​It’s really important that you know who Jesus is for you. Your testimony is not what you were like before you got saved; that’s your history.
Your testimony is: “This is what God is like for me all the time. This is what I’m discovering. This is what I’m enjoying. This is who God is for me. This is my testimony of the nature of God in my life and I have physical, tangible evidence of the nature of God in my life. I can tell you story, after story, after story, after story, after story. I have too much evidence. I know what God is like.”
(From Graham Cooke's teaching series- A Certain Sound)

11th Hour- Saturday at 6:30pm: Join Anh and Kathleen as they discuss "How Do You Know You Are Making The Right Decisions?"
Adventures With God- Saturday at 9pm: Watch to see how they tackle the question "How Important Is Desperation In Moving The Heart Of God?"
Roy Fields-Saturday at 10pm: Enter into worship with Roy before the guest interview with Chris Scarinzi

On Sunday, don't miss our special 30 minute program on the Life of Billy Graham: 
12:30pm and 7:30pm
We also encourage you to Catch the Convocation Service from Liberty University as they bring awareness to Domestic Violence and what the church can do. Sunday at 2pm. 

​OUTCRY began four years ago as a hallmark, a line in the sand, a stake in the ground. It was the mark of something that truly had already begun – revival in the local church.

Featuring a unique combination of artists and worship leaders, OUTCRY: Spring 2018 Tour provides a rare opportunity to worship with a wide variety of artists and hear a message from one of the renowned speakers of the day. Artists teaming up for the OUTCRY: Spring 2018 Tour are Elevation Worship, Bethel Music, Mosaic MSC and Vertical Worship, with speaker Christine Caine.

To register, visit their website.  (There are group rates available)

This morning I woke to news that Billy Graham had died at the age of 99. I have always been fascinated with the fact that most people were not turned off by his message of the gospel and would actually embrace him and his teachings. He was not watering down what he believed whenever he would speak or make special allowances for people who disagreed with the Bible. He even carried the title “America’s Pastor” from not just people in the church.

Then I thought of his lifestyle and how he was known around the world: as a man of integrity. Never can I remember a headline that mentioned him embezzling money or being inappropriate with funds from his ministry or a news story about how he was caught in some illicit affair with a woman or that he was seen stumbling out of a party doing or saying/quoting something that he didn’t remember and that was offensive. Of course, I am not saying that Reverend Graham was perfect and I am sure he had his faults, but it seemed like he was concerned about his “non-religious” actions and how people saw him because it would affect the Gospel he represented.

So I think the answer in how to minister the Gospel, which is FULL of opposition to the current culture we live in but carries all of the answers to life, is to not just think about our religion but our personal relationship with Jesus. When we recognize that people will not care about what we say about God until they see how we VALUE that relationship, we will have a much greater influence on culture and infusing the love and purposeful direction of Christ in people’s lives.

Today, every single believer in Jesus needs to take an inventory as to how we are viewed and if we are living a life that is concerned with how Jesus is seen through us as much as the words we speak about Him. If we are using social media platforms to try and belittle people we disagree with and make sure they know that we are right and they are wrong instead of pausing before reacting to everything. That we are leading with LOVE for people and not just trying to shove the truth of the Gospel down people’s throats. (By the way, leading with love doesn’t reduce the truth of the Bible and actually amplifies it to people because it doesn’t happen as much as it needs to). Maybe we need to reach out to someone we possibly offended and make it right to bring alignment in life. It may be a great time to get a couple of accountability partners in an area of personal weakness to make sure you are actually living the life you think you are in your mind.
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With the passing of a man like Reverend Graham, we need to evaluate our actions and tighten up areas of our life that we may think are irrelevant to the words we speak about Jesus. If we want to be operating at maximum capacity in our Christianity we need to even consider our life as a whole and not compartmentalize our relationship to Jesus and our relationship to people.

Brian Morris
General Manager @ Rocky Mountain CTN
Enjoy Life.  Consider Eternity

A FAMILY GAYLA EVENT
SUNDAY, February 25th • Event begins at 5:30pm
GUEST SPEAKER: Terri Savelle Foy
​For more information visit Word of Life's Website
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​Hebrews 13:15
"Therefore through Jesus let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name."
 
Lifting up your hands and thanking God is spontaneous and easy when your prayer was answered or you just received a wonderful blessing.
 
“Yes, thank you Father for this financial windfall!”
 
Maybe you came close to being in a fatal accident, but God miraculously saved you. Or your mother found Jesus as her personal Savior and was healed of a fatal disease.
 
But there are times you don’t feel like lifting your hands to praise and thank God, yet you do anyways. Perhaps you feel discouraged because everything is going wrong and your life looks like a huge mess. You can’t hold back the tears and it might take some time. Yet, you decide to lift your hands and thank God for being in the situation with you. You begin to praise Him even though you really don’t feel like doing it.
 
In the middle of the mess you are going through, you praise Him that He is your righteousness in spite of all the mistakes you have made. You thank Him for his grace, and that His peace will fill you up and calm the craziness in your life.
 
God sees and appreciates such times when, despite feeling so discouraged, you thank and praise His name. In fact, your thanks and praise during such times is more highly prized by God then the good times because you have just been blessed. And when you choose to thank Him for His unfailing love, and His faithfulness to deliver, protect and provide for you even when you don’t see the blessings yet, before long, you will find yourself experiencing and enjoying the blessings! So lift your hands and praise the Lord, for He is good, and His mercy endures forever! (Psalms 106:1)

We pray you have a wonderful week
Ken Heckel
RMCTN Master Control Operator

Today, Let's pray for the students, teachers, faculty, parents, family members, friends, loved ones, and community.  Let's pray for our culture, that when there are those disturbed around us that we would reach out and help bring healing from the Father with a deep love that changes lives.  
Evil is real and creates devastating destruction, but God is real and He brings help, healing and change to brokenness.