We have this Prayer need from Shona in Los Alamos…………..
Dewey,I would appreciate prayers for my college-aged niece, Kirsten from Roswell, NM who was in a roll-over accident a couple of days ago. She has significant injuries, including a broken back…doesn’t look like a paralyzing break…among other problems. She was airlifted to Lubbock and is in a drug induced coma. Please pray for healing for her body AND spirit.Thanks,Shona in Los Alamos, NM
Dear KKIM Family,
It is such a blessing to be with you today………I am so thankful to the Lord to be able to have this blog. PRAISE GOD!
I do not take it for granted that I can be with you most days right here on this blog! I love sharing the love of Jesus with you.
Daniel Webster was once asked what is the greatest thought that can appear to man?………Webster answered……”Accountability to God.”
We have this Prayer need from Shona in Los Alamos…………..
Dewey,I would appreciate prayers for my college-aged niece, Kirsten from Roswell, NM who was in a roll-over accident a couple of days ago. She has significant injuries, including a broken back…doesn’t look like a paralyzing break…among other problems. She was airlifted to Lubbock and is in a drug induced coma. Please pray for healing for her body AND spirit.Thanks,Shona in Los Alamos, NM
Please keep Kirsten in your prayers.
By the way Shona is the host of a brand new program Saturdays at 7:30 am Saturday on KKIM, and then at 7:45 Karen Rowe joins the KKIM line up………so we have 1 1/2 hour of women’s programming for you from 7:30am to 9am every Saturday morning!!! Dr. Deb tops it off with her call in show from 8:05am to 9am! Welcome Shona and Karen. Of course many of you are already familiar with Karen, as she has been a regular contributor to the Cup!!!!
We are working on getting former Congressman Bill Redmond started on KKIM in Jan!!! I Praise God for all that HE is doing with the programming of KKIM!!! What a wonderful family. Please keep this in your prayers.
In a follow up to pretending…….we talked about Christians who pretend to be Christians….like we used to play pretend when we were kid’s……army…….fireman……….policeman……..Here is a note from Sam
Dear Dewey, Gods peace to you this beautiful morning.
I just wanted to thank you for the ‘Cup’ this morning, it has me searching the scriptures! It funny how you do that ..haha 🙂
And Gwen has all my prayers this morning, as others who have asked for them. Prayers are such a blessing when you are in need.
My prayers are also with Sharon and her school time friend. Cancer is such a terrible disease. It is frightning, and I will pray she has strength from our Savior.
Dewey, you seem interested in people pretending to be Christians this morning. I have some relief. The ones that are pretending cannot be around true believers for any long length of time. Its just impossible. Their conscience won’t let them. The scriptures say there are wolves in sheep’s clothing, and that’s so true. But are those wolves around true believers? I think not. The believers see through them, and if the wolves were around true believers for some time, they would have to leave or repent. The word is like a two edged sword, it can cut away any cloak. sincerely, Sam
Thanks Sam….I love it when I hear when people get out their Bibles and start searching for scripture……because when I do that I am so excited to get into God’s word.
And then we talked about Prayer………here’s Pat’s words………
Dewey, I thank you for this email-all of them, but this one was so very special-yes, there is something wrong with last Friday’s picture-failed to look at it the way you did-still had a house full of loved ones-what is the title of Chuck Swindoll’s new book?
I am not proficient on cell phone usage-have just a few family #s in mine thanks to my Granddaughter-good idea of yours to go thru the hand held address book-
So grateful Michael put me in touch with you-God Bless you and your work! Pat.
I hope you have been preparing for today by reading in 2nd. Peter………..
We sometimes make things to complicated or difficult…………The word of God is our road map in life. Life at times becomesvery difficult, death, illness, money problems, job loss, etc. Our Christian walk can become challenging.Anger, greed, ego all can become part of us at times.How is your daily walk with Jesus Christ going?We are here everyday to help you in that walk and you are here to help us!How wonderful!The Christian life demands diligence in pursuing moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and selfless love.Peter writes in 2 Peter 1: 1-11To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord, as HIS divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of HIM who called us by glory and virtue,by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature,having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance godliness,to godliness brotherly kindness love.For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.AMEN!Let us all help each other and remind each other of what Peter wrote………to help one another in our daily walk with Jesus Christ.Satan loves to get us off track, as spiritual warfare is a fact.Let us all pray for each other and our families.
Here is an example of the great need for moral families………….
Nationwide survey finds high levels of cheating, stealing by high school students
By DAVID CRARY , Associated Press
November 30, 2008
NEW YORK – In the past year, 30 percent of U.S. high school students have stolen from a store and 64 percent have cheated on a test, according to a new, large-scale survey suggesting that Americans are too apathetic about ethical standards.
Educators reacting to the findings questioned any suggestion that today’s young people are less honest than previous generations, but several agreed that intensified pressures are prompting many students to cut corners.
“The competition is greater, the pressures on kids have increased dramatically,” said Mel Riddle of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. “They have opportunities their predecessors didn’t have (to cheat). The temptation is greater.”
The Josephson Institute, a Los Angeles-based ethics institute, surveyed 29,760 students at 100 randomly selected high schools nationwide, both public and private. All students in the selected schools were given the survey in class; their anonymity was assured.
Michael Josephson, the institute’s founder and president, said he was most dismayed by the findings about theft. The survey found that 35 percent of boys and 26 percent of girls — 30 percent overall — acknowledged stealing from a store within the past year. One-fifth said they stole something from a friend; 23 percent said they stole something from a parent or other relative.
“What is the social cost of that — not to mention the implication for the next generation of mortgage brokers?” Josephson remarked in an interview. “In a society drenched with cynicism, young people can look at it and say ‘Why shouldn’t we? Everyone else does it.'”
Other findings from the survey:
_Cheating in school is rampant and getting worse. Sixty-four percent of students cheated on a test in the past year and 38 percent did so two or more times, up from 60 percent and 35 percent in a 2006 survey.
_Thirty-six percent said they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment, up from 33 percent in 2004.
_Forty-two percent said they sometimes lie to save money — 49 percent of the boys and 36 percent of the girls.
Despite such responses, 93 percent of the students said they were satisfied with their personal ethics and character, and 77 percent affirmed that “when it comes to doing what is right, I am better than most people I know.”
Nijmie Dzurinko, executive d irector of the Philadelphia Student Union, said the findings were not at all reflective of the inner-city students she works with as an advocate for better curriculum and school funding.
“A lot of people like to blame society’s problems on young people, without recognizing that young people aren’t making the decisions about what’s happening in society,” said Dzurinko, 32. “They’re very easy to scapegoat.”
Peter Anderson, principal of Andover High School in Andover, Mass., said he and his colleagues had detected very little cheating on tests or Internet-based plagiarism. He has, however, noticed an uptick in students sharing homework in unauthorized ways.
“This generation is leading incredibly busy lives — involved in athletics, clubs, so many with part-time jobs, and — for seniors — an incredibly demanding and anxiety-producing college search,” he offered as an explanation.
Riddle, who for four decades was a high school teacher and principal in northern Virginia, agreed that more pressure could lead to more cheating, yet spoke in defense of today’s students.
“I would take these students over other generations,” he said. “I found them to be more responsive, more rewarding to work with, more appreciative of support that adults give them.
“We have to create situations where it’s easy for kids to do the right things,” he added. “We need to create classrooms where learning takes on more importance than having the right answer.”On Long Island, an alliance of school superintendents and college presidents recently embarked on a campaign to draw attention to academic integrity problems and to crack down on plagiarism and cheating.
Roberta Gerold, superintendent of the Middle Country School District and a leader of the campaign, said parents and school officials need to be more diligent — for example, emphasizing to students the distinctions between original and borrowed work.
“You can reinforce the character trait of integrity,” she said. “We overload kids these days, and they look for ways to survive. … It’s a flaw in our system that whatever we are doing as educators allows this to continue.”
Josephson contended that most Americans are too blase about ethical shortcomings among young people and in society at large.
“Adults are not taking this very seriously,” he said. “The schools are not doing even the most moderate thing. … They don’t want to know. There’s a pervasive apathy.”
Josephson also addressed the argument that today’s youth are no less honest than their predecessors.
“In the end, the question is not whether things are worse, but whether they are bad enough to mobilize concern and concerted action,” he said.
“What we need to learn from these survey results is that our moral infrastructure is unsound and in serious need of repair. This is not a time to lament and whine but to=2 0take thoughtful, positive actions.”
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On the Net:
Institute: http://josephsoninstitute.org/
Please keep this in your prayers.
We close with this today from Sharon………maybe this is why I feel so out of touch at times with Today’s World………
>> >How old is Grandpa?> >> >> >> >> >Stay with this — the answer is at the end. It will blow you away.> >> >One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current >events.> >The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at> >schools, the computer age, and just things in general.> >> >The Grandfather replied, ‘Well, let me think a minute, I was born before:> >> >’television> >> >’penicillin> >> >’polio shots> >> >’frozen foods> >> >’Xerox> >> >’contact lenses> >> >’Frisbees and> >> >’the Pill> >> >> >> >There were no:> >> >’credit cards> >> >’laser beams or> >> >’ball-point pens> >> >> >> >Man had not invented:> >> >’pantyhose> >> >’air conditioners> >> >’dishwashers> >> >’clothes dryers> >> >’and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and> >> >man hadn’t yet walked on the moon.> >> >> >> >> >> >> >Your Grandmother and I got married first, . . And then lived together.> >> >Every family had a father and a mother.> >> >Until I was 25, I called every man older than me, ‘Sir’.> >And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a >title,> >’Sir.’> >> >We were before gay-rights, computer- dating, dual careers, daycare >centers,> >and group therapy.> >> >Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and >common> >sense.> >> >We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to >stand> >up and take responsibility for our actions.> >> >Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger> >privilege.> >> >We thought fast food was what people ate during Lent.> >> >Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins.> >> >Draft dodgers were people who closed their front doors when the evening> >breeze started.> >> >Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and> >weekends-not purchasing condominiums.> >> >> >> >> >> >We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, >yogurt,> >or guys wearing earrings.> >> >We listened to the Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President’s speeches on> >our radios.> >> >And I don’t ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to >Tommy> >Dorsey.> >> >If you saw anything with ‘Made in Japan ‘ on it, it was junk> >> >The term ‘making out’ referred to how you did on your school exam.> >> >Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, and instant coffee were unheard of.> >> >We had 5 &10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10> >cents.> >> >Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a Pepsi were all >a> >nickel.> >> >And if you didn’t want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough> >stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.> >> >You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600, . .. . But who could afford >one?> >Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon..> >> >In my day:> >> >”grass’ was mowed,> >> >”coke’ was a cold drink,> >> >”pot’ was something your mother cooked in and> >> >”rock music’ was your grandmother’s lullaby.> >> >”Aids’ were helpers in the Principal’s office,> >> >” chip’ meant a piece of wood,> >> >”hardware’ was found in a hardware store and> >> >”software’ wasn’t even a word.> >> >> >> >> >> >And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a> >husband to have a baby.> >> >> >> >No wonder people call us ‘old and confused’ and say there is a generation> >gap… And how old do you think I am?> >> >I bet you have this old man in mind…you are in for a shock!> >> >Read on to see — pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at >the> >same time.> >> >Are you ready ?????> >> >This man would be only 53 years old!!!
May the Peace and Strength of our Lord Jesus Christ be with You and Yours! Dewey Sharon and family
Please keep praying for each other and our families.
Dear KKIM Family,
Please pray for Pastor Don’s family as his brother Harry has passed away.
Hi Bro, My brother died last Friday, so we’re heading for Florida on Thursday. I’m going to do his funeral. He was 79 and had been in poor health for a couple of years. I’ll drop by to say hello on Wednesday. God bless.Pastor Don Kimbro
Please keep this in your prayers. Please pray for safe travel for Don and Dorothy.
Please pray for Gene Salazar whose family is having a tough time. Both Gene and his wife are unemployed at this time.
In these times and for all times………let us go to Deuteronomy 31:6
Be STRONG and BOLD…..The LORD your GOD…..will NOT FAIL you or FORSAKE you.
Please remember to be reading in 2nd Peter………we will discuss more tomorrow, Lord willing.
Thank you for being part of our prayer family………your prayers touch many.
I will see you on the radio Today……….
May The Peace and Strength of Jesus Christ be with you Today and always, Dewey Sharon and family
