Salt and Light Blog

This morning I began reading the proverb of the day, Proverbs 27 and I couldn’t get past verse one:

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Mark Harris’ music is very special to the Jeffers Family. I’ve used two of Mark’s songs in videos I did right after Eddie died. Karen and I have had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with Mark on two occasions, the last one just three weeks ago. He is a very godly man and lives his faith out loud. One of his songs is appropriate for today’s devotional on lifestyle evangelism. The chorus of Mark’s song “Use Words” explains:

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Karen and I received wonderful emails and phone calls yesterday from people around the country letting us know that they were thinking of and praying for our families on Memorial Day. We don’t do Memorial Day services; that’s one hurdle we haven’t jumped over. I’m not able to go to those events. Something keeps me away. I truly do want to pay respects to our fallen heroes, but it’s just too personal for me.

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Can you believe that Memorial Day Weekend is already upon us?! Summer begins and this week it got a head start here in Florida with the temperature warming up and the humidity rising. A new season is upon us!

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Today is the 150th Anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. It is considered our first modern war; it was by far America’s most costly. The thing that always amazes me, so eloquently and poignantly illustrated in Ken Burn’s “Civil War”, is the courage under fire of the men facing sure carnage.

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Fear can be paralyzing, whether it is real or perceived, known or unknown. Satan loves to use fear to cripple Christian warriors. He knows he can’t defeat us; Christ has won the victory. So, he plants fear into our hearts and minds, just like an enemy might plant a disease into an opponent’s water supply to slow down an advancing army.

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We have looked at absolute truth—the aletheia truth—and we see that Jesus has taught us we can know it and that we can be set free by it. It was His mission…it is the Christmas Story!

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Sixty-nine years ago today the Japanese launched, what was believed to be impossible, a surprise attack on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The death and destruction in just two wave attacks was devastating: 4 battleships sunk and 4 battleships damaged including 1 run aground; 2 destroyers sunk and 1 damaged; 3 cruisers damaged; 1 other ship sunk and three others damaged; 188 aircraft destroyed and 155 damaged; 2,402 military killed and 1,247 wounded; 57 civilians killed and 35 wounded.

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I have the best family a man could ever ask for; an adoring wife and two loving daughters, a wonderful son-in-law and the most precious grandson in the whole world.

This past Father’s Day was incredibly special to me and I just had to go on Mark Levin’s show and brag on my family. You can hear the call at the link below:

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Well my dear friend Mark Levin wanted me to come on the show and tell his audience what I thought of Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal “misspeaking” about his Viet Nam service, or lack thereof.

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Hat tip to John Haskins for this link

Bill Whittle of PJTV

I want you to watch this video by Bill Whittle at Pajamas Media TV.

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I was on Mark Levin’s radio show last night and I made some pretty strong statements.

Please listen to the link below and then I’ll discuss it afterwards.

(It may take a couple of minutes to download)

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It was three years ago today that my late son Sergeant Eddie Jeffers had his letter to me published by Frank Salvato at the New Media Journal.

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A dear friend recently lost his son who battled cancer for 11 of his 23 years, and although this young man was lost to cancer he was won to Jesus. As a father who has buried a son, the blow is devastating…survival is possible only through the grace of Jesus Christ. A colleague wrote me the day after Eddie was killed that a parent should never have to bury a child…so true.

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As a retired soldier, an amateur military historian, conservative pundit, and most importantly a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, I am always fascinated with the lives of Christian warriors who answer the call of duty to serve their nation in the military. My beautiful son was just such a man. Like Eddie, I love to bring to light the lives of great Christian soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guardsmen.

Beginning with Revolutionary War General George Washington and his most dependable general Nathanael Greene, to numerous Civil War generals , on through to George S. Patton, to name just a few; many Christian men have risen to the rank of general.

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Last night I got a heads up on Facebook from Michelle Malkin that the despicable Chris Matthews had called West Point “the enemy camp.”

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Senator Kent Conrad made a very disparaging remark to Americans who are against KSM being tried in New York City.

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Long before my son Sergeant Eddie Jeffers ever wrote his now famous “Hope Rides Alone”; long before he breathed his last breath on that Iraqi desert floor and was welcomed into the arms of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; he was my hero.

He was my hero because the day before he left for his first tour in Iraq I asked him if he was sure of what he was about to do and he looked at me with an intensity and masculinity I did not recognize in my son and he told me, “Dad, this is my generation’s fight.”

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That’s what I said on September 12, 2001. I feared that the outpouring of patriotism and national unity would only be temporary and that 9/11 would be just another patriotic event. I fear I was right for the most part.

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A few local folks here in beautiful Northwest Florida, also known as the Emerald Coast, heard an interview I did with Ken Walsh of Cumulus Broadcasting and the host of WFTW’s Wakeup Call.

The interview was done for a show called Emerald Coast Conversations and if you missed it on any of the five Cumulus stations here locally, you can listen to it hear on my blog. We are talking about Sergeant Eddie Jeffers, my son whose life we will be celebrating at the 2nd Annual Hope Rides Alone Banquet in a couple of weeks.

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