Good Morning KKIM family!

This is an AWESOME book, “Getting Away To Get it Together” A getaway guide for couples…….by Bill and Carolyn Wellons. Sharon and I are going away for the weekend to Glorieta and we both need to get out of Dodge for a bit. The dogs are going to day care and we are headed North! Please keep our trip in your prayers. Hurry email me and WIN!!!!! I will ship it to the MOON if I have to….

(Undated) — This coming Saturday night beginning at 6:00 both U.S. Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will appear at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest California. KKIM will provide live coverage of each presidential candidate being interviewed at the Saddleback Civil Forum on National Leadership. The Saddleback Civil Forum series was established to promote civil discourse and the common good of all. This is the first time the presumptive Presidential nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties have appeared together. Once again KKIM will broadcast this forum with candidates Barack Obama and John McCain this Saturday evening from 6:00 to 8:00.

How about this????
Premium gasoline sells for 38 cents a gallon this week
Posted Aug 14th 2008 4:50PM by Peter CohanFiled under: Exxon Mobil (XOM)
The Associated Press reports that in San Antonio, TX, premium unleaded sold for 38 cents a gallon. That’s what I call a bargain — particularly since I considered myself lucky to pay $3.87 a gallon for mid-grade earlier this afternoon.
It turns out that there is a little problem with this 38-cents-a-gallon gas. It was a mistake in the pump. AP interviewed Dill Food Market’s Manager, Jim Duke, who said that the premium was supposed to be selling for $3.89 a gallon. AP also reports that WOAI-AM was the original source for this story and it said that “nobody reported the mistake, which apparently started Tuesday afternoon.”
It took a while for Duke to figure out what was going on. AP reports that he noticed “a lot of vehicles were being filled with premium and people were paying at the pump.” He went out to check Wednesday and noticed the price error. Maybe ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) can spare a little of its $41 billion in profit to reimburse Duke for his pump malfunction.

YOU WOULD THINK YOU WOULD BE SAFE IN CHURCH???? This goes to show the flesh will get us every time.

Minister gets jail for stealing flock’s identities
The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 08/14/2008 08:02:43 PM CDT
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.—A Baptist minister in central Pennsylvania has been sentenced to one year in jail for stealing the identities of his church members.
Raymond Clayton Sr., 44, was also ordered to pay more than $28,000 in restitution at his sentencing Wednesday. Clayton is the former pastor of Grace Fellowship Church near Mount Car mel.
Federal prosecutors said Clayton used parishioners’ personal information to obtain credit cards between November 2006 and April 2007. He pleaded guilty in March to access device fraud.
The church has since disbanded.

This is from David Standridge of Warrior Life………….This is very INSPIRATIONAL!!!!!
Hello friends, I am attaching a wonderful newsletter for this month. It is written by one of my good friends, Duncan Milloy. Duncan is a seasoned warrior who is very generous with his time, money and advice. He is a man who has fought through some tough battles and always has an encouraging word. Enjoy!

If anyone else is interested in sharing some thoughts for the men, please feel free to drop me a line at dave@warriorlife.com. As always, Reclaim your Warrior Spirit. Make sure to visit the website and drop us a line and say hi. you can find us at www.warriorlife.com.

I have been contemplating the Word again, in particular how it applies to my life as a man . “As in, ok Father, what am I missing? (this time?) .” Immediately I’m reminded of the parable in Luke that Jesus uses to teach the grumbling Pharisees. Jesus constantly shows and teaches what the Kingdom of God is like, using small words, short sentences and illustrations that have amazing power and depth when studied a bit. Yes it’s a story, but one that reflects God’s own heart.

Luke 15:11-32 tells this story of the prodigal son and his father, a parable of the Love of God that is familiar the world over. Many know the tale, or at least have heard of it; the son comes to his senses after squandering his inheritance, returns home and is restored by his father, (much to the frustration of the older brother). Look closer at the father; it is in him that we have an excellent, practical model for living.

It’s important to note that I write “excellent and practical”, but not always easy. Verse 20: …but while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

This was not his kidnapped son, his stolen son, his son returned from war or from a long perilous journey. This son is the son who took his share of his father’s estate and ran off, the son who left selfishly and who must have broken his father’s heart. Was it easy for the father to get over what the son had done? I don’t think so, for later in verse 24 the father states that the son was dead, that he had been dead and now come to life again.

The father : (verse 20, again) saw him, felt compassion for him, ran and embraced him, kissed him. He was a father who had already forgiven, who stood ready, watching for the opportunity to regain his son that was dead. The bible says that the father saw the son, when he was still a long way off. When he first came into view, the father was there. The father had trained his eye to be on the lookout…

I am just back from a paintball battle with some great friends from our church, and some new friends that had been invited. We were in a great site in the woods and weeds with lots of room to run and roam. We were in teams; we had each other’s backs. When one member was attacked, we would try to send reinforcements or run a flank to get the attacker. It’s hard for me to see in the thick brush. My eye isn’t as trained to see through the maze, to find my teammate or the aggressor.

Sometimes I can’t tell where the shots are coming from, I can only see them landing too close to, or worse, on my buddy. Often he will yell out for help, yell where the attack is coming from. Sometimes he just hunkers down, though, quiet and low, in fear of taking a lethal shot. Or he’s so busy getting shot at, he has no time to yell, or I can’t hear him from all the sound of fire. I need to find the attacker, I need to run to teammate’s aid, or I need to lay down a lot of covering fire. I know I have to be trained to see what’s going on, train my eye to see beyond the thicket in front of me, expose myself to be able to fire the weapon that saves my buddy’s “life”.

The father had his eye trained. Looking out for his son, he saw him “while he was still a long way off”. I have been hurt like the father in the parable, many times, by a friend or family member. I don’t yet have the vision I need to be able to see those people ready to return to me while they are still a long way off. I can’t always see out from my thicket, not well enough to tell when a friend is under attack, can’t always hear his cry for help.

But I pray. I pray that my vision develop, that my ears become sensitive to discern the calls of help from the din of the attack. I pray that I will be able to see, and to know, and to help those in need. As a father, a friend, a brother, a warrior, I pray that I will be able to see, hear, feel, run, embrace, and fight for those in need. Therein, my Heavenly Father might be glorified, that the Father’s will be done, according to His Word given to us by Christ Jesus. It is in His name that I pray, Amen.

This is from Karen Rowe……….

Where is our heart? I just came across this scripture and in the Words of Jesus, He says it so great!!!

Matthew 15:3-6
“Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ he is not to ‘honor his father’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.”

8 “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.”
9 “They worship me in vain;
their teachings are but rules taught by men.”

Where is our heart in being obedient to God…in all things, do we serve others with a free and cheerful heart, or are we just trying to fullfill the law and just merely do the right thing?

Love and Prayers,
In Christ’s Name, karen rowe…humbly in service to the LORD, may we remember that it is God who does all great things…Praise HIM today!!!

Hi, Dewey,

I came across this article and thought you might enjoy it. Check it out.

Grant

Why I am not a liberal
Posted: August 12, 20081:00 am Eastern© 2008
The following is a list of beliefs that I hold. Nearly every one of them was a liberal position until the late 1960s. Not one of them is now.
Such a list is vitally important to clarify exactly what positions divide left from right, blue from red, liberal from conservative.
I believe in American exceptionalism, meaning that a) America has done more than any international organization or institution, and more than any other country, to improve this world, and b) that American values (specifically, the unique American blending of Enlightenment and Judeo-Christian values) form the finest value system any society has ever devised and lived by.
I believe the bigger government gets and the more powerful the state becomes, the greater the threat to individual liberty and the greater the likelihood that evil will ensue. In the 20th century, the powerful state, not religion, was the greatest purveyor of evil in the world.
I believe the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. “Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be arrested” is legalized thievery.
I believe government funding of those who can help themselves (e.g., the able-bodied who collect welfare) or who can be helped by nongovernmental institutions (such as private charities, family and friends) hurts them and hurts society.
I believe the United States of America, from its inception, has been based on the Judeo-Christian value system, not secular Enlightenment values alone, and therefore the secularization of American society will lead to the collapse of America as a great country.
I believe some murderers should be put death, that allowing all murderers to live does not elevate the value of human life, but mocks it, and keeping all murderers alive trivializes the evil of murder.
I believe the American military has done more to preserve and foster goodness and liberty on Earth than all the artists and professors in America put together.
I believe lowering standards to admit minorities mocks the real achievements of members of those minorities.
I believe that when schools give teenagers condoms, it is understood by most teenagers as tacit approval of their engaging in sexual intercourse.
I believe assertions that manmade carbon emissions will lead to a global warming that will bring on worldwide disaster are a function of hysteria, just as was the widespread liberal belief that heterosexual AIDS will ravage America.
I believe marriage must remain what has been in every recorded civilization – between the two sexes.
I believe, whatever the reasons for entering Iraq, the American-led removal of Saddam Hussein from power will decrease the sum total of cruelty on Earth.
I believe trial lawyers associations and teachers unions, the greatest donors to the Democratic Party, have done great harm to American life – far more than, let us say, oil companies and pharmaceutical companies, the targets of liberal opprobrium.
I believe nuclear power, clean coal and drilling in a tiny and remote frozen part of Alaska and offshore – along with exploration of other energy alternatives such as wind and solar power – are immediately necessary.
I believe school vouchers are more effective than increased spending on public schools to enable many poorer Americans to give their children better educations.
I believe that while there are racists in America, America is no longer a racist society, and blaming disproportionate rates of black violence and out-of-wedlock births on white racism is a lie and the greatest single impediment to African-American progress.
I believe America, a country that accepts and assimilates foreigners better than any other in the world, is the least racist, least xenophobic country in the world.
I believe the leftist takeover of the liberal arts departments in nearly every American university has been an intellectual and moral calamity.
I believe a good man and a good marriage are more important to most women’s happiness and personal fulfillment than a good career.
I believe males and females are inherently different. For example, girls naturally prefer dolls and tea sets to trucks and toy guns – if you give a girl trucks, she is likely to give them names and take care of them, and if you give a boy trucks, he is likely to crash them into one another.
I believe that when it comes to combating the greatest evils on Earth, such as the genocide in Rwanda, the United Nations has either been useless or an obstacle.
I believe, generally speaking, Western Europe provides social and moral models to be avoided, not emulated.
I believe America’s children were positively affected by hearing a non-denominational prayer each morning in school, and adversely affected by the removal of all prayer from school.
I believe liberal educators’ removal of school uniforms and/or dress codes has had a terrible impact on students and their education.
I believe bilingual education does not work, that for the sake of immigrant children and for the sake of the larger society, immersion in the language of the country, meaning English in America, is mandatory.
I believe English should be declared the national language, and that ballots should not be printed in any language other than English. If one cannot understand English, one is probably not sufficiently knowledgeable to vote intelligently in an English-speaking country.
Finally, I believe there are millions of Americans who share most of these beliefs who still call themselves “liberal” or “progressive” and who therefore vote Democrat. They do so because they still identify liberalism with pre-1970 liberalism or because they are emotionally attached to the word “liberal.”
I share that emotion. But one should vote based on values, not emotions.
May God be with you all,
Dewey Sharon and family
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