Early one beautiful winter morning in the mountains of southwestern Montana, I woke up to 10 inches of fresh snow and 3°F. A teenager, I was getting ready for school when I got a call from my friend Butch’s mom. It was a brief call. She sorrowfully t...
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I was 19 years old, working in a sawmill in Philipsburg, Montana. I had been in the mill since I was 15 and had constant reminders that it was very hard labor! Many times I saw newly hired men walk off the job after a few hours saying, no one works t...
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The blessings of serving shoulder to shoulder with CBM missionaries are wonderful and rewarding. Terri and I are consciously aware as we serve as president and wife that missionaries contribute significantly to our satisfaction in the ministry. S...
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The easiest answer is, I really don’t know and I can’t imagine having much of a conversation concerning the topic. But then I have to admit that my dreams have affected me on a couple of occasions—once while building our Triple Creek Cabin, I n...
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Recently, while in one of our supporting churches, I dug in my pocket as the Sunday School offering plate was being passed. I pulled out my money clip, looked, and whispered to the man next to me, “I don’t even have a dollar.” He was an old frien...
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Our family has been blessed with many occasions to travel as we’ve served the Lord. I know many, if not all of you, have had abundant experiences with people and places you would not have opportunity if you weren’t in the ministry. Our kids enjoyed t...
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Bill here—Tim and I go all the way back to our church plant in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. I have fond memories of calling on Tim and PJ in Bradenton as a newly married couple in their first apartment. They wouldn’t mind me telling you that they w...
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Last month we looked at two great qualities of authentic faith listed in Ephesians 4:1-3: lowliness and meekness. We concluded that we can only experience these victorious evidences when we are God-controlled. This dependence will apply as we study o...
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"I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, With all lowliness and meekness. . ." (Eph. 4:1-2). From my earliest days as a believer I accepted—by faith—that the Bible i...
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