Today I shared Monday Motivation from Kirsten Holmberg about Jesus’ willingness to share in our humanity. Read ‘Like Us, For Us,’ from the Our Daily Bread website by clicking here!
Today’s Motivation song/video share is Hawk Nelson’s ‘Drops in the Ocean!’
Today for Monday Motivation, we shared more devotional wisdom from Our Daily Bread.
Joe shared “Little Foxes” from Mike Wittmer, inspired by Song of Solomon. Click here to read more!
Jonathon shared “Always Worth Sharing” from Xochitl Dixon, reflecting on one of Paul’s letters. Click here to read it.
1- brush their teeth (42 votes)
2- eat breakfast (18)
3- get up (15)
4- go to school (11)
5- wash up/comb hair (10)
Congratulations to Brenda from Delaware who guessed correctly and wins the WNZR drawstring backpack and the ODB devotional.
Thanks for listening!
– Joe and Jonathon
Today for Monday Motivation, post-Easter, Joe shared the story of the song, “Victor’s Crown.” This was a song written by Darlene Zschech and performed with Israel Houghton and Kari Jobe.
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2nBOGA6X2g
Watch Darlene share the story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X100Fzd5PP8
Jonathon’s devotional today is from Our Daily Bready, called “Witness in the Workplace.” Read more by clicking here.
Congratulations to Jan of Apple Valley, who guessed correctly and wins the WNZR drawstring backpack and Our Daily Bread devotionals.
Thanks for listening!
– Joe and Jonathon
Today we shared inspiration about the importance of family and love.
Joe shared Lisa Samra’s ‘Part of the Family’,’ which starts with a reference about the popular TV show, Downton Abbey. Click here to read more!
Jonathon shared James Banks’ “Carried by Love.’ Read more here!
Congratulations to Laura from Mount Vernon, who guessed correctly and wins the WNZR backpack and a couple of Our Daily Bread devotional books.
Thanks for listening!
– Joe and Jonathon
Today’s Monday Motivation focused on hope and strength from Our Daily Bread.
Joe shared Bill Crowder’s “Genuine Hope.” You can read it by clicking here.
Jonathon shared Anne Cetas’ “If Only We Could…” read it here.
Congratulations to Nathan from Mount Vernon, who guessed correctly and wins the WNZR drawstring backpack and a couple of Our Daily Bread devotionals.
Thanks for listening!
– Joe and Jonathon
As we prepare for Lifeline 2022, Joe and I shared our thoughts about this year’s theme: “You Keep Hope Alive”.
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.”
The world is a fearful and unsatisfying place without the hope of eternal life with Jesus. Apart from the expectation that comes from the hope of heaven, our world can seem to be lacking in peace, celebration, or joy.
There is life in hope. There is joy in hope. There is purpose in hope.
Hope is to be at the foundation of all our decisions, emotions, and pursuits. Hope fills us with joy in the middle of trials and perseverance in the midst of failure. Hope guides us to abundant life.
Our heavenly Father longs to make us a people of hope. He longs for his followers to live a lifestyle that declares to the world, “This life is not all there is.” He longs to fill us with a heavenly perspective that we might throw off pursuits of worldly pleasure and live for eternity with him.
Sometimes we can lose hope. We can get distracted, discouraged and unfocused. Why does this happen?
We fail to embrace to fruits of the spirit – the very things we ask for that we fail to do ourselves.
Do we love well? Or get bogged down in hate?
Do we choose joy? Or choose grumpy?
Do we promote peace? Or spread and promote conflict?
Do we demonstrate patience? Or fly off the handle?
Do we offer kindness? Or are we offering indifference?
Do we seek goodness? Or seeking the negative and critical?
Do we ground ourselves in faith? Or trust our own understanding?
Do we embrace gentleness? Or are we rough around the edges?
Do we embody self-control? Or is it anything goes?
What about things like forgiveness? Think about this: if God forgave you like you forgive others, where would you be?
Is it more about Him? Or more about us?
Congratulations to Dallas and Charla of Utica for correctly guessing this week’s Family Feud for a Voice of the Cougars drawstring backpack!
Thanks for listening,
Jonathon & Joe
Today’s Monday Motivation starts with a message about our Lifeline theme, “You Keep Hope Alive.”
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.”
What is hope? As a noun, hope is: “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen…“a feeling of trust”…“grounds for believing that something good may happen.”
As a verb, hope or hoping is “wanting something to happen or to be the case…intend to do something; cling to a possibility.”
Romans 15 concludes Paul’s teaching that those strong in faith ought to sacrifice their own desires to live in harmony with other believers. Paul shows that God always planned to welcome the Gentile nations, and his mission is to introduce Gentiles to the message of salvation by faith in Christ. He’s letting all know that the hope God represents is not limited to a certain few; since salvation is for all, then hope is for all.
Why is God the God of hope? Because of the evidence of Christ’s death and resurrection. His triumph over sin and death. (“You keep hope alive, Jesus, you are alive!) His gift of the Holy Spirit, our advocate, who is with us and allows to always have hope in our future in eternity, with Him. Christ with us and in us IS, as Paul writes in Colossians 1:27, the “hope of glory.”
This is not just a New Testament revelation. Jeremiah 29:11 told us that God’s plans for us are to prosper us and not harm us, to give us a hope and a future.
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Jonathon shared Patricia Raybon’s “Hearing Us from Heaven,” reminding us that our Heavenly Father hears our prayers. Read it by clicking here.
Name something you might rent on a sunny day:
1- Boat (34 votes)
2- Car/Convertible (19)
3- Umbrella (14)
4- Bike (12)
5- Movie (9)
6- Jet Ski (3)
Congratulations to Shanna from Howard, who guessed correctly and wins the WNZR drawstring backpack!
Thanks for listening!
Today we did the first of two ‘Beat the Box Office’ contests with the Ohio State Fair, to win tickets to see Zach Williams and We The Kingdom on August 1st.
Today’s question: Zach Williams was born in Pensacola, Florida, but calls what city and state home?
Answer? Jonesboro, Arkansas!
Congratulations to Rodney from Gambier, who got the answer right and wins the pair of tickets!
SYNERGY may not be a word you use every day, but hopefully you put it into practice every day. It is the idea that two people working together on a project, can accomplish more than they could working on the same project, separately. Working together can be difficult, you may have to surrender your individual will for the good of the team. In a society deluged with advocates touting messages of individualism, the old Biblical theme of unity still holds great value.
Ecclesiastes 4:9 says, “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor”. Or, if you go fur ther back to the creation story, God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18), so He created someone to help the man so the two of them could work together.
At a state fair in Southern California there was an event where horses were being hitched to sleds piled high with weights, to see which horse could pull the most weight. Two horses individually pulled 9,000 pounds. They then hitched these two strongest horses together on the same wagon. The horses didn’t pull 18,000 pounds – a doubling of their individual efforts, instead; together, in true teamwork, they pulled 35,000 pounds.
We could use some of that kind of team work in Congress, in our churches, and in our families!
When asked what he considered the most valuable skill in employees, John D. Rockefeller once replied, “The ability to get along with people!” One of my professors in Bible College used to say that the devil works in subtraction and division while God works in addition and multiplication. If you look around our world today, I think you will agree that we more division or subtraction, but addition and multi plication would be nice. Be willing to lend a hand to someone else, or accept their offer of help with your project; both of you will be glad you did.
Oh, Lord, make me a team player, instead of a lone ranger.
Jonathon shared “Success and Sacrifice” from Our Daily Bread and Jennifer Benson Schuldt
Read it by clicking here!
Thanks for listening!
– Joe and Jon
Today on the show I shared two devotionals from Our Daily Bread. We also had our weekly family feud trivia where one lucky person has a chance to win a prize for answering the top two answers on the board.
Here are the two devotionals that I picked from Our Daily Bread:
One was titled, “Loving God”. You can find the link here.
The other was titled, “Never Say Can’t”. You can find the link here.
1- Bad Weather (40)
2- Sick (28)
3- Watch TV (7)
4- Day Off (4)
5- Wait Repairman (3)
6- Too Tired (3)
Congratulations to Karen of Mount Vernon for correctly guessing the top two answers! She wins a 50 day devotional book by Bob Weaver titled “A word from the Weaver”.
Thanks for listening!
-Dylan
Driving Notes 