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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
A few weeks ago my wife and I went on an Alaska cruise. A wonderful experience. We had great weather, panned for gold, saw whales, took lots of pictures and ate all the food we wanted anytime we wanted.
Aboard the ship there were people from many parts of the world. ...
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
My mother, retired missionary Ruby Wilkie, called me last night from her home near Seattle. “We set a record,” she said. “Today is the 30th day it hasn’t rained in Seattle.” Because of the drought Mom is having to water almost daily her beautiful flower garden. The rain barrel is ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Today marks the first 100 days of the presidency of Barack Obama. Traditionally, as with any new president, this becomes a time to evaluate how he is doing. Some will like his actions and give him rave reviews. His critics will point out his faults.
Many of us in our jobs ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Recently stories have come to me from pastors excited about how missions has transformed their churches and church members.
God’s heart is missions. Jesse Moon wrote in the book Power Encounter: “The fact that the Lord's Commission was recorded in all four gospel accounts and in the book of Acts should ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
I’m working on an article now for the Web site about a missions team that went overseas last fall. As I listened to these team members discuss their experiences, both from the pulpit, and in conversation, I could see this trip had changed their lives. They were glad they had ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
In 1976 someone gave me a ticket to attend the first NFL football game the Seattle Seahawks ever played. Being from the Northwest, I have been a Seahawks fan ever since.
After we moved to Springfield, Missouri, I took my children, Matt and Debbie, to Kansas City two or three times ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
My mother, retired missionary Ruby Wilkie, is visiting with us for the holidays from her home near Seattle.
She is active in her local church leading a women’s Bible study and working in other ways. For the past 13 years she has volunteered at her local public elementary school assisting the ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
In my parents’ early days on the mission field, my father, Earl Wilkie, sometimes rode on horseback in his travels around El Salvador. He preached to one group of people at a time. He taught in Bible schools with mimeographed notes and few or no textbooks. He wrote his missionary ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
When I lived as a young boy on the mission field in Bolivia, South America, we often traveled around the country. Many roads back then had no bridges and we had to ford the rivers in our Dodge Power Wagon. Other roads had bridges, some good and some not-so-good.
We were ...
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