There are times when the gospel industry, hey when Christianity itself can appear somewhat … fake. You know what I mean? You’re expected to praise when they tell you to praise, you’re expected to have it altogether, you’re expected to accept what you hear about the sparkling materially enriched life you have as a Christian […]
Read More Telling The Truth – Kirk Franklin(He looks left to see if there’s any emails not yet sent that might get in his way – none there. He looks right to see if any great gospel artists have passed on deserving a special tribute – none there. It is safe to blog and so he begins …) There is a convention […]
Read More I’m Packing UpSo following last week’s enjoyable journey down memory lane, we have another nostalgic reminiscence of some of the what is now to be considered as old school gospel choir style stuff. Except, this isn’t exactly the mould breaking stuff that all the choirs sought to emulate. Sure they sang the song, but when folks over […]
Read More Speak to Me Lord Jesus – Kirk FranklinThe following is something that was inspired by an email I received from a very close person in my life … relationally. If you read it in a particular way it may be structured in a familiar way to a song that was rendered originally by one Kirk Franklin. Due thanks go to him for […]
Read More The Reason Why I TweetOld school, eh. I mean it’s not even old school, but now it’s old school. Old school used to be classic Andrae Crouch and the Disciples stuff or something from the Rev. James Cleveland. Back in the day old would be really classic Shirley Caesar when she was in the Caravans or Mahalia Jackosn. Back […]
Read More The Reason Why I Sing – Kirk FranklinSometimes I free-blog. Now that means nothing to you as a reader because understandably as far as you’re concerned I should take the time to proof-read what I’ve written before publishing it. There are times when I’ll write the blog on me word document program before uploading the document to transfer the text to the […]
Read More Fred Hammond – Tribute and TributesI continue to be amazed at how God works in my life. I mess around, keep it on the hush, get exposed, get forgiven, start afresh, get going well, trip up, mess around, keep it … (you’d have thought I’d have taken the hint after the first 4.8 million times, but like a lab-rat, I […]
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