Today my plans got derailed a bit due to an equipment issue that knocked us off the air for about 15 minutes. I picked this devotional for Monday Motivation because it’s a good reminder of this question: how do you respond then your plans don’t work out? Or get postponed?
Name Something In A Person’s Closet That Only Comes Out On Special Occasions 1. Suit/Tux (35) 2. Dress (26) 3. Jewelry (10) 4. Dress Shoes (6) 5. Shotgun (4)
Congratulations to Craig from Mount Vernon, who guessed correctly and wins the $5 gift certificate to Everlasting Cup.
We also had a surprise guest on the show! Listener Dallas Dryburgh shared his thoughts on a special rendition of “The Blessing” that you can find at the following link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUtll3mNj5U
Name a foreign accent that’s easy to tell what country the person comes from.
1- British (40)
2- French (26)
3- German (8)
4- Spanish (8)
5- Chinese (5)
6- Irish (3)
Congratulations to Jackie of Mount Vernon, who guessed the top two answers to win a $5 certificate to Everlasting Cup!
Today I’m sharing a devotional reminding us that our God specializes in making beauty from ashes, or as Elevation Worship sings, graves into gardens. Here’s a short passage from James Banks in Our Daily Bread, which takes us from Peter Pan to Ruth. Read ‘Hard Ground and Tender Mercy’ by clicking here.
If you had fingers the size of hot dogs, name two activities you might have trouble doing… 1- typing 2- put on clothes or shoes 3- sewing 4- braiding or combing your hair 5- picking up things
Congratulations to Gabriel from Mount Vernon, who guessed correctly and wins the $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup.
Today for Monday Motivation we shared uplifting devotionals fitting the theme of Tobymac’s new song ‘Help Is On the Way (Maybe Midnight)’ coming from Our Daily Bread. Joe shared one called ‘Grief Overturned’ written by Linda Washington and you can read it by clicking here.
Alyssa shared a devotional called ‘Trust Me’ written by Poh Fang Chia and you can read it by clicking here.
Name something you know about bees.
1 – Make honey – 41 votes 2 – They sting – 28 votes 3 – Have a queen bee – 11 votes 4 – Sting kills bee – 7 votes
Congratulations to Jenn who correctly guessed the top two answers and won a $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup!
Proverbs 27:6 says: Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. (NIV) You can trust a friend who corrects you, but kisses from an enemy are nothing but lies (CEV)
God offers His people advice on their friendships, which are an important part of spiritual life. Our friendships, and how we treat our friends, can tell a lot about our faith. We need to choose our friends wisely and treat them well. Our prayer is: Lord, build strong friendships in my life and help me to be a good friend in turn.
Name something kids would probably never do in the morning, if it wasn’t for Mom!
1- brush their teeth 2- eat 3- get up 4- go to school 5- wash up
Congratulations to Suzanne from Mount Vernon, who guessed correctly and wins the $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup!
Today’s Monday Motivation comes from the book “3-Minute Devotions”…
#1 Laughter
On your feet now-applaud GOD! Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence. Psalm 100:1-2 MSG
As children of the Creator Himself, we were made to laugh—to experience great joy. Our design didn’t include for us to carry the stress, worry, and heaviness every day. Go ahead! Ask God to give you a really good laugh today. Prayer: Lord, help me to rediscover laughter. Help me to take every opportunity You bring to see the joy in life and the comedy that it brings to my world every day. Amen.
#2 Christian Living
You’re no longer wandering exiles. This kingdom of faith is now your home country. You’re no longer strangers or outsiders. You belong here, with as much right to the name Christian as anyone. Ephesians 2:19 MSG
What seems impossible on our own becomes a pleasure when we have help. We are never alone in our Christian journey. We are given one another, and we are even in touch with God’s Holy Spirit. Prayer: O Lord, show me how You want me to be. Open my eyes, my heart, my spirit. Amen.
Name a subject on which people are always giving unwanted advice. 1 – your love life 2 – raising kids 3 – money 4 – weight/health 5 – cooking
Congratulations to Esther from Mount Vernon, who guessed the top two answers and wins the $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup.
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!
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!
Driving Notes 