Teaching Programs

[anotherguy]

To me any Christian station that wants to keep a quality lineup needs to have some sort of standard of what they will or won't allow. The Bott stations seem to do a good job of that. I may not agree with everyone they have on there, but you won't have nuts like RG Stair on there either.

I really don't expect stations like WLAC and others that Borderblaster mentioned to have the same standard as a Christian station since they had secular owners who didn't know or didn't care if someone's program was offbase theologically as long as they paid for their time.

Unfortunately some Christian stations are no better, sometimes because they buy into the same theology as the preachers they carry. THere is a station in West TN that is loaded with KJV Only anti-CCM independent Baptist preachers because that's what the owners are and they won't allow anyone else on.

Then there are the "Christian" stations that are just as bad as secular owned stations in allowing anything on for a buck. WMQM in Memphis and WNQM and WWCR Shortwave are examples of this.  I've wondered if a Muslim or even a Satanist were to want to buy airtime if they would sell it to them. They need to quit the sham of claiming to be a Christian station.

[borderblaster]

There is a WKJV somewhere, and yes, it's all about KJV only dogma.
To clarify, WLAC is not and never was a fulltime Christian station, there was a time it carried brokered religion all evening and night. The second afternoon drive was over, it was the Fire and Brimstone Hour until 5am

[anotherguy]

I remember when WLAC was like this in the 80's and I knew all along they weren't a Christian station. but like I said earlier I didn't expect them to have any standard of what they allowed on. But some "Christian" stations are no better. I hate to say it but that's how I discovered who Stair was when when I was flipping through the dial and landed on him.

To me any station that allows Stair and other similar crackpots on is in it for the money, not to be a ministry of any sort. Either that or they actually agree with him, which is scary to think about. 

[ChiefEngineer]

Ambassador Advertising has multiple programs, as does Focus on the Family.  Ambassador has the new Focus with James Dobson. Ambassador's downloads are SLOW but the Focus downloads are quicker. Not sure the reason.  Simple downloads and no sat receiver needed.

Many new churches are focusing on the radical (to the root) teachings and example of the New Testament Church. Cultish things like KJ only, reinterpretation of scripture to claim a special place and others are still embraced unfortunately.  In studies I compare KJ NKJ Amplified NIV and even the St Joseph (Catholic Translation) in looking for differing explanations of the original text.  All of these are only translations.  I am somewhat shocked by the new NIV genderless translation as it makes a modification to the original text in places that change the meaning.

Good luck

[helloagain]

I think it is interesting the cross section of opinions this thread has been able to produce.

I guess in a way I am looking to "reinvent the wheel" in that I'm not really looking to promote those that are already promoted.  The purpose of the station is to call people back to the bible...yes I know there is a program by that name...as the authority for all points and places in their life.  I am not worried about someone using the KJV or the NASB, ESV or other translations though I do find the rewritten NIV to be pretty discouraging as it takes great efforts to go further off track from what the Bible says.

All that said, the kind of teachers I am looking for are bible teachers. While I am more concerned with the gospel being advanced I do not want someone who is always attacking because that wasn't what Jesus did at all.

In total confession I feel like this is a John The Baptist type call on my life.  I am firmly convinced that 99% of all the stuff on the radio, tv and even from the pulpit of the churches in America is worth little if any in changing the life of someone from sinner to dedicated follower of Christ.

With that said, I do not expect a huge cheering section when I dismiss people like Joel Osteen, James Dobson or other religious personalities.  I am looking for known and unknown teachers.  Men and women who may teach to large crowds or a handful of people here and there.  People who are bi-vocational or people who are entirely missional in what they do with teaching the word of God.

I am not looking to strain gnats here, but I am not wanting to build a religious station that is just a mouth piece for a political agenda. The most pressing issue in our nation is not who is in the white house but who is in our hearts. The white house situation will take care of itself and regardless,  of who that is, Christ is still coming back someday and even before that men and women will go face to face to be judged for eternity. It is entirely critical to share the Gospel of Christ and not cheapen it or dumb it down to a social or political opinion.

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

I guess in a way I am looking to "reinvent the wheel" in that I'm not really looking to promote those that are already promoted.  The purpose of the station is to call people back to the bible...

I understand what you want to do.  I share some of those "wants" that you express.  My comments here are to encourage you to take a good look at what you are trying to do,  and to maybe shed some excess baggage in your concepts.  If your main concept is to "call people BACK to the bible" then the existing, established broadcast that you are trying to avoid had developed that ability quite well.  Embrace them!  What I hear you describing is a desire to "call people to the Bible who have never been there so we can't say they ever left".  That will require a more creative mindset than you have expressed here.  (You MAY HAVE the very needed mindset but it is not what you are sharing with us.)

I also hear you saying you want to reach people who are wrapped up in older styles of expressing their attachment to the Bible and you want them to share your newer views of how it should affect them.  (That comes out when you say you are not interested in the programs that always attack.) 

though I do find the rewritten NIV to be pretty discouraging as it takes great efforts to go further off track from what the Bible says.

Here you are indicating that possibly you are not as removed from the old styles of Christian teaching programs as you have convinced yourself you are.  The NIV is only discouraging to those who are attached to the older forms of translation.  If you truly want to carry broadcasts that bring people into adherence to the Christianity of today, and for the people of today,  you will have to eventually get past your phobia for NIV.  A phobia against NIV may actually be a phobia against the ancient and true message.

I do not want someone who is always attacking because that wasn't what Jesus did at all.

Successful Christian Teaching programs of the past share with today's political talk programming a fact of life:  To have a financially successful broadcast,  attack, attack, attack.  It makes people emotional to the point they will pull out the check book or the credit card. It's a sad fact of life.  Both for religion and for politics.

I am not looking to strain gnats here, but I am not wanting to build a religious station that is just a mouth piece for a political agenda.

I wish you well on that endeavor.  Since the days of Ronald Reagan and Jerry Fallwell,  the church world and the politics world have chosen to embrace each other.  Going back to the very top of this message:  If you focus on "bringing people BACK to the Bible" they will bring their politics along with them.  If you (and the program producers you select) can instead bring "newbies" to the Bible,  or bring people to a new understanding of the Bible message,  they may arrive  AND STAY WITH YOU without the political baggage.

[MikefromDelaware]

I haven't been to the Religious part of RI for quite some time.  This particular thread has quite a lot of interesting discussion within it. 

For the person, forget now, who that was, who was looking for some good solid Christian teaching for his radio station, I'd suggest "The Lutheran Hour", a weekly 30 minute show that's produced by the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (one of the conservative Lutheran Church's in America, and has been on the air since 1930.  It's well done and even though I'm a United Methodist, I am blessed to listen to this program online as no station in my market airs it.

The web site, so you can hear their podcasts for your self are:

http://www.lutheranhour.org/

[R.D.P.]

If you're looking for some sound Preaching, check out Redeemer Radio. 

Their address is www.redeemerbroadcasting.org

Still trying to get a presentation of their station going here in my hometown.

Now here's the link for WKJV radio station. 

Yes it does exist and it's located in Ashville North Carolina.

http://www.wkjv.com/

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P.S. I remember a time when WDJC FM in Birmingham was broadcasting the TBN type Preachers and Teachers, with little music.  (Back in the 1980s and 1990s) Glad they no longer broadcast those people.  Wish their sister station(s) WXJC AM/FM would drop those people and not carry them period.

[anotherguy]

I hate to say it, but from what I've seen Crawford, the owners of WDJC, do a great job at least on WDJC with music, but a terrible job with programs. They're in the "anything for a buck as long as they claim to be Christian" category. 

[R.D.P.]

The teaching blocks they had, are now being heard on WXJC AM/FM. 

WDJC was doing blocks of TBN type of Teachers for a long time, with a nighttime block of Southern Gospel.

Back in the late 90s Reality Radio came along and took the wind out of their sails.

in 2000 WDJC ditched the Southern Gospel and Paid Preaching blocks and moved it to a sister station.

Reality Radio went down, once that happened and was eventually sold to Crawford who now runs it as a talk station.

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