The Doug Kenline Newsletter

I would lease a little retail office space in a little strip mall in a fairly populated area where there's a bus stop and lots of people who take the bus and a few panhandlers and no-account drifters hanging around along with a hustle and bustle of working stiffs buzzing around going in and out of the grocery store and the sandwich shops.  I would hang up a sign that says Jesus Name Help Center and another sign that says welcome.  When the first person walks through the door I would say hello welcome please turn that sign around so it says helping someone please wait until this person leaves before coming in. Then I would have the person sit down in a nice comfortable chair and offer them a hot coffee or a cold drink and something to eat.  Then I would listen to their tale of woe.  At that point I would recommend the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace program and try to help them with their budgeting and saving and recommend that they try to work on a plan to improve their ...

I  don't know if John Bunyan played chess or not.  But he did have a dream.  And his dream was about Jesus Christ and getting to heaven.  Good book so far.  Printed in Philadelphia in 1878 by the publisher who started the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper.  Harding I think was his name.  Second most read book in human history next to the bible.  Recommended by Pastor Tony Spell.  I'm also plowing through the book of Numbers while listening to Pastor Murray cover the chapters on audio to help to soften up the ground. So in business you have to outwork your opponent.  It's pretty plain and simple.  You work so hard the competition falls by the wayside.  Now you just have to decide what game you want to play.  If you choose to play chess you will have some serious competition.  But I like the masters who say they never play to win but only to learn.  If they win that is nice but to learn and become better is the way t...

Merle Haggard's train finally came in and it has left the station.  Mine's due to arrive in twenty to thirty years if I'm lucky and possibly two and half weeks if I were to have a stroke tomorrow but odds are and if I were a betting man I would say I've got a good ten years of writing left in me.  If I write something every day for the next ten years I win the bet.  It's not love, but it's not bad. Reading John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.  Incredible read.  And such a joy to be holding an 1878 copy of his great works.  Somebody wrote in handwriting on the inside cover a gift from so and so and then wrote the date, 1878.  Over 100 years ago a man wrote on the inside cover of the book that I am reading today in 2023.  I suppose this would seem like a far off land to that man.  I like going back in time with a book like that.  And there may be not other book like that one. For one thing it is they say the second most read book in the h...

That's what we should all be doing.  Doing God's work.  Am I doing God's work?  Pastor Murray says you better hope so or you can forget about having any success.  So I guess it comes down to how he calls you.  If he calls a man to be a Lutheran preacher then God bless him.  And then you come to the church splits.  And schisms.  But this is what the devil wants.  The old deceiver. But Pastor Murray says to keep your chin up and keep punchin' through it all.  I like all the preachers who are preaching the good word.  Bring somebody to Jesus and then let the rest between Jesus and him.   Looks like we're heading in to World War III The Big One.  Archie Bunker used to call WW II the big one.  He may not have seen anything.  But he'll be coming back with Jesus.  I think Archie made it through.  We sure know Edith did.  Pastor Murray says if you believe in God and put in the work, God will supply th...

Pastor Murray says you are never wasting your time when you are reading and studying the bible.  Probably everything else is  a waste of time.  But the bible says you have to be a doer as well as a hearer.  So I will do this blog and mention the name of Jesus every time I get a chance.  Pastor Spell says lead, follow, or get out of the way. Could you imagine waking up one morning and whoever you are following had no word for you.  Well it seems that Bob Schulz has no word this morning for anybody who is following him today.  I'll bet you a hundred dollars that Coach Prime has a word for his players today.  It's not going to be easy playing against Nebraska, TCU, CSU, and the other boys who like to play football too. That's the great thing about the game of football.  The competition.  Small business and big business and government and even preaching comes down to competition.  Seems like the boys from back east are going after the o...

God is not the author of confusion, but of peace of mind.  Peace of mind and joy of heart.  If you  have these along with food  clothing and shelter and especially because I  know of no other existence if you are living in the united States  of America and I  would say if you are white although Coach Prime has a lot more money than I  do not to say he didn't work hard for it and overcome through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Paul would always start out his letters with something like Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God.  Could you imagine your words inspiring young and old alike, two thousand years later, black and white alike, and let's not forget the latinos and the asians.  If war is to come, let it be in my time.  But war in 2023 might look a  little bit different than war in 1917 or 1864.  In fact we are at war here in 2023.  The main  weapon is the propaganda mach...

It seems to me that any good leader would post a daily report for anybody who is following him.  General Lee for example.  Imagine if he were alive today and we were in the middle of a civil war.  Every single living soul in the Confederacy would want to immediately know what General Lee was thinking the first thing in the morning when they wake up. Look at America or anywhere in the world for that matter.  People work all day, or most of them do, and it seems to be getting less and less all the time as we move towards socialistic and communistic babylonian captivity for not repenting of our sins, and I am a good case in point of that and I thank God for all of my blessings today, but people work all day until they are tired and then they go to sleep.  They sleep for eight hours and then they wake up to go back to work.   Now during the course of this eight hours, things happen.  And the first thing the man wants to know is what happened while I w...