BEC Recordings is pleased to announce the return of Seven Places, the pop-rock group that that brought us Lonely for the Last Time and Hear Us Say Jesus, the same group that everyone thought had retired, is now planning to release a worship album, called Glowing on 5 June… some sneak peeks are available now at MySpace.com/BECRecordings…
Also returning to the scene is Sarah MacIntosh, former lead singer of Chasing Furies… She’s recording and planning a new solo album with an unspecified title and an unspecified release date… BUT, what is for certain is that there are some new songs up at her MySpace page…
The Fold has a new album due out on 22 May called Secrets Keep You Sick and you don’t have to wait a week to hear it… it’s steaming right now at MySpace.com/TheFold…
Last but not least… Mars Ill is offering a great deal on their fine CDs… if you order from their website, MarsIll.com you can get any 3 titles for just $25… which is possibly 20 bucks off… don’t miss it…
keep it locked…
peace… love… bdg…
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When i was growing up, the big scare within the Christian sub-culture was the “new age movement”… and not to write that concern off as frivolous – i’m sure that there have been plenty of folks who fell victim to the arguments presented by this belief system – but as i look back on it now, it seems like it was just another distraction, blown out of proportion…
i distinctly remember writing up a paper for health class regarding the concept of what was called “Creative Visualization” (the belief that your thoughts and desires shaped your reality)… i laced that paper with absurd conclusions and biting sarcasm all with the hopes of proving to the teacher, a firm believer in such things who had led the class in group meditation exercises as part of the mental health part of the course, that she was foolish for believing what she believed…
i bring this up, because the topic of declaration – and i’ve seen this addressed many other places – seems at face value to be the Christianized repackaging of Creative Visualization… now that’s a very superficial look at both viewpoints, but this “declaration” aspect of faith has been misused to support the whole “name-it-and-claim-it” religion that we’ve seen preached from various pulpits… and the potential – if mistreated – is that our faith is reduced to nothing but a spiritualized mantra that invokes a magical genie who will in turn grant us our wishes…
On the flip side, i’d be remiss to ignore that there is and must be a mystical aspect of our faith and that indeed the Bible does give some serious weight to that which we confess with our mouths and believe in our hearts… and in the spirit of giving David the benefit of the doubt, that is where we find ourselves in this chapter… we explore this notion in some greater detail here and come to recognize the importance of knowing what God promises and accepting those promises…
i kind of feel like this is the second chapter in a row that i’ve landed a bit on the critical side of things, but i want to also point out that the passage from Eccl. included here is great, but does not prove the point that David asserts it to… the terms are paired together simply because they’re opposites… there’s nothing much to extrapolate there other than that the author uses a common literary device to show the broad variety of activities for which time allows…
peace… love… bdg…
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