My life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the LORD JESUS” Acts 20:24
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give HIS life a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45
We are here to serve you…….We are here for you………
I will be on special assignment Thursday through Sunday…….Please keep us in your prayers…..If anyone needs help and prayers……send an email and I will get it to Sharon and Jannetta.
Richard Spray, Pastor Don and Pastor Leonard will be filling in for me on New Mexico News and Views. I want to thank them for all they do for this Ministry.
You folks help us so much to keep going forward……..you all are so special……….thanks for being with us.
Dear KKIM Family,
I wanted to thank you all who expressed your sympathy in the death of 18 year old Ryan Washington. The family wants you to know they are so thankful for your prayers…….we heard from South Africa to Indiana to New Mexico……..
Thank you for let us know about the tragedy. We will pray for you and Ryan’s family. Tienie, South Africa
Dana du Plessis
Dewey,
How terrible to hear of Ryan being murdered. Our hearts go out for you and your family. It is in times like this that all we can do is fall back into the arms of Jesus. He understands and He cares.
We will be praying.
Ed Moore WFRN Radio
Dewey,
I just want to thank you personally for contacting Rodney Washington and his wife during their time of need. That contact obviously had a profound impact. I personally vouch for the Washington family and Gary (brother) as to their genuine love for Christ. God blessed me beyond measure when I I had the distinctive pleasure to coach these individuals in high school wrestling in Louisiana in the early 80’s. My heart bleeds so hard for them. I just want you to know what wonderful people they are and how much they mean to me. Again, Dewey thank you for your message and what you as a person mean to so many.
God Bless
Rick Griffin (Coach) Albuquerque
I am praying for you.
Scripture for the day:
“Therefore, let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16
Draw near WITH CONFIDENCE and receive MERCY, GRACE in time to NEED.
Have a super day. I am praying for you and Sharon.
In Christ love and service,
Leonard in Edgewood
I Just got an IM…I guess that is Instant message…….I remember Instant coffee………now we have IM????
Anyhow it was from our dear friend Karen in Elkhart, Indiana.her husband Fred is having surgery this morning. Please keep him in your prayers. He is having his gallbladder removed.
Here is an update from John Jelso, we are very thankful when folks keep us updated on people we are praying for……….
Good Morning Dewey.
I just wanted to give you a little update on my Sister, Gina Heise . Gina was released from the hospital last Thursday and has been home recovering. My other Sister, Laura Smith, arrived from Michigan Friday afternoon to help out for a week or two. This will greatly ease the burden on my Mother, Joanne Jelso, and allow her some time to rest and recoup, as well. Gina is still in pain. But, she knows things will improve and the pain will subside. Gina is ready to work on her recovery. She knows how important it is that she follows doctor orders and that physical therapy is the key. Gina is very aware of all the prayers and extends her gratitude to all who have prayed for her and I do as well. I think we all know how powerful prayer is, especially when it comes to our prayers for others.
Thanks again to you and the readers of “Dewey’s Daily Cup”.
Your old friend,
John Jelso Albuquerque
Rick Griffin a great friend of this ministry sent this in…………
Here are some great points, thought you might enjoy them
Rick Griffin
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a
glass of water and asked, “how heavy is this glass of water?” Answers
called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, “The absolute
weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it.”
“If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a problem. If I hold it for an
hour, I’ll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you’ll
have to call an ambulance. “In each case, it’s the same weight, but the
longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.”
He continued, “And that’s the way it is with stress management. If we
carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes
increasingly heavy, we won’t be able to carry on.” “As with the glass of
water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it
again. When we’re refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.”
“So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don’t
carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you’re
carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can.” “Relax; pick them
up later after you’ve rested. Life is short. Enjoy it!
And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
* Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
* Drive carefully. It’s not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
* If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
* Never buy a car you can’t push.
* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won’t have a leg to stand on.
* Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
* Since it’s the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
* The second mouse gets the cheese.
* When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
* You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world
to one person.
* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
* We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty
and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors,
but they all have to live in the same box.*********THIS ONE IS TRULY
WONDERFUL*******
* A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you
today……….I will
Shannon who works with me at American General Media was talking about the sermon that John Phillis did on Sunday (Church of Christ)……….about the meaning of “Broadcast” Of course being in the Broadcast biz…….that caught my attention when Shannon was talking about it. So she asked John to share with us……….
Hi Dewey,
John Phillis sent me the part of his notes I had talked to you about. I found it interesting and hope you do too! If you would like me to get a recorded cd of the sermon, just let me know!
Shannon
The word used in this parable, in all three accounts (Mt. 13, Mk. 4 and Lk. 8), as well as in a few other parables Jesus spoke, is the Greek word, ‘speiro’ translated “to sow” or “sow seed.” There is another word used in the NT in a similar sense, ‘diaskorpizo’ which means “to scatter”. From this verb comes the word ‘Diaspora’ used for the “scattering of the Jews” (OT) and “scattering of the Christians” (NT) — remember that Peter addressed his first epistle to the “elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion [Diaspora]” (ASV). But in Mt. 25:24 & 26, ‘diaskorpiza’ is used in an agricultural context; the one talent man accused his master of reaping where he had not “scattered.”
Anyway, I said all of that to say that one of the definitions of “broadcast” (verb) is: “to cast or scatter abroad over an area, as seed in sowing.”
Then, note this description of the activity of a 1st century “farmer” or “sower of seed” – “This parable of the sower is a vivid picture of a farmer, sowing wheat from a bag strapped over his shoulder, scattering seed by thrusting his hand into the bag and hurling the seeds in an arc, somewhat in front of him, as he walked through the field.”
Pretty easy to see the connection then to “scattering” or “broadcasting” the seed, don’t you think? And of course, in the parable it is figurative of “scattering” or “broadcasting” the word of God (Mt. 13:19).
Well that was fun. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. 😉 As for the sermon itself, I’m not sure Dewey could make much out of my notes, but of course it was recorded and audio copies are available.
Blessings,
John
Shannon, thanks for sharing…….please let John know that I would love to air his sermon on KKIM! We here at KKIM will work hard to put out good seed!
Faith still at core of Warner’s success
Cardinals quarterback goes out of his way to credit God
27 commentsby Paola Boivin – Jan. 9, 2009 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
“If you ever really want to do a story about who I am, God’s got to be at the center of it. Every time I hear a piece or read a story that doesn’t have that, they’re missing the whole lesson of who I am.” – Kurt Warner
It has become part of the sports landscape. Athletes congregate on the field after a game to pray or offer a sound bite thanking a higher power.
It rarely makes the news.
Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner understands this. The man who led this organization to its first home playoff game since 1947 knows that discussion about resurrections comes only in the context of career revivals and that tape recorders shut off when faith references start up.
During a visit to The Oprah Winfrey Show, Warner “basically had three sentences to say, so, in the middle one, I made sure I mentioned my faith, because how could they cut it out?” he said. “I went to watch the show on replay . . . and they cut it out!”
Warner, 37, is right. There is dishonesty in telling his story if you ignore what drives him, especially if you accept its role in one of the NFL’s great success stories. In five years, he went from a 22-year-old stock boy at a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, grocery store to Super Bowl MVP. He has morphed again, from unemployed veteran to record-setting starting quarterback with the Cardinals, who on Saturday in Charlotte, N.C., will try to advance to the NFC Championship Game by beating the Carolina Panthers.
“I wasn’t always this way,” he said.
During his final season at the University of Northern Iowa in 1993, Warner went to a country-music dance bar called Wild E. Coyotes. He spotted Brenda Carney Meoni and asked her to dance. Her immediate reaction?
“Get away. Get away,” she thought.
“Here’s this cute guy in a bar with an entourage of females, and I’m the last person that makes sense for him to go to,” Brenda said. “I’m a divorced woman with two kids, one with special needs. And Kurt’s 21. Twenty-one.”
They danced, and the next day, Warner was knocking on her door with a rose.
“Again, I’m screaming in my head, ‘Go away!’ but I opened the door and said, ‘C’mon in,’ ” she said. “My 2 1/2-year-old grabs him by the hand and shows him every radio we own.
“He fell in love with my kids before he fell in love with me. When we’d have a fight and were going to break up, he’d say, ‘Well I get the kids.’ I’m like, ‘But they’re my kids!’ ”
They stuck together, even when it appeared football wasn’t in Warner’s future. He signed with the Green Bay Packers as a free agent in 1994 but was cut before the season began. He returned to UNI to work as a graduate assistant football coach and spent nights stocking shelves at the local Hy-Vee grocery store. He moved in with Brenda, who was struggling financially and turned to food stamps for a while. They drove a car that died every time it turned left.
He landed with the Arena Football League’s Iowa Barnstormers in 1995 and three years later was signed by the St. Louis Rams, who allocated him to the NFL’s developmental league in Europe. His backup with the Amsterdam Admirals was Jake Delhomme, now the Panthers’ quarterback.
Around this time, Warner began challenging Brenda about her faith. She had become a devout Christian as a 12-year-old after seeing a fundamentalist Christian film called A Distant Thunder (1978). Warner questioned her, suggesting she was picking and choosing her beliefs from the Bible at her convenience. During this exploration, he closely studied the Bible.
“When I did, it was obvious what the truth was,” Warner said.
He committed himself to the Bible’s message. That’s Warner’s way, why he has succeeded in football. He studies, commits, believes.
Before they married, he told Brenda they should follow the Bible faithfully, which meant, among other things, no premarital sex.
“I’m like, ‘Dude, we’ve got so many other things to work on. Why that one?’ ” Brenda, now 41, said, laughing.
They married in 1997. In 1999, he took over as the Rams’ quarterback when starter Trent Green was injured. What followed was two Super Bowls, two MVP titles and a legion of Christian followers.
He was both revered and scorned for his outspokenness about faith. Since Warner’s arrival in Arizona in 2005, and the revival of his career, people here treat his religion with more curiosity than debate. Many were amused by Warner giving an invocation one year at Celebrity Fight Night, a popular black-tie fundraiser for Muhammad Ali’s Parkinson Research Center. Ali is of the Muslim faith.
“I never feel like, ‘Should I say this, or do I not,’ but I do try now to strategically figure out (during interviews) how I can get somebody to include it because it’s so important to who I am,” Warner said.
How does Warner express his faith? He always has the Bible in his hand when he does postgame interviews. He joins players in postgame group-prayer sessions on the field. He loves to engage in spiritual discussions with teammates but says he tries not to be in-your-face about it. He wants the words of the Bible to guide his everyday life.
When he and his family dine on the road, they always buy dinner for another table in the restaurant but keep the purchase anonymous. The children choose the family. Brenda Warner said it’s their way of teaching their kids one of the Bible’s messages: It’s not your circumstances that define you but what you do with those circumstances.
Warner shouldn’t be categorized only one way, Delhomme said.
“Football doesn’t define Kurt Warner, and I think that’s the biggest thing to me. It’s not who he is. Kurt Warner is a lot bigger.”
Added Cardinals defensive tackle Bertrand Berry: “To limit Kurt as a Super Bowl champion would do a disservice to him. I think his legacy will be that he’s just a great human being, and I think that’s the highest compliment that you can give anybody.”
In Christ’s Love, Dewey Sharon and family
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