somebody go in and shoot up a school, how can somebody go in and shoot up a shopping center, how can somebody go in and shoot people in a synagogue, how can russia invade an innocent country. i know why. because we don t value human life. i look at the stats. in 1998 they said 63% of the people would say religion is important in my life. i have to take that seriously. that is sobering. i m in the enterprise of faith and religion. we learned from the bible that the best thing to revive a sense of faith and religion is a clam calamity. when there is prosperity and peace we tend to forget god. when there s calamity, we return to him. i m thinking why aren t we? we ve got enough of them. there you go. that was the easter message there, great piece by brian kilmeade.
i thought he was right on argument. he wasn t saying the church has to have prestige or clout in society, he s just saying our people immediate to be guided by faith. we need to build children that s better for our world. [applause] and the means instill thed in them instilled in them some level of faith and belief. pleasure. brian: do you worry about what we re teaching in schools, whether they re catholic schools or not? do i have? brian: what do you think about it? that s another reason why people are coming to the catholic schools. brian: it seems like you re having a hard time keeping hem doing. it s nigh to impossible if you ve got less than 200 kids, you just can t do it. bad news is we re as afflicted as anybody else with the shifts. so in this city as you would know, we ve got a huge demographic shift. the neighborhoods where we had families and kids aren t there anymore because they re moving. they re leaving the state or
about playing country music, you don t realize that after a while if you re not successful you re really just playing in bars a lot. [laughter] and it s something that it took us going back to church, we were raised in church, our dad s a pastor a and us finding church as an adult and finding faith for ourselves for us to realize we re so much happier doing it for the lord than trying to just do it to make money. i love what you had to say, in the beginning you thought it would be limiting to do gospel or christian music and it s been completely liberating for you. it s been the opposite. i mean, just writing songs when you re not really out there partying and doing a lot of the stuff, getting to write about jesus and just take scripture and almost p plagerize it in a way. the birth place of country music is a church, right. i love what you say, sometimes it s country songs about jesus so it s not that s right. you re expanding the genre,
had to be miraculous. his body wasn t stolen. he was resurrected. we learn the lessons from god about having faith and knowing that you just because it s not something think you can could do, had that there isn t mercy and strength through god there with you so i love this, as just the next opportunity in my life to point that out to myself and my family and people watching that we re going through things that most of us probably couldn t imagine. people say joey, you lost your legs, don t know how you got through that. i don t know what it s like to survive cancer or go through things that afflict people in the country. tomorrow might be your resurrection if you have a little faith. i feel the same way. life has a way of teaching you humility and along the way none of us can escape the process of suffering but what i feel like i ve learned with i m trying to learn through you life is the suffering has a purpose. and this day is a reminder that on the other side of suffering there
not wanting. that s right. my wife, she found faith as an adult. she said something that stuck with me. which is that maybe your music would lead somebody to read the lyrics and the lyrics would lead somebody to know who jesus is. i think that s partially our hope, jesus said i came for the sick, not the west i think if we find not the well. if we find the space that country music fans like, that s fine. we re thankful to be out loud about our faith. we know you talked about this, your performance is innovative, it s different. you bring in humor. you re part of the show beyond the music. this morning you re going to share with us some of what we can see when anybody goes to see cain. today, you re going to be playing for us, i believe, honest offering. . we re playing a song cad i m so blessed. here we go. i m so blessed. is anybody left this