Dear KKIM Family,
It is honorable for a man to stop striving, Since any fool can start a quarrel. Proverbs 20:3 How timely is that for this season!
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care. Lord Chesterfield
Happy Birthday to our Dear Friend in Chama, NM Scott Flurry who is 59 years young today!!! One of the best radio broadcasters ever in New Mexico!
I was surprised to read the following in my new issue of Christianity Today……….
FAITH OF FEW WORDS That is the headline in a box in the Oct. issue……
McCain does not claim to be “born again” or to have been baptized. He says he is “just a Christian” who attends a Baptist Church in Phoenix.
I would suggest, if you can, to pick up this issue of Christianity Today it has a very good write up on both Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama. Once again, like here at KKIM/DDC I suggest getting your news from a Christian source. Not the secular media.
The article brings out a lot of points about both candidates that have been lost in the secular media. I really think the best debate or conversation the candidates have had thus far is the event that was held at Rick Warren’s Church.
There is so much hate and anger going on with this election. We need to remember to put our faith in our Lord.
We will have tonight’s debate on KKIM at 7pm and then afterward post debate coverage with IRN/USA Radio network news.
Check out www.christianitytoday.com By the way this magazine was started by Billy Graham. Don’t you wish you could sit down and have a cup of coffee with Billy? You can wish him a Happy 90th Birthday by going to www.mykkim.com and clicking on the Billy Graham banner.
Kids’ poll predicts president: Every four years, the Scholastic presidential poll asks kids to vote. For the past 40 years, the result has been correct. This election the Scholastic Poll predicts a huge victory for Sen. Obama.
What do all those pictures tell us that appear on tv and in the newspaper of all those folks on Wall Street who are either looking so sad……….or so happy as they watch the rise and fall if the market?
I would love to wake up some day and see pictures of folks on tv and in the newspaper smiling and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Gilbert Larson is on live today on KKIM at 2:30 discussing the book of Job………….”Thinking Outside The Box”
Let’s get to our prayer needs from Dorothy and Amy…………
Hello from Sidney, Montana! Yes, we did have all that snow but we are Montanans so we can handle it, but it could have waited a couple months. I have a couple of prayer requests. My brother-in-law, Jim Paladichuk in Beaverton, OR, is on hospice. He has emphysema and not doing well so we are asking for God’s peace for him and his family. Jim’s wife, Gloria, has a sister, Clara Miller in Spokane, who is dying of cancer so the family has a lot on their plate right now. Gloria would love to see her sister one more time but does not want to leave Jim even though Brian, their son, took a week off of work to help with his Dad. We know God never gives us more than we can handle but they really need our prayers to help get them through all of this.
I continue to read your emails and enjoy them so much. Thank you. And thanks for the prayers for Jim and Clara and their families.
God bless.
Dorothy Paladichuk
Thank you Dorothy….we are praying…I would love to come back to Sidney soon and share the Good News of Jesus Christ with all! I remember you and your wonderful family!
Hi Dewey!
I am reading about the snow, and saw that you wanted to know when we get our first snow. Unfortunately, our last snow where I live was about 35 years ago! I live in Pasadena California, and every now and again, I do wish it would snow here! Instead I need to go traveling for my snow fix. Fortunately we are in the foothills, and snow is just about 45 minutes away when it comes.
I just wanted to give an update on my Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Once again, I so appreciate the prayers that are being sent out for me, and I’d like to ask that they continue, as they are working!
My insurance and employment situation is being worked out as we speak. In the school district I work for it could take up to ten weeks to know for sure, but my insurance continues until there is resolution. Fortunately my husband’s union has come through with insurance for him, and I will not even have to change doctors. That will take a week or two more to get me on the policy, but I am so grateful! My problems with the portacath (used to inject chemo) have pretty much been resolved. The new one is in place, we’re watching the old site for infection (please pray for the clean healing of all my little pokes and cuts!) but things are looking good.
Last report from the doctor on the scans I have done to check the progress of the cancer is good. There is still a small amount in my bones, but each time they scan there is less and less, and the bones are healing quickly and surely. The doctor says that is good news because it means that there is less room for the leftover cancer cells to reside. Hurray God! I still have 4 more months of chemo to go, and am a bit worried about going back to work before the chemo is done. I work with kindergarteners, the best job in the world, but unfortunately to someone on chemo a kinder classroom can be a toxic environment (sniffles, coughs, and working parents sending their kids to school sick because they can’t stay home from work….) please keep me in your prayers for God’s protection and intervention to protect me from illness, however that may work out!
Thank you so very much for prayers and support. Once again, you are all an important part of my healing team, and I pray that God bless and protect all of you, keeping you healthy and strong and walking in His path!
Amy Schultz, teacher in California battling Inflammatory Breast Cancer
We have been and will always pray for you Amy!
Monday I got a phone call from my dear friend Doug Scarbrough of Family Life Today as he was getting ready to travel here to the Duke City and begin plans for “Weekend To Remember” We had set a meeting up for next week. His office called yesterday and said that he was in the Hospital with an irregular heart beat. And his Dad was in the hospital with the same thing! Please keep Doug and his Dad in your prayers.
Let’s get to the mailbag and see what we have in it! I LOVE MAIL!!!!
Hey Dewey,
I thought you might enjoy this story. It’s great. So, take a moment to read it and it will make your day! The ending will surprise you…..
Your Friend,
John Jelso
My Son, please take my Son.
A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art.
When the Vietnam conflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son.
About a month later, just before Christmas, there was a knock at the door. A young man stood at the door with a large package in his hands.
He said, ‘Sir, you don’t know me, but I am the soldier for whom your son gave his life. He saved many lives that day, and he was carrying me to safety when a bullet struck him in the heart and he died instantly. He often talked about you, and your love for art.’ The young man held out this package. ‘I know this isn’t much. I’m not really a great artist, but I think your son would have wanted you to have this.’
The father opened the package. It was a portrait of his son, painted by the young man. He stared in awe at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was so drawn to the eyes that his own eyes welled up with tears. He thanked the young man and offered to pay him for the picture. ‘Oh, no sir, I could never repay what your son did for me. It’s a gift.’
The father hung the portrait over his mantle. Every time visitors came to his home he took them to see the portrait of his son before he showed them any of the other great works he had collected.
The man died a few months later. There was to be a great auction of his paintings Many influential people gathered, ex cited over seeing the great paintings and having an opportunity to purchase one for their collection.
On the platform sat the painting of the son The auctioneer pounded his gavel. ‘We will start the bidding with this picture of the son. Who will bid for this picture?’
There was silence.
Then a voice in the back of the room shouted, ‘We want to see the famous paintings. Skip this one.’
But the auctioneer persisted. ‘Will somebody bid for this painting. Who will start the bidding? $100, $200?’.
Another voice angrily, ‘We didn’t come here to see this painting. We came to see the Van Gogh’s, the Rembrandt’s. Get on with the real bids!’
But still the auctioneer continued. ‘The son! The son! Who’ll take the son?’
Finally, a voice came from the very back of the room. It was the longtime gardener of the man and his son. ‘I’ll give $10 for the painting.’ Being a poor man, it was all he could afford.
‘We have $10, who will bid $20?’
‘Give it to him for $10. Let’s see the masters.’
‘$10 is the bid, won’t someone bid $20?’
The crowd was becoming angry. They didn’t want the picture of the son.
They wanted the more worthy investments for their collections.
The auctioneer pounded the gavel. ‘Going once, twice, SOLD for $10!’
A man sitting on the second row shouted, ‘Now let’s get on with the collection!’
The auctioneer laid down his gavel. ‘I’m sorry, the auction is over.’
‘What about the paintings?’
‘I am sorry. When I was called to conduct this auction, I was told of a secret stipulation in the will. I was not allowed to reveal that stipulation until this time. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever bought that painting would inherit the entire estate, including the paintings.
The man who took the son gets everything!’
God gave His son 2,000 years ago to die on the cross. Much like the auctioneer, His message today is: ‘The son, the son, who’ll take the son?’
Because, you see, whoever takes the Son gets everything.
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHO SO EVER BELIEVETH, SHALL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE…THAT’S LOVE
God Bless.
Thanks John!
Hi Dewey: No snow yet in Sioux Falls, SD. Supposed to be a high of 53 tomorrow. I’m just wondering about future baseball seasons if the world series will be snowed out when played in Minnesota. Pray for your ministry often.
Take care and God Bless,
Paul Dokken—–
Good to hear from you Paul!
My husband works in Bend , OR , and they have snow there! Guess winter’s on its way!
Thanks,
Ellie
Stay warm Ellie!
Four inches Saturday night, in Helena, all melted now…
Civil Emergency in Billings after repeated power failures.
–Jay in Helena, Montana
Jay and I used to do ball games together in LaPorte, Indiana at WCOE Radio!
Now Nik has some great things to share with us……………..
“I count all things but loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.”
— Philippians 3:8
Spiritual knowledge of Christ will be a personal knowledge. I cannot
know Jesus through another person’s acquaintance with him. No, I must
know him myself; I must know him on my own account. It will be an
intelligent knowledge-I must know him, not as the visionary dreams of
him, but as the Word reveals him. I must know his natures, divine and
human. I must know his offices-his attributes-his works-his shame-his
glory. I must meditate upon him until I “comprehend with all saints
what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and know the
love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.”
It will be an affectionate knowledge of him; indeed, if I know him at all, I must love him.
An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning. Our knowledge
of him will be a satisfying knowledge. When I know my Saviour, my mind
will be full to the brim-I shall feel that I have that which my spirit
panted after. “This is that bread whereof if a man eat he shall never
hunger.”
At the same time it will be an exciting knowledge; the more I
know of my Beloved, the more I shall want to know. The higher I climb
the loftier will be the summits which invite my eager footsteps. I
shall want the more as I get the more. Like the miser’s treasure, my
gold will make me covet more. To conclude; this knowledge of Christ
Jesus will be a most happy one; in fact, so elevating, that sometimes
it will completely bear me up above all trials, and doubts, and
sorrows; and it will, while I enjoy it, make me something more than
“Man that is born of woman, who is of few days, and full of trouble”;
for it will fling about me the immortality of the ever living Saviour,
and gird me with the golden girdle of his eternal joy. Come, my soul,
sit at Jesus’s feet and learn of him all this day.
Tell Them
“I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ.” 1 CORINTHIANS 9:22 TLB
Josh McDowell writes “An executive ‘head hunter’ who goes out and hires corporate executives for other firms once told me, ‘When I get an executive I’m trying to hire for someone else, I like to disarm him. I offer him a drink, take my coat off, then my vest, undo my tie, throw up my feet and talk about baseball, football, family, whatever, until he’s all relaxed. Then when I think I’ve got him relaxed I lean over, look him square in the eye and say – what’s the purpose in your life?’ It’s amazing how top executives fall apart on that question.’ Well, I was interviewing this fellow the other day, had him all disarmed with my feet up on my desk talking about football. Then I leaned over and said – what’s the purpose in your life, Bob? Without blinking an eye he said ‘To go to heaven and take as many people with me as I can.’ For the first time in my career I was speechless.”
There are basically five reasons why we don’t share our faith more often, and not one of them will hold up when we stand before Christ:
(1) We think it’s the preacher’s job.
(2) We aren’t sure of our salvation.
(3) We fear being rejected.
(4) We’ve never taken responsibility for learning how.
(5) Our love for Christ has grown cold.
But not Paul: he said, “Whatever a person is like, I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ and let Christ save him.”
Can you say that?
Araceli sent this in for us to enjoy……….
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WASH DAY!!!
Wash Day………..
Now, this is really a cute one. . … .and
I’ve not seen it before, either!! That is
Getting to be a rarity!!!
Monday Wash Day
Lord, help me wash away all my selfishness and
Vanity, so I may serve you with perfect humility
Through the week ahead.
Tuesday Ironing Day
Dear Lord, help me iron out all the wrinkles
Of prejudice I have collected through the years
So that I may see the beauty in others.
Wednesday Mending Day
O God, help me mend my ways so I will not
Set a bad example for others.
Thursday Cleaning Day
Lord Jesus, help me to dust out all the many faults
I have been hiding in the secret corners of my heart.
Friday Shopping Day
O God, give me the grace to shop wisely so I may purchase eternal happiness for myself and all others
In need of love.
Saturday Cooking Day
Help me, my Savior, to brew a big kettle of brotherly
Love and serve it with clean, sweet b read of human kindness.
Sunday The Lord’s Day
O God, I have prepared my house for you. Please
Come into my heart so I may spend the day and the
Rest of my life in your presence.
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If this message has inspired you in any way or
You feel that it can brighten someone else’s day, please forward it.
‘Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you
Meet is fighting some kind of battle.’
God Bless you all, Dewey Sharon and family
www.deweysdailycup.com
www.mykkim.com
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