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Repeat of last weeks show.  From all of us we wish you a Merry Christmas

As many of you probably remember Wild Bill shared how blessed he was with getting to work with some great men with his new job.  The song you just heard is from one of these men's family. (Keith Franklin)  This is what they produced and sent out as Christmas cards this year.  Keith and his wife looks at their music as a ministry and we will have more of these songs on this show.  While listening to this CD with Keith's five children singing, Bill started to think about the family side of Christmas.  There are many debates that come up this time of year but family and Christmas memories are part of who we are.  So tonight we are going to allow all of you to share a favorite Christmas memory and/or a favorite gift on our show tonight.  You can share more then one thing but we ask that you do not do it all at one time.  We plan on playing a song between each call and this gives you more time to put your thoughts together.  I am sure many people will not be listening live tongiht due to the holiday preperation.  If this is your first time to join our show we want to remind you that you can listen to all of our shows from the archives and you can download them to your favorite device.  When you call into the show your phone number comes up on our screen.  But you have to push 1 on your phone for us to put you on the air.  You will be identified by the last four of your phone number.  We want to remind all of you the perfect gift to give yourselves is a personal relationship with Jesus.  It will even make you a better person for those that have to put up with you!  Just ask Bill about this!  For those that was with us last week we want to remind you to stay focused on your list and watch for the miracles to happen.  For those that missed last week it is not to late for you to take part.

Hello everybody and welcome to the show.  We want to thank all of you who take the time to listen each week. It blows the mind to see that we have had over 40,000 listens to this show.  We acknowledge that many of you cannot listen live, but we do not want you to think that time is going to be a factor in being part of tonights show.  Man is limited by time but God is not limited by anything.  So we ask that when you listen to the archive of this show that you take part just like you were listening live.  I believe that you will be blessed whenever you take part.  I am sure that many of you like myself wonder what type of application Wild Bill has in mind.  As you know by now he loves to play with the music on the show. Tonight is no exception.  As always, we will open up the mics so that you can share your thoughts, scripture, a song, and/or testimony.   Or all of the above!

The question of is Jesus the reason for the season, is more complicated then the answer. Tonight we are going to share with you a short history of Christmas that was presented by scholars and clergy.  You can come up with your own answer after listening to the facts.  For us the date is not as important as the events that happened that can be learn about in your Bible.  How these events were applied to a holiday is history.  We are not going to waste your time debating the celebration of Christmas.  In a time where we are watching events happen in the middle east that does not seem possible. We are seeing pastors and people of faith put more emphasis on politics, current events and the rest of the message of this world.  We attempted to put together a song at the end of the show that we can pray reminds everybody what the real focus should be for everybody.  As the late Bro. Cletus Sullivan used to say, "how will people know if we do not go and tell them."

During the time of counting our blessings as with many of you Wild Bill keeps looking at things that have occured during his life.  He was just a small boy in 1963 but the things he saw on telelvision have left a mark in his mind all of these years.  In Novemember of 1963 he was only five years old but has vivid pictures he remembers of the news events of the shooting and the funeral of JFK.  I would guess that this probably impacted his family and he was feeding his emotions off of them.  There have been hundreds of conspiricaty theories. There are even new blogs with new theories and reasons for what happened.  Hundreds of Books and movies have been made in regard to this event.  It is clear that during a time of hope with younger people starting to take more interest in politics that nobody dreamed such an event could take place.  One of the supervising Secret Service agents from that time had finally had enough of all of the things said and published a book on the topic.  He used reports and personal notes of the agents involved and their personal recollections based on these reports to put together as much of the facts as possible.  We tried to screen as much of the gory details as possible from what we are sharing tonight.  Secret Service Agent Clint Hill was part of Mrs. Kennedy's protection and was on the back up vehicle.  He was the agent that made it to the car.  12 years later and for the first time he shared what happened.  You will hear this! The show may run a little longer then usual but we still want to hear your comments at the end of the show.  The bible tells us that life is just a vapor.  It is clear that on this beautiful day that nobody tought this could happen.  There is another event coming soon that will catch many people unaware if they are not careful!

We have a real treat for you tonight!  The author of the book the, "Wooly Worm" is going to be our guest speaker tonight.  Bobbie Lively has been involved in ministry for several years.  She claims to be older then dirt but I think this is an exageration!  She has ministered to children all the way to helping work with young ministers.  She works with several church groups but is a licensed minister through the United Pentecostal Church International.  She has hosted her own radio show, and has  worked as a missionary to the Artic.  On top of all of this she has been involved with starting new church works and when they did not have a music program became the music program!  She has recoreded a couple of music CD's.  When we askd her to speak we mentioned the topic of counting your blessings but have learned it is best to allow her to share what she is feeling.  But first from all of us here at Your-place we want to wish all of you a blessed Thanksgiving.  Like many we have lost loved ones that we remember during the holiday season.  Wild Bill suggest that you think of the years you had with those people, remember what made them special, and be thankful you had those things, and time with them.  We also want to say thankyou again for our military who are seperated from their family during the holidays.  Now, I hope you are all ready to be blessed as we turn the show over to our own Blog Talk mom!   At the end of the show you will be able to ask questions or make comments.  Push 1 on yhour phone and this will show us on our board that you want to be part of the show.  You will be identified by the last four numbers of your phone number when we activate your mic.

Yesterday was Veterans Day.  This show tonight is our  tribute to those brave men and women who serve.  Wild Bill's dad served in Korea, and my dad served in Vietnam.  I have a sister, brothers, and a brother in law that served.  Wild Bill served and his son served an extended tour in Iraq at the beginning of the conflict after 911.  He then volunteered for a second tour.  He suffers from PTSD and brain trauma from a mortar attack.  We did a two part show where we had the family share the issues of a returning solder and the effect it has on family when they are damaged.  Many come home changed.  Other give the ultimate sacrifice and come home in a flag covered box.  Tonight this tribute is also for law enforcement officers, fire fighters, EMTs, secret service and anyone who has dedicated their life to public service.  For those in the life you know the pressures these jobs bring to the family.  The comradeship between all of these people who stand in the gap for others is the same when you are up against the wall!  The job has a task but to the men and women it is all about each other!  We should all count our blessings that we still have men and women who are willing to stand in the gap for others!  One last thought.  We used to sing a song in church, "God's got an army!"  In listening to this show tonight ask yourself this one question.  How does your commitment to God compare to what you are hearing tonight?  Are you really a committed solder for God?  As we play our tribute song we ask that you take this time to pray a sincere prayer for those that serve.

A couple of weeks ago we tried to bring you a message from Carman.  We had technical difficulties so that we could not bring you all of that show.  But we believe that the show worked out exactly as God wanted it for that show and audiance.  The callers that shared remarks after the first segment of the show took things in a little bit of a different direction then Carman.  That is one of the great things about faith.  When you do something for God and allow him to be in control we do not have to stress when things do not go exactly as we had planned.  That is the difference in religion and serving a living God! .  We hope that you enjoy the show and remember that we are opening up our schedule for guest speakers, and topic suggestions!

What is it that has us drawn to things that scare us? Is it a natural attraction or spritual one?  I do not know the answer but I wonder if that is part of why Halloween is so celebrated in this country.  For our listeners tonight we have put together 4 segments to the topic.  To start off the show Wild Bill has put together a song from scary clips you may recognize.  You might want to turn on your lights before it starts!  Part of it will make you want to move your feet and other parts may put some goose bumps on your arms! But at the ending is a surprise!  The second segment is a short history of Halloween.  The thirds from a young man who was raised in a family that was involved in worship of Satan and his memory of Halloween.  The last segment is from a young person who takes a look at should Christians take part in the celebration of Halloween.  For most of us in this country it is just a way to do something with our  children.  But the question for all of is it that innocent or are we just wanting it to be?  I cannot wait to hear your thoughts on this topic at the end.  From Wild Bills day in law enforcement I have heard him say that ignorance of the law is no excuse.  So, do we think we can stand before God and say that I did not know if it is wrong?  Hope you turned your lights on because here comes the song Wild Bill put together for you tonight!

We have spent most of this year in an effort to get people to thinking on the things of God.  Our efforts have been to encourage people to realize that there is a personal God wanting a personal relationship with all of us.  We have pushed the limits with some of our topics in an effort to get you to think outside of the box.  Wild Bill was reminded by the death of a dear friend who was known to everybody as a generouse,and honest man.  He loved his family and it showed by the way he lived his life,  We pray and grieve with this family in their time of loss.  Randy McCoy was a good man!  Tonight we thought you could use a break and invited a guest speaker from Mississippi to bring us a message that he felt for our show.  He was not sure that he was going to be able to join us so we lined up another guest speaker that has been on this show before.  The response to that show was very positive.  So I can promise you that it does not matter which guest speaker you get it is going to be good tonight!