Matthew West Performs at Restoring Unity

Matthew West performed his hit song “Do Something” for the Restoring Unity rally — an event that attracted more than 20,000.

The song carries a strong message about the importance of making a positive personal impact on the world.

“People living in poverty, children sold into slavery — the thought disgusted me,” the song’s lyrics read, in part. “So, I shook my fist at heaven, said, ‘God, why don’t You do something?’ He said, ‘I did, I created you.’”

Watch West perform “Do Something” (and the crowd go wild) below:

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Matthew West's "Do Something" Is Theme Song for Glenn Beck Event

On Saturday, August 29, Matthew West will appear in Birmingham, Alabama in front of thousands during the Restoring Unity event to perform his hit single "Do Something." Restoring Unity is a two-day event helmed by Glenn Beck which supports his non-profit organization, Mercury One.

When West appeared on Beck's radio show earlier this summer to talk about his new album, Live Forever, the two made an instant connection. And during their visit, Beck soon realized that Matthew West was the artist and songwriter behind "Do Something," the very song that Beck wanted as the theme for his Mercury One event, Restoring Unity. Leading up to August 29, "Do Something" can be heard every day on Glenn Beck's TV show. (To find out more about this event, visit Now.MercuryOne.org.)

With his latest album, West continues his mission to tell a story of a different kind with his music-to transform listeners' stories into life-changing songs.

In between festival dates, last weekend West appeared at Chicago's famed Wrigley Field for the Cubs' home game to sing the National Anthem. He also performed "God Bless America" in front of the packed stadium and went on to watch his favorite team win against the San Francisco Giants.    

Matthew West Appears on Glenn Beck Radio show

Matthew West appeared on Glenn Beck's radio program this morning discussing the story behind his hit "Do Something" then performing it.

Matthew West Interviewed on Blaze TV

Award winning singer-songwriter Matthew West on Tuesday explained on the Glenn Beck Program on The Blaze how losing his voice put him on the path he is on today, and ultimately allowed him to tell the stories of countless others.

“About seven years ago, my career was about to take off to the next level, or so I thought. And my voice left me,” West explained on The Glenn Beck Program. “They told me I was going to need to have career-threatening vocal cord surgery and warned me that my voice may never sound the same again.”

West had the surgery, and said that for two months, he was unable to sing or speak.



“You do some pretty intense soul-searching during that time,” he remarked. “It was during that time that I began to think, ‘Well if my voice does come back, how could I use my voice differently? What if God is going to give me my voice back to give a voice to other people?’”

“Fast-forward, I feel like that’s become my mission in life, using my voice as a singer and songwriter to tell the stories of other people’s lives and in doing so, hopefully empower people to realize that their life is a one in a million, unique story that can go out and change the world,” West said.

“There are so many people that are so defeated, they don’t even believe they can change their own life,” he continued. “But I believe that every single one of our stories, as broken as they might be, was designed ultimately to become a redemption story.”

West said he has collected over 40,000 stories, and some of them are shared on his new album “Live Forever.”

“When we begin to live our redemption story not out of defeat but in hope, the world can’t help but change,” he concluded.

Glenn Beck Plans to Make Movies

Glenn Beck is going Hollywood.
Nearly three years after leaving Fox News, the controversial conservative radio host and media entrepreneur is ramping up a film division at Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his popular radio show and digital media operation TheBlaze.

Beck tells The Hollywood Reporter he has been refurbishing The Studios at Las Colinas, a 72,000-square-foot facility in Irving, Texas, where such films as JFK and RoboCop and TV shows including Prison Break and Walker, Texas Ranger have been shot. "We're getting it ready for some big plans," he says of the property, which he purchased in June.

Beck says he is developing three original stories as theatrical films -- one set in ancient history, one in modern history and a third he considers "faith-based" -- and has optioned several other ideas, some of which could be adapted into VOD features. He adds that he has purchased rights to his 2008 best-seller The Christmas Sweater back from Sony and will turn the story into a movie for television or theatrical release.

Beck notes it's too early to specify budgets or potential financing partnerships, though he probably has leverage to attract interested parties, considering TheBlaze lands an estimated $40 million in revenue annually and he earns $20 million a year hosting the radio show, according to sources familiar with his business. He also declined to identify the Hollywood moviemaking talent he has hired so far.

"I bought a movie studio for a reason," he says. "I have every intent of finding great artists who will tell great stories that aren't typical. Everybody thinks they know who I am because of my stint on Fox -- that was two years of my life. I'm much more into culture than I am into politics, and that's where I intend on making my stand."

Beck says he has great respect for "artists who risk big," citing filmmakers Baz Luhrmann and even Darren Aronofsky as examples (despite having called Noah a "Babylonian chainsaw massacre" on his radio show). "Hollywood is missing this moment to reconnect with the American people because they don't speak the language," he says. "Some of it is out of spite -- they might not like people of faith."

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Glenn Beck Features Echoing Angels' Hit Single "Say What You Believe" On His Talk Radio Show

Yesterday on his popular talk radio show, host Glenn Beck featured Echoing Angels' song "Say What You Believe." On air, Beck shared with his listeners, "The whole spirit of this song is 'Look, there's great things...sometimes I just get so frustrated, I get so crazy, but there is goodness, there is a hope inside, there's truth here, but we've gotta stand up together and say what we believe and shout it out loud and don't be fearful'."

The video of Beck sharing about the song along with the song's lyric video is featured on his website. Click here to view both videos.
"This song is the rally cry of our hearts," explains Trey Heffinger, lead vocalist for Echoing Angels. "It's time our hearts are heard and time we shout out what we believe in. But, more importantly, live out what we believe in and live in such a way that it is unmistakable where our hearts lie."

Glenn Beck Wades into Jim Wallis Controversy

Glenn Beck brought a lot of attention to a Christian music festival, Lifest, when he brought it up on his talk show in relation to Jim Wallis, founder and editor of the liberal Sojourners magazine.

Q90 FM pulled its sponsorship of the Lifest Christian music festival over the fact that Jim Wallis is on the speakers' line up, citing disagreements with him over a humanistic message of social justice.

The station has a statement on its site that says, in part:

"While we value the work of Life Promotions, proudly partnering with them for many years in our shared mission to reach youth for Christ, we became concerned with the beliefs and teachings of one of the main speakers at Lifest 2010, Jim Wallis. After researching extensively the words and published positions of Jim Wallis and his organization, Sojourners Magazine, and seeking fervently the guidance of the Holy Spirit in prayer, we believe the social justice message and agenda they promote is a seed of secular humanism, seeking an unholy alliance between the Church and Government."

it continues:

"Humanism says, "It's up to us to save us, our planet, the poor", instead of "It's up to God and His power through us". Humanism says "man is inherently good--it's only the social constructs, such as too-limited a government or our free-enterprise, capitalist economy that oppress man, making him do evil", instead of "man is inherently sinful, responsible for his own choice to sin, and in need of a Savior." (Romans 1:25). The humanistic social justice message in many of Sojourners' issue FAQs points to government as the solution, instead of our Lord Jesus Christ."

And most notably, the station ends their statement with this (emphasis theirs):

"We are not calling for a boycott of Lifest. We do not view Jim Wallis as an enemy nor do we think of Life Promotions as the enemy or a bad organization. We believe Life Promotions is doing great things for the Kingdom of God . We just have a fundamental disagreement on the wisdom of bringing Mr. Wallis to Lifest. We realize many great things occur at Lifest through the music and many of the speakers. In these increasingly challenging times with growing threats to God's people, we ask every Christian to read the Bible with great discernment, look at the views of Sojourners and the opposing views, and prayerfully seek God's wisdom and guidance. If you do attend Lifest this year, our prayer is that you will be blessed and that God will bless Lifest and our friends at Life Promotions."

For months, Lifest founder Bob Lenz has been in conversations with local pastors and others who raised concerns over featuring Wallis – who is considered a progressive Christian – at the popular Lifest.

Glenn Beck appears to place a lot of emphasis on research and prayer, and he has not called for a complete boycott of all things "social justice." What he rails against is the social justice that's tied to politics, the "I'll let the government fix my problems" mentality, which if you read the Scriptures is something we're warned to avoid.

On his March 2 radio show, Glenn Beck told listeners:

I beg you, look for the words “social justice” or “economic justice” on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words…social justice is a perversion of the Gospel.”

On-air he continued:

Progressives have done such an effective job perverting charity over the years it is stunning. There are millions of people who accept now that social justice comes from the government. It doesn't. It comes from individuals and God. But it's people like Wallis teaching us that that is the essence of the Bible.

His producer further clarified in the Washington Post.

So, what can we learn from all of this?

Glenn Beck Shares Easter Story on National Radio

Glenn Beck shared an essay in the first hour of his nationally syndicated talk radio program. Glenn Beck played his previously recorded narration of the Story of Easter set to Pink Floyd music. I found it remarkable that a non-Christian radio show would be this blatant with the story of salvation.

Media Bias is No Laughing Matter

Jeff Foxworthy was recently interviewed by Glenn Beck and even a comedian notes the bias in our media:

I've always argued that the media is not an accurate representation of what this country really is. And I think I can say that with some confidence because as a comedian, I have been to all 50 states. I have been to all 50 states many, many times. And I've always argued that most of the media is controlled out of New York and L.A., well, there's 200 million people in between. But their viewpoints aren't often the ones that make the news or the newspapers. And, you know, we've been kind of the quiet majority, but I kind of get a sense now that they're starting to see this little feeling of discontent in that and people are like, no, no, no, you don't speak for us anymore, and I think that's what it's going to take.

Obama - I already have a Messiah

Glenn Beck brought to light a video on his show that again demonstrates the unnatural ardor that Obama's followers have for him. It's been removed from YouTube, but you can see it here:



A nice analysis of this offensive and creepy video can be found here.