Hello Folks,
     This past Sunday was a day of wonderful worship in Jesus.  I had prepared a sermon on Biblical honor as the first sermon in a series that I preach each year on the family.  It seems to me that if families honor each other and God the home would be a place filled with the wonders of God.  Well, I had already prepared the sermon when I received a phone call from a woman in the church whose son plays football at one of the High Schools.  It seems that the players wanted to attend this past Sunday as a way of saying thank you to Dale Gruver our Worship Pastor.  He has been a volunteer chaplain for them over the past four years.  So unknown to Dale I said yes and they arrived in their uniforms.  I could not have paid for a better illustration about honor than what they provided us that morning!  Praise be to God while they did not know what I was preaching about and I had no knowledge that they would call and want to do that on that Sunday God did and He arranged it all!  The presence of God was very real and people were praying at our altars getting business done with the King! 
     Next Sunday we will celebrate Veteran's Day and we have been preparing for it for some time now!  Ron Duncan will be our speaker and we will have some special moments designed to honor, there's that word again, our Veteran's for their sacrifices.  We are fortunate to have one WWII veteran, Arthur Ricker, who was at Normandy storming the beaches on June 6, 1944.  The future of the world depended upon those men who were dying as they attacked an entrenched enemy.  Thousands died and many more thousands were wounded that day alone but the Allies won the day and history was changed for the better!  In our services will be men and women who have given much to enable all of us to have freedom that we are so blessed to have in the United States.  I pray that we give real honor to those individuals who gave so much.
     Yet there is one who gave so much more than all of them combined and that is the Savior, Jesus Christ, who left heaven, put on human flesh, died on Calvary, was buried, but rose again on the third and appointed day!  May we always remember to honor Him!  There is no other Savior than Him and if He had not accomplished the greatest victory of all no one would be able to enjoy the freedom that comes from Him.  We should honor Him above all else.

Have a great day,

H. G. Rudd