by Daniel Hawley | Dec 5, 2023 | ALERT Ethos
As we start into the season of Advent and look towards Christmas, I want to keep the end of the Christmas story in mind: the Gospel. One of my favorite Christmas songs, How Low Was Our Redeemer Brought, beautifully captures both the incongruity of the...
by Charles O'Neal | Nov 14, 2023 | ALERT Ethos
Camaraderie is built when we do hard things together. During my trip with the Tech Rescue class to Mount Magazine in Arkansas last week, there were a lot of opportunities to build camaraderie. We had to work as a team all day, and often into the night, while we took...
by Marcus Nafziger | Oct 31, 2023 | ALERT Ethos
Professor, pastor, and author Donald S. Whitney wrote “I’ve never known a man or woman who came to spiritual maturity except through discipline. Godliness comes through discipline.” He continues, “think of the Spiritual Disciplines as spiritual exercises. To go to...
by Samuel Winkler | Oct 24, 2023 | ALERT Ethos
This quarter I have been memorizing the book of Galatians as part of the Battalion weekly requirements for memorizing scripture. As I was listening to it today, it struck me how severe Paul is in his demand for accuracy in preaching the Gospel. “If we or an angel from...
by Charles O'Neal | Oct 17, 2023 | ALERT Ethos
In Matthew 20, Christ’s teachings about service remind us that true greatness lies in becoming a servant to all. Service takes many forms, from supporting others in their missions to living each day with a spirit of selflessness. Service often means simply...
by Daniel Hawley | Oct 10, 2023 | ALERT Ethos
This week Unit 69 is in the middle of Survival Week, and will spend most of the week out in the woods. Survival Week is always a very memorable week of Basic, due in large part to the amount of deviation from the normal schedule. Also depending on the amount of rain...
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