August 31, 2009

Congratulations to the staff at Mathias Elementary Cafeteria… the KLRC office of the week! Winners of a nugget tray from Chick-fil-A Restaurants of Northwest Arkansas and a balloon bouquet from the Balloon Closet!

August 28, 2009

Family Fun Calendar

All Weekend:

Frisco Fest in Rogers

Date: Aug. 28th & 29th

Time: 5:00pm Friday, all day Saturday

For more information: http://www.friscofestival.com/

 

Beth Moore Simulcast at Church at Pinnacle Hills

Date: Aug. 28th & 29th

Time: Friday 7:00 Saturday 8:30

For more information: http://pinnacle.reachforlife.tv/2009/05/beth-moore-simulcast/

 

Saturday

Community Lunch @ Northeast United Pentecostal Church

Date: Aug. 29th

Time: 11:00am

For more information call 479-442-4381

 

For reviews of today’s featured movie, Taking Woodstock, or others movies now showing: www.pluggedinonline.com

 

Some 200-thousand Frigidaire and Kenmore stoves are being recalled due to a fire hazard.  This recall involves Frigidaire, Frigidaire Gallery, Frigidaire Professional and Kenmore Elite Smoothtop Electric ranges with rotary knobs and digital displays.  Depending on the model, the surface heating elements turn on spontaneously and fail to turn off after being switched off or heat to different temperatures than selected.  Frigidaire has received 126 reports of such incidents.  Consumers should stop using the ranges immediately and contact frigidaire at (800) 449-9812 to schedule a free repair.

The recalled stoves were sold at sears and other national chain and independent retailers nationwide from June 2001 through august 2009.

Consumers who purchased their products at sears should call sears at (800) 449-9810.

August 26, 2009

Another great story this morning of people living here in NWA who are doing Crazy things for God’s Kingdom. If you’d like to read more about the Wessels & Karum’s journey of faith check out Ezekiel Rain.

Kelli's family

Joel's family

Quicksand

My husband downloaded a new game for his phone recently. It’s a survivor trivia quiz. I picked it up the other day and was playing it. One of the questions was:

You have stepped on quicksand. Should you:

Fight- quickly try to move back to safety

or

Be Still- remain as calm and still as possible and call for help

I think our natural instinct would be to fight. If we are sinking we try to get out. But actually the more we move and try to fight the quicksand the faster it will pull us under.

A lot of my life feels like quicksand these days. I feel as though the ground around me is unstable and pulling me under. And in all honesty I’m not sure how I got here. Just a minute ago I was walking on solid ground and now I’m in a pit. I’ve been trying really hard to get out of this pit. And yet, here I am, fully immersed, and covered in mud.

It was at the point of exhaustion from fighting against the quicksand that I stopped to ask myself a question. Is all this fighting getting me anywhere? And so I stopped. I stopped fighting, and simply cried out… Help!

You see, I’ve been taught to fight. To take control, to take charge, to not let circumstances pull me down. I’ve been taught to be brave, to be courageous. But in the pit, in the mire and mud courage whispered to me… stop! Be still. Quit fighting. Because, I wasn’t standing on solid ground. And unless my feet are firmly planted on the Rock I cannot, dare not, fight.

I waited patiently for the Lord;

He turned to me and heard my cry.

He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire;

He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.

Psalms 40:1&2

I am still in the pit. But I am no longer sinking. I am waiting patiently for the Lord. I am confident He has heard my cry. Soon, He will lift me out of here, and set my feet on a rock. And then I will take up my shield and my sword and I will fight. But until then, I will be still. I will trust. I will surrender.

Keri

August 25, 2009

Thanks Rick for sharing your story with us this morning.

If you’d like more information about how to be involved with feeding the hungry here in Northwest Arkansas there will be a meeting tonight at 6:00. More information can be found here.

If you missed part of Rick’s story you can listen to it here.