Life Out Of Death

About a week from this writing my wife and I will be in Normandy, visiting our family there. The lush green hills are punctuated in Spring by the brilliant golden yellow of the rapeseed fields. It's showery in Normandy in early May and the beaches can be cold and wet before the afternoon sun breaks through. When it does the white crosses above the beaches tell their story of the great cost paid by so many for the life and freedom of others. Ken Boa shares his observations this week...

Ernie

P.S. - This Iron Sharpens Iron note from Brian Doyle --

I look forward to seeing you and the men from your church on May 18th. Here are two quick updates for you to pass on.....

1. Dr Gene Getz from Dallas will be presenting two seminars including one of what may be the most fruitful Christian men's book ever written - over one million copies sold. Measure of a Man We are so humbled and honored to have Dr Getz come to Central New England.

2. Registration. Several men's leaders have requested if they can continue to promote the conference this weekend - and we think that is a great idea. We will hold the early registration prices for another week, through Tuesday, May 14th. This will go for adding to a previous registration and for ordering lunch as well. Be sure to register online or by calling the CT office (860.233.8136) by next Tuesday, May 14.

Serving with you,

Brian Doyle, ISI Founder and President

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Life Out Of Death

by Ken Boa

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2:20

Normandy, a province situated on the English Channel in northwest France, is an agricultural region today. But on June 6, 1944, the beaches of Normandy were stained red with the blood of thousands of Allied soldiers who lost their lives in the D-Day invasion of World War II.

On that terrible day, 176,000 troops, supported by the largest naval armada ever assembled, stormed Omaha, Utah, and other Normandy beaches. Within weeks, more than 800,000 Allied troops had amassed in France for the purpose of freeing Europe and, ultimately, the world from the death-grip of Hitler and the Axis powers.

Most people have seen films about the invasion; others have read, perhaps extensively, about it. But the full significance of that day becomes clear when one walks among the cemeteries that hold the dead of D-Day. Rows upon rows of gleaming white crosses mark the graves of the thousands who died for freedom.

On another wind-swept hill, thousands of miles from Normandy and nearly 2,000 years before D-Day, stood another cross. It was not a gleaming cross marking the grave of a fallen hero; rather, it was a rough-hewn cross used by Roman soldiers for crucifying criminals. Yet it was a cross of war nonetheless—a war for the freedom not of a continent but of the entire human race.

When Jesus died on the cross of Calvary, He paid the price for our spiritual freedom. When He was raised from his grave on the third day, He made it possible for us to live free from sin, free to be all that God created us to be.

Some crosses represent the gift of political and economic freedom, and for that we are grateful. But the cross of Christ gives us the most important freedom of all—the freedom to move beyond the tyranny of sin into new life as the children of God.

God’s Promise: His Son’s death and resurrection assure your freedom to live.

Ken Boa,KenBoa.org

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