Propeller or barnacle?

If your church

 

                were a “Ship,”

 

Are you a propeller

 

                or a barnacle?

 

– eab, 4/28/10 

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JUNE – MAY

June is the month to begin

Wedding dreams and acts.

May it never end

This side death’s cold facts.

 

Marriage is for all of life

What a godly “invention.”

One strong man, one good wife

Can withstand intervention.

 

“Do you take this man to be?”

Can be promised in high elation.

To be always her man, his lady,

Takes love, work, and determination.

                – eab, 5/2/09

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Jim Elliot – wrote, May 2, 1949

“The man who will not act until he knows all, will never act at all.”

                                                                                                – Jim Elliot’s journal

 

Said to have been written by Jim on the date, 5/2/1949.  He was later a missionary and a martyr along with Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, Nate Saint, and Roger Youderian.  They were North Americans trying to reach South Americans for Jesus Christ.  

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