Welcome to The Isaiah
6:3 Tour, a word and digital witness to Isaiah 6:3: Holy, holy, holy is the LORD
Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory!
Since Dec. 1, 2008 and
for
the next
who-knows how
many months/years this is our
home (below).
And we're going to travel till the wheels come off of it or one of
us, or we weary
of marveling at God's magnificent creation.
No Time To Waste
is a chilling
combat memoir, a gripping gospel story—to hell and back and glory
beyond by God’s grace alone. It's a true tale of amazing grace at
Pearl Harbor and Guadalcanal aboard the heavy cruiser USS San
Francisco; under the South Pacific aboard the submarine USS
Queenfish on all five victorious war patrols; over the Ho Chi Minh
Trail in an F-100; and in the hearts of two veterans—cultural
curmudgeons—long after their combat days were over.
John E. “Jack” Bennett (USNA ’41) was a former Reagan staffer,
career nuclear submarine commander, and twice-wounded WW II vet. At
78, he was a much-involved patriot with a brilliant mind but a lost
soul. Author JD Wetterling, a Presbyterian elder a generation
younger, was a fighter pilot with 268 combat missions in the Vietnam
War. They became best friends. Then, in a heartbeat, it was war
again, with eternal consequences that dwarfed their shooting wars,
and there was “no time to waste.”
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“…stirring accounts of horrific
battles, amazing acts of heroism…marvel at how God’s sovereign
grace conquered the hearts of self-made, self-satisfied men… You
will not waste your time, but in fact, redeem it by reading this
book.”
Dr. Dominic Aquila, President, New
Geneva Theological Seminary, Colorado Springs, CO
“Magnificent...a
primer for soul-saving.”Dr. Bob King
“
riveting testimony to God's grace... peer into the heart and
mind of a lost soul on the path to salvation.”Dr. Dan Youngren
“I've read a lot of combat
memoirs—this is a great one. I've read a lot of gospel
stories—this is a great one. A two-fer!”
Robert M. Frey
“No
one…” is the unequivocal subject of six quotations by
Christ in the book of John. They comprise the most important
message that can enter the mind of man—how God saves sinners.
His words are simple enough for a youth to grasp, profound
enough to stagger the mind of an intellectual.
In this age of rampant relativism, it can’t get any more
negative than “No one…,” but these are Jesus’ words.
They are the heart of the gospel, as far removed from a negative
message as the east is from the west—absolute truth in pure
white bold font, written on the bloodstained palm of a Savior
who loves his own infinitely and eternally. Lord
willing,the Son of God’s own wordscan change
your life, or the life of someone you love, in an evening of
reading.
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“JD Wetterling knows--how to capture the biggest ideas in life
in a few arresting words, and he does that wonderfully in “No
one….”
Joel Belz, founder of
World magazine
“JD Wetterling has given
us nothing less than the Gospel in all its simplicity, beauty
and glory.”
TimChallies, uber God-blogger
at
challies.com
“This book exalts the Lord, his written Word, and the absolute
truths that undergird our Christian faith.”
Charles Dunahoo, Coordinator of Christian Education &
Publications for the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
“I highly recommend this book!”
Dr. Frank M. Barker, Jr., Pastor
Emeritus, Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, AL
“No one has explained the way of salvation more clearly than JD
Wetterling." Dr. W. Wilson
Benton, Retired Senior Minister, Kirk-of-the-Hills
Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, MO
Duty.
Honor. My country, right or wrong, drives the young fighter
pilots of Dusty Squadron, from flack in the face above the A
Shau Valley to the canned hellfire of napalm in the jungle to midnight
gunfights over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Top Gun F-100 pilot John
Ellsworth, the impetuous Son of Thunder, is the
most zealous of the lot, and he pays dearly. A story of
redemption in a disastrous war that changed the American
culture, and the awful price of heroism. A novel.
"...captures the [Vietnam] experience better than
anyone I've read or heard." Gen. Ron Fogleman, former Chief of Staff, USAF
"...exciting journey into the soul of a Top Gun
fighter pilot."
Kate Wright, Emmy Award winning producer/
screenwriter
"...right on the mark, and the writing is
superb.... Get the book. Read it." Dick Rutan,
Aviation Pioneer
"...JD
passionately reflects his combat missions, his rage...and his
humanity,
quite a combination for a Top Gun."
Mark Berent,
bestselling author
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
You may read the official
author bio
or these
random (and mostly superfluous) things about him,
originally posted at facebook.
1. I went to a one room country school house and was the only
kid in my class all 8 years.
2.Our family did not have indoor plumbing until I was fourteen.
3.I have a bifid uvula . Don’t you wish you did?
4.When I played high school football (quarterback), Mom could
holler louder than anyone else in the stands and I could hear
her.
5.When I get to heaven, I expect to find Mom singing first
soprano in the church eternal.
6.Mom died in ’99, but when we sing her favorite hymns in
church, I can still hear her voice. I usually cry.
7.Dad couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket but he sang hymns with
gusto anyway.
8.He had a unique way of walking—one stride was a little longer
than the other. I inherited it, and then my daughter Lizz
inherited it. Sorry, Lizz.
9.As a young fighter pilot in Vietnam, I learned by experience
that adrenalin is a manifestation of God’s grace allowing the
body to function while the brain is paralyzed with fear.
10.More than once I felt my F-100 respond in life-saving ways
that had nothing to do with my inputs on stick and rudder.
11.As a 54-year-old civilian I got upside down in an F-16 and a
B-1 bomber.
12.I grew up in a church built by my grandfather and friends. It
still exists.
13.I have 45 minutes of freefall time…in 106 parachute jumps as
a skydiver in college.
14.My uncle declared I wouldn’t live to see 25. He was wrong by
at least 41 years.
15.The (Ent) Air Force Base Chapel where Karen and I were
married 43.5 years ago did not survive the wrecking ball, but
our marriage thrives…by grace alone.
16.At about 5 years of age, I drove a team of draft horses.
Later I learned it was the funny sound coming out of Dad’s mouth
that was controlling the horses. The Holy Spirit works in a
similar way.
17.One of those draft horses was named Jerry (Jeff and Jerry). I
never had the nerve to ask my parents if that horse was my
namesake.
18.At about the age of ten I learned that it was absolutely
critical, on a cold winter morning on the farm in Illinois, to
breathe on your cupped hands before you begin to milk a Holstein
cow.
19.During the cold war I sat nuclear alert with a hydrogen bomb
and enough fuel to deliver the weapon and escape the fireball
before the engine flamed out.
20.The older I get the more amazing grace is.
21.The Apostle Paul and I hung out in the same part of Turkey
(see #19). He did infinitely more good for the Kingdom than I
did.
22.I spent a lot of time half way up in 2 World Trade Center, my
company’s home office, looking down on the magnificent Statue of
Liberty in New York Harbor, before it collapsed in a fiery
inferno.
23.For too much of my life I aspired to be an eccentric
millionaire. I’ve achieved the first half that goal and now I
wonder why I thought the other half was so important.
24.Appearances notwithstanding, and contrary to what our kids
thought growing up, I did NOT fly top cover at the crucifixion.
25.I’d been calling myself a Christian for 30 years when I was
introduced to reformed theology. It was like turning on 1000
fluorescent lights in a dark cave.
