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Welcome Kelsi Brake!

Today for Artist News Day we welcomed Kelsi Brake as a co-host on the Afternoon Drive for this summer. We shared two stories about MercyMe and Elevation Worship collaborating with Maverick City Music for their album.

MercyMe has announced their new Fall Tour which is called inhale (exhale), the same name of their most recent studio album which released on April 30th. You can learn more about this tour by clicking here.

Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music have released their collaboration album entitled Old Church Basement. Here’s Elevation Worship’s Chris Brown thoughts on the album, “Before any lights and a stage, for a lot of us it was just a few chords on an acoustic guitar or piano in a youth room with a few of our friends. This collection of songs is so special to us as it’s reminiscent of when we first fell in love with worshipping God.” Learn more about this album by clicking here and watch the video for their hit song off of this album “Jireh” below:

Yesterday
I didn’t understand
Driving 35 with the rocket inside
Didn’t know what I had
While I’ve been waiting to live
My life’s been waiting on me

These lyrics were a stumper so we will bring them back for next week’s game of Song Poetry.

Thanks for listening!
– Alyssa & Kelsi

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Welcome, Jonathon!

Today we welcome Jonathon Langdon to the Afternoon Drive – he and Kelsi Brake will join Alyssa, Zoe and I throughout the summer months while MVNU is on break.

We’re starting this week, as we always do, with some Monday Motivation. Jonathon’s devotional today is from In Touch ministries and is called “Faith is Assurance.” Click here to read more!

Joe’s devotional is from Patricia Raybon and reminds us how we can find joy in praise. Read more from Our Daily Bread by clicking here!

Name something you might offer someone, even if they didn’t ask for it:
1- food (26)
2- drink (24)
3- advice (14)
4- help (9)
5T- money (7)
5T- mint (7)
6- a place to sit (4)

Congratulations to Missy from Mount Vernon, who guessed correctly and wins the $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup.

Thanks for listening!
– Joe and Jonathon

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NZ Top 10 for 4/30/21

Praise the Lord it’s Friday! Here’s this week’s countdown:

10. Lauren Daigle – Hold On to Me
9. Andrew Ripp – Jericho
8. Jordan St. Cyr – Fires
7. for King and Country – Amen
6. TobyMac – Help Is on the Way (Maybe Midnight)
5. MercyMe – Say I Won’t
4. Jeremy Camp – Out of My Hands
3. Crowder – Good God Almighty
2. Zach Williams – Less Like Me
1. Phil Wickham – Battle Belongs (4th week at #1)

NEW MUSIC FRIDAY – new songs added to the WNZR playlist today!

Elevation Worship – Rattle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrAdbH28gIg

Thanks for listening!
– Joe and Zoe

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Closest To The Cross

Today for Praise Thursday we shared two devotionals. Joe shared one called What’s Wrong with the World? written by John Blase from Our Daily Bread. You can read this encouraging devotional by clicking here. Alyssa shared a devotional about finding happiness and peace in God and not in earthly things, called Our Deepest Longings written by Winn Collier, you can read it by clicking here.

Q: From which part of Adam’s body did God create Eve?

A: His rib

Congratulations to Joseph of Mount Vernon for correctly answering that question and winning a $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup!

Thanks for listening!
– Alyssa & Joe

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Today’s W food…

Is watermelon! Now that we’re turning the corner into warmer weather, expect to see more of this flowering fruit around, in both its natural state and watermelon-flavored things.

Some of the health benefits of watermelon? Healthline.com shares these:

It contains only 46 calories per cup but is high in vitamin C, vitamin A and many healthy plant compounds.

Drinking water is an important way to keep your body hydrated. Interestingly, watermelon is 92% water, and high water content is one of the reasons why fruits and vegetables help you feel full. The combination of water and fiber means you’re eating a good volume of food without a lot of calories.

One cup (154 grams) of watermelon includes these vitamins and minerals:

  • Vitamin C: 21% of the Reference Daily Intake (RDI)
  • Vitamin A: 18% of the RDI
  • Potassium: 5% of the RDI
  • Magnesium: 4% of the RDI
  • Vitamins B1, B5 and B6: 3% of the RDI

Watermelon is also high in carotenoids, including beta-carotene and lycopene. Plus, it has citrulline, an important amino acid.

Here’s a link to an easy watermelon sorbet recipe from thethingswellmake.com

Here’s the link to the CNN article I shared about a possible shortage of gasoline trucks this summer.

Who Am I? Trivia…

  • I was born today in 1964 in Cincinnati
  • I attended Moeller High School and got a scholarship to play both football and baseball at Michigan
  • I eventually stayed with baseball
  • I played for my hometown team, winning a World Series in 1990
  • I was the National League MVP in 1995 and a 12-time all-star
  • I was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012
  • The team retired my number, 11.

I am former Cincinnati Red, Barry Larkin. Congratulations to Ron from Mount Vernon, who guessed correctly and wins the $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup.

Thanks for listening!
– Joe

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Into The Mystery with NEEDTOBREATHE!

Today for Artist News Day we shared two stories about Crowder and NEEDTOBREATHE.

Crowder has released a new single which is the title track off of his upcoming album entitled Milk & Honey. You can learn more about this release by clicking here and listen to the song below:

NEEDTOBREATHE have announced a brand new full-length album entitled Into the Mystery which will release later this year. They will be releasing the first single from this upcoming album next month. Learn more by clicking here.

Somewhere hidden in the noise there’s a truth
Someone to believe and hang onto
In each and every little word that you hear
I pray that one thing would be so clear

Congratulations to Melissa for correctly guessing those lyrics were from Riley Clemmons with her song Keep On Hoping, she won two $5 gift cards to Everlasting Cup!

Thanks for listening!
– Alyssa & Joe

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Choosing to hope…

Today we kicked off the show with Danny Gokey’s song, ‘New Day,’ which says, “this is a new day, everything’s bursting with hope…” and I started thinking, do we really feel that way? Sometimes, don’t we have to intentionally CHOOSE hope? That’s the topic of today’s Monday Motivation from author Lisa Samra. You can find the link to Our Daily Bread by clicking here.

Name something that might be full of holes…
1- swiss cheese (40)
2- clothes or socks (16)
3- an alibi/story (14)
4- net or fishing net (9)
5- colander/strainer (8)
6- golf course…screen…road/street (all with 2 votes)

Congratulations to Jackie from Mount Vernon, who guessed the top two answers correctly and wins the $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup.

Thanks for listening!
– Joe

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NZ Top 10 for 4/23/21

Praise the Lord it’s Friday! Here’s this week’s countdown:

10. TobyMac – Help Is on the Way (Maybe Midnight)
9. for King and Country – Amen
8. Cory Asbury – Sparrows
7. Jordan St. Cyr – Fires
6. Andrew Ripp – Jericho
5. MercyMe – Say I Won’t
4. Jeremy Camp – Out of My Hands
3. Crowder – Good God Almighty
2. Zach Williams – Less Like Me
1. Phil Wickham – Battle Belongs (3rd week at #1)

NEW MUSIC FRIDAY – new songs added to the WNZR playlist today!

CAIN – Yes He Can

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtKBkpbOLPE

Thanks for listening!
– Joe, Zoe and Alyssa

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Cheerful Giving!

Today for Praise Thursday we shared two devotionals from Our Daily Bread. One was called Cheerful Givers written by John Blase and you can read it by clicking here. The second we shared was called Catching Foxes written by Dave Branon and you can read it by clicking here.

Q: What did Joseph’s brothers do to Joseph (son of Jacob in the Old Testament)?

A: Sold him into slavery.

Congratulations to Karen of Mount Vernon for answering that question correctly and winning a $5 gift card to Everlasting Cup!

Thanks for listening!
– Alyssa & Lexie

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