“Theres two things that get peoples attention, one is fear and the other is hope.” "A lot of our fans are kids who have so little hope in life and face so many dark things. And definitely there are times where you need to feel what they feel, cry with them, rejoice with them. But there comes a point where we have to let them go on their own. We have to hug them and say, 'We have to believe that you're going to wake up tomorrow, because if we went through so much stuff and ended up here, the possibilities are endless for you.' " -Lacey Mosley

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQx-kEKsGLE <--- speech and song performance. "Sometimes the person that you love the most is the person that can hurt you the most. and thats the thing that screws people us, is that theyve been hurt really bad. but the thing that keeps that screwed up thing going in their life and messing them up is that we cant let it go and start all over. you have to let all that stuff go and not hang on to it. when you forgive somebody, its not so much as it is for them as it is for you. you need to be free from that and you need to rise above that. and im so thankful that, you know, it took me a long time of screwing my life up to learn that. and im so thankful that i know-- i dont know what anybody believes in, im not tryng to preach to you guys-- but im just so thankful that God forgave me. that i could forgive people in my life that hurt me really bad, and i wouldnt be here if it wasnt for them. when i was 16 i almost committed suicide. if i didnt understand that God loved me, i would have. but God chased me down and said to me 'I love you, and Im real. and even though you dont believe in me Ive seen all that youve been through from the time that youre born untill now.'. and i cant tell you exactly how He said it me, but He did. its not like this big audible voice, it was something that happened. it was so miraculous to me. and maybe He wants to say that to you. and if youre going to go home tonight thinking nobody loves you, then i want to make sure and tell you that im not different from you. like i said, i introduced everybody in this band, you know, Sameer started playing in a band before he got his driver's license. and Jared finished school while he was on the road. we were from a small town. we just started a band, we were just friends who started a band for fun. we just got together to play music and have fun. and we said 'whatever we want to do with our lives--we dont know what to do with it. i keep screwing it up and i just want to know what you want to do with it. you did this.' its not because we're extra special, we're no different from anybody here. we're from a small town, all this is miraculous that you guys are standing here watching us play, i cant believe this. and God didnt say he loved me because i was 'extra special', because everybody here has a purpose that only they can do. and everybody here has a story, and everybody here has a purpose. you dont wake up on accident. youre not guaranteed to wake up tomorrow, but if you do, it wasnt an accident. it was on purpose. and this song is about starting over, and sometimes we feel like we cant because we've hurt somebody too badly and we've made too many mistakes. but thats a lie, thats not even true. and that screws people up, they dont get to fulfill the calling in their life, they dont get to experience life to the fullest like theyre supposed to--like they were meant to because they get caught up in saying 'ive made too many mistakes, i cant start over. and i cant forgive this person, theyre just holding me back.' but you can. and thats what this song's about, its about starting over. and its called So I Thought."

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI_9zMYQPaI or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjV8u63bYSA You know, there's a lot of guys out there who mistreat girls, i want you girls to know, and there's a lot of girls out there who mistreat guys, and i want you guys to know that there's a lot of times that we make promises to ourselves and to our God and we break them because that's how the devil works. He says "come here and do this; everyone's doing this, you know you have to do this; if you're not doing this you're not cool; if you don't do this you're going to repress yourself and you're not going to have any fun in life; whats wrong with you, you've got to do this; come on you want this and you need it" and right after you do it he turns around and says "look what you did. look what you did, you're not going to be worth anything anymore" and that's how the devil works. he is such a liar. he is such a liar. and the way that you can tell the difference between when he's lying to you or not,is by what the Word of God says. and i know that that's a lot to believe in, and i cant go into it. i could talk to you for ten hours about what i think the Bible says, the Word of God, and i just want to say if you want to know what i think, i believe it, and i used to not, i used to be an Atheist that believed believing in God was like believing in the tooth fairy. and then God became real to me and i pray that tonight God will be real to you. as much as everybody thinks, you know, in your head, Atheists, we want to believe in a good God that loves us, we want to, i mean its not that we don't want that, the problem is that we do have a real enemy [the devil] that's going to come against us with all these lies that has half truth in them and we think "if this is truth, this must be true" and that's not it. and we don't need to try and find a faith or religion that fits the way that we live because we can make them however we want and live them however we want, and that's not the deal. we want to know what the truth is, is there a God who cares about our lives, who cares about how we live and how we treat each other, and i really think He does. I believe that he does so much that I would be dead if it wasn’t true. I’d just call it quits right now, but I know that it is true. and i know that it is true and if you're wondering, if you care what i think, i totally believe it. and i think that's the difference between what the truth and the lies about what the Word of God says. and so this song that we're about to play is about how sometimes we make mistakes, sometimes we feel like we cant start over because of those mistakes, because of the way the devil lies to us, and we think because of all those mistakes we can never have Jesus. but we have Jesus. because Jesus means that when we come to Him, He forgives us of our sins, that when we confess our sins, He forgives us. and not only does He forgive us of every sin we've ever committed and everything we'll ever do. He gives us the strength to not fall into the same sin over and over again, He gives us the strength to live like how He asked us to live. when people ask if Jesus Christ is alive today and rose from the grave, the answer should be yes because of every christian here who is living out Jesus Christ and what He asked us to do with our life. the only reason why we answer yes is because we have this strength about us and and the strength enough to love each other even when the world doesn't teach us to love each other, to love our enemies, and to forgive each other when he world doesn't teach us to forgive each other. except for Jesus. so this song is about how you can start over, and God puts everything in the past, everything bad, it doesn't make any sense and He uses it for Him. because when i was younger and if i had these moms lined up against the wall, i would never of said "hey God, i want that mom, and i want that life. i want to go through everything we've gone through together and i want to have that kind of hell. that's what i want for my life, God" i would never have chosen that life for myself, i know. but God knew what he was doing. And everything I went through turned out to make songs like we write that touch people that have to go through the same kind of things. and if i hadn't gone through what i went through i wouldnt be right here right now.And I’m just talking about how God makes good out of bad, usually all the time, he can always do that. It’s just that God works everything together for the good of those who love him. and I'm glad I've gone through what i did. and the reason why He wants to change our lives because of his kindness not because he's going to love us more. because he loves us all the time right where you are no matter what you do. He loves you so much and when you do right, Hes not going to love you any more. we don't do right so He'll love us more we do right to thank Him for loving us all the time no matter what we do. That’s why we try to do what he asks us to do. That’s why we try to live for him. That’s why we play music. that's why we keep going, That’s why we try to go against where everything the world tells us, live in the world we live in and still try to honor our God in front of people. And that’s all, just because of his kindness. That’s all. And this song’s called So I Thought.

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[explaining the meaning behind "Okay-Tina"] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tKQZecXGx4 "This song is about a girl that i met over on tour. A girl that i didnt know anything about. She was burned from her head to her feet, and she didnt have any hair and her nose was burnt off, it was really hard to look at her. and she came up to me and said 'I want to tell you my story.' she said 'when i was younger i thought that if i got married and had kids then i would live happily ever after. and then when i did get married, and i was in love and everything, we started to fight everyday and it got worse and worse to the point where he was beating me everyday and i didnt want to wake up anymore. so i poured gasoline on myself and set myself on fire to try to kill myself.' and i sat there looking at her and i was just in shock and i didnt understand why she was telling me all of this cuz she just looked so honest and vulnerable and was like 'i just wanted to tell you because when i was on fire and i was burning, i was in so much pain that i prayed for the first time in my life and i said 'God if youre real, please take my pain away.' and at that moment i went into a coma and when i came to conciousness, i knew that God was real because He heard my prayer. and so i want to tell you so that you will beleive in God and wont waste your life like i did.' and thats the whole point of this song, is that i want to tell you guys that you can go through your life and go through your emotions and whatever youre doing and not live life to the fullest. and this woman, she showed me her driver's lisence before she was burned. she was so pretty. she was so pretty she could be on a magazine cover. and at that moment she just looked so beautiful to me. because beauty is not about looks, and thats what she was showing me. she was saying--pleading with me 'dont waste your life like i did. use it for God.' and the whole thing was she was being selfish. and when youre depressed and you feel and think about suicide, you know-- thats something that ive dealt with my whole life. since i was very small, very little ive always dealt with that.-- and it really is all about you thinking about yourself. ts very self centered and suicide is a very self centered thing. and thats what she was showing me, that when she came back her life wasnt about herself anymore it was about everybody else around her. thats what she was telling me and thats what this song's about, its called Tina."

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6H_0CdUK4I "Life is fragile not just for yourself but for everybody thats around you" "... And if you dont have someone to tell you that today, i want you to know that i am so glad that youre alive today here." "... If you havent told somebody that you love them, you need to tell them. If you havent forgiven somebody then you need to forgive them." [because they might not be there to hear that tommorow]

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"... you are so beautiful. and if you havent had anyone tell you that, i want to be the one to tell you that you look beautiful tonight." "...I had often thought about committing suicide, but on the day I decided to carry out my plan, my grandmother forced me to go to church. And even though I had been dragged to this church before, I never really paid attention to what anyone said. I didn’t even know anyone there. But this service was different. This time the pastor, whom I had never met, started to tell my life’s story. As he approached the end of his sermon he paused, and while tears filled his eyes, he said, “There’s a suicidal spirit in the room.” The moment he said that, every hair on my arms stood up, and I thought, This is weird! I’ve got to get out of here. He went on to say: “Please come up and let us pray for you. God wants you to know that He loves you! He’s created you for a purpose, and He has something far greater for your life.” That’s when I came to the realization that God really does exist, and not only is He here alongside me, but He also cares so much about my life that He’s going to intervene to prove to me that He’s real and that He loves me very much.....I really didn’t make a decision to follow Jesus that night in church, but it started in that moment. At that point I knew God was real, and if it was Jesus, I wanted to find out for myself. So I started to study the Bible, and miracle after miracle kept occurring, which proved to me He is real. Although I was once an atheist, I’ve discovered that [coming to faith in Christ] is a supernatural thing you have to experience for yourself—and I really have experienced it for myself! "

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"you have it in you to inspire people just as much as we do. . . . if you wake up tomorrow, theres another chance to do everything and beyond what you are meant to do to fulfill your purpose here"