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Prayer of Intercession The Fruit of Your Lips...Cupbearer to God Cupbearer to your Neighbor. Be reconciled to God! Be reconciled to your neighbor! The First Fruits of Gods lips are: (Genesis) God ('elohiym, ~yhla, el-o-heem' Thus, the fruit of Gods lips is Himself. The fruit of our lips is the cupbearer-butler-intercessor to the Throne. Adam is the first cupbearer: 1) First-God-First God 2) Relationship a) God b) Creation Gen2:8-9 Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. c) Eve 23-25 The Man said, 3) Unity Gen 2:15 God took the Man and set him down in the Garden of Eden to work the ground and keep it in order. 4) Integrity Gen 2:16-17 God commanded the Man, "You can eat from any tree in the garden, except from the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil. Don't eat from it. The moment you eat from that tree, you're dead." 5) Titula Head (A titular head is a person in an official position of leadership who possesses few, if any, actual powers) Gen 3:1 The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the Woman: "Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?"
Prayer of Intercession Cupbearer to God Cupbearer to your Neighbor Be reconciled to God. Be reconciled to your neighbor. 10-11 "Well, there they are—your servants, your people whom you so powerfully and impressively redeemed. O Master, listen to me, listen to your servant's prayer—and yes, to all your servants who delight in honoring you—and make me successful today so that I get what I want from the king." I was cupbearer to the king.
Nehemiah = "Jehovah comforts" the son of Hachaliah, cupbearer to king Artaxerxes, who became governor of Judah after the return from exile one of the 12 heads of the people who returned from exile with Zerubbabel son of Azbuk and ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, who helped to repair the wall of Jerusalem
Fruit of Your Lips is be a Butler to God and a Butler to your Neighbor. 27He said, "That you love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence—and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself." 28"Good answer!" said Jesus. "Do it and you'll live." hqX, Shaqah, shaw-kaw'
 to give to drink, irrigate, drink, water, cause to drink water
Smith's Bible Dictionary Cupbearer, [N] an officer of high rank with Egyptian, Persian and Assyrian as well as Jewish monarchs. (1 Kings 10:5) It was his duty to fill the king�s cup and present it to him personally. (Nehemiah 1:11) The chief cupbearer, or butler, to the king of Egypt was the means of raising Joseph to his high position. (Genesis 40:1,21; 41:9)
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Fruit of Your Lips
Song of Solomon 4:3 Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil. 
Easton's Bible Dictionary Footstool [N] connected with a throne (2 Chronicles 9:18). Jehovah symbolically dwelt in the holy place between the cherubim above the ark of the covenant. The ark was his footstool (1 Chronicles 28:2; Psalms 99:5; 132:7). And as heaven is God's throne, so the earth is his footstool (Psalms 110:1; Isaiah 66:1; Matthew 5:35). 
Dr. Frederick K.C. Price Sues ABC's '20/20' Over Defamation
from The Christian Post
A Los Angeles preacher filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the popular news program “20/20,” citing that they falsely illustrated his life in one of their programs.
The Rev. Frederick K.C. Price, pastor and founder of Crenshaw Christian Center, was part of a segment on televangelists titled “Enough!” about how ministries spend their congregants’ offerings. The ABC program painted the religious leader as an overly wealthy individual who has too much.
Price said he has been “humiliated” over the incident, and explained that the news group gave completely false information about his life.
"[This is] one of the most outrageous instances of 'out of context' editing in the history of television," explained a part of the suit.
On Mar. 23, “20/20” ran their segment about wealthy televangelists which featured a sermon clip from Price 10 years ago. But the clip that the program chose to use was not even in reference to the pastor.
"I live in a 25-room mansion,” said Price in the clip. “I have my own $6 million yacht, I have my own private jet and I have my own helicopter and I have seven luxury automobiles."
In reality, the Pentecostal preacher, who gives his sermons at the 10,000-seat FaithDome in South L.A., has none of these. While Price does own a Palos Verdes mansion, he said it has no where near 25 rooms. And one of his two Bentley cars was a gift from two of his congregants. He says his sermon was illustrating the wrong way to become successful.
Price claims that the reporting was extremely poor, and that they did not even approach him once before running the clip.
"He was wrongly and falsely portrayed," explained Anthony Glassman, Price’s lawyer, to the Los Angeles Times.
The clip was originally run on Disney's Lifetime network as part of the "Ever Increasing Faith" television show that he speaks on.
Named in the defamation suit are the Walt Disney, Co., which owns ABC, and “20/20” co-anchor John Stossel.
ABC ran retractions for the program on two of their television shows – “Good Morning America” and “20/20” – as wellas their website to correct the problem.
"We did make a full retraction and apology on the air,” told Jeffrey Schneider, spokesman for ABC, to the Los Angeles Times, “and certainly regretted the error and made that very clear to Rev. Price."
The preacher and his lawyer say that is not enough. The church congregation was equally displeased with the news program.
"[The program was] dishonest, defamatory and simply filled with blatant lies," said Angela Evans, Price’s daughter, during the church’s Sunday service. "[He] feels like he's been raped."
click to enlargePrice, founder of the Crenshaw Christian Center, was featured in a "20/20" segment about well-heeled televangelists titled "Enough!" that the suit says "devastated, embarrassed and greatly humiliated" the 75-year-old. The suit also names Walt Disney Co., which owns ABC, and "20/20" co-anchor John Stossel.
In the March 23 segment, "20/20" ran a clip from a sermon Price delivered 10 years ago and displayed a still photo of the preacher as Stossel interviewed an activist who keeps tabs on how ministries spend congregants' donations. The suit calls the use of the clip "one of the most outrageous instances of 'out of context' editing in the history of television."
In the clip, Price declares, "I live in a 25-room mansion, I have my own $6-million yacht, I have my own private jet and I have my own helicopter and I have seven luxury automobiles."
In the full sermon, according to an excerpt provided by a spokesman for Price, he prefaced that by saying, "I was pointing out that there is such a thing as bad success. I said bad success is…." The sermon, which the suit says aired on Disney's Lifetime network, was about the importance of being a good Christian, and Price was quoting a hypothetical person with great material wealth who failed to follow a righteous path.
Price wasn't interviewed for the "20/20" segment. The suit says the defendants "never approached Dr. Price or the church to check their facts."
The suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeks unspecified damages and accuses ABC of breaching "fundamental journalist guidelines" and acting "in reckless disregard" for the truth.
ABC spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said he couldn't comment on the suit but noted that the network had run two retractions, one on "Good Morning America" and the other on "20/20." ABC also posted a retraction on its website.
"We did make a full retraction and apology on the air and certainly regretted the error and made that very clear to Rev. Price," Schneider said.
In the retraction, Stossel said "20/20" had thought Price was talking about himself in the sermon. "We used his quote out of context, and for that we apologize to Dr. Price and to the Crenshaw Christian Center and to you if we misled you," Stossel said.
Price's lawyer, Anthony Glassman, said the retraction was insufficient.
"He was wrongly and falsely portrayed," Glassman said.
Price owns the Palos Verdes mansion that appeared in the "20/20" segment, as well as two Bentleys, but not a helicopter, a yacht or a private jet, a spokesman for the church said. Price bought the house in 1989, and one of the Bentleys was a gift from two parishioners, the spokesman said.
The suit says Price's salary is "commensurate with his duties," and the spokesman declined to disclose it.
Over three decades, Price built his ministry in part on the idea that followers can reach economic prosperity by living a faith-based life. His Sunday services in the 10,000-seat FaithDomein South L.A. are popular, but he is perhaps best known for his "Ever Increasing Faith" television show, paid programming on the Lifetime network.
The Crenshaw Christian Center opened in Inglewood in 1973, with 300 parishioners. The center purchased the former Pepperdine University Los Angeles campus in 1984 and built the current complex.
According to Nielsen, the "20/20" segment was seen by 7.5 million viewers.
The suit also cites a teaser for the segment that ran during "Good Morning America" and showed Price preaching at Crenshaw Christian Center. After the teaser, Diane Sawyer and anchors expressed shock that preachers owned private jets and multimillion-dollar yachts.
The "20/20" segment angered many of Price's parishioners and has been a subject of discussion at Sunday services for several weeks.
On Sunday, Angela Evans, one of Price's daughters and the president of the church, said in a speech during the regular service that the program was "dishonest, defamatory and simply filled with blatant lies," and that her father "feels like he's been raped." She received a standing ovation.
Congregants expressed their support for Price and disdain for "20/20."
"It's obviously so outlandish," said Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's former sidekick, who has attended the church for 15 years. "I know the man quite well, and there's no possible way" that Price would ever dip into church coffers.
After listening to Price's sermon — which began, "Why do so many Christians fail to enjoy the abundant life?" — parishioner Mary Grimes said that Price deserved to live well.
"In the regular world, if he was a CEO, he'd get a penthouse and airplanes," she said. "I give abundantly because I want him to be pampered."
Saturday, July 28, 2007
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7/28/07 Music Ministry Revival part145
7/24/07 The Once and Future Prince
7/24/07 Hip-Hop's Roots Celebrated in NY
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Akon Wants To Clean Up Hip-Hop ... Seriously
Akon has been in his fair share of trouble lately, what with all the simulating sex on stage with minors and tossing fans to the pavement. Most recently, the singer's after after party at his $800-dollar-per-night suite in London's K-West hotel was shut down by the cops. "All my parties are wild," he said. This much we figured.However, Akon is laying all that to rest. He recently wrote an apology song for the stage incident involving a 14-year-old girl at his April 14 show in Trinidad. In addition, the singer is also siding with Russell Simmons to clean up the derogatory words used in hip-hop and R&B songs. "I think we are talented enough to write lyrics for songs without using that type of language," he said. "I think it's a positive thing for the positivity of hip-hop in general."
Further telltale signs of Akon's personal expansion are his much-desired musical collaborations. "I'd love to work with Fall Out Boy, Blink-182 and Good Charlotte would (also) be cool," he recently told NME. Gwen Stefani, Beyonce and even Paris Hilton were also name-checked.
Music Ministry Revival part145
Music Ministry Revival part145 I (We) prophesy to the 4 winds of the heavens. Revival Angels come into the Music Ministry. Come, Spirit of Music
The Music Ministry Revival has arrived. Music Ministry Revival occurs when God makes an appearance in the Music Ministry. It is the function of Music Ministry Revival to reveal the secrets of God life in the Music Neighborhood. I believe that the Music Ministry must reveal the secrets of God life in the Music Neighborhood. Music Ministry Revival is an extraordinary move of the Divine in the Music Neighborhood, using the Song of the Lord in the hands of ordinary musicians. "He usually sends His extraordinary work of revival to little people in little places who feel the need of the times and resort to extraordinary measures." Do Something Extraordinary, Roger Ellsworth The Music Ministry must real the secrets of God because:
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The proliferation of deviations in the Music Neighborhood should not surprise the Music Ministry. The Music Neighborhood is conformed to the image of the musicians in the Music Neighborhood. Gods' only disappointment in the Music Neighborhood is the Music Ministry's disobedience to God. It is the second manifestation of the evil of our times that should most concern us, that is, the evil and apathy in the 'Music Ministry'. Do Something Extraordinary, Roger Ellsworth
The Music Neighborhood needs a Music Ministry Revival Heralder...advocate!.. exhorter!...Enthusiast!...John the Baptist. The revelation of God in Jesus Christ remains the “raison d’etre” for all preaching communication. It is also the anointing of the Spirit of Jesus that makes homiletical communication effective. There are 3 elements to Music Ministry Revival.
There are six elements to the prevailing Word according to Keith Hardman in his book Seasons of Refreshing.
The Music Neighborhood needs a Music Ministry Revival Heralder...advocate!.. exhorter!...Enthusiast!...John the Baptist. The revelation of God in Jesus Christ remains the “raison d’etre” for all preaching communication. It is also the anointing of the Spirit of Jesus that makes homiletical communication effective. A Music Ministry revivalist will be able to exegete the Music Neighborhood. The Music Ministry Revival will sink or swim based on its teamwork. Could teamwork among the Music Ministry solve:
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Ministry Revival. The Spirit of awakening come. Come, Music Ministry Revival, Music Ministry harvest angels come. Music Ministry...angels of revival come... awaken Lord. Send your glory. Send your glory... send your glory and change the atmosphere in the Music Ministry. Fire of God come. Light of God come. Go forth Light of God. Breathe ... wind of God, breathe into the Music Ministry, now in Jesus name. 
Friday, July 27, 2007
Etta James Hospitalized in Los Angeles
Etta James is a three-time Grammy winner and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
Uganda: Babirye Donates Proceeds to Ministry
Uganda: Babirye Donates Proceeds to Ministry
New Vision (Kampala)
24 July 2007
Posted to the web 25 July 2007
Kampala
LAST year, her fans filled up Nakivubo Stadium at the launch of her Yesu Beera Nange album. The album earned Judith Babirye fame and took her to the top of the gospel charts.
On Sunday, she launched her new album, Yesu Asobola. Many people flocked Nakivubo to get a glimpse of the gospel star.
Fans had to part with sh1,000 and the turn-up was massive. Pastor Irene Manjeri launched the album and donated sh500,000. Presidential aide Mondo Mugisha also gave her sh500,000.
The show featured celebrated gospel artistes Pastor Wilson Bugembe, Kirwana Mc Africa, Gladys Mirembe, Wasswa Kiyinji, Pastor Robert Senyonga and Betty Muwanguzi.
Now a pastor with her own ministry, Babirye Niiwo Ministries in Bukoto, she dedicated all the proceeds from the concert to building the ministry, specifically to buy land for the church.
Botswana: UCCSA Choir Braces for Venice Festival
Botswana: UCCSA Choir Braces for Venice Festival
Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
25 July 2007
Posted to the web 26 July 2007
Maureen Odubeng
Gaborone
The United Congregational Church of Southern Africa's (UCCSA) Broadhurst Choir is to go on a voyage to Venice, Italy, for the fifth International Choral Music festival termed "Venezia in Musica" to be held on September 19-23.
The choir, which has an average membership of 60, is scheduled to leave on September 18 to go and join other international choirs expected to perform at the prestigious choral festival, which for the first time will coincide with the first International Choir Competition.
The UCCSA choir will however not participate in the competition. To raise funds for the trip to the Italian port city, the choir is to organise a number of events, including a concert billed for August 3 at Maitisong in Maruapula School.
The concert will feature UCCSA Trinity Choir, Corpus Christi Choir (Roman Catholic), Sedibeng Choral Choir, and Mogwana Traditional Dance troupe.
Choir executive committee representatives Prisca Mokgadi (chairperson), Teko Serope (secretary), and Omphemetse Chimbombi (conductor) told Showbiz yesterday that while the concert is a fund-raising event, it would also serve to showcase members' talent to Batswana. The show is scheduled to begin at 19:30.The choir is also expected to perform for President Festus Mogae at the State House on Sunday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the church choir has decided to add some extra colour to worshiping God - by infusing Setswana culture into gospel music. The group is collaborating with one of the popular traditional ensembles, Mogwana Traditional Group, to enhance their traditional gospel rhythms. Mogwana Traditional Group is expected to travel with the choir to Italy.
The trio stated that one could not "run away from Setswana culture, because Setswana culture is a very important aspect of every Motswana's life".
The choir, under the care of Moruti Ntsane Moriana, says that while the group has diversified the singing, its "main stronghold is singing UCCSA hymns and internally composed songs influenced by Setswana culture". The choir sings in different Botswana languages and accommodates all cultures and dances.
The choir is looking for sponsorship for the trip to Italy because "a good number of members are unemployed".The UCCSA Broadhurst choir was established in 1990 under the leadership of the late Timothy Mokgato. The choir's vision is "to be trendsetters in the creation and rendering of vibrant gospel music through professional choral singing by the year 2016".
Uganda: Lanek's Stab at Gospel Glory
Uganda: Lanek's Stab at Gospel Glory
New Vision (Kampala)
26 July 2007
Posted to the web 27 July 2007
Vision Reporter
Kampala
HE recently changed his stage name from Denis Lanek to Afande Lanek. Now this youthful gospel singer has released an impressive six-track album that could mark the climax of his gospel music career.
Titled Batuwaayiriza si Doggo, the CD hit the shelves recently. X Zone International, Uganda's leading local gospel music distributors, own the album's distribution rights.
Batuwayiriza si Doggo is a follow up to Lanek's little-noticed album, Jangu nga Bwoli released about two years ago.
The title-track, Batuwayiriza si Doggo earned Lanek a Victoria Gospel Music Awards nomination in the Best Afro beat Single category, bringing his nominations to two.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Fortifi@ Humor Dawgs in a fight in Dog Daze of Summer
It's not the size of the dawgs in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dawgs
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
The Once and Future Prince
I’VE got lots of money!” Prince exults in “The One U Wanna C,” a come-on from his new album, “Planet Earth” (Columbia). There’s no reason to disbelieve him. With a sponsorship deal here and an exclusive show there, worldwide television appearances and music given away, Prince has remade himself as a 21st-century pop star. As recording companies bemoan a crumbling market, Prince is demonstrating that charisma and the willingness to go out and perform are still bankable. He doesn’t have to go multiplatinum — he’s multiplatform.
Prince has caused a stir by distributing his new album free in a British newspaper, one of many ways he is showing that he thinks differently about the music business.
Prince playing last weekend in East Hampton, N.Y.
Although Prince declined to be interviewed about “Planet Earth,” he has been highly visible lately. His career is heading into its third decade, and he could have long since become a nostalgia act. Instead he figured out early how to do what he wants in a 21st-century music business, and clearly what he wants is to make more music. Despite his flamboyant wardrobe and his fixation on the color purple, his career choices have been savvy ones, especially for someone so compulsively prolific.
Like most pop stars, he goes on major tours to coincide with album releases, which for Prince are frequent. But he also gets out and performs whenever he chooses. Last year he took over a club in Las Vegas and renamed it 3121, after his 2006 album “3121,” which briefly hit No. 1 and spawned multiple conflicting theories about the significance of the number. He started playing there twice a week for 900 people at $125 a ticket. In February he had an audience in the millions as the halftime entertainment for the Super Bowl. He has gone on to play well-publicized shows at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood for a few hundred people paying $3,121 per couple, and another elite show last weekend in East Hampton for about $3,000 per person.
Meanwhile Verizon put Prince in commercials that use “Guitar,” another song from “Planet Earth,” as bait for its V Cast Song ID service, making the song a free download to certain cellphones. On July 7 Prince introduced a perfume, 3121, by performing at Macy’s in Minneapolis.
In Britain he infuriated retailers by agreeing to have a newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, include the complete “Planet Earth” CD in copies on July 15. (The album is due for American release this Tuesday.) Presumably The Mail paid him something in the range of what he could have earned, much more slowly, through album sales. British fans have remunerated him in other ways. On Aug. 1 he starts a string of no fewer than 21 sold-out arena concerts, 20,000 seats each, at the O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome) in London at the relatively low ticket price of £31.21, about $64. The O2 ticket price also includes a copy of the album; Prince did the same thing with his tour for “Musicology” in 2004. Those “Musicology” albums were counted toward the pop charts, which then changed their rules; the “Planet Earth” albums will not be. But fans will have the record.
Prince’s priorities are obvious. The main one is getting his music to an audience, whether it’s purchased or not. “Prince’s only aim is to get music direct to those that want to hear it,” his spokesman said when announcing that The Mail would include the CD. (After the newspaper giveaway was announced, Columbia Records’ corporate parent, Sony Music, chose not to release “Planet Earth” for retail sale in Britain.) Other musicians may think that their best chance at a livelihood is locking away their music — impossible as that is in the digital era — and demanding that fans buy everything they want to hear. But Prince is confident that his listeners will support him, if not through CD sales then at shows or through other deals.
This is how most pop stars operate now: as brand-name corporations taking in revenue streams from publishing, touring, merchandising, advertising, ringtones, fashion, satellite radio gigs or whatever else their advisers can come up with. Rare indeed are holdouts like Bruce Springsteen who simply perform and record. The usual rationale is that hearing a U2 song in an iPod commercial or seeing Shakira’s face on a cellphone billboard will get listeners interested in the albums that these artists release every few years after much painstaking effort.
But Prince is different. His way of working has nothing to do with scarcity. In the studio — he has his own recording complex, Paisley Park near Minneapolis — he is a torrent of new songs, while older, unreleased ones fill the archive he calls the Vault. Prince apparently has to hold himself back to release only one album a year. He’s equally indefatigable in concert. On the road he regularly follows full-tilt shows — singing, playing, dancing, sweating — with jam sessions that stretch into the night. It doesn’t hurt that at 49 he can still act like a sex symbol and that his stage shows are unpredictable.
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Through it all he still aims for hit singles. Although he has delved into all sorts of music, his favorite form is clearly the four-minute pop tune full of hooks. But his careerchoices don’t revolve around squeezing the maximum return out of a few precious songs. They’re about letting the music flow.
Prince on the “Purple Rain” tour in Detroit in 1984.
How much he makes from his various efforts is a closely guarded secret. But he’s not dependent on royalties trickling in from retail album sales after being filtered through major-label accounting procedures. Instead someone — a sponsor, a newspaper, a promoter — pays him upfront, making disc sales less important. Which is not to say that he’s doing badly on that front: “3121” sold about 520,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and “Musicology,” with its concert giveaways, was certified multiplatinum.
Prince ended a two-decade contract with Warner Brothers Records in 1996 after a very public falling out with the label. During the mid-1990s he appeared with the word “Slave” painted on his face and said the label was holding back material he wanted to release. For a while he dropped the name Prince — which was under contract to Warner Brothers and Warner/Chappell Music — for an unpronounceable glyph; when the contracts ran out, he was Prince again. And since leaving Warner Brothers he has been independent. He owns his recordings himself, beginning with a three-CD set called “Emancipation” from 1996. He has released albums on his own NPG label and Web site or has licensed them, one by one, for distribution by major labels, presumably letting them compete for each title. Over the past decade he has had albums released through EMI, Arista, Universal and Sony.
The idea behind long-term recording contracts is that a label will invest in building a career. But Prince (in part because of Warner Brothers’ promotion) has been a full-fledged star since the ’80s. So now a label’s main job for him is to get the CDs into stores.
Prince also experimented with having fans subscribe directly to receive his music online, which turned out to be a better idea in theory than in execution. After five years he quietly shut down his NPG Music Club in 2006. Still, his Web site (which is now 3121.com) usually has a rare recording or two for streaming or downloading. Why not? There’s plenty more.
“Planet Earth” is a good but not great Prince album. Unlike “3121,” which built many of its tracks around zinging, programmed electronic sounds, “Planet Earth” sounds largely handmade, even retro. “In this digital age you could just page me,” Prince sings in “Somewhere Here on Earth,” a slow-motion falsetto ballad. “I know it’s the rage but it just don’t engage me like a face-to-face.”
Prince, as usual, is a one-man studio band — drums, keyboards, guitars, vocals — joined here and there by a horn section or a cooing female voice. This time he leans toward rock rather than funk. Serious songs begin and end the album. It starts with “Planet Earth,” an earnest environmental piano anthem with an orchestral buildup, and winds up with the devout “Lion of Judah” and with “Resolution,” an antiwar song. In between, Prince flirts a lot, playing hard-to-get as he rocks through “Guitar” (“I love you baby, but not like I love my guitar”) and promising sensual delights in the upbeat “One U Wanna C” and the slow-grinding “Mr. Goodnight.” There’s also a catchy, nutty song about a model, “Chelsea Rodgers,” who’s both hard-partying and erudite; Prince sings that she knows about how “Rome was chillin’ in Carthage in 33 B.C.E.”
Although Columbia probably thinks otherwise, how the album fares commercially is almost incidental. With or without the CD business, Prince gets to keep making music: in arenas, in clubs, in the studio. Fans buy concert tickets, companies rent his panache, pleasure is shared. It’s a party that can go on a long time.
45th Anniversary of the Harlem Crusade July 22-29, 1962
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We are seeking to put together the story of a movement that begin in Harlem 45 years ago. We are seeking those who were part of the movement to tell their perspective on Black Evangelism/Evangelicalism in the USA. We would to begin with the Harlem Crusade, which was held at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NYC from July 22-29, 1962. If you have any information pertaining to your involvement and how that movement may have influenced your present life and ministry. Please contact Phil Bingham, 4 Minute Fortifi@ Radio Distinguish the Piranha and Protégés in your Music Minis
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4 Minute Fortifi@ Radio PB Music quote 07/24/07 Every Music Garden and Environment has a Parasite-Paranha
By Phil Bingham
Be careful of the protégés in your life who want your attention and reject and despise your wisdom. It is the mentor’s assignment to discern the Parasites-Piranha or Protégés in your life and ministry. Discern the intentions of the people around you. Remove disloyalty as soon as you know it. Please notice that Jesus did not remove disloyal people-Judas. Study the traps and people that will be your downfall…the reoccurring weaknesses are in you.
Solution! Dilute the weakness!
39Jesus went back and prayed the same prayer. 40But when he returned to the disciples, he found them sleeping again. They simply could not keep their eyes open, and they did not know what to say. 41When Jesus returned to the disciples the third time, he said, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough of that! The time has come for the Son of Man to be handed over to sinners. 42Get up! Let's go. The one who will betray me is already here
A greater vessel can not confide the ministry secrets in a lesser vessel. Don’t let people with lesser experience be your confidants ( accomplice, ally, collaborator) · Matthew 9 (Amplified Bible)16And no one puts a piece of cloth that has not been shrunk on an old garment, for such a patch tears away from the garment and a worse rent (tear) is made. 17Neither is new wine put in old wineskins; for if it is, the skins burst and are [k]torn in pieces, and the wine is spilled and the skins are ruined. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved. Mentors must hide the secrets in containers that may be deceptive. It is the protégés assignment to discover the secrets.
a. The presence of God purges the environment. § Genesis 1 The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters. b. Your discernment identifies the people who are disloyal c. Wisdom gives you strategies for dealing with the Peter in your life and ministry d. Grace and Mercy causes the cock to crow § 72Right away the rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered that Jesus had told him, "Before a rooster crows twice, you will say three times that you don't know me." So Peter started crying. Postlogue: Peter the Parasite has a name change to Protégé (He changed Simon’s "God has heard" name to Peter "rock" (John 1:42).) Acts 2:41 (The Message) 41-42That day about three thousand took him at his word, were baptized and were signed up. They committed themselves to the teaching of the apostles, the life together, the common meal, and the prayers. Phil Bingham 4 minute fortify@
4 Minute Radio Music Ministry Fortify Distinguish the Piranha and Protégés in your Music Ministry
7 Secrets of the Music Ministry-
i. Reminds you of God
i. Please notice that Jesus did not remove disloyal people-Judas.
e. Genesis 1 The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters. f. Your discernment identifies the people who are disloyal g. Wisdom gives you strategies for dealing with the Peter in your life and ministry h. Grace and Mercy causes the cock to crow § 72Right away the rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered that Jesus had told him, "Before a rooster crows twice, you will say three times that you don't know me." So Peter started crying.
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7 Secrets of the Music Ministry-Parasites-Piranha or Protégés
Parasites-Piranha or Protégés
By Phil Bingham
Be careful of the protégés in your life who want your attention and reject and despise your wisdom. It is the mentor’s assignment to discern the Parasites-Piranha or Protégés in your life and ministry. Discern the intentions of the people around you. Remove disloyalty as soon as you know it. Please notice that Jesus did not remove disloyal people-Judas. Study the traps and people that will be your downfall…the reoccurring weaknesses are in you. Avoid ‘slippery’ places, people and things
- 17-18While Jesus and the twelve disciples were eating together that evening, he said, "The one who will betray me is now eating with me."
- 30Jesus replied, "This very night before a rooster crows twice, you will say three times that you don't know me."
Solution! Dilute the weakness!
- <LICLASS=MSONORMAL style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1">The 5000 never prayed with Jesus on the other side. Mark 14: 2Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he told them, "Sit here while I pray."
- The 12 disciples never followed Jesus to inner prayer place. 33Jesus took along Peter, James, and John. He was sad and troubled and 34told them, "I am so sad that I feel as if I am dying. Stay here and keep awake with me."
- The 3 (Peter, James, and John) could not stay awake- 37When Jesus came back and found the disciples sleeping, he said to Simon Peter, "Are you asleep? Can't you stay awake for just one hour?
39Jesus went back and prayed the same prayer. 40But when he returned to the disciples, he found them sleeping again. They simply could not keep their eyes open, and they did not know what to say. 41When Jesus returned to the disciples the third time, he said, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough of that! The time has come for the Son of Man to be handed over to sinners. 42Get up! Let's go. The one who will betray me is already here
A greater vessel can not confide the ministry secrets in a lesser vessel. Don’t let people with lesser experience be your confidants ( accomplice, ally, collaborator)
· Matthew 9 (Amplified Bible)16And no one puts a piece of cloth that has not been shrunk on an old garment, for such a patch tears away from the garment and a worse rent (tear) is made. 17Neither is new wine put in old wineskins; for if it is, the skins burst and are torn in pieces, and the wine is spilled and the skins are ruined. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.
Mentors must hide the secrets in containers that may be deceptive. It is the protégés assignment to discover the secrets.
- Matthew 16:17 (The Message)17-18Jesus came back, "God bless you, Simon, son of Jonah! You didn't get that answer out of books or from teachers. My Father in heaven, God himself, let you in on this secret of who I really am. And now I'm going to tell you who you are, really are. You are Peter, a rock. This is the rock on which I will put together my church, a church so expansive with energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out.
a. The presence of God purges the environment.
§ Genesis 1 The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.
b. Your discernment identifies the people who are disloyal
c. Wisdom gives you strategies for dealing with the Peter in your life and ministry
d. Grace and Mercy causes the cock to crow
§ 72Right away the rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered that Jesus had told him, "Before a rooster crows twice, you will say three times that you don't know me." So Peter started crying.
Postlogue: Peter the Parasite has a name change to Protégé (He changed Simon’s "God has heard" name to Peter "rock" (John 1:42).) Acts 2:41 (The Message) 41-42That day about three thousand took him at his word, were baptized and were signed up. They committed themselves to the teaching of the apostles, the life together, the common meal, and the prayers.
Phil Bingham
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Distinguish the Piranha and Protégés in your Music Ministry
7 Secrets of the Music Ministry-
- Be careful of the music protégés in your life who want your music secrets and reject and despise your morals and wisdom
- Your best music friend fears God
i. Reminds you of God
- A greater music vessel can not confide the ministry secrets in a lesser music vessel. Don’t let musicians with lesser experience be your confidants ( accomplice, ally, collaborator)
- Music mentors must hide the secrets in containers that may be deceptive.
- It is the protégés assignment to discover the secrets in prayer and fasting.
- Dilute the weakness in your environment
- Staff your weakness
- Flee your weakness
- Study the plot and traps that music organizations or people will conjure to secure your downfall
- the reoccurring weaknesses are in you
- It is the music mentor’s assignment to discern the Parasites-Piranha or Protégés in their lives and ministry.
- Discern the intentions of the people around you.
- Remove disloyalty as soon as you know it.
i. Please notice that Jesus did not remove disloyal people-Judas.
- The presence of God purges themusic environment.
e. Genesis 1 The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.
f. Your discernment identifies the people who are disloyal
g. Wisdom gives you strategies for dealing with the Peter in your life and ministry
h. Grace and Mercy causes the cock to crow
§ 72Right away the rooster crowed asecond time. Then Peter remembered that Jesus had told him, "Before a rooster crows twice, you will say three times that you don't know me." So Peter started crying.