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Culture (While writing this letter I thought of how it reminds me of a car battery. I start out touching the negative terminal and end up clamping on to the positive terminal. Here we go.) ‘Education is the soul of society as it passes from one generation to another…...

Long, long time ago. My hair was brown and my waist size was a bit exaggerated from sitting behind a desk for hours a day at a past job. Jane and I were asked to quote scripture for some very close family friends' daughter’s wedding. I’ll never forget it. The tie was...

These are interesting times for sure. Stressful times? For sure. Unusual? For sure. Frightening? Can be. As a society, here we challenge our country’s slogan: In God We Trust. We challenge biology/science and the Word of God defining male and female. So much of what...

Have you ever noticed the parallel that what the culture/the world system offers to its ‘believers’ are the same things the Gospel offers to its believers? It’s not really profound. That’s how this mess all started in the first place. Satan whispered into the ears of...

C.S. Lewis once said: ‘If we consider the unblushing promises of rewards in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite Joy is...

I recently had someone talking to me about how they were discouraged that they had ‘missed God’ because of some of their selfish decisions. Seems her Christian journey had many unexpected, unwanted, unfair and sad turns along the way, and she really felt that she no...

1Thes. 5:17 encourages us to pray always, finding Grace and Help for all our needs. Recently prayer has been a full time job it seems because of some personal experiences in my wife’s family. Her 97 year old mother, her sister, her brother, her sister-in-law, her...

“Your words were found, and I did eat them; and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart.’ (Jeremiah 15:16) Joy and rejoicing in our hearts, anybody need that today? Above is a photograph of a small collection of Ak-sar-ben lapel pins. They’re pins from a...

Christmas this year does feel like a breath of fresh air. Matthew West has a new Christmas song called ‘We Need Christmas.’ I agree. Thinking about Christmas is somewhat related to hoping for a return to normal. This changing world, well, has really changed. The only...

One of the earliest things we learn about God is the Trinity of God. It’s interesting that Trinity, the number three, is used by God to signify God. The Father seems to have a pre-disposition to ‘operate’ in threes: body, soul , and spirit - that which was, is, and is...

Well, we’ve got a bit of work to do. Yep, Faith is work. Jesus, when asked by the disciples what work they should do, replied: believe. Specifically, Jesus said, ‘This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom He hath sent (John 6-28). Believe is an action word....

(It’s not enough to know there is God; it did the demons the fallen angels or Lucifer no good to know that. The Gospel is offered to us so that we may know, not just about, but personally know God. We must ‘…believe on him whom He has sent.’ John 6:29) I think, but...

Who Teaches A Canary To Sing? What do you think? As believers, has God given such a tough burden to perform in living the Christian Life that we simply cannot accomplish it? Sometimes re-evaluating the purpose of our Faith performances will help us not to burnout,...

Redeem, re-birth, restore, re-new: Did Adam and Eve need to be saved before the fall? I think- yes. Their eating from the tree of good and evil confirms that. Apples weren’t the problem; the desire to be like God was the choice offered to them. They misunderstood the...

God: CANCELLED There is an old saying: ‘God loves birds and created trees, man loved birds and created cages.’ Perhaps that’s a simple expression of difference between the heart of God and the heart of unredeemed man. Tomorrow’s world seems to be moving into: say my...

The last few months I’ve been writing about thirty years of concert memories, not just the onstage but the backstage as well. This month's letter is not artist memories, but memories just the same. Do you remember your first memory? The very first thing you can just...

Jesus Happens: Now this is just my opinion, it and $4 might get you a Starbucks. Why didn’t God just sit down one guy (ok, or girl) and have him or her write the New Testament? Why Mathew, Mark, Luke and John? Why Paul? Using one author certainly would have simplified...

January 8th, 1990, WBVN was birthed. Long time ago, lots of songs, lyrics, scripture, teachings, and so we’ve been told, much encouragement and inspiration. Now, we step into a new year. Enough has been said about 2020 that I won’t go into the last year but choose to...

"A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured it up. Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth... because they had no root they withered away. Some fell among thorns; the thorns sprung up and...

ANYWAY There is an old saying that goes like this, "Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits." Doesn't that sound like most of us? How many New Year's resolutions do we really keep? How much do we really change from year to year? Below is...

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son…Gal 4:4 There was a perfect time, a unique time, an appropriate time, and in our case, it became Christmas time. The implication is, after a delay, sometime after there was space between God’s planning and...

Meant To Be I've spent my days asking when is my time, why am I right here Why is it not clear, there's gotta be something bigger than this In all of my dreams the grass is so green Oh Lord, I try to plan out my life but only You bring Peace Through the sunlight and...

Last month I wrote about the un-comfortableness or restlessness described in the Prophet Isaiah’s scripture: Isaiah 28:20. I referenced the linkage between our human soul’s (mind, will and emotions) attempt to dominate our daily lives and contrasted that with what our...

“For the bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than he can wrap himself in it.” Isaiah 28:20 There are a lot of things that go on in our lives, most either make us happy or make us sad. In this letter I’m going to talk about...

Dan 7:14-And there was given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve Him: His dominion an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom which shall not be destroyed. It was 1985. Saturday...

This month’s letter is on a subject I’ve never written about. It’s been lying in the back of my brain for 30 years and I’ve never before felt the time to write it was now, but I guess the time is now. I’ve said over the years that WBVN is a ministry to the Church. As...

On January 8th 2020, WBVN began broadcasting in a new year for the 31st time. I’ve had people ask me over the years where the impulse to start a Contemporary Christian Radio station came from. It’s not a simple or necessarily an easy question to answer. There were...

(I originally posted this letter on our website and Facebook the last week of March. Found a few mistakes in that one, restated a few things differently in this one. The first was spontaneous, this one had a bit more time to express a few things more clearly. I have...

Recently, I was standing in the studio, the studio that's been our home for over a dozen years now. I looked around at the CD's on the wall, the computers, looked at the yellow and blue wiring running every direction, knots of wires actually, observed...

Friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.  CS Lewis This past December at our Very Merry Christmas Tour I got an unexpected surprise....

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts for Peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. (Jer. 29:11) How many times have we had that quoted to us or have we shared that with others? Like that scripture, this letter is about...

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Jas 1:17 I have a horse and two burros. Duke, Jenny and Baby. Why I have two burros and a horse is one of the...

It’s Christmas on the radio. This is our thirtieth Christmas on the radio at WBVN. It’s been interesting to me to go back and hear some of the early songs and programs and think about how much of a role they’ve played in the past and the role they continue to play now...

Nice world we find ourselves a part of, right? Feeling great about the political, the financial, and the health? Got it all together, right? Saying all the right things, showing people all the right expressions, livin’ the good life. I was having lunch with a friend...

CS Lewis:  “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely...

One of my many flaws is how weak I am about buying books.  I just had one land on my desk this morning. I literally have hundreds of books on shelves, in boxes, in the closet, stacked on my desk, and some have migrated to my office shelves.  Most of them have...