I don’t want to sound trite or overly simplistic but the Bible is full of Good News!

After probably the weirdest year that any of us has ever been through;  a pandemic, tense elections, all the fires across the US, churches and businesses closing, people losing jobs, people sick and dying in unprecedented numbers, the stock market, the economy.............. Just a crazy year but:        I am looking ahead with Hope in My Heart.

Leave behind the anxiety, the worry, and the fear from the past. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope”. Jeremiah 29:11. Look forward and expect the best.     Whatever you are worried about, your deepest darkest concerns, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6.  Believe the Lord when He tells us “trust in Him”.

We’ve all heard John 3:16  “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son , that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” But what about John 3:17 “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him”.       God has a plan and we’re in it. We just need to ask him into our lives and in Isaiah 41:13 He says, “For I, the Lord your God, I hold your right hand; it is I who says  to you, Fear not, I am the one who helps you”.     In Psalms 91 it says “He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence and to not fear the terror of the night or the arrow that flies by day…”
The bible is full of Good News!

Life isn’t always easy. Whether it’s the mistakes that we make, or the things that can happen outside of our control, the Lord is there looking out for us. And He says in Hebrews 13:5 that “He will never leave you nor forsake you”. That means everything- to know that He is looking out for me. He wants the best for me. For us, For you!
“Blessed be the Lord who daily loads us with benefits” Psalms 68:19
 
 “So, forget what lies behind and strain forward to what lies ahead”, Philippians 3:13 and remember that “I can do all things through him who strengthens me”.
I trust the Lord. He says he will look out for me and I believe Him.  Commit ourselves to God, He has certainly committed Himself to us.
The Lord is with you, just ask Him.

Continue 2021 with hope in your heart and your eyes on Jesus!

Dan Smith
KWHS General Manager- Colorado Springs
Rocky Mountain CTN
Enjoy Life. Consider Eternity.

Athletes understand that to win a game, they must work together with their team.  That's not just a pattern for sports, but for life!  As a man, you don't need to run your race alone.
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Date: March 11th - 13th, 2021
Place: In the Auditorium at Charis Bible College in Woodland Park, Colorado
Cost: FREE
* A $45 meal ticket is available for purchase if desired and includes 1 lunch and 1 dinner.
There will also be food vendors on-site.
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At this year's event, you'll receive coaching from men who have run hard and been victorious.  Speakers include Andrew Wommack, sportscaster James Brown, and retired NFL head coach Tony Dungy.  

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COURAGE!
 
When do we need courage? When do we not?

There are times (actually daily circumstances), which may require us to say what we really feel about something: tell our spouse that we have never really liked the beef pot pie recipe handed down from her mother’s side of the family, so let’s not have that for Sunday dinner, or when we have to tell our boss that we put the order in wrong for our new client and now we can’t charge them for the last three months.

Standing up and telling the truth takes courage.

As difficult as those kinds of situations might be, they are nothing compared to some of the decisions, life and death decisions, people have faced throughout history and throughout the bible.

Here are a couple that stand out to me:
Daniel: 3:16-18 “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, be it known to you O king that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up"..... So the king lit them up and came back later to find out they were unharmed.
Boy, that’s courage. Courage is defined as “the ability to do something that frightens one”. The word comes from Middle English, Old French, and before that, Latin for the word heart. So courage is being motivated from the heart to do something brave.     Don’t we invite God into our hearts, to help us make the right decision, to stand up for what is right, to tell the truth when no one wants to listen?

In Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”

What about the shepherd boy David, who saw the giant threatening the Israelites? He talked Saul into letting him fight Goliath. And he wouldn’t even take the kings armor- just his staff and his sling; a boy. We know how that turned out!  He had the courage from God to stand up and fight for his people.
Sometimes we don’t need to get up and act right away but rather:
“Wait for the Lord, be strong, let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord”, as it says in Psalms 27:14.
 
 Romans 15:13 says “May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”

And can we not encourage one another as we go through this journey? Give someone help, hope? Show them God’s work around us?
 Isaiah 41:6 tells us “Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, Be strong.”
Proverbs 31:8-9 states,  “Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously; defend the rights of the poor and the needy.”
It takes courage to stand up for ourselves, to stand up for what its right, to stand up for others less fortunate, but with God in our hearts we can.

Here are a couple more verses   to illustrate that God is with us and gives us courage: 
Philippians 4:13 says “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”
Ephesians 6: 10-18 “Finally be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of evil.”
 
Stay close to God, study His word and  be intentionally about   walking in courage as you operate in the Love of God.

Dan Smith
General Manager for KWHS-Colorado Springs
Rocky Mountain  CTN
Enjoy Life. Consider Eternity.

We have a great New Year's Eve Christian Music Countdown Special tonight at 11:30pm for 1 hour.

WAYS TO WATCH:
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Denver, Northern Colorado & Cheyenne (KQDK/KQCK):
Comcast (Ch 643 HD & Ch 51 sd)
Comcast coverage also includes: Castle Rock, Breckenridge & Aspen
Dish (Ch 33 HD & sd)
Century Link (Ch 39)
Antenna (Ch 39.1, .2, .3 or 33.1, .2, .3)
TDS Telecommunications
(Estes Park- Ch 94; Arvada- Ch 91 / Ft. Collins- Ch 92)
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Colorado Springs & Pueblo (KWHS):
Comcast (Colorado Springs- Ch 6 / Pueblo- Ch 385)
Antenna (Ch 51.1 & .2)
Ft. Carson (Ch 88) / Peterson AFB (Ch 51)
Air Force Academy (Ch 6)
Prism/Century Link (Ch 51) - TVision (Rye/Colorado City Ch 156)
StratusIQ-Ch 568 in Falcon, Colorado
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*You can also watch us on ROKU:
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We have all taken a sidestep in our lives, or even taken a step backwards as we go through life.  Or maybe something happened to us beyond our control. A fire, a car wreck, we lose our job, a death in the family. If we have Hope, it causes us to not be discouraged, not to give up, because we have something to keep going for. We have hope for the future. A better life.

Many of us have heard of the book, The Power of Positive Thinking from Norman Vincent Peale.  It has sold 5 million copies since it first came out in 1952, but the one book that has lasted throughout the ages is the Bible. There are 20 million bibles sold EACH YEAR in the US alone. The average household has something like 8 or 9 in the house. And that does not include the rest of the planet!

When we do get discouraged, in Jeremiah 29:11 the Lord says, “for I know the thoughts that I have for you, thoughts of peace and not evil, to give you a future and a hope”.     In Philippians 3:13-14 it says: “Brethren, I do not count myself to have understood, one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus”.

In Titus, 3: 4-7 it says: “But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy, He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life”.

I guess I used to think that hope and faith are the same, but they are not. Or maybe I never even thought about it. The Lord gives us hope and faith. We have hope for eternal life, and we have faith that we will get there!

We have all seen what’s going on in the world, from the people we know next door, to us or someone in our family.  Life goes on, but God gives us hope. When life does seem overwhelming and too much to bear, give it God. Your worry, your fears, your past.  “We know that God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believeth in Him shall not perish but have eternal life”. John 3:16.

On a personal note, I have hope that I will see my daughter again, and I have faith that I will.
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Dan Smith
Rocky Mountain CTN
General Manager-Colorado Springs-KWHS

WAYS TO WATCH:
LiveStream: https://www.rockymountainctn.com/live-stream.html
Denver, Northern Colorado & Cheyenne (KQDK/KQCK):
Comcast (Ch 643 HD & Ch 51 sd)
Comcast coverage also includes: Castle Rock, Breckenridge & Aspen
Dish (Ch 33 HD & sd)
Century Link (Ch 39)
Antenna (Ch 39.1, .2, .3 or 33.1, .2, .3)
TDS Telecommunications
(Estes Park- Ch 94; Arvada- Ch 91 / Ft. Collins- Ch 92)

Colorado Springs & Pueblo (KWHS):
Comcast (Colorado Springs- Ch 6 / Pueblo- Ch 385)
Antenna (Ch 51.1 & .2)
Ft. Carson (Ch 88) / Peterson AFB (Ch 51)
Air Force Academy (Ch 6)
Prism/Century Link (Ch 51) - TVision (Rye/Colorado City Ch 156)
StratusIQ-Ch 568 in Falcon, Colorado
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*You can also watch us on ROKU:
Search for CTN and under that you will find our Rocky Mountain CTN programming.