new music

I've spent a bit of time over the past couple of days looking around on the internet for some new music for my ipod, after finding lately that I skip most of my music when listening to it on shuffle. If found, or re-discovered a few bands and artists that I really like, to name a few: amusement parks on fire, chase coy, gotye, bon iver, the arrival, lydia, mute math, jill scott, iron and wine, robert pattinson...

Music though I guess, is a big part of a lot of peoples lives. A lot of teenagers really do live for their music, if they have nothing else in their lives. I guess if I weren't from a Christian family, I might be like that myself.

Anyway, I really wanted to share the lyrics to a song... or rap... by an artist I've liked for a while now, he's called Shai Linne. He's an American Christian rap artist, I first heard him on Way of The Master Radio where they really commended him for his bible based lyrics in "Atonement Q&A"....so I thought you know, if WOTM approve, he must be good!

This is called 'More Random Thoughts'... I think it's like a secret track from the end of the Atonement album, but I got it from Myspace Exclusive so... I'm not sure. Sorry there are a few ... where i just couldn't make out what he was saying... not sure if it's cus Im English or just don't know all the rap "lingo" lol! Yes... I wrote all the lyrics out from listening to it because I couldn't find them online anywhere...worth it though!

" Soli Deo Gloria

I'm back but no one was asking where I'd been
If you didn't get it the first time around I'll try again,

The God man Jesus Christ crucified for sin, he died to win, trifling type of men like me.
Where should I begin? The self righteous christless life that I was in.
I was never a thug, I was confident, conceptual, quotable, positive, interrogative, intellectual.
Eastern philosophy, new age theology, challenged me idea construct your arguments logically
Now I see the fallacy, I was hypocritical, unbiblical, miserable, pitiful individual,
Eyes closed, legs crossed, palms open on my knees,
I was oh so deep I couldn't stop smoking trees,
I justified my sin by saying it was natural,
an act of going after the theatrical for capital.

A door back in Danes says an hour yes indeedy,
on a sure path to flames says I spark up the "beatys"
Now I broadcast his fame in the dark to the needy,
cus the Lord tagged his name on my heart in grafitti,
Take it easy,
Christ is amazing believe me
I've tasted and seen he's more good than baked "seedy"

A contract written in blood, a grace treaty,
a convict hear from the judge, 'hey sweety'
The Holy Jehovah dove in clothes with skin, broke in,
atoned for sin then rose again,
So odios rolling to homeless roads which could approach his throne
and the whole host are to Him, and won't be condemned,

So we magnify the Lamb slain,
we're debtors hard, we spread His cause
without an advertising campaign,
The world can't understand, they aim to discover,
why we live to exalt the name of another,
Cats as honey, into Satan's trap they plummet,
they know they need the Lord they steady backtracking from it,
Laughing cause they done it, at the last judgement blast of the trumpet,
Christ coming back smashing stuff, who want it?

You better give the Lord the respect that He deserves,
and get beheaded with the sword thats prjected from His word,
But yet hes benevolent, with reverence we embrace Him,
a heavenly residence he's setting the preparations,
Checking your decadence that's the evidence that you hate him,
revelling in devilish things your preference is Satan,
Jesus took the penalty for our breaking law,
He's the medicine that we're taking so we'll never be forsaken,
But Hell is the destiny that your facing,
cus your spirit's more dead than the presidence that you're chasing,

God in his sovereignty wired me to invent,
rhyme patterns to glorify him is the intent,
In case you're inquiring what i meant is
Our music's inspirational, we inspire you to repent,
You fall on your face before the messiah who was sent,
To give life to the highest extent, now...

I'm coming to you straight out of the furnace of affliction,
So for the glory of God, I'm earnest in my diction,
And not only my diction, I'm earnest in my living,
Cus through the blood of Jesus I'm purchased and I'm written
Through mercy I'm forgiven so I'm hungrier than ever,
So you can keep your fame, props money or whatever,
Got my eyes on the light of Christ, the blazing one,
I celebrate Him cus I know what he's saved me from,
Back in the days, trapped in my ways, saturated with dark
So Christ activated a spark, captivateded my heart,
I used to doubt Him, now I see I can't live without Him
So what I look like now telling everybody about Him?

We explicit, cus Jesus is exquisite,
His people eagerly contemplate his next visit,
Heaven is Christ centred, we'll be praising his name
Since that's true then then right now we making it plain
Yo the Gospel and my lyrics inextricably woven,
Cus a sinner like me was unpredictably chosen,
On some yo fam you can't be joking
You accepted Christ, congratulations, you get to be broken,

It should be obvious who is our master,
But we living in the age of the superstar pastor,
The superstar rapper
Yo son listen here,
When the sun comes out, the stars supposed to disappear,
The worlds lost and hurtin
They need this awesome person,
But emotionalism results in false conversions,
Most preaching today produces stony ground hearers
Thats why the world looked at the church and only found mirrors.
It's not about works
So how loud do you shout in church?
cus there's a lot of devout jerks without new birth.

But getting back to the matter at hand, state of emergency,
For the world thats caught up in fashion and glam,
Pete Maverick man with his elaborate scams,
Like baggin a prams just to put some cash in his hands,
His favourite rapper rapped rash... for his passionate fans,
Oblivious to the rap of the land,
But praise God for the Gospel, extravagant plan,
attracting his fans from Afghanistan to Japan,
And the Lord will receive the reward for his sufferings,
Endure the lowest opinion... of all other things in comparison

His spiritual riches are embaressing,
Stuff you couldn't even afford if you were heresing
The Lord Jesus Christ is the source of my wellspring,
So don't .... Justin Timberel sings,
If I get the chance I'll tell Kings,
The Lord's in the class by himself like a teacher after the bell rings,
When it comes to giving Jesus props I must say,
I don't have enough bars like a cell phone in the subway,
So thank you for your patience, stay tuned for stories,
Lamp move represents to God be the glory.

All praise to the name of the Saviour who reigns,
He's taken our blame, embraced all our shame,
He's raised from the grave so His fame we proclaim,
Salvation by grace, through faith in His name.

All praise to the name of the Saviour who reigns,
He's taken our blame, embraced all our shame,
He's raised from the grave so His fame we proclaim,
Salvation by grace, through faith in His name.

Grace and peace to God's elect worldwide.

Soli Deo Gloria."

The bit that really stuck with me from the first time I listened to it is this:

"The world can't understand, they aim to discover,
why we live to exalt the name of another,"

Just because it shows just how different Christians are to the rest of the world, no one else does live to exalt the name of another like Christians should be doing. But then that's it exactly... we should be doing it, but are we? Am I? Do the people around me wonder why I live to exalt the name of Jesus Christ instead of my own?

The sermon this morning was on Philippians 1:21 "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain". Is it really for me? Is living Christ? And do I see dying as gain, or am I holding onto this world and wanting more from the world before I'd be happy to die? hmm..

There's a lot of things I'd like to write about here now, but we'll save it for another day.