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by: Skip Heitzig
1 Leeland
Leeland just put out a brand
2 The Classic Crime 3 Dominic Balli
The Classic Crime just In April of 2008, Dominic Balli’s
new single called “New released their latest first full-length album “Public
Creation” from their album album, “Vagabonds”, this Announcement” was released
“Love Is On The Move”. The spring and the band has independently and has since
band has been playing it been very involved with sold over 15,000 physical
out on the “Night of Worship the Haiti crisis. The band copies, been featured on the
Tour” with Phil Wickham visited Haiti before the Reggae homepage of iTunes
and Matt Maher. According earthquake in November and has consistently been
to Leeland’s keyboardist and after the quake they among the world’s top 100
Jack Mooring “We’ve known played several benefit reggae albums. In December
Phil and Matt for quite shows to raise money for of 2009, Balli released his first
some time now, and we’ve relief efforts. The Classic single, “All We Need is Love”
dreamed of doing a tour Crime even went one step and this spring he entered a
with them for even longer!” further and donated all Gospel Music Competition
The tour wrapped up in the proceeds from the hoping to win studio time with
Belen, NM on May 10th. pre-sales of “Vagabonds” Grammy and Dove Award win-
to Haiti. ning producer, Paul Ebersold.
Balli also headlined Southern
California’s largest free festival
“The Avocado Festival.”
7 Article One
The Canadian band Article
8 Life In Rescue
Ever since M88 added their
One was one of the surprise single “Save the World” from the
hits of last year’s Freedom “Until Then” EP, Life in Rescue
has been one of M88’s most Please visit m88.org
Fest. Their solid sound and
the unique antics of violinist consistently requested band. for more details and
Matt Piche - he plays the Hailing from San Antonio, Texas, tune into 88.3 FM to
violin like he’s playing a the group tours extensively and hear these and more
rock guitar – help set the is still looking for their first big great artists.
band apart. This band takes break in order to do music full
their song writing seriously, time. What do they do when
sometimes doing between they aren’t touring? Well in a
10 to 20 drafts of a song recent interview with M88, Justin
before they’re satisfied with Morgan, Life In Rescue’s lead
it. Their new EP, “The One singer and guitar player, revealed
(I’m Fighting For)” is now he’s learning how to remodel a
available, and you can hear bathroom. How’s that going? The
the title track currently play- term “flood” immediately springs
ing on M88. to mind.
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4 The Letter Black 5 Hawk Nelson
You never know when op-
Hawk Nelson’s fourth album,
6 KJ52
Among some of KJ’s most
portunity will come calling. recent activities is a little
“Live Life Loud”, is described
When it did for The Letter Black, adventure where he and a
by the band as “about as
they made the most of it. They friend got pulled over. Let’s
Hawk Nelson as Hawk Nelson
were called upon to fill in for a just say they were traveling
can get.” The band has been
broken-up band on Tooth and a little bit faster than they
touring with Group 1 Crew
Nail’s “Five 4 Five Tour”. After were supposed to through
and A Road Less Traveled on
that, they had a chance to a school zone. Speedy
the “Live Life Loud Tour”.
tour on the hugely successful antics aside, KJ’s latest
“Awake and Alive Tour” with album “Five-Two Television”
Skillet. Now the band’s star is is available now, featuring
rising with the release of their the current M88 hit “Calling
first album “Hanging On by a You.” “Tweezy” is spending
Thread”, and with several ap- his summer at several con-
pearances at major festivals this ferences and festivals.
summer.
R ecently, the search engine Google
posted a facsimile of Pac Man as its
» MySpace has 113 million active users a month, 70
million of them in the US. Nearly half of them are under
age 24.
logo for the day. It was meant only as a » There are 200 million blogs.
commemoration of the 30th anniversary » Wikipedia has 15 million articles.
of the arcade game, but it was interactive,
so users could actually play the game. » Facebook reports that it has more than 540 million active
RescueTime.com calculated that on that day users, and that people spend over 500 billion minutes per
month on Facebook. That works out to an average of 40
people spent a total of 4.8 million MORE minutes a day.
hours than usual at the Google home page.
That worked out to costing employers $120 » YouTube says it has 2 billion views a day, nearly double
million in lost productivity. the primetime audience of all three major TV networks.
» Twitter has over 100 million users, and they produce 55
We don’t know how accurate those million “Tweets” a day. 300,000 new users sign up every day.
numbers are, but it’s just a small handle on
the amount of time spent each day with » It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users. TV did it
online activities. in 13 years. The internet took only 4, and the iPod only 3.
» Kindle eBooks outsold paper books at Christmas.
Here are some more interesting statistics The Washington Post called social media
on the phenomenon of our addiction to addiction “Worse than you think.” They
electronic relationships. reported on a University of Maryland
study where 200 students went 24 hours
» Three-quarters of teenagers have cell phones, and 88%
without using any form of social media.
of them send text messages.
The students described their reaction as
» Social media has taken over as the number one web “In withdrawal. Frantically craving. Very
activity. anxious. Extremely antsy. Miserable. Jittery.
» Social networking takes up 11% of all time spent online Crazy.” One said, “I clearly am addicted and
in the U.S. the dependency is sickening,” and another
said, “I noticed physically, that I began to
» 60 million status updates happen on Facebook daily. fidget, as if I was addicted to my iPod and
» Flickr now hosts about 4 billion images. other media devices, and maybe I am.”
» Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears have more
In their report, “A Day Without Media,”
Twitter followers than the populations of Sweden, Israel,
Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and Panama. the students made comments like “I have
more TV channels memorized than math
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formulas,” and “I only use newspapers to
clean my windows.”
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by: Nancy Reimann
EVANS
challenges every day. The church is
in desperate need of revival...
...and the drive to reach outside their Dr. Evans graduated from Carver Bible
walls to minister to the surrounding College and was the first African American
community. to graduate with a Doctoral degree from
Dallas Theological Seminary. He has
Dr. Tony Evans, founder and pastor served as chaplain for the NFL’s Dallas
of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Cowboys and is the current chaplain for
is known for his powerful preaching the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.
and is a strong advocate for rebuilding
communities and people from the He and his wife Lois founded Oak Cliff
inside out. The mission of his national Bible Fellowship in their home in 1976. In
ministry, The Urban Alternative, is “to the years since, the ministry has grown
equip, empower and unite Christians to from 10 people to a congregation of over
impact individuals, families, churches 8,000, plus millions more who are reached
and communities for the rebuilding of through his speaking engagements,
lives from the inside out.” The Urban radio program, “The Alternative,” and the
Alternative offers over 100 ministries that outreach of The Urban Alternative.
impact urban areas through student and
adult programs, and also connects social He is well known for his ability to
programs with faith-based initiatives. identify with his audience through
real-life illustrations, and to effectively
Dr. Evans grew up in Baltimore’s inner communicate the truth of God’s Word.
city, and has a first-hand understanding Tony is also a strong advocate for racial
of the difficulty families face to rise above reconciliation.
their circumstances. His father was a
wonderful example of faith in action, Dr. Evans and his wife are the proud
demonstrating an uncompromising parents of four children and grandparents
lifestyle of obedience to the Word, which of nine. His radio program, The
inspired Tony to share the Good News. Alternative, can be heard weekdays on
KNKT at 4:30 PM.
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by: Chip Lusko
Internet
Addictions: Caught in the Web
O
called “screen-agers” cannot imagine a time
when news was only on at 6 and 10 p.m.,
nly a few inventions have people waited for the mailman, and getting
revolutionized modern life as dramatically a long distance phone call was a big deal.
as the internet. After hydroelectric power, Unless we move to remote Bolivia or the
the internal combustion engine and nuclear like, the age of the web is with us to stay
fission, the internet stands alone as an and will only become more invasive.
innovation that has permeated every level
of society and left it changed—often for So we all must learn to deal with the
better, sometimes for worse. challenges, or risk the results from various
levels of internet damage. Simple time
Information transfer, commerce and addictions are obvious, when the balance
education are more accessible, efficient of healthy use tips over to the unhealthy
and powerful. Those are just a few of the column. But there are more serious, more
benefits of the advent of the internet. So devious internet addictions, and because
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they are private, invisible and free, they sexuality in the media were shown to
have become a huge problem. Forget the be significantly more likely to have had
image of lonely middle-aged men surfing intercourse at ages 14 to 16 (Report in
porn sites in the dark of night. Internet Pediatrics, April 2006).
pornography grabs women, children and
Christian leaders. No one is exempt from the “Never before in the his-
pull and the power of web.
tory of telecommunications
Immunity only comes with education media in the United States
and prevention. The statistics speak for has so much indecent (and
themselves, but behind each number obscene) material been so
is a person, someone struggling with
the personal implications of a powerful easily accessible by so many
technology that isn’t called the web without minors in so many Ameri-
reason. can homes with so few
Signs, Symptoms and Self-help restrictions.” - U.S. Department of Justice,
Post Hearing Memorandum of Points and Authorities.
Addiction to the internet can be tricky
to diagnose. Since so many spend so much Parents must take action to monitor,
time online for valid professional and filter and guide in-home use of the internet
communication reasons, web use subtly by their families. But how can they do this
blends into the fabric of our lives. But here when they have a problem themselves?
are some signs of trouble:
Steps to Modify Personal Internet
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online isolation
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internet use the problem.
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internet use Replace: Find a healthier avenue for
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at home maybe even reading a book.
Amputate: Drastic action may be called
Sex Addiction and the Internet for. Jesus said it is better to remove an
offending member than to suffer the
A darker side of the web is the huge consequences.
presence of available sexual material. In fact,
purveyors of porn have been responsible You may think you “could not live”
for some of the most aggressive advances without your computer at home. You would
on the internet. Porn sites are early adapters be wrong. Mankind lived for thousands of
for new technologies, and for good reason: years without computers in their caves.
Sexually explicit material is a massive
business. And the saddest victims are the
youngest. An estimated 20 percent of all
online porn is child-related. Consider this:
Further Steps:
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and 16 have viewed pornography on the See a pastor.
Internet, in most cases unintentionally
(London School of Economics, January Consult Christian resources, such as
2002). focusonthefamily.org and safefamiles.org.
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to pornography: 11 years old (Internet Filter XXXChurch.com is designed to bring
Review). awareness, openness and accountability
t"EVMUJOEVTUSZTBZTUSBóDJT to those affected by pornography.
children (NRC Report 2002, 3.3).
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