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NZ Top 10 9/15

It officially feels like fall here on the Campus of MVNU, and there’s no better way to celebrate than by counting the top 10 songs in Christian radio!
Here’s the countdown!

10. What a Beautiful Name – Hillsong Worship
9. The Gospel – Ryan Stevenson
8. Hard Love – NeedtoBreathe
7. Broken Things – Matthew West
6. Bulletproof – Citizen Way
5.Home – Chris Tomlin
4. Oh My Soul – Casting Crowns
3. O Come to the Altar – Elevation Worship
2. Even If – MercyMe
1. Old Church Choir – Zach Williams

Our Breakout Hit of the Week was from TobyMac featuring Hollyn!
Check out their song ‘Lights Shine Bright’ here!

Our NZ Artist Back-to-Back spotlight fell on the group Royal Tailor!
Check out ‘Making Me New‘ and ‘Make a Move‘!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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A Motor-Vehicle Mystery Monday!

Kicking off the first day of classes here at MVNU today, and WNZR, well, I’d say we’re back in full swing, but we never stopped swinging 🙂

T’was a fun Mystery Monday today, and we had an ‘On This Day’ type of question.
So… “On this day 1830 was the first ever demonstration of a locomotive against a horse-drawn carriage. Soooo…. 1. Who won the race… 2. why did they win the race? and 3. What was the name of the locomotive?”
The Horse-drawn Carriage won because the belt slipped off the locomotive, and the name of the Locomotive was Tom Thumb.

Congrats to Shawn from Howard!

Be sure to come visit us on Friday, September 1st at First Friday in Mt. Vernon!
Check out all the details here!

Our word of the day today was… ruth!
This means…

  • pity or compassion.
  • sorrow or grief.
  • self-reproach; contrition; remorse.

 

 

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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NZ Top 10 8/25!

We would like to wish a very warm welcome to the class of 2021 Freshmen that arrived on the campus of MVNU yesterday, and a warm welcome back to the returning students!

What’s the best way to kick off the school year? The NZ Top 10, of course!

10. Broken Things – Matthew West
9. Love Broke Thru – TobyMac (Song on its’ way out).
8. What a Beautiful Name – Hillsong Worship
7. O Come to the Altar – Elevation Worship
6. Unfinished – Mandisa
5. Bulletproof – Citizen Way
4. Old Church Choir – Zach Williams (Biggest rise, and peak week)!
3. Home – Chris Tomlin (20th week on! #20Club).
2. Oh My Soul – Casting Crowns
1. Even If – MercyMe (17th Week at #1).

For our Behind the Mic feature, we talked with Kutless!
Check out their song ‘King of my Heart‘!

For New Music Friday, we had two new awesome songs for you!
Check out Control, from Tenth Ave North
and Lights Shine Bright from TobyMac and Hollyn!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

 

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Your Heart: Secret VS Show

Back to Praise Thursday here on the Drive!
This week we talked about praying in secret versus praying for show.

Scripture reveals that Jesus prayed in secret or alone, but in contrast, the religious leaders most always prayed in public because they wanted to impress people and convince them that they were holy, spiritual, giants.
Matthew 6:5
5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.”
It’s a great thing to feel loved and respected, but we have to keep in mind that when we’re serving God, we have to have an attitude of humility and be pointing everything back to Him.Praying in public isn’t a bad thing, and we see examples of people praying in public in the bible (Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, and even Jesus prayed in public). They were leading others to focus on God, not to impress or fish for praise. And they also weren’t afraid to pray in public.
We must remember that God created us and He owns us. He knows us better than we know ourselves. His opinion is the only one that matters, and seeking Him above all else should be our number one priority and be a motive in our life. We must crucify any pride whenever we pray. Hypocrisy must go, fear of man must go. Leading others in prayer is a serious responsibility that’s never meant to spotlight the person praying, but to focus on God alone.
Jesus’ statement, “When you pray…” implies that your default daily prayer life should be to, “go into your private room, close the door and pray to your Father who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6:6)
Anyone praying for show already has the only reward they will ever get.  Whatever feeble notoriety you get is the only reward.  It’s not blessings or provisions from God.
“The Lord detests all the proud of heart.
Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.” (Proverbs 16:5)
“These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.” (Matthew 15:8)
Secret prayer allows you to remove distractions and put the attention on adoring God.

6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

The father sees you in the secret place, and He rewards you for it. If the Son of God primarily sought His Father in secret, and commanded us to do it, why shouldn’t we? Our answer exposes our hearts.

Even if we pray in secret, then go brag about it our pride is exposed. Your true heart is best exposed in secret. The secret you is the real you. It’s what you think when no-one knows, or hears. It’s what you do when no-one sees.
“As he thinks in his heart, so he is.” Proverbs 23:7
That’s why seeking God in private is so powerful. It tests us and tells on us.
Getting alone with God is a great way to choose Him above everyone and everything else. When we give Him our full attention, to love Him, to worship Him, to read His word, to listen and obey Him- He’s pleased and honored.
The secret to your success will come from your secret place and the secret to your failure will come from your failure in the secret place. So go there. Abide there. Escape there. Worship there. Pray there. And keep it a secret.

Oh Lord, show me why I pass up so many opportunities to get alone with You. Help me realize my time with You in quiet is priceless. It’s where I can hear from You best, be the most honest before You, and enjoy the most blessings of Your presence and rewards. Thank you, Lord, for choosing to be so near to me, and for inviting me to spend time alone with you, just the two of us. Help me to die to my pride and then delight in spending time alone with You.
Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

 

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Shortcake Who Knew!

We’re celebrating a wonderful holiday on the Drive! It’s National Shortcake day! Woo!
Oh my goodness, we have so many awesome recipes for you! Check out some of these…

Here’s a recipe from my dude Alton Brown!
Here’s a very patriotic recipe!
Here’s a tropical twist on a wonderful classic!
Peaches and ginger? Count me in!
Also, lime and mango? I’m down!
And oh my word… this one is for Abby Fairless… glazed doughnut shortcake!
Check that one out here!

Here are some fun facts about shortcake!!!

  • Shortcake is a sweet cake or biscuit (in the American sense: that is, a crumbly bread that has been leavened with baking powder or baking soda).
  • June 14th is National Strawberry Shortcake Day.
  • Strawberry shortcake parties became popular in the United States around 1850, as a celebration of the coming of summer.
  • The 2012 Pasadena Strawberry Festival featured the world’s largest strawberry shortcake. The cake used 3,240 pounds of strawberries and 280 pounds of whipped cream icing.
  • Shortcake is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs. The dry ingredients are blended, and then the butter is cut in until the mixture resembles cornmeal. The liquid ingredients are then mixed in just until moistened, resulting in a shortened dough. The dough is then dropped in spoonfuls onto a baking sheet, rolled and cut like baking powder biscuits, or poured into a cake pan, depending on how wet the dough is and the baker’s preferences. Then it is baked at a relatively high temperature until set.

    We did a Strawberry Shortcake related trivia question today, and, wow, who knew there were so many Strawberry Shortcake characters?!
    Our question was “can you name 2 of the Strawberry Shortcake characters other than Strawberry Shortcake herself?”
    Congrats to Donna from Mt. Vernon for answering correctly!
    Check out the full list of characters here!

Our word of the day is… ‘shortcake’! Huh. Whoddathunk?
noun  short·cake \ˈshȯrt-ˌkāk\

  1.  a crisp and often unsweetened biscuit or cookie

  2. a dessert made typically of very short baking-powder-biscuit dough spread with sweetened fruit
    b :  a dish consisting of a rich biscuit split and covered with a meat mixture

First Known Use: 1594

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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Lighthouses & Legacy

Good afternoon! I hope you’re having a great day!
We’re in full on festival mode here at WNZR, so today on the show, I talked about the Dan Emmett Music and Arts Festival, which is right around the corner, and also, lighthouses, because today is lighthouse day!
Here we go!

Lighthouse fun facts….

  • A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses, and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
  • Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, and safe entries to harbors, and can assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and use of electronic navigational systems.
  • The modern era of lighthouses began at the turn of the 18th century, as lighthouse construction boomed in lockstep with levels of transatlantic commerce.
  • Winstanley’s lighthouse at the Eddystone Rocks marked the beginning in a new phase of lighthouse development.
  • The Eddystone Rocks were a major shipwreck hazard for mariners sailing through the English Channel. The first lighthouse built there was an octagonal wooden structure, anchored by 12 iron stanchions secured in the rock, and was built by Henry Winstanley from 1696 to 1698. His lighthouse was the first tower in the world to have been fully exposed to the open sea.
  • THE OLDEST EXISTING LIGHTHOUSE IN THE WORLD is considered to be La Coruna in Spain that dates from ca. 20 B.C. A Roman lighthouse is located on the Cliffs of Dover in the UK that was constructed in 40 A.D.
  • THE ONLY TRIANGULAR-SHAPED LIGHTHOUSE TOWER and THE ONLY LIGHTHOUSE EQUIPPED WITH AN ELEVATOR is Sullivan’s Island in Charleston, SC.
  • Lighthouse Keepers did not have uniforms introduced into the service until 1884.

Dan Emmett Facts…

  • Of Irish ancestry, Dan Emmett was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, then a frontier region. Growing up with little formal education, he learned popular tunes from his musical mother, and taught himself to play the fiddle.
  • At age 13, he became an apprentice printer and enlisted in the United States Army. He became an expert fifer and drummer at Newport Barracks, Newport, Kentucky, and published his own Fifer’s and Drummer’s Guide in 1862 in cooperation with George G. Bruce.
  • This year marks the 30th Dan Emmett Music and Arts Festival

    Our Mystery Monday Question today was Dan Emmett related!
    In the 1850’s, Dan Emmett wrote one of the most distinctively American musical products of the 19th century, and it’s this song that he’s still known for.

    What is the name of the song?
    The answer is ‘Dixie’!

    Congratulations to Sandi of Mt. Vernon!

    You can find more information and the complete Dan Emmett Music and Arts Festival schedule at their website, here!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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Events, Games and the World Wide Web!

For Game Time Tuesday today, we played Song Poetry and Name that Tune!
Our Song Poetry lyrics were as follows…
“But there’s a purpose
Under the surface
And you don’t have to drown
Let me remind you
That love will find you
Let it lift you out”
That’s Beloved from Jordan Feliz!
Congratulations to Jennie of Howard!

And our Name that Tune song today was ‘Oh My Soul’ from Casting Crowns!
Congratulations to Madison of Mt. Vernon!

Coming up in just a few days is August First Friday here in Mt. Vernon, and today on the show we talked about all the awesome stuff that’ll be going on!
-TaVaci of Mt. Vernon OH select students and the Uncorrections on the South Stag
-A Guns and Hoses winners presentation for the American Red Cross
-Hidden in Plain Sight hosted by KSAAT
-‘Outside’ an exhibition at the Schnormeier Gallery
-and food vendors on the square!

Be sure to come visit us and register for a ‘Clean Up, Dress Up, and Check-Up’ prize basket! We’ll be there from 6-9 on the square!

We also celebrated World Wide Web Day today, so in honor of that, here’s a few fun facts about the good old world wide web!

The Internet’s first website went online on Aug. 6, 1991.
Berners-Lee and his fellow CERN team members launched http://info.cern.ch with a landing page that only contained 153 words. It defined the World Wide Web (“W3”) as “a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents” and contained 25 links to basic additional information about the pioneering initiative.

The internet is not the web and the web is not the internet.
The internet was a thing long before the web and the web wouldn’t exist without the internet. The internet, the roots of which can be traced as far back to the invention of the modem in 1958, is a massive infrastructure that bridges millions of computers throughout the globe. The World Wide Web is a vast system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed on the internet.

Billions of people surf the web. Of the world’s 7.1 billion people, an estimated 2.4 billion people go online today. That’s 37.7 percent of the world’s total population. About six out of seven people across the globe have internet access. Approximately 70 percent of internet users surf the web every day.

Americans rock the web the most. Users in the U.S. account for 78.6 percent of global web usage, trailed by Australia (67.6 percent), Europe (63.2 percent), Latin America/Caribbean (42.9 percent), Middle East (40.2 percent), Asia (25.7 percent) and Africa (15.6).  Surprisingly, some 24 nations remain completely offline.

 

-Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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Ohio State Fair Mystery Monday!

We would like to congratulate our 4 adult prize basket winners from the Knox County Fair!

Hog #1 – Sarah Row of Mount Vernon won a 222 pound hog from Meredith Overholt from Fredericktown.  The purchase price was $3.75 a pound giving a total price of $832.50.  Meredith is a part of Country Critters 4-H Club. WNZR purchased this hog with Kokosing Inc.

Hog #2 – Theresa Cobb of Mount Vernon won a 236 pound hog from Natalie Caudill from Centerburg.  The purchase price was $3.00 a pound giving a total price of $708.  Natalie belongs to the Centerburg FFA. WNZR purchased this hog with A+ Autobrokers.

Hog #3 – Grace Pozderac of Mount Vernon won a 262 pound hog from Jeremiah McKinley from Fredericktown.  The purchase price was $3.00 a pound giving a total price of $786.  4-H Club is Green Valley Giants. (WNZR purchased this hog with Kokosing Inc.)

Hog #4 – Rebecca Comerford of of Fredericktown won a 223 pound hog from Riley Farrell from Newark. The purchase price was $3.00 a pound giving a total price of $669.  Riley is a member of the Lighthouse 4H Club. (WNZR purchased this hog with A+ Autobrokers.)

We’d like to give a big thank you to all the 4-H kids, and our sponsors who made this prize basket possible!

Today is raspberry cake day, and oh my goodness, I would like to take this moment to formally thank my old high school friend’s mom, Mrs. Ritz. She made the most delicious raspberry, white chocolate layer cake for our Fine Arts Gala every year, and it is still, hands down, the best cake I’ve ever had.

Here are some fun raspberry facts for you…

  • Raspberries are a type of fruit known as an aggregate fruit. Aggregate fruits have flowers with multiple ovaries and each ovary produces druplets around a core formed by the flower. Each druplet could actually be considered a separate fruit.
  • There are over 200 different known species of raspberries but only 2 species are grown on a large scale.
  • Raspberries contain more vitamin C than oranges, are super high in fibre, low in calories and supply you with a good dose of folic acid. In addition to that, they are high in potassium, vitamin A and calcium.
  • Scotland is an unlikely raspberry haven. It’s famous for its raspberry growing. In the late 1950s, raspberries were brought down from Scotland to London on a steam train known as the Raspberry Special.

 

Thanks for listening!

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NZ Top 10 7/28

Even though we were on the road, we’re still bringing you the top 10!
Here’s the countdown!

10. I Wanna go Back – Davis Dunn
9. O Come to the Altar – Elevation Worship
8. I Have this Hope – Tenth Avenue North
7. Love Broke Thru – TobyMac
6. Bulletproof – Citizen Way
5. What a Beautiful Name – Hillsong Worship
4. Unfinished – Mandisa
3. Oh My Soul – Casting Crowns
2. Home – Chris Tomlin
1. Even If – MercyMe

For our Behind the Mic feature this week, we talked with Jeremy Camp!
Here’s his song ‘He Knows‘ and here’s the story behind it!

New Music Friday brought us some awesome new songs!
Check out ‘Your Love Defends Me‘ from Matt Maher,
and ‘Point to You‘ from We are Messengers.

Our NZ Back to Back Artist Spotlight fell on DC Talk this week!
Check out their songs ‘My Will‘ and ‘In the Light‘.

Our NZ Rewinds took us back to 2001 this week!
Check out ‘Adore‘ from Jaci Velazquez, and
‘Come, Now is the Time to Worship‘ from Phillips, Craig, and Dean.

Thanks for listening!

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