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Welcome to the Chaplain's Corner. My goal for this page is to provide spiritual, uplifting messages to help you in your daily life. I would like to assist in any way possible to help and encourage the firefighters while performing our duties. I want to earn the trust and respect of all firefighters. I will make myself available to you to discuss any situation or problem that might occur. Any meeting with you will be held in the strictest of confidence. My goal is to serve those that serve others. My cell phone number is 816-835-3377. My e-mail address is turnert@fairmountfd.org. Please feel free to contact me with your concerns.
Tony Turner
Assistant Chief/Chaplain Fairmount Township Fire Department
RESOLUTIONS When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?" John 21:15
Jesus has a wonderful way of restoring us when we fail Him! He does not humiliate us. He does not criticize us. He does not ask us to make a resolution to try harder. Rather, He takes us aside and asks us to reaffirm our love for Him. Peter miserably failed his Lord when he fled with the other disciples from the Garden of Gethsemane. Later, he publicly denied that he even knew Jesus. Peter must have wondered if he had been capable of being Jesus' disiciple when he was unfaithful to Jesus in His most crucial hour. As you begin a new year,you may be painfully aware that you have failed your Lord in many ways. Perhaps you were not faithful. Perhaps you disobeyed His word to you. Perhaps you denied Him by the way you lived. Jesus will take you aside, as He did Peter. He will not berate you. He will not humiliate you. He will ask you to examine your love for Him. He asked Peter, "Do you love me?" If your answer, like Peter's, is "Yes, Lord," He will reaffirm His will for you. If you truly love Him, you will obey Him (John 14:15). Jesus does not need your resolutions, your recommitments, or your promises to try harder this year. If your resolve to obey God last year did not help you to be faithful, it will not make you successful this year. Jesus asks for your love. If you truly love Him, your service for Him in the new year will be of the quality that He desires.*
*Taken from Experiencing God Day by Day |