FighterPilotForgiveness.com is a place to learn more about the Great Adventure and the significance of what Jesus did for us about three o’clock that afternoon 2,000 years ago, and of God’s incredible forgiveness for us Christians. It is done through 52 episodes of about 300 words each which give specific details about the inspirational lives of some of well-known people, and some of the little-known, along with how God’s grace has reached us undeserving sinners.
But why would God forgive us when ‘nothing good dwells in any of us’ (Romans 7:18)? The episodes point out that it is because he loves us. Not only does he love us, ‘he loves us just as much as he loves Jesus’ (John 17:23), and it is a ‘love that lasts forever’ (Isaiah 43:24).
A unique part of the website is that donations are not solicited. However, readers are encouraged to reproduce and distribute any or all parts of the booklet entitled Of Course We Are, in any form and by any means to share or help spread and enjoy the Word of God’s Good News.
The subjects of the suspenseful stories range far and wide, telling about how God wants us to be like a ‘clean fighter airplane’ — how the depressed Charlotte Elliott came to write the great hymn, ‘Just As I Am’, — how the belief that the one mistake most common to mankind is “feeling guilty” — why Mother Teresa did not teach the hungry ‘how to fish’ — the similarity of God with crazy people — an email from God and how the recipient responded to it — why Martin Luther would sometimes skip supper and sleep outdoors in the snow — how one man drastically changed a Japanese POW camp in WW II — why John Wycliffe’s body was burned at the stake 41 years after he died in his sleep — the amazing things that occur the day a Christian dies, plus many other informative and entertaining themes about God’s grace and forgiveness.
The originator and compiler of the booklet, Of Course We Are, began his sinful ways while growing up on a family tobacco farm in eastern North Carolina. He continued his ‘education’ while serving a career in the US Air Force and as a pilot in commercial aviation. While in the Air Force, he especially enjoyed flying combat in Vietnam, appreciated being a fighter pilot and test pilot, and flying the F-4, F-8, F-14, F-16, A-6, A-7, 747 and several other of America’s great airplanes. He also kept the sin of pride lit since becoming one of the Air Force Academy’s Original RTBs in 1959. — He now resides in western North Carolina, and has a reputation for bragging on his 5 grandchildren — and a well deserved reputation it be.