Strangely Warmed

In memory of the chaplains of the Methodist Church (1939-1968) who died in in the service of God and country. Vietnam Ambrosio S. Grandea Korea Samuel R. Simpson James Waddell Roberts World War II Robert E. L. Alspaugh Edgar Raymond Attebery Hoke Smith Bell Ralph Warren Brown Burton Henry Coleman George Lansing Fox Percy Bright Freeman Horace Edward Gravely Francis Elmer Hand Loy Vernon Harris Robert Hartman Humphrey Thomas Edward Johnson, Jr. Clyde Edward Kimball Benjamin R. W. Knowles Henry Ballenger Koon Harley Ross McDaniel Thomas Eugene McKnight Vaughn Hartley MacArthur Henry George Mais Thomas Marion Merriman Ernest Golden Overton Raymond Alonzo Partee Edward John Robbins John Sander Schwartz Harold Grant Scoggins John Reuben Steel Edgar Allen Swann Thurman Gomez Vickers And Bishop Adna Wright Leonard, first chairman of the Methodist Commission on Chaplains, killed in a military plane crash while visiting the European Theater of Operations in May 1943. Posted on Me...

WHEREAS Jesus instituted, and in his holy gospel commanded us to continue, the sacrament of his body and blood as a perpetual memory of his precious death until his coming again [1] , and WHEREAS the Apostle Paul declares that the cup of blessing that we bless is a sharing in the blood of Christ, and the bread that we break is a sharing in the body of Christ [2] , and WHEREAS Jesus said that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you, and that those who eat his flesh and drink his blood have eternal life, and he will raise them up on the last day; for his flesh is true food and his blood is true drink, and that those who eat his flesh and drink his blood abide in him, and he in them [3] , and WHEREAS the United Methodist Church confesses that the Lord’s Supper “is a sacrament of our redemption by Christ’s death; insomuch that, to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive the same, the bread which we break is a partaking of...