Dear KKIM Family,
PRAISE GOD I am here to share with you today!
It is right to give PRAISE and GLORY to GOD!
God wants us to grow up………like Christ in everything. Eph 4:15
WOW! How powerful of a message is that!!!! Write that down, pray over it, put it on your bathroom mirror, dash board, at work.
Yesterday I awoke at 2am to see if our computer system that drives the programming of the station made the time switch, it did not. So I got up and went in and made the changes that we needed to make. As I drove into the station I asked the Lord why do things like this happen? He told me read my email……..There was an email from a KKIM listener from the Taos area,(Melecio) He was saying how much they were thankful that KKIM FM is back at full power, how much they missed it. That was all I needed…….but I got more, from the nice lady in Los Alamos (Can’t remember name) left me a phone message PRAISING GOD for KKIM FM.
Shona Neff, who you hear on Saturday mornings at 7:30am lives in White Rock, NM and she can hear KKIM FM again, She is so thankful! PRAISE GOD!!!
Please keep the KKIM FM transmitter site in your prayers……….please pray for protection.
I rejoice in my duties being the steward of KKIM!!!!
The Lord also had me stay and do some live stuff Sunday morning asking people if they had set their clocks ahead with the time change.
It was all good!
What a PRAISE NOTE!!!! It is RAINING here in Albuquerque!!! We have had the driest Jan. and Feb. on record and have been praying for rain!!!
One of my mentors in life, My 93 year old Uncle Joe Moede, living in Apple Valley, Minn, called me yesterday. It is getting hard for Joe to read, his eye sight is not what it once was. He called asking me to read him scripture. I had scripture with me and the Lord also told me to tell Joe that HE had four angels that were with Joe at all times. That gave Joe great comfort and peace. The more I am into the word and the more I listen, the more the Messenger, the Holy Spirit, brings me messages. I PRAISE GOD FOR THAT! It takes such a burden off of us, when Christ leads our life. I still do mess up, when I go off and do things without the Lord! But one of the most wonderful gifts given to us by the Lord, is guiding our lives, if we will give up our self-will.
People need more than bread for their life;
they must feed on every Word of God.
Matt. 4:4
Joe knows that scripture……..as we all need to be fed by God’s word.
God’s……..gracious Word can make you into what HE wants you to be and give you everything you could possibly need. Acts 20:32
We have been talking about just telling the TRUTH! It is sad the lies we hear from far too many so called leaders of our state and nation.
The TRUTH transforms us.
We are to be witnesses for Christ. To help introduce the TRUTH to others.
God wants us to grow up………like Christ in everything. Eph 4:15
Spiritual growth is the process of replacing lies with truth. Jesus prayed, “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.”
Sanctification requires revelation. The Spirit of God uses the Word of God to make us like the Son of God. To become like Jesus, we must fill our lives with HIS WORD. The Bible says, “Through the WORD we are put together and shaped up for the tasks GOD has for us.”
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!!!! But first it may make you feel miserable!!!!!
Get rid of the old and bring on the new!!!!
“If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:31-32
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 2 Cor. 4:17
It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness. Madame Guyon
Okay, here is a couple of important news stories from KKIM’s Frank Haley…..remember……Frank as the news for you every weekday morning on KKIM and posted on the web site by 6am. www.mykkim.com
ABQ enjoying its first measurable precipitation since … forever!
It just seems like forever, but the last measurable precipitation in Albuquerque occurred on Dec. 26 — just 0.17 inch — for the driest start of a year since record-keeping began,
Well, after 73 (or is it 74) days, we’re getting some rain as we speak. The roads are slick, and in some places the storm drains don’t seem to know what’s hitting them — so take it easy as you drive to work this morning.
But enjoy the rain while it lasts.
When it comes to religion, the USA is now land of the freelancers.
The percentage. of people who call themselves in some way Christian has dropped more than 11% in a generation. The faithful have scattered out of their traditional bases: The Bible Belt is less Baptist. The Rust Belt is less Catholic. And everywhere, more people are exploring spiritual frontiers — or falling off the faith map completely.
These dramatic shifts in just 18 years are detailed in the new American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), to be released today. It finds that, despite growth and immigration that has added nearly 50 million adults to the U.S. population, almost all religious denominations have lost ground since the first ARIS survey in 1990.
“More than ever before, people are just making up their own stories of who they are. They say, ‘I’m everything. I’m nothing. I believe in myself,’ ” says Barry Kosmin, survey co-author.
Among the key findings in the 2008 survey:
• So many Americans claim no religion at all (15%, up from 8% in 1990), that this category now outranks every other major U.S. religious group except Catholics and Baptists. In a nation that has long been mostly Christian, “the challenge to Christianity … does not come from other religions but from a rejection of all forms of organized religion,” the report concludes.
• Catholic strongholds in New England and the Midwest have faded as immigrants, retirees and young job-seekers have moved to the Sun Belt. While bishops from the Midwest to Massachusetts close down or consolidate historic parishes, those in the South are scrambling to serve increasing numbers of worshipers.
• Baptists, 15.8% of those surveyed, are down from 19.3% in 1990. Mainline Protestant denominations, once socially dominant, have seen sharp declines: The percentage of Methodists, for example, dropped from 8% to 5%.
• The percentage of those who choose a generic label, calling themselves simply Christian, Protestant, non-denominational, evangelical or “born again,” was 14.2%, about the same as in 1990.
• Jewish numbers showed a steady decline, from 1.8% in 1990 to 1.2% today. The percentage of Muslims, while still slim, has doubled, from 0.3% to 0.6%. Analysts within both groups suggest those numbers understate the groups’ populations.
Please cover this in your prayers………..
Ill. church gunman’s motives a mystery
By JIM SUHR
Associated Press Writer
6:29 AM CDT, March 9, 2009
MARYVILLE, Ill.
With 1,200 people attending Sunday services at the First Baptist Church in this St. Louis suburb, parishioners initially weren’t alarmed when a young man they didn’t recognize walked up the sprawling church’s center aisle during the sermon. Until he opened fire.
The gunman, identified by authorities as a 27-year-old from Troy, strode toward the Rev. Fred Winters shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, exchanged words with him, then fired a .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol untilit jammed and churchgoers wrestled him to the ground as he brandished a knife, said Illinois State Police Director Larry Trent.
Winters later died of his injuries.
None of the about 150 parishioners seemed to recognize the gunman, and investigators did not know details of Winters’ conversation with him, Trent said, but they planned to review an audio recording of the service.
The mystery leaves church members wondering who would want to hurt the man who was their pastor for 22 years — and why.
Authorities didn’t know whether Winters, a married father of two, knew the gunman. Police would not release the gunman’s name pending possible charges.
“We don’t know the relationship (between the gunman and pastor), why he’s here or what the circumstances came about that caused him in the first place to be here,” said Illinois State Police Master Trooper Ralph Timmins.
Winters deflected the first of the gunman’s four rounds with a Bible, sending a confetti-like spray of paper into the air in a horrifying scene parishioners initially thought was a skit, police said.
Some parishioners said Winters may have greeted the gunman and asked if he could do anything for him.
“We thought it was part of a drama skit … when he shot, what you saw was confetti,” said parishioner Linda Cunningham, whose husband is a minister of adult education at the 1,200-member church. “We just sat there waiting for what comes next not realizing that he had wounded the pastor.”
Winters had stood on an elevated platform to deliver his sermon about finding happiness in the workplace — titled “Come On, Get Happy” — and managed to run halfway down the sanctuary’s side aisle before collapsing, Cunningham said.
Two parishioners tackled the gunman as he pulled the knife, and all three were stabbed — the gunman suffered “a pretty serious wound to the neck” while one parishioner had lower back wounds, Trent said.
Churchgoers knocked the gunman between sets of pews, then held him down until police arrived, said member Don Bohley, who was just outside the sanctuary when the shooting began.
“People came running out and told us to call 911,” said Bohley, 72.
Trent said investigators found no immediate evidence of a criminal background for the suspect. He said police were investigating whether a red Jeep parked outside the church belonged to the man.
The Jeep, which remained at the church Sunday night under State Police watch, was registered to the address of a 27-year-old man in an upscale neighborhood in Troy. No one answered the door at the residence Sunday. A woman from a neighboring home cried while hugging other neighbors in the cul-de-sac, but all declined comment.
A man of the same age whose mother’s name also is registered at the Troy address was featured in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article detailing his battle with Lyme disease. In the article, the man’s mother said the disease left lesions on his brain and that doctors had diagnosed him as mentally ill before discovering the disease.
In the August 2008 article, the mother said her son was taking several medications and had difficulty speaking after contracting the tick-borne illness.
Police would not confirm that the man in the article was the church shooting suspect. The Associated Press is not naming the man because no one has been charged in the shooting.
The Rev. Mark Jones, another First Baptist pastor, said he briefly saw the gunman before a weapon was pulled. Jones then walked to an adjacent room and did not see the shooting, though he heard a sound like miniature fire crackers.
“We have no idea what this guy’s motives were,” Jones said outside the church.
Jones later urged a Sunday evening prayer service attended by hundreds at nearby Metro Community Church in Edwardsville to be resilient after “this attack from the forces of hell.”
The standing-room-only crowd cried, cradled Bibles and stretched their hands skyward as they packed into the church, many watching the service on large television monitors in overflow areas.
“We need to reassure our hearts and reinforce our minds that Pastor Fred is in that place that we call heaven,” Jones said. “Church, evil does exist. Today, we saw the visible results of evil and its influence.”
The gunman and 39-year-old parishioner Terry Bullard underwent surgery at St. Louis University Hospital and remained in serious condition Monday morning, according to hospital spokeswoman Laura Keller. The other victim, Keith Melton, was treated and released from Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite City, Ill.
“I would call it heroic,” Trent said. “While many understandably were stuck to their seats, they took to action.”
But Melton said he was struggling with whether he acted quickly enough.
“It’s very hard to see when I had to see my pastor murdered,” Melton told St. Louis station KDSK-TV. “A half second more, might that have made a difference?”
First Baptist had an average attendance of 32 people when Winters became senior pastor in 1987; it now has about 1,200 members, according to the church’s Web site. Winters was former president of the Illinois Baptist State Association and an adjunct professor for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, according to the site.
The church sits along a busy two-lane highway on the east side of Maryville, a fast-growing village of more than 7,000 about 20 miles northeast of St. Louis. A farm sits directly across from the church, but subdivisions of newer homes can been easily seen from every side.
“Things like this just don’t happen in Maryville,” Mayor Larry Gulledge said. “We’ve lost one the pillars of our community, one of our leaders.”
Parishioner Sharla Dryden, 62, pulled into the church parking lot for a 9:30 a.m. service Sunday to see “just a lot of chaos, lot of police, fire, and people just devastated.”
“I would have been devastated if anyone had been shot, but to hear it was the pastor was terrible,” Dryden said. “You just never expect this to happen at a church.”
At Winters’ elegant, two-story brick home in an upper-middle class subdivision in Edwardsville, several friends gathered Sunday to pay their respects, but they and family members declined to comment.
A statement on First Baptist’s Web site asked for prayers for Winters’ family, the parishioners who tackled the gunman, the gunman and his family, and for church members.
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On the Net:
First Baptist: http://www.fbmaryville.org/
Please pray for all involved in this tragedy.
Let us pray……….
Father, we come to you today asking for your angels to surround those effected by this awful shooting at the Church in Maryville, Ill. You know all and see all, be with all the folks at the Church. We don’t understand many things like this, but we put our faith and trust in YOU, Our Father Almighty! In the name of Jesus, Amen.
In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family