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Reason To Believe-The Big Picture

January 4th, 2016 No comments

JOHN SHIRK – This is the Year of Exploration at WJTL. We will explore various questions about the Christian faith and examine daily reasons to believe in the Gospel.

Today’s Reason to Believe is the Big Picture.

From the beginning to end, the Bible outlines human history in a way that reveals Jesus as our only hope for salvation from sin.

The first two chapters in Genesis reveal Creation, where God made the heavens and the earth.

The third chapter of Genesis reveals the fall of Adam and Eve and the consequences of sin.

Much of the Bible covers God’s plan of redemption through the coming of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament anticipates the arrival of the Christ with the law, feasts, and prophecies. The New Testament reveals Jesus as the Christ, who fulfills the law and the prophets.

And the book of Revelation reveals the new heavens and the new earth, where God’s followers are restored to complete fellowship with God.

According to First Peter 3:18, Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.

The big picture of history and God’s plan of redemption is a reason to believe in God’s good news.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com

Relationship Building Principle-Overcome Evil With Good

May 20th, 2015 No comments

JOHN SHIRK – Today’s Relationship-Building Principle comes from Genesis 50:20.

Joseph was a godly man with great influence in the land of Egypt. His brothers had rejected him when he was a teenage boy. They were jealous of him and would not speak kindly to him. Many years later, they needed his help. When his brothers came to Egypt seeking relief from the famine, they made their appeal to Joseph, who had a choice to make. He could let the past embitter him against his brothers, or he could forgive them and offer them aid.

Joseph returned their hostility with kindness. This is a pattern similar to how God treats a world that has treated Him with hostility because of our sin. He has responded by offering us grace. He sent Jesus to the world, whose sacrifice on the cross overcame evil with good.

Near the end of his life, Joseph could look back and see the wisdom of God’s plan through the good, bad, and the ugly. He said to his brothers, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children. And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.” That is an expression of undeserved grace, the kind of grace that can restore broken relationships.

Overcoming evil with good is a relationship-building principle to take to heart in the Year of Connection.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com

Praise & Worship Show Playlist

August 17th, 2014 No comments

Hi everybody,

Long-time Praise & Worship Show listener, Jill, suggested today’s theme: Peace & Reconciliation.  Check out the song details below.  If there’s a theme you’d like, please feel free to get in touch!

Kristi Leigh – WJTL DJ

Kristi@WJTL.com

 

PEACE & RECONCILIATION THEME
6AM
Peace To Shine LaRue Reaching 2002
Lord, I Need You Chris Tomlin Passion: Here For You 2011
Restore Chris August The Upside Of Down 2013
Be Still My Soul Leigh Nash Hymns And Sacred Songs 2011
Beauty For Ashes Anthony Skinner Forever And A Day 2004
Desert Soul Rend Collective Homemade Worship By Handmade People 2012
Peace Watermark Watermark 1998
Restoration Phillips, Craig & Dean Phillips Craig & Dean Ultimate Collection 2006
Songs of the Redeemed Charlie Hall Flying Into Daybreak 2006
Redeemed Big Daddy Weave Love Come To Life 2012
Bring Us Back Bellarive Before There Was 2014
Peace Rich Mullins A Liturgy, A Legacy and A Ragamuffin Band 1993
Psalm 23 Matt Papa You Are Good 2006
7AM
The Lord is My Shepherd Jeremy Riddle Furious 2011
I Lay Me Down Michael W. Smith Sovereign 2014
A Song Of Peace Nichole Nordeman Listen To Our Hearts, Vol. 1 1998
The Purest Place (featuring Tim Hughes) Watermark The Purest Place 2004
Peace Jason Upton Open Up the Earth 2005
Spirit of the Living God Audrey Assad Fortunate Fall 2013
I Turn To You Selah Hope Of The Broken World 2012
Knees To The Earth Christy Nockels Passion: Sacred Revolution 2003
The More I Seek You Kari Jobe Deeper (Integrtity Music) 2008
I Will Give You Peace Echoing Angels Echoing Angels 2011
Whole World In His Hands Matt Redman Passion: How Great Is Our God 2005
Sometimes He Calms The Storm Scott Krippayne Wild Imagination 1996
8AM 2011
All Things Beautiful Shelly Johnson 2012
We Still Believe Kathryn Scott Songs 4 Worship Ultimate 2011
Mended Watermark The Purest Place 2004
Beauty of Your Peace Tim Hughes When Silence Falls 2004
All The Poor And Powerless All Sons & Daughters Season One 2012
It is Well (feat. Kristene DiMarco) Bethel Music You Make Me Brave (Live) 2014
Restoration David Brymer Unceasing
Thrill Charlie Hall The Bright Sadness 2008
You Are Holy (Prince Of Peace) NewSong Newsong Rescue – Live Worship 2005
Hostage of Peace Tenth Avenue North The Struggle 2012
Every Little Thing Delirious? Now Is the Time – Live At Willow Creek (Bonus Track Version) 2006
9AM
Beauty For Ashes Shane & Shane Carry Away 2004
Be Still And Know Steven Curtis Chapman Speechless 1999
Captivate Us (feat. Charlie Hall) Watermark The Purest Place 2004
Keep Me Near Rend Collective Homemade Worship By Handmade People 2012
Perfect Peace Laura Story Great God Who Saves 2008
Salvation (Psalm 71) Shawn McDonald The Message – Psalms 2005
Comfort Me (feat. Brenton Brown) Vineyard Lord Reign In Me 2003
Peace Robbie Seay Band 10,000 Charms 2002
Grace Michael W. Smith A New Hallelujah 2008
Peace Klaus The Invitation 2007
Psalm 23 Jason Upton Jacobs Dream – EP 2002
I Shall Not Want Audrey Assad Fortunate Fall 2013
Find You On My Knees Kari Jobe Where I Find You 2013
Be Still And Know Christy Nockels Deeper (Integrity Music) 2008

 

Lesson Of Faith-Restoration Of Life

November 1st, 2013 No comments

JOHN SHIRK – While physical death is the result of our sin, eternal life is the promise of God for those who receive His grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

Revelation 21 pictures a new heaven and a new earth. Life’s harsh realities in our world today will not be present in God’s new world order.

Verse 3 says, “God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

No more funerals, no more brokenness, no more hospitals, no more bad news. This is the picture of God’s restoration when He makes everything new.

The restoration that God has promised for His people is a lesson of faith worth remembering.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com