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Today's Text in Context

Bob Utley, "John 15" from the series The Beloved Disciple's Memoirs and Letters

Memorial Day

"Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces. The holiday, which is currently observed every year on the last Monday of May, originated as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans founded in Decatur, Illinois, established it as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the Union war dead with flowers." Wikipedia

Maximilian Kolbe

Maximilian Maria Kolbe, O.F.M. (1894 – 1941) was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. Canonized in 1982 by Pope John Paul II, Kolbe is the patron saint of drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners, and the pro-life movement. John Paul II declared him "The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century." Wikipedia

9 Things to Know About Maximilian Kolbe

Some interesting facts about Maximilian Kolbe, written from a Roman Catholic perspective. Ellyn von Huben, Word on Fire Blog.

Ernest Gordon

Ernest Gordon (1916 – 2002) was the former Presbyterian dean of the chapel at Princeton University. A native of Scotland, as an officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Gordon spent three years in a Japanese POW camp during the Second World War. Ernest found his sense of self and spirituality while a prisoner and one of the participant soldiers who helped build The Bridge on the River Kwai. Wikipedia

USS Pueblo

The taking of Pueblo and the abuse and torture of its crew during the subsequent 11-month prisoner drama became a major Cold War incident, raising tensions between the western democracies and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and People's Republic of China. Pueblo, still held by North Korea, officially remains a commissioned vessel of the United States Navy. Since early 2013, the ship has been moored along the Potong River in Pyongyang. Wikipedia

Liviu Librescu

Liviu Librescu (1930 – 2007) was a Romanian-American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, Librescu is most widely known for his actions during the Virginia Tech shooting, when he held the doors to his lecture hall closed, allowing all but one of his students enough time to escape through the windows. Shot and killed during the attack, Librescu was posthumously awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, the country's highest civilian honor. Wikipedia

What Does the Bible Say About Sacrificial Love?

42 curated Bible verses about sacrificial love from OpenBible.

Evolution and Altruism

Chuck Colson, "Evolution and Altruism" The Christian Post, November 30, 2006.

Loving Kim

"That is how love works: Jill gets a restful weekend, and I get a stressful weekend. It’s a small picture of the love Jesus showed: When Jesus laid down His life for me, I got His righteousness, and He got my sin." —Paul Miller, "Loving Kim" Discipleship Journal, Issue 130, (2002).

What Is This Thing Called Love?

Bob Deffinbaugh, "What Is This Thing Called Love?" from the series True Spirituality: A Study in 1 Corinthians

The Depth of Christ's Love

John Piper, "The Depth of Christ's Love: Its Cost" Desiring God, March 26, 1995.

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