Baby Got Book!!!

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Inspiration for some...but definitely a funny video! Check out the Mud Hens gear!!! Are you ready for the all-church Mud Hens game??? See Brenda Northrop for more information

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Hey Girlfriends!! We need you to buy your tickets now for our Daughters of the King Banquet.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
5:30 p.m.
at
The Oregon Room
St. Charles Hospital
featuring
Inspiritional Speaker and Vocalist
Judith Baker
Ticket Cost: $15.00 per woman
Remember not every woman is a mother, but every woman is a daughter!
Come experience what it means to truly be a Daughter of the King!
Invite your friends and family!!!
Awesome door prizes including a free trip to Women of Faith in July ($120 value), Jewelry, Tea for Four, Mary Kay, etc.
You won't want to miss this extraordinary evening. We promise that you will leave feeling filled to the top with the Holy Spirit!!!! Please join us!!!!

Praise and Worship in an unlikely spot...

my living room! Well, the place wasn't so unusual but the engine that brought it was: American Idol. For the past several weeks, something has been happening on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. It started with Jason Castro singing "Hallelujah" with its religious undertones and moved onto Dolly Parton and her very much Christian repertoire. Onto Dolly singing "Jesus and Gravity" and confessing Christ on the American Idol stage to millions. I was so excited!!!

Many of you know that I was out of town this past Thursday. Well, on Idol Gives Back on Wednesday there again was the Christian undertow, however, my TV cut off the finale which was the finalists singing, none other that "Shout to the Lord." I missed it!!! I also missed the repeat performance of that very same song on Thursday. American Idol in just a few short weeks went from a minor mention of Biblical figures to a full-blown praise and worship segment!!!

I sat down just this evening to watch last Thursday show. This is when I discovered the repeat performance of "Shout to the Lord." I sat in my living room praising God in the most unlikely way while watching American Idol. I raised my hands and praised Him for making American Idol an engine for His gospel. Millions of people heard His praise and His glory! I had goosebumps and tears. Ladies, our God is so faithful to show Himself to us, we just need to open our eyes and hearts and listen. He is stretching His arms out beckoning us to Him. I pray that you are responding, that you are following and that you are clinging to His old rugged cross because it is there and there alone that we find our salvation!!! It is there that we find hope for our future!!! Shout to the Lord, ladies because He is our hope and our redemption!!!!

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How Precious!

From the mouths of babes comes songs of praise!

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The Hope of a Christian

She will always be

the most surprised,

the most affected,

the most apprehensive

and

the most joyful

in the face of events.

She won't be like

an ant that has foreseen everything

in advance,

but like a child in a forest,

or on Christmas Eve;

She is one who is always rightly astonished by events,

by the encounters and experiences

which overtake her,

and the cares and duties laid upon her.

Life in the world,

with all its joys and sorrows

and contemplation and activity,

will always be for her

a really interesting matter.

It will be an ADVENTURE,

for which she for her part

has ultimately and basically

no qualifications of her own.

And all this is not because

she doesn't know what it is all about,

but just because she does know.

She will always be at least willing

and ready to perceive the positive,

cooperate with it instead of

adopting an attitude of arrogance

and dissatisfied criticism.

Ultimately, she will always be thankful,

and in light of that thankfulness

she will always look forward to what

has still to come.

(Adapted from "Church Dogmatics" by Karl Barth)