Christian Devotions SPEAK UP!

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! when the best clips of the year are ready for you to enjoy. 

Great guests have rewarded our listeners with incites into their ministries, lives and hearts. Some of the clips you will hear come from Comedian Brad Stine, former Lead Singer of Petra John Schlitt, Ex-NFL player Corwin Anthony, Producer and Actor of God's Not Dead David AR White, Worship Leader Don Moen, Performing Artist Jonny Diaz, Radio Host and Author Kim Ketola, Missionary Melody Green, President of the NCFIC Scott Brown, Movie Producer Zena Dell Lowe, Author and Singer Andrew Peterson, Actor Burgess Jenkins and many more! You’ll laugh, be encouraged, and—I pray—share the link and become a regular listener for 2015.

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! when the best clips of the year are ready for you to enjoy. Also joining will be Author Lori Hatcher.

Lori is a busy woman. The editor of Reach Out, Columbia magazine, part-time dental hygienist, women’s ministry speaker, freelance writer and editor, wife, and mother of two young adult daughters, she regularly struggles to make time for God. She wrote her book, Hungry for God…Starving for Time, with women like herself in mind. “—the career woman, the stay-at-home mom, the student who desires a relationship with God but struggles to make room for it in her busy day.”

Following a chat with Lori, Speak UP will feature the best clips of 2014 featuring Brad Stine, John Schlitt, Corwin Anthony, David AR White, Don Moen, Jonny Diaz, Kim Ketola, Melody Green, Scott Brown, Zena Dell Lowe, and many more! You’ll laugh, be encouraged, and—I pray—share the link and become a regular listener for 2015.

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! with a best-selling trio who co-authored Where Treetops Glisten.

Cara Putman, the award-winning author of nineteen books, including Shadowed by Grace, graduated high school at sixteen, graduated college at twenty, and completed her law degree at twenty-seven. She is a lecturer on business and employment law to graduate students at Purdue University and also practices law. Cara is currently pursuing her Master’s in Business Administration at Krannert. She lives with her husband and four children in Indiana.

Sarah Sundin is the author of six historical novels, including In Perfect Time (Revell, August 2014). Her novel On Distant Shores was a double finalist for the 2014 Golden Scroll Awards. Sarah lives in northern California with her husband and three children, works on-call as a hospital pharmacist, and teaches Sunday school and women’s Bible studies.

Tricia Goyer, Cara Putman, and Sarah Sundin invite readers to turn back the clock to days gone by as they listen to Bing Crosby sing of sleigh bells in the snow and get to know the Turner family. Three siblings forge their own paths in a love story filled with the wonder of Christmas. Hailing from the heart of America in Lafayette, Indiana, these characters will never be the same as the reality of America’s involvement in World War II hits incredibly close to home.

Tricia Goyer is the best-selling author of more than forty-five books, including fictional tales delighting and entertaining readers, and nonfiction titles offering encouragement and hope. She is a two-time Carol Award winner, as well as a Christy and ECPA Award Nominee. A popular blogger, Tricia contributes to a number of homeschooling and Christian parenting sites. She and her husband, John, live in Little Rock, AR. They are the parents of six.

Cara Putman, the award-winning author of nineteen books, including Shadowed by Grace, graduated high school at sixteen, graduated college at twenty, and completed her law degree at twenty-seven. She is a lecturer on business and employment law to graduate students at Purdue University and also practices law. Cara is currently pursuing her Master’s in Business Administration at Krannert. She lives with her husband and four children in Indiana.

Sarah Sundin is the author of six historical novels, including In Perfect Time (Revell, August 2014). Her novel On Distant Shores was a double finalist for the 2014 Golden Scroll Awards. Sarah lives in northern California with her husband and three children, works on-call as a hospital pharmacist, and teaches Sunday school and women’s Bible studies.

Brad Stine is on a mission—a mission to free us all from the chains of political correctness and prevent our eventual ‘wussification.’  From his Nashville stronghold, Stine is mounting his crusade against these hypocrisies, all of which are explored in his highly anticipated 4 album/DVD, aptly titled ‘WUSSIFICATION!’

“You know what offends me?....Offended people,” says Stine.  A staunch supporter of first amendment rights and foe of political correctness, Stine asserts that rights should be universally applied.  “In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal. I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.”   The strength of his conviction about our freedoms can be found in many places on WUSSIFICATION—from “Merry Christmas Too!” (the right to celebrate religion), to “At Least We’re Not France!” (the responsibility to take action as a country), to “Spank” (the ability to discipline our children the way we see fit).

Duck Dynasty star Tim Guraedy is best known to the show’s millions of hard-core fans as “Mountain Man,” the slow-talking air-conditioning repairman/radio host who is a neighbor to the Robertsons, the Louisiana family that made a fortune from its best-selling duck calls, around which the show is based. Mountain Man is the only semi-regular cast member who is not a Robertson family member or employee of Duck Commander.

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! with a Christmas Rock and Roller, John Schlitt!

John Schlitt began singing when he was just five years old, performing the leads in recitals and plays in his school. By the time he was thirteen, he was in the unforgettably titled band Vinegar Hills Hometown Band Something Different – being paid twenty-five bucks as lead singer. It soon became clear that a career in music was in John’s future.

Fast forward six years … and John Schlitt officially joined Petra in 1986, bringing with him his amazing vocal range and abilities that made him a legend with Head East. While John is arguably one of the most powerful vocalists around, his mightiest cry is the cry of his heart. Whether onstage or up close and personal, John’s voice is one of a truly changed soul. And his music is and always will be a reflection of God’s love and redeeming power.

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! with a Christmas Singer Jean Watson.

A classically trained singer and violinist, Jean Watson delved into the Christian recording world as a singer/songwriter in 2003. Since that time, her voice and testimony of God's grace and healing have touched thousands of lives around the world. The power of Jean's message comes out of her unique ability to minister and perform with a balance of musical excellence and childlike transparency. God uses Jean to break barriers of the heart through her willingness to share the story of her own weakness and healing. Hearing Jean sing and speak brings an infusion of faith in the love and power of God. Her passion for God is absolutely contagious!

A consummate singer, songwriter, arranger, and violinist, Jean insists on excellence in everything she does. She has recorded six albums to date including her latest CD, Christmas ... Not the Way It Seems, featuring Grammy nominated producer Billy Smiley and guitar virtuoso Phil Keaggy.

A classically trained singer and violinist, Jean Watson delved into the Christian recording world as a singer/songwriter in 2003. Since that time, her voice and testimony of God's grace and healing have touched thousands of lives around the world. The power of Jean's message comes out of her unique ability to minister and perform with a balance of musical excellence and childlike transparency. God uses Jean to break barriers of the heart through her willingness to share the story of her own weakness and healing. Hearing Jean sing and speak brings an infusion of faith in the love and power of God. Her passion for God is absolutely contagious!

A consummate singer, songwriter, arranger, and violinist, Jean insists on excellence in everything she does. She has recorded six albums to date including her latest CD, Christmas ... Not the Way It Seems, featuring Grammy nominated producer Billy Smiley and guitar virtuoso Phil Keaggy.

John Schlitt began singing when he was just five years old, performing the leads in recitals and plays in his school. By the time he was thirteen, he was in the unforgettably titled band Vinegar Hills Hometown Band Something Different – being paid twenty-five bucks as lead singer. It soon became clear that a career in music was in John’s future.

John Schlitt officially joined Petra in 1986, bringing with him his amazing vocal range and abilities that made him a legend with Head East. While John is arguably one of the most powerful vocalists around, his mightiest cry is the cry of his heart. Whether onstage or up close and personal, John’s voice is one of a truly changed soul. And his music is and always will be a reflection of God’s love and redeeming power.

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! with Amy Sullivan.

For the past two years, Amy L. Sullivan looked harder, loved stronger, and discovered more by fixing her gaze on something other than the person staring back at her in the mirror. Amy writes for oodles of print and online publications and loves speaking with groups of any size. Connect with her online at www.AmyLSullivan.com. A portion of the proceeds from her new book When More is Not Enough, will benefit Transformation Village, a new housing development for women, children, and families in crisis in Western North Carolina. http://www.amazon.com/When-More-Not-Enough-Giving/dp/1941103243.

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! with an author doubleheader featuring Carol Stratton and Amy Sullivan.

Carol Stratton has written for several publications, including InTouch magazine and Kyria. She is a contributing writer for Forsyth Woman magazine and has been published in two anthologies, Writing so Heaven Will be Different and Extraordinary Answers to Prayers. She speaks to women's groups such as MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers), and at national writers’ conferences. She attended Capenwray Bible School in New Zealand. Carol and her husband live in North Carolina and have four children and two grandchildren. Her website, www.ChangingZipCodes.com, helps women who are relocating.

Carol’s newest book is a contemporary Christian romance called Lake Surrender. You can find it through Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Lake-Surrender-Carol-Grace-Stratton/dp/1941103227.