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Give It a Country Spin!

Today for Artist Newsday we shared a great new story about for KING & COUNTRY. You can read the full details here.

On December 31st, four-time GRAMMY® award-winning duo and Curb | Word Entertainment recording artist for KING & COUNTRY released “TOGETHER (The Country Collaboration),” a brand-new rendition of their No. 1 hit.

Joel and Luke Smallbone are joined by country singer/songwriters Hannah Ellis and Jackson Michelson and a backdrop of violins, steel guitars, and banjos.

“In a time where this virus is not isolated to one people group or country or social class – it has become the great equalizer,” shares Joel and Luke Smallbone. “It is helping us all reconsider this beautiful concept that we all bleed the same blood. And if we are able to unite, and support — be a neighbor to someone, serve someone, reach out to someone – how might those acts of kindness change the scope of our futures, together?”

This marks for KING & COUNTRY’s first country collaboration since joining Dolly Parton for the GRAMMY winning rendition of the duo’s No. 1 hit “God Only Knows.”

Don’t let it arrest you
This fear is fear of fallin’ again
And if you need a refuge
I will be right here until the end

These lyrics are a stumper and we will bring them back for next week’s game of Song Poetry.

Thanks for listening!
– Alyssa & Joe

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Checking the foundation

Today I shared some Monday Motivation from writer John Blase that fits perfectly into the start of 2021. As we think about what we can do differently this year, it might be wise to take a look at our foundation. What is it we are standing on? What is holding us up?

Read “When the Floods Come” by clicking here.

Todd’s devotional is “Strength for the Journey.” Read more here.

Name something people get on and off of:
1 – bus
2 – horse
3 – train/subway
4 – bike
5 – feet

Congratulations to Angela from Howard, who guessed the top two answers and wins the $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup.

Thanks for listening!
– Joe

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A Benediction for 2020

Today for Praise Thursday we shared benediction verses from the Bible as 2020 comes to a close and 2021 begins. Here are the great and uplifting verses we shared:

Numbers 6:24-26 ESV  
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. 

Hebrews 13:20-21 ESV 
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. 

Romans 15:13 ESV  
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. 

2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 

James 1:17 ESV
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. 

Philemon 1:25 ESV 
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV 
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Philippians 4:19 ESV
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. 

Philippians 4:7 ESV
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 

Philippians 4:23 ESV
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV  
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 

Revelation 7:12 ESV
Saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.” 

2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV 
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Q: Who was the first person to come upon the injured man in the parable of the Good Samaritan?

Our question for today was a stumper, so we will bring it back for next week’s Bible Trivia game.

Thanks for listening and Happy New Year!
– Alyssa

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Who Knew It Was New Years!

Today I shared some Who Knew fun facts about New Years Eve! I got theses from: https://www.todayslifeonline.com/parent-resources/blog/ten-fun-new-years-facts-traditions

New Year's Eve Parties: Say Goodbye to 2020 – Galveston Island Guide

The first New Year’s celebration dates back 4,000 years. Julius Caesar, the emperor of Rome, was the first to declare Jan. 1 a national holiday.

Forty-five percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions. The top resolutions are: to lose weight, get organized, to spend less and save more, to stay fit and healthy, and to quit smoking.

Eating leafy greens on New Year’s. Tradition says that the more leafy greens a person eats, the more prosperity he or she will experience during the upcoming year. It works great with those resolutions to live a more healthy lifestyle!

(Normally) About 1 million people gather in New York City’s Times Square to watch the ball drop. It will be really interesting to see how they do things differently amidst the year of Covid-19.

Also, a congratulations to Julie from Fredericktown. She was our winner for the Who Knew Wednesday Trivia Question!

Thanks for Listening
-Todd McKinley

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This Is How We Fight Our Battles

Today for Artist Newsday we shared two stories, one about Michael W. Smith and one about Jordan Feliz. TBN will be broadcasting Michael W. Smith’s worship event entitled Surrounded on Wednesday 30/12. Learn more about this event by clicking here.

Jordan Feliz has released another full length album called Say It, which includes his hit single “Glorify”, it also includes a great new song called “Jesus Is Coming Back.” Watch the music video to that song below and learn more about the album by clicking here.

Seen too much to ever doubt it,
Feels so good, I wanna shout it,
Yeah, when I really think about it,
All I wanna do, all I wanna do is

Those lyrics were a stumper, so we will be bringing them back for next week’s game of Song Poetry.

Thanks for listening!
– Alyssa

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Uplifting Assurance!

Today we shared some Monday Motivation from Our Daily Bread. A devotional about God showing us the growth and healing that we should celebrate even through the hardest times. Read it by clicking here.

The second devotional talked about God’s beautiful assurance to us and the confidence we can gain by living through him. Read it by clicking here.

Name a mistake that little children make when getting dressed.

Shoes on wrong – (42 votes)
Clothes backwards – (35 votes)
Button wrong – (8 votes)
Inside out – (5 votes)
Ties shoes wrong – (4 votes)

Congratulations to Pat of Mount Vernon for correctly guessing the top two answers to our question. She won a $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup!

Thanks for listening!
– Alyssa and Todd

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Gift Exchange and Tips for Celebration!

Today we shared some ideas for celebrating Christmas in 2020! You can check out the full list here!: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/christmas-ideas/g34452103/quarantine-christmas-ideas/

quarantine christmas ideas

A congratulations to Jonathan and Linda, they were our winners for the Christmas Gift Exchange and the 5$ gift certificate to Everlasting Cup!

Thanks For Listening and Merry Christmas!
-Todd McKinley

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Christmas Concert Galore!

Today for Artist Newsday we shared two stories. Our first story was about for KING & COUNTRY’s recent Christmas performances, also the news that they have been invited back to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to perform for Christmas 2021. Read more about this story by clicking here.

We also shared about Hannah Kerr’s upcoming performance and exclusive interview on Christmas Day on The 700 Club. Learn more about this performance by clicking here.

If you told me all about your sorrows,
I’d tell you about a cure,
If you told me you can’t fight the battle,
There’s a baby boy who won the war

Our lyrics were a stumper today.

We do want to congratulate our Christmas Gift Exchange winners: Cameo of Centerburg and Faith of Mount Vernon.

Thanks for listening!
– Alyssa

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The promise of Immanuel – delivered!

Today’s Monday Motivation continues with a Christmas theme:

The word Immanuel means, as we learn in Matthew 1:23, “God with us.”  The coming of the Christ child fulfilled what Isaiah wrote in chapter 7, verse 14: “the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”

In his book Hidden Christmas, Pastor Timothy Keller shares that for centuries, the Jewish religious leaders and scholars had known that prophecy, but did not think that it should be taken literally. They thought it was simply predicting the coming or arrival of some great leader through whose work, God would be present with his people.

However, Matthew writes that this promise is greater than anyone imagined!  It did not come true figuratively, but literally. Jesus Christ is “God with us,” because the human life in Mary’s womb was a miracle performed by God himself.  Then Jesus, with his life, his claims and his resurrection, convinced his closest followers that he was not just a prophet telling them how to find God, but God himself coming to find us.

Keller writes that this claim, that Jesus is God, gives us the greatest possible hope.  Why?  Because it means this world is not all that there is…it means that there is life and love after death and it means that evil and suffering will one day end.

And it is not just hope for the world, but hope for you and me personally. A God who was only holy would have not come to us in Jesus.  He would have just demanded that we pull ourselves together and be moral and holy enough to be worthy of relationship with him. But our God is fully holy and fully human – so he doesn’t send someone else – he comes himself!  Jesus is one of us – and that should give us all hope!

Christmas Gift Exchange winners today:
Becky from Howard and Krista from Howard! Remember the grand prize drawing is Thursday morning on The Morning Thing!

Thanks for listening!
– Joe and Todd

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