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NZ Top 10 – 6/9

10. Chain Breaker – Zach Williams
9. Testify – NEEDTOBREATHE (BIGGEST FALL, -3 from last week)
8. Never Been a Moment – Micah Tyler
7. Unfinished – Mandisa (SONG ON THE RISE)
6. Oh My Soul – Casting Crowns
5. I Have this Hope – Tenth Ave North
4. Love Broke Thru – TobyMac
3. Home – Chris Tomlin
2. What a Beautiful Name – Hillsong Worship
1. Even If – MercyMe

This week, per your votes, we went Behind the Mic with Matthew West!
Check out his song ‘Mended‘ and check out his story behind the song here!

Our NZ Breakout Hit of the Week came to us courtesy of Brandon Heath!
Check out ‘Whole Heart’ here!

Our NZ Back-to-Back-to-Back feature today was from artists under the Gotee Record label! Check out ‘Refuge‘ from Finding Favour, ‘Eye on it‘ from TobyMac, and the newest one from Hollyn, ‘In Awe‘

Our NZ Rewinds took us back to 2000!
Check out Plus One’s song ‘Written on my Heart‘ and
Steven Curtis Chapman’s song ‘Great Expectations‘!

New Music!!! Ah! Check it out! Matthew West’s new song ‘Broken Things‘

Thanks for listening!
Have a great weekend!
-Lilly

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The Definition of Prayer

Reading out of the book, “The Battle Plan for Prayer”, we talked today about the definition of prayer, and what prayer really is.
Check out some of the highlights below!

Prayer, at its heart, is communicating with God. Reverently, openly and sincerely.
We are interacting with the magnificent God of the universe.
We can’t forget that we’re in his presence when we pray

If we just understood what being in the presence of the Almighty is like, our minds wouldn’t wander.  We’d enter into awestruck worship.  Stunned and possibly speechless.

We need to realize that prayer is serious business – and we get that privilege because of Jesus. Jesus opened a new way for us to draw near to God through his death and the tearing of the veil.  It was the atoning blood of Christ that opened that channel (Hebrews 10:20).  His blood shields us from the consuming fire. Only through Christ are we safe with God.

The practical definition of prayer…Prayer is communion with God in order to…

1 – Intimately know, love and worship Him

Relationship and Worship are key to prayer.  We’re trying to know more about who He is and what He does. This helps us grow deeper in our love and respect for Him.  This is the “hallowed be Your name” part of the Lord’s Prayer.

 

2 – Understand and conform our lives to His will

Prayer doesn’t just change things, it changes us!  He works to align our hearts and minds to His.  This is the “your Kingdom come, your will be done.”

 

 

3 – Access and advance His kingdom, power and glory

When we pray, “lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,” we are seeking to access God’s kingdom resources, for His mighty power to work on our behalf and for Him to reveal His glory in our situation. The last words of the Lord’s Prayer are not just for church and ceremony – they are to remind us that God is owner of all, ruler of all, and worthy of all (Romans 11:36). Prayer allows us to join God in what He is doing among the nations for His glory.

Prayer is not about prayer – it is about a PERSON.  God Himself. We get off track when we focus more on provision or protection rather than knowing and pleasing God.

“Help me abandon my own agendas and self assurance, wanting to be nowhere else but aligned with Your will.”

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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Blueberry Who Knew!

Hope you’re having a great Wednesday!
With summer in full swing, blueberries are in season! Today on the show we gave you all sorts of fun facts about the versatile super-food, the blueberry!
Check out these facts!

Fiber…
One handful of blueberries gives you 4 grams of fiber
Getting the proper amount of fiber may reduce the risk of heart disease
Eating a fiber-rich diet can also keep your cholesterol in check!

Antioxidant properties…
Blueberries have some of the highest levels of antioxidants compared to most fruits and vegetables! These antioxidants neutralize free radicals, and prevent against various types of diseases and aging!

Vitamin C…
Vitamin C acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells and promote the growth of healthy tissue. One serving of blueberries will supply you with 25 percent of the daily recommendation for vitamin C.

Manganese…

Manganese is important for bone development. Manganese also helps the body process cholesterol and nutrients such as carbohydrates and protein.

Need a Superfood recipe? Try one of these:

Blueberry parfait
Blueberry muffins
Blueberry smoothie

Our word of the day today was, aptly, manganese!
noun || man·ga·nese || \ˈmaŋ-gə-ˌnēz, -ˌnēs\
This is a grayish-white usually hard and brittle metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic and is used especially in alloys, batteries, and plant fertilizers.

We are now accepting submissions for ‘Take Dad to Dinner’, 2017 edition!
Click on this link here, and scroll to the bottom to submit your form!

We need your Dad’s Name, address and phone number and a special message about your Dad. Tell us why you love your Dad and want to take him out for dinner.

Our staff will share these special messages on The Morning Thing on Friday, June 16th and choose 4 Dads in a random drawing. Our 4 winning Dads will each receive a $25.00 gift card to Parkside Restaurant and $15 in gift cards to Wendys!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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Some Games and Uplifting News for your Tuesday!

Now, I’ve graduated high school, and that was cool, but it would have been even cooler to have graduated with my mom! Read about Minnesota graduate, Sora, who actually did get to graduate with her mother! Check it out here!

Our song poetry prompt today was…
“Are you hurting and broken within
Overwhelmed by the weight of your sin
Jesus is calling”

Congratulations to Travis from Mt. Vernon for calling and correctly guessing!
The answer is ‘O Come to the Altar’ from Elevation Worship

Our Name That Tune song today was ‘Beloved’ from Jordan Feliz!
Congratulations to Melodie from Mt. Vernon for calling in and correctly guessing!

Baseball is neat, and the ushers at baseball games are pretty entertaining as well. That’s even more true for 98 year old Phil, who has been an usher for the Pirates for 80 years! Read the whole story from ESPN here!

Our word of the day today was… catercorner
adverb or adjective || KAT-ee-kor-ner
This means… in a diagonal or oblique position : kitty-corner.

 Catercorner also has the variants kitty-corner and catty-corner, but despite appearances, no cats were involved in the creation of this word. Cater derives from the Middle French noun quatre (or catre), which means “four.” English speakers adopted the word to refer to the four-dotted side of a die—a side important in several winning combinations in dice games. Perhaps because the four spots on a die can suggest an X, cater eventually came to be used dialectically with the meaning “diagonal” or “diagonally.” This cater was combined with corner to form catercorner.
Thanks for listening!
-Lilly
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CANDY MONTH Mystery Monday

I love candy, but who doesn’t?
Today on the show, Rachel and I talked all about candy!
Check out these fun facts!

  • The man who invented cotton candy, William James Morrison, was a dentist.
  • Fairy Floss was the original name of cotton candy.
  • Snickers, one of the most popular candy bars today, was named after the Mars family horse
  • A lollipop, which was invented by George Smith in 1908, was named after Lolly Pop, a racing horse.
  • Easter is one of the big candy holidays and each year candy companies make more than 90 million Easter bunnies and 16 billion jelly beans just for the one day holiday.
  • Almost everyone eats the ears off of their chocolate Easter bunnies before they eat anything else.
  • Across the country, red jelly beans are most commonly chosen as the favorite amongst children.
  • Almost every child in America will go trick or treating this year (93%).
  • If you laid out all the candy corn produced in a year from end to end, you could circle the Earth more than 4 times.
  • More than 75% of the candy given out during trick or treating is bite-size chocolate bars.

Our Mystery Monday Mystery Question was as follows…
In early 1995, Mars ran a promotion in which consumers could vote what color M&M replaced the tan M&M. What color ended up replacing the tan M&M.

The answer was BLUE! Congrats to Amy of Mt. Vernon who answered correctly!

Our word of the day today was, aptly, confectionery!
noun || con·fec·tion·ery || \kən-ˈfek-shə-ˌner-ē\
This is the confectioner’s art or business, sweet foods (such as candy or pastry, or  a confectioner’s shop!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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Fun Games and Uplifting News!

Come see WNZR R.E.A.L (that’s Rachel, Eddie, and Lilly) perform at the Buchwald Plaza in downtown Mt. Vernon this Friday for June First Friday! We’ll be playing from 6-8, so come out and listen to some of your local DJ’s sing a little 🙂

Our song poetry lyrics today were:
“Your word is
A light unto my feet
Your love is
My identity”
Short one today but it’s a great song!
It was ‘All that Matters’ from Colton Dixon!
Congratulations to Sherrisa of Howard who called in and correctly guessed!

Congratulations to Katie of Mt. Vernon who won our Name That Tune game today as well! The answer to NTT was ‘Forgiven’ from Crowder!

For Uplifting News today, Joe shared a great story!
Read about Bob Charland who is fixing up bikes for kids! Check it out here!

Our word of the day today was: keysmash
Noun || kee-smash
a random string of letters and symbols typed out on a keyboard or touchscreen,used to signal intense emotion in written communication.
So, uh, kinda like this… sfgo-thp[lwe ;.[.’s’
or maybe like this… ake rjy3[okam;
One more? Okay. z478bd8i
Perfect, right? They’re fun too.

Thanks for listening!

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NZ Top 10 5/26

It’s been a great week, and there’s no better way to end it than with the NZ Top 10!
Let’s get right to the countdown, shall we?

10. Chain Breaker – Zach Williams
9. Unfinished – Mandisa
8. Rise – Danny Gokey
7.  Never Been a Moment – Micah Tyler
6. Testify – NEEDTOBREATHE
5. I Have this Hope – Tenth Avenue North
4. Home – Chris Tomlin
3. Love Broke Thru – TobyMac
2. What a Beautiful Name – Hillsong Worship
1. Even If – MercyMe

Our Behind the Mic feature this week was chosen courtesy of you via a Twitter poll!
The response was immense, so thank you for your participation!
So the Behind the Mic feature this week was from For King and Country!
Check out ‘The Proof of Your Love’ here, and check out their interview with New Release Today here!

Check out our Breakout Hit of the Week, Bulletproof, from Citizen Way here!

Check out our Back to Back Artist, Natalie Grant!
Listen to her songs ‘Be One‘ and ‘Closer to Your Heart‘

Our rewinds took us back to 2000 this week!
Check out Ginny Owens’ song ‘If You Want me To‘ and

Our New Music Friday feature came to us courtesy of Third Day!
Check out ‘Revival’ here!

Our Fan Choice of the Week goes out to Alliya of Mt. Vernon!
Check out Alliya’s favorite song ‘Alone’ by Hollyn here!

 

Thanks for listening!
Have a great weekend!
-Lilly

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Praise Thursday: Priority of Prayer

Good afternoon! It was a drizzle-filled one here in Mt. Vernon, but we continued our series on prayer today, and we talked about the priority of prayer!

Here’s some of the things we were talking about on the show today!
Prayer is:

  • The key to intimacy between Christ and us
  • Our interaction with our heavenly father like we would interact with an earthly father (Matthew 7: 9-11)
  • Human frailty, joined in communion with divine perfection
  • Too wonderful and important no to do it
  • A big deal to God so it should be a big deal to us

Praying isn’t easy because it requires us to pause and focus our thoughts; it requires us to rely less on self-sufficiency; it requires humility…but…

We need God, so we need to make it a priority!

Prayer should be first in the order of things (I Timothy 2: 1-8)

Jesus prioritized prayer above everything else; his disciples saw this consistently, so that may be why they asked him in Luke 11:1, “teach us how to pray.”

Jesus said in Mark 11:17 that “my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations…”

Everything else that occupies the church’s time and energy will be lacking in power and blessing and the fragrance of God’s presence if prayer is not kept first.

We can’t make prayer an add-on or an afterthought…

We were never intended to live out the Christian life or accomplish his work on the earth in our own wisdom or strength.  The plan has ALWAYS been to rely on the Holy Spirit and live a life of obedience in prayer.

Acts 1:14 – a deep devotion to prayer was always connected to the success of the New Testament church.

Devoting yourself to something carries the idea of insisting and clinging to something. We see it again in Acts 2:42 and Acts 6:4.

Everywhere we turn, prayer should be there to meet us. When it does, scripture reminds us that we can expect these things to happen:

  • Evangelism of the lost (Colossians 4:3)
  • Cultivation of discipleship (John 17)
  • True Christian fellowship (Acts 2:42)
  • Wise decisions (James 1:5)
  • The overcoming of obstacles (Mark 11:22-24)
  • Needs met (Matthew 6:11)
  • Ignition of true worship (Matthew 6:13)
  • The sparking of revival (2 Chronicles 7:14)

“Father forgive us for relying on our wisdom, strength, energy and ideas rather than abiding in You and seeking You first. Help us lay aside anything that hinders us from pursuing Your best. Help us to prioritize prayer and devote ourselves to it in our personal lives, our families, and our churches. Make our churches truly houses of prayer for all nations. Revive us again, O Lord. Help us walk by Your strength  and bring You great glory in our generation.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.”

Our word of the day today: inanition

noun || in-uh-NISH-un

the exhausted condition that results from lack of food and water
the absence or loss of social, moral, or intellectual vitality or vigor
Inanition describes a state of suffering from either a literal emptiness (of sustenance) or a metaphorical emptiness (of interest or energy), so it should come as no surprise that the word ultimately derives from the same idea in Latin. Inanition, which first appeared in Middle English in the 14th century as in-anisioun, can be traced back to the Latin verb inanire, meaning “to make empty,” which in turn comes from inanis (meaning “empty”). Another far more common descendant of inanis is inane. The family resemblance is clear: inane is used describe things lacking significance or substance.

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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A Memorial Who Knew!

There’s a difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day, but not everyone is entirely sure what that difference is! CNN wrote a good article explaining the difference, check it out below!

Memorial Day: Celebrated the last Monday in May, Memorial Day is the holiday set aside to pay tribute to those who died serving in the military.
The website for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs recounts the start of Memorial Day this way:
“Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) — established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared that Decoration Day should be observed on May 30. It is believed that date was chosen because flowers would be in bloom all over the country.”
The passage of the National Holiday Act of 1971 by Congress made it an official holiday.

Veterans Day: This federal holiday falls on November 11 and is designated as a day to honor all who have served in the military. According to Military.com, Veterans Day began as Armistice Day to honor the end of World War I, which officially took place on November 11, 1918.
“In 1954, after having been through both World War II and the Korean War, the 83rd U.S. Congress — at the urging of the veterans service organizations — amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word “Armistice” and inserting the word “Veterans,” the site says. “With the approval of this legislation on June 1, 1954, November 11 became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.”

There is a really neat website that will tell you all about Memorial Day and you can check out all the history and ways to celebrate Memorial Day here!

Our word of the day today was: malleable
adjective || MAL-ee-uh-bul

This means: capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers, capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces or influences, or having a capacity for adaptive change.

There is a hint about the origins of malleable in its first definition. The earliest uses of the word, which first appeared in English in the 14th century, referred primarily to metals that could be reshaped by beating with a hammer. The Middle English word malliable comes to us from Medieval Latin malleabilis, which in turn derives from the Latin verb malleare, meaning “to hammer.” Malleare itself was created from the Latin word for “hammer”: malleus. If you have guessed that maul and mallet, other English words for specific types of hammers, can also be traced back to malleus, you have hit the nail on the head.

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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