who am I

I enlisted in the US Army June25,1969 as a Medic Honorably  discharged By the Grace of God and thanks to the US Army   in Jan.1977.I chose to be a Protestant when the choices were we were

Protestant ,Catholic, Jew, or nothing at all. Like too many American Christians I knew I was not a 

Catholic, nor a Jew, I knew I believed there is a God and didn't want to go to Hell -but didn't know because I never read my Bible. I enlisted as a man who had cursed the church that gave me my first  understanding of the Bible For I had been told by a Deacon that I had the Mark of the Beast on my forehead. I strove to be the reflection of what I had heard of soldiers. Hard working, Patriotic, and able to drink my share of booze and fight my way back from any encounter. I distrusted the Bible thumpers. I was given the name StonyBurk because I was kinda like that old Jack Lord  character. I was also known as Preacher--cause I preached the doctrine we ought not fight amongst ourselves.Unless assaulted. In Panama I had a demonic visitor one night on the third floor of the Army Barracks  at Ft.Gulick,C.Z. The visitor was not afraid of me and had come for my soul.I'd barely miss it. I was more terrified than I have ever been  and retreated to the only thing I remembered from my days as a hormonal milk Christian I spoke In the name of Jesus Christ I command you leave and Never come back. --and my visitor was gone as quickly as he had appeared.  I bought a Bible I still have-and use on occasion-the next day as soon as the Base Exchange opened. I am diagnosed by the US Army -and by the VA as bi-polar, with seizure disorder- and something the VA calls a personality defect. I have two years of Liberal Arts college no degree 1/2 credit hour short in math for an AA. I have two years Bible college-they went belly up and I chose to stay here in this Valley with my wife.  We have three children(the youngest born while I was studying to be a Preacher.) My son was encouraged by national public school policy in high school  to "try it" the homosexual life--and "decide for himself" only after he had done that were we brought in His sisters were not encouraged nor protected-they dropped out and turned to drugs.I now have my son and his "friend " dying from HIV/AIDS. Both my daughters, their husbands, and three grandchildren living in a home that fit us when our three children were in public school.But God is GOD-and He provides. And I am so thankful I am not God.I pray for those in uniform -and for their families-and for this nation established a Christian nation.The Army trained us to consider the foundations-the writings and Commands given by men like Washington.And I could not fully appreciate our fundamental laws-- until I had read--and reread some of the sermons they had listened to in the dark ages before MTV-and ipod.

I fully recommend Joseph Story :A Familliar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States Regnery gateway 1997 from the 1859 original. and Under God:George Washington and the issue of church and State. by Joseph C. Smith and Tara Ross. And the two Vol set Political Sermons of the american Founding era 1730-1805 Ellis Sandoz editor.-John Eidsmoe Christianity and the Constitution,Baker Books ppb1995  ; and The Patriots Handbook ,George

Grant PhD. editor; America's God and Country Encyclopedia of quotations by Wm J Federer, Amerisearch 2000 these are a good start But always read the Bible for in it we have the standard for how we ought live.