Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
'Nam Nightmare Theme of the Week: The Risk of Reconciliation Thursday, June 20, 2002
1 of 1
May/June 200253'Nam NightmareTheme of the Week: The Risk of Reconciliation 'Nam Nightmare Theme of the Week: The Risk of Reconciliation Thursday, June 20
Key Bible Verse: For God does not show favoritism (Romans 2:11). Bonus Reading:James 2:1–9
In Vietnam in 1970, Norman Schwarzkopf's battalion was assigned to a heavily mined area. Whenever a soldier was injured by a mine, he flew in his personal chopper to evacuate the man. While evacuating one soldier, another man stepped on a mine, severely injuring his leg. Clearly, they were in a minefield.
The man thrashed around on the ground, screaming. Schwarzkopf believed he could survive, even keep his leg—if he stopped flailing around. In his autobiography, It Doesn't Take a Hero, he wrote, "I started through the minefield … staring at the ground, looking for telltale bumps . …My knees were shaking so hard that each time I took a step, I had to grab my leg and steady it with both hands before I could take another." Schwarzkopf, who'd been a wrestler at West Point, then pinned the wounded man and calmed him down, saving his life.
That night at the hospital, three black soldiers stopped Schwarzkopf and said, "Colonel, we saw what you did for the brother out there. We'll never forget that; we'll make sure the other brothers in the battalion know what you did." Until that moment, it hadn't occurred to Schwarzkopf that the soldier was black.
—John C. Maxwell in The Right to Lead
My Response: What traits matter more to me than race?
Thought to Apply: All cats are gray in the dark. —Proverb
If you decide you want to keep Men of Integrity coming, honor your invoice for just $19.95 and receive five more issues, a full year in all. If not, simply write "cancel" across the invoice and return it. The trial issue is yours to keep, regardless.
1 of 1
