Dwight Whitsett grew up in Odessa, Texas and graduated from Permian High School. He married Brenda Sullivan in 1962. They have four grown children, Tim, Amy, Justin and Nathan. He is grandfather to Heather, Graeme, Adelaide, Mira, Sophia. Gray and Ian. He pursued his education at the University of North Texas, Sunset International Bible Institute and Southern Christian University. He is the author of The Urgent Revolution and Love the One You're With.
Dwight is a trained vocalist. While in high school he sang in A Cappella Choir, with a quartet, The Dessans, and was a member of the Texas All-State Chorus for three years. He won a scholarship to study vocal music at North Texas State University (now UNT) and performed as soloist and sang bass with The Madrigal Singers and A Cappella Choir. He formed an evangelistic singing group, Shiloh, while serving as a missionary in Australia. After returning to the US, He sang bass with the quartet, Turtle Creek and as a bass-baritone soloist and bass with the Midland-Odessa Sympony Chorale, the Incarnation Choral Society of Dallas, and the Classical Chorus of Abilene. He continues to sing as opportunities present themselves.
Dwight and Brenda lived in Adelaide, South Australia for nine years beginning in 1967. Since returning to the United States, he has remained actively interested and involved in the work in Australia. He makes frequent return trips of four to twelve weeks duration. Beginning in 2000, Dwight began publishing the Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, South Pacific) Discussion Group by e-mail designed to stimulate evangelism and leadership among churches in the region.
My passion is ...
Living and Loving
I know too much about ...
Too little
My parents always told me ...
Be a good boy
My childhood ambition ...
To be a performer
My favorite memory ...
Falling in love with Brenda
Why I write ...
I think I have something to say.
What I am reading/watching/listening to ...
Michael Chrichton: Next ; Francis Collins: The Language of God
My first job ...
Mowing lawns
My best moment ...
Birth of my children
My inspiration ...
People who think for themselves
The Danger of Infidelity One night on television I, and at least million others, saw a woman crying as if her broken heart would never mend. Trust had crashed and burned and the wreckage of her marriage was scattered across the landscape of her soul. She had betrayed and been betrayed by that ultimate betrayal: infidelity The program dealt with infidelity and its effects on marriage. The devastating results of that most intimate disloyalty were well chronicled. I found it interesting and disturbing what they did not say. Not once was God or Christ (or Allah or Buddha, for that matter) even...
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