>Check off the Bucket List

>Greetings from Crescent Lake Bible Camp in Rhinelander, Wisconsin! Speaking here for two weeks; my favorite camp as far as beauty and so forth goes; and today was a “first”. Yesterday daughter Janelle went waterskiing for the first time…and did well. Son Jacob decided he had to try; and he and Jane thought it would be jolly good if good old Dad would follow their example…so I did! Alas we weren’t there when Janelle went, but Mom got Jacob and me! What a blast! Thanks to Dale and Desi for helping us…and, more importantly, for ministering grace throughout the year as missionaries serving with Crescent Lake:

 

>Suffering for Jesus?

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Yeah, right. I have spent over three years of my life (somewhere around 180-190 weeks) speaking at teen camps; I love and am appreciative of the opportunity to teach/preach; am amazed I get to do it; but I also love just hanging out with the students.

During last week’s camp we had a water fight…and the director announced, “5 points if you hit someone, and 10 points if you hit Jack!!!!”

So, yeah, I got a bit wet! And, now that I’m at Crescent Lake Bible Camp in Rhinelander, Wi we are just about to go out to the athletic fields for water wars…methinks I’ll get wet again!

>What the Body Needs

>So true so many decades ago when Bounds wrote this; but so desparately true, and so incredibly needed, today:

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Spirit can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men — men of prayer.

Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds