Henry Ford famously declared, ‘History is bunk!’ I disagree with him. Actually many historical events are not only great sources of inspiration, but also contain vital lessons for today.
For example, there is a great lesson to be learned about the usefulness of what is small from one particular operation during the Second World War.
By the early summer of 1940 the Nazi armies had broken the French and Belgian defences and the British Expeditionary Force was in full retreat. Hundreds of thousands of troops were stranded in the town and on the beaches of Dunkirk on the French side of the Channel at the mercy of the Luftwaffe and the German Panzers. An evacuation plan, codenamed ‘Operation Dynamo’, was hastily put into action to ferry the beleaguered British, French and Belgian soldiers back to England.
The re-emergence of heavy shepherds
What would you think if you received a letter from your church leaders that read like this? ‘Are church members …