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Faith & Freedom on The Eagle 104.3 FM,
Central
Florida,
Commercial Talk Radio
In our last dramatic episode, I was
invited to expand our one-hour radio program to broadcast on two radio
stations in the South-East for the minuscule sum of $20 per hour.
Things changed and developed so rapidly, my last two attempts at a
newsletter had to be abandoned because the information kept
changing.
The market ranking of those two areas was
106th and 118th in the nation. A better plan was proposed.
The broadcast area in Florida where we initially tested our program in
January, 2007, is ranked 18th in the nation. WIFL agreed to
change their successful music format to go to
24 hours of talk radio.
Since May 4th, I have been broadcasting
the Faith & Freedom show five days per week, two hours per day,
from 3-5 PM.
Wow!!! Just my favorite time-slot in the
whole world.
In my first month, I had an opportunity to
begin bridging the community gap between me and my newly found Florida audience. One of the most influential State Senators was a guest on my
show. At the end of the interview he told me "God bless you" and
told me that he really looked forward to another opportunity to be
interviewed. I did a live broadcast from a nostalgia
drag race event where I interviewed the 77- year-old Florida native, the world renown
undisputed king of top-fuel drag racing, Big
Daddy Don Garlits. He answered every
question with a personal story. He had stories of his commitment
to family; his confessing a sin list (that he obviously kept to a short
account) after an incident of divine protection; the counsel he
received from his mother, father-in-law, and grandfather; and the
good-ol', old-school, perspective he has about the ills of our
day. It may end up
being the all-time best interview that I ever get to
experience. I found out later that Mr. Garlits has a deep
abiding faith in Jesus Christ. I had never taken notice that he
has a cross displayed over the front of his 'Swamp Rat' dragsters.
On one show, I had a caller complain that he was
angry about having his favorite radio station with a music format get
changed to my "intellectual" show. Theo is agnostic,
fluent in
Hebrew and Greek, and thinks Jesus is just an okay guy. Though
not a
believer in Jesus as the Christ, he did think that the book of Genesis
was the greatest book in the world. After citing a few lines of
Genesis in Hebrew, I told him that Genesis was meaningless without
Jesus. The third word in Genesis, the name of God, "Elohim" is a plurality. "B'reshith bara
Elohim shamayim
u eretz." Jesus is part of the
"us" of the "let 'us' make man in
'our' image." Jesus is part of the
'Elohim' plurality of the name of
the Almighty God, Creator of the heavens and the earth. My
caller, Theo, understood me very well. I may have given him the
best intellectual challenge that he ever had on his favorite book. After all of his
wrangling over the Hebrew details of Genesis, I got right down to the
brass tacks. I asked him if he had a relationship with Elohim. He pondered my question
silently. Without answering my query, he begged a fond farewell
saying that he would keep listening to my show despite the displacement
of his favorite music format on what used to be Frank 104 FM (Frank
Sinatra style music).
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Faith
& Freedom Motivational Moment
"Now the Lord is Spirit.
Where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty." II Corinthians 3:17
On
April 15th, thousands of people gathered around the country in what was
known as the Tax Day Tea Party. People celebrated the principles
that the nation was founded upon and they protested the abandoment of those principles. They, no doubt,
came to the realizaton that their fingers
cannot justifiably be pointing at others without necessarily pointing
back to themselves.
"It
is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to
the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is
eternal vigilance." - John Philpot Curran,
1790 (Irish barrister and abolitionist)
"Indolent" - averse to activity, effort or
movement; habitually lazy. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
Our
nation is indolent with regard to fulfilling our Lord's
commandment. "Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have
commanded you." (Matt 28:19-20) As a result, we have
become prey to the active, our adversary the devil. If we and those who serve in
government abandon the Savior and His precepts, our depravity will
bring temporal as well as eternal discomfort. It is the law of
God. His law is fixed and invariable. Paul reminded us, "Do
not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he
will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh
reap corruption, but he who sows to the
Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life."
(Gal. 6:7-8) This law will have its way to a natural end of
corruption for those who abandon the salvation available through Jesus
Christ. In contrast, if we confess and cling to Jesus as our
Lord,
and do those things that He has commanded us,
we will reap eternal life and temporal blessings for which we have not
sown.
The crises
of our day provide many opportunities for me to challenge rational
minds to the prospect that there is an eternal Creator whose laws are
fixed and invariable; that there is a Redeemer whose salvation has both
eternal and temporal consequences; and that there is an obligation to
choose between a broad way that leads to destruction and a narrow way
that leads to life.
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