This week is special on The Morning Thing. We are honoring the Knox County Fair by featuring YOU and your fair favorites in our Fair Fave 5 week. On Tuesday, we talked about your favorite events and shows!
Click HERE to hear theĀ 2018 Morning Thing Knox County Fair Favorite Events/Shows Montage. You’ll love hearing stories from our amazing 4H Kids!
For the Knox County Fair we are featuring YOU and your fair favorites in our Fair Fave 5 week. Stop by Big Blue at any time during the fair to tell us your fair favorites! Today, we talked about rides! Click HERE to listen in! Today was also Meet the Team Monday, we talked with two members of the Knox County Junior Fair Board. Click HERE to hear from Curtis Erlandson and HERE to hear from president Madeline Elfrink!
Today for the Morning Thing Fave 5, we shared our favorite new songs from the summer of 2018. Click below to listen in! As always, thanks for listening!
Today on the Morning Thing, we shared stories of Tragedy turned to Triumph from some of your favorite artists and the songs that they inspired.
Although it was written a few years prior, Natalie Grant’s More Than Anything became her “anthem” during her cancer scare. Click HERE to hear Natalie talk about the story behind the song. Click HERE and HERE to read about Natalie’s cancer scare and how God lead her through.
Citizen Way’s Ben Calhoun wrote their song When I’m With You about the miscarriage of their son, Jeremiah. Click HERE to hear Ben talk about how God brought the Calhoun family through one of their darkest times.
Jeremy Camp wrote the song I Still Believe about the tragic loss of his first wife, Melissa, to cancer. Although his faith was tested, God helped him rise above it. Click HERE and HERE to read more.
Danny Gokey also lost his wife during a routine heart surgery right before he began as a contestant on American Idol, which inspired the song Hope in Front of Me. Read about how God used the death of Danny’s wife Sophia HERE and HERE.
Steven Curtis Chapman tragically lost his five-year-old adopted daughter Maria when she was accidentally struck by her brother’s car in the family’s driveway. And yet he managed to rise above it and wrote the song Heaven is the Face. Click HERE to read more.
Mandisa wrote her album Out of the Dark about the aftermath of the death of her friend Kisha. Kisha’s loss to breast cancer nearly lead Mandisa to end her own life, but you can read about how God used those around her to lead her out of the dark HERE. Mandisa had also been praying for her brother’s salvation for decades. When he finally accepted Christ, she wrote the song Good News. Listen to her talk about the song HERE.
for King & Country’s Joel Smallbone dealt with an illness that put him out of commission for months and could have taken his life. As a result, the brothers wrote the song Shoulders. Click HERE to hear them talk about the song and HERE to read more.
Ryan Stevenson, a former EMT, definitely knows what it’s like to be in the Eye of the Storm. Click HERE to hear him talk about the story behind that song.
Plumb dealt with debilitating anxiety while growing up and still struggles with it today. She also saw her marriage come back from the brink of destruction through the grace of God. All this inspired her to write her song Need You Now. Click HERE to hear her talk about the song and HERE to read more about how God brought her through heartache.
Take heart and be encouraged, for God is with you!
“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”
-Deuteronomy 31:6
As always, thanks for listening!
Good Morning!
On today’s show, we focused on the morning routine. We found some ways (34 to be exact) to improve your routine, so that your day gets even better.
Some highlights?
– Complete a 7 minute workout.
– Make yourself an antioxidant smoothie.
– Review your goals.
– Schedule your day.
Read the entire article from DevelopGoodHabits.com here!
Thanks for listening!
– Marcy and Todd
National Get Out of the Doghouse Day is celebrated on the third Monday in July. On the Morning Thing, we shared some tips for how to get out of the doghouse. Click HERE and HERE. And because of God’s grace, with Christ, we are never really in the doghouse. Click HERE for some Bible verses about Grace. As always, thanks for listening!
It’s Friday! And that means on the Morning Thing we shared our Fave 5. This week we shared our favorite things that happened this week. Click the links below to hear the staff share their faves from a baseball player’s sermon to a family adventure! As always, thanks for listening!
Today on the Morning Thing we talked about everyone’s favorite potato treat, the French fry! Did you know that French fries are not actually French? Potatoes in general were actually resisted in France until the late 1700s. For more history of the French fry, click HERE! For some unique twists on the classic fried potato, click HERE! Click HERE to see places giving away FREE French fries today! As always, thanks for listening and have a delicious day!
Today on the Morning Thing, Susie Simpson, Knox County Mobility Manager, and Martin McAvory, transit program administrator, talked about the new transit program in Knox county and the services provided. To listen to the full conversation, click 
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