Mere Christianity