America's Leading Online Country Gospel Music News Magazine This issue featuring… Sheree’ Gailey Robert Stowell January 2016 Christian Servant Outreach Ministry, Inc. Christian Servant www.christianservantmagazine.comMagazine - January, 2016 - Page 1 Congratulations Number One Charting Song Christian Servant Magazine Country For The Good Life Top 100 January 2016 Learn more about Kelton on the web at: You can purchase Kelton’s music at: Christian Servant Magazine - January, 2016 - Page 2 January, 2016 Table of Contents Page 1 Cover Page 2 January #1 Song Country For The Good Life Top 100 Chart Page 3 Table of Contents Page 4 GunnPoint - Roll The Dice by Randy Gunn Page 5 2016 - A New Year by Marty Smith Page 6 What Now? by Jimmy R. Price Page 7 Christian Servant Magazine County For The Good Life Top 100 Chart January 2016 Page 10 Robert Stowell - A Saul Who Became A Paul by Tommy Smith Page 12 Sheree’ Gailey - No Little Church Girl by Tommy Smith Page 13 Country Gospel Christian Country Radio Guide Page 14 Movers and Shakers of the Country Gospel Industry by Tommy Smith Page 16 Country Gospel Events and News Page 17 From The Desk of Terry D. Davis by Terry D. Davis Page 19 Just A Thought by Gayla Earlene Page 20 The Way I See It by John Penney Page 21 The Meanest Man In Texas by Brad Wilson Page 22 Decrease In Streaming Music Rates by Joe Kelly Please Take Notice! To our readers, authors, and sponsors: We want to let everyone know that we will be going to a quarterly magazine this year. We would like more time to do research for the articles we’ll be doing on the artists in this industry. We would also like to keep the magazine more Christ centered this coming year. We’d like to do more stories about miracles that have taken place in your lives and the lives of people you may know. If you have a story about a Christ centered miracle in your life we’d love to hear it. If you are interested in the Christian Servant Top 100 Chart each month you may go to www.christianservantoutreachministry.com. It will be readily available to you there. Until next time, God be with you and bless you and yours. Christian Servant Magazine Christian Servant Magazine - January, 2016 - Page 3 GunnPoint Roll The Dice Written by Randy Gunn Prov 16:33 - We may throw the dice, but the LORD determines how they fall. (NLT) If it is God who determines how dice falls, then who determines our whole life? If the simple rolling of dice is guided by Him, how much more the events of our entire life, especially when Christ tells us in Mt.10:29,30; Lu.12:6,7; "The very hairs of your head are all numbered," "Not a sparrow falls to the ground without the Father knowing." If we would always remember this it would bring such a unique calm over our minds. To really believe these verses would so relieve our mind from anxiety that we would be better able to walk in quiet patience and cheerfulness as a Christian should. When we are anxious it becomes very difficult to pray with faith. When we are troubled about our world we do not serve our Master because our thoughts are on serving ourselves. In Mt.6:33 it reads; (If we would) "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousnes" then all things would be added unto you" (us). We are meddling with Christ's business, and neglecting our own when we fret about our situation in life and the circumstances we find ourselves in. The reason our life continues to remain difficult is because we keep trying to do our own "providing" work and forget that our first duty is to trust and obey. When we truly become wise we will attend to the obeying and let Christ manage the providing. Study the abundance of wealth our Heavenly Father has and ask whether He will let you starve while He has so much in His warehouse. Look at His mercy; see if that can ever prove unkind! Look at His undeniable and awesome wisdom; see if that will ever lead you wrongly. Above all, look up to Jesus Christ your personal representative to The Father, and ask yourself, while He pleads your case, can your Father deal ungraciously with you? If He remembers even sparrows, will He forget one of the least of His poor children? As we enter into the New Year let’s resolve to trust our God with all our hearts! "Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you. He will never permit the righteous to be moved." Ps 55:22. "Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7 You can contact Randy Gunn at: [email protected] Christian Servant Magazine - January, 2016 - Page 4 2016 - A New Year by Marty Smith The holidays are over and we’re jumping in with both feet into 2016. A lot of us have made resolutions for the new year, hoping to make our lives better either spiritually or physically. This is the time of year when we decide we’re going to better ourselves. So as we begin this new year, let us take this opportunity to commit to spread God’s Word faster and farther than ever. In this digital age, we see God’s Word being spread all over the world in seconds! My internet radio station, Heaven’s Country, has the privilege of sharing the Gospel through Christian Country music over the airwaves. I get letters from people all over the world thanking me for playing this wonderful music. My favorite letter is from a seventeen-year-old boy from Switzerland. He writes, “As I write this letter, I am filled with tears of joy knowing that there is country music with a Christian message. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to know I can listen to Heaven’s Country everyday”! As we face this year, let us use our resources to spread the Word of God. Whether it be through Facebook, email or some other digital source, use it for God’s Glory. Spread the Word! Share Jesus! Happy New Year! Marty Smith is the morning host of Heaven’s Country (www.heavenscountry.com) and host of the internationally syndicated radio show, “Todays’ Cross Country (www.todayscrosscountry.com). You can email him at: [email protected] Production, Recording, Distribution, Compilations, Radio Promotion We are accepting tracks for our next compilation NOW! CALL US TODAY! (903) 566-3347 www.canyoncreekrecords.com We at Canyon Creek Records, Inc. and The Christian Servant Publishing Company, BMI, strive to help artists that believe with all their hearts that GOD has called them to use their talents for HIS glory. If being a Christian artist is your heart’s desire, then contact us at (903) 566-3347, or e-mail us at [email protected]. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 Christian Servant Magazine - January, 2016 - Page 5 What Now? by Jimmy R. Price www.jimmyrprice.com Another Christmas has come and gone, and 2015 in now history. With each new year, we are faced with the same dilemma…what now? Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet, so all we have is today. New Year’s resolutions are made and broken, usually soon after they are made. The apostle Paul gives us some great words of wisdom that we can apply to the New Year. Philippians 3:13-14 says, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” There are 3 steps to this process. Step 1: Let the Past Go. “Forgetting those things which are behind.” Even though it may be impossible for us to actually “forget” those things that have happened, it is possible and even necessary for us to choose to not get bogged down in the past. While it’s true that we can learn from the past, we can’t change what has already happened. We need to “forget” about past failures and sins. The way to do that is confess our sins, repent of our sins, and let it go! God gave us 2 eyes, 2 ears, a nose and a mouth and none of them are on the back of our head. If we want to live TODAY in a way that pleases God, and benefits others, and ourselves, we must let the past go! Leave the past in the past! Step 2: Look Forward To the Future. “Reaching forth unto those things which are before.” Today is a brand new day! Today is a brand new adventure! Today is a brand new opportunity! 2 Cor. 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.” Praise God!!! We that believe in Jesus have the promise of a tremendous future! Of course Heaven is a part of our future, but also God wants to bless us while we are here on Earth as well.