Faith vs. “Make Believe” - Comments (3)

Category: Articles,Doctrine
Author: John Malone
Date: 20th September, 2005 @ 05:20:37 AM

I think we are all guilty, at one time or another, of “make believe.” Another term for “make believe” is willing self-deception. I will admit to my own share, and perhaps then-some.

We are perverse creatures indeed! I don’t REALLY know why we elect to deceive ourselves into thinking things are such-and-such a way when clear evidence leads to a contrary conclusion, but THAT WE DO is something we simply need to discern, and deal with.
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Where’s The Radio Broadcast? - Comments (3)

Category: Behind the Lines
Author: John Malone
Date: 12th September, 2005 @ 12:21:26 PM

It would be pretty wearying to write the whole story of what happened to our radio broadcast.

In short, it got replaced with something more attractive to Wilkins Communications, despite our contractual provisions.

We were on 3 stations: Indianapolis (WBRI), Kansas City (KCNW), and Omaha (KLNG). We paid, through our local church, $7,000 per month for the first year, and then $5,500 per month according to a contract signed this May. Our contract was a revolving one, this time for six months until the end of October, with a provisional 30-day notice to terminate.

On August 24th, we received a fax communication that threatened to take us off the air August 31st unless certain payments – which were not all due, by the way – were made. The brother in our church responsible for payments offered to wire transfer funds, despite the wrongness of the charges. He was told by Mitchell Mathis, VP of Wilkins Communications that it did not matter: we were off the air.
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