Larry Lilly's Journal Volume 17 Issue 7 July 2015
Overcoming Unrelenting Remorse! Larry Lilly
Paula Cooper on her release
Paula Cooper’s Unrelenting Remorse
I have written exhaustively about Paula Cooper, the 15 year old girl who brutally murdered 78 year old Ruth Pelke in Gary, Indiana on May 14, 1985 by stabbing her 33 times with a butcher knife. Paula was sentenced to death in the Electric Chair. Time and world outrage, along with the forgiveness of Bill Pelke, Ruth Pelke’s grandson, resulted in her sentence being commuted to life, which at that time was 60 years with the possibility of parole. After a rough start in prison Paula made parole in 2013. You may read more about this on my web site by clicking here http://www.larrylilly.net/prison-ministry-update.html
Paula’s story in part is at the bottom of the page.
Paula committed suicide Tuesday May 26, 2015.
Paula left a note. The police are holding it confidential. It is known that Paula really struggled hard to “make it” on the outside. The longing for acceptance as an adult forgiven of horrendous teen crime eluded her. Most people held back on offering the comfort of forgiveness. Paula’s mother, who had attempted to murder Paula and another sibling, would not/could not show any warmth to Paula. Her longing for matriarchal acceptance was never fulfilled. Indy Star columnist John Krull, summed it thusly, “According to her family Paula suffered unrelenting remorse.”
It is my observation and experience that getting over prison is much tougher on the outside than behind the fences. Paula’s longing for her “Mother’s touch” must have hurt constantly, as did the thirsting for recognition as a redeemed woman. Our faith makes much about sins being buried in the depths of the deepest sea, of sin being vaporized by the shed blood of Jesus Christ. This works fine with our “little” sins compared to the very “big” sins of people like Paula and her male equivalent, Paul The Apostle. You do recall he held the coats of those who murdered Stephen.
Paula gained a bit of respect and reward for her work ethic, developed in prison, becoming a manger of a major burger joint and then getting a job with a law firm. I say WOW to that. But no amount of WOW compensates for the inner void felt by constant confrontation with the cold shoulder of public rejection.
Both the Pelke and Cooper families are suffering pain due to this latest event. We should covenant with the Lord Jesus to hold them in our prayers.
Like many forgiven sinners, I find a tendency to get on my high horse about terrible people making a decision for Christ, and then I recall the compelling passage by Paul in
1Co 6:9 “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
David, based his plea on certain qualities of God rather than on his own goodness or even need. He pleaded for mercy based on God’s willingness to take away the offense. Sin in whatever form is an affront, an offense against God. God, unlike many of His people, is more than anxious to freely extend forgiveness.
For many years I have used Psalm 51 to encourage myself in the Lord, and to help others who are suffering undue remorse for past sins, some in the long ago. When remorse takes a hold on your mind and heart it can contribute to suicide. When Paula Cooper took her life. The past, brutal sin, overwhelmed her. Any normal person has something they are or should be ashamed of. Yet, you cannot live on that street very much, and God doesn’t expect you to. Here’s one reason why:
Remorse is rooted in two Latin words, again and bite, simply meaning reliving things in your mind with feeling, “bites you again.” God wipes the slate clean and so should we. A member of Paula’s family stated, “Paula, suffered unrelenting remorse.” The long ago brutal act bit her again and again. It will do the same to you.
Take the time to read through and muse on the truth of Psalm 51 and enter into the depth of God totally dealing with David’s heartache over his betrayal, adultery and murder of his trusted officer, and understand that David, according to Nathan was totally forgiven, but the consequence was to be harsh due to David’s high rank in Israel. Often Chastening is not given to bring you around, but to act as a warning to others. Read more at 2 Samuel 12:1-14. When Nathan confronted David, David responded: 2Sa 12:13 So David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.: (Grace!)
14 "However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die." (Consequence!!)
In these loose times, it is well for Christians to give pause and rethink actions. We can be forgiven, but often the consequences are harsh, and for good reason. Vs 15-17 gives important information in seriously dealing with sin.
Note that David’s sin consisted of
· Betrayal of Uriah’s Trust
· Adultery
· Murder
· Cover up
Psalm 51 covers David’s remorse and repentance in depth. It would pay to pause and read Psa 51:1-17 and let the truth sink deep into your heart, especially if a past sin keeps troubling. It could save your life.
David’s plea, based on God’s goodness includes David’s solemn admission of bloodshed, yet God forgave him. Vs 16 gives assurance that “lip service” ritual will not take away the pressure or penalty for sin, but only a deep and utterly sincere coming to the Lord on His terms which are clearly stated. The “terms” are clear:
Ps 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart-These, O God, You will not despise.
In the opening verses of Psalm 51 David had laid out his petition for forgiveness in a Judicially correct order. When asking the Judge of the Universe for mercy he did not proclaim his own goodness, for he had none! Note the power of verses 1-3, 9-10.
God’s love, God’s mercies, God’s blotting out, God’s washer, God’s stain remover, God’s Holy blindness, God’s ability to help David to see as God sees, the record is clear, David must see the page as God sees it, Blank! God’s giving a spirit of wholeness within, a renewed sense of inner cleanness, no longer feeling “dirty” on the inside!
While David spent many a sleepless night reaping the practical consequences, he did know and understand the Lord had renewed the joy of his salvation.
When recovering from serious sin, it is of utmost importance to immerse yourself in God’s forgiving verses and also surround yourself with godly people who will reinforce the truth of God’s Word and the depth of His love and the cleansing power of Christ’s blood. LML.
God Forgives sins to the depths of the sea! LML
I have written exhaustively about Paula Cooper, the 15 year old girl who brutally murdered 78 year old Ruth Pelke in Gary, Indiana on May 14, 1985 by stabbing her 33 times with a butcher knife. Paula was sentenced to death in the Electric Chair. Time and world outrage, along with the forgiveness of Bill Pelke, Ruth Pelke’s grandson, resulted in her sentence being commuted to life, which at that time was 60 years with the possibility of parole. After a rough start in prison Paula made parole in 2013. You may read more about this on my web site by clicking here http://www.larrylilly.net/prison-ministry-update.html
Paula’s story in part is at the bottom of the page.
Paula committed suicide Tuesday May 26, 2015.
Paula left a note. The police are holding it confidential. It is known that Paula really struggled hard to “make it” on the outside. The longing for acceptance as an adult forgiven of horrendous teen crime eluded her. Most people held back on offering the comfort of forgiveness. Paula’s mother, who had attempted to murder Paula and another sibling, would not/could not show any warmth to Paula. Her longing for matriarchal acceptance was never fulfilled. Indy Star columnist John Krull, summed it thusly, “According to her family Paula suffered unrelenting remorse.”
It is my observation and experience that getting over prison is much tougher on the outside than behind the fences. Paula’s longing for her “Mother’s touch” must have hurt constantly, as did the thirsting for recognition as a redeemed woman. Our faith makes much about sins being buried in the depths of the deepest sea, of sin being vaporized by the shed blood of Jesus Christ. This works fine with our “little” sins compared to the very “big” sins of people like Paula and her male equivalent, Paul The Apostle. You do recall he held the coats of those who murdered Stephen.
Paula gained a bit of respect and reward for her work ethic, developed in prison, becoming a manger of a major burger joint and then getting a job with a law firm. I say WOW to that. But no amount of WOW compensates for the inner void felt by constant confrontation with the cold shoulder of public rejection.
Both the Pelke and Cooper families are suffering pain due to this latest event. We should covenant with the Lord Jesus to hold them in our prayers.
Like many forgiven sinners, I find a tendency to get on my high horse about terrible people making a decision for Christ, and then I recall the compelling passage by Paul in
1Co 6:9 “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
David, based his plea on certain qualities of God rather than on his own goodness or even need. He pleaded for mercy based on God’s willingness to take away the offense. Sin in whatever form is an affront, an offense against God. God, unlike many of His people, is more than anxious to freely extend forgiveness.
For many years I have used Psalm 51 to encourage myself in the Lord, and to help others who are suffering undue remorse for past sins, some in the long ago. When remorse takes a hold on your mind and heart it can contribute to suicide. When Paula Cooper took her life. The past, brutal sin, overwhelmed her. Any normal person has something they are or should be ashamed of. Yet, you cannot live on that street very much, and God doesn’t expect you to. Here’s one reason why:
Remorse is rooted in two Latin words, again and bite, simply meaning reliving things in your mind with feeling, “bites you again.” God wipes the slate clean and so should we. A member of Paula’s family stated, “Paula, suffered unrelenting remorse.” The long ago brutal act bit her again and again. It will do the same to you.
Take the time to read through and muse on the truth of Psalm 51 and enter into the depth of God totally dealing with David’s heartache over his betrayal, adultery and murder of his trusted officer, and understand that David, according to Nathan was totally forgiven, but the consequence was to be harsh due to David’s high rank in Israel. Often Chastening is not given to bring you around, but to act as a warning to others. Read more at 2 Samuel 12:1-14. When Nathan confronted David, David responded: 2Sa 12:13 So David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.: (Grace!)
14 "However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die." (Consequence!!)
In these loose times, it is well for Christians to give pause and rethink actions. We can be forgiven, but often the consequences are harsh, and for good reason. Vs 15-17 gives important information in seriously dealing with sin.
Note that David’s sin consisted of
· Betrayal of Uriah’s Trust
· Adultery
· Murder
· Cover up
Psalm 51 covers David’s remorse and repentance in depth. It would pay to pause and read Psa 51:1-17 and let the truth sink deep into your heart, especially if a past sin keeps troubling. It could save your life.
David’s plea, based on God’s goodness includes David’s solemn admission of bloodshed, yet God forgave him. Vs 16 gives assurance that “lip service” ritual will not take away the pressure or penalty for sin, but only a deep and utterly sincere coming to the Lord on His terms which are clearly stated. The “terms” are clear:
Ps 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart-These, O God, You will not despise.
In the opening verses of Psalm 51 David had laid out his petition for forgiveness in a Judicially correct order. When asking the Judge of the Universe for mercy he did not proclaim his own goodness, for he had none! Note the power of verses 1-3, 9-10.
God’s love, God’s mercies, God’s blotting out, God’s washer, God’s stain remover, God’s Holy blindness, God’s ability to help David to see as God sees, the record is clear, David must see the page as God sees it, Blank! God’s giving a spirit of wholeness within, a renewed sense of inner cleanness, no longer feeling “dirty” on the inside!
While David spent many a sleepless night reaping the practical consequences, he did know and understand the Lord had renewed the joy of his salvation.
When recovering from serious sin, it is of utmost importance to immerse yourself in God’s forgiving verses and also surround yourself with godly people who will reinforce the truth of God’s Word and the depth of His love and the cleansing power of Christ’s blood. LML.
God Forgives sins to the depths of the sea! LML
The Book Worm's Corner Comments from Helpful Books Joyce Lilly
Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz. Written by Eva Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri 141 pages, Ages 12 and up 978-1-933718-28-6, hardcover with jacket.$18.00
Eva Mozes Kor was 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Mengele's twins were granted the "privileges" of keeping their own clothes and hair, but they were also subjected to sadistic medical experiments and forced to fight daily for their own survival, as most of the twins died as a result of the experiments or from the disease and hunger pervasive in the camp.
In a narrative told with emotion and restraint, readers will learn of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil.
The book also includes an epilogue on Eva's recovery from this experience and her remarkable decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Through her museum and her lectures, she has dedicated her life to giving testimony on the Holocaust, providing a message of hope for people who have suffered, and working toward goals of forgiveness, peace, and the elimination of hatred and prejudice in the world.
"“Eva Kor's Surviving the Angel of Death redefined my understanding of suffering. That one so young could triumph over such grotesque evil and still celebrate life and goodness is both a mystery and an inspiration. If this book doesn't move you, nothing will."
Philip Gulley, Author of Front Porch Tales and Harmony series.
Surviving the Angel of Death is one of the greatest books I have ever read. I “borrowed” the above copy from Eva’s website due to time constraints. Get, read and digest this one of a kind document. Joyce Lilly
Editor: For more about Eva click http://www.candlesholocaustmuseum.org/
Eva Mozes Kor was 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Mengele's twins were granted the "privileges" of keeping their own clothes and hair, but they were also subjected to sadistic medical experiments and forced to fight daily for their own survival, as most of the twins died as a result of the experiments or from the disease and hunger pervasive in the camp.
In a narrative told with emotion and restraint, readers will learn of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil.
The book also includes an epilogue on Eva's recovery from this experience and her remarkable decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Through her museum and her lectures, she has dedicated her life to giving testimony on the Holocaust, providing a message of hope for people who have suffered, and working toward goals of forgiveness, peace, and the elimination of hatred and prejudice in the world.
"“Eva Kor's Surviving the Angel of Death redefined my understanding of suffering. That one so young could triumph over such grotesque evil and still celebrate life and goodness is both a mystery and an inspiration. If this book doesn't move you, nothing will."
Philip Gulley, Author of Front Porch Tales and Harmony series.
Surviving the Angel of Death is one of the greatest books I have ever read. I “borrowed” the above copy from Eva’s website due to time constraints. Get, read and digest this one of a kind document. Joyce Lilly
Editor: For more about Eva click http://www.candlesholocaustmuseum.org/
Letters & Comments
Brother Larry,
It's hard to know how to say "anything" about Paula Cooper's recent past. I knew of her Christian testimony, but not of her suicide until I read this issue. My, oh my. If only her mother had forgiven her and others, too, no doubt. She must have longed for her mother's embrace and the acceptance of "others."
I also read the article accompanying the photograph of the men who have taken your "pastor" studies. Amazing. Prison Ministry Update or copy http://www.larrylilly.net/prison-ministry-update.html God has given you a tremendous ministry which merits the support of those who receive your monthly letter and periodical. I wish I could help, but personal ministry is in a similar situation of being limited only by limited funding and what little I can help in the "offering" department must go there.
I think of you often and pray for you, by name, each day.
God bless you, my dear friend. O.F.
Editor’s Note: This from a friend who has been there thru thick and thin for many years. During the blackest time of my life, he and his family remained “Public” friends, public meaning unlike others he was not and is not ashamed to be seen with me! PTL. I used his letter to reinforce that any amount of offering you can send is not only needed, but deeply appreciated. LML
A Letter from a California Prison:
About two weeks ago my mom and dad died from a car crash. A hit and run driver killed them. I feel I am in the dark, I don’t know how to deal with it. I’ve tried to take my own life before. I have nobody at all, I have no family at all. I don’t get no mail or visits at all. Can you please keep me in your prayers and write back soon. Can you please send me some writing paper and stamped envelopes so that I can write you back. Thank you. P.J. P.
Editor’s Note: I wrote a note to PJ, and we are praying for him. I doubt that stamped envelopes would get in. But I would appreciate it if you would say a prayer for him. Some prisons go so far as to cut the stamps off the incoming mail. Lots of LSD can fit behind a simple postage stamp and that’s a no no! LML.
Notes:
This month brought baskets of letters of about every sort of heartache imaginable. For over 50 years my ministry has, in large part, been involved with people who are closely acquainted with emotional pain. Divorce, death, betrayal, murder, rape and the entire list has often filled my mail box. I recall one day getting a letter from a family whose husband and father had been murdered the week before. In the mail, was a letter from the uncle who had committed the murder. In the other mailbox was another from the sister in law whose young daughter had been molested by the man who committed the murder in the family. I was thankful that my part was to read the letters and make the best Christian response to each. I suppose my part was the easiest one!
The middle Saturday in June brought a letter that thrilled me, a small church has prayed about it, they know of my work outside the walls of the church I pastor and this group has committed to send $100 per month to help in the work!! Praise the Lord!
Check out Eva Kor’s Website http://www.candlesholocaustmuseum.org/about/eva-kor.htm Joyce has a piece telling a little about Eva. I assure you this woman who as a 10 year old child suffered unbelievable things under Adolf Hitler and Dr. Mengele in Auushwitz Concentration Camp. Eva is an outstanding resident of Terre Haute and operated the Candles Museum teaching in depth about the horrors of Nazi Germany. Eva and Joyce are friends. We pray for a further enlightenment of Eva.I hope you will join with us.
“And the best thing about the remedy of forgiveness is that there are no side effects. And everybody can afford it.”
Eva Kor when she forgave the Nazis at the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz.
It's hard to know how to say "anything" about Paula Cooper's recent past. I knew of her Christian testimony, but not of her suicide until I read this issue. My, oh my. If only her mother had forgiven her and others, too, no doubt. She must have longed for her mother's embrace and the acceptance of "others."
I also read the article accompanying the photograph of the men who have taken your "pastor" studies. Amazing. Prison Ministry Update or copy http://www.larrylilly.net/prison-ministry-update.html God has given you a tremendous ministry which merits the support of those who receive your monthly letter and periodical. I wish I could help, but personal ministry is in a similar situation of being limited only by limited funding and what little I can help in the "offering" department must go there.
I think of you often and pray for you, by name, each day.
God bless you, my dear friend. O.F.
Editor’s Note: This from a friend who has been there thru thick and thin for many years. During the blackest time of my life, he and his family remained “Public” friends, public meaning unlike others he was not and is not ashamed to be seen with me! PTL. I used his letter to reinforce that any amount of offering you can send is not only needed, but deeply appreciated. LML
A Letter from a California Prison:
About two weeks ago my mom and dad died from a car crash. A hit and run driver killed them. I feel I am in the dark, I don’t know how to deal with it. I’ve tried to take my own life before. I have nobody at all, I have no family at all. I don’t get no mail or visits at all. Can you please keep me in your prayers and write back soon. Can you please send me some writing paper and stamped envelopes so that I can write you back. Thank you. P.J. P.
Editor’s Note: I wrote a note to PJ, and we are praying for him. I doubt that stamped envelopes would get in. But I would appreciate it if you would say a prayer for him. Some prisons go so far as to cut the stamps off the incoming mail. Lots of LSD can fit behind a simple postage stamp and that’s a no no! LML.
Notes:
This month brought baskets of letters of about every sort of heartache imaginable. For over 50 years my ministry has, in large part, been involved with people who are closely acquainted with emotional pain. Divorce, death, betrayal, murder, rape and the entire list has often filled my mail box. I recall one day getting a letter from a family whose husband and father had been murdered the week before. In the mail, was a letter from the uncle who had committed the murder. In the other mailbox was another from the sister in law whose young daughter had been molested by the man who committed the murder in the family. I was thankful that my part was to read the letters and make the best Christian response to each. I suppose my part was the easiest one!
The middle Saturday in June brought a letter that thrilled me, a small church has prayed about it, they know of my work outside the walls of the church I pastor and this group has committed to send $100 per month to help in the work!! Praise the Lord!
Check out Eva Kor’s Website http://www.candlesholocaustmuseum.org/about/eva-kor.htm Joyce has a piece telling a little about Eva. I assure you this woman who as a 10 year old child suffered unbelievable things under Adolf Hitler and Dr. Mengele in Auushwitz Concentration Camp. Eva is an outstanding resident of Terre Haute and operated the Candles Museum teaching in depth about the horrors of Nazi Germany. Eva and Joyce are friends. We pray for a further enlightenment of Eva.I hope you will join with us.
“And the best thing about the remedy of forgiveness is that there are no side effects. And everybody can afford it.”
Eva Kor when she forgave the Nazis at the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz.
Celebrating Liberty in the USA 2015
In his Commencement Address at Hillsdale College, Michal Ward, Professor at Oxford, quoted C.S. Lewis as a grand example of the truly free mind, which America is all about. The quote is from Willing Slaves of the Welfare State:
“I believe a man is happier, and happy in a richer way, if he has “the freeborn mind.” But I doubt whether he can have this without economic independence, which the new society is abolishing. For economic independence allows an education not controlled by Government; and in adult life it is the man who asks, nothing of Government who can criticize its acts and snap his fingers at its ideology. Read Montaigne; that’s the voice of a man with his legs under his own table, eating the mutton and turnips raised on his own land.” C.S. Lewis.
(How can any modern American read this and doubt the wisdom?) LML
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” Adlai Stevenson
“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
“I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.” – Margaret Thatcher.
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
John F. Kennedy
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
John Adams
“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
Daniel Webster
“I believe a man is happier, and happy in a richer way, if he has “the freeborn mind.” But I doubt whether he can have this without economic independence, which the new society is abolishing. For economic independence allows an education not controlled by Government; and in adult life it is the man who asks, nothing of Government who can criticize its acts and snap his fingers at its ideology. Read Montaigne; that’s the voice of a man with his legs under his own table, eating the mutton and turnips raised on his own land.” C.S. Lewis.
(How can any modern American read this and doubt the wisdom?) LML
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” Adlai Stevenson
“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
“I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.” – Margaret Thatcher.
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
John F. Kennedy
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
John Adams
“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
Daniel Webster
Reaching Raising Restoring
Reaching Raising Restoring has been the theme of Larry Lilly's Journal for over 17 years. That Jesus Christ is using the feeble efforts is plain through the mail, the welcome into prisons and jails and numerous other venues to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When men and women are reached with the truth of Christ their status is raised from darkness to light and more than Adam lost is restored to them.
Interestingly, Raising, has a double meaning in that Reaching & Restoring involves raising the financial means to do the work. It's true, Christ supplies the need and He does so through the freewill gifts of His people to works such as Larry Lilly's Journal. For some strange reason the Summer Season brings about a serious drop in funds. In volatle economical times, this evaporation of financial help can be devastating.
Thus, I am asking you to consider freewill gifts to this work of faith. I need many who are able and willing to make up for several who are willing, but due to the realities of the time are unable to help and have been forced to curtail regular offering.
Wether you are financially able or not, a commitment to pray for this work will help. If so minded you may mail a check or money order (We cannot accept credit cards at this time) to:
Larry Lilly
P.O. Box 5212
Terre Haute, IN 47805
Thank you for your prayerful consideration of this plea.
Email your personal prayer requests to larrylilly@larrylilly.net
Larry Lilly
Interestingly, Raising, has a double meaning in that Reaching & Restoring involves raising the financial means to do the work. It's true, Christ supplies the need and He does so through the freewill gifts of His people to works such as Larry Lilly's Journal. For some strange reason the Summer Season brings about a serious drop in funds. In volatle economical times, this evaporation of financial help can be devastating.
Thus, I am asking you to consider freewill gifts to this work of faith. I need many who are able and willing to make up for several who are willing, but due to the realities of the time are unable to help and have been forced to curtail regular offering.
Wether you are financially able or not, a commitment to pray for this work will help. If so minded you may mail a check or money order (We cannot accept credit cards at this time) to:
Larry Lilly
P.O. Box 5212
Terre Haute, IN 47805
Thank you for your prayerful consideration of this plea.
Email your personal prayer requests to larrylilly@larrylilly.net
Larry Lilly