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Daryl Mosley sings about sobriety and faith on new single “I Won’t Drink To That”

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Daryl Mosley has built a career on songs that feel like they were pulled straight from a small-town front porch, and his newest single continues that tradition, especially those walking their own road to recovery. “I Won’t Drink To That,” out now on all digital and streaming platforms, tells the story of a man who found something worth more than the bottle: a relationship with God that gave him the strength to walk away from addiction for good.

The song arrives as the third release from Mosley’s upcoming album, Little Moments, due out September 18. It follows “She Knew It All” and “One Screen Movie House,” two tracks that already showcased the songwriter’s gift for turning ordinary life into something worth singing about.

Written solely by Mosley, “I Won’t Drink To That” is delivered in his signature laid-back baritone, a voice that has carried more than twenty #1 hits over a career spanning three decades. What sets this song apart is its honesty. Rather than shying away from the struggle of addiction, Mosley leans into it, framing sobriety not as a burden but as a gift, one made possible through faith. For listeners who have walked away from their own battles with the bottle, or who are praying for someone still in the fight, the song offers both comfort and testimony.

The recording features Mosley on lead vocals and bass, joined by a lineup of respected Bluegrass musicians: Danny Roberts on mandolin, Jaelee Roberts on harmony vocals, Jamie Harper on fiddle, Tony Wray on guitar, and Justin Moses on dobro. That instrumentation gives the song a warmth and rootedness that fits its message, faith and healing set against the familiar sounds of home.

Mosley, a native of Waverly, Tennessee, has spent his career writing about small-town life, family, and faith. A four-time Songwriter of the Year, he has performed with groups including New Tradition, The Osborne Brothers, and The Farm Hands. Little Moments, a ten-track collection written or co-written entirely by Mosley (the title track alongside Rick Lang), continues that legacy, pairing modern Bluegrass instrumentation with lyrics that speak plainly to the everyday moments of grace that shape a life.

“I Won’t Drink To That” is streaming now, and Little Moments can be pre-ordered ahead of its September 18 release.

Anthem Edition finds its voice on Something’s Goin’ On

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Anthem Edition didn’t set out to make a survival record, but that’s kind of what “Something’s Goin’ On” turned into. The Southern Gospel quartet’s new EP, out now on Sonlite Records, catches four singers at different points in their own lives and lets that tension become the whole point of the project.

“When we started searching for songs to record, each member of the group had songs that truly spoke to where they are in life right now,” says Tim Rackley, who co-founded the group back in 2003. “We knew, if the songs moved us in a powerful way, they would move the listeners as well.”

Artists may say this kind of thing without a lot of thought, but Rackley backs it up with a simple production philosophy: match the singer to the song’s emotional center, not the other way around. “You cannot deliver a song fully if you don’t feel it yourself,” he says, and it shows in how the EP moves. The record opens and closes with its two most energetic cuts, “He Is Who He Is” and the title track, but the real character lives in between, in the hushed intimacy of “He Still Washed His Feet,” the front-porch warmth of “Land Of Joy Untold,” and the full-throated testimony of “I’m Another Lazarus.”

The focus track, “I Am Saved,” is where producer Roger Talley leans hardest into a more contemporary sound, building a quartet chorus around a message of grace and redemption that Rackley calls the emotional anchor of the whole project.

“Filled with strong songs, great harmonies, and messages that point people to Christ, this project blends the best of Southern Gospel tradition with a fresh sound for today’s listeners,” Rackley says. “From start to finish, these songs encourage, inspire, and remind us of God’s faithfulness. Something’s Goin’ On shows just how far this lineup has come.”

What started in 2003 as a trio called The Old Paths, founded by Doug Roark and Tim Rackley, grew into a quartet and eventually landed a deal with Crossroad Music’s Sonlite Records in 2012. Their breakout album, ‘Right Now,’ produced two number one hits and a Singing News Fan Award for Favorite New Quartet, a strong start that was followed, in 2015, by a hiatus. The group came back to touring in 2017, rebranded as Anthem Edition in late 2022 with bass vocalist Andrew Utech joining the lineup, and added tenor Cameron Edens in the fall of 2023.

Listen for songs from Something’s Goin’ On throughout the day on Texas Gospel Canada!

Submitting to government authority

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JEFF TURNER

Romans 13 instructs believers to submit to governing authorities, pray for their leaders, and pay required taxes, raising an important question about whether disobedience to government is ever justified for a Christian. The exception arises only when government commands believers to do something God explicitly forbids, or forbids believers from doing something God explicitly commands. Outside of that specific intersection, believers are called to obey and submit to governing authority, even when disagreeing strongly with particular policies or decisions made by that government.

Disliking how tax dollars get spent, or opposing certain government positions on moral issues, does not itself justify disobedience or rebellion. Believers can certainly use whatever legitimate influence they have to oppose policies they find objectionable, but submission remains the default posture unless government directly demands sin. This is because government, despite its flaws, functions as an institution established by God specifically to restrain evil and reward good behaviour, providing the order necessary to prevent society from collapsing into lawlessness.

Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the emperor as the supreme authority or to governors as those sent out by him to punish those who do what is evil and to praise those who do what is good.

1 Peter 2:13-14

When righteous anger cleared the temple

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JEFF TURNER

Some people picture Jesus as endlessly gentle and soft-spoken, never raising his voice or displaying frustration. Yet one of the clearest scenes in the gospels shows him driving merchants and money changers from the temple, overturning tables and scattering coins in visible anger. This was not an isolated loss of temper but a deliberate act of judgment against corrupted religious practice.

What provoked this response was not minor inconvenience. It was the desecration of true worship and the misrepresentation of God’s character through false religious systems.

Jesus showed remarkable patience and compassion toward ordinary people who lacked spiritual guidance, yet he reserved sharp condemnation for religious leaders who knowingly distorted truth and led others astray, going so far as to label such figures as sources of spiritual ruin.

As Christians we should stay focused on genuine compassion toward those who are lost and firmly stand against teachings or systems that deliberately twist or counterfeit the truth of God.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you too, outwardly appear righteous to people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 23:27-28

The slow burn: why no one sets out to fall

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Very few people wake one morning and decide to wreck their life. The catastrophic failures of moral integrity that destroy marriages, careers, and families rarely arrive as sudden decisions. They arrive as the accumulated consequence of a hundred smaller steps, each one seemingly manageable, each one taken just a little closer to the edge.

Proverbs 6:27 asks a question designed to make us pause: can a person carry fire against their chest and expect their clothing to remain unburned? The answer is obvious, and that is precisely the point. Yet countless people who would never describe themselves as reckless, find themselves in moral ruin because they underestimated how fire behaves.

The pattern Solomon identifies is recognisable and patient. What begins as idle internet exploration shades gradually into something more deliberate. A flirtation that seems harmless feeds a scenario that takes root in the imagination. And by the time the danger is undeniable, the fire has already done its work.

The warning is not directed at the already-fallen; it is directed at those who believe themselves immune. No one is exempt from the physics of fire. Wisdom begins by respecting the danger long before it announces itself.

Therefore let the one who thinks he stands watch out that he does not fall.

1 Corinthians 10:12