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This special Holy Week edition focuses on the week leading up to Easter Sunday. Rufus Smith, Senior Pastor of Hope Church in Memphis helps us to reflect on the events of Jesus Christ, final week in Jerusalem, culminating in his crucifixion and resurrection.

Bishop Sam Ram Paul of India tells how he forsook his family’s idol worship of Brahma to follow the living God, Who graciously sent Jesus Christ for the sins of the world.

Chris Turner, Director Of Communications at Tennessee Baptist Mission Board and Editor - Baptist and Reflector joins us to discuss steps being taken by Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief to respond to the recent flooding and tornado damage in West and Middle Tennessee. Learn how you can help meet the needs of our neighbors

Pastor Toby Stone of Rossville Baptist Church and Dr. Gregg Hauss, Director of Missions at Fayette County Baptist Association discuss relief efforts due to recent severe storms, flooding, and at least one confirmed tornado. The storms caused widespread damage and fatalities across West Tennessee leaving a path of major damage in Fayette, Hardeman and McNairy counties, and an EF-3 tornado struck th...

Pastor Derrick Anderson from Missionary Baptist Church is joined by Director of Marketing and Communications at Brown Church and host of The Early Morning Praise Party on 95.7 Hallelujah FM. They are excited to announce the opening of its new Whitehaven Campus with the inaugural worship service on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at 10:00 AM. Listen for details on this and many more ministry outreaches.

Pastor John Horne of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Arlington is joined by Joe Dallas to discuss their upcoming conference, “LGBTQ: Speaking the Truth; Loving the People”, April 4-6. Joe Dallas directs a Biblical counseling ministry for those dealing with sexual and relational problems, and with their families as well. Joe says, “Working with people who want their lives conformed to God’s will is...

We’re back at the 2025 NRB Convention in Dallas, Texas to meet up with Daniel Cohen, News Director for The Real-Life Network. Three-time Emmy winner Daniel Cohen delivers regular reports from Tel Aviv, Israel on major events in the Middle East. Daniel recalls moving from California, where he previously served as morning co-anchor on Los Angeles’ highly rated “Good Day LA”, for his children to meet...

Another exciting program from the 2025 NRB Convention in Dallas, Texas at the Gaylord Texan with Dr. Lisa Burkhardt Worley from Pearls of Promise Ministries, helping women overcome life’s trials. Lisa is joined by three of her outstanding team members Michelle Burden, Renee Rollins, and Lane Jordan Burday. We’ll discuss their award-winning documentary, "Their Blood Cries Out", that explores Holoca...

We’ll take you to the 2025 NRB Convention in Dallas, Texas at the Gaylord Texan to meet former pastor and film producer James Alford of Kingdom Authority Films. Renowned for his exceptional talent in producing thought-provoking and impactful documentaries with a deep-rooted commitment to his faith, James has dedicated his creative endeavors to shed light on often avoided spiritual topics through t...

Dr. Jim Whitmire, Minister of Music at Crossroads Baptist Church shares plans to take the Mid-America Passion Play on the road to Living Water Church in Poughkeepsie, New York. We’ll also talk about their newly released CD by the Crossroads Choir, “Let Jesus Christ Be Praised”. These ten hymns have meant the most to Jim throughout his years in music ministry and was arranged by GRAMMY and Dove Awa...

From the Exhibition Hall at the 2025 NRB Convention in Dallas, Texas at the Gaylord Texan we’ll meet Michal Yabo and Orel Galula Lapid from Chimes Israel, improving the lives of people with disabilities. We’ll also meet up with Tap and Katie Horner, missionaries in Mexico, who have discovered how to fund their ministry through the Flamingo Advantage, teaching entrepreneurs learn to maximize the im...

Guest host Rachel Davis fills in for Byron Tyler with her guest, Greg Sukert, Pastor of Evangelism and Equipping at Central Church in Collierville. Pastor Greg shares how he came to know Jesus Christ and the multi-opportunities that he engages to reach people from all walks of life and from all nations of the world with the same life changing message that God offers the entire human race. Greg is...

We pulled from our audio archives and go back to 2008 with an interview with Dr. Kenneth Whalum, Pastor of the New Olivet Baptist Church. Although, some of the conversation is dated, such as Kenneth’s service on the Memphis City School board. We hope you’ll draw from the heart of our conversation, as Christians, we’re called to be salt and light. The conversation was recorded around the time of Dr...

Have you noticed that It’s becoming harder to hear God’s voice in modern life and culture with ceaseless distractions? Joy Steorts shares her heart behind City Retreat Memphis. Joy, along with her husband Ken Steorts, Founder/President of Visible Music College, have purchased three acres in the middle of the city to create a retreat to focus on activating Christians towards spiritual formation and...

PJ Moore, Executive Director and Wayne Denny, Director of Church & Community Engagement from World Relief Memphis discuss how recent immigration changes are affecting their work here in our city and how local churches can become a valued resource among their efforts. Persecuted Christians population are another concern and it’s increasing numbers compared to just a few years ago. The criteria refu...

Carol Jackson and Mike Arnold share about the 20-year work in Memphis to build stronger inter-city families through Families Matter Memphis. We’ll discuss their program “AFIRM” (A Father’s Involvement Really Matters) designed to empower, enhance, encourage, and support men through fatherhood coaching and parenting support as well career building and job placement. Dr. Samuel Williams, a client of...

Pastor Derrick Anderson and Helen Walls from Brown Baptist Church provides information about the Free Tax Preparation Services being offered in collaboration with the Internal Revenue Service for the entire community. Each volunteer tax-preparer is trained by the IRS to accurately prepare your taxes for free. Before the show ends, we’ll welcome Sherry MacKey, Morning Show Producer and Radio Person...

Mike Forbis of F & F Construction, Sam Mullins of Automatic Air Conditioning, Heating, Plumbing & Electric, and Andy Price, Headmaster at Desoto Christian Academy share how they gather to study God’s Word each week. Hear how listening to Bott Radio Network Pastor Colin Smith of Open the Bible, weekday’s at 6:00 am helped to initiate what’s becoming a movement of God in the Mid-South and beyond!

On this edition of Sponsor Spotlight our guests include Rob Mynatt of Scout Land Company, Brent Nowlin of Bluff City Gutters, and Randall Linn of Choate's Air Conditioning, Heating, Plumbing And Generators. We feature Sponsor Spotlight the 5th Friday of every month to help you learn in depth about the advertisers you here on Bott Radio Network Memphis

Legendary entertainer, Pat Boone continues sharing his 70-year journey in music, television, and movies on this second half of our interview. Pat Boone was ninety years old when the interview was conducted over a Zoom call. Host, Byron Tyler normally records up to thirty minutes in order to produce the Mid-South View Point show. However, on the afternoon that Byron and Pat did the interview, Pat f...

Legendary entertainer, Pat Boone shares his 70-year journey in music, television, and movies. He has sold nearly 50 million records and had 38 Top 40 hits. Pat was Elvis Presley’s main competition back in the 1950’s too. Today at ninety, Pat Boone is the #10 all-time top recording artist. He is host of two nationally syndicated radio shows, “The Pat Boone Hour” on SiriusXM’s ‘50s Gold channel 72,...

David Neff, retired pastor and Church Partnerships Representative with TWR is our guest. Since 1954, radio and other forms of media have given us unique opportunities to share the good news of Jesus in places like China, the Middle East and other nations. David shares how churches can partner with TWR through these unique opportunities sharing the good news of Jesus across the world.

Sean and Heather Ellis, founders of Promise4Hope Ministries, share the tragic story of their fourteen-year-old son, Michael, who died as a result of an ATV accident. In July of 2016, Michael and his friends were enjoying the thrill of off roading when a sharp turn flipped the ATV throwing his friends but pinning Michael underneath the vehicle. Not only were Sean and Heather dealing with their own...

Dr. Mitchel Godat with Mid-South Mission of Mercy, a free two-day dental clinic for under-served and under-insured people living in Memphis and the surrounding Mid-South area. We’ll provide all of the details on the upcoming free clinic Friday, January 24 and Saturday, January 25, at Bellevue Baptist Church.

In 2021, Memphis's poverty rate was 22.6%, nearly double the national rate of 12.8%. Structural disparities based on race are persistent and seem to have accelerated in 2023. Carey Madison Moore and Cheryl Henderson discuss how My Cup of Tea provides fair-wage jobs to help women overcome poverty living in the Orange Mound community. Orange Mound is the oldest African American Community in America....