Archive 2025
Welcome and thank you for listening as we head towards four years of doing the Weekend Wind Down. Please enjoy and listen as for the month of March, our wives interview some women in the church and give their salvation testimonies.
Music – Precious Memories
Bro. Shepherd & Bro. Carrico
Date 05/17/25
Title – Precious Memories and other music
Join Bro. Matt and Pastor Ferrell Shepherd as they play some good music with the theme of ‘Precious Memories’ and talk some about each song in-between.
For copyright purposes some songs have been removed, and two replaced with public domain recordings.
The replaced songs are – Hold Fast To The Right from sung by Jim & Sarah Gunning 1938 taken from the “Kentucky Alan Lomax Recordings” (Folklore Archivist), and The Little Brown Church In The Vale sung by The Victor Male Quartet 1915 – taken from the Library of congress National Jukebox.
Both recordings can be found here
https://archive.org/details/afc1938009_2023B
https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-53243
Date 05/10/25
Title – Mothers Day 2025
Join the Wind Down crew as they take turns discussing different thoughts and lessons for Mother’s Day
Date 05/03/25
Title – Buffet Preaching
Join the crew again as they go over “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;” and being careful to fall for that same danger.
Date 04/26/25
Title – Bro. Aaron Carrico
Join Bro. Matt as he interviews Bro. Aaron Carrico about his salvation testimony. As the saying goes “Short, sweet, and hard to beat”.
Date 04/19/25
Title – Easter 2025
This week the Wind Down crew takes turns talking about different parts of the resurrection of Jesus.
Date 04/12/25
Title – Not Being Lukewarm
Join the Wind Down crew as Bro. Matt goes over a message he preached on the topic of “Not Being Like The Laodicean Church”.
Date 04/05/25
Title – Mrs. Evelyn Bell
Join the Crew and their wives as we transition back to the normal hosts, and Mrs. Evelyn gives her salvation testimony.
Date 03/29/25
Title – Mrs. Kristen
Join the WEWD Wives this week, with Mrs. Kristen of Island Ford Baptist Church, as she gives her salvation testimony, and how the Lord led her to the church, meeting her husband, and what the the Lord has done in their lives so far.
Date 03/22/25
Title – Mrs. Ann Shepherd
Join the WEWD Wives again as they interview Mrs. Ann Shepherd, mother-in-law of Mrs. Melissa Shepherd. She talks about her salvation testimony as well as their (Her and Bro. Plato Shepherd) time in North Carolina, then moving to start up churches in Kansas. They are now back in NC.
Date 03/15/25
Title – Mrs. Sue-Ann Simpson
This week the Weekend Wind Down wives interview Mrs. Sue-Ann Simpson of Island Ford Baptist Church. Please enjoy and listen as Mrs. Simpson gives her salvation testimony, talks about her time in Nevada, and how she meet her husband.
Date 03/08/25
Title – Mrs. Melissa Shepherd & Mrs. Kelly Vincent
Join the Weekend Wind Down Wives as they interview Mrs. Melissa Shepherd & Mrs. Kelly Vincent about their salvation testimonies (both saved at the Island Ford Baptist Church)
Date 03/01/25
Title – Mrs. Helen Vincent’s Salvation Testimony
In this week’s episode, Mrs. Helen Vincent wife of Bro. Ricky Vincent Jr. who help to start the WEWD (See Archive 2021). Listen as she gives her salvation testimony, how she meet bro. Ricky Vincent Jr. Some of her time growing up in Canada and moving to the U.S.
Date 02/22/25
Title – Amazing Grace Part 2
♪We’ve No Less Days To Sing God’s Praise Than When We First Begun♫ This is the last line of Amazing Grace. Join us as we finish looking at verses four, five, and six of John Newton’s famous hymn.
Date 02/15/25
Title – Amazing Grace Part 1
♪Amazing Grace How Sweet The Sound♫ That saved a wretch like John Newton. Any good hymn should contain biblical truth’s. Join us as we discuss the life of John Newton, the first three verses of his song ‘Amazing Grace’, and the biblical principles inside the song.
Date(s) 02/01/25 & 02/08/25
Title – The Context Of John 3:16
Everybody knows John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” But let’s stop and look closer, John 3:16 is the reason for a previous statement. It is in the middle of an answer to a question, and it is at the end of a conversation. So join us as we look closer at what exactly this verse is saying in context.
Date 01/25/25
Title -What Is Your Legacy?
In this episode we ask the question: What is your legacy? Or it could be asked, “How will you be remembered when you die”? Everyone will leave behind a legacy, have you thought about yours?
Date 01/18/25
Title – Whos Messenger Are You?
The topic of this episode is based on the definition of angel, “messenger of God; or by implication (in Revelation) a pastor” and Matthew 25:41 “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:”
Date 01/11/25
Title – Music With Bro. Matt
This episode of music was recorded during the winter storm from early January at Bro. Matt Willis’ house, all music has been removed due to copyrights.
Date 01/04/25
Title – Every Good Gift
Join us as Bro. Jacob Rickard recounts the message he preached Christmas Day 2024 – “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” – James 1:17