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Music Mystery Monday!

It’s Fall Break here on the campus of MVNU, and we hope you’re having a great day! Fall is here and kicking in to full gear!
Today on the show, I talked about the awesome weekend we had!
We held WNZR’s Dogtoberfest as part of Main Street Mt. Vernon’s First Friday!
We also took part in the Starting Point Walk, which was an incredible event, and they have surpassed their goal of $59,000, so we would like to thank everyone who donated!
Check out pictures from these events on our Facebook, WNZR 90.9fm.

For Mystery Monday, we had a music related question! More specifically, it was about the Dove awards, happening a week from tomorrow!
Our question was… “Can you name two of the five songs that were nominated for the ‘Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year’ category?

Congratulations to Sherrisa from Howard! She correctly guessed and won that $5 gift certificate to Troyer’s of Apple Valley!

The five nominated songs are…
Priceless – For King and Country
Come Alive (Dry Bones) – Lauren Daigle
Even If – MercyMe
Eye of the Storm – Ryan Stevenson
Chain Breaker – Zach Williams

WNZR is giving you a chance to win 9 CD’s from Dove Award Nominated artists, and all you have to do is tell us who you think is going to win some of those categories!
Click the link here, fill out the prediction survey, and you’ll be entered to win that pack of CD’s from Dove Nominated artists!

The Dove Awards are next Tuesday, October 17th, so be sure to keep it here on WNZR for all the results on Wednesday the 18th!

We are also celebrating Clergy Appreciation Month here at WNZR, and we are giving you so many chances for your pastors to win!
Click the link here to find out more!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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NZ Top 10 – 10/6

Heading into Fall Break here at MVNU the only way we know how… by counting down the top 10 songs in Christian Radio! Let’s dive right into it…

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

For New Music Friday, we brought you two incredibly powerful songs!
Check out ‘Real Love’ from Blanca here!
Hear the story behind the song ‘Real Love’ here!
And ‘Clean; from Natalie Grant here!
Read about the story behind ‘Clean’ here!

“The church is the place where we should talk about everything and feel comfortable. What I’m talking about is a relationship. When you come in contact with Jesus, there’s not religion, that’s a transformation.”
-Natalie Grant

Our NZ Top 10 Back to Back artist spotlight fell, this week, on Kutless!
Check out their songs ‘Strong Tower‘ and ‘King of my Heart‘!
Learn more about the band by visiting their website here!

We went back in time to the year 2006 with our NZ Top 10 Rewinds today!
Check out ‘Give it All Away’ from Aaron Shust,
And ‘Because I’m Forgiven‘ from Phillips, Craig and Dean.

Thanks for tuning in!
Have a great weekend!
-Lilly

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NZ Top 10 9/29

What a long week here on the campus of Mt. Vernon Nazarene University, but there’s no better way to end the week than by counting down the top 10 songs in Christian radio!

Here’s this week’s countdown…

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

For our Breakout hit of the week, we heard from Mandisa and her friends TobyMac and Kirk Franklin in their new song. “Bleed the Same”. Check it out here!

Our NZ Back to Back spotlight fell on Kari Jobe this week!
Check out ‘I am not Alone‘ and ‘Heal our Land’

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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Poetry Mystery Monday!

Getting back to business here at WNZR!
Today, for Mystery Monday, we had a poetry mystery Monday question, and it was about the humble haiku!
They have a pattern of syllables that are required for it to be a haiku! Our question today, simply was, what is that pattern?

The pattern is…
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables

Congrats to Marsha from Danville!

Our word of the day was

Hebetude: lethargy, dullness

 

Did You Know?

Hebetude usually suggests mental dullness, often marked by laziness or torpor. As such, it was a good word for one Queenslander correspondent, who wrote in a letter to the editor of the Weekend Australian of “an epidemic of hebetude among young people who … are placing too great a reliance on electronic devices to do their thinking and remembering.” Hebetude comes from Late Latin hebetudo, which means pretty much the same thing as our word. It is also closely related to the Latin word for “dull,” hebes, which has extended meanings such as “obtuse,” “doltish,” and “stupid.” Other hebe- words in English include hebetudinous (“marked by hebetude”) and hebetate (“to make dull”).

Thanks for listening!-Lilly

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Game Time Tuesday!

Our song poetry prompt today was…

“Open up the gate make way before the King of Kings.
 The God who comes to save is here to set the captives free.
 Who can stop the Lord Almighty.”

These were lyrics to Big Daddy Weave’s ‘Lion and the Lamb’
Congrats to Travis of Mt. Vernon!

Are you a dinosaur fan?
Well what if you tripped and fell over an extremely rare fossil?
Check out our uplifting story of Jude Sparks, who did just that!
Read his story here!

Can you administer CPR?
What would you do if your teacher needed CPR, what would you do?
Read the story of a man who’s student gave him CPR!
Check it out here!

Our Name that Tune song today was Bulletproof from Citizen Way!
Congrats to Lisa from Danville!

Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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A Hartford Who Knew!

Today, we started another leg of On the Road with Big Blue, and headed out to the Hartford Fair! We shared some Who Knew facts with you, and here are some of them from their Fair website!

The Hartford Independent Agricultural Society, or better known as the “Hartford Fair” is located in the Northwest corner of Licking County. It is a unique fair in comparison to other Ohio fairs. It incorporates directors from Licking County and two neighboring counties, Delaware and Knox. Because Licking County does not have a County fair, the Junior Fair includes exhibitors from all of Licking Co. and portions of Delaware and Knox Counties.

The Hartford Fair was organized in the fall of 1858 under the name “The Hartford Fair Society”. The first fair was held in 1858 on land leased by Taber Sharp. The only townships represented at that time were Hartford and Monroe in Licking County and Hilliar in Knox County and Trenton in Delaware County. By 1871 there were ten townships represented, with the annexation of Milford Township in Knox Co; Harlem & Berkshire townships in Delaware; and Liberty, Bennington and Burlington townships in Licking County. St. Albans and Jersey were added from Licking County in 1908 as well as Miller in Knox Co. and Porter from Delaware Co.

This made a total of fourteen townships represented with a director elected from each with the exception of Hartford Twp. which had two directors. This fifteen-member fair board continued until 1970 when five directors were added At-Large from the remaining townships in Licking County, not already represented, making the total number of directors twenty. Ten years later, in 1980, two more At-Large directors were appointed along with one more each from Hartford and Monroe Townships. The list of directors totaled twenty-four. In 2012, three additional directors were added to the Board making the total 27″.

We hope to see you out at Dan Emmett!
Thanks for listening!
-Lilly

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Game Time Tuesday!

One of our uplifting news stories was football related today, because the preseason is just getting started! Check out LaDainian Tomlinson’s acceptance speech, as he was inducted into the Hall of Fame here.

Our song poetry lyrics for today were…
“Everybody talkin’ like they need some proof,
But what more do I need than to feel you.
Bring it back now,
Do do, do do, do do.”

Congratulations to Jennifer from Fredericktown for calling in and correctly guessing!

Our Name that Tune song today was…
Flawless from MercyMe!
Congrats to Greg of Mt. Vernon!

Our word of the day today was ‘immense’
adjective // ih-MENSS
This means marked by greatness especially in size or degree; especially : transcending ordinary means of measurement, or supremely good.

Just how big is something if it is immense? Huge? Colossal? Humongous? Ginormous? Or merely enormous? Immense is often used as a synonym of all of the above and, as such, can simply function as yet another way for English speakers to say “really, really, really big.” Immense is also used, however, in a sense which goes beyond merely really, really, really big to describe something that is so great in size or degree that it transcends ordinary means of measurement. This sense harks back to the original sense of immense for something which is so tremendously big that it has not been or cannot be measured. This sense reflects the word’s roots in the Latin immensus, from in-(“un-“) and mensus, the past participle of metiri (“to measure”).

Thanks for listening, and we hope to see you at our upcoming festivals!
-Lilly

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