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The Last Call | Episode #355 | Encore Episode #026 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's work with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and stores, along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that He has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. In Lamentations,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, verses twenty two and twenty three, we read,
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  Speaker 1: because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed,
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  Speaker 1: for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Great is your faithfulness. Now, if you miss a portion
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  Speaker 1: of today's broadcast or would like to recommend it to
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  Speaker 1: a friend, you can hear this program anytime online at
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  Speaker 1: Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: How the Mighty have Fallen? Tewod Samuel one twenty seven,
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  Speaker 2: reading a message from our Daily Bread entitled the Last Call.
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  Speaker 2: As we prepare for the Memorial Day weekend, this gives
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  Speaker 2: us a little bit of a means of being able
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  Speaker 2: to see the meaning and preparation for Memorial Day. What
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  Speaker 2: we want to do is to look at this particular
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  Speaker 2: account written by Tim Gustavson. He entitled it The Last Call.
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  Speaker 2: After serving his country for two decades as a helicopter pilot,
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  Speaker 2: James returned home to serve his community as a teacher.
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  Speaker 2: But he missed helicopters, so he took a job flying
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  Speaker 2: medical evacuations for a local hospital. He flew until late
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  Speaker 2: in his life. Now it was time to say goodbye
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  Speaker 2: to him. As friend's family and uniformed co workers stood
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  Speaker 2: vigil at the cemetery, a colleague called in one last
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  Speaker 2: mission over the radio. Soon the distinctive sound of roots
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  Speaker 2: beating the heir could be heard. A helicopter circled over
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  Speaker 2: the memorial garden, hovered briefly to pay its respects, then
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  Speaker 2: headed back to the hospital. Not even the military personnel
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  Speaker 2: who were present could hold back their tears. When King
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  Speaker 2: Saul and his son Jonathan were killed in battle, David
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  Speaker 2: wrote an elegy for the ages called the Lament of
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  Speaker 2: the Boat. A gazelle lies slain on your heights, He sang,
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  Speaker 2: how the mighty have fallen? Jonathan was David's closest friend
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  Speaker 2: and brother in arms, and although David and Saul had
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  Speaker 2: been enemies, David honored them both. Weep for Saul, he wrote,
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  Speaker 2: I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you've just joined us, you've been looking listening
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  Speaker 1: to Reflections on the Word with Richard K. You can
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  Speaker 1: hear this message in its entirety again online as well
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  Speaker 1: as Richard's entire archive at Talknetwork Radio dot com. We
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  Speaker 1: would like to acknowledge our theme song, how Great Is
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  Speaker 1: Thy Faithfulness from the America's twenty five Favorite Hymns Album,
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  Speaker 1: unless otherwise. Express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian
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  Speaker 1: Standard Bible, which is published by Homann Bible Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Additional resources used for Reflections on the Word with Richard
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  Speaker 1: K include Great Is Thy Faithfulness by Our Daily Bread
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  Speaker 1: and printed by Discovery House Publishers. Again, here is Richard
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: Even the best goodbyes are oh so difficult, But for
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  Speaker 2: those who trust in the Lord, the memory is much
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  Speaker 2: more sweet than bitter, for it is never forever. How
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  Speaker 2: good it is when we can honor those who have
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  Speaker 2: served others. Lord, we thank you for those who served
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  Speaker 2: their communities as first responders. We humbly ask you for
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  Speaker 2: their safety. We honor the Creator when we honor the
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  Speaker 2: memory of his creatures. And that is today's Reflection on
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  Speaker 2: the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. For Richard and the entire team, this is
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition Reflections
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  Speaker 1: on the Word.