Casting Crowns Christmas Tour

Casting Crowns, multiple Grammy and Dove Award winning group, will headline a 14 city tour entitled, "Casting Crowns Christmas Celebration." The tour is set to begin November 28. Joining Casting Crowns for this Christmas celebration will be: Natalie Grant, Denver and the Mile High Orchestra, Avalon, Michael English, and Radio Disney favorite pureNRG.

For more information on Casting Crowns and their Christmas tour click here.

Morning Show Top 10

Top 10 for Week of September 29

1. Chris Tomlin - Jesus Messiah
2. Brett Rush - When I'm Alone With You
3. Steven Curtis Chapman - Yours
4. Mollye Rees with Janie Slocum - Different
5. Shannon Wexelburg - Hail to the King
6. Mery Me - You Reign
7. Paul Baloche - How Great Thou Art
8. Bart Millard - I Stand Amazed
9. Jamie Jamgochian - For You
10. Christ for the Nations - Glory to Our King
    

A Smile from Heaven

Pulpit Freedom Sunday - The Aftermath

I can't begin to tell you how impressed and moved I was during yesterday's worship service. My pastor, Dr. Jody Hice, delivered a sermon that moved the audience and endorsed Sen. John McCain. A number of members from the media were present and heard a message that, from scripture, showed were each candidate stood on two of the most important issues of morality - abortion and homosexuality.

Today, Jody has been on both NPR and Fox News. To see the video of Jody's interview with Megyn Kellye click here.

Listen Monday through Friday for the The Jody Hice Show on Toccoa Falls Radio, and beginning this Wednesday, Oct. 1, the program can be heard at 3pm.

Pulpit Freedom Sunday

This Sunday, September 28, is an important Sunday in many churches across the country. These churches will be participating in what has been initiated by the Alliance Defense Fund as Pulpit Freedom Sunday. During the services, the pastors of these churches will be defying the IRS and will endorse a candidate for President of the United States.

According to the ADF website, "The Pulpit Initiative is a legal effort designed to protect the First Amendment rights of pastors in the pulpit. As part of the effort, pastors participating in Pulpit Freedom Sunday on Sunday, September 28, 2008, will deliver to their congregations sermons of their own that apply Scripture to the subject of candidates for government office. The sermons are intended to restore a pastor’s right to speak freely from his pulpit without fearing censorship or punishment by the government. By standing together and speaking with one voice, it is our hope to recapture the rightful place of pastors and churches in American life."

Please be in prayer for these pastors and their congregations as they strive to return freedom of speech to all 501c(3) organizations. As one pastor in Minnesota has said, the ACLU may have the IRS on their side but pastors have the Constitution on theirs.

For more information on what the Pulpit Initiative is and is not click here.