For today’s Positive Post Tuesday, I want to tell you a little story about some good friends from Alberta, Canada and tell you about their festival.  For those of you that may read this and don’t know, I am an Engineer by day and have a radio show a podcast, and this blog called Cross Driven Radio.  I have a passion for anything music, specifically Christian music, and using that passion to serve God.  I started promoting concerts a couple of years back, and at the urging of Nancy Tyler, I started going to GMA 3 years ago.  

GMA is the annual convention so to speak of the Christian Music Industry, basically everyone that is anyone in the “CCM” industry converges upon Nashville in April.  Its inevitable that in  April you see alot of blog posts like this.  2 years ago I met some of the most wonderful people and we became instant friends.  They were telling me there vision for a festival that was 2 years in planning and last weekend was the first Believe Festival.  I was so bummed that I couldn’t be there, but yet I knew that God had something great in mind for these great people.

 So on this Positive Post Tuesday, I take off my Stetson to Gerald, Sandra, Kelly, Steven and all of the people who dedicated over 2 years to bring a one of a kind festival to a one of a kind venue.  I am already waiting for Believe Festival 2009.  I’m going to apply for my passport this week!  (Pictured Left to Right: Steven, Me, Gerald, Sandra)

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 It kind of makes sense to me that they are on T&N, because they are known for signing artists that in my opinion are not “CCM Bands” but rather, they are christians and are solely marketed to the mainstream market.  I struggle with that as I have tried to request interviews with this artist and this artist, and I was politely told that they don’t do interviews with christian media.  Hmm…  

 But I digress.  Children 18:3, also known as David, Seth, and Lee Marie Hostetter put on an impressive high energy rock stage show and are very entertaining with lots of stage movement and a fantastic aerial assault on the drums that makes the 80′s hair metal drummers look like beginners, except maybe Robert Sweet from Stryper.

Their music is straight punk music with driving guitars, booming bass, and very solid drumming.  It is the ultimate in driving, cranked to 11 music.  Lyrically, it is not a spritually deep cd, but I wouldn’t expect it to be.  This is a band that rocks and is something I haven’t seen since poison, a good, visually appealling, high energy party band.  Here’s the video for their new single, All My Balloons.

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and also an awesome drum solo!

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if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

2 Chronicles 7:14-16

Those are the words that God spoke to Solomon at the dedication of the temple. Those words speak to us as much today as much as they did to Solomon. There is so much in this world today, jobs, school, family, friends, tv, the internet to name a few that distract us from humbling ourselves before God. I admit that there are quite a few days that I am not reading the bible, praying or even being quiet to hear God speaking to me. You can’t listen when you are distracted by the things of the world.

Today is Independence Day in the U.S. It is a celebration of the day that the settlers of this country declared Independence from England. Today the U.S. is 232 years old. Much has changed in those 232 years. This country was founded on Christian principles and today we have to fight to maintain the few rights we have as Christians to maintain our belief and share it in public. It was not so long ago that it was against the law for a store to be open on Sunday. Now, we have the 24 hour grocery stores, walmarts, gas stations among other businesses.

I want to mention that I am thankful for all of the many blessings that have been given to the US, and I am thankful for all of those warriors, Men and Women that serve our country today and in years past. If you are an active or former service man or woman Thanks for YOUR SERVICE!

The point I am really wanting to make is that as a follower of Christ in 2008, I know that I am not now, nor will I be in this life, free from sin and the distractions that try to keep me away from God.

This Independence Day I am going to commit to make more of an effort to turn away from the distractions of this world and try to be a 2 Chronicles 7 Christian. A Christian that is humble, prays, and always seeks the face of God with passion.

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