Why I constantly here a phrase of music on the radio and go, sigh, another feel good song

Lately I have been thinking of a song called "Drink from His cup"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKhs_ET5JsE Here is the youtube video with lyrics.
http://lyrics.wikia.com/PRo:Drink_From_His_Cup Here are the lyrics.

As I was listening to this song and contemplating on the lyrics,
it hit me that, these lyrics are the complete opposite of all the feel good lyrics( which basically
describes all the songs on the so call "christian" radio stations )
that you would find on the radio.

The whole point of songs on the radio these days, from what I have noticed.
Is to make sure that you know that: God loves you, He will never let you go,
you can get through this, think about how much he loves you.

I can think of one artist, who, has half of his songs centered around love.
In one song he even goes so far as to say, that: "the only thing that matters is Your love".

Although in this song ( Drink form His cup ) they do mention God's love,
and the do mention being in God's arms.
They speak about it in a different manner than that on the radio.
Here is an example: "the pain I bear can not compare to Your arms once I get there".

Pain in this world is something that is normal, we can't escape it.
So we shouldn't treat it like it is all a big deal.
Yes God does heal, Yes God does forgive.
But I don't think that someone living and suffering in Africa can just
listen to a feel good song and all his troubles will be over with.

Yes we can seek encouragement from music.
but if all we think about is making ourselves feel better,
how will that make us feel towards others?
What percentile of the Bible talks about feeling good?
What percentile of people who suffer come to have a closer relationship
with God, compared to those who have an easy life?
Paul was a very Godly man, do you think he had an easy life?
Do you want to have a close relationship with God?
Drink from His cup.

Burning you garbage CAN be dangerous(But it is still fun)

So it was an average Wednesday afternoon, I was burning the garbage as usual. 

I was just about to go inside when POP!one of these things shot a 100 feet in the air over the trees and almost hit our house.

Actually three did it.

Two of them landed side by side and the other was not to far away, so they must of been pointing in approximately the same direction.

If I had been hit by one of these it would have either killed me or hurt me really bad.

So now every time I hear a pop in the fire I am afraid something is going to shoot out and hit my face.

Is Macro Evolution The Same as Micro Evolution?

Sometimes micro and macro evolution get mixed up.

In fact here is an evolutionist who admits it, Dr. Niles Eldredge, curator of the American Museum of Natural History, and a believer in macro evolution, admits this:

-"I admit that an awful lot of that has gotten into the textbooks as though it were true. For instance, the most famous example still on exhibit downstairs [in his museum] is the exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps 50 years ago. That has been presented as literal truth in textbook after textbook. Now I think that that is lamentable..."

If you know from a reliable source (the people who wrote it and the professors who read it)

that textbooks are telling lies as if they were true......

How can you believe what you learn in government schools?

Music/Lecr.....

Rap is bad!....Its sinful!......Think of all the bad rappers out there!........What good has it ever done you?!.....
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Can I talk now?
Thanks.
Okay here I go.

Some people say classical music helps the mind.
I have a friend who has seen some amazing results from playing an instrument.
And I agree, classical music can be good for the brain.
But when we are talking about music with lyrics, that is a whole different topic.
Really, it is a very different topic.
Seriously.
No joke.

Right now I am going to talk about music with lyrics.

If you are a Christian you will obviously like Christian music better, and since mostly everybody reading this blog is probably a Christian, than I will talk about Christian music.

I know a lot a believers who think rap is bad.
They say the heavy beat is bad for you, they see this picture of a screaming black guy wearing saggy pants and singing to a wild beat.(no joke). They think that all that stimulation and hard sound can't be good for you.(that is basically all they have said)
But I think they are just following a stereotype that says quote unquote- Gangsters
like and make rap, so rap must be bad. Period.
Many Christian rappers(like Lecrae) did hang out in the hood and made secular rap.
But then they became a Christian and said something like this- You know all those non-Christian
rappers out their need a witness, I think I'll make some Christian rap for them.
But some other Christians don't like it.
So they listen to music like the stuff on KGBI, and K-LOVE, and stuff like that.
Some of them listen to classical or soundtrack, some even listen to secular music.
Then there are some who listen to whatever they want.
Then there are some (like me) who listen to rap.

I would like to look at the differences between contemporary, and Christian rap.

Contemporary: Most of the lyrics I hear are talking about how God loves us, and how every thing is going to be OK, and It's all right God loves you, God is good, you can make it.
Yes God is good, and yes God loves you, but there is a point where we need to realize that God sends
pain and suffering to make us grow in our faith.
Besides that message gets a little old after a while.
Christian rappers are much more to the point, don't have there head in the clouds, and don't preach only what the world wants to here.
In rap you hear phrases like this "Here's my gifts and time cause I'm constantly trying to be used to praise the Christ"
Sure K-LOVE has God honoring songs on it but it is rare that you hear something like that.

I have never heard a song on KGBI or K-LOVE talk about how we are supposed to suffer(quite the opposite)
Here is another line from a "bad" rap song-
"Suffer, ya, do it for Christ, you make a lot a money hope you doin it right because the money is God's ya better steward it right"
Wow.
What other artists are afraid to admit, a rapper(of all people) comes out and says out loud and bluntly.
The point is we ARE supposed to suffer for Christ.
The church in China welcomes suffering and sees it as a way to grow.
In fact they even pray for us Americans to go through suffering!!

Don't you want the music you listen too to be God honoring?
The eleventh commandment is not "And thou shalt not have a heavy beat in thy music!"
In fact God tells us praise him with music and lots of instruments.
I don't think God frowns on all those people who play drums, I think he smiles at those who worship him freely in their music.


By the way, the song I quoted is Don't waste your life by Lecrae.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0_pzJfrqiU
You should listen to it.

Times.

This past year(2011) we(my family) have done many things.

In the beginning of the year we went to presbytery in California.

That was a really long trip.

Then I had to memorize a script in three weeks that was still being made changes on for the "providential history festival".

And I had to go to three dance performance's witch took months of Tuesdays to practice.

Then my brothers and parents and I went to Texas after Christmas.

And then in December we made an offer on a house(still waiting to hear from the bank)

So it has been pretty busy.

We just have to remember that although things may be frustrating at times, they are a gift from God.