Dear KKIM Family,
PRAISE NOTE………..Pam Russom let me know the other day her Mom, Pat Lein is doing well. Pam asked for prayers for her Mom months ago and her cancer is now in remission!!! PRAISE GOD! Thank you all for praying!
I am very thankful for all of you who keep us posted on how everyone is doing that we are praying for. I am hoping to get updates on Bo and Gail soon.
I PRAISE GOD for all HE is doing through all the Prayer Warriors here at the CUP!!!
Kind words are like honey—–sweet to the soul and healthy for the body. Proverbs 16:24
Okay, let me share with you all the kind words that Sharon and I have been getting……………….
Dewey,
Congratulation to you and Sharon on your anniversary! May the Lord grant you many more wonderful years to come!
Your brother in Christ,
Manny F. Vildasol, MBA
Administrator
NM Secretary of State’s Office
Happy Anniversary Dewey and Sharon. What a blessing you are as a team! I continually thank God for his amazing ability to transform tragedy into good! Blessed be His name, in good times and in hard times. Love to you…Cherie
Hi Dewey,
I enjoy getting your daily cup, 1/2 cup (get a kick out of that title), news alerts, and prayer requests. As always, I appreciate your ministry to all of us.
I want to know if you are still going to have your KKIM Business Expo in February? We are interested in participating. Please let me know. I would appreciate hearing from you personally.
Take care and God bless your day.
Warm Regards,
Charlotte
Charlotte Mann
Marketing Director
Health Quest Chiropractic
3824 Masthead NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
www.newmexicochiro.com
Dewey I just want to wish you and Sharon a very happy and blessed anniversary. I also wanted to send to you a little devotional that both of you know very well but at times we can forget.
Ephesians 5:22-25.
Paul speaks 1st to the wives and I think its a great when wives realize that ever since the garden of Eden, their husbands are missing something. You see the bible tells us in the book of Genesis that when Adam went to sleep in the garden, God took from him a rib. and from it fashioned the woman, who was to be the completer of the man. You may ask at times, why doesn’t my husband communicate with me more often. Why doesn’t he feel about things as deeply as I do. Well I think it all comes from the fact that he’s missing a rib. He’s missing the part that was given to you. So what do I do you ask? Well all you have to do is ask. You see in the garden of Eden the 1st Adam lost something. But there’s another Adam, the last Adam, Jesus Christ. The last Adam is so complete that in scripture he is not only portrayed as a red heifer (female cow) Numbers 19 but as a Bullock in Numbers 15. He is the epitome of strength, and the essence of tenderness. As long as wives look to there husbands to meet there deepest needs, you will always be frustrated because you will always be pressuring him to be something he cannot be. But In Christ you will always find true fulfillment. In talking to him, in learning of him, in walking with him, you’ll find satisfaction. For in submitting to Christ you’ll find the craving your heart is looking for and you wont push your husband to be what he just cant be. When you do that it becomes easier to submit to your husband, not as a slave, or as a leader but as a partner who completes. Paul said Husbands love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for her. And how did Christ love the church, well in 2 ways, 1st sacrificially. This means that if I love my wife sacrificially as Christ loved the church it means that I will love her to the point that I die to my own dreams, my own desires, and my own wishes. In other words I will love her to death. 2nd: He loved the church unconditionally. Jesus doesn’t love us only when we are good little boys and girls, he loves us at all times and we should do the same thing. I’m not to love her only when she does things that please me, I’m to love her period and there isn’t a woman on earth who would ever have difficulty submitting to a husband who loves her in this way. Submission will never be a problem when a man loves his wife as Christ loved the church.
Again Happy Anniversary and may God bless you and your family,
In his Love always, Your friend Pastor Victor Tafoya/TLF
Hi Dewey and Sharon,
Congratulations on your wedding anniversary. What a way to start the New Year celebrating your lives together—the joys, the memories, the challenges, the victories and the future. A wise man once said, “Don’t stand there staring down at your feet—look up to the horizons of new opportunity God is giving you.” I believe the best is yet to come. God bless.
Pastor Don
HEY DEWEY HOW ARE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IM PRAYING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY THAT THAY WELL HAVE PEACE IN THERE LIFE AND THEY WILL HAVE A GOOD HOLIDADS AND MANEY MORE
YOUR FRIEND COWBOY CLARENCE
Happy ANNIVERSARY!!! Joe Page
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to you both!!! Just got home from a wedding… how cool!
Because of Jesus,
Karen
AND to you my brother…
“Do not be discourage or dismayed. The Lord our God is with you.”
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO DEWEY AND SHARON. God bless. Have a super anniversary.
Praying for you and Sharon.
Your friend,
Leonard
May the Lord bless you in the coming year. Let’s all make New Year’s Resolutions that are totally beyond ourselves to accomplish … and see what the Lord will do. Pray … Think … Plan … and Act. Perhaps there are new ways to serve people and to love them because they are God’s creation, to evangelize and disciple the lost. Let’s see ……???
God Bless. Pastor Marl Scales
Just to give you an update. The Pastor and member of Peralta Memorial United Methodist Church who camped outside to bring awareness to the homeless veterans were able to stop the campout on December 15th as the $10,000 goal was met.
The 2 spent 24 hours at the Rescue Mission on Dec 19 and 20th to “get a feel” for what the veterans go through on a daily basis. On December 24th, ABQ Rescue Mission was presented the check for $10,000 to use in aiding the homeless veterans.
The bank account remains open for additional monies/donations – First Community Bank VINE account.
Thanks for your all your help and prayers.
This Week’s Funny
Disruptive Preaching
A meaningful thought on the heart of the pastor from my home church would often be unintentionally demolished as it passed through his lips. The conscience, for instance, during one of his sermons, became “sewered” instead of “seared” (1 Timothy 4:2). Another of repeated examples occurred one morning during a baby dedication when the pastor attempted to quo te from (Psalms 127). “Children are an heritage of the Lord,” he said, and disrupted any contemplative mood of the congregation by finishing the verse with, “and the fruit of the loom is his reward.”
—Lisa Swayze, DeSoto, TX. Christian Reader, “Lite Fare.”
The following is from Rick Warren’s book, “The Purpose of Christmas”…….This is AWESOME…it talks about GRACE……something many struggle understanding, GOD’s GRACE………
JESUS CAME TO SAVE YOU BY HIS GRACE
In practically every area of life—school, sports, work—we are judged by our performance. The American work ethic is built on the effort, sweat, competition, and hard work. Growing up, Americans are taught that there’s no such thing as a free lunch; you get what you pay for; if it’s to be, it’s up to me; if you want something done right, do it yourself; and God helps those who help themselves.
So when it comes to spiritual matters, many assume God relates to us on the same performance-based ethic. You may feel that you have to earn God’s approval, deserve God’s love, and work your way to heaven by doing good or trying to be perfect. If you’ve thought that, I’ve got good news for you: that’s not at all how it works! Here’s what the Bible says about what you must do to be saved: “The people asked Jesus, ‘What are the things God wants us to do?’ Jesus answered, ‘The work God wan s you to do is this: Believe the One he sent.’” Salvation is not a matter of trying, but trusting. It’s not a matter of proving you deserve it, but accepting it by faith, knowing you don’t deserve it.
The idea of grace is so foreign and antithetical to the popular misconceptions about God and even other religions that when the Bible talks about salvation as a free gift of God’s grace, many people respond with a blank stare. There is a mental and emotional disconnect. We are so used to receiving conditional love (“I will love you if…” or “I love you because…”) that unconditional grace is an unfamiliar and even uncomfortable concept.
Religion is man’s attempt to please God. Grace is God reaching down to man. Every religion boils down to one word: ‘do!” Do our list of things, and you will earn God’s love. Each religion has its own unique list of rules, and if you compare the lists, you discover they are often contradictory. But the big idea behind all religions is that you must work, strive, and put forth great effort in order to get God to like you.
So God came to earth as Jesus essentially to say: “You guys have got it all wrong! Of course doing good things matters, but it doesn’t make me love you any more or any less. My love for you is unlimited, unconditional, unchanging, and undeserved. So let me teach you a new concept called grace. You can’t purchase it, work for it, or be good enough to merit it. It’s a gift that will cost me a lot, but it is free to you. Everything I do for you, to you, in you, and through you—every single blessing you have in life—is a gift of my grace. I’ve done it all for you.”
While religions are based on the word “do”, salvation is based on the word “done”.
When Jesus died for you on the cross, he exclaimed, “It is finished!” It’s extremely important to note that Jesus didn’t say, “I am finished”, because he wasn’t! He had more to do Three days later, he came back to life, resurrected from death, and walked around Jerusalem for forty days. He met with individuals and groups of up to five hundred people before ascending back to heaven.
So what was finished? The payment for your salvation! The phrase “it is finished” is actually a single work in Hebrew that Jesus cried out. It was stamped on bills that had been paid off and on prison sentences that had been completed. It meant “paid in full!” Religion says, “do!” Jesus says, “done!” He has already taken care of the expense of your salvation.
Years ago, a guy asked me, “What must I do to get to heaven”? I shocked him by replying, “You’re too late.” He didn’t expect that answer and anxiously responded, “What needed to be done was done for you two thousand years ago by Jesus. All you need to do is accept what he’s already done for you! There’s nothing more to add. It’s grace plus nothing.”
The Bible says, “It is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift fo God—not by works, so that no one can boast.” Notice that you Christmas gif form God comes by grace and through faith.
Let me wrap it up today with this love story………One of the greatest, if not greatest coaches of all time John Wooden………
The little condo on Margate Street in Encino, Calif., wouldn’t pass many eyeball tests, not that the old man who has lived there since 1972 has any intention to sell it. If you want it, you’re simply going to have to wait for John Wooden to die.
Sadly — and beautifully — you wouldn’t be the only one. Wooden, perhaps the greatest Americ an coach in any sport, never thought he’d live to the age of 98. And he never thought living without his beloved wife, Nell, whom he lost in 1985, would be so hard for so long. Of all the love in his heart — for the three generations of family who surround him and the dozens of former players who keep him as close as ever — most of it still belongs to her. All he wants is to see his Nellie again.
Meanwhile, Wooden’s loved ones want for him. Tony Spino, the UCLA trainer who has looked after him for years, sleeps at the condo five nights a week. Jim Wooden, 72, the coach’s only son, sleeps t here on Thursdays and Fridays. Wooden’s granddaughter Caryn Bernstein, 48, shows up at 7 a.m. almost daily. Caryn’s 74-year-old mother, Nan Wooden, who is Wooden’s only daughter, is a regular factor in an equation of constant companionship and care.
They wish he would sell the place — packed with decades-old furniture, books, photographs, and other mementos — and move somewhere nicer.
“We try to tell him, ‘Daddy, Mother would not like this,’ ” Nan says.
But he won’t.
John Wooden will be here until the end — a happy man at peace with dying, whenever that moment comes. He spent a morning with Sporting News’ Steve Greenberg at the place lovingly referred to by UCLA great Bill Walton as The Wooden Mansion on Margate. Here are excerpts from their conversation:
SN: Many things here are just so: the books, the photographs. And also many things that belonged to Nell — even the little things, like her lipstick. Are you holding on to her still?
WOODEN: Yes. All the things that she used, like her makeup. And her side of the bed. Her gown is stretched out on her side of the bed since I lost her. And once the sheets are changed, then we put everything back the same way. So I wouldn’t want to leave here.
SN: You had that frightful fall in February, and there have been others. Are you in much pain?
WOODEN: No, I’m not. The worst pain I have is in my knees. (Doctors) won’t do anything about it. Both of them have to be replaced, but I’m too old. Those other things healed very well, all except the wrist. But otherwise, no pain.
SN: What do you love about basketball these days?
WOODEN: Well, more than anything else today, it’s the fact that at the place where I have breakfast almost every morning, one of my ex-players will show up. Mike Warren, Keith (Jamaal) Wilkes; Bill Walton drives up from San Diego, and that’s nice. I love my memories about the time that I taught these players. I think about it. And I like the game now, but I don’t like the game as much. I have never cared for the showmanship, and I think there is too much showmanship in the game today. While I think the players today are just unbelievable — their athleticism — I don’t think team play is as good as it used to be.
SN: What’s it like for you to watch UCLA play?
WOODEN: The interest that I have had over the years is still there. When I retired, I was so concerned about the players who had played for me that I really couldn’t enjoy the game as much. But when they were all gone, then I could enjoy it a little bit more. UCLA is doing well. I’m impressed with the coach that we have now (Ben Howland). The last three years, he’s been in the Final Four, and not many have done that. He’s an extremely impressive defensive coach.
SN: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 61 years old. Is that difficult for you to c omprehend?
WOODEN: It’s a little difficult to realize. But going further than that, you may or may not know that I’ve been a speaker for the McDonald’s High School All American Game. Three years ago, it was held in South Bend, (Ind.), where I taught (at Central High School) for nine years. I thought I shouldn’t go, but they wanted me to come very much, and finally I went. They were very nice; they sent their private plane, and I could take my family. They had a luncheon, and they tried to get as many athletes as they could who had played for me at that high school. Twenty-six players. The oldest of them was 88. And I think the youngest was probably 80. That was wonderful. Also, I’d had several of their wives in English class. It was fun. That’s one of the really enjoyable times that I’ve had, and I almost didn’t do it.
SN: Your home has photographs of Abraham Lincoln and Mother Teresa. Are they heroes of yours?
WOODEN: Abraham Lincoln is my favorite American, and I have many, many books and pictures of him. And the person who has lived in my lifetime for whom I have the most admiration and respect is Mother Teresa, and I have a lot of pictures and books of her, too. I just missed seeing her. I had received the Medal the year after she did, and she was going to come back and be the presenter to me, but she wasn’t able to make it. I would have loved to meet her.
SN: Did you ever believe you would live to see=2 0the election of America’s first black president?
WOODEN: No, I never thought I’d live this long under any circumstances.
SN: If you could give advice to Barack Obama, what would it be?
WOODEN: Be like Lincoln.
SN: Why have you lived this good, long life?
WOODEN: That’s very hard to say. I honestly feel that one of the reasons could be that I’ve practiced moderation in almost everything. I never used alcohol in any way. Does that have anything to do with it? I don’t know. George Burns had a lot of it every day, and he lived to be over 100. I smoked a little bit when I was in the Navy, but that’s all. Did that have anything to do with it? I don’t know. But I do know this: I am very much at peace with myself. I’m not afraid of death. I’m at peace. Certainly as I get older, it’s hard to … (long pause)
I’m ready. I wish it would happen now. But I’m not going to try to hurry it. I’m not afraid of death. I’m not going to intentionally hurry it up, but I’m not afraid. I’ve been so blessed in my life. I’m thankful for so many things. My children, my 13 great-grandchildren, all live within an hour or less, and I see them all regularly. How many times does that happen? Within an hour or two, I can see the ocean, I can be in the mountains, I can be in the desert, I can be at Disneyland, I can be at an athletic event. There are so many things. I have been so blessed. And out yonde r, I’ll be with Nellie again.
For much more of Steve Greenberg’s conversation with John Wooden, pick up a copy of the new Sporting News Magazine, available at most Barnes & Noble, Borders and Hudson Retail outlets later this week.
Steve Greenberg is a staff writer for Sporting News. Email him at sgreenberg@sportingnews.com.
Please keep us in your prayers as we like you face many challenges at this time………We are praying for you all……..Your prayers that you say for all those in need mean more than you may ever know,
Love, Dewey Sharon and family
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