Wednesday, April 14, 2004

• Bush vows to stay the course in Iraq, fulfill duty to spread freedom around the world

  by Erin Curry, posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 (20 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP)--Citing a historic opportunity to change the world, President Bush said America must stay the course in Iraq because it's the right thing to do.

  "We will succeed in Iraq," the president said during a nationally televised prime-time news conference April 13. "We're carrying out a decision that has already been made and will not change: Iraq will be a free, independent country, and America and the Middle East will be safer because of it. Our coalition has the means and the will to prevail. We serve the cause of liberty, and that is, always and everywhere, a cause worth serving." Read More

• Chaplain's service in Iraq abounds with faith & miracles

  by Kelli Cottrell, posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 (20 years ago)

  Enlisting divine help Lt. Carey Cash prepared to lead Marines in prayer before they crossed into Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cash writes of miracles God performed on the battlefield to assure the Marines of His presence.

  NORFOLK, VA. (BP)--Sitting on the ramp of a military vehicle on the lawn of Saddam Hussein's presidential palace, Lance Corporal Jeff Guthrie's eyes welled with tears that streamed down his muddy face.

        He had just stormed the gates of the palace in a gruesome fight with his fellow Marines and claimed victory.

        Lt. Carey Cash, a chaplain with his battalion, saw Guthrie's distraught face and walked up to him.

  No matter the environment Navy chaplain Lt. Carey Cash delivered a sermon during a Field Expeditionary Service to Marines in 97-degree temperatures at a tactical assembly area near Camp Coyote in northern Kuwait in March 2003 before heading across the Iraqi border for war.

        Cash, in a new book, "A Table in the Presence" released April 7, takes his readers onto the hot, dusty, Iraq battlefield to learn how God worked miracles and answered prayers in individual lives of Marines like Guthrie.

        "Sitting down on the grass in front of him, I asked what was wrong," Cash writes in the book, recalling a few life-changing moments spent with Guthrie.

  "'Sir ... I'm, I'm just so sorry,' he said, tears welling up in his tired eyes. Read More

• A year after husband's death, Lyn Hyde returns to Philippines

  by Shawn Hendricks, posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 (20 years ago)

  MANILA, Philippines (BP)--The night before a terrorist bomb took the life of Southern Baptist mission worker Bill Hyde, he told his wife he had great respect for single women living on the mission field. One year later, those words continue to comfort her. Read More

• Reversal: Ky. lawmakers send marriage amendment to voters

  by Michael Foust, posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 (20 years ago)

  FRANKFORT, Ky. (BP)--Kentucky citizens will be voting on a constitutional marriage amendment this fall thanks to a dramatic reversal by the state's House Democrats. Read More

• Journal spotlights biblical preaching, includes Edwards sermon

  by James Streicher, posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 (20 years ago)

  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--A previously unpublished sermon by noted 18th-century preacher Jonathan Edwards is among the articles in the newest edition of the Midwestern Journal of Theology. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: ‘The Movie’ is ending –- now what?

  by Don Whitney, posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 (20 years ago)

  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Apparently, we are over the crest of the wave. It is a wave of interest unlike any I’ve seen. And unless the Lord is pleased to send another Great Awakening in this country, as He did on a handful of occasions in the 18th and 19th centuries, we may never see anything like this again. Read More