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Christianity
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Christianity is a Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, who serves as the focal point for the religion. It is the worlds largest religion, with over 2.4 billion followers, or 33% of the global population, Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of humanity whose coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament. Christian theology is summarized in creeds such as the Apostles Creed and his incarnation, earthly ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection are often referred to as the gospel, meaning good news. The term gospel also refers to accounts of Jesuss life and teaching, four of which—Matthew, Mark, Luke. Christianity is an Abrahamic religion that began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the mid-1st century, following the Age of Discovery, Christianity spread to the Americas, Australasia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the rest of the world through missionary work and colonization. Christianity has played a prominent role in the shaping of Western civilization, throughout its history, Christianity has weathered schisms and theological disputes that have resulted in many distinct churches and denominations. Worldwide, the three largest branches of Christianity are the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the denominations of Protestantism. There are many important differences of interpretation and opinion of the Bible, concise doctrinal statements or confessions of religious beliefs are known as creeds. They began as baptismal formulae and were expanded during the Christological controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries to become statements of faith. Many evangelical Protestants reject creeds as definitive statements of faith, even agreeing with some or all of the substance of the creeds. The Baptists have been non-creedal in that they have not sought to establish binding authoritative confessions of faith on one another. Also rejecting creeds are groups with roots in the Restoration Movement, such as the Christian Church, the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada, the Apostles Creed is the most widely accepted statement of the articles of Christian faith. It is also used by Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists and this particular creed was developed between the 2nd and 9th centuries. Its central doctrines are those of the Trinity and God the Creator, each of the doctrines found in this creed can be traced to statements current in the apostolic period. The creed was used as a summary of Christian doctrine for baptismal candidates in the churches of Rome. Most Christians accept the use of creeds, and subscribe to at least one of the mentioned above. The central tenet of Christianity is the belief in Jesus as the Son of God, Christians believe that Jesus, as the Messiah, was anointed by God as savior of humanity, and hold that Jesus coming was the fulfillment of messianic prophecies of the Old Testament. The Christian concept of the Messiah differs significantly from the contemporary Jewish concept, Jesus, having become fully human, suffered the pains and temptations of a mortal man, but did not sin
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Contemporary Christian music
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Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith. Today, the term is used to refer to pop, rock. Top-selling CCM artists will also appear on the Billboard 200, in the iTunes Store, the genre is represented as part of the Christian and gospel genre. The growing popularity in the styles of Rock n Roll music in the 1950s was initially dismissed by the church because it was believed to encourage sinfulness. Yet as evangelical churches adapted to appeal to people, the musical styles used in worship changed as well by adopting the sounds of this popular style. The genre became known as contemporary Christian music as a result of the Jesus movement revival in the latter 1960s and early 1970s, about that time, many young people from the sixties counterculture professed to believe in Jesus. Convinced of the bareness of a lifestyle based on drugs, free sex, however, there were people who felt that Jesus was another trip. It was during the 1970s Jesus movement that Christian music started to become an industry within itself, Jesus Music started by playing instruments and singing songs about love and peace, which then translated into love of God. Paul Wohlegemuth, who wrote the book Rethinking Church Music, said 1970s will see a marked acceptance of rock-influenced music in all levels of church music. The rock style will become familiar to all people, its rhythmic excesses will become refined. Larry Norman is often remembered as the father of Christian rock and he is remembered as the artist who first combined rock n roll with Christian lyrics in the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Unlike traditional or southern gospel music, this new Jesus music was birthed out of rock, pioneers of this movement also included Keith Green, 2nd Chapter of Acts, Barry McGuire, Andraé Crouch and the Disciples, Evie, Benny Hester, and The Imperials, among others. The small Jesus music culture had expanded into an industry by the 1980s. Many CCM artists such as Benny Hester, Amy Grant, DC Talk, Michael W. Smith, Stryper, the genre emerged and became prevalent in the 1970s and 1980s. Beginning in July 1978, CCM Magazine began covering Contemporary Christian Music artists and it has certain themes and messages behind the songs and their lyrics including Praise and worship, faith, encouragement, and prayer. These songs also focus on themes of devotion, inspiration, redemption, reconciliation, many people listen to contemporary Christian music for comfort through tough times. The lyrics and messages conveyed in CCM songs are aimed to evangelize, one of the earliest goals of CCM was to spread the news of Jesus to non-Christians. In addition, contemporary Christian music also strengthens the faith of believers, Contemporary Christian music has influences from folk, gospel, pop and rock music
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Prosperity theology
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It is based on interpretations of the Bible that are traditional to Judaism, though less so in Christianity. Prosperity theology views the Bible as a contract between God and humans, if humans have faith in God, he will deliver security and prosperity, the doctrine emphasizes the importance of personal empowerment, proposing that it is Gods will for his people to be happy. The atonement is interpreted to include the alleviation of sickness and poverty and this is believed to be achieved through donations of money, visualization, and positive confession. The prosperity teaching later figured prominently in the Word of Faith movement, in the 1990s and 2000s, it was adopted by influential leaders in the Pentecostal Movement and Charismatic Movement in the United States and has spread throughout the world. This gospel of wealth, however, was an expression of Muscular Christianity, the New Thought movement, which emerged in the 1880s, was responsible for popularizing belief in the power of the mind to achieve prosperity. While initially focused on achieving mental and physical health, New Thought teachers such as Charles Fillmore made material success a major emphasis of the movement, by the 20th century, New Thought concepts had saturated American popular culture, being common features of both self-help literature and popular psychology. E. W. Kenyon, a Baptist minister and adherent of the Higher Life movement, is credited with introducing mind-power teachings into early Pentecostalism, in the 1890s, Kenyon attended Emerson College of Oratory where he was exposed to the New Thought movement. Kenyon later became connected with well-known Pentecostal leaders and wrote about supernatural revelation and his writing influenced leaders of the nascent prosperity movement during the post-war American healing revival. Kenyon and later leaders in the prosperity movement have denied that he was influenced by the New Thought movement, anthropologist Simon Coleman argues that there are obvious parallels between Kenyons teachings and New Thought. Kenyon taught that Christs substitutionary atonement secured for believers a right to divine healing, Prayer was understood to be a binding, legal act. Rather than asking, Kenyon taught believers to demand healing since they were legally entitled to receive it. Kenyons blend of religion and mind-power beliefs—what he termed overcoming faith—resonated with a small. Pentecostals had always been committed to healing, and the movement also possessed a strong belief in the power of speech. Kenyons ideas would be reflected in the teachings of Pentecostal evangelists F. F. Bosworth, in fact, early Pentecostals tended to view prosperity as a threat to a persons spiritual well-being. By the 1940s and 1950s, however, a form of the doctrine began to take shape within the Pentecostal movement through the teachings of deliverance. Combining prosperity teaching with revivalism and faith healing, these evangelists taught the laws of faith, Oral Roberts began teaching prosperity theology in 1947. He explained the laws of faith as a pact in which God would return donations seven fold. Roberts offered to return any donation that did not lead to an equivalent unexpected payment, in the 1970s, Roberts characterized his blessing pact teaching as the seed faith doctrine, donations were a form of seed which would grow in value and be returned to the donor
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Tithe
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A tithe is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government. Today, tithes are normally voluntary and paid in cash, cheques, or stocks, whereas historically tithes were required and paid in kind, several European countries operate a formal process linked to the tax system allowing some churches to assess tithes. Traditional Jewish law and practice has included various forms of tithing since ancient times, orthodox Jews commonly practice maaser kesafim. In modern Israel, Jews continue to follow the laws of agricultural tithing, e. g. maaser rishon, terumat maaser, and maaser sheni. Instead, the New Testament scriptures are seen as teaching the concept of offerings as a means of supporting the church,1 Corinthians 16,2,2 Corinthians 9,7. Also, some of the earliest groups sold everything they had and held the proceeds in common to be used for the furtherance of the Gospel, Acts 2, 44-47, Acts 4, 34-35. Further, Acts 5, 1-20 contains the account of a man, tithes were mentioned at the Council of Tours in 567 and the Synod of Mâcon in 585. They were formally recognized under Pope Adrian I in 787, none of the extant laws of the Ancient Near East deal with tithing, although other secondary documents show that it was a widespread practice in the Ancient Near East. Who is in charge of the tithe, hebrew is a Semitic language, related to Akkadian, the lingua franca of that time. In Genesis 14, 18-20, Abraham, after rescuing Lot, after Melchizedeks blessing, Abraham gave him a tenth of everything he has obtained from battle, Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand. ”Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything. ”And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place. This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. ”So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first, and of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you. ”The tithe is specifically mentioned in the Books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The tithe system was organized in a cycle, corresponding to the Shemittah-cycle. These tithes were in reality more like taxes for the people of Israel and were mandatory and this tithe was distributed locally within thy gates to support the Levites and assist the poor. Every year, Bikkurim, Terumah, Maaser Rishon and Terumat Maaser were separated from the grain, wine, the first tithe is giving of one tenth of agricultural produce to the Levite. Historically, during the First Temple period, the first tithe was given to the Levites, approximately at the beginning of the Second Temple construction, Ezra and his Beth din implemented its giving to the kohanim
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NPR
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NPR produces and distributes news and cultural programming. Individual public radio stations are not required to broadcast all NPR programs that are produced and its content is also available on-demand via the web, mobile, and podcasts. The organizations legal name is National Public Radio and its brand is NPR. Is NPR has been used by its hosts for many years. However, National Public Radio remains the name of the group. National Public Radio replaced the National Educational Radio Network on February 26,1970 and this act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which created the Public Broadcasting Service in addition to NPR. A CPB organizing committee under John Witherspoon first created a Board of Directors chaired by Bernard Mayes, the board then hired Donald Quayle to be the first president of NPR with 30 employees and 90 charter member stations, and studios in Washington, D. C. NPR aired its first broadcast in April 1971, covering United States Senate hearings on the Vietnam War, a month later, the afternoon drive-time newscast All Things Considered began, on May 3,1971, first hosted by Robert Conley. NPR was primarily a production and distribution organization until 1977, when it merged with the Association of Public Radio Stations, NPR suffered an almost fatal setback in 1983 when efforts to expand services created a deficit of nearly US$7 million. After a congressional investigation and the resignation of NPRs president, Frank Mankiewicz, NPR also agreed to turn its satellite service into a cooperative venture, making it possible for non-NPR shows to get national distribution. It took NPR approximately three years to pay off the debt, delano Lewis, the president of C&P Telephone, left that position to become NPRs CEO and president in January 1994. In November 1998, NPRs board of directors hired Kevin Klose, NPR spent nearly $13 million to acquire and equip a West Coast 25, 000-square-foot production facility, NPR West, which opened in Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, in November 2002. C. In November 2003, NPR received US$235 million from the estate of the late Joan B, Kroc, the widow of Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds Corporation. This was the largest monetary gift ever to a cultural institution, in 2004 NPRs budget increased by over 50% to US$153 million due to the Kroc gift. US$34 million of the money was deposited in its endowment, the endowment fund before the gift totaled $35 million. NPR will use the interest from the bequest to expand its news staff, the 2005 budget was about US$120 million. In August 2005, NPR entered podcasting with a directory of over 170 programs created by NPR, by November of that year, users downloaded NPR and other public radio podcasts 5 million times
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Call to action (marketing)
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A call to action is a marketing term used extensively in advertising and selling. It refers to any device designed to prompt a response or encourage an immediate sale. A CTA most often refers to the use of words or phrases that can be incorporated into sales scripts, advertising messages or web pages that encourage consumers to take prompt action. In marketing, a call to action is an instruction to the designed to provoke an immediate response, usually using an imperative verb such as call now. The key to a powerful call-to-action is to consumers with compelling reasons to purchase promptly rather than defer purchase decisions. A CTA can be a simple non-demanding request like choose a colour or watch this video, an obvious CTA would be a request for the consumer to purchase a product or provide personal details and contact information. Many marketing materials such as brochures, flyers, catalogs, email campaigns etc also make use of a call-to-action, such instructions are designed to show consumers how to take the next step and create a sense of urgency around the offer. Clever sales pitches often incorporate a series of small CTAs that lead to a final CTA. These smaller CTAs create a pattern of behaviour that makes it easy for the audience to follow-through with just one last CTA, an example could be the purchase of a designer torch. The sales person might ask the consumer to choose a style, then a colour, when the client views the personalised design, they are more likely to be predisposed to complete the purchase. The sales representative can close the sale by asking, Will that be cash or credit, advertising messages, especially direct-response advertising messages, often make extensive use of calls-to-action. The key to a powerful call-to-action is to consumers with compelling reasons to purchase promptly rather than defer purchase decisions. An article in the Wall Street Journal suggests that the incidence of calls-to-action in television advertisements is increasing due to desire for instant. In web design, a CTA may be a banner, button, or some type of graphic or text on a website meant to prompt a user to click it, and continue down a conversion funnel. It is an part of inbound marketing as well as permission marketing in that it actively strives to convert a user into a lead. Another way to test the effectiveness of a CTA is using A/B testing where several graphics are presented to users, advertising management Consumer behaviour Personal selling
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Music radio
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Music radio is a radio format in which music is the main broadcast content. After television replaced old time radios dramatic content, music became dominant in many countries. Radio drama and comedy continue, often on public radio, Music drives radio technology, including wide-band FM, modern digital radio systems such as Digital Radio Mondiale, and even the rise of internet radio and music streaming services. The radio station programming to attract listeners. Commercial radio stations make profits by selling advertising, Public and community radio stations are sustained by listener donations and grants. Young people are targeted by advertisers because their product preferences can be changed more easily, therefore, the most commercially successful stations target young audiences. The programming usually cycles from the least attractive item, to most attractive, the purpose of this plan is to build listener interest during the programming. Because dead air does not attract listeners, the station tries to fill its broadcast day with sound, audiences will only tolerate a certain number of commercials before tuning away. In some regions, government regulators specify how many commercials can be played in a given hour, there are several standard ways of selecting the music, such as free-form, top-40, album-oriented rock, and Jack. These can be applied to all types of music, jingles are radios equivalent of neon signs. Jingles are brief, bright pieces of music that promote the stations call letters, frequency. Jingles are produced for radio stations by commercial specialty services such as JAM, jingles are often replaced by recorded voice-overs. In order to build station loyalty, the station announces time, station calls letters, jingles and stingers help to give the station a branded sound in a pleasant, minimal amount of air-time. The legal requirement for identification in the U. S. is once per hour, approximately at the top of the hour. News, time-checks, real-time travel advice and weather reports are valuable to listeners. The news headlines and station identification are therefore given just before a commercial, time, traffic and weather are given just after. The engineer typically sets the station clocks to standard local time each day and these segments are less valued by the most targeted market, young people, so many commercial stations shorten or omit these segments in favor of music. While most music stations that offer news reports simply tear and read news items, larger stations may employ an editor to rewrite headlines, summaries fit more news in less air-time
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Gospel music
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Gospel music is a music genre in Christian music. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music varies according to culture. Gospel music is composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, Gospel music usually has dominant vocals with Christian lyrics. Gospel music can be traced to the early 17th century, with roots in the oral tradition. Hymns and sacred songs were repeated in a call and response fashion, most of the churches relied on hand clapping and foot stomping as rhythmic accompaniment. Most of the singing was done a cappella, the first published use of the term Gospel Song probably appeared in 1874. The original gospel songs were written and composed by such as George F. Root, Philip Bliss, Charles H. Gabriel, William Howard Doane. The advent of radio in the 1920s greatly increased the audience for gospel music, following World War II, gospel music moved into major auditoriums, and gospel music concerts became quite elaborate. Gospel blues is a form of gospel music. Southern gospel used all male, tenor-lead-baritone-bass quartet make-up, progressive Southern gospel is an American music genre that has grown out of Southern gospel over the past couple of decades. Christian country music, sometimes referred to as gospel music, is a subgenre of gospel music with a country flair. It peaked in popularity in the mid-1990s, bluegrass gospel music is rooted in American mountain music. Celtic gospel music infuses gospel music with a Celtic flair, and is popular in countries such as Ireland. British black gospel refers to Gospel music of the African diaspora, some proponents of standard hymns generally dislike gospel music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, with distance, there is a greater acceptance of such gospel songs into official denominational hymnals. Gospel music in general is characterized by dominant vocals referencing lyrics of a Christian nature, subgenres include contemporary gospel, urban contemporary gospel, Southern gospel, and modern gospel music. Several forms of gospel music utilize choirs, use piano or Hammond organ, tambourines, drums, bass guitar and, increasingly, electric guitar. In comparison with hymns, which are generally of a statelier measure, several attempts have been made to describe the style of late 19th and early 20th century gospel songs in general
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Contemporary worship music
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Contemporary worship music, also known as praise and worship music, is a loosely defined genre of Christian music used in contemporary worship. It has developed over the past sixty years and is similar to pop music. The songs are referred to as praise songs or worship songs and are typically led by a worship band or praise team. It is becoming a genre of music sung in Western churches. Many non-charismatic Protestant churches use this type of music, also, Roman Catholic churches are using this type of music in some parishes. In the early 1950s, the Taizé Community in France started to attract youths from several denominations with worship hymns based on modern melodies. Amateur musicians from these groups began playing Christian music in a popular idiom, some Christians felt that the Church needed to break from its stereotype as being structured, formal and dull to appeal to the younger generation. The Joystrings were one of the first Christian pop groups to appear on television, in Salvation Army uniform, churches began to adopt some of these songs and the styles for corporate worship. These early songs for singing were characteristically simple. Youth Praise, published in 1966, was one of the first and most famous collections of songs and was compiled and edited by Michael Baughen. As of the early 1990s, songs such as Lord, I Lift Your Name on High, Shine, Jesus, Shine, Music and Vineyard were already publishing newer styles of music. Supporters of traditional worship hoped the newer styles were a fad, while younger people cited Psalms 96,1, prior to the late 1990s, many felt Sunday morning was a time for hymns, and young people could have their music on the other six days. A modern worship renaissance helped make it clear any musical style was acceptable if true believers were using it to praise God, the changes resulted from the Cutting Edge recordings by the band Delirious. The Passion Conferences and their music, the Exodus project of Michael W. Smith, Contemporary worship music became an integral part of Contemporary Christian music. More recently songs are displayed using projectors on screens at the front of the church, and this has enabled greater physical freedom, important propagators of CWM today include Hillsong, Vineyard, Bethel Music and Soul Survivor. As CWM is closely related to the movement, the lyrics. In particular the movement is characterised by its emphasis on the Holy Spirit, personal encounter and relationship with God. Lyrically, the informal, sometimes intimate, language of relationship is employed, slang is used on occasion and imperatives, demonstrating the friendly, informal terms charismatic theology encourages for relating to God personally
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Christian rock
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Christian rock is a form of rock music that promotes Jesus and is typically performed by self-proclaimed Christian individuals and bands whose members focus the lyrics on matters of Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands, many bands who perform Christian rock have ties to the contemporary Christian music labels, media outlets, and festivals, while other bands are independent. In 1952 Archibald Davison, a Harvard professor, summed up the sound of traditional Christian music, based upon Archibald Davisons statement it is easy to see how different these two genres of music are. Religious people in regions of the United States did not want their children exposed to music with unruly, impassioned vocals, loud guitar riffs and jarring. Rock and roll differed from the norm, and thus it was seen as a threat, often the music was overtly sexual in nature, as in the case of Elvis Presley, who became controversial and massively popular partly for his suggestive stage antics and dancing. However, Elvis was a person who even released a gospel album. Individual Christians may have listened to or even performed rock music in many cases and he Touched Me was a 1972 gospel music album by Elvis Presley which sold over 1 million copies in the US alone and earned Presley his second of three Grammy Awards. Not counting compilations, it was his third and final album devoted exclusively to gospel music, the song He Touched Me was written in 1963 by Bill Gaither, an American singer and songwriter of southern gospel and Contemporary Christian music. In the 1960s, rock music developed artistically, attained popularity and became associated with the radical counterculture. This further increased the Christian opposition to rock music, moreover, many saw the music as promoting a lifestyle of promiscuous sex, drugs and rock and roll, also reflected in the behavior of many rock stars. However, there was growing recognition of the musical and ideological potential of rock. One of his songs, Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music, summarized his attitude and his quest to pioneer Christian rock music. Another Christian rock pioneer, Randy Stonehill, released his first album in 1971, in the most common pressing of the album, side one is entirely a live performance. Another early Christian rock album was Mylon by Mylon LeFevre, son of members of the gospel group The LeFevres. He recorded the album with members of Classics IV and released it through Cotillion Records in 1970, petra and Resurrection Band, two of the bands who brought harder rock into the early CCM community, had their origins in the early to mid-1970s. They reached their height in popularity in the late eighties alongside other Christian-identifying hard rock such as Stryper. The latter had played on MTV, one being To Hell with the Devil. Christian rock has proved successful in the UK and Europe, although such artists as Bryn Haworth have found commercial success by combining blues
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Christian hip hop
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Christian hip hop is hip hop music characterized by a Christian worldview, with the general purposes of evangelization, edifying some members of the church and/or simply entertaining. It emphasizes the use of positive and uplifting messages to promote faith, Christian hip hop, blending rhythmic music and faith-based lyrics, first emerged on record in 1982 with a track entitled Jesus Christ by Queens, New York artist McSweet. The first full-length, Christian hip hop album, Bible Break, other early Christian hip recording artists from the mid-1980s included P. I. D. who recorded to funky rock rhythms, as well as JC & the Boys and Michael Peace. The first notable full album released was Stephen Wileys Bible Break, written by Wiley, in the same year by David Guzman founded JC & The Boyz. Some of Americas premiere Christian rappers, such as, Michael Peace, SFC, Dynamic Twins, MC Peace, a more commercially successful crew known as P. I. D. Michael Peace is an American rapper and one of Christian raps first solo artists, in the late 1980s, other crews emerged, including dc Talk, E. T. W. and S. F. C. ETW was led by producer/artist Mike Hill who went on to one of the largest inner city youth groups in the country out of Tulsa Oklahoma. S. F. C. was led by Chris Cooper who originally rapped as Super C and later became Sup the Chemist, Christian emcee Danny D-Boy Rodriguez was another well-known early Gospel rap artist, but was murdered in 1990 in Texas. She would go on to release an album in 1991. The 1990s saw the trend of funky rap artists blending faith and rap, such as D. O. C. who emerged from Oklahoma as well as the Gospel Gangstaz from Compton. In 1991, JC Crew emerged featuring Maximillian and T-Bone, other Christian rap artists include Dynamic Twins, Freedom of Soul, IDOL King, Apocalypse, 12th Tribe, and Holy Alliance. 12th Tribe and Holy Alliance were produced by Scott Blackwell of MYX Records, S. F. C. s 1992 album Phase III was DJed and produced by DJ Dove, whose credits also include the Gang Affiliated, Gospel Gangstas 1993 debut album. Around the same time as Phase III, Dynamic Twins came out with their 1993 album No Room To Breathe, Freedom of Soul followed with their second album, The Second Coming, also their last album as a group. The label was among the first to market the Contemporary Christian music market through distribution at Christian bookstores and playing on Christian radio. This trend continued with other such as Tooth & Nails Uprok Records and others that gave an outlet to hip hop artists who identified themselves as Christian. Recently, a number of artists and labels such as Reach Records, Grace and Peace Records, Kirk Franklin joined with the 1 Nation Crew in the album Kirk Franklin Presents 1NC. In September 2009, the Higherground Record Pool and One Accord DJ Alliance held their first Gospel DJ Conference at the Crowne Plaza, Queens, the first known Gospel DJs were honored at the event. Kingdom Affiliates Record Pool also was represented at the conference, most recently Christian rap artists like Lecrae and his label-mates from Reach Records have been setting records with sales and award-winning albums
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Christian country music
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Christian country music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. Christian country music is a form of Christian music and a subgenre of both Gospel music and Country music, like other forms of music the creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of Christian country music varies according to culture and social context. It is composed and performed for many purposes, ranging from pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes with a positive message. However, a theme as with most Christian music is praise. Christian country music has been around for generations and it originated as a blend of early mountain music, cowboy music and the music from the plantations of the Deep South. It was out of this blend of music that Southern Gospel music was birthed and was primarily in the southern states. Today, Christian country music has blended with a new brand of music called Positive Christian Country music, the music tends to deal with lifes problems and Gods answers to those problems, and it doesnt sound like the religious music of years past. It has attracted extraordinary talent and quality in production, thereby making it palatable to the ears of the unchurched who like the sounds of country music. Its becoming a tool for all over the world and through it many churches have sprung up around the country with country gospel as their main musical format. Many Christian country organizations have been around for a number of years. The oldest of all of these organizations is the International Country Gospel Music Association which was founded in 1957 and these organizations were founded to further artists careers much in the same manner as the GMA, NARAS or CMA. Many of these organizations have yearly conventions which hosts music showcases, one should note that the CCMA was sued by the CMA for award name right infringement. The CCMA renamed their awards show after a judge ruled that they could no longer use the name. The new name is the ICM Music Awards which stands for Inspirational Country Music, Radio personality Bob Wilson was one of the first radio personalities to see the potential of the genre. His weekly show Gospel Country Round-up aired for many years playing southern, many Christian country stations today are going the way of Internet stations. That is a move for this genre, however, because there are few terrestrial radio stations that play a strictly Christian country format. Many mainstream country stations only have a weekly Sunday Country Gospel show, Christian country has several syndicated programs. The Country Gospel Countdown has broadcast since 1984 and syndicated since 1988, The Country Parson radio program, todays Cross Country with Marty Smith, broadcast since 1995, syndicated since 1996
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Christian music industry
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The Christian music industry is a small part of the larger music industry, that focuses on traditional Gospel music, Southern gospel, contemporary Christian music, and alternative Christian music. It is sometimes called the music industry, although this designation is not a limitation on the musical styles represented. Christian artists generally use secular styles, pairing them with lyrics that display faith, generally speaking, the industry is influenced by mainstream culture. Musical trends, for instance, follow those of the secular scene, the Christian music industry carries the distinction of being the only music subculture whose content is labeled by its lyrical dimension rather than its music. Still, music within the industry is sold by its musical style rather than lyrical content, Christian musics critics point to the divergent interests of commercialization and ministry, which have, according to some, polar opposite goals. Aspects of Christian music have long struggled to gain general acceptance, what some see as secularization and a lacking of direct theology, others see as artistic ministry. This opens up questions of the definition of Christian music that have lingered over the industry since its inception, the Christian music industry experienced tremendous growth in the 1990s. Christian music sales grew to exceed those for classical, jazz, even so, the Christian music industry has experienced the same issues as the general market in recent years. The contemporary Christian music industry has roots in the late 1960s and early 1970s Jesus Movement, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music points out three reasons that the Christian music industry developed as a parallel structure to the general music industry. First, the Jesus movement produced a number of bands in a very short period. This was in due to a lack of appreciation for the ideology expressed by such artists. Finally, Jesus music artists tended toward mistrust of secular corporations, petra, for instance, struggled to find an audience for their hard rock sound, partially due to limited distribution to Christian bookstores. Even so, the 1970s saw established corporations become involved in the Christian music market, Word Records, founded in 1951, was bought in 1976 by ABC. Other music industry giants also got involved, CBS started a short-lived Christian label, Priority Records, while the Jesus movement had ended by the 1980s, the Christian music industry was maturing and transforming into a multi-million dollar enterprise. The early 1980s saw an increase Christian booksellers taking product, as a percentage of gross sales, Christian music rose from 9% in 1976 to 23% in 1985. By her 1982 release Amy Grant had saturated the Christian marketplace, Sandi Patti and Michael W. Smith also gained influence within Christian music, each playing significant roles in the development of the industry. Harder forms of Christian music, such as metal, also began to gain acceptance. This is largely credited to Stryper, who had begun making inroads into the market by 1985
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Focus on the Family
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Focus on the Family is an American Christian conservative organization founded in 1977 by psychologist James Dobson, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is active in promoting an interdenominational effort toward its socially conservative views on public policy, Focus on the Family is one of a number of evangelical parachurch organizations that rose to prominence in the 1980s. Focus on the Familys stated mission is nurturing and defending the God-ordained institution of the family and it promotes abstinence-only sexual education, creationism, adoption by married, opposite-sex parents, school prayer, and traditional gender roles. It opposes abortion, divorce, gambling, LGBT rights, particularly LGBT adoption and same-sex marriage, pornography, pre-marital sex, psychologists, psychiatrists, and social scientists have criticized Focus on the Family for trying to misrepresent their research to bolster FOTFs fundamentalist political agenda and ideology. The organization also produces programs for targeted audiences, such as Adventures in Odyssey for children, dramas, from 1977 to 2003, James Dobson served as the sole leader of the organization. In 2003, Donald P. Hodel became president and chief executive officer and this left Dobson as chairman of the board of directors, with chiefly creative and speaking duties. Focus on the Family aims to equip families through radio broadcasts, websites, simulcasts, conferences, interactive forums, magazines, books, and counseling. In March 2005, Hodel retired and Jim Daly, formerly the Vice President in charge of Focus on the Familys International Division, assumed the role of president, in November 2008, the organization announced that it was eliminating 202 jobs, representing 18 percent of its workforce. The organization also cut its budget from $160 million in fiscal 2008 to $138 million for fiscal 2009 and he is no longer affiliated with Focus on the Family. Focus on the Family sees its primary ministry as helping couples “build healthy marriages that reflect Gods design”, based on what it sees as “morals, Focus on the Family formed Love Won Out, an ex-gay ministry, in 1998 and sold it to Exodus International in 2009. Focus on the Familys Wait No More ministry works with agencies, church leaders. The program co-sponsors several adoption conferences throughout the country each year, since November 2008, more than 2,700 families have started the adoption process through Wait No More. In Colorado, the number of waiting for adoption dropped from about 800 to 350. Focus on the Family supports laws to prevent couples from adopting who are cohabiting together outside of marriage as well as homosexual couples. Focus on the Familys Option Ultrasound Program provides grants to qualifying crisis pregnancy centers to cover 80 percent of the cost of a machine or sonography training. As of October 31,2014, the program has provided 655 grants to centers in all 50 states and Bucharest, Focus on the Family began OUP in 2004 with the goal of convincing women not to have abortions. FOTF officials said that ultrasound services help a woman better understand her pregnancy and babys development, the Option Ultrasound Program reported in 2014 that it has helped prevent more than 270,000 abortions since 2004. A study released in February 2012 shows that ultrasounds do not have a impact on an abortion decision
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Jim Daly (evangelist)
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Jim Daly is the head of Focus on the Family, an international Christian communications ministry based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He succeeded founder James Dobson in 2005, Daly is also the main host of the Focus on the Family radio program. Daly grew up in Southern California and he was abandoned by his alcoholic father at age 5, and orphaned by his mother’s death from cancer when he was 9. He was then placed in a home until he moved in with his older brothers and then with his father. By the time that Daly was a senior in high school, Daly experienced a Christian conversion at 15 while attending a camp run by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He went on to study at California State University, San Bernardino, Daly worked in the paper industry until he was recruited to join Focus on the Family, at one-third of his six-figure private sector pay. S. Secretary of Energy and Secretary of the Interior, Donald P. Hodel, Daly shares Dobson’s views in the public policy arena, but has taken a different approach than his predecessor. Daly refers to more of an evangelist than a prophet. He believes that the Christian community should demonstrate the values it wishes to promote, while Dobsons approach was highly political and partisan, Daly and his colleagues have said that he is trying to make it less so. Daly says that he wishes to make abortion much rarer as a step toward eliminating it, Daly participated in the White House’s Fatherhood initiative. With the Colorado Springs Independent the two organizations co-sponsored an event supporting foster families, daly’s childhood experience prompted him to start Wait No More, an organizations that encourages Christians to adopt children. Wait No More led to a drop in the number of children in care in Colorado from 900 to 365. Daly wants Colorado to become the first state to wipe out the waiting list for foster care, Daly hosts a radio broadcast with John Fuller that reaches an estimated 220 million listeners worldwide. Daly has appeared on television programs such as Fox and Friends, Larry King Live, America Live with Megyn Kelly. In 2010 he was named one of the top new evangelical leaders by Newsweek. Finding Home, An Imperfect Path to Faith and Family, David C, cook Communications,2007 Stronger, Trading Brokenness for Unbreakable Strength, David C. World Children’s Center Humanitarian Award,2008 Children’s Hunger Fund,2009 HomeWord Family Ministry Award,2010
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Amazing Facts
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Amazing Facts is a non-profit, multifaceted, evangelistic ministry that especially focuses on the Three Angels Messages of Revelation 14. Amazing Facts was founded in 1965 by Joe Crews in Baltimore, later, the program offered accompanying home Bible study courses, as well as books written by Crews himself. In 1987, Amazing Facts initiated a television ministry that has expanded to four programs as well as periodic evangelism series, shortly before his death in 1994, Crews invited Doug Batchelor to assume the position of president/speaker, which he holds to this day. Today, the Amazing Facts radio program Bible Answers Live broadcasts mainly out of Sacramento, Amazing Facts programming is available on a variety of over-the-air, cable and satellite stations In addition, programs are archived on the website. AFCOE trains and equips clergy and lay people in all aspects of evangelistic ministry, both a four-month Complete course and a 4-day AFCOE To Go courseS are offered from their campus in Rocklin, CA and by request around the world. Amazing Facts offers a free Bible school with online study guides, Weimar was renamed Weimar Center of Health and Education and Neil Nedley was chosen as president. Seventh-day Adventist Church List of United States cable and satellite television networks Religious broadcasting Amazing Facts Amazing Facts Indonesia
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Rick Warren
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Richard Duane Rick Warren is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, a megachurch in Lake Forest, California. He is perhaps best known for the subsequent book The Purpose Driven Life which has more than 30 million copies. During the 2008 United States presidential election, Warren hosted the Civil Forum on the Presidency at his church with both candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama. Obama later sparked controversy when he asked Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration in January 2009. Warren was born in San Jose, California, the son of Jimmy and his father was a Baptist minister, his mother a high-school librarian. He was raised in Ukiah, California, and graduated from Ukiah High School in 1972 and his sister, Chaundel, is married to Saddleback pastor Tom Holladay. Warren has been married to Kay Warren since June 21,1975 and they have three adult children and four grandchildren. He considers Billy Graham, Peter Drucker, and his own father to be among his mentors, because of the success of his book sales, in 2005 Warren returned his 25 years of salary to the church and discontinued taking a salary. He says he and his wife became reverse tithers, giving away 90% of their income, Warren’s youngest son, Matthew, took his own life April 6,2013, after years of struggling with mental illness. In the year following the suicide, Warren says that more than 10,000 people wrote to him about their struggles with mental illness within the Church, Warren says he was called to full-time ministry when he was a 19-year-old student at California Baptist University. In November 1973, he and a friend skipped classes and drove 350 miles to hear W. A. Criswell preach at the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco. Warren waited afterwards to shake hands with Criswell, who focused on Warren, stating, I feel led to lay hands on you and pray for you. ”During his time at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Warren worked at the Texas Ranch for Christ, a ministry facility of Billie Hanks, Jr. where he began writing books. He co-wrote two books, The Victory Scripture Memory Series and Twelve Dynamic Bible Study Methods for Laity with Billie Hanks, Jr. in April 1980 Warren held Saddleback Churchs first public service on Easter Sunday at the Laguna Hills High School Theater with 200 people in attendance. Warrens church growth methods led to expansion, with the church using nearly 80 different facilities in its 35-year history. Saddleback did not build its first permanent building until it had 10,000 weekly attenders, when the current Lake Forest campus was purchased in the early 1990s, a 2, 300-seat plastic tent was used for worship services for several years, with four services each weekend. In 1995, the current Worship Center was completed, with a capacity of 3,500. A multimillion-dollar childrens ministry building and an office building were completed over the next few years
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Voice of Prophecy
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The Voice of Prophecy, founded by H. M. S. Richards, Sr. is a Seventh-day Adventist religious radio ministry headquartered in Loveland, initially airing in 1929 on a single radio station in Los Angeles the Voice of Prophecy has since grown to numerous stations throughout the United States and Canada. It was one of the first religious programs in the United States to broadcast nationally, under the leadership of Shawn and Jean Boonstra, the ministry has now expanded into additional forms of media, including the weekly Disclosure broadcast. Richards, Sr. began a radio program on October 19,1929 on KNX in Los Angeles. Richards earliest studio was his South Gate Tabernacle near Long Beach and his office was a renovated chicken coop in Walnut Park, California. Seventh-day Adventist Church members donated their old eyeglasses and gave teeth with gold fillings and jewelry, later Richards presented daily live broadcasts of The Tabernacle of the Air over KGER in Long Beach, California, and live weekly remote broadcasts from his tabernacle to KMPC in Beverly Hills. In January 1937 the broadcast footprint expanded over a network of stations of the Don Lee Broadcasting System. The first Voice of Prophecy coast-to-coast broadcast was over 89 stations of the Mutual Broadcasting System on Sunday and it was one of the first religious programs to broadcast nationally. Up until the early 1950s broadcasts were produced live, mispronounced names and singer mistakes went out unedited to the listeners. By 1980, Richards had a $6 million budget, the Voice of Prophecy broadcast each Sunday to 700 stations around the world. Richards, Sr. was speaker from 1929 to 1969, Richards, Jr. succeeded him and was speaker from 1969 to 1992. He was followed by Pastor Lonnie Melashenko, then by Fred Kinsey, the current speaker is Shawn Boonstra. Various musicians perform on the broadcast, female vocalist Del Delker began as a regular on the program since 1947. The male quartet Kings Heralds also performed weekly on the program from 1936 until 1982, wayne Hooper served as musical director until his retirement in 1980. A key program of Voice of Prophecy is the Discover Bible School, introduced on February 1,1942 as The Bible School of the Air, it was one of the first correspondence Bible schools in North America. Known today as the Discover Bible School it offers free Bible guides by mail or online and has schools in over 120 countries with lessons in over 80 languages. In 2010, the Bible School celebrated its one millionth graduate
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Radio drama
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Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was an international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s, however, radio drama lost some of its popularity, however, recordings of OTR survive today in the audio archives of collectors and museums, as well as several online sites such as Internet Archive. As of 2011, radio drama has a presence on terrestrial radio in the United States. Much of American radio drama is restricted to rebroadcasts or podcasts of programs from previous decades, however, other nations still have thriving traditions of radio drama. In the United Kingdom, for example, the BBC produces and broadcasts hundreds of new plays each year on Radio 3, Radio 4. Like the USA, Australia ABC has abandoned broadcasting drama but New Zealand RNZ continues to promote, podcasting has also offered the means of creating new radio dramas, in addition to the distribution of vintage programs. Thanks to advances in recording and Internet distribution, radio drama was experiencing a revival in 2010. The terms audio drama or audio theatre are used synonymously with radio drama, however. Audio drama can also be found on CDs, cassette tapes, Radio drama traces its roots back to the 1880s, In 1881 French engineer Clement Ader had filed a patent for ‘improvements of Telephone Equipment in Theatres’. English-language radio drama seems to have started in the United States, a Rural Line on Education, a brief sketch specifically written for radio, aired on Pittsburghs KDKA in 1921, according to historian Bill Jaker. Newspaper accounts of the era report on a number of other experiments by Americas commercial radio stations. In February 1922, entire Broadway musical comedies with the original aired from WJZs Newark studios. Actors Grace George and Herbert Hayes performed a play from a San Francisco station in the summer of 1922. Aware of this series, the director of Cincinnatis WLW began regularly broadcasting one-acts in November, the success of these projects led to imitators at other stations. By the spring of 1923, original pieces written specially for radio were airing on stations in Cincinnati, Philadelphia. That same year, WLW and WGY sponsored scripting contests, inviting listeners to create original plays to be performed by those stations dramatic troupes
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Adventures in Odyssey
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Adventures in Odyssey, or simply Odyssey, is an Evangelical Christian radio drama and comedy series created and produced by Focus on the Family for kids ages six to ten. The series first aired in 1987 under the title Family Portraits and has over 800 episodes to date, as of 2005, the shows daily audience averaged around 1.2 million within North America. The Odyssey radio series also includes several spin-off items, including a series, several computer games. The series centers on the town of Odyssey, and in particular, an ice-cream emporium named Whits End, and its owner, John Avery Whittaker. James Dobson as an alternative to Saturday-morning cartoons and this effort culminated with a 13-week test series titled Family Portraits which aired in early 1987. It was created by Steve Harris and Phil Lollar, who set it in a small Midwest town they called Odyssey, the test episodes engendered a favorable audience response, and led to a continuing radio program in November 1987, called Odyssey USA. The title was changed to Adventures in Odyssey to increase international appeal. The goal of the Odyssey staff was to create a radio show with production values comparable with or surpassing those of most mainstream audio dramas. While the show aimed to promote Christian values, according to Odysseys co-creator Phil Lollar, the goal was not to be a preaching program, but to be an entertaining program. Large amounts of work were put into individual story, for the first few years. Several well-known voice actors were brought in to provide the lead roles, Hal Smith voiced the lead character John Avery Whittaker in one of his favorite roles. The rest of the key characters were voiced by Katie Leigh, Will Ryan, and Walker Edmiston. When Hal Smith died in 1994, Adventures in Odyssey was left without its main character, because of health issues, a mutual decision was made by Herlinger and the crew to replace Herlinger with another voice actor. Consequently, Adventures in Odyssey took a hiatus, with no new episodes planned while the staff searched for a new actor to voice Mr. Whittaker. In September 2009, Andre Stojka was selected as the actor to voice Mr. Whittaker, only months later, on 2 February 2010. In March 2010, new episodes started as Album 51, Take it from the Top, the show is being adapted into Spanish audio and Hindi live-action videos, with plans to create Mandarin audio, as well. By the end of its year in 1988, the show was on 634 radio stations in North America. As of 1995, it was the second-most popular Christian radio show in the United States, by 2002, the show was on over 6000 stations world-wide
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National Religious Broadcasters
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National Religious Broadcasters is a non-partisan, international association of Christian communicators. While theologically diverse within the community, NRB members are linked through a Declaration of Unity that proclaims their joint commitment. Members of the association are required to ascribe to the Statement of Faith, NRB members must also meet the Standards of Financial Accountability set forth by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. Protestant denominational leaders argued for regulations that would restrict access to the radio broadcast spectrum and they claimed independent Evangelical preachers who were unaccountable to any denominational entity could not be trusted with the public airwaves. In that same year, the Mutual Broadcasting System received more than 25% of its revenue from religious broadcasters. Yet in 1943, the Federal Council of Churches supported proposed regulations that would have resulted in every Evangelical broadcaster being taken off the radio networks. They demanded that religious broadcasting should only be aired as a service during free or sustaining time donated by the radio networks. The Federal Council of Churches persuaded all three radio networks – NBC, CBS, and the Mutual Broadcasting System – to adopt the proposed regulations. Subsequently, every Evangelical Christian broadcaster was taken off the radio networks. In response to challenge,150 Evangelical Christian broadcasters and church leaders held a series of meetings which led to the formation of the National Religious Broadcasters. In the fall of 1944, members of the NRB adopted their Constitution, Bylaws, Statement of Faith, in 1949 that effort bore fruit as the newly formed ABC radio network reversed the ban on paid religious broadcasting, with the other networks following their lead. In a few years, Evangelical radio broadcasters were again on radio networks with scores of new programs. The NRB now operates in a complex electronic media environment. And the audience for religious broadcasters has expanded, with 141 million Americans using Christian media at least once per month, NRB provides networking, educational, ministry, and advocacy opportunities for its members. The association also provides information to its members, and recognizes excellence in Christian broadcasting. NRB also participates as Amicus Curiae in proceedings before the United States Supreme Court on First Amendment, information The Communications Department of NRB produces e-publications. NRB Today highlights industry trends, important federal broadcast policies, current issues of NRBs publications may be viewed on the associations homepage, and back issues are available to NRB website registrants. Both publications are free of charge to NRB Members and on-request to the general public
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Moody Radio
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Moody Radio is one of the largest Christian radio networks in the United States. Located in downtown Chicago, Moody Radio has 37 owned and operated stations and hundreds of affiliates and it is owned by the Moody Bible Institute. The network airs a variety of programming directed primarily toward a Christian audience, the format features local morning drives, teaching and national talk programming, plus specially selected Christian music. WMBI, the station of Moody Radio, got its start seemingly by accident. A violent storm in October 1925 prevented the talent for WGES scheduled broadcast from performing on the radio and this opened the door for two cornet-playing Moody Bible Institute students, who happened to be on-site and could fill the time slot. Few would have thought this “chance-encounter” would result in a show and less than a year later help to launch WMBI. In spite of changing technology, audiences and formats, the station has maintained a presence on the air for over eight decades. This station was just the beginning of what would come to be known as Moody Radio, in 1958, MBI purchased WCRF in Cleveland, Ohio, and shortly thereafter, WDLM in Moline, Illinois. These purchases were the catalyst for a network that would grow to include 36 stations in the continental U. S, by the end of the 1960s, the network’s potential audience had increased to 30 million listeners. In 1982, Moody Radio began a satellite-fed network enabling communications across America, Moody Radio provides biblical programming 24 hours a day. Some of the most popular and award-winning programs include, Midday Connection, in the Market with Janet Parshall, and Kurt Goff LIVE. Moody offers three audio channels online - Praise and Worship Channel, Majesty Channel, and Urban Praise, current and past programming can also be found on the Moody Radio App available on iTunes and the Google Play Store. The following stations are owned and operated by Moody Radio
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K-Love
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K-Love is a contemporary Christian music radio programming service in the United States operated by the Educational Media Foundation. As of March 2013, the programming is simulcast on over 440 FM stations. K-Love has about 12 million listeners each week in cities including Chicago, Denver, Des Moines, Nashville, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Diego and it is also the sixth-most online-streamed station in the world. K-Love began in 1980 as a radio station with the call letters KCLB. It was a full-time contemporary Christian music radio station, launched by radio personality Bob Anthony, in Middletown, after several tries at purchasing a station in San Francisco, a small, non-commercial radio station was acquired just north of San Francisco for $67,000. On October 15,1982,91.9 KCLB came on the air for the first time with Bob Anthony as announcer, the very first song played on KCLB was Praise The Lord by The Imperials, which was a hit on the Christian Music charts in 1979. With the slogan The Positive Alternative, Christian Music Radio KCLB 92FM, in 1986, Dick Jenkins was hired as General Manager. That same year, Bob Anthony left the station and moved to Oregon, on September 12,1988, a 9, 000-acre brush fire destroyed KCLBs main transmitter building on Geyser Peak. The radio station transmitter was relocated to 4, 000-foot Mount Saint Helena, the new location improved signal strength, and listeners reported they could now hear the station as far as 125 miles away. As KCLB continued to expand its reach, in 1987 the signal could be heard on transmitters in San Rafael, Salinas. In 1988, KCLB changed its letters to KLVR, and adopted its on-air brand name K-Love. By 1989, the signal could be heard in Santa Cruz, San Jose, K-Love expanded its reach during the 1990s by purchasing small stations and translators, and repeating its signal. In 1992, K-Love began using technology to expand to locations further away than just northern California. The Educational Media Foundation continued to purchase small translators in California but also bought stations in Portland, Oregon, San Diego, Phoenix, Arizona, Oklahoma City, during the 1990s, K-Love also began to expand its on-air personalities. Also Mike Novak, JD Chandler and Larry Wayne started working air shifts in the late 1990s, in addition to expanding the on-air talent, K-Love expanded its facilities and moved its headquarters from Santa Rosa to Sacramento in 1993. In 1998 K-Love increased its reach online by streaming live on klove. com, during the decade of the 2000s, K-Love went through a period of expansion through the purchase of stations and translators across the United States. On October 5,2000, Colorado Christian University sold KWBI Morrison/Denver, KJOL Grand Junction and KDRH Glenwood Springs, the Colorado radio network was sold for a reported $16.6 million. KWBI is now KLDV, and is one of K-Loves most listened to signals, K-Love picked up the KWBI calls for their radio station in Great Bend, Kansas
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Air1
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Air1 is a Christian radio network in the United States, playing Contemporary Christian music. It is operated by the non-profit Educational Media Foundation which also runs K-LOVE, while Air1 leans more toward contemporary hit radio, K-Love leans more toward hot adult contemporary. Air1 is heard on dozens of its owned and operated stations across 42 states, in 1986, KLRD began broadcasting Christian music from Yucaipa, California, and went by the on-air moniker K-LORD. In 1994, KXRD was started as a station to KLRD. In 1995, K-LORD changed its name to Air 1 and began broadcasting via satellite from St. Helens, in 1999, Air 1 joined with EMF Broadcasting, and finally in 2002, it moved its headquarters to Rocklin, California. Air 1 makes use of broadcast translators to spread the signal across much of the country, as of November 2011, the network lists 90 full powered radio stations and 125 translators of various power levels reaching 40 states. Air1 and its network, K-LOVE, are also available as Internet streams through the iHeartRadio website. The current on-air staff of Air1 includes Eric Calhoun and Heather Shelly who host the show, Mandy Young in middays, Lauren Lee and Mike Wilson in afternoons. The networks program director is Randy Chase with Cari Kates as the Assistant Program Director, Sean Copeland was formerly part of the Sean and Mandy show, which was discontinued on September 29,2011. Copeland moved to the show on Indianapolis adult contemporary station WYXB. Coppelia Acevedo formerly occupied the time slot, and moved to Houston station KSBJ. Eric Allen co-hosted the Eric and Mandy Show in the mornings until February 2015, as of 2015, Eric is working for Cure International as their Radio Marketing Manager. Brenda Price hosted a mid-day timeslot until May 5,2015, no reason was given for her sudden departure. Rahny Taylor worked as a director and on-air host at Air1. He departed to host a show on WRNW in Milwaukee. Air1 sends out periodic surveys to listeners to rate songs that play on Air1 on a scale of 1 to 5, Air 1 yearly produces a top countdown from all of the top songs from that year. These songs stay in rotation for occasional airplay on Air 1, Air1 airs a 30-minute broadcast news magazine called Closer Look every Sunday evening. The program covers a range of topics, including news and current affairs, human interest stories, the morning with Alex gregory and Julia Zaher and Rafeal Shirra and Susan King and Bob Dittman
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WJIS
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For the radio station in Lakeland, Florida that formerly held these calls, see WKES. The Radio Training Network also has The Joy FM-branded stations in Dothan, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia, WCIE and WJIS broadcasts in the HD Radio format. On HD2, the station has The JOY FM Praise, a channel that features exclusively Christian praise songs, on HD3, the station has Lightforce Radio, a progressive youth music channel. Both can be listened to online or via The JOY FM phone app.9 MHz West Tampa, rebroadcasting WMTXs HD-2 signal, originally leased out to rebroadcast WFLA W237CW95
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WXHL-FM
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WXHL-FM is a radio station licensed to Christiana, Delaware, USA, the station serves the Wilmington, Delaware area. The station is owned by Priority Radio, Inc. The station was assigned the call letters WXHL on 1992-11-05, on 2002-02-15, the station changed its call sign to the current WXHL-FM
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Bible Broadcasting Network
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The Bible Broadcasting Network is a listener-supported global Christian radio network staffed and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The programming consists of 50% outside ministries, 30% music and 20% BBN-produced programs, the network was founded in 1968 by its president, Lowell Davey, who also hosts a BBN program called Perspective. Network non-music content includes prayer times, childrens programs, Bible teaching, teen programs, the network was born out of Daveys failed offer to buy a radio station in Norfolk, Virginia. The company was incorporated and on March 28,1969, bought bankrupt WYFI and began broadcasting on Oct.2,1971, the station plays all-traditional Christian music, including vocalists, choirs, and instrumentalists. BBNs mission statement is to get the Word of God into the hearts, doctrinally, the programming is conservative evangelical in approach. BBN also avoids programming geared towards signs and wonders, charismatic theology, BBN owns and operates 44 full-power stations and 87 low-power translators in 31 states. They also operate AM and FM radio stations in 14 countries of North and South America, BBN also broadcasts around the world full-time via streaming on the Internet in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, and Russian. It is estimated that these stations reach over 200 million people, stations in italics are not owned by Bible Broadcasting Network, Inc. but broadcast BBN programming. In addition to its stations, BBN is relayed by 90 translators to widen its broadcast area
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Premier Christian Radio
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Premier Christian Radio is a British Christian radio station, part of Premier which is in turn wholly owned by the charity Premier Christian Media Trust. Premier Christian Radio broadcasts Christian programming including news, debate, teachings, Premier Christian Radio was founded in 1994, broadcasting exclusively on medium wave to a Greater London audience when it also began its telephone counselling service, Lifeline. It took the air at a party in Battersea Park. A series of magazine titles then joined, the charity currently produces Premier Christianity, Premier Youthwork, Premier Childrenswork and Christian Marketplace. In 2001, Premier Christian Radio received a warning from the Radio Authority for broadcasting items that were offensive to people of other. A yellow card warning was issued, recognising that Premier had acknowledged its errors, in the months of April to July 2014 Premier Christian Radio reached its biggest-ever audience in its near twenty years history. RAJAR figures showed a weekly reach for the period of 240,700 people in London and the South East of England and this boost followed on from a rebranding exercise in the beginning of 2014, and a new website which included listen-again features and breaking news. Premier Christian Radio was at first only available on medium wave in London and it later added broadcasts on the internet, Freeview channel 725, Sky Digital, Virgin Media and London DAB - a national DAB broadcast was added later. In 2006, the group launched Premier. tv, one of the first Christian IPTV channels in the UK. In August 2009, Premier achieved its target of meeting the £650,000 yearly fee to broadcast on the national Digital One DAB multiplex, Premier Gospel was launched as a DAB spin-off station in 2010, taking the London DAB slot vacated by the parent services move to D1. A second sister station, Premier Praise, playing contemporary Christian pop and rock, launched on 27 March 2016 as part of the Sound Digital national DAB multiplex. It will be available on SDL alongside the core Premier service, Premier Christian Radios supporters come from many different Christian denominations, including those from the Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist and Pentecostal churches. In 2004 The Times placed Premier Christian Radio at number one in a chart of the most upmarket stations based upon the percentage of its audience that is ABC1. In the quarter ending June 2010 the station was receivable by 10,983,000 people,143,000 listened, Premier Christian Media Trust, registered charity no.287610
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Back to the Bible
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Back to the Bible is an international Christian ministry based in Lincoln, Nebraska, dedicated to leading people forward spiritually. Founded in 1939 by Theodore H. Epp on radio station KFOR in Lincoln, Nebraska, Back to the Bible expanded by supporting missionaries, in 1954, the organizations first international Bible teaching ministry office opened in Canada. By the time of Epps retirement in 1981, the Back to the Bible program was syndicated as a daily 30-minute broadcast on more than 800 radio stations worldwide, under Epps direction, the broadcasts were also noted for music by the Back to the Bible Choir and quartet. Several popular phonograph recordings were made by the choir in the 1940s and 1950s, Back to the Bible also had a weekly youth program on Saturdays, featuring a youth choir and serialized adventures with a Christian theme, such as the Danny Orlis series written by Bernard Palmer. Both the music segments and youth program were discontinued in the 1980s, Warren W. Wiersbe, former pastor of Moody Church in Chicago, Illinois, served as leader of the Lincoln-based ministry between 1984–1989. Back to the Bible has offices in nine different countries and broadcasts in a number of different languages, Back to the Bible announced Woodrow Krolls retirement in January 2013. Dr. John Munro, senior pastor at Calvary Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, became the programs next Bible teacher, from August 2014 to June 2016, the daily Back to the Bible program featured Bible teaching from Warren Wiersbe, David Chadwick and Darrell Bock. In July 2016, Ron Moore, pastor of The Bible Chapel in the Pittsburgh area, was named president, Canada Ecuador India Indonesia Jamaica Japan Nepal Philippines Sri Lanka Trinidad & Tobago Official website
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Woodrow M. Kroll
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Woodrow Michael Kroll is an evangelical preacher and radio host. He was the president and Bible teacher for the international Back to the Bible radio and he was president of Davis College in Johnson City, New York, United States. In addition to preaching and teaching, Kroll is a writer, having authored more than 50 books expounding on the Bible. Kroll was born to Frank and Betty Kroll in Ellwood City and his father, Reverend Frank Kroll, attended Practical Bible Training School from 1936 to 1939 and pastored the Park Gate Baptist Church in Ellwood City for thirty-three years. Kroll followed in his fathers footsteps and attended Practical Bible Training School from 1962 to 1965, Kroll earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from Barrington College. He then studied at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, earning a Master of Theology degree in 1970 and he is married to the former Linda Piper. They have four children, Tracy, Timothy, Tina, and their son Timothy has followed his father and grandfather in ministry and is the senior pastor at Northside Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida since 2005. Kroll began his ministry as the pastor of First Baptist Church in Middleboro and he then taught at Practical Bible Training School 1971–1973. From 1975 to 1980, he chaired the Division of Religion at Liberty University in Lynchburg, on January 17,1981, Kroll was inaugurated as president of Practical Bible Training School, also teaching Bible and preaching while serving as president. During Krolls presidency, the school obtained accreditation from the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools and he also developed the administration, curriculum, and much of the schools structure as it exists today, now as Davis College. Kroll resigned on April 27,1990, to assume the leadership of the Back to the Bible organization. Begun in 1939 by Theodore Epp on radio station KFOR in Lincoln, Nebraska, Epp was succeeded by Warren W. Wiersbe, former pastor of Moody Church in Chicago, Illinois, who served as leader of the Lincoln-based ministry between 1981–1989. Kroll was inaugurated in 1990 as the president of Back to the Bible. Dr. John Munro, senior pastor at Calvary Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, ron Moore became the new Bible teacher in July of 2016. Among the more than 50 books Kroll has written on the Bible and Christian living are, Facing Your Final Job Review, The Judgment Seat of Christ, Salvation, taking Back the Good Book, How America Forgot the Bible and Why It Matters to You. Proverbs, The Pursuit of Gods Wisdom, Places in the Bible, Encounter 125 Cities, Villages, and Ordinary Places. People in the Bible, Encounter 125 Heroes, Villains & Ordinary Souls, how to Find God in the Bible. The Vanishing Ministry in the 21st Century, Calling a New Generation to Lifetime Service, Read your Bible One Book at a Time, A Refreshing Way to Read Gods Word with New Insight and Meaning
