Participants: C. A. Murray (Host)<\br> 0.Danny Shelton<\br> 1.All My Praise<\br> 2.I Love You Lord<\br> 3.Love Rules<\br> 4.Love God & Keep His Commandments<\br> 5.It's A Beautiful World<\br> 6.You Are What You Eat
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY015080A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:07 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN today. 01:09 My name is C.A. Murray and allow me once again 01:11 to thank you for sharing 01:12 just a little of your no doubt busy day with us. 01:16 To thank you again for your love, your prayers, 01:18 your support of this ministry because we realize 01:20 each and every day that we could not do 01:22 what we are called to do without partnering with you, 01:24 without your love, your prayers, your prayers, 01:27 and we don't say that lightly because we know 01:29 that it is through prayer that all things happen 01:32 and through the grace of God 01:34 and your love gifts that you send to us. 01:36 So we thank you from the bottom of our hearts 01:37 and I'm kind of excited today because 01:39 our program is a bit different. 01:41 We switched up things a little bit. 01:43 We don't often get to nail Brother Shelton 01:45 down in the guest chair one on one 01:48 but we have done so today. 01:50 He has consented to be with us today in this capacity, 01:54 you see the guitar next to him 01:55 so we are gonna have some music here. 01:57 I'm very, very excited about that. 01:58 Danny, good to have you here, man. 02:00 Thank you, pastor. 02:01 And good to have you in this capacity. 02:03 Well, it's a little different. 02:04 I'm used to doing the-- 02:06 you know, interviewing people, not to being interviewed. 02:08 Indeed. And you've got your friend with you there. 02:10 Yeah. 02:12 There is a story with that guitar. 02:14 There is. There is. Yeah. Yeah. 02:16 This guitar I bought when I was 16-years-old 02:21 and it's a, I think it's a 1964 or 5 or something like that 02:26 I'm not surely exactly 02:28 but I bought it when I was 16-years-old 02:30 and I kept it till I think I was 19 02:33 and I think the day that I was married, 02:36 I married Melody's mother Kay. 02:38 The day we got married I needed some money, right, 02:41 as you got to go on a honeymoon 02:43 like I think down to Maryland 02:44 or something 30 minutes away 02:47 but so I sold this guitar to a pastor, 02:52 a Baptist Pastor Ted Harvey who was a friend of the family. 02:55 My folks had known Ted for many years. 02:58 And years went by, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 03:03 what have you, maybe 35 years and one day we were out 03:07 here at 3ABN and he showed up, Pastor Ted Harvey showed up 03:13 and said "Hey, I got something that I want to give you," 03:15 and brought in this guitar and I was like, wow. 03:19 You know, be kind of like getting your-- 03:20 if you had a 1957 Chevy weren't used and nice going 03:23 getting it back. 03:25 My bother Kenny had one, he is not gonna get that back 03:26 I'm pretty sure, you know, they will be very valuable 03:29 but this is not so valuable and it's worth a lot of money. 03:34 You know, it's a Gibson guitar it may be worth 03:36 couple thousand dollars, I don't know. 03:38 I mean, it's not like, 03:39 you know, tremendous amount of money 03:41 but what it does for you for your memories 03:42 and just taking you back in time 03:45 and when you are 16-year-old and used to play music on it 03:49 and so it's really neat to have it back. 03:51 So I thank Brother Ted Harvey for giving this guitar. 03:54 He didn't sell it to me. 03:56 Said, hey, I just want you have it 03:57 and so we've been friends 03:59 and haven't seen him in quite a few years. 04:01 So thank you so much. 04:02 It's really neat and it's got a, 04:04 it's got a pretty nice little sound to for it. 04:11 No, it's not a big guitar, 04:12 you know, it's not a big guitar. 04:13 No, it's a small but it's kind of little mellow. 04:21 You know, I like it. It's really nice. 04:26 I grew up in a musical family, some of folk know 04:29 my mom and dad were country western singers. 04:32 My mother when she was alive would say, 04:33 now, remember don't talk too much about me. 04:36 She played the piano, 04:37 Rinky Tink, we called the piano. 04:39 We borrowing the style and she said, 04:41 now I was only out in a few months, 04:42 you know, but your dad was one out there 04:45 singing for a number of years with a friend of his, 04:47 Bernie Smith and Jack-- 04:49 and my uncle Charlie Rice played the base. 04:51 They did country western style. 04:52 So I grew up and grew up in the '60s 04:56 I was in high school in the '60s. 04:58 That's pretty scary, that's almost 50 years ago. 05:00 Yeah, late '60s though. 05:02 And you know that, yeah, you know that. 05:04 Well, we started I think, we started about '65 05:06 because me and you are the same age. 05:08 So I know when you were in school too, 05:10 C.A. Murray, right. 05:13 You're the atheist child. That's right. That's right. 05:15 But you think about that, that's a long time ago. 05:17 It is. It is. 05:18 But my folks, my dad had become a Christian 05:22 actually before that when I was very, very young. 05:25 My mother actually became and Adventist Christian 05:28 when I was born, the year I was born 1951 05:31 and my dad I think five years later, 05:33 but he always had a little room in the house 05:35 we call music room. 05:36 He had little real, real tape recording. 05:38 Friends would come over and he would still do 05:40 just for fun some of the country songs 05:42 and some gospel songs. 05:43 And so I kind of grew up with that the music. 05:46 My brother Tommy is a great piano player 05:48 and each of my brothers Kenny play guitar a little bit, 05:51 Ronnie played bass a little bit and I played little guitar 05:53 but none of us are great. 05:55 Tommy went out there, he is a great musician studio 05:58 the rest of us we just kind of enjoyed it 06:01 and from time to time that I was one of those 06:04 if it was ball season, if it's basketball 06:06 or, you know, I didn't care if it's-- 06:08 You kind of round ball, yeah. 06:09 Ping pong and winter time anything that I could hit 06:12 knock around on, you know, that's what I like to do. 06:15 So I never really spent a lot of time playing guitar. 06:18 I still don't, I probably I don't know 06:20 if I play two or three hours a year. 06:22 Now, we won't see playing that much really 06:24 but it seems to be kind of natural. 06:26 When did you first start, when you pick a guitar? 06:28 Oh, wow. 06:30 I'm not even sure as probably five or six, 06:31 seven-years-old, you know, young boys 06:33 like to emulate their father. 06:36 My dad I would seem set around playing all the time 06:38 so he wound teach me chords, G chord, 06:41 you know, C chord, D chord, very basic 06:44 lot of country songs are just G, C and D, 06:46 you know, and naturally that would be one, 06:48 four and five but it's G, C and D for instance. 06:52 But I would pick up the guitar and then I remember 06:55 about the third grade I read a book by Stephen Foster 06:59 and he was a songwriter wrote "Way Down Upon Swanee River" 07:02 and I said, ma, I think I would like to be a songwriter 07:05 and I actually kind to remember I didn't practice 07:08 and didn't plan on doing it but I kind of remember 07:10 the first song I ever wrote is about a nine-year-old. 07:14 Now maybe I could try here. 07:16 See what key. 07:18 I like to help my mommy and my daddy too 07:22 I would like to be like Jesus all day through 07:26 I'm Jesus little helper I do my very best 07:30 I know He is at my house a very welcome guest 07:34 I know that He is with me everywhere I go 07:38 I'll put my trust in Jesus that I know. 07:44 Kind of low form here but-- 07:46 Well, well done. Well done. 07:47 That's why I remember so I started doing that 07:50 and then little later on I wrote a couple of songs 07:52 and I didn't do too much writing 07:53 but I would sit down specially in the winter time, 07:56 you know, we would get around the piano 07:58 or whatever and on Sabbaths. 08:00 You know, on Sabbath we would get around 08:02 and everybody would pick up an instrument and try to play 08:05 something the other wasn't playing. 08:06 We didn't-- 08:08 we were very poor actually so we didn't really 08:10 and didn't have a TV when we were young. 08:11 In fact, when I was really young 08:13 we didn't have inside bathrooms doors, 08:15 probably 11 or 12-years-old but my father was disabled 08:18 at very young age 36 and so, you know, we didn't have 08:23 like you didn't go buy horns and buy instruments 08:26 or rent them but a guitar, you can pretty well 08:28 know guitar somewhere an old bass pretty cheap 08:30 or you can trade for them. 08:32 Then we had an old up bright piano that, 08:34 you know, my mother would play and so 08:36 but we would sit around the house 08:38 and we would do songs. 08:41 Jesus, keep me near the cross... 08:47 My dad would play it like this. 08:48 There a precious fountain 08:55 Free to all, a healing stream 09:02 Flows from Calvary's mountain. 09:08 And that's kind of stuff you would hear around the house 09:12 when you weren't doing 09:13 but my daddy did a lot of the country song, 09:15 you know, "Make the world go away, get it off" 09:19 you know that type of thing. 09:22 Jim Reeves and I grew up Eddy Arnold 09:24 and a lot of those flock but I have some reason, 09:28 C.A., that I always like stuff that I didn't know how to play. 09:32 And when I was in high school, you know, 09:35 the Beatles were big back then in late 60s 09:37 and I don't know all these other groups. 09:39 And I couldn't stand that stuff and everybody say-- 09:42 because very few kids in my high school played, 09:45 you know, everybody want to get a rock band 09:47 but not that many people play guitar. 09:49 Hey, Shelton, you can play let's get, 09:51 let's start this rock band. 09:52 I say, I hate that stuff, you know. 09:54 And part of it where I was raised been a Christian 09:57 in a Christian home and then part of it 09:59 I just didn't like the style 10:00 and honestly I thought that stuff 10:02 there is no appeal for me whatsoever. 10:06 And so I would listen to stuff and sometimes 10:09 I would hear stuff like when I was 16 10:11 I was trying to play... 10:20 "Look At Me." 10:22 You know, that type so that really is kind of 10:24 like the big band stuff and I said, 10:26 you know, I really going back into the 40s and 50s. 10:29 I really enjoyed those chords. 10:31 So you just had a different, a different ear. 10:34 And though you say you didn't play that much 10:36 I know later on 10:37 you actually began to take groups of Nashville 10:38 and you kind of got into it so that it seems 10:40 like this is kind of natural for you and your family. 10:42 Wasn't a great stretch for you even though 10:44 you didn't drive yourself to do it 10:47 but it was kind of natural to just pick up a guitar 10:49 and kind of hear music and do it. 10:50 Yeah, yeah. 10:52 There is music and there is just 10:53 and it's like anything else in life, 10:54 you know, I would like talk to young people now 10:56 our older folk, you know, there is all, 10:59 we all have certain gifts and abilities 11:01 but you have to hold nose. 11:03 In other words you can't just say okay, Lord, 11:05 I want to be a real good guitarist and never practice. 11:08 You know, Lord, I want to be a great speaker 11:10 and never practice speaking. 11:12 I mean, so we reap what we sow. 11:15 And if we-- 11:16 excuse me, if we-- 11:18 if God has given us a gift 11:20 then we have to use that gift, right. 11:23 I mean, anything that my dad would tell me that son, 11:25 you are not gonna get any better 11:27 unless you practice whatever you do. 11:29 And I guess I just didn't love it enough 11:30 to really stay with it 11:32 but enough that I could write songs 11:34 and I enjoyed it and I still do rarely but, 11:37 you know, sit around one night, two, three, 11:40 I don't know maybe four years ago 11:41 I was just sitting around the house. 11:42 I do this a lot and might be 10 or 11 o'clock, 11:46 it's quiet, one night I said, you know, Lord, 11:48 I just want to give You something. 11:50 And what do you give the Creator of the universe? 11:55 Really nothing. Yeah. 11:56 And I just kind of heard this small voice that said, 11:58 just give Him your praise. 12:00 And I said, oh, I can do that 12:01 and this little song came to me. 12:04 Oh, my praise 12:07 I give you all my praise 12:15 That's all I have to offer you 12:25 I now build a sanctuary deep 12:32 Within my heart 12:36 And all my praise 12:40 I offer up to you 12:43 And I thought how much I love You, Lord. 12:46 I love You, Lord 12:50 Oh, how I love you, Lord 12:57 I bear hardened soul to you 13:07 I'm an empty broken vessel 13:13 Filled with hurt and pain inside 13:18 Still I'll offer up 13:23 All my pains to you 13:29 And just little songs like that will come to me 13:31 and what I found out is not every song 13:34 is meant to bless the nation or to bless a world 13:38 but something they are just meant to bless me. 13:41 I've written songs and sang them 13:42 and thought well, people will, this will catch on 13:45 and didn't really seem to catch on 13:47 but to me every time I-- 13:48 this little song every time I sing it I'm blessed. 13:51 And one time I was coming back 13:53 from speaking in Nashville, I had E.T., with me 13:55 and we were as before we built our own studios here 13:59 we would record it in a studio 14:01 and I have told the story before. 14:03 Bobby All, the guitar player is now resting in Jesus. 14:07 He had a great sounding guitar that day 14:09 and so I was in the control room 14:11 and I said, Bobby, though the speakers. 14:13 Bobby, what kind of guitar you got? 14:15 Oh, it's Martin's. Well, that makes sense. 14:16 Martin is a great guitar. I said, what year? 14:19 I figure it's '50s, '60s or maybe 2000, 14:22 you know, maybe it's '90s back then. 14:25 And he said, that's a '73 and I said, '73 14:28 that's not Martin's best years. 14:29 They changed some of the bridging 14:31 and things inside and so I said, 14:33 they just didn't have-- and I said so finally 14:36 we took a break I went in 14:37 and that guitar sounded wonderful, C.A. 14:40 And I said, what did you do to this guitar? 14:42 You go and do a lot of shaving? He said, no, I aged it. 14:45 And I said, you aged it? 14:47 You know, how do you-- I thought he was being funny. 14:49 He said, no, I aged it. 14:51 And he said, you know, when you see an old violin 14:53 and they say, the older the better 14:55 it's not just because it's a hundred years old 14:57 and sit in the case but the more you play it 15:00 the more vibrations, the molecular structure 15:02 of the wood actually changes 15:04 and it will get this beautiful sound. 15:06 So he said, what I did with this guitar 15:09 I decided to age it so every day I would turn on 15:11 when I would leave to go to play. 15:13 He was a studio musician. 15:15 I would turn on my speakers and music really loud, 15:18 I would set my guitar in front of it 15:20 and it would vibrate all day long. 15:22 Are you kidding? And he said, I did that. 15:23 I don't know if it's two or three years whatever 15:25 and he said, listen how much better it sounds. 15:27 And sure enough and on the way home 15:29 I couldn't-- I was driving home 15:31 and I said, wow, that is amazing. 15:34 We take something that God created 15:37 we kill it cut it down, we take this tree, 15:39 we would cut it down, we do all sorts of stuff to it. 15:41 Everything from plain it, then once we get it all 15:44 where we want in standard then we put varnish 15:46 and lacquer and all kinds of things on it 15:49 so it can't breathe and we think it's dead 15:51 but somehow it's still, it's able to change 15:55 and still produce something beautiful for God. 15:58 And so on the home this little chorus 16:00 just came to me. 16:01 I love You, I love You, Lord 16:06 I love You, Lord, I really do 16:12 I love You, I love You, Lord 16:18 I love, You, Lord, I really do 16:23 My Savior, Creator, Redeemer and King 16:30 You are the reason I sing 16:36 I love You, I love You, Lord 16:41 I love, You, Lord, I really do 16:49 Let me pay you a compliment and then ask you a question. 16:53 And these shows are unscripted I'm not getting raise for this. 16:56 Absolutely, I had no idea 16:57 I was gonna do any of these songs. 17:00 But we believe everything you tell us 17:03 except when you say you don't think 17:04 you are a great singer 17:06 then we just kind of turn you off 17:08 because we here think you are 17:11 and I think, I think singing, Danny, 17:13 as you well know has more than just a voice quality 17:16 because you look at Willie Nelson or Jonny Cash 17:20 you talk about they are not, 17:21 you know, as far as great vocalist they are not 17:25 but they buy what they sell. 17:27 In other words they believe in it 17:28 that they are producing and that comes through 17:32 and I think we can all say that about you. 17:35 I think you got a fabulous voice 17:37 but I think more than the technical abilities 17:40 of your voice you buy what you sell. 17:43 When you are singing the person on the consuming end 17:47 believes this guy believes this stuff. 17:50 It's changed his life. 17:51 So what me through the process 17:54 do the words come first or the music comes first 17:56 or they both come first? 17:58 How do you create a song or it's just inspiration 18:00 so kind of helps you and you just begin to do it? 18:02 Well, music in general to me the message 18:05 is more important and I will hear singers 18:08 that people say even Christian singers, 18:10 oh, what a fabulous singer, listen to this singer. 18:13 Well, they will go up and when they are maybe 18:14 on some really high notes 18:16 I can't really understand the words. 18:18 So I don't think they are a great singer 18:21 and people is like, don't you think 18:22 this person is a great singer? 18:25 No. 18:26 Do they have a great instrument? 18:28 Absolutely. 18:29 But what makes it great-- it's like a great preacher. 18:32 What if C.A., you get up and you got all the moves 18:35 and I mean you are really coming down 18:36 but I can't understand half of what you are saying 18:39 then, you know, you are not a great preacher to me 18:42 if that's what you are gonna do. 18:44 Yeah. So music is same way. 18:46 The devil has done everything and in Christian music back in, 18:50 you know, 60s and 70s started telling lies to people. 18:54 Hey, we got to look and sound like the world. 18:57 And you get all these groups 18:58 and you don't know if they are Christian groups 19:00 they call them Christian Rock. 19:01 I mean, just think about that, that be like Christian sinner, 19:04 I'm a Christian sinner to me, you know. 19:06 You know, what you see is what you get. 19:09 I mean, you know, so we do all these things 19:12 and we try to please people rather than please God. 19:15 We forget the importance of everything we do. 19:17 We are message driven. 19:20 So it's not how good-- I have a-- 19:22 so I'm not humble because I know that 19:25 I have a good ear for music, 19:27 God has given me a good ear here in the studios. 19:30 I mean, I can listen and any instrument in orchestra 19:33 if somebody is out of tune, one bad of the guitar 19:35 has got a E string I hear that 19:37 and I can say, hey, you know, your E string is flat 19:40 or I will say the tuber that you are sharp on that note. 19:44 You know, if it's an A flat you got to do that again. 19:46 So I have that ability as far as ear 19:51 because my ear is good I realize I don't have 19:53 that great of an instrument. 19:55 So I try to be objective to myself. 19:57 So, you know, say me pushing myself 19:59 and pushing to sin and I have over the years 20:02 because music help in 3ABN in the beginning. 20:05 Melody and I would go to churches and sing 20:08 and that in itself is one of reasons that 20:11 that I felt the need that there need to be 20:13 a television station giving 20:15 the three angels' messages to the world. 20:17 There was no Adventist television stations 20:18 on planet earth yet Melody and I were singing 20:21 on numbers of other TV stations and I would say, Lord, well, 20:24 where are we as Seventh-day Adventist in the media 20:28 and we want there. 20:29 So music helped and when we went to church 20:31 as we would sing and I would talk about 3ABN 20:34 but I do feel an anointing when I sing and I dedicate 20:38 whatever I sing to the Lord. 20:40 So I say, Lord, don't let the people hear me 20:42 let them hear what You want them to hear. 20:45 So it's not about how great you sing 20:48 for those of you out there what great instrument. 20:50 I mean, you have people who have the great instrument 20:53 and they have the talent. 20:55 You know, there is Steve Darmody's 20:56 I mean, this guy has incredible voice. 21:00 And he blesses people but you don't have 21:02 to be a Steve Darmody to get up and sing for the Lord. 21:07 You know, you don't have to be anybody in particular 21:09 but whatever you do keep your focus 21:11 on the message, on your music. 21:14 The music should be lower then the words. 21:18 We go-- sometimes I go to churches 21:19 or I'm watching television, Christina television 21:22 and you hear all these great music 21:24 and you can hardly hear the words, C.A. 21:26 Not worthy. Yeah. Yeah. 21:27 So I say, now what good really is this doing 21:29 and even and let me go little bit further 21:32 I get a few people little bit maybe upset at me 21:36 but some of our churches for some reason 21:38 we have this thing about a piped organ. 21:41 Now this is this great instrument 21:43 and this is the way that you worship 21:44 some of our biggest churches and I go in there 21:47 and the organ is so loud 21:50 that you can't hear the people singing 21:52 and I can't hear myself singing 21:54 and we are doing all of this stuff 21:55 and the organ is just doing all this stuff 21:57 and I say to myself, you now, honestly, 22:00 you know, what is going on here? 22:02 What have we missed? 22:03 Are we trying to look like high church? 22:05 You know, is there a certain, 22:06 something we are trying to emulate? 22:08 So let's forget about all that. 22:10 Let's just go and praise the Lord 22:12 and just, you know, I'm not saying 22:13 we shouldn't do that type of music or whatever 22:15 but I'm saying let's don't put so much emphasis 22:18 because the same church if you went in 22:20 and took a soundtrack and same way the people's like, 22:22 oh, we don't like those, that track music it's too loud 22:27 but I can in and church pipe organ sometimes 22:29 which just about deafen you, 22:31 you know, and it will hurt your ears. 22:33 So it's a matter, but to me 22:35 it's always keep the message first 22:38 no matter what I'm saying 22:39 and no matter how many instruments 22:40 we've got behind us if the music is overriding 22:44 then to me it's not effective. 22:46 Yah, yeah, I agree and I have talked 22:48 with Steve Darmody about this because I think 22:49 ministry happens at the junction, 22:53 the interception of your best effort surrendered to God 22:58 and then God takes your best effort 22:59 ad you are surrendered spirit and He turns that into ministry 23:03 and then people on the consuming end are blessed 23:06 and you may not have the greatest voice 23:09 or you may not have the greatest 23:10 even technical talent but if you give God your best 23:13 and you surrender to Him, He makes that ministry 23:15 and you are good enough as you said, 23:18 you can hear and all of us here 23:20 who worked with you, you can say amen to that. 23:22 you know one suffering is out of tune 23:24 so God has given you that gift. 23:25 You turn around and surrendered that gift 23:27 back to Him 23:28 and that turned it into ministry. 23:30 Yeah, I really enjoyed producing music like 23:33 working with the Lari Goss. 23:35 I mean, what an incredible, 23:36 you know, what an incredible experience 23:39 that is to see a man that so full of music 23:42 and able to put it and write it down 23:46 and for people to play it 23:47 and, you know, to me that's such great praise 23:50 and Lari was such a humble guy. 23:52 He gave all honor and glory. 23:54 He is also resting in the Lord 23:55 but he gave all honor and glory and praise for what he does. 23:59 Somebody who never really studied music, 24:00 didn't go to the Juilliard School of Music 24:03 but on his own just began to right out music 24:06 and says I don't know how I did this and you know, 24:08 one of the greatest rangers in America. 24:09 So we want to just encourage you today 24:11 no matter what your talent is, we were talking about music 24:14 could be something else. 24:15 If you give it to God He is gonna bless it. 24:17 The blessing is on the go and that's all-- 24:20 Absolutely it's true. The blessing is on the God. 24:23 So whatever you do, whatever gifts God 24:25 has given you, you need to work at it. 24:27 C.A. Murray, when you first came 24:29 I didn't know you as a singer. 24:31 I thought about you as a preacher. 24:33 You sang with Melody and I that time 24:35 I went to New York, you know, when you sing 24:37 but when I heard you sing it seems like you gotten better 24:41 over the last few years. 24:43 As you got older not because you got older 24:46 but I think once you got here we had you singing more 24:49 and ask you to sing more 24:50 and so your voice has developed. 24:52 Now you this and you may have always had it 24:54 but I didn't hear much of you singing. 24:56 But now when I hear you sing I say, he's got a nice voice. 24:59 C.A. has got a pretty voice. You sing and you minister. 25:03 While you are singing to me that's so important 25:05 so thank you for what you do and you didn't limit yourself 25:09 to just preaching. 25:10 Well, thank you for pushing me. 25:13 Because it wasn't, it wasn't easy 25:15 but I agree with you that doing it 25:18 and surrendering it to God that makes it ministry. 25:21 You got a technical gift, God has given you this. 25:24 You take that give it back to Him 25:26 and then it becomes ministry. 25:27 I want to talk about your writing 25:29 because while Jim was here you had a chance to step back 25:33 from the day to day operations and you used that time 25:36 really to a flurry of songs and projects came out. 25:41 All of them have been a blessing. 25:43 You talk about some things just personal 25:44 but a lot of this stuff has been a blessing to the world. 25:47 Just got back from California last week on Friday evening 25:51 for I spoke someone sang a Pillars of Peace. 25:54 Over the London a few years ago 25:55 someone singing Pillars of Music, 25:56 so that things that are being produced here 25:59 are going around the world 26:00 and they are blessing people around the world. 26:02 Well, it's a privilege for me to work 26:05 and be able to do this and with Jim here 26:07 for those many years because he's retired now 26:09 so I'm back in that I don't know how many songs 26:12 I be writing now because I'm in there 26:14 everyday looking over the finances 26:16 and everything in the entire ministry 26:18 but, you know, I find myself, 26:20 one day I was just humming this song 26:22 and I said this turned out to be a children's song, 26:25 you know, and I said, well, the Lord 26:27 don't usually give me children's songs 26:28 so I just kind of filed it didn't think much about it 26:31 and seem like a week or so later here come another song 26:35 and then another song and another song 26:37 and what it happened is as I began to travel 26:39 from church to church and meet young people I said, 26:42 young people don't have their eyes on Jesus. 26:45 They are not looking to Jesus, they are looking to the world. 26:48 The music they listen to, 26:50 all the social media they are on 26:51 everything is pointing them away from the Bible 26:55 and particular as Seventh-day Adventist young people 26:57 they are looking away to other areas 27:01 rather than to stick with the truths 27:03 that God has given us to proclaim. 27:05 And so it's like the Lord began to give me songs. 27:07 He gave me songs on different doctrinal subjects. 27:12 On the Sabbath, the state of the dead, 27:14 you know, salvation, the second coming of Christ. 27:17 And so these songs began to flow out 27:19 and so we put together a little project, the first one 27:23 and so we got enough songs to do. 27:25 I said, hey, we can do a whole project 27:27 and we entitled it "Love Rules" 27:29 because it's telling you that Jesus since God says, 27:31 He is love, God is love that He rules the universe. 27:35 The devil may think he does 27:37 and rules our life but he doesn't. 27:39 In the end and always from the beginning 27:41 to the end God rules. 27:43 So we say, okay, if God is love then love rules. 27:48 And love is the, you know, universal language 27:51 and so we come up with that project 27:53 and so we did that I think about three years ago, 27:55 made a DVD then this past year we've done 27:58 what's called "It's A Beautiful World." 28:00 And another 10 or 11 songs came to me 28:03 and C.A., I didn't have to work at them. 28:05 These songs literally sometimes they were 30 minutes. 28:07 I hope they don't sound like them, 28:09 they were 30 minutes 28:11 and we will do a couple of those 28:13 if you want to a few of them. 28:14 Yeah. Yeah. And-- 28:16 Let's do Love Rules because that was, that was 28:18 and is a big project and before we go to that 28:21 I want to ask you from start to finish 28:25 ten songs Love Rules how much we talk about, 28:27 how many months, how many years are we talking about. 28:29 Oh, no, probably, you know, in a matter 28:31 of two or three months as for us 28:33 getting the songs together 28:35 and then after that recording it took some time to do that 28:37 because you go on the studio and then, you know, 28:39 you put it lay down the tracks and you get a lead vocal 28:42 and then a couple of harmonies 28:43 and you bring kids in and do that 28:45 and then later you bring them in to do a DVD. 28:48 So it takes a period of months to do it 28:50 and it was a lot of work but wow, what fun it was to 28:55 and to see these young people and the way I gauged it 28:58 whether the songs would work or not as I would put them, 29:02 I put them on just a lead vocal with a piano 29:05 and when my grandkids are around, 29:07 the young ones I would play it 29:09 and then I would hear them singing it. 29:11 "Isn't it cool that love rules, isn't it great," 29:15 you know, and so I said, okay, that works. 29:17 That's your focus. 29:18 The kids are going around the house 29:19 and the kids are singing the music. 29:21 So I would test these different songs on the babies 29:24 and when they started singing 29:25 I said, okay, these are gonna work. 29:27 They got something. 29:28 Yeah, the Lord gave me this project 29:30 but I did it for a reason. 29:31 It's not just to get music out there 29:33 it's to get the word into these 29:35 and particularly to get certain beliefs in the Bible 29:38 that salvation is important 29:40 no matter what denomination you are 29:42 but true is God has given us. 29:43 What happens to you when you die? 29:45 I mean, all of these things, even some of them about our 29:49 taking care of body, even what we eat. 29:51 And so all of these songs were written for a reason 29:55 and that's to help these young people. 29:57 You train up a child when he was young 29:59 so when he is old he won't depart. 30:00 So we have to-- if want these kids 30:03 to love Jesus and to serve Him 30:05 we have to put the word into them 30:07 while they are young and that's the purpose of this. 30:09 Yeah. So which one you want to do? 30:12 It's a great song. 30:13 Let's take the title cut, "Love Rules" 30:15 wonderful piece here it is. 30:25 There are rules at home and rules at school 30:29 Rules on the playground and rules in the pool 30:33 But there is one rule that is the best 30:37 And if you keep this rule you will be blessed 30:43 Isn't it true that love rules? 30:47 Isn't it great there is no hate where love rules 30:54 It's no accident you see 30:57 That's the way it's meant to be 31:01 Since God is love, love rules 31:08 Love rules 31:12 There are rules for this and rules for that 31:15 There are even rules for dogs and cats 31:19 There are some we like and some we don't 31:23 Some we'll keep and some we won't 31:27 But there is one rule that is the best 31:31 And if you keep this rule you will be blessed 31:36 Isn't it true that love rules? 31:41 Isn't it great there is no hate where love rules 31:48 It's no accident you see 31:51 That's the way it's meant to be 31:55 Since God is love, love rules 32:02 Love rules 32:06 Now the Bible tells of God's great love 32:13 How Jesus came from heaven above 32:22 He gave His life on Calvary 32:25 He died that day so the whole world could see 32:31 Isn't it true that love rules? 32:35 Isn't it great there is no hate where love rules 32:42 It's no accident you see 32:46 That's the way it's meant to be 32:50 Since God is love 32:53 Isn't it true that love rules? 32:57 Isn't it great there is no hate where love rules 33:04 It's no accident you see 33:08 That's the way it's meant to be 33:12 Since God is love, love rules 33:18 Love rules Love rules 33:26 Love rules Love rules 33:34 It's a great song and you put 33:35 the scripture passage just right there in the song 33:38 so that as the children are rehearsing the music 33:41 actually putting the Bible 33:43 right into their minds at the same time. 33:44 Yeah, almost every song you will see scripture 33:47 and all the rest of these, 33:48 for instance we are gonna do one 33:50 "Love God and keep His Commandments" 33:52 and my grandkids the youngest ones 33:54 I think they are five or six, four or five at a time 33:56 they literally learned the long version 33:59 of the Ten Commandments 34:00 that most of us adults have a hard time with. 34:03 And so that was the purpose 34:04 as let's train up the child in the way he should go. 34:06 Yeah, love it, let's do 34:08 "Love God and keep His Commandments" 34:09 then I want to ask you about a totally different song 34:12 that you did called "America We Are One" 34:14 whole different genre, whole different place. 34:16 A big piece, you know, we are gonna talk about that. 34:18 Right now, "Love God Keep His Commandments." 34:31 Love God and keep His commandments 34:36 This is the duty of man 34:40 Hear God and keep His commandments 34:45 They are His gift to man 34:49 Love the Lord with all your heart 34:53 And love your neighbors as yourself 34:58 Blessed are they that do His commandments 35:02 These are the children of God 35:13 The laws of God are His promises 35:17 To guide and protect us from sin 35:22 The law of God is ever lasting 35:26 With no beginning or end 35:31 Love the Lord with all your heart 35:34 And love your neighbors as yourself 35:39 Blessed are they that do His commandments 35:44 These are the children of God 35:50 Exodus 20:1-17 commandment one, 35:55 "I am the Lord your God, 35:57 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, 35:59 out of the house of bondage. 36:02 You shall have no other gods before Me." 36:05 Commandment two, "You shall not make 36:07 for yourself a carved image any likeness of anything 36:10 that is in heaven above, 36:12 or that is in the earth beneath, 36:13 or that is in the water under the earth, 36:16 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. 36:18 For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, 36:21 visiting the iniquity of the fathers 36:23 upon the children to the third and fourth generations 36:26 of those who hate Me, and showing mercy to thousands, 36:29 to those who love Me and keep My commandments." 36:32 Commandment three, "You shall not take 36:34 the name of the Lord your God in vain, 36:36 for the Lord will not hold him guiltless 36:38 who takes His name in vain." 36:41 Commandment four "Remember the Sabbath day, 36:44 to keep it holy. 36:45 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 36:48 but the seventh day is the Sabbath 36:50 of the Lord your God. 36:51 In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, 36:55 nor your daughter, nor your male servant, 36:57 nor your female servant, nor your cattle, 37:00 nor your stranger who is within your gates. 37:02 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, 37:06 the sea, and all that is in them, 37:08 and rested the seventh day. 37:10 Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day 37:12 and hallowed it." 37:14 Commandment five, 37:15 "Honor your father and your mother, 37:17 that your days may be long upon the land 37:21 which the Lord your God is giving you." 37:24 Commandment six, "You shall not murder." 37:27 Commandment seven, 37:28 "You shall not commit adultery." 37:31 Commandment eight "You shall not steal." 37:34 Commandment nine, 37:35 "You shall not bear false witness 37:37 against your neighbor." 37:39 Commandment ten, "You shall not covet anything 37:42 that is your neighbors." 37:46 Love the Lord with all your heart 37:49 And love your neighbors as yourself 37:54 Blessed are they that do His commandments 37:59 These are the children of God 38:03 These are the children of God 38:07 These are the children of God 38:24 Yeah, good stuff, Danny. Very, very, good stuff. 38:27 I talked about-- I mentioned just before 38:30 the song "American We Are One" another big piece of music, 38:36 greatly orchestrated just a powerful piece. 38:38 Of course, you can see it on YouTube. 38:39 How long did it take you to do that? 38:41 That song actually was on Fourth of July 38:45 and, you know, which is a celebration here in America. 38:48 This is not a song for everybody around the world 38:50 but I was thinking about, you know, how divisive 38:54 and this country had divided, 38:56 it's becoming and for a long time 38:58 it's nothing new but it seems 39:00 it gets worse and worse and of course, 39:02 we understand from the Bible that's gonna happen 39:04 but, you know, this thought came to me, 39:06 you know, America was supposed to be one 39:09 and the reason that's important is 39:10 because when we were one nation under God 39:14 which is what's taken out now, one nation under God 39:17 that's when we have religious liberty. 39:20 You have your freedom 39:21 and you can build networks like 3ABN 39:23 and go to the world but I see that 39:25 being taken away from us now. 39:28 So to me "American we are one, one nation under God" 39:32 that theme as long as we can do these things 39:36 and have the freedom so we are better to be, 39:38 be working together instead of fighting each other 39:41 and, you know, I don't what we will do 39:43 but we put it on YouTube and it's got hundred 39:47 and some thousand hits without really promoting it that much. 39:50 But it's just for people basically here in the States 39:53 and I don't know, something we did it 39:54 hit me Fourth of July 39:56 and Lari Goss did a fabulous job. 39:57 So you can actually look at up, 39:59 "American We Are One" Yvonne Lewis 40:01 and Yvonne does a fantastic job singing on YouTube 40:05 if you want to watch it. 40:06 Yeah. Yeah. 40:08 And then under the same inspiration umbrella 40:11 I will say, it's a beautiful work that came out 40:15 and seemed to come out even faster than Love Rules 40:19 but we look up here's another project 40:22 of really great music and great songs. 40:24 Talk to us a little about the kids. 40:26 For kids, and again I don't know 40:27 why other than I have a burden for young people 40:29 I see my own grandchildren 40:31 and I want to see them have tools 40:34 that help lead them to Jesus rather than, 40:36 you know when we got to computers 40:37 and the phones and, you know, all these things, 40:40 I mean, kids going to games everything 40:42 nothing points you to Jesus 40:45 and point you to specific doctrines 40:47 that we believe and hold fast in this church 40:50 because we believe as a church God has people in all churches 40:53 but we believe that 40:55 that the Seventh-day Adventist church 40:56 is an end times church for an end times people, 40:58 we have an end time message for an end times people 41:01 and so we want our children 41:02 to understand that as they grow. 41:05 So now there is such huge controversy, 41:07 there wasn't 40, 50 years ago, 41:09 I mean, there was but much less. 41:12 A Creator-- is there a God and is there-- 41:15 does is God a Creator. 41:17 It's like to us that's, duh, we knew that one 41:20 when we were little kids, but now I mean, it's so-- 41:24 I said, you know, even within our church 41:27 we hearing people say, 41:28 well, you know, maybe God created He did 41:30 but we might have took a million, 41:32 taken a millions of years and might this and that. 41:35 And I said, okay, we got to do something 41:36 for the young people so I got to thinking about it 41:39 and the Lord gave me this song "It's A Beautiful World" 41:43 and so it goes through each day of creation. 41:46 So when we play it for the young kids 41:48 it reinforces the Bible and what God did 41:52 and helps us each to understand what did on each day, 41:56 each 24 hour day of creation what God did. 42:01 So I didn't intent to do another whole project 42:03 but right after that another song, 42:05 "You Are What You Eat" 42:06 and I'm like what in the world is this. 42:08 These thoughts whether I'm traveling 42:10 something I would get a piece of paper 42:11 and write them down 42:13 and so we just titled this brand new project 42:17 the DVD is actually just now coming out, 42:20 being pressed up. 42:22 We've had the CD out for bit, 42:23 we just God all the kids and I so thank all of the kids 42:27 for their giving their time and their abilities, Love Rules 42:30 and also "It's Beautiful World" 42:31 they traveled lot of them from several states around, 42:34 they come here to help us in this project. 42:36 So the latest one "It's A Beautiful World." 42:39 Yeah. I like the sentiment. 42:40 Let me put you on a spot for just a little bit, Danny, 42:41 because what you say the present says, 42:44 you know, you look around it's not a beautiful world, 42:46 it's not a beautiful world at all. 42:47 How do you get to say given what we see everyday 42:49 it's a beautiful world? 42:50 That's because you look in the spiritual 42:52 and you look through spiritual eyes 42:54 and that's what we have, the Bible says, 42:56 "we fight not against flesh and blood, 42:58 the power is in principalities." 43:00 So as a Christian we are able to look 43:03 into the spiritual world and it's a beautiful world. 43:06 God created a beautiful world but we don't see it every day. 43:10 There are still beauty around us 43:12 but the Bible says, 43:13 "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 43:15 neither that entered into the heart of man, 43:17 things which God hath prepared for them that love him." 43:20 So now I can look around, 43:22 we all can see these beautiful things 43:24 but, you know what, the devil gets us 43:25 so caught up about me, myself 43:27 and I that we don't see this beautiful world around us. 43:31 And I told the story once that when you go 43:34 and be in the little town close to it's here about eight miles 43:37 that's called the Square and just the other side of it 43:40 people are shocked when they come here 43:42 there is a hangs man noose out there 43:45 and there is a, there is the big scaffold 43:47 where they actually hung a guy whose name was Charlie Birger 43:50 and it was the last guy in the State of Illinois 43:53 and I think several thousand people 43:55 come to watch this guy be hung, right. 43:57 But here is a guy who was a gangster, 43:59 they arrived with a Shelton gang 44:01 and I'm sorry but the Shelton, the name, 44:03 you know, but the Shelton gang 44:05 there was a Shelton's and Birger's 44:06 and they were bootleggers 44:08 and they all fought against each other 44:09 and there are books written, all kinds of books written 44:11 about the Shelton gang and the Birger's 44:13 but they hung Charlie Birger and but there is a guy 44:17 that they take him up the scaffold 44:19 according to stories, they take him up the scaffold, 44:22 he is standing there, they are getting ready 44:24 to put the blindfolds on him. 44:25 They say, do you have any last words 44:29 and, you know, what he says, he looks around, 44:30 he says it's a beautiful world. 44:33 And I said here is a guy that he knows within ten seconds 44:36 he is gonna be dead 44:38 but now he is appreciating that beautiful world. 44:41 We are still here there is no noose around our neck 44:44 and we can't even see the beautiful world around us. 44:46 So something about that hit me, 44:48 that's amazing this guy because it was too late, 44:51 he saw it too late. 44:53 You think he wouldn't change his life 44:54 right then if they said, okay, 44:56 we are gonna take this off of you. 44:57 I got to feel and he would 44:59 because he had sense enough to say, 45:00 it's a beautiful world 45:02 and that says all kinds of things. 45:04 So here as Christians 45:05 no matter what's going on around us, 45:07 maybe the devil you think 45:08 he's got noose around us but he doesn't. 45:10 He is powerless when we come in the name of the Lord 45:13 and we can rebuke him. 45:14 And so we can look around and say, it's a beautiful world 45:18 and we also can look into the future 45:20 where there is no more sickness, 45:22 no more pain, no more sorrow, no more death. 45:24 It is indeed a beautiful world. All right, well said. 45:27 Let's look at it just now, "It's A Beautiful World." 45:42 It's a beautiful world that God made 45:47 Just for you and for me 45:51 He created all in six days 45:56 I have faith to believe 46:00 The Bible will tells the story 46:04 Of God's great power and glory 46:09 He made a light, the earth and sea 46:13 He made the flowers and the buzzing bumble bee 46:19 It's a beautiful world that God made 46:25 Just for you and for me 46:29 God created everything in just six days. 46:32 On the first day God created light 46:34 and on the second day, He made the heavenly skies, 46:38 on the third day He created the grass, 46:40 the trees, and the plants. 46:42 On the fourth day He created the sun, 46:44 the moon and the stars. 46:47 And on the fifth day God created the fish 46:49 and all the wonderful sea creators in the water. 46:52 And He created all the birds in the air. 46:57 It's a beautiful world that God made 47:02 Just for you and for me 47:06 He created all in six days 47:11 I have faith to believe 47:15 The Bible will tells the story 47:20 Of God's great power and glory 47:24 He made a light, the earth and sea 47:29 He made the flowers and the buzzing bumble bee 47:35 It's a beautiful world that God made 47:40 Just for you and for me 47:43 And on the sixth day He created 47:45 all the beautiful animal life on the earth. 47:48 But He also created something very special 47:51 that sixth day. 47:53 Yes, special and dear to the heart of God, 47:56 you guessed it He created you and me. 48:02 The Bible will tells the story 48:06 Of God's great power and glory 48:11 He made a light, the earth and sea 48:15 He made the flowers and the buzzing bumble bee 48:21 It's a beautiful world that God made 48:26 Just for you and for me 48:30 After creating everything in just six days 48:34 the Bible says that God rested. 48:36 Let's read about it in Genesis 2:1-3. 48:40 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, 48:42 and all the host of them. 48:44 And on the seventh day God ended His work 48:46 which He had made, and He rested 48:49 on the seventh day from all His work 48:51 which He had made. 48:52 And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, 48:55 because that in it He had rested 48:57 from all His work which God created and made." 49:03 It's a beautiful world that God made 49:08 Just for you and for me 49:12 He created all in six days 49:17 I have faith to believe 49:21 It's a beautiful world 49:23 Such a beautiful world 49:25 It's a beautiful world It's a beautiful world 49:30 It's a beautiful world 49:32 Such a beautiful world 49:34 It's a beautiful world It's a beautiful world 49:39 It's a beautiful world Such a beautiful world 49:44 You know, Danny, when you hear that song 49:46 you almost believe it is a beautiful. 49:47 In fact, it is a beautiful world 49:49 and look through the spiritual. 49:50 Well, done. 49:52 This particular project from first song to last song 49:54 how long took to write this one. 49:56 Oh, you know, I don't know. 49:57 It over a period of two three months probably 49:59 because I didn't, I didn't just sat down 50:01 and said, I'm gonna write this song. 50:03 I just wait till the idea came and then I would sit down 50:05 and most of them came pretty quickly 50:07 but this one no matter what key you sing it in 50:10 I've had people and I have a very well known song writer 50:12 that I gave this to him and he called me and he said, 50:14 I can't get that song out of my head. 50:16 He said I go around the house saying 50:18 it's a beautiful world that God made, 50:22 you know, just for you and for me. 50:24 And I said, all right, that's what I wanted here 50:26 and he is great songwriter in his own, you know. 50:29 It's kind of above most of us in the songwriting 50:32 but he said, boy, that sound just keeps coming to my mind. 50:35 I said, well, good, then it's doing its job. 50:37 But, you know, again it's teaching the kids 50:39 and then the video showing God's creation 50:43 is what we would put together 50:44 and again I want to thank all the kids 50:46 who came here to help this. 50:48 Well, don't. Good looking group of kids too and very talented. 50:51 Oh, very much. 50:52 Including some of your own family members. 50:54 Yeah. Praise the Lord for that. 50:55 My grandkids are on there, of course. 50:56 Yeah. Yeah. Now you are what you eat. 50:59 All right. Yeah. This was an next day event. 51:01 Yeah, well, this when you have not heard 51:03 for that statement for a long time 51:05 some people say it's not true but in a sense it is I guess, 51:08 you know, like we become what we behold 51:10 and we, you know, we are what we eat 51:12 but actually it was a song and I said, 51:15 I don't know of any songs 51:16 that really talk about the health message. 51:18 Adventist were strong on the health message. 51:20 I just saw a thing the other night 51:22 on CBN Christian network showing Seventh-day Adventist 51:27 and how long they live in Loma Linda 51:29 and talking about Adventist living 51:30 ten years longer on average 51:32 and healthier than most other people 51:35 around the world only few spots like that 51:38 but I wrote this song before I saw that. 51:40 But I thought, you know, 51:42 we have all this messages on the Sabbath 51:44 and state of the dead and all these how do we do that 51:47 and the Lord just gave me this little song 51:49 and it probably came to me in an hour or something, 51:52 "You are what you eat, 51:53 I've been told if this is true I plan to grow old." 51:57 Praise the Lord. This is a great little thing. 51:59 "You Are What You Eat." 52:10 You are what you eat I have been told 52:14 If this is true I plan to grow old 52:20 Let's take a look at what the Bible has to say 52:24 About the foods we eat each day 52:27 Genesis tells about the foods nuts and grains 52:31 Leviticus tells us what else remains 52:36 Let's read about in Genesis 1:29, 52:39 "And God said, 'See, I have given you 52:42 every herb that yields seed 52:44 which is on the face of all the earth, 52:46 and every tree whose fruit yields seed, 52:48 to you it shall be for food." 52:50 The Book of Leviticus describes two categories animal food, 52:54 clean and unclean. 52:56 God commands that His people only eat clean meat 52:59 as described in Leviticus the 11th chapter. 53:02 No pig. No catfish. 53:04 No mice. No rabbit. 53:06 No, shrimp. No, squirrel. 53:08 No oysters. No, dog or cat. 53:10 No snakes. 53:13 Let's take a look at what the Bible has to say 53:16 About God's plan for us each day 53:19 To be healthy and happy in every way 53:23 This is God's plan for us each day 53:29 Boys, and girls, we belong to Jesus 53:31 and because He loves us 53:33 He has given us great advice on how to be healthy and happy. 53:36 Let's ready 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20, 53:40 "Or do you not know that your body 53:42 is the temple of the Holy Spirit 53:44 who is in you, whom you have from God, 53:46 and you are not your own? 53:48 You were bought with a price, 53:50 therefore glorify God in your body 53:53 and in your spirit, which are God's." 53:58 Now I know the truth been told 54:01 And with God's help I plan to grow old 54:05 Aren't you glad that God has a plan for your life? 54:09 3 John 2 tells us what that plan is. 54:12 "Beloved, I pray that you may prosper 54:15 in all things and be in health, 54:17 just as your soul prospers." 54:20 Jeremiah confirms 54:24 "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, 54:26 says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, 54:30 to give you a future and a hope." 54:33 If you give your life to Jesus 54:35 and take care of your body by exercising 54:38 and eating the right kinds of food 54:41 then it's you can save. 54:43 Now I know the truth been told 54:46 And with God's help I plan to grow old 54:53 And with God's help 54:54 I plan to grow old I plan to grow old 55:04 Great song, Danny, and, you know, 55:06 it's really, really look what you eat 55:08 and a really catchy tune and really well done. 55:11 Well, before our time gets away I want to talk to you about, 55:13 about our education initiative 55:15 because all of this music can be gotten 55:17 for your own personal use 55:19 but also it's part of our educational. 55:21 Sort of walk us through. 55:22 Absolutely, what we've done a few months ago, 55:25 you know, as I have been talking about 55:26 I have a burden for young people 55:28 and our Adventist young people 55:30 and the Lord gave me this idea 55:32 about to raise money for Adventist education. 55:35 So we call it triple your donations. 55:37 For instance if you donate say $100 to 3ABN 55:43 then we donate enough CDs to the, 55:45 to schools throughout North America. 55:48 It can be the, you know, It's A Beautiful World 55:51 or the Hallelujah We're Home at Last, 55:53 you know, the CD they knew-- 55:54 or the pillars there is a few options we give 55:57 and when you do that we give enough CDs and DVDs 56:00 to these young folk 56:02 that when the schools sell them it doubles, 56:05 in other words you give $100 to 3ABN and raise 200 56:09 for Adventist education 56:10 our goal is to raise $3 million. 56:12 There is an article in the Adventist Review, 56:14 you can look up online or go to our website 56:18 but the Adventist Review 56:19 did a great job encouraging people. 56:21 So the only way we can do this is putting tools 56:24 in the hands of young people instead of selling candy 56:26 and all kinds of stuff you go to your neighbors, 56:29 give them the gospel and it gets our kids 56:31 involved in ministry C.A, at an early age. 56:34 So go to the 3ABN website, 56:37 if you would like to make a donation to 3ABN 56:39 that donation is tripled. 56:41 Not only what you give here but then the schools 56:44 we send enough CDs they sell them, 56:46 they keep all the money. 56:48 They put no money upfront so it's a hundred percent 56:50 they get to keep so it's a win, win for everybody 56:53 and the first three months we did it last school year 56:56 we raised over $400,000 for Adventist education. 57:00 Our goal is this year we would like 57:01 to at least do a million or two. 57:03 So it's really up to you, the viewers and donors. 57:06 So look up the Adventist Review or to the 3ABN website. 57:10 And what's great is out options. 57:12 You can do kids music, you can do beautiful world, 57:16 you can do Love Rules, 57:17 or you can do Pillars, Pillars Hymns. 57:19 So there's a lot of options. 57:21 Hallelujah We're Home At Last, there's so much you can do. 57:22 Well, ho, our time has fast slipped into eternity. 57:25 Allow me now I'm closing to wish you both 57:26 grace and peace through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 57:29 let's see again soon bye-bye and God bless. |
Revised 2015-11-16