tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post6196008814716320657..comments2024-03-28T11:32:15.421-05:00Comments on <center>Istoria Ministries Article Archive</center>: God Sent Forth His Son in Love for Kevin TaylorWade Burlesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01968442835088008681noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-61076005836548088062019-01-01T11:54:28.133-06:002019-01-01T11:54:28.133-06:00 CHRISTIANE,
I’d like to start the New Year by wr... CHRISTIANE,<br /><br />I’d like to start the New Year by writing you about my twin brother. You said, “God bless your brother for speaking truth to power.”<br /><br />He did tell a lady judge, “Since it’s against the law to curse in a courtroom, I’m placing you under ‘Citizen’s arrest”. You may feel sorry for her because sometimes people get so angry they do stupid things. <br /><br />His third grade teacher was heard saying, “I’m going to break that Hez Ray’s will if it’s the last thing I do.” His fifth grade teacher told him, “If you saw a sign that pointed south, and you thought it should be north, you’d argue with that sign all day.”<br /><br />When they started their honeymoon, I told his wife, “If you don’t know how to whistle, you’d better learn because that’s the only way he’ll stop arguing.” The next time I saw her, she said, “I see what you mean about whistling.” <br /><br />Not many years ago, someone gave him a T-shirt that said, “I’m not arguing with you, I’m just telling you why you’re wrong.” <br /><br />Two events shaped his opinion about the law that puts a person in jail immediately if they’re caught with an unpaid speeding ticket.<br /><br />ONE<br />I never heard that he got a speeding ticket while driving my car. He didn’t pay because he thought the owner had to pay. (Duh) Hez stopped in the school parking lot where he was teaching. A policeman had followed him thinking his truck was on fire because it smoked so bad. After checking his driver’s license, he put Hez in handcuffs in front of some students.<br /><br />TWO<br />Hez read a note saying their daughter, Diane, was in jail. She had gotten a ticket but went to Korea the next week without paying. Later, she was stopped in her sister’s car that was out of inspection. His wife, Bev, had paid the fine but a DUMB Sargent was keeping her locked up because he had found pills he suspected was illegal drugs. Bev explained the pills were from a doctor, but he wouldn’t call the doctor; “We have the right to hold a person three days.” When Hez arrived, he heard Diane crying. After he was denied permission to talk to her, he said, “Our daughter has cancer and I want you to know I’m not attacking anyone but I’m going to talk with her.” He did a dive through the window where you pay fines. There was such a commotion, a Captain came. He called the doctor and Diane was released. <br /><br />Now, back to the lady judge. Hez’s son, Hezie, got a speeding ticket and was to pay in a week. But Hez sent him to New York on a big paying job and told him he would pay the ticket, but they told him his son had to pay. Hez worried about his son being arrested in New York. Hezie got back and they went to pay the ticket. The judge told Hezie to write a check for $100. Hez asked the judge if his son had been stopped in New York about something would he have gone to jail because of this ticket. She said, “That’s right.”<br /><br />Without bad words, Hez has a vocabulary of unflattering words a mile long. He told her how that law was wrong. She said, “Change that check to $200.”<br /><br />“YOU CAN’T MAKE MY SON PAY MORE BECAUSE YOU’RE ANGRY WITH ME!” (And a hundred more words.) That’s when the judge broke one of the Ten Commandments and heard the ‘citizen’s arrest thing’. She flew out of the courtroom in a business suit, but came back with her royal robe on saying, “Make that check for $100, I’m sorry I used profanity, this case is dismissed.”<br />Rex Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06976501582240117188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-504327399007135432018-12-31T14:18:10.239-06:002018-12-31T14:18:10.239-06:00Hey to REX RAY,
God Bless your brother for speakin...Hey to REX RAY,<br />God Bless your brother for speaking truth to power . . . <br /><br />I am hopeful that the Coast Guard may be spared the 'punishment' decreed from on high, where the 'leader' has claimed this:<br /><br />" Do the Dems realize that most of the people not getting paid are Democrats?"<br />(tweet dated Dec. 27th)<br /><br />It seems that maybe the 'commander-in-chief' of the USCG has determined for them to work without pay until he gets what he wants from 'Democrats'. But the US Coast Guard is NOT a political entity, no. And it serves the security of the nation at great risk to its personnel, so I would ask for the Coast Guard to be exempt from this terrible deprivation as these young men and women who are serving also have families to support and their moral needs to be sustained so that what will harm their own families does not impede that high morale which comes to the aid of our people when needed. <br /><br />I hope right will be done for our Coasties, goodness knows they are there for US twenty-four/seven in all seasons and all conditions. The administration must do what is right for the sake of those who serve the nation's security. If it fails them, it fails the nation.Christianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15969310497166526545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-38675797986060722052018-12-31T09:23:03.656-06:002018-12-31T09:23:03.656-06:00CHRISTIANE,
Yes, those not being paid during the ...CHRISTIANE,<br /><br />Yes, those not being paid during the Government shutdown need help, but more than that under the old moto “Those that don’t work, don’t eat”, the American people need to make a law for the ‘law-makers’ to follow; “Those that don’t work, don’t get paid!”<br /><br />If my brother, in a courtroom, with the threat of making a ‘citizen’s arrest’ on the judge for cursing cause the judge to apologize, then the American people can tell Congress to get back to work. <br />Rex Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06976501582240117188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-65281284047687563582018-12-27T13:48:44.059-06:002018-12-27T13:48:44.059-06:00PLEASE: a need for prayer
my son and the young m...PLEASE: a need for prayer<br /><br />my son and the young men and women of the US Coast Guard are going unpaid during the current government crisis, and many of them may not get access to loans until they receive back-pay is my understanding. . . . . these are good people who serve our country with their whole hearts and deserve our support, and our prayers<br /><br />fortunately my son has access to family money, so he will be covered, but some of his friends are going to suffer from this crisis as they are in debt and burdened with many obligations and living from pay check to pay check, being young and all, but I'm sure they never saw this coming as they are serving military (but listed under Nielsen's department) <br /><br />please pray for good to come, for ALL of our citizens who are being affected by this crisis, as they have families to care for and obligations to meet and medical needs also;<br /><br />and thank you all so much for your good help . . . God Bless!<br /><br />Christianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15969310497166526545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-59007208053521826742018-12-26T07:11:36.291-06:002018-12-26T07:11:36.291-06:00Wow - Rex.
That story of the FMB reminds me of a ...Wow - Rex.<br /><br />That story of the FMB reminds me of a young man who tried to kill a woman in Gulf Shores, Florida to take over her insurance business. That young man embezzled from the IMB, and was released, but never prosecuted. Ugh.Wade Burlesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01968442835088008681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-39757070467081372942018-12-26T06:47:40.782-06:002018-12-26T06:47:40.782-06:00HOW ABOUT?
Making stain-glass pictures of Jesus a...HOW ABOUT?<br /><br />Making stain-glass pictures of Jesus and placing them over a ‘disgraced’ and a ‘pedophile’ in the chapel of SWBTS? <br />Rex Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06976501582240117188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-15384417722231946222018-12-26T06:22:37.028-06:002018-12-26T06:22:37.028-06:00Wade,
I found out since my uncle’s book has a cop...Wade,<br /><br />I found out since my uncle’s book has a copyright, I can’t write it and have it published. I hear the best way to get one is Amonzion.com. <br /><br />Before Rex became a missionary, he ran a lumberyard…keeping ‘proper books’ was important. <br /><br />Not in his book is his conflict with the ‘head missionary’ of a Baptist hospital. <br /><br />“Who do you hire to check the books?”<br />“We don’t waist the Lord’s money! We keep our own books!”<br /><br />Rex paid a Pinkerton detective to follow the ‘head missionary’. The detective located a warehouse full of hospital equipment such as x-ray machines. (The ‘head missionary had ordered two of everything and had one put in his warehouse.)<br /><br />The ‘head missionary’ was to retire that year, and he did. He had planned to start his own hospital in America. <br /><br />Rex reported to the Baptist Foreign Mission Board, and they recovered all the ‘stolen hospital equipment. <br /><br />Due to the guy having friends in high places, and giving Baptist a ‘black eye’, the Board did not prosecute but let him retire peacefully. <br /><br />Wade, in some ways, who does this remind you of? :)<br />Rex Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06976501582240117188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-19261321811079103742018-12-25T16:33:10.087-06:002018-12-25T16:33:10.087-06:00Thanks for posting an encouraging story of Mr Tayl...Thanks for posting an encouraging story of Mr Taylor's hope in Jesus. <br /><br />My mom was diagnosed back in Jan 2018 with a glioblastoma and died this past October. Her neurosurgeon said 'bad luck' was the cause, but she was a die hard phone user - both cordless and cell. Hordes of scientists from around the world are finding that the microwaves in these devices are attributing to cancer in our bodies, especially children.<br /><br />Check out EMFscientist.org Also, someone that did her homework weighing and sorting through much of the conflicting advice out there: <br /><br />https://youtu.be/F9bdU_uw2Dc<br /><br />KenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-46119313434319930342018-12-25T08:11:04.805-06:002018-12-25T08:11:04.805-06:00May the Blessed Peace of Christ come to all this C...May the Blessed Peace of Christ come to all this Christmas Day. <br /><br />Christianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15969310497166526545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-23144813569589935472018-12-25T08:03:28.584-06:002018-12-25T08:03:28.584-06:00Thanks for sharing! Merry Christmas all!Thanks for sharing! Merry Christmas all!Rileydogbarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602917011706922467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-3027021434111312102018-12-25T06:40:07.299-06:002018-12-25T06:40:07.299-06:00I forgot to say, "MERRY CHRISTMAS"I forgot to say, "MERRY CHRISTMAS"Rex Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06976501582240117188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-43499830569517031622018-12-25T06:37:13.360-06:002018-12-25T06:37:13.360-06:00Wade,
The back of his book reads in part: “Captur...Wade,<br /><br />The back of his book reads in part: “Captured by pirates! Running the Japanese blockade! Escape from China through Communist lines!...30 years in China…6 years in Korea…”<br /><br />Once he complained he was not a doctor when told to care for a dying woman. (If she died in her house, they believed it had to be burned to rid evil spirts so she had been taken outside.) His tent was ready to start a revival the next morning. He was told to leave if he didn’t care for her. That night he prayed and gave her all the medicine he had which was ‘milk of magnesia’. She began to feel better immediately since she was sick from a bad case of indigestion. It was a great revival.<br /><br />Wade, I’ll bet you’ve never had a revival interrupted by a squealing hog and a screaming woman. A large hog came into the tent and had squeezed under a woman’s chair and was running around with her on his back.<br />Rex Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06976501582240117188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-42932444226284396992018-12-24T21:51:04.625-06:002018-12-24T21:51:04.625-06:00Wow, Rex - I’d love for you to finish and have it ...Wow, Rex - I’d love for you to finish and have it reprinted. <br /><br />Merry Christmas to you and yours!Wade Burlesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01968442835088008681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-61496852886586781692018-12-24T20:42:25.657-06:002018-12-24T20:42:25.657-06:00Wade,
Today I started to write a copy of my uncle...Wade,<br /><br />Today I started to write a copy of my uncle’s book, “Rex Ray- Cowboy Missionary in Kwangsi”, and have it reprinted. It was written by his daughter from many pages he had written. The small book has 123 pages that are 3 ¾ by 6 ½ inches. The Mission Board made him retire after 50 years of service.<br /><br />It may have been a mistake to read the last chapter first as I had tears down my face. <br /><br />His oldest son reenlisted after nine years and being in two wars. The next day after his son’s birthday, he thought a telegram came from him. But it told his son was walking on the side of the road and was killed by a car.<br /><br />“Why, Lord, would it happen now? But then your Son was a young man too, at the prime of life. Help us, O Lord, to understand and to accept. Help us to see beyond these human tears of tragedy that “death is swallowed up in victory. Give us the grace to bear it and the vision to see thy purpose in it all. May thy Spirit guide us through this “valley of the shadow” and use our sorrow to thy glory.”<br /><br />Within three weeks of his sons funeral, acute leukemia caused my uncle to join his son with our heavenly Father.<br />Rex Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06976501582240117188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-56741864128163175572018-12-24T17:18:17.211-06:002018-12-24T17:18:17.211-06:00Thanks, Tom, for spotting the typo. It's corre...Thanks, Tom, for spotting the typo. It's corrected. Merry Christmas to you and yours.Wade Burlesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01968442835088008681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-12734613160198007232018-12-24T17:07:29.687-06:002018-12-24T17:07:29.687-06:00Clif,
Colby told me he really enjoyed working wit...Clif,<br /><br />Colby told me he really enjoyed working with you and others in Houston. Appreciate your thoughtfulness and prayers on the Taylors behalf. Wade Burlesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01968442835088008681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-16809527627539844992018-12-24T15:29:58.202-06:002018-12-24T15:29:58.202-06:00Wade - I had the honor of serving alongside Colby ...Wade - I had the honor of serving alongside Colby for a brief time at Sugar Creek. He and his wife are genuine and grace full worship leaders. <br />I will be praying for Colby, his family and for you as you share the message of God’s Grace coming through Christ at Emmanuel today. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01636407593845618145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-22946205415341887972018-12-24T15:23:21.663-06:002018-12-24T15:23:21.663-06:00Thank you, Christiane and Bob,
Wishing both of yo...Thank you, Christiane and Bob,<br /><br />Wishing both of you and your respective families a Merry Christmas!Wade Burlesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01968442835088008681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-60809946263173535472018-12-24T14:26:57.734-06:002018-12-24T14:26:57.734-06:00Wow! Such a confluence of God's power. I just ...Wow! Such a confluence of God's power. I just blogged about planting and watering and how God promises growth. And how occasionally He lifts the veil and shows us what He's done with what we did.<br /><br />Wow. Just wow. On sooo many levels ....Bob Clevelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06110395869562328309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19615457.post-2159192964444272472018-12-24T13:33:56.196-06:002018-12-24T13:33:56.196-06:00Hello Wade,
My condolences for the loss of your fr...Hello Wade,<br />My condolences for the loss of your friend. He died at peace with God. May Our Saving Lord receive him into paradise.<br />I will pray for his family when I light our Christmas Eve vigil candle tonight. <br />God Bless!<br /><br /><br />Christianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15969310497166526545noreply@blogger.com