On this beautiful Praise Thursday, we shared inspiring worship music, gave devotions, shared updates, and played a fun game of NTT! Check out our website wnzr.fm!
It’s important for your relationship with Christ to understand yourself. You can’t have any type of long lasting relationship when you don’t put effort in to make it work. It’s important to know that go one can be Christ but we can do our best to be Christ-like. Some people may hold a Christ-like character than others, but that’s why we are Christians, to help and accept others as Christ did for us. Put your full faith in God in his ability to help.
You never know what someone is going through and even the little things matter. Complimenting someone on the sidewalk or in the hallways go a long way. Joel Smallbone, a member of For King & Country, gave a lady a bus ticket and he found out that she only had $30 to her name. Do what you can for people. We all are creations in Christ no matter our separate opinions we are not called to judge. We are called to serve.
This week’s Name That Tune was a stumper, BUT come back next week for a chance to win TWO $5 gift cards to Watts Restaurant in Utica!
Tune in tomorrow for the NZ top 10 with Ethan and Joe!
On this beautiful Praise Thursday, we shared inspiring worship music, gave devotions, shared updates, and played a fun game of NTT! Check out our website wnzr.fm!
Many people have been in a difficult position. You can’t control what people say or do, but you can control how you react. As followers of Christ, it’s our duty to not fight fire with fire. Kindness triumphs when those who’ve received it from God share it generously with others as the Spirit helps them. 1 Peter 3:8-12 (NIV): “When the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us.”
Most of us have heard “don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” the same is true in your relationship with God. God has a plan for us, but most of us try to go on our own path. God’s path’s are trustworthy, for He loves us and has our best interests at heart. Psalm 32:6-11 (NIV): “I will instruct… you in the way you should go… with my loving eye on you.”
This month is a time to honor our local pastors and their commitment to families in our community. Tell us why you love your pastor. Go online to wnzr.fm and click on the “Clergy Appreciation Month” banner. Nominate your pastor at www.wnzr.fm TODAY!
This week’s Name That Tune was “The Love I Have For You” by Colton Dixon. Congratulations to Jennifer of Centerburg for taking home TWO $5 gift cards to Watts Restaurant in Utica!
Tune in tomorrow for The NZ Top 10 with Joe and Ethan!
On this beautiful Praise Thursday, we shared inspiring worship music, gave devotions, shared updates, and played a fun game of NTT! Check out our website wnzr.fm!
Gabriella’s devotion: A God-fearing woman is a good thing to be called especially by your children. On Rosie’s birthday her family wanted to go around and talk about the life she has lived. Her children said something that will never leave her soul. They called her “a God-fearing woman” and she felt a sense of accomplishment after. It should be everyone’s goal to be a God-fearing follower of Christ. Parents are a role model to their kids and it’s their responsibility to show them who God is. Proverbs 31:24-31 (NIV).
Ethan’s devotion: Tom was fighting a chronic illness and wanted to spend time with God, but he couldn’t find a way to position his body where it wasn’t painful for him. He fell to his knees in pain and that prayerful posture proved to lessen the agonizing ache. He felt comfort in the next mornings on his knees praying out to God. In painful and challenging times He helps us submit to His will and live out a prayer posture in our hearts, we can find comfort and peace in Him. 2 Chronicles 20:5-12 (NIV).
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This month is a time to honor our local pastors and their commitment to families in our community. Tell us why you love your pastor. Go online to wnzr.fm and click on the “Clergy Appreciation Month” banner. Nominate your pastor at www.wnzr.fm TODAY!
This week’s Name That Tune was a stumper, but come back next week to win TWO $5 gift card to Watts Restaurant in Utica!
Tune in tomorrow for The NZ Top 10 with Joe and Ethan!
On this beautiful Praise Thursday, we shared inspiring worship music, gave devotions, shared updates, and played a fun game of NTT! Check out our website wnzr.fm!
In the animated movie Toy Story, one character, a space ranger named Buzz Lightyear, shouts his signature catchphrase while flying about the bedroom: “To infinity and beyond! It’s a phrase that has confused many. Isn’t infinity as far as you can go? How can there be anything “beyond” infinity? Jesus seems to employ such exponential effort in the realm of forgiveness. When Peter asked Jesus about forgiving another person, “How many times must I forgive him . . . seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, you must forgive him more than seven times. You must forgive him even if he wrongs you seventy times seven” (Matthew 18:21-22 ncv). Jesus goes on to tell a parable comparing a merciful king and an unmerciful servant, making the point that when someone truly regrets their error, there is no limit to the number of times we’re to forgive. That’s why we constantly need to ask God for His help. Only in His strength can we do this. Forgiven people forgive people. To infinity and beyond!
I realized I neglected to ask god for help in this stressful time of working on a work project with an impossible deadline. So i prayed… and immediately felt better. nothing changed- the project was still challenging, but peace washed over me. Perhaps David felt the same way submitting his fears and worries to God. In Psalm 6, he starts off describing his anguish at being hounded by his enemies. He continued to turning to God for help, he felt reassured: “The Lord has heard my cry… the Lord accepts my prayer.” Prayer isn’t a feel-good technique, but it’s a direct connection with the all-seeing, all-powerful One who will help is in His time and way. Feeling discouraged or down? Just pray- God hears.
Congratulations to Dwight of Mount Vernon for guessing our Name That Tune correctly and taking home a $5 gift card to Watts Restaurant in Utica. This week’s Name That Tune was Seph Schlueter’s Running Back To You. Come back next week to win a $5 gift card to Watts Restaurant in Utica!
This month is a time to honor our local pastors and their commitment to families in our community. Tell us why you love your pastor. Go online to wnzr.fm and click on the “Clergy Appreciation Month” banner. Nominate your pastor at www.wnzr.fm TODAY!
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Today on Praise Thursday, we gave wonderful devotions, had fun contests, and shared upcoming events at WNZR! Go to our website wnzr.fm!
Many of us as kids loved playing in the dark and Karen’s nieces were no different. They loved turning off the lights and makin scary faces when they turned the lights off. In his letter to the early believers in Jesus, the apostle John talked about choosing to walk in a different kind of darkness. First John 1:6 refers to sin as “darkness.” Walking in darkness isn’t a momentary lapse but a choice to keep engaging in wrong doing. John reminds us that our holy God “is light” and “in him there is no darkness” (V.5). If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. Only when we live in full obedience to God can we enjoy the full blessing of relationship with Him and to with other believers.
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We did another Mark Schultz giveaway! Win tickets for “an evening with Mark Schultz”, this Saturday October 4th! Be caller #3 when you hear the Mark Shultz music montage. Tomorrow during Congratulations to Ebony of Mount Vernon, Kari of Newark, and Nina of Mount Vernon for winning tickets to “an evening with Mark Schultz” this Saturday in the chapel!
Tune in next Thursday for a chance to win a $5 gift card to Watts Restaurant in Utica! Guess the song title and the artist correctly for Name That Tune and you will win!
Today on Praise Thursday, we gave wonderful devotions, had fun contests, and shared upcoming events at WNZR! Go to our website wnzr.fm!
Here’s our devotional we talked about for Praise Thursday!
“Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools. (Ecclesiastes 7:9).
Most human conflicts—shattered marriages and ruined friendships—are likely rooted in some form of unmanaged anger. Selfishness and power plays, unresolved misunderstandings, slights and counter-aggression—it’s all foolishness. So often, our ill-advised perceptions or reactions lead to destructive anger. Yet Ecclesiastes offers wisdom: “Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools” (7:9).
Since “death is the destiny of everyone” (v. 2), Solomon advises us to live life with our end in mind, pondering life’s brevity instead of pursuing festivity, “for sadness has a refining influence on us” (v. 3 nlt). In light of life’s brevity and adversity and death’s reality, we’re to decide how to wisely spend our time. Even as we experience the uncertainties of life—adversity and prosperity, good times and bad times—God is in control (vv. 13-14).
We’re doing another fun giveaway and all this week and next week during The Morning Thing and The Afternoon Drive. We’ll be doing a Mark Schultz giveaway! Win tickets for “an evening with Mark Schultz”, October 4th! Be caller #3 when you hear the Mark Shultz music montage, and you will win! Congratulations Melinda of Howard for being caller #3!
Tune in during The Afternoon Drive for our daily prayer! This week is Global Prayer Week and WNZR celebrates by doing a daily prayer on The Morning Thing and The Afternoon Drive! give your prayer requests on our website! wnzr.fm
Today we played a 15 second clip of a song that we listened to on The Afternoon Drive for Name That Tune! This week’s Name That Tune was a stumper so come back next week and you have a chance to take home TWO $5 gift cards to Watts Restaurant in Utica!
Tune in tomorrow for New Music Friday and this week’s countdown of The NZ Top 10!
Today on Praise Thursday, we gave wonderful devotions, had fun contests, and shared upcoming events at WNZR! Go to our website wnzr.fm!
Here’s our devotional we talked about for Praise Thursday!
Nora is going through her husbands passing and many of her friends tell her to “be strong”, but what does that mean?That I must deliver without fail in my responsibilities?
God gave great responsibilities to Othniel in a time of transition for the people of Israel. As discipline for the nation’s idolatry (Judges 3:8). Under the cruel king of Mesopotamia, the Israelites “cried out to the Lord,” and “he raised up for them a deliverer” Othniel, whose name means “God’s strength. ”How can we truly “be strong”? It’s by knowing we’re not strong and by trusting God to give us His strength. His “grace is sufficient for us, for God’s power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9). God’s strength works through us, doing things only He can do.
Congratulations to Addie of West Jefferson for winning Noah Live tickets for next week in theaters! Tune in for The Morning Thing and The Afternoon Drive Tomorrow for a chance to win tickets! Be caller number three, no trivia just call!
SonFest is this Saturday! All this week during The Morning Thing and Afternoon Drive, we have been giving trivia questions about one artist. The first caller to guess the artist correctly wins TWO SonFest tickets for this Saturday, 9/20! Tune into The Morning Thing tomorrow for your last chance to win! Congratulations to Robin of Fredericktown for winning two tickets for SonFest on The Afternoon Drive!
Today we played a 15 second clip of a song that we listened to on The Afternoon Drive for Name That Tune!
This week’s Name That Tune was “I Got You” from Danny Gokey. Congratulations to Jill from Howard for calling in and naming the song title and artist, taking home two $5 gift cards to Watts Restaurant in Utica!
Tune in tomorrow for New Music Friday and this week’s countdown of The NZ Top 10!
On this stressful and heartbreaking anniversary, we took a step back to read devotions from Our Daily Bread Ministries!
Here’s our devotional we talked about for Praise Thursday!
“See, Lord, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed.” Lamentations 1:20
“I viewed the opening displays of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City with curiosity but kept my emotions in check. That changed when we entered the inner exhibit, which the curators have wisely closed off from children and those wanting to shield themselves from the more heartrending images. As I encountered story after story of heartbreak and loss, waves of lament rose within me. This kind of honest crying out to God can help us to grapple with painful atrocities such as what happened on September 11, 2001, or other current-day evil deeds. We look to God for help, hope, comfort, and justice.”– Our Daily Bread.
Reflect: When you witness wickedness, how do you keep your heart tender before God? How might He lead you to pray for those who are hurting today?
You can read more about what we talked about HERE!
Today we played a 15 second clip of a song that we listened to on The Afternoon Drive for Name That Tune!
Come back next week for Name That Tune for a chance to win two $5 gift cards to Watts restaurant in Utica! Tune in tomorrow as we introduce a new song and this week’s count down for The NZ Top 10.
Today on Praise Thursday, we were on the road with Big Blue at the Fredericktown Tomato Show! Stay up-to-date with the Fredericktown Tomato Show and upcoming events on our website, at wnzr.fm!
It’s Praise Thursday! Today we read a devotional from Our Daily Bread Devotionals about prayer!
Prayer is the biggest thing we can do for someone. Whether you feel the impact or not, our prayer makes a difference. Especially when multiple people are praying for you!
We also talked about how it’s okay to open up about your struggles with godly people you trust that will lift you up and support you! That is such a huge step in conquering whatever you’re going through!
We played a 20 second song clip from a song we listened to on The Afternoon Drive!
This week’s Name That Tune song was “Made For More” from Josh Baldwin and Jenn Johnson!
Congratulations to Gina from Warsaw for calling in and figuring out the song title and artist, taking home a $5 gift card to Watts Restaurant in Utica! Tune in tomorrow for New Music Friday and this week’s countdown of The NZ Top 10!
Thank you so much for listening! – Gabriella and Ethan
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