Larkin Spivey
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Larkin Spivey is a military historian, christian author, and speaker. His latest book, Battlefields & Blessings, combines World War II history with individual stories of faith and courage.

  • Faith of a Child

    August 11th, 200909:58 AM ET
    By Larkin Spivey
    Norman English was seven years old in August 1940 and lived adjacent to a Royal Air Force base in England. Bombs fell from German aircraft on and around the base often as the anti-aircraft guns returned fire. To a child it was very exciting: "We used to sit on the fence for a grandstand view of the action! Until the adults came on the scene and se...

  • A Fourth of July Story---The Miracle That Led to the Declaration

    July 03rd, 200906:07 AM ET
    By Larkin Spivey
    On the Fourth of July we celebrate Independence Day, the day our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence and committed themselves irreversibly to a cause for which they truly risked their lives and fortunes. As with all of history, this great event now has a certain sense of inevitability about it. We know now what happened, and it ...

  • A Fathers' Day Message from World War II

    June 21st, 200901:53 PM ET
    By Larkin Spivey
    Jerry Oncken's father joined the Army in 1944, a few months after she was born. After basic training he was sent to the war zone in Italy where he served for two years. Jerry had memories of getting together with other service families and playing with the other children. She also remembered her mother's letters that she always sealed with a...

  • D-Day Prayer

    June 03rd, 200905:39 PM ET
    By Larkin Spivey
    During the evening of 6 June 1944, as American, British, and Canadian troops were fighting to establish a beachhead on the coast of Normandy, President Franklin Roosevelt went on the radio to address the nation, saying, "In this poignant hour, I ask you to join me in prayer." His appeal to God at this pivotal moment in World War II reflected the co...

  • MEMORIAL DAY -- Remembering a Great Warrior for Christ

    May 22nd, 200909:50 AM ET
    By Larkin Spivey
    In my new daily devotional, Battlefields & Blessings: Stories of Faith and Courage from World War II, I was honored to be able to include several stories about a young British soldier from Scotland named Dan Snaddon. The reading for September 30th is as follows: Do We Believe in Prayer? Dan Snaddon grew up in a small town in Scotland, joined t...

  • Blaming God for the Tragedies of War

    May 13th, 200908:15 PM ET
    By Larkin Spivey
    I want to thank David Sanford for helping me become a Contributor to the Christian Post Blog. I have been an avid reader of his and the other writers' work on this amazing site for some time and have always been inspired by the thoughtful and spiritual articles that I have been blessed to read. It is an awesome experience to add my own first cont...
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Jesus talked about no faith, little faith, faith, growing faith, more faith, much faith, which kind do you have right now?