How GREAT was that Graduation Celebration?  I has so much fun as the family of God really came around our seniors and loved on them unendingly.  What a great family God has assembled here at Campbell.  Thank you to all of you who were there and for all of you who helped make the evening a success.


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What a GREAT Shower!!!  God really blessed the shower we held for Danny & Bethany this past Friday.  As they shared their story of how God brought them together and how they chose each other.  They also talked a lot about deciding what they wanted in a mate.  It was really cool.

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“He Will Enable Me to Bear It”

Rose Allen Munt
England · 1557

Rose Allen jumped from her bed and peeked out the window.  There in front of her door stood a sheriff, two police officers, and a crowd of people carrying torches.  They were talking with her father on the door stop.  She looked at the clock on the mantle.  It was two in the morning.

Rose’s mother, Alice Munt, had also been awakened by the loud pounding on the door.  “What is it, Rose?’ she whispered.

“They’ve come to get us, Mother,” Rose whispered back.  Rose could hear her father, William, letting the men in below.  The she hear footsteps coming up the stairs.

Friends has warned them of the danger of not attending the official church, but their sense of duty to the truth was stronger than their fears.  They continued to worship in secret places with a few men and women of like faith.  Now the authorities had come to take them away.

Alice, who was not in good health, was so shaken up by the sudden alarm that she felt faint.  She asked the sheriff if her daughter could get her some water before they all left for prison.

The sheriff allowed Rose to go to the well.  She took a candle and a pitcher to the well and returned with the water.  As she came back toward the house, the sheriff met her at the door and said, “Persuade your father and mother to act more like good Christians and less like heretics.  Then they’ll soon be set free.”

“Sir,” Rose replied. “they have a better instructor than I, for the Holy Spirit teaches them—one who, I hope, will not all them to err.”

“Well! It’s time to lock up such heretics as you!” the sheriff replied. “I reckon you will burn with the rest, for company’s sake.”

“No, sir,” Rose replied, “not for company’s sake, but for my Christ’s sake, if I have to.  And I trust in His mercies, that if He calls me to do it, He will enable me to bear it.”

One of the sheriff’s men shouted, “Prove her now, and you shall see what she will do by and by.”

With that, the sheriff took the candle from the girl, and holding her wrist in a firm grip, put the lighted candle under her hand, burn it across the back for so long that the skin peeled off, the tendons cracked, and bones showed.

“Cry, wench! Let me hear you cry! He yelled.

Rose refused to utter a sound.

When he finally pushed her away, Rose said, “Sir, have done what you will do?”

“Yes, and if you don’t like it, then mend it.”

“Mend it!” said Rose, “No, the Lord mend you, and give you repentance, if it be His will.  And now, if you think it good, begin at the feet, and burn to the head also.  For he that sent you to this work shall pay you your wages one day, I promise you.”

Having said this, Rose carried the water into the house to her mother. 

The same morning, the sheriff and his men also arrested six others.  After they had been in prison a few days, they were all brought to trial.  Each one answered with firmness and refused to change their belief in any way.  They were sentenced to be burned at the stake.

When they were brought out, the martyrs knelt, and their prayers, and were tied to the stakes.  When the fire rose all around them, they clapped their hands for joy in the fire.

The people who looked on—thousands of them—cried out. “Lord strengthen you! The Lord comfort you! The Lord pour out His mercies upon you!” and other words of comfort.

The martyrs gave themselves to the flames with such courage that all who them were amazed.

For centuries, godless torturers have been amazed that Jesus Freaks aren’t afraid of them—even when threatened with death—but continue to respect, honor, and obey God.

Don’t be bluffed in silence or insincerity by the threats of religious bullies.  True, they can kill you, but then what can they do?  There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands.

 Jesus  (Luke 12:4,5 The Message)

 

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Taken from "Jesus Freaks" by DC Talk and Voice of the Martyrs, Bethany House Publishers, 1999.

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