Let us ever walk with Jesus,
Follow His example pure,
Flee the world, which would deceive us
And to sin our souls allure.
Ever in His footsteps treading,
Body here, yet soul above,
Full of faith and hope and love,
Let us do the Father’s bidding,
Faithful, Lord, abide with me;
Savior, lead, I follow Thee.
Let us suffer here with Jesus,
To His image e’er conform;
Heaven’s glory soon will please us,
Sunshine follow on the storm.
Tho’ we sow in tears of sorrow,
We shall reap in heav’nly joy;
And the fears that now annoy
Shall be laughter on the morrow.
Christ, I suffer here with Thee;
There, oh, share Thy joy with me!
Let us also die with Jesus.
His death from the second death,
From our soul’s destruction, frees us,
Quickens us with life’s glad breath.
Let us mortify, while living,
Flesh and blood and die to sin;
And the grave that shuts us in
Shall but prove the gate to Heaven.
Jesus, here I die to Thee
There to live eternally.
Let us gladly live with Jesus;
Since He’s risen from the dead;
Death and grave must soon release us.
Jesus, Thou art now our Head,
We are truly Thine own members;
Where Thou livest, there live we.
Take and own us constantly,
Faithful Friend, as Thy dear brethren.
Jesus, here I live to Thee,
Also there eternally.
Following is the list of Oklahomans who died in the line of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. It includes those who listed Oklahoma home towns with the U.S. Defense Department. Iraq 2003 -Marine Lance Cpl. Thomas A. Blair, 24, Broken Arrow. Died March 24. -Marine Staff Sgt. Aaron Dean White, 19, Shawnee. Died May 19. -Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Doyle W. Bollinger Jr., 21, Poteau. Died June 6. -Army Sgt. Steven W. White, 29, Lawton. Died Aug. 13. -Army Spc. Stephen M. Scott, 21, Lawton. Died Aug. 23. -Army Pvt. Jason M. Ward, 25, Tulsa. Died Oct. 22. -Army Sgt. Ross A. Pennanen, 36, Shawnee. Died Nov. 2. 2004 -Army 2nd Lt. Luke S. James, 24, Hooker. Died Jan. 27. -Army Chief Warrant Officer Lawrence S. Colton, 32, Oklahoma City. Died April 11. -Marine Cpl. Scott M. Vincent, 21, Bokoshe. Died April 30. -Army Staff Sgt. Erickson H. Petty, 28, Fort Gibson. Died May 3. -Army Spc. James E. Marshall, 19, Tulsa. Died May 5. -Army Spc. Kyle A. Brinlee, 21, Pryor. Died May 11. -Army Spc. Sonny Sampler, 23, Oklahoma City. Died July 8. -Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Nice, 19, Nicoma Park. Died Aug. 4. -Marine Pfc. Nachez Washalanta II, 21, Ardmore. Died Aug. 21. -Air Force Capt. John J. Boria, 29, Broken Arrow. Died Sept. 5. -Marine Lance Cpl. Lamont N. Wilson, 20, Lawton. Died Sept. 6. -Marine Lance Cpl. Nathaniel T. Hammond, 24, Tulsa. Died Nov. 6. -Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan D. Winkler, 19, Tulsa. Died Nov. 26. -Army Sgt. Carl W. Lee, 23, Oklahoma City. Died Nov. 28. -Marine Staff Sgt. Melvin Blazer Sr., 38, Moore. Died Dec. 12. 2005 -Army Spc. Robert T. Hendrickson, 24, Broken Bow. Died Feb. 1. -Army Spc. Jeffrey S. Henthorn, 25, Choctaw. Died Feb. 8. -Army Staff Sgt. Jason Hendrix, 28, Claremore. Died Feb. 16. -Army Spc. Adam N. Brewer, 22, Dewey. Died Feb. 25. -Army Chief Warrant Officer Steven Shephard, 30, Purcell. Died June 27. -Army Spc. Jared D. Hartley, 22, Newkirk. Died July 15. -Marine Sgt. James Graham III, 25, Coweta. Died Aug. 1. -Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian K. Joplin, 32, Hugo. Died Oct. 4. -Army Sgt. 1st Class Brandon K. Sneed, 33, Norman. Died Oct. 10. -Army Pfc. David Jeffery Martin, 21, Edmond. Died Oct. 31. -Army Pfc. Travis W. Grigg, 24, Inola. Died Nov. 15. -Marine Cpl. Joshua J. Ware, 20, Apache. Died Nov. 16. -Marine Cpl. Jeffry A. Rogers, 21, Oklahoma City. Died Nov. 16. 2006 -Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jason L. Norton, 32, Miami. Died Jan. 22. -Army Staff Sgt. Lance M. Chase, 32, Oklahoma City. Died Jan. 23. -Army Pvt. Joshua Francis Powers, 21, Skiatook. Died Feb. 25. -Army Spc. Joshua Pearce, 21, Guymon. Died Feb. 26. -Army Spc. Bryan L. Quinton, 24, Sapulpa. Died May 4. -Marine Lance Cpl. Hatak Yearby, 21, Overbrook. Died May 14. -Marine Sgt. Justin Noyes, 23, Vinita. Died July 2. -Army Staff Sgt. Clint J. Storey, 30, Enid. Died Aug. 4. -Marine Cpl. Jared M. Shoemaker, 29, Tulsa. Died Sept. 4. -Army Sgt. John A. Carroll, 26, Ponca City. Died Sept. 6. -Army Sgt. Clint E. Williams, 24, Kingston. Died Sept. 14. -Army Spc. Joshua Sheppard, 22, Quinton. Died Dec. 22. 2007 -Army Col. Brian D. Allgood, 46, Oklahoma. Died Jan. 20. -Marine Lance Cpl. Trevor A. Roberts, 21, Oklahoma City. Died March 24. -Army Spc. Wilfred Flores Jr., 20, Lawton. Died March 31. -Army Spc. Ryan S. Dallam, 24, Norman. Died April 6. -Army Pfc. Jerimiah J. Veitch, 21, Dibble. Died June 21. -Army Sgt. Ryan M. Wood, 22, Oklahoma City. Died June 21. -Army Pfc. Thomas R. Leemhuis, 23, Binger. Died June 21. -Army Spc. Derek A. Calhoun, 23, Oklahoma City. Died June 23. -Army Pfc. Jaron D. Holliday, 21, Broken Arrow. Died Aug. 4. -Army Staff Sgt. William D. Scates, 31, Oklahoma City. Died Aug. 11. -Army Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey D. Kettle, 31, Madill. Died Aug. 12. -Marine Cpl. Jeremy Allbaugh, 21, Luther. Died July 5. -Marine Cpl. Bryan J. Scripsick, 22, Wayne. Died Sept. 6. -Army Staff Sgt. Kevin R. Brown, 38, Harrah. Died Sept. 25. -Army Pvt. Cody Montana Carver, 19, Haskell. Died Oct. 30. 2008 -Army Spc. Micheal E. Phillips, 19, Ardmore. Died Feb. 24. -Army Capt. Torre R. Mallard, 27, Oklahoma. Died March 10. -Army Staff Sgt. Christopher M. Hake, 26, Enid. Died March 24. -Army Spc. William E. Allmon, 25, Ardmore. Died April 12. -Army Sgt. 1st Class David R. Hurst, 31, Fort Sill. Died June 7. -Army Sgt. Dan Eshbaugh, 43, Norman. Died Sept. 18. -Army Cpl. Michael Thompson, 23, Kingston. Died Sept. 18. -Army Warrant Officer Brady Rudolf, 37, Moore. Died Sept. 18. -Army Spc. Stephen G. Zapasnik, 19, Broken Arrow. Died Dec. 24. 2009 -Army Cpl. Stephen Scott Thompson, 23, Tulsa. Died Feb. 14. -Army Cpl. Gary L. Moore, 25, Del City. Died March 16. Afghanistan 2003 -Army Pvt. Jerod R. Dennis, 19, Antlers. Died April 25. 2004 -Army Sgt. Kyle Seitsinger, 29, Oklahoma City. Died Jan. 29. -Army Sgt. Daniel L. Galvan, 30, Moore. Died Aug. 12. 2005 -Army Staff Sgt. John G. Doles, 29, Chelsea. Died Sept. 30. -Army 1st Sgt. Tobias C. Meister, 30, Jenks. Died Dec. 28. 2006 -Army Cpl. Derek A. Stanley, 20, Tulsa. Died June 5, 2006. 2007 -Army Sgt. Buddy Hughie, 25, Poteau. Died Feb. 19. 2008 -Army Maj. Scott A. Hagerty, 41, Stillwater. Died June 3.
Dear Family and Friends,
We are writing you all because we have an opportunity this summer, August 8-15th to go on a construction/medical/ dental missions trip with our church Village Presbyterian Church to Guadalajara Mexico, to work with the people of the Eirene Mission/Church. On our trip we will be working in a medical clinic triaging, and performing anything from general Dr.’s visits to small out patient surgeries. Two other teams will be working in a dental clinic or will help in the different construction needs of the Eirene mission. What a chance to minister to others!
We are excited about what God is going to do in our lives and in other people's lives through this ministry. We do, however, need your help. We need to raise $1,500 for each of us. We are asking that you donate as soon as possible. Anything you can do to help will be greatly appreciated. We ask that if you are not able to donate to please pray for us and our mission team, as we minister to others.
Here is the website to the mission that we will be serving at www.eirenemexico.org. Please make out checks to Beal Heights Presbyterian Church and mark them for "Mexico," and send them to Beal Heights Presbyterian Church, 614 SW Park Ave, Lawton, OK 73501-5239.In Christ,
Jacob and Beth Donaldson
The BHPC Sermon Page is active again! Head over to okbhpc.blogspot.com to listen and download.
Here is a letter from a woman who truly understood the sovereignty and goodness of God in the midst of her trial. Her husband, the great Puritan preacher, Christopher Love, was falsely accused and sentenced to death. His wife wrote this letter to him just before his scheduled execution.
July 14, 1651
Dear Christopher,
Before I write a word further, I beg you to think that this is not your wife now writing, rather a friend. I hope you have freely given up your wife and children to God, who has said in Jeremiah 49:11 -- "Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive, and let your widow trust in Me." Your Maker will be my husband and a father to your children. Oh that the Lord would keep you from having one troubled thought about your family. I desire to freely give you up to the Father’s hands and not only to look upon it as a crown of glory for you to die for Christ but as an honor for me that I should have a husband to leave for Christ. I dare not speak to you nor have a thought within my own heart about my unspeakable loss but I wholly keep my eye fixed on your inexpressible and inconceivable gain. You are leaving children, brothers and sisters to go to the Lord Jesus, your Eldest Brother. You leave your friends on the earth to go to the enjoyment of saints and angels and spirits of just men made perfect in glory. You leave earth for heaven and exchange a prison for a palace. And if earthly affections should begin to arise I hope that a spirit of grace that is within you will quell them quickly, knowing that all things here are but dross in comparison of those things that are above. I know you will keep your eye fixed on the hope of glory which makes your feet trample on the loss of earth. My dear, I know God has given glory for you, but also you for it. But I am persuaded that He will sweeten the way for you to come to the enjoyment of it. When you are putting on your clothes tomorrow morning, oh, think I am now putting on my wedding garments to go be with my everlasting Redeemer. And when the messenger of death comes to take you from prison to take you to the block, let him not seem dreadful to you, but look to him as a messenger that brings you tidings of eternal life. And when you climb the scaffold, think, as you told me you would, that you’re climbing aboard the fiery chariot to carry you up to your Father’s house. And when you lay down your precious head to receive your Father’s stroke, remember what you said to me: "Though my head shall be severed from my body yet at that moment my soul will be united with my Head, the Lord Jesus, in heaven. And though it might seem something better that I am leaving this life sooner than we had wanted, let us consider, Christopher, that this decree is the decree and the will of our heavenly Father and it will not be long before we shall enjoy one another in heaven again. Let us comfort one another in these things; be comforted my dear heart. It is but a little stroke and you shall be there where the weary shall be at rest and where the wicked shall cease from troubling us. Remember that you may eat dinner with bitter herbs but you shall have a sweet supper with Christ that night. My dear, by what I write I do not intend to teach you, for these comforts I received from the Lord by you teaching me. I will write you no more nor ever trouble you further but commit you to the arms of God with whom you and I will be forever. Farewell, my dear. I shall never see your face until we both behold the face of the Lord Jesus at that great day.
As per Bill's directive, I am supposed to pick up the nearest book with at least 123 pages, turn to the 123rd page, find the 5th sentence and post the three sentences immediately after that.
In compliance, I forthwith post the said sentences:
I hereby notify by saying "tag, you are it":
