Good morning,
This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. We will gather for our mid-week service for fellowship and study this evening at 6 PM, beginning with a special meal. We will be studying from John 3. The choir will practice at 7:30 PM.
Some of the movies I watched, while student in Bangalore, India in the late 60s and the early 70s include "The Sound of Music", "Gone with the Wind", and "Love Story". The movie, "Love Story", came out in 1970 and starred Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. This movie came out when MacGraw was 32 years old and O’Neal was only 29. The film is considered one of the most romantic movies of all time by the American Film Institute. In the movie Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail. Oliver and Jenny continue to build their life together. Relying only on each other, they believe love can fix anything. But fate has other plans.
After failing to have a child, they consult a medical specialist who, after repeated tests, informs Oliver that Jenny is ill and will soon die. While this is not stated explicitly, she appears to have leukemia. From her hospital bed, Jenny speaks with her father about funeral arrangements, then asks for Oliver. She tells him to avoid blaming himself, and asks him to embrace her tightly before she dies.
After failing to have a child, they consult a medical specialist who, after repeated tests, informs Oliver that Jenny is ill and will soon die. While this is not stated explicitly, she appears to have leukemia. From her hospital bed, Jenny speaks with her father about funeral arrangements, then asks for Oliver. She tells him to avoid blaming himself, and asks him to embrace her tightly before she dies.
It’s a love story, but a very sad one. They believed that love could fix anything, but they were speaking of human love. Rromantic love won’t fix what ails the world! What this world really needs now is God’s love manifested in Jesus Christ!
Love comes in various forms: romantic love, parental love,brotherly love, but the greatest of all is GODLY LOVE! It’s the love that God had for mankind when He sent Jesus into the world to become a sacrifice for our sins. THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE THAN THIS.
In January,1982 I had purchased my ticket to go to India to attend a wedding. At that time, on January 13, 1982, tragic events unfolded in the Potomac River near Washington, DC. Many of us remember watching as that tragic event unfolded, recorded by live Television. Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the Potomac River. 78 passengers died in the tragic crash. IT WAS BIG NEWS, if for no other reason than because of one person, LENNY SKUTNIK. Lenny dove into that river to help save someone from drowning.
One passenger, Priscilla Tirado, was too weak to grab the line dropped from a helicopter. Hundreds of people were watching, including emergency services personnel. Skutnik saw the situation, and stripped off his coat and boots and, in short sleeves, dove into the icy water and swam out to assist her. He succeeded in getting Tirado to the river shore, from where Tirado was subsequently taken to hospital, saving her life. Lenny Skutnik risked his own life for that woman.
Love comes in various forms: romantic love, parental love,brotherly love, but the greatest of all is GODLY LOVE! It’s the love that God had for mankind when He sent Jesus into the world to become a sacrifice for our sins. THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE THAN THIS.
In January,1982 I had purchased my ticket to go to India to attend a wedding. At that time, on January 13, 1982, tragic events unfolded in the Potomac River near Washington, DC. Many of us remember watching as that tragic event unfolded, recorded by live Television. Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the Potomac River. 78 passengers died in the tragic crash. IT WAS BIG NEWS, if for no other reason than because of one person, LENNY SKUTNIK. Lenny dove into that river to help save someone from drowning.
One passenger, Priscilla Tirado, was too weak to grab the line dropped from a helicopter. Hundreds of people were watching, including emergency services personnel. Skutnik saw the situation, and stripped off his coat and boots and, in short sleeves, dove into the icy water and swam out to assist her. He succeeded in getting Tirado to the river shore, from where Tirado was subsequently taken to hospital, saving her life. Lenny Skutnik risked his own life for that woman.
Another story unfolded that day. Arland Dean Williams, Jr. (September 23, 1935 – January 13, 1982) was a passenger aboard Air Florida Flight 90. He was among the six people to initially survive the crash. His actions after the crash, handling the initial rescue efforts as a first responder, became a well-known example of extraordinary heroism, although it cost him his life. He did not know any of the other victims personally. In fact, his identity was not even known until some time after the bodies were recovered. The next day, the Washington Post described his heroism: “He was about 50 years old, one of half a dozen survivors clinging to twisted wreckage bobbing in the icy Potomac when the first helicopter arrived. To the copter's two-man Park Police crew he seemed the most alert. Life vests were dropped, then a flotation ball. The man passed them to the others. On two occasions, the crew recalled last night, he handed away a life line from the hovering machine that could have dragged him to safety. The helicopter crew - who rescued five people, the only persons who survived from the jetliner - lifted a woman to the riverbank, then dragged three more persons across the ice to safety. The life line saved a woman who was trying to swim away from the sinking wreckage, and then the helicopter pilot, Donald W. Usher, returned to the scene, but the man was gone.
The passenger, who had survived the crash and had repeatedly given up the rescue lines to other survivors before drowning, was later identified as a 46-year-old bank examiner from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Arland D. Williams, Jr. The coroner determined that Williams was the only passenger recovered from the river whose body revealed that he had died from drowning rather than impact injuries suffered in the crash. Arland Williams was from Mattoon, IL, where an elementary school is named for after him.
John 15:12-13, “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” As great as the sacrifice of Arland Williams was, there is one greater still! 1 John 3:16, "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers."
The passenger, who had survived the crash and had repeatedly given up the rescue lines to other survivors before drowning, was later identified as a 46-year-old bank examiner from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Arland D. Williams, Jr. The coroner determined that Williams was the only passenger recovered from the river whose body revealed that he had died from drowning rather than impact injuries suffered in the crash. Arland Williams was from Mattoon, IL, where an elementary school is named for after him.
John 15:12-13, “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” As great as the sacrifice of Arland Williams was, there is one greater still! 1 John 3:16, "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers."
In Christ,
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