“Knowing Christ” Radio Just about ten years ago, my friend, Scott Krus, asked me if I would be interested in launching a radio ministry with WBNH. Scott was the station manager of WBNH at that time and he believed that God would use a local church pastor on WBNH to bring glory to Jesus through the expositional teaching of God’s Word. When Scott came to me with this vision of a future radio ministry, I was humbled and honored. I was struck by the immense privilege of being used as an instrument in God’s hands. God has many gifted and faithful servants in His church who teach His Word. It is all grace that I should have this specific joy of teaching His Book. And it was grace from God that He would see fit to begin a radio ministry on our local Christian radio station, WBNH. After prayer, we decided upon “Firm Foundation” as the name for the new radio ministry. We chose this title because it points to the truth that Jesus is our firm foundation in the midst of all the storms of our life. We build our lives upon solid rock and not upon sinking sand. Our purpose for laboring to grow our radio ministry has been to proclaim Jesus as Lord and to prepare God’s people to worship Him. As we produced our radio broadcast, WBNH offered to air our Firm Foundation program each Sunday at 11:00 am and 5:30 pm. Since 2004, God has given us much joy as a number of
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listeners have written to us or connected with us in person, communicating how the Lord is using the messages to accomplish God’s eternal purpose in their lives. What a joy to be part of His kingdom and to work in His field! This past year, God has led us to consider expanding our radio ministry to a broader audience. One of our members and a dear friend, Roger Bennington, became very excited about helping us to advance the Gospel through a broader radio ministry. God had given Roger extensive experience in the realm of Christian radio and he connected us with a consultant, Dale Davis, who worked with Focus on the Family in its early years. Dale has been very encouraging from the beginning. Early he shared his Christ-centered heart and his enthusiasm for our radio ministry as he wrote, "I’m very optimistic about the program – because the main course is solid and biblical teaching … what we do to form this into an excellent radio program is of great importance, but secondary to the fact that this is God’s Word being proclaimed. That’s what really is the great thing about Firm Foundation! I am privileged to be involved." After Dale began to work with us, one of the first issues we came to realize was that we could no longer use the name “Firm Foundation” if we grew into a Continued on page 2
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