- Jesus, I Believe – Big Daddy Weave
- Good Grace – Hillsong United
- My Lighthouse – Rend Collective
Name something you’d see on a tropical island.
Answer:
1.Trees – 58
2.Sand/ beaches – 13
3.Fruit – 12
4.Flowers – 7
5.Water/ocean – 6
Name something you’d see on a tropical island.
Answer:
1.Trees – 58
2.Sand/ beaches – 13
3.Fruit – 12
4.Flowers – 7
5.Water/ocean – 6
Congratulations to Matt from Howard who won A Gift Certificate for a 9 inch homemade Pie of his choice from Auntie “M’s” Homemade Goodies and Debbie from Mount Vernon who won a WNZR tote bag and Vintage T-shirt! They have both been entered for our grand prize, a one-night stay the Mount Vernon Grand Hotel and 6 hours of house cleaning from Carefree Cleaning Company! If you want to know more about all of this, click HERE!
The New Testament begins in Matthew 1 with what’s called ” the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah.” Have you ever wondered why?
Matthew’s gospel doesn’t begin with the Nativity itself… The star, the shepherds in the manger. Instead, It begins with a long list of ancestry. And let’s be honest – how many times have we skipped through this?
In his book, Hidden Christmas, Pastor Timothy Keller gives us perspective on why Matthew started the story of Jesus this way. He reminds us that Christmas is not just about a birth, it is about a coming.
The birth of the Son of God into the world is a gospel, a good news, an announcements that says, you don’t have to save yourself – God has come to save you. Of course, Christmas is just the beginning of the story of how God came to save us. Jesus will have to go to the Cross. But you begin with Christ by reading this report about what has happened in history. Matthew tells here that this story is no fairy tale – Jesus is real!
Matthew doesn’t start his book with “Once Upon a Time.” That is the way fairy tales or legendary fantasy stories begin. Matthew is grounding who Jesus Christ is and what he does in history with the genealogy. Keller reminds us in Matthew 1, we learn that Jesus is not a metaphor – he is real. This all happened!
In this genealogy at the beginning of the New Testament, what else is Matthew saying? Pastor Keller writes that the list of Jesus’ genealogy is also a type of resume. In those times, your family, pedigree, and clan made up your resume. Therefore, this list is really saying, “This is who Jesus is.”
Matthew’s genealogy is shockingly different from the other ones of his time. First, there are five women in the list. Three of them. Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth are Gentiles. The Jews would have considered them unclean. In fact, Tamar was a prostitute. He also refers to “Uriah’s wife,” who you may know as Bathsheba. These names recall some of the most difficult stories is in the Old Testament. Yet, they are in Jesus’s genealogy. Why?
But wait, in verse 6 we have the name King David. So, we might think “now there is somebody we want in out genealogy!” David, after all, was the boy who killed Goliath, favored by Saul, anointed as king, and the man who conquers Jerusalem. David also was a flawed man, who arranged the killing of his friend Uriah and whose son Solomon was the result of an affair with Bathsheba. Yet out of that deeply flawed man, the Messiah came. These people are all acknowledged in Matthew 1 as the ancestors of Jesus.
So what does that mean? Tim Keller asks us to think about it this way :
It means that people who are excluded by culture, society and even by the laws God can be brought into Jesus’s family. If you repent and believe in him, the grace of Jesus covers your sin and unites you with him.
Moreover, with King David, it means even the powerful and great are still in need of the grace of Christ. It is not what you have done; it is what Christ has done for you!
God is not ashamed of us. We are all in his family.
Congratulations to Becky from Fredericktown who won the Jordan Feliz “The River” CD and Amy from Mount Vernon who won a Rend Collective CD called “Good News”. If you want to know more about the WNZR Christmas Gift Exchange click HERE.
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Thanks for checking out the blog!
-Hannah and Todd
Here’s this week’s countdown:
10. Elevation Worship – Echo
9. We Are Messengers – Power
8. Tauren Wells – God’s Not Done With You
7. Vertical Worship – Yes I Will
6. Unspoken – Reason
5. Zach Williams – Rescue Story
4. For King & Country – Burn the Ships
3. Jeremy Camp – Dead Man Walking
2. Lauren Daigle – Rescue
1. Casting Crowns – Nobody
New Music!
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Thanks for checking out the blog!
– Hannah and Joe
Today Joe and I shared about this big upcoming weekend for MVNU, it’s 51st Homecoming! To find out more about homecoming click HERE.
Guess who we had on the show today? Tom the Turkey for the Totally Tasty Tom Turkey Hunt! Head to website WNZR.FM for more information!
Congratulations to our 2 caller numbers five’s Jonathan from Gambier and Dawn from Fredericktown; they both were registered to win a Turkey on Friday 22ed!
Name a state with two words in its name.
Answers:
1.New York
2.New Jersey
3. New Hampshire
4. West Virginia
5. North Dakota
6. New Mexico
7. South Carolina
Congrats to Harley from Mount Vernon who guessed our top two answers and won that $5 Gift card to Troyer’s of Apple Valley!
Thanks for checking out our blog!
-Hannah and Joe
Here is today’s countdown:
10. Raise A Hallelujah – Bethel Music
9. Let It Rain (Is there anybody) – Crowder / Mandisa
8. God’s not done with you – Tauren Wells
7. Yes I will – Vertical worship
6. Burn the Ships- for KING & COUNTRY
5. Reason – Unspoken
4. Rescue story – Zach Williams
3. Dead Man Walking – Jeremy Camp
2. Rescue – Lauren Daigle
1. Nobody – Casting Crowns/ Matthew West
New Music Friday!
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Today Joe and I gave you a chance to win with our mystery Monday question!
Today’s question was: Name Something that can cause an argument when you’re playing a board game!
Answers:
1.Cheating
2. Play out of turn
3.Game tips over
4. Double Jump
5. Making up rules
6. Wrong Move
Congrats to Vecca and her family from Mount Vernon who guessed our top two questions and won that $5 Gift Card to Troyers to Apple Valley.
To learn more about the Restored conference click HERE!
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Thanks for checking out the blog!
-Hannah and Joe
A father’s lifestyle is contagious
“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.” – James 3: 17
When your lifestyle as a father (or leader), you lead in the love of God and his wisdom, the character you exhibit and the influence you have will impact those who are important to you in life. Wisdom leads to Harmony and peace, what human wisdom leads to arrogance and dissection. Examine yourself, what kind of wisdom do you depend on? Remember, God wants your very best – so does everyone else you influence, know, and love.
Look out! Someone is watching.
“The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.” Proverbs 15:3
The idea of someone watching seldom occurs to us as we go through life. So often, we say that we want and do exactly what we selfishly choose to do. We need to realize that nothing ever escaped the notice of God and nothing ever surprises him. Proverbs 16:3 says, ” Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established.” When we commit our ways to the Lord, everything changes and pleasing God becomes our priority in life. Because God cares, he wants to bless us with his love and mercy. May your life reflect the love that God so generously gives to those who follow him.
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Thanks for reading the blog!
-Hannah and Todd