"...therefore...hope..."

ACF's men's retreat is this weekend. As of right now, I'm going. However, I'm not sure what my boss was thinking when he said I could go, unless he thought the rest of the employees at the station could handle both him (station manager) and me (program director) being gone. To add to the distress, our AM morning guy informed me that he would not be there Thursday or Friday. I will be gone Friday. Matt is gone all week. Added pressure will be upon the rest of the staff. Can they do it? I think so. They're going to have to handle it. Fun stuff, I'm sure.

I'm currently reading from the gospel of John. This morning was the passage about Jesus turning water into wine. The commentary from my Life Application Bible mentioned how most of Jesus' miracles were the renewing of fallen creation: blind to see, lame to walk, dead to rise, etc.

That is interesting. I guess I never looked that much into it. It makes sense. The Author of Life rewriting a bad story line. Isn't that what he does for you and me? He redeems fallen creation. Thank you, Lord, for being our savior. This from Lamentations 3:21-24:

But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
"The Lord is my portion," says my soul,
"therefore I will hope in him."

I give you the situation at the station and the men's retreat to ask for your prayers. I give you the passages of scripture to encourage you. Therefore hope.

Soli Deo Gloria

Music Permit

If you make a rule, then some idiot's going to try to enforce it. This morning's "Eddie's Stuff" produced this little gem:


Amazing how quickly we forget the original meaning or intent of a rule or law. We do it today with the seperation of church and state, and so many other things. I received this email from my father yesterday:

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY WAS INSTITUTED TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL. NOTE: IN 2008 THE BUDGET FOR THIS DEPARTMENT IS NOW AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. THEY HAVE 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES. What do they do?????

How quickly we forget. Reminds me of the pharisees. In being so strict in following the law, they forget why they were following it in the first place. So strict, so literal. No room for interpretation. No room to use your brain and do the right thing at the right time. Thank You, Lord, for Jesus and His love. Thank You for Your grace.

Sharp Dressed Man

Ahhh, yes. How many of you immediately thought about ZZ Top? Kudos to you. If you don't know who ZZ Top is, well, granola bars to you. For those of you who don't remember that Kudos were actually (if they aren't still now) some type of granola bar, just know that I'm not crazy. Seriously. Back to the song.

On my morning show, there is a segment called "Eddie's Stuff". Our AM morning personality comes over, and for 10 minutes, or so, gives us his unusual "stuff" for the day. Today, he talked about the "Shower Suit". It's a suit made of 100% wool and is supposed to dry very quickly. You can shower in it or hang it up and run water over it. It's designed with the always-on-the-go business exec in mind. So, the song I played following "Eddie's Stuff", and tying in with this last story of the morning was, indeed, "Sharp Dressed Man."

All of that to get here:
I look good today. Seriously. Khaki, flat-front pants, nice, button-down green striped shirt. I look sharp. I am, indeed, a sharp dressed man. However, before you get too jealous of my wife, please know, that when I sit down, my pant legs hike up to about my knee. Well, maybe not that high, but I do, in fact, look like I have "high-waters" on. Yes, a lot of sock is showing. Fortunately, my socks are similar in color to the pants, but still. Yikes! It's like they don't fit right or something.

Lesson: humility
You know, just a bit of humility to keep me from getting "too big for my britches."

Be encouraged.

P.S.
Learning from my "10 Lessons", I wrote this little anecdote down this morning, so I wouldn't forget it. Aren't we all glad I did?

Don't answer that.

In Progress

• gathering timbers (Haggai 1:8)
• The Kingdom Project (preparing for the ministry God has for us)
• more music (finally writing again - fresh inspiration and motivation)
• Kingdom Quest (the evolution of a book I've been pondering/writing for over a year)
• fixing the link to the internet stream of KQ106 (now have the engineer and station manager working on this)
• writing this blog (sorry for the long stretch of silence)

Sincere Apologies

I'm embarrassed. I don't know what to say. I am very frustrated with our "webmaster" for the radio station. I don't know how to fix the problem. Apparently, the link for KWHW is working fine. The link for the Bone was streaming KQ106 until we fixed that today. The KQ106 Mike FM link wasn't hooked up. It still is not. I don't know what to do about it. Apparently, this has been a problem for some time, and not until I started looking into it has anything been done. That is frustrating as well.

I'm sorry. I did not mean to give misinformation. As soon as the KQ106 link is working, you will be the first to know.

Try It Now

For those of you who have tried to listen online it should be working now. Apparently, some time last week, somebody was cleaning in the equipment room and unplugged a cable and plugged it back in to the wrong spot. I finally checked with our engineer, and we found the problem. Should be working now. Again, try it here.

Good Morning

It comes early for me. My alarm is set for 4am. I have to be at work before 6am. I'm on the air from 6a - 10a weekday mornings. Every other Saturday I'm on from 6a - 9-isha on the AM station. I work for KQ106, Mike FM. Actually, I work for Monarch Broadcasting which owns KWHW AM, KQTZ FM, and KRKZ FM. My morning show is on KQ. 105.9 FM. Or, for those of you not in the listening area (SW OK, Western OK, Northern TX), and for the whole jest of this post, we also stream online.

It doesn't seem to be working properly at this moment, but not many of you are up and ready to listen to the radio right now, anyway. So, give this a try sometime, and feel free to email me at rc@kwhw.com during the show with any requests and/or dedications.

If the above link doesn't work, just go to www.kq106.com and find the link on the right side of the page.