If you missed the MLK speech at noon today, here it is!

97.9 Jamz has teamed with Domino’s Pizza and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Montgomery to make a difference with the A-B honor roll pizza party!

As an incentive to do well in school, all Boys and Girls Club members who earn a’s or b’s on their report card each semester will be invited to an exclusive Domino’s pizza party hosted by Frank White and doughboy from 97.9 Jamz!

Students must be a member of boys & girls club of montgomery. memberships are $5 for the year. students must also furnish a valid copy of their report card for entry to the party. for more information about Boys & Girls Club of Montgomery memberships, click here.

Study hard and good luck this semester!

Monday, August 15, 2011

Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together . . . —Hebrews 10:24-25

We are all capable of being spiritually lazy saints. We want to stay off the rough roads of life, and our primary objective is to secure a peaceful retreat from the world. The ideas put forth in these verses from Hebrews 10 are those of stirring up one another and of keeping ourselves together. Both of these require initiative— our willingness to take the first step toward Christ-realization, not the initiative toward self-realization. To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it.

The true test of our spirituality occurs when we come up against injustice, degradation, ingratitude, and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritually lazy. While being tested, we want to use prayer and Bible reading for the purpose of finding a quiet retreat. We use God only for the sake of getting peace and joy. We seek only our enjoyment of Jesus Christ, not a true realization of Him. This is the first step in the wrong direction. All these things we are seeking are simply effects, and yet we try to make them causes.

“Yes, I think it is right,” Peter said, “. . . to stir you up by reminding you . . .” (2 Peter 1:13). It is a most disturbing thing to be hit squarely in the stomach by someone being used of God to stir us up— someone who is full of spiritual activity. Simple active work and spiritual activity are not the same thing. Active work can actually be the counterfeit of spiritual activity. The real danger in spiritual laziness is that we do not want to be stirred up— all we want to hear about is a spiritual retirement from the world. Yet Jesus Christ never encourages the idea of retirement— He says, “Go and tell My brethren . . .” (Matthew 28:10).

(reference, utmost.org)

The former skateboarder turned quick-spitter is impossible to ignore.

(Billboard.com) – “It’s one of those records we cut last minute,”says Yelawolf of “Hard White (Up In the Club).” “Hard White (Up In the Club),” released on iTunes Monday (Aug. 8), is Yelawolf’s first single off his Shady Records debut, “Radioactive” (Sept. 27).

The former skateboarder turned quick-spitter is impossible to ignore. Yelawolf’s 2010 was impressive, and notched his Shady Records deal thanks to the hype built on the release of his mixtape “Trunk Muzik,” which was re-released later that year with a few extra songs as “Trunk Muzik 0-60.”

As such, Yelawolf sees “Radioactive” as his official freshman release; and the hard banging “Hard White,” featuring Lil Jon, is an excellent way to herald the occasion. Yelawolf had recorded most of the album in Las Vegas when his team insisted on one more track.

“It just pissed me off, like, ‘what the fuck you mean we need one more record? Give me a fucking beat, I’m over this shit,’” Yelawolf tells The Juice. His manager KP, along with Pooh Bear and J Dot, spent all night digging through beats, and the next day after playing a few, turned on the one that would become “Hard White.” “That was it,” Yelawolf says. “It inspired me to write. I actually walked into the booth after writing it, and that’s a one take vocal cut. It’s just straight all the way through.”

Lil Jon’s guest spot, however, came as surprise to Yelawolf. “I was in Atlanta and KP was like ‘come check out this mix on this record.’ He took me to Patchwork Studios [and] hit play. I was like, ‘Oh shit.

Yelawolf recalls heading out to Mally Mall and Pooh Bear’s studio on the outskirts of Vegas and secluding himself there for two weeks to record “Radioactive,” often sleeping at the studio. “There were some days where [we'd] go in there and knock out two records, and it’s just like, ‘yeah that’s it, that’s it.’ We never really had any questions about what was good and what was not… It flowed really well.”

Yelawolf sees “Radioactive” as the logical next step in his career, expanding on the 808-heavy “Trunk Muzik” to include a wider array of influences, everything from country to classic rock. “I was sitting on concepts and inspirational records that I had written two, three years ago that I couldn’t put on a mixtape,” he says. “They were worth more than a mixtape, worth more to me than just putting [them] on a mixtape, too personal.”

“I was hungry for it, I was waiting for it,” Yelawolf says of “Radioactive.” “I’ve waited a long time for a real freshman release, an official freshman release from a major [label]. This is my opportunity.”

By simply tweeting a verse from The Weeknd's song, "Wicked Games," on March 6, Drake turned many heads in the singer-songwriter's direction.

By simply tweeting a verse from The Weeknd’s song, “Wicked Games,” on March 6, Drake turned many heads in the singer-songwriter’s direction.

Fast forward to five months later (July 31), the Toronto natives shared a hometown stage to perform Drake’s “Trust Issues” at the 2nd annual OVO festival. “Not only did he inspire me to get out there and sing better on stage, he inspired me writing wise, music wise, just to better my product,” Drake tells Billboard.com’s The Juice on The Weeknd.

Drake continued to tell us that we should expect to hear The Weeknd on his sophomore album, “Take Care.” “He’s on my album a lot,” Drake says of The Weeknd. “We really collaborated a lot on this album.”

“He’s one of the greatest artists I’ve ever heard,” Drake says. “To hear someone with an incredible body of work is very rare. It’s very inspiring. We formed OVOXO, which is taking over right now. I’m proud of him. He works real hard. He’s just an incredible person, [has] become a really close friend to me.”

Watch out Jay-Z and Kanye West, we have another bromance flourishing.

via www.billboard.com

Friday, August 12, 2011

Joshua said to the people, ’You cannot serve the Lord . . .’ —Joshua 24:19

Do you have even the slightest reliance on anything or anyone other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural quality within you, or on any particular set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any manner whatsoever regarding this new proposal or plan which God has placed before you? Will you examine yourself by asking these probing questions? It really is true to say, “I cannot live a holy life,” but you can decide to let Jesus Christ make you holy. “You cannot serve the Lord . . .”— but you can place yourself in the proper position where God’s almighty power will flow through you. Is your relationship with God sufficient for you to expect Him to exhibit His wonderful life in you?

“The people said to Joshua, ’No, but we will serve the Lord!” (Joshua 24:21). This is not an impulsive action, but a deliberate commitment. We tend to say, “But God could never have called me to this. I’m too unworthy. It can’t mean me.” It does mean you, and the more weak and feeble you are, the better. The person who is still relying and trusting in anything within himself is the last person to even come close to saying, “I will serve the Lord.”

We say, “Oh, if only I really could believe!” The question is, “Will I believe?” No wonder Jesus Christ placed such emphasis on the sin of unbelief. “He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief” (Matthew 13:58). If we really believed that God meant what He said, just imagine what we would be like! Do I really dare to let God be to me all that He says He will be?

(reference, utmost.org)