I can't believe that it has been a month already since I last wrote! We have been very busy around the JA Show. One exciting thing that has come about is the fact we are going to take another time on the Daystar network that will not only reach more people here in the US but overseas as well. We are very excited for this opportunity to reach people in Europe and the middle east and many other countries. Pray for us that God will provide the resources that we need to do this.

It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving is in two weeks and Christmas is right around the corner. I do love Christmas with all the decorations and the music and the fellowship with friends and family. It truly is a unique time of the year and a time to reflect on what Christ did for us by coming to earth as a baby in a manger! What an awesome thing.

Thanks for your prayers and I hope that you will take time to reflect in the next two weeks of something that you are thankful for in your life. We all have something and let us not forget our blessings that we have been given.

My how time flies. I just realized that this week I had not blogged in awhile. I realized this because we just had our family picture done this past week which means that we are getting closer to Christmas.

This weekend we are going to start our series on Israel and the Alignment of the Nations. This was a series that we did with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung and it is very relevant to what is happening today! I hope you will tune in this week!

In the mean time we are working on new programs that relate to prophecy and we have also been working on our christmas catalog that we will be sending out next month. In it we will have a lot of our new stuff from this year and some great deals that you can give to your family members or friends. This will not only go out in the mail but it will be on our website too!

We appreciate your prayers and for your support. Out staff will be out next week. We are going on a staff retreat/christmas outing. This is something they deserve for working so hard! We are so thankful for each of them and for what they do. We all wear many different hats here at the ministry.

Well, this month we are working on many different things. We are showing a series that we did a few months back with Dr. Jimmy DeYoung called Revelation Unfolding. After this series we are going to do our new series of Israel Under Fire. We are so excited because this book is out in our christian bookstores and also in places like Borders and Barnes and Noble. Anything you want to know concerning Israel both now and what is to come is explained in this documentary.

We are also looking towards Christmas. We are working on our christmas catalog which will go out next month. We are going to have some special deals so I hope that you will look at. We will also post it online too.

Thank you again for your prayers. We are looking to take another time on the Daystar network to reach people overseas. My dad has had a burden for this and so we are praying what the Lord wants us to do.

This week I want to share something that I heard in a sermon on Sunday! The preacher was talking about knowing the king and not just the kingdom. There are many people who go to church and because their family has been brought up in the church they think they are saved. My dad use to preach that we can know a lot of facts about Abraham Lincoln but have you ever met him personally. You can know alot of facts about Jesus Christ but do you know him personally? Having a relationship with the king of kings will transform your life! There is nothing greater than knowing him.

In our series on science we have been talking about God and how he created the universe. It is so amazing to see the facts and when you look at the universe you know that someone had to be behind it to make it. It just did not come altogether by accident. This past week we had a great response and if you have not seen it you need to watch. What amazes me is how the evidence shows that there was a creator and how if one thing was out of place life could not exist.

Continue to pray for the ministry and for our staff! We need your prayers for each day in what we are doing for the cause of Jesus Christ!

Today one of the ladies that works on our staff part time lost her mother today! It was a blessing because she was sick for awhile. They were a family that grew up on the mission field in Africa! How joyful it is for her to now be in Heaven and not to have any more pain! What a blessing to know that we have a place that is prepared for us when it is our turn to go!

This month we started a new series on science with Dr. Hugh Ross. The programs that we are airing show how the universe came about and how we can prove that there is a God! It is so fascinating. I hope that you will tune in to watch.

Last week I got to talk to some of our people who give to us every month. It was so interesting to hear what people do for a living and how the ministry has impacted their life. I talked to people who live in remote Alaska to people who live in the big cities of New York and Chicago. I thank the Lord for the people who have come across our ministry. We could not do it without them.

Well this week is the time for registration for school! Hard to believe that the summer is coming to an end. I know that when we get to August that Christmas is right around the corner! A friend of mine told me that she went into Hobby Lobby the other day and all their Christmas stuff was already out! That is a little early I think!

I feel for kids who are going back to school. The pressure is worse than when I was in school and the things they are being taught are just terrible. In our science classes we have that evolution is true and that God is not real. In history, the kids don't know who the first president was or how our country was founded to name a few.

Here at the John Ankerberg Show we tackle those issues and many others. We need to know how to respond to people to explain why we believe what we believe. Why is our God true compared to Allah or any other god? With your help we can get the truth out and we are thankful for the support. This summer has gone well and we thank the Lord for that!

I can't believe that another week is about gone and August will soon be here! We are still in the middle of our series on Oprah and the false gospel that she is presenting. This will be on for two more weeks and then we will go into some science programs that we did with Dr Hugh Ross which are very fascinating and show how we can believe that there is a true God!

A very interesting event happened to me this week that made me stop and really think about what happened! I was in the line at Starbucks and when I pulled up to the window I had my money ready for the girl. When she brought me my drink she told me that the lady that was in front of me paid for my drink. She said that the lady does one good deed each day and that was her deed for the day! It really made an impression on me and something that I want to do too! Whether she was a christian or not she showed that she cares for people. That is something that I am striving to do more and more. I love to help people and to pay for things when someone least expects it. This is something that we should all do and what a better place this world would be if we practiced this.