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Hope, wisdom and forgiveness…

Today Todd and I continue our devotional series based on the book “Time With God for Fathers,” from Jack Countryman.  This devotional is meant to encourage fathers (and really all parents) with scripture that can guide them as they raise their children.

The first scripture today dealt with our eternal hope in I Peter 1:3-5:

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance [a]incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

It reminds us that despite the challenges of parenting, we always have that eternal hope and nothing can take that away!

Our second passage was about the precious commodities of wisdom and understanding in Proverbs 4:5-7:

5 Get wisdom! Get understanding!
Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
6 Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you;
Love her, and she will keep you.
7 Wisdom is the principal thing;
Therefore get wisdom.
And in all your getting, get understanding.

Then we also thanked God for his amazing forgiveness in 2 Corinthians 5:17-18:

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not [a]imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Thanks for listening!
– Joe

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Celebrate the Celebration of Life Month!

Today on the Afternoon Drive, we celebrated the Celebration of Life month and talked with you about how you can celebrate it too!

Celebration of Life day was actually yesterday, but we celebrate it all month through. Here’s a little history on the month…
Food for Health International is a company that focuses on producing and distributing whole food and preparation for emergencies. With its unique techniques and methods they work towards providing rich, healthful food at reduced prices. As part of their mission, they’ve introduced the Celebration of Life Month to help remind everyone that taking care of our bodies is taking care of our souls, and helps us celebrate every day.

Here’s a couple tips from Days of the Year on how to celebrate this celebration and read the whole article here!

  1. Start off by taking a few mental health days, just take the time to sit back and relax, and reassess the past year and what you’re going to be doing moving forward with this year. Enjoy your favorite leisure activity, and do whatever it is that helps you recharge when things are just getting too crazy.
  2. When you’re sitting at work, be sure to do everything you can to remind yourself that you are not your job. By not identifying yourself with your work, you can enjoy the day free from the idea that your success there measures your worth. Work is just another passing of the day, and at the end of the day you need to remember to celebrate the glories of life.

We also shared a few more ways to celebrate the celebration from our friends at Victim Services BGP! Check out these tips and read the whole article here!

1. Laugh – Find something funny that makes you laugh everyday. Laughter dissolves anxiety and heals the spirit. Find a place to laugh out loud and celebrate your life with a good cackle.

2. Write – Keep a daily record of the good things that have happened. You found a parking space, arrived early despite traffic, won a lawsuit, lost a pound – tally each victory, large and small – then celebrate to gain more to celebrate.

3. Learn – Discover a new word (azygous), a funny fact, a historical event; stay curious and keep learning. Increase your knowledge to celebrate your life. Remember, if you are not gaining intelligence you are losing intelligence.

Of course, for our Who Knew question today, we gave you a chance to win a $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley! Here was today’s question…
Q: We’re telling you that laughing and smiling are good ways to help celebrate the celebration of life month. Psychology Today shared an article called the “Nine Superpowers of Your Smile” which you can read here. Name any of the 9 ‘superpowers’ that you gain by smiling.
Answers:
1. Smiling can make you look younger.
2. Smiling can make you look thinner.
3. Smiling elevates your mood and creates a sense of well-being.
4. Smiling induces more pleasure in the brain more than chocolate.
5. Even a forced smile can lead to a mood boost.
6. Smiles can predict fulfillment in marriage.
7. Smiling makes you seem courteous, likable, and competent.
8. The span of a person’s smile can predict life span.
9. Smiling is contagious

Congrats to

The Who Knew Food Corner!

We also shared our Who Knew Food Corner recipe with you today because it’s PIE DAY!
Here’s 50 easy pie recipes from our friends at Food Network!
And here’s my pick, a beautiful Dutch Apple pie. This one’s for you, Breah.
Enjoy!

 

Thanks for listening and enjoy this month!
– Lilly and Hannah

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Game Time Tuesday 1/22/19

Today we doubled up the prizes with $5 gift certificates to Troyer’s of Apple Valley and a four-pack of passes to the AAA Great Vacations Travel Expo!

Today’s Song Poetry lyrics:

When I was lost soul searching
You were the ground beneath my feet
When I was blind man begging
You were the eyes so I could see

The song? ‘Survivor’ by Zach Williams.  Congratulations to Maude of Mount Vernon for guessing correctly!

Today’s Name That Tune song was ‘You Make Me Brave’ by Bethel Music.  Congratulations to Edward from Westerville who wins the prizes!

Thanks for listening!
– Joe and Todd

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Get into a Routine!

Today Lilly and I talked about five healthy nightly habits to help you ease into sleep and had a mystery question for your chance to win a $5 gift card to Troyers!

Here is our mystery question:

What Would You Hate To Live Next To, Because The Noise Would Prevent You From Sleeping?

Answers:

Airport: 31 points
Train: 24 points
Restaurant: 19 points
Fire Station: 9 points
Highway: 7 points
Dog: 6 points

 

Congratulations to David from Fredericktown who guessed those top two answers!

Here is the link to those five healthy nightly habits to ease into sleep!

Thank you so much for you’re support of the Afternoon Drive, we can’t express how much it means to us!

Hannah and Lilly

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NZ Top 10 1/18

Here’s this week’s countdown!
10. Best News Ever – MercyMe
9. Survivor – Zach Williams
8. Confidence – Sanctus Real
7. Stand in Your Love – Josh Baldwin
6. Everything – TobyMac
5. Only Jesus – Casting Crowns
4. You Say – Lauren Daigle
3. Even Then – Micah Tyler
2. Who You Say I Am – Hillsong Worship
1. Known – Tauren Wells

New music came to us courtesy of Danny Gokey – “Haven’t Seen It Yet” and For King and Country – “God Only Knows“.

Thanks for listening!
– Joe and Lilly
Stay safe this weekend!

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The building blocks for a prayerful father

Today Todd and I begin a new devotional series based on the book “Time With God for Fathers,” from Jack Countryman.  This devotional is meant to encourage fathers (and really all parents) with scripture that can guide them as they raise their children.

Today we focused on some building block verses from the NKJV:

The Essence of Worship – Psalm 95: 3-7
3 For the Lord is the great God,
And the great King above all gods.
4 [a]In His hand are the deep places of the earth;
The heights of the hills are His also.
5 The sea is His, for He made it;
And His hands formed the dry land.
6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture,
And the sheep [b]of His hand.

We grow in our relationship with God when we worship Him…

Obedience is Essential – Hebrews 4:12

12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Obedience is expected by fathers of their children, but we also understand that our Heavenly father expects the same of us…

A Father’s Prayer – Philippians 4:6-7
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Guide me with my words and actions toward my children…

Listen to the Holy Spirit – John 14:14-18
14 If you [a]ask anything in My name, I will do it.
15 “If you love Me, [b]keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another [c]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

Meditate on God’s Word and the spirit will abide with you…

Thanks for listening!
– Joe

 

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A Who-Knew about Nothing!

Yes, you read that right! Nothing! Today is Nothing day!
We couldn’t just celebrate by doing nothing, so we did something!

Nothing Day has been commemorated since 1973. The day is literally about doing nothing at all, placing it in a similar vein to other such surreal non-occasions as an Un-Birthday or Buy Nothing Day. There is absolutely no purpose or intended structure for this pointless celebration.
As it is all about expending no effort on celebrating absolutely nothing, Nothing Day can also be about celebrating life itself. The only limits on how the day is spent are the imagination and bank balance of the participant.

The day was first proposed by the late American newspaper columnist Harold Coffin. Nothing Day was founded with the intent of eventual self-destruction, through satirically reigning in what Coffin considered a glut of recently established, useless commemorative days. Coffin’s Nothing Organization was simultaneously formed in order to raise awareness. Fittingly, the organization has not yet held a single meeting. The continued official celebrations stand testament to Coffin’s ultimate failure.

So, for Nothing Day, we decided to share with you some things to do to celebrate today!

Do nothing for two minutes.
You can head to our blog and read the article we’re talking about today! They have a link to a two-minute timer with a nice sunset background. Or you can set a 2-minute timer on your phone, go somewhere quiet and just relax for 2 minutes! Block out distractions, don’t focus on work, just breathe and sit for two minutes.
As much as we’d like to, we cannot condone doing absolutely nothing for a day, but 2 minutes isn’t the worst thing in the world.

Get comfortable doing nothing!
Assuming you’re not dead, you’re always doing something – even if you’re just savoring the pleasures of idleness. But what’s usually meant by “doing nothing” is doing nothing useful. The problem is that “useful” gets defined in ways that don’t always serve our interests. Working harder to earn more to buy more stuff is useful for the people selling the stuff – but not necessarily for you. And usefulness is intrinsically future-oriented: it yanks you from the present, making savoring impossible. So perhaps “doing nothing” is synonymous with feeling alive.

Aimlessness, rest, and even boredom can boost creativity. There’s good reason why so many celebrated authors and artists incorporate long walks in their daily routines. One is the well-studied “incubation effect”: ceasing to focus on a project seems to give your unconscious permission to get to work. (In one study, people who knew they’d be returning to a creative-thinking task after a break did much better at it when they resumed, unlike those who weren’t expecting to return to the task – suggesting that it was unconscious processing, not simply taking a rest, that made the difference.)

Take a trip to the town of Nothing, Arizona.
It’s a 30-hour trip by car, so if you drive, and you’re the passenger, you can really get good at doing nothing. And just an FYI, Nothing, AZ is a ghost-town that has been uninhabited since 2011, so yes, it really is the epitome of nothing.

You can read more about Nothing Day here and here!

We also began a new feature here on the Afternoon Drive called the Who-Knew Food Corner! Because it’s not the Afternoon Drive without food, right?
Today for the WKFC, we’re celebrating International Hot and Spicy Food Day!
I shared a recipe for Nashville Style Hot Chicken, and you can find that here!
Check out some more hot and spicy recipes here!

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Artist News + Prizes 1/15/19

Artist News Day and Game Time Tuesday today –

Todd started us off with details of the New Release Today and Visible Music College’s 7th Annual We Love Awards, where you can vote on 23 different categories of Christian Music.

You can vote by clicking here

Then today’s Song Poetry featured these lyrics:

I’m coming back to the start
I got this freedom
In here we feel your heart
Your heartbeat for us

The answer? “God’s Great Dance Floor” by Chris Tomlin.  Congratulations to Travis of Mount Vernon, who wins the $5 certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley.

Today’s Winter Jam Artist Trivia – Rend Collective originally contained what additional word in their band name?

The answer? Experiment. Congratulations to Marissa of Fredericktown who wins the passes to Winter Jam 2019.

Thanks for listening!
– Joe

 

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How about those Resolutions?

A couple of the most common resolutions are to travel more and to lose weight.
Today on the Afternoon Drive, we talked about both of those things!

We shared with you some good tips for traveling and for weight loss!
Why this combination of topics? Well, it has to do with our Mystery Question!

The question today? Name a foreign country that people vacation to where they could easily pack on 10 pounds
Italy (54)
France (20)
England (5)
Mexico (5)
Germany (3)

Congratulations to our winner Kaleb from Fredericktown! 

Of course, our WNZR staff are travelers at heart, so here are some pictures from our staff that have ventured to some of the countries on our list!

Here are a few pictures from Daria Swisher when she traveled to Italy!

Here’s some more pictures of Italy from WNZR’s former News Director, Brooke Schnipke!

Here are some pictures from resident staff mom, Carol Buckley from Germany!

And here’s some pictures from yours truly when we traveled to Mexico!

Besides sharing pictures, we also shared= some tips on how to travel efficiently!

Try new food.

Don’t ask what it is. Just put it in your mouth and see if you like it. If you put your guard up, you might miss out on some unusual and delicious local cuisine.

Lunchtime is the best time to visit historical sites.

Be a contrarian. You’ll have fewer crowds getting in your way as big tour buses, groups, and most travelers head to lunch. It’s always best to visit an attraction super early, late, or when people eat. You’ll have even the most popular places to yourself!

To read the whole article and see all 61 travel tips, click here!

We also talked about the other common resolution… weight loss.
We shared three tips on how to help you lose weight this year!

  1. Cut back on starches and carbs
    The most important part is to cut back on sugars and starches (carbs).
    When you do that, your hunger levels go down and you end up eating much fewer calories. Now instead of burning carbs for energy, your body starts feeding off of stored fat.
  2. Eat protein, fat and vegetables      Each one of your meals should include a protein source, a fat source and low-carb vegetables. Constructing your meals in this way will automatically bring your carb intake into the recommended range of 20–50 grams per day.
  3. Lift weights three times a week
    You don’t need to exercise to lose weight on this plan, but it is recommended.
    The best option is to go to the gym 3–4 times a week. Do a warm-up and lift some weights. If you’re new to the gym, ask a trainer for some advice. To see the whole article, click here

Thanks for listening!
– Lilly and Hannah

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