Fellowship of Christian Auctioneers International

08/21/2025

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Please pray for Don Bourk's family. We saw this post on facebook. If anyone has any other information on where to send cards, please let me know.

Just received word that Hall of Fame member Don Bourk has passed away, no funeral details to post yet but will post as soon as they are available. Plese keep his family in your thoughts and prayers.

May God bless you.
Alvin Kaddatz

08/21/2025

Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
Hosea 14:9

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08/21/2025

Streams in the Desert

Himself

He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me; because he delighted in me. - Ps 18:19

And what is this “large place”? What can it be but God Himself, that infinite Being in whom all other beings and all other streams of life terminate? God is a large place indeed. And it was through humiliation, through abasement, through nothingness that David was brought into it.—Madame Guyon

“I bare you on eagle’s wings, and brought you unto myself” (Exod. 19:4).

Fearing to launch on “full surrender’s” tide,
I asked the Lord where would its waters glide
My little bark, “To troubled seas I dread?”
“Unto Myself,” He said.

Weeping beside an open grave I stood,
In bitterness of soul I cried to God:
“Where leads this path of sorrow that I tread?”
“Unto Myself,” He said.

Striving for souls, I loved the work too well;
Then disappointments came; I could not tell
The reason, till He said, “I am thine all;
Unto Myself I call.”

Watching my heroes—those I loved the best—
I saw them fail; they could not stand the test,
Even by this the Lord, through tears not few,
Unto Himself me drew.

Unto Himself! No earthly tongue can tell
The bliss I find, since in His heart I dwell;
The things that charmed me once seem all as naught;
Unto Himself I’m brought.
—selected

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And what is this “large place”? What can it be but God Himself, that infinite Being in whom all other beings and all other streams of life terminate? God is ...

08/20/2025

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Prayers for Family 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Donald L. Bourk, 92, passed away peacefully on Monday, August 18, 2025

Visitation: 5:00-7:00pm, Monday, August 25, 2025 at Feigum Funeral Home

Prayer Service: 7:00pm, Monday, August 25, 2025 at Feigum Funeral Home

Funeral Service: 10:00am, Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at Faith Lutheran Church

Interment: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Blunt

There is a guest book at the funeral page site

08/20/2025

He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.
Daniel 2:22

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08/20/2025

Streams in the Desert

Wrestling With God

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. - Gen 32:24

God is wrestling with Jacob more than Jacob is wrestling with God. It was the Son of man, the Angel of the Covenant. It was God in human form pressing down and pressing out the old Jacob life; and ere the morning broke, God had prevailed and Jacob fell with his thigh dislocated. But as he fell, he fell into the arms of God, and there he clung and wrestled, too, until the blessing came; and the new life was born and he arose from the earthly to the heavenly, the human to the divine, the natural to the supernatural. And as he went forth that morning he was a weak and broken man, but God was there instead; and the heavenly voice proclaimed, “Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.”

Beloved, this must ever be a typical scene in every transformed life. There comes a crisis-hour to each of us, if God has called us to the highest and best, when all resources fail; when we face either ruin or something higher than we ever dreamed; when we must have infinite help from God and yet, ere we can have it, we must let something go; we must surrender completely; we must cease from our own wisdom, strength, and righteousness, and become crucified with Christ and alive in Him. God knows how to lead us up to this crisis, and He knows how to lead us through.

Is He leading you thus? Is this the meaning of your deep trial, or your difficult surroundings, or that impossible situation. or that trying place through which you cannot go without Him, and yet you have not enough of Him to give you the victory?

Oh, turn to Jacob’s God! Cast yourself helplessly at His feet. Die to your strength and wisdom in His loving arms and rise, like Jacob, into His strength and all-sufficiency. There is no way out of your hard and narrow place but at the top. You must get deliverance by rising higher and coming into a new experience with God. Oh, may it bring you into all that is meant by the revelation of the Mighty One of Jacob!—But God

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God is wrestling with Jacob more than Jacob is wrestling with God. It was the Son of man, the Angel of the Covenant. It was God in human form pressing down ...

08/19/2025

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻A Hugh God Praise!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Update on Sherm:

After three weeks in the Des Moines Mercy Hospital, he was released and is making his way back to PA! Sherm has had some of the best care at Mercy, and we are lucky for his great team there. Dr. Willie McClairen (fellow Penn State Alumni) was so helpful for his care and recovery. Sherm will have a few weeks at inpatient rehab in Sewickley before returning home.

We are so grateful for all the prayers that have carried him through! Continue to pray for his rehab, he has a lot of hard work ahead of him.

Sherman Hostetter Kylee Hostetter Paige Hostetter Johnston

08/18/2025

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:5
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08/17/2025

It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
Psalm 44:3

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08/16/2025

Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7

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08/14/2025

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 1:17

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