Best Spot

Once I lost my 2 coolant testers, so I went to the auto parts store and bought another. After I was finished I thought, "Where is the very best place to store this where I'll be sure to find it?" When I went to that spot, I found the other two testers.

The Pablo Montez Junior Story

The Pablo Montez Junior Story

by Pablo Montez

What I Was

When I was 8 years I started smoking.

At 10 years old I was molested and ashamed, and at 11 years old I started sniffing glue.

At 12 I was stealing cars, breaking into homes, and having sex. I started running away from home, skipping school, and having sex. I was locked up in juvenile homes and put in a foster home.

At 16, along with 6 other teenagers I was in a car accident at the speed of 120 mph. Five were killed. Only two survived - the driver and me.

At 17 I was arrested for breaking into a place of business while carrying a gun. This was my first time in an adult institution.

I got caught selling and doing drugs, and was again locked up in the Detroit House of Correction.

At 21 I began a long addiction to heroin, then cocaine, and then for 20 years I was addicted to crack cocaine.

By the time I was 50 years old I had lost everything - my wife, my home, my job, and most of my family.

I was $25,000 in debt. I was broke to my knees. I was missing something in my life and I had nowhere to turn to but God and His Son Jesus Christ. My life was empty.

What I Am

On a July Sunday morning in 2006 I went to a church.  I started attending faithfully. I got into the choir and started working in the food pantry, feeding people less fortunate than I. Like Paul the Apostle, I felt that I was the biggest sinner of all.

As I kept attending church and doing his work, I felt changes within myself. I no longer needed drugs to find satisfaction. I now had a joy that was springing up from within.

As Jesus was changing my life, my mind, heart, and soul, and my thoughts, the Lord me led to Fellowship Baptist Church. As I attended church the Lord directed me into doing the bus ministry - picking up children to bring them to know the Lord.

I am not where I should be, but I am not where I was. Each day I feel the Lord changing me as I pray and read His Word.

Christ Made the Difference

Jesus Christ made all the difference in my life. Since I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and let Him take control of my life, my life has not been the same. My life is worth living now.

If I wasn't walking with Jesus Christ, I would either be a drug addict.. 

or in jail..

or dead and hell bound.

With Jesus Christ in my life, I wake up happy with joy and peace that Jesus Christ gives me.

All the drugs in the world could not replace the joy, happiness, and peace that Jesus Christ gives me.

There is ONE WAY to have Eternal Life.

You must be BORN AGAIN. 

No Priest, Pastor, or Preacher, not even the Pope can get you into Heaven.

You must be BORN AGAIN.

How can you be born again? Know this:

Eternal life is a gift. We don not deserve it and we can not earn it.

"the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23b

"for by grace are ye saved through faith.. it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8,9

All are sinners and under God's judgement

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:10
"For the wages of sin is death." Romans 6:23b

Christ paid the penalty for our sin

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

We receive eternal life by receiving Christ

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." John 1:12
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Contact me at 313-748-2070. To listen to a dramatic presentation of my story, go to
http://unshackled.org/media/2013/pgm_040713.asx
http://unshackled.org/media/2013/pgm_041413.asx

I wrote this down, with Pablo's permission, from his tract by the same name.  Mary and I met Pablo at the Big Boy Restaurant in South Lyon Michigan and became friends. - Mike Dittmer

#rmdo Johnny Depp, Tonto and The Lone Ranger, and Rick Van Wechel #humor #inspiration

This post is in appreciation of my friend Rick Van Wechel, who ministered by my side as my Minister of Music for 2 decades and worked along side me, then as my boss for over a decade.
He was the Tonto that came to the rescue of The Lone Ranger, me.. repeatedly, quietly, almost supernaturally.
After recently watching The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp, (a movie I am moving into my special list of THE TOP FIVE MOVIES OF ALL TIME), almost everything applies to Rick and I except that the insanity of Johnny Depp's Tonto and the straight thinking of Armie Hammer's Lone Ranger are reversed.
I am certifiably insane, but his thinking is always reality based.
From music to mechanics, he is gifted in all things.
He was always there at the right time with the right stuff.
He has a sense of humor that would make Johnny Depp seem dull witted.
However, he never used the word kemo sabe.. but I could say it of him now.

In Potawatomi it means FAITHFUL FRIEND.

Rick leading the music at Family Bible Fellowship, the church Lynne, my late wife, and I founded. That's me at the keyboard.

#rmdo My friend Pablo's Story #inspiration

Pablo Montez, along with another of our favorite waitresses, back in the days when Big Boy had a restaurant in South Lyon. Pablo now works at Brighton's Big Boy, and Michelle Johnson, another dear friend of ours, works at The Red Robin next door.

My friend Pablo Montez , who worked at South Lyon Big Boy, has a wonderful story, a testimony that gives Glory to God. It was made into a play on Unshackled, a ministry that takes the true stories of redeemed Christians and makes them into radio dramas. Here is a link to Part One which played on April 7th. Please share this with your circle of friends. 
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/unshackled/listen/program-3247-pablo-montez-part-1-328577.html
Here is Part 2 of Pablo's Story:
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/unshackled/listen/program-3248-pablo-montez-part-2-328573.html

Pablo won The People's Choice Award
for Wait Staff in South Lyon, Michigan, USA. Way to go, Pablo!!

#rmdo Michigan: Weird #fringe #alternateuniverse #humor

Poor Peter Bishop! He has to cross to an alternate universe to find Olivia Dunham, the woman he loves. 
I only had to go to Michigan to find Mary, the woman I love. 
To a Hoosier boy, Michigan IS an alternate universe. #rmdo

#rmdo National Christian Homeschool Basketball Championship Regional Tournament

My grand daughter Allie is a member of the Michianna Christian Athletic Club. Allie is on the Wildcats Girls Junior High Basketball team. The Wildcats went to the National Christian Homeschool Basketball Championship Regional Tournament in Indianapolis this weekend (March 7th - 9th).
My daughter Rebecca is the mother of Allie. She wrote this post on Facebook:
MCAC Wildcats Junior High girls won 1st place at the NCHBC Midwest Regional Tournament and Varsity girls took 3rd place! Our Junior High girls are the #1 homeschool basketball team in the midwest region which includes Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and part of Wisconsin. Not that I'm bragging. Nope. Not a bit. :) :) :) Awesome job girls. 

#rmdo Ouch-Y-Wa-Wa #humor

Mary and I took her mom to lunch at Hacienda Mexican Restaurant. I put a few drops of their habanero sauce on my dish. It was called Ouch-Y-Wa-Wa sauce.. well named! #rmdo

#rmdo Thread of Faith, ALL of God!! #wisdompoet

AMAZING!! A tiny thread of Faith.. connects me to God.. He can  come to me.. I can have ALL of Him!! #rmdo

#rmdo LIFE and GRACE #communion #wisdompoet

The Holy Bread, broken by The Cross and Death, dipped in Blood's Wine, touches the lips of Repentance, and gives LIFE and GRACE. #rmdo

#rmdo Mike and Mary; #walterbishop and #asterid #fringe #geekhumor

I've had incredible events in my life, including miraculous healings and prophetic dreams. The telling of these stories has helped my nickname Rev Mad Dog (revmaddog1948) stick.
God paired me with a sensible Baptist lady who, despite her different theological background, has totally and respectfully supported me.
It reminds me of the pairing of insane Doctor Walter Bishop with the sensible Asparin.. Astro.. ASTERID! (finally got it right!) #rmdo

#rmdo The Road To Your Store #humor

You can drive to your store or..
My store is offering incredible deals on real print magazines and also print and kindle bundled magazines. 

Mike's Amazon

The banner ad below will take you to both your Amazon Homepage (if you're a registered Amazon customer) and my store. Click on any of these ads and make a purchase withing 24 hours and my store gets credit.

I am grateful that Amazon allows me to place ads on my blogs, and that they put a cookie in these ads that credits my eStore for every sale made within 24 hours after clicking on the ad links on my pages and posts.

The cookie works as longs as you go to my blog first. If you go first to Amazon, I get no credit.

My primary location for the store and ads is in a page on every blog titled X shop AMAZON here X. You can find it in a narrow bar that runs along the top of each blog.

I am only placing Amazon copy and paste ads and allowing Google contextual ads on my blogs. Stick with the best. Forget the rest.

First up, after the magazine banner ads, is a banner ad link to the ever popular bookstore, next is the Amazon Homepage, both of which include a cookie designed by Amazon that gives credit to my eStore. At the bottom is an in line placement of my website, which Amazon designed to allow you to go to my website without leaving my blog. I know. As we say here in Indiana, ain't Amazon amazing?! #rmdo

Mike Dittmer is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com, amazonsupply.com, or myhabit.com .

#rmdo Warrior Princess #wisdompoet

You are right. Life is hard. But never forget.. you are a child of God, a sister of Jesus, the Lion of Judah. You are a lion cub, never out of the sight of your fierce Heavenly Father. You are a warrior princess, armed and armored. Walk without fear. Face your enemy, toe to toe, nose to nose, and smile. #rmdo (a post inspired by a conversation with a young sister in Christ)

#rmdo Little Miss #strawberryshortcake #humor

Mary likes strawberrys so much I'm going to call her LITTLE MISS STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. We were recently at Steak n Shake and Mary had.. (suspenseful pause) a strawberry shake. #rmdo

STOP BY MIKE'S AMAZON TODAY!! (so.. how's my ALL CAPS strategy working!? #rmdo

Mike's Amazon