Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM Family,

I am so sorry this will be short…my first meeting is at 6:30 this am………

We love you all and hope you have a great weekend in the Lord.

“A ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling concentration upon self……….is the mark of Hell, not Heaven.” C.S. Lewis

Happy 35th Birthday to Phillip Miranda!

From Nik……….
Consider carefully the decisions you make at this time, for they will undoubtedly produce long-term consequences. Quiet your own soul, your mind and emotions, and allow your spirit to be influenced by My Spirit, says the Lord. If you will be sensitive to that still, small voice of wisdom, you will be directed to choose what is best for you and those around you. But, you must be still in order to perceive the influence of My Spirit.
Isaiah 30:21 Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.

From Karen……..

My Hope for a Better Country, by Karen Rowe

Is in God…

Living for Christ is a nicer way….

How would Jesus campaign?

I miss the old rule…In some way, it has been misplaced in that, it is okay to say bad things because others have set the trend.

If we just follow the trend leader…then who is leading the argument?

How IS peace found?

Accusations hurt someone.

How would we feel to have our picture slandered at every checkout across the Country?

What happens to trust in America when we are allowed to hurt people?

The world seems to have an attitude of “I can, so I do” and we all seem to be getting away with it or allowing it.

The scene is set to judge every time we read, look or listen to gossip and slander.

But have we ever stopped and wondered how bad words can hurt others?

…our spouse, a famous person, or an opponent; what about that stranger that is just doing their job and things didn’t go well for us…

How sweet it would be, if all would stop and just do as Jesus and turn the other cheek.

How about a kind word…joy would fill the air we breathe and love would return to be the gift that we give…it’s not money or a present…it is the love that we can share.

Why slander back? Just admit that it hurt, or ignore…either way the punches need to stop.

Whether in a marriage, a church or applying to lead our country…

It is a privilege to be loved and trusted and a joy to get along.

A fight will go no where, but spiral out of control.

Communicate with wisdom and let God mediate!

Tell me what you can do…I don’t need to hear your opinion of what the opponent has done. Expressing our opinion in a negative way directed toward someone is judging…

Didn’t God warn us that we need love, unity and forgiveness to survive?

My hope for a better Country is a Country that expresses and lives in the Peace of God.

Tell your spouse how you feel, but don’t strike a hurtful word, just because you feel the pain. Two pains do not heal…

Let go of the pain, hurt and past

Live in today with love, forgiveness and kindness.

With God at the center, our marriages will last, our country will flourish and our people will unite.

Let’s look at our self and not point our fingers.

Listen and learn…the other is speaking…there may be some wisdom that is missed because it is received in an angry way…Just listen and forgive…the American way.

God is the leader! The United States of America was founded that way!

Unity in God has united the states.

Unity in God unites us in marriage.

Our Children are watching, we can teach them better and it all starts with our home.

Unity in God unites the people…

We the people of the United States of America …In order to form a more perfect Union …

Let’s use God’s wisdom and keep it that way!

Tell me about you and what you can do

Tell me the truth and don’t try to hurt another along the way…that just makes me sad.

My hope is in Jesus, so I have hope for our Country…we just need to unite under God.

In Jesus’ Name I pray for peace, joy and happiness in one Nation Under God…

Love in Christ,

Karen Rowe

and From Dr. Deb……….

Dear Walking in The Way Listeners:

Just a couple more weeks and the elections will be over. While everyone is focused on the national elections, there is a race here in Bernalillo County that is of interest to many. A couple of weeks ago Lisa Torraco joined me for a conversation about her campaign for District Attorney in Bernalillo County. This Saturday Kari Brandenburg will join me to talk about her campaign and bid for re-election. This will be a great chance to find out more about the office of District Attorney and its importance to Bernalillo County. If you have questions about the District Attorney’s office and how it serves the citizens of Bernalillo County, this will be the time to call in. Ms. Brandenburg has been serving us for eight years. Her insight into the criminal justice system and where it needs to head in the future will be important for us to know. Listen in this Saturday morning at 8:05-9:00 AM and call in with your questions or comments. This will be your chance before the election to hear from Kari Brandenburg about her plans for the Office of District Attorney.

“Walking in The Way” airs on KKIM-AM1000 in Albuquerque and FM94.7 in the Santa Fe/northern NM area every Saturday morning from 8:05-9:00 AM. You can also listening to the show on live streaming at http://www.mykkim.com/. To call in, the local phone number is 998-0021 and toll-free is 1-866-523-5008. For more information about upcoming shows and events, visit http://www.walkingintheway.com/.

Stay tuned for announcements about the shows in November.

Blessings to you,
Dr. Deb

Deborah Gunderman, D.Min.
Walking in The Way
It makes the difference in life!
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505-385-7063

WOW! Read this!

Doctors often put their trust in placebos
By GARDINER HARRIS, New York Times
October 23, 2008
If your doctor has prescribed antibiotics for the flu or told you to try B12 vitamins for fatigue, those treatments were probably a placebo — an unproven therapy offered with the hope you’d feel better if you took something.
Treatment with placebos is far more common than you might think, according to a new national survey in which 46 to 58 percent of U.S. physicians admitted using placebos regularly. Only 5 percent said they tell patients explicitly that they are doing so.
The results trouble medical ethicists, who say more research is needed to determine whether doctors must deceive patients in order for placebos to work.
The survey was sent to 1,200 internists and rheumatologists nationwide; 679 responded. In answering three questions as part of the larger survey, about half reported recommending placebos regularly. Surveys in Denmark, Israel, Britain, Sweden and New Zealand have found like results.
The most common placebos the U.S. doctors reported using were headache pills and vitamins, but a significant number also reported prescribing antibiotics and sedatives. Although these drugs, contrary to the usual definition of placebos, are not inert, doctors reported using them for their effect on patients’ psyches, not their bodies.
In most cases, doctors who recommended placebos described them to patients as “a medicine not typically used for your condition but might benefit you,” the survey found. Only 5 percent described the treatment to patients as “a placebo.”
The study is published in BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal. One of its authors, Franklin Miller, was among the medical ethicists who said they were troubled by the results.
“This is the doctor-patient relationship, and our expectations about being truthful about what’s going on and about getting informed consent should give us pause about deception,” said Miller, director of the research ethics program in the department of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. William Schreiber, an internist in Louisville, Ky., at first said he did not believe the survey’s results, because, he said, few doctors he knew routinely prescribed placebos. But when asked how he treated fibromyalgia or other conditions that many doctors suspected were largely psychosomatic, Schreiber changed his mind.
“The problem is that most of those people are very difficult patients, and it’s a whole lot easier to give them something like a big dose of Aleve,” he said. “Is that a placebo treatment? Depending on how you define it, I guess it is.”
Controlled clinical trials have hinted that placebos may have powerful effects. Some 30 to 40 percent of depressed patients who are given placebos get better, a treatment effect that antidepressants barely top.
Despite much attention given to the power of placebos, basic questions about them remain unanswered: Are placebos any better than no treatment at all? Must people be deceived into believing that a treatment is active for a placebo to work?
Other physician surveys have found that most doctors believe that giving placebos can have a positive therapeutic effect, said Dr. Greg Plotnikoff, medical director of the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing, an integrative medical center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.
He said the study published today was focused on whether doctors deceive their patients when they give placebos.
“There is no need to deceive a patient,” he said. “It’s about the human relationship.”
Providing a treatment that may not be specifically appropriate to a condition is part of the art of medicine, he said. And patients who believe their doctors or nurses care about them “is a powerful predictor of positive outcomes,” he said. “I challenge this idea that all therapeutic power is in the pill or procedure.”
The Chicago Tribune and staff writer Josephine Marcotty contributed to this report

God Bless you all and please keep praying for each other and are families, Dewey Sharon and family

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Dewey I am writing this for prayers for myself. Now that winter is setting in, my pain has become alive and well. I have pain that I had forgotten I had during the summer months. I have seen so many, much needed prayer requests that I feel little compared. But my pain runs my life in the winter months. Of course there are the two hours after I take my medications (4 times a day) that I feel less pain. And I am very thankful for those hours. I just wish it would last longer.
GODS Mercy is Abundant!
Thank you , Sam

We have you covered in our prayers Sam and hope to see you soon!

Dewey,
Please pray for the dear lady in Alamogordo, Marcia Stirman, who had the courage to speak out about her concerns about Obama. I sent her a word of encouragement today as I hope many in the body of Christ will also, along with Psalm 109:26-31. We need to pray for her as the media begins to attack. God bless.

Pastor Don Kimbro

From Dewey and Sharon………

Also my friends please pray for the family of Linda Szalay of the Los Alamos area. She passed away yesterday after a long bought with cancer. My wife, Sharon was such good friends with Linda as they worked together as nurses for many years. Please keep Linda’s husband Jerry and daughters in your prayers. Sharon loved Linda very much as she was such a caring person!

Dear KKIM Family,

Many of you loved the scripture yesterday…………

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impact grace to the healers.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given HIMSELF for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

AMEN!

Ephesians 4 verses 29, 31, 32,

Covering you, Sharon and family with prayers today Dewey. Needed that
scripture this morning. I am continually blessed by what the Lord
leads you to do! Could you also add my niece Sharon to prayer list.
She is having a double mastectomy on Thursday. We are thankful that
cancer was found at beginning stages but because her mom died of breast
cancer she does not want to take any chances. I am praying that she
draw close to Jesus during this time too. Again, thanks for all the
prayers for my daughter Amy….they are being answered and she is doing
well as chemo continues! Please be aware of your bodies. Check for
lumps, but please remember breast cancer is not always in a lump. Be
aware of any changes and talk to your doctors. Blessings today!
Love, Cherie from California

A note of love and encouragement like that is just what the Doctor ordered. Please ad Cherie’s niece, Sharon to your prayer list please. I love these words of wisdom we posted on Monday……….

Words of Wisdom…………

“I developed a desire to pray God’s will. I began carrying other’s burdens to God in prayer. I prayed for my family, church, community, state, nation, and beyond. I BECAME LESS SELF-CENTERED AND MORE GOD-CENTERED. I enjoyed serving others through prayer.”

What do you think about that? Drop me a line and tell me about your prayer life! Please share. Let me know if you are passing on our prayer needs to your prayer group.

Let us pray for each other and our families………prayer is where God is at.

Cowboy Clarence from Socorro, NM sent me an email saying he is so excited about what God is doing in his life!

From the book”Dewey” The small town library Cat who touched the world. Sharon got me this book and it is AWESOME…true story from Spencer, Iowa…….My dad used to take us to Spencer once in awhile on Sundays after Church to go to this famous smorgasbord. You gotta read the book, here is something I wanted to share with you from the book………

One of the worst things about bad times is the effect on your mind. Bad times drain your energy They occupy your thoughts. They taint everything in your life. Bad news is as poisonous as bad bread.

This is when farmers were losing their farms, land that had been in families for many years………..S and L’s were closing……….jobs were being lost……….homes were being lost…….horrible times in the Midwest in mid to late 80’s. I lived though it like many others did. This true story about how this town adopts Dewey the cat (Yes the cat looks like me!) and he helps the town come together is so heart warming! Read it! What the country is going through right now is what the Iowa and Minnesota area was going through in the mid to late 80’s.So the times we are going through now, we will make it through because we have the Lord. We have each other, we can pray to Our Almighty Father for HIS guidance through these times. Let us not rely on OUR MINDS…….but the MIND OF OUR FATHER! Let us give up our will and SEEK THE WILL OF GOD!

By the way there is another great read coming out……..”American Lion” Andrew Jackson in the White House. Did you know he was the first President to be a target of an assassin—–and the only none to attack his assailant? During a crisis over the Bank of the United States, he freighted a group of men who came to ask him for economic relief!!!! WOW! We could use him today!!! I love to read and we sure can learn by reading our history!

I thank the Lord for all the friends of the Cup and KKIM. Monday we had Congressman Bill Redmond on New Mexico News and Views and yesterday the Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Dianne Keller was with us talking about her fine city and former Mayor Sarah Palin. We went right to the people of Wasilla for their thoughts on John McCain’s running mate. Please spread the word about New Mexico News and Views weekdays at 4:30..as we work hard everyday to bring you the TRUTH……….news from a Biblical perspective. New Mexico News and Views is the only full hour of news on the radio in New Mexico. You never know who may show up on the program…………maybe you!

Two of our dear friends just returned from the National Day of Prayer Conference in Colorado Springs. Pastor Mark and Pastor Don……………

Hey Dewey!
I just got back from NDP in CO and met Pastor Don and his wife from Heights Christian Church (Nice Folks). Hopefully we’ll be able to get together sometime to talk, because God’s doing MUCH here in NM. I have a Foursquare Conference coming up in Nov. that will be meeting in Abq., but we are working on a Christmas outreach to Cottonwood Mall and I think I already sent you some info regarding the Faith Night Event that will take place at one of the Scorpion’s Games in RR this January. If you and the “little woman” ever get some free time 😀 Juliet and I would love to get together.
Blessings,
Mark Tross
http://simplechurchfellowship.weebly.com

Hi Dewey,
We had a great four days at the National Day of Prayer Summit at Focus on the Family. I met a good friend of yours while there, Mark Tross. He’s a good brother and we’ll be working with him on prayer venues and issues in the coming days. Also, Jim and Sue Parks from Santa Fe, who were in my church several years ago. Good people. Sue is very active with the TV station up there. Talk to you later. God bless.

Pastor Don Kimbro (Host of Nuggets Of Truth Weekdays at 7:30am and 7:30pm on KKIM)

As I have said many times……..I love the family here at the Cup/KKIM…….I asked Karen and Rob Rowe to send us a picture……I am thankful for all they do here at the Cup! By the way if you would ever like to send me a picture of you, your family, or a picture of the area where you are from…..please do! We should start a photo album! What do you think???

Dear Dewey,
You had asked for a picture of me and Rob. Amanda took this of us today.
God Bless,
Rob and Karen Rowe

Dear friend,

A personal note just for you…Although we have never met, I think about who might be reading this and what you might be going through. I quietly pray in my heart for you with each minute that I spend writing…that God will have me write what needs to be heard…For HIS glory; For comfort, encouragement, strength, Salvation, lonliness, fear and unity…

I hope everyone is having a good and happy day, but I know that many struggle as they read this. Know that we all do sometimes and my prayers are with you in one mind with God along side of everyone praying with Dewey and The Daily Cup @ KKIM!

I struggle sometimes about sending things that I write in. This is one of them. It is about common knowledge that most of you reading this probably know more about than me, so sometimes I will go ahead and send it in and sometimes I will just store it away. Today I share. So my hope is that there will be something special for someone and then it has served God well. I truly write for God…to bring honor to HIS name, remind us that we all go through the same struggles and to unite us as one in Christ.

Robert, my husband has been reading the Old Testament and together we have been reading some in the evenings. I could tell you how our son broke our new TV, which forced us into new habits, like reading the Bible and sitting with our children, but that would just make this longer. But there was a blessing it that, in spite of the cost, which did far out way money. Our quality family time was stolen in TV time…it became a habit that has consumed our life to the point we lost other vital, lasting things in our life. I could go on, but we were ultimately blessed by that and my son is learning discipline and responsibility for his actions.

I find that I write many times like I am writing to friends, because I am, but then I try to take out the fluff about me and bring it back home to God’s glory. So a compliment to God that HE has made us family.

I truly believe that folks have family @ DDC and with KKIM! What praise to God! And no one should be afraid of being alone with family so close by…Only God can mold hearts like that!

Why do we have the Old Testament? Part 1 From, Karen Rowe

One main point is obvious:

The Old Testament is for a reason…

And it is history …

Without knowing history, we will continually make the same mistakes over and over again.

God is trying to teach the people; HIS people; HIS children how to behave.

I was on a walk the other day and this thought came to me… The people written about in the Old Testament were living their life day by day, just like we do. They were directly affected by what they knew and what they did not know and they grew weary in their walk over time…

Another thought that came to me today is that I am not to judge them. I believe that I was.

God would do all kinds of miraculous signs …that they knew were from God, but then they would fall back into their fallen ways again. Often times it seemed that it took a brick to fall on their heads to get their attention, but just a breeze to go by to forget…

The people would complain and worry and sin against God in the most vial ways with idols and other acts, while all the time God was physically leading them! Their patience failed them and it is written about for a reason. We can learn from The Bible without wandering around lost for 40 years!

I don’t think that people got away from God overnight…just little by little…until they forgot God; Then generation to generation, some people grew further away from a blessed life, with a forgotten God…

Good Kings were blessed, Bad Kings were plagued and cursed…they may have gotten away with it for a while, but God dealt with them in HIS time. Then, also in the Old Testament, it is written about Kings that didn’t know God’s purpose; They were following the set path of their fathers who forgot God…

However, God always prevails and it is so promising to read the good…The King who found God’s Word and changed to follow God’s rules…God shows blessings on those who obey HIM.

People living through tough times can’t see past the present need! Isn’t that our nature? Look at how the people acted while Moses was gone. He was on a mountain talking to God in person, getting the Ten Commandments and the people got bored and scared! They came up with their own plan and it didn’t work! They felt their need and then, their faith grew weak as their desires grew stronger.

God wasn’t 1st on their mind or in their heart at the times they cheated on God. I don’t think that they really gave HIM much thought when they disobeyed.

Is it human nature to need a leader with strong faith in God near? With Moses gone, the people of Egypt needed to see and touch an idol! Faith is hard sometimes, but those people just didn’t know God like Moses did…so their faith was weak.

We are blessed people! We can read the Bible and relate our own tough times to theirs…we can know that God promises a brighter future! We can know God because of Jesus! We are blessed people!

In the Old Testament, Manna was the food that God provided on the journey. The Manna shows survival under the direct leadership of God to a better place in life.

…We just need to look higher to God in trust!

We have the privilege of learning from the people’s mistakes in the Old Testament! We have the wisdom…God’s wisdom… that is uncovered in scripture, along with time to study, study notes and the Holy Spirit to guide us to understanding, as the LORD leads.

But most of all we have Jesus! The people in the Old Testament were waiting on Jesus, but we have Jesus alive with us today! That is worth thanks and praise to God!

The folks in the Bible were living through it, just like we live through things today.

Many times we can’t see the purpose or wisdom in a trial, until we have walked through something; until we arrive and see that light at the end of the tunnel. But we are not to question God’s plan, or rewrite HIS will; our nature is to complain and jump, but our Spirit follows God with a humble and thankful heart.

We can learn from that 40 year walk in the desert. What we need is a molded heart of God…purified and cleansed of selfishness, bitterness…just a heart of God that loves, trusts and leans not on our own understanding, but looks higher to God in all things.

Love in Christ,

Karen Rowe

Thank you Karen………God Bless you and Robb and your entire family!

By the way I just want to add I am very thankful for my wife, Sharon as she sacrifices much for the Ministry of KKIM and the Cup and the many hours the Ministry takes. Without her support I could not so this.

Love in Christ to you all! Dewey Sharon and family

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