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MALE VOICE: God has been speaking to me a lot this year specifically about just getting more serious with Him about, you know, sometimes we go over the same thing over and over in our life. You know God wants to give us victory in a certain area of our life and we’ll just kind of just keep going. I remember in the Old Testament when Moses was leading the people to the Promised Land. At one point God said, okay, you’ve traveled around this mountain long enough, let’s get moving. And I feel like God has been saying that in my life in some particular areas.

And so one of the things he led me to do was take several passages of scripture and put it on little business cards. And I carry them with me pretty much everywhere I go. And just have them at my disposal to meditate on, maybe memorize, but I’m not really working terribly hard to memorize them as much as I am just to read them when I have a few free moments. You know one of them, for example, is Galatians 5 verse 16, really a good bit of that chapter, but a couple of highlights. Paul says, I advise you to live according to your new life in the Holy Spirit. And then he talks about the fruit of the spirit. He talks about the way the flesh and the spirit war against each other. And then at the end of the chapter he says if we’re living by the Holy Spirit let us follow the Holy Spirit’s leading in every part of our life.

And what that says to me is, if I’m depending on the Holy Spirit for my very life, you know if in other words, this new life that He’s given me is sustained by the Holy Spirit, I can’t take another breath, especially spiritually speaking, without the Holy Spirit giving me that life. Then I need to follow Him in all of the other areas of my life as well. Kind of a slap in the face to the spirit of God to say I’m relying on You to give me life and to keep me righteous before the Father. But then not rely on Him for following Him in the daily details of my life. And so that’s just one of the things that God’s speaking to me about right now, letting the Holy Spirit control all the aspects of my life.

MALE VOICE 1: In Proverbs Chapter 1, the Bible personifies wisdom as a woman. And it paints this picture as, of this woman sitting at the edge of the city gates and all the people are walking by busy with life, distracted. And she’s sitting here yelling out these truths, these things that she so desperately knows they need to hear but they’re not listening. And the reality is, is that’s how we are with God a lot of times. God is sitting here with these truths He sings [phonetic] to impart on our lives, ways to change our lives, ways to guide us, and we don’t want to hear it. And we walk on by or we mock Him. We mock what He wants to do with our lives. And so the song is pretty much a wakeup call.

MR. RONNIE FREEMAN: I was the kid who was raised in church my whole life. My mom sang in the choir, my dad was a deacon. I don’t know if this is a right answer or a wrong answer, but I don’t remember a particular date of conversion. I just remember the Word being spoken in our home. I remember always being a part of church. I was that kid in the youth group that was on the youth counsel and always went on youth trips. And so I just kind of almost see my relationship with the Lord like a dance that just started very early on and just continued.

And then I remember kind of diving into the world for myself in college and really began to taste of intimacy with the Lord during college. And I went to a Bible school so the Bible was a really, a large part of our study.

MALE VOICE 1: You know what’s amazing is that someone told me—a guy by the name of Lowell Kinnion [phonetic], he’s a youth pastor, he told me—he said “I want you to read these like it’s God’s love letters to you”. You know and so I would read the Bible and I didn’t really understand what I was reading, you know, but he—but he would—he would take the time to sit with me and go over these things and tell me about how Jesus died on the cross. And as I read stories about how Jesus loved on people in—throughout the Bible, like even people that you would have thought why would he be there, you know, with a prostitute. Do you know what I mean? How—doesn’t—I used to think doesn’t God pick people that are almost there. Do you know what I mean? Like—but he sees something in us and the Bible made me realize that God has a plan for me and it’s not to be depressed and it’s not to be empty. And as I read more and more stories in the Bible I began to realize that there’s hope for my life and that this God that—you know if—this God that was sitting with the lady who was caught in the act of adultery, that that’s the same God that loves me, you know, and it just became real to me. And so the Bible has changed my life. The Bible has changed my life forever you know.

MALE VOICE 2: I grew up in a Christian home. My parents were missionaries and a pastor and my dad was a pastor of a church and you know I was really involved with ministry and things like that but I really didn’t have a personal relationship. You know I was more riding on my parent’s coattail but I was really involved. You know I didn’t—and I was looking to everything else to fill that void in my life. You know I had an emptiness in there and through friends to be accepted and things like that and it’s not until I hit the bottom, you know, that I cried out to God and he chanced my life and, you know, he filled that emptiness in my life and I felt this lift in my life. And once scripture that really—I mean actually I guess a whole chapter, Solomon’s 23 is—you know is something that I always read and reminds me that—you know that God is with me through my trials and the things that I go through. And in this one scripture—I mean chapter that I’m really hold close to me.

RON BLOCK: Just recently I’ve done a record that’s called “Doorway,” and it’s really about the musical side of what I’m doing, it’s about me stepping out in faith, believing that God has called me to step outside of my safe little Alison Crowson {phonetic] Union Station would that I’ve been comfortable in for so many years, and now go out still being in the band, but go out in our off-time and go do this completely other thing that based in me doing it, and not standing behind other people. And it’s a huge leap of faith for me, because the musical side of me was so destroyed by all that stuff in the mid-90s that it’s a leap of faith to believe that it’s valuable enough to do this. But that’s what God is doing. One of the things that started happening after I went through the crash, I started noticing, I really learned what Galatians 2:20 means, you know, “I no longer live but Christ lives in me,” right? You know, I’m dead with Christ. There’s no more old me, it’s the new me in Christ, it’s the new creation me, that’s what’s really here. But I began to see, you know, I cannot tell you, and it will probably sound silly, I can’t tell you how many times since then I have looked at a clock and it is 2:20. It just happens so often that I look at the clock and it’s 2:20, glance up at it. And it’s always a reminder to me. So that’s kind of what God has been pushing me to hang on to, is Galatians 2:20.

MR. SHAWN MCDONALD: The new record, the one we’re working on right now is, I would say half of it is straight, like just word for word pretty much. Like I just kind of that’s where I’m at. I mean I have a song that was written from the Be [phonetic] Attitudes on this song, one from Ecclesiastes and a couple from the Psalms. And, but, yeah I don’t have any method as far as like how I write a song. It’s just you know when I’m inspired I write. And it’s hard when you’re on the road a lot, you know. But I would always write down scriptures that really spoke to my heart. I would write them down and I’d post them around my computer or on my wall next to my bed just to remind myself. And we still have a little bit of that around the house, but it’s hard, you know, we’re on the road.

And I think the biggest struggle for me is just digging into the Word on the road and just reading it. And I noticed, I mean the Bible says that knowing the truth will set us free. That I really see that in my life that the more that I study and I seek God and His Word the more, like, direction I have in life and itself and how I approach life and how I get through on my day to day basis. And just even my overall, like, just the way I feel about myself and how I treat others I guess too.