https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWjOlytm3CA
Alabaster Box is a four man Ghanian a capella singing group founded by Samuel Narku Dowuona. The other members of the group are Gideon Allotey, Michael Allotey, and Horst Ayub. The African musical instrument sounds which you hear are all made by the men.The group is often referred to simply as the Box.
Alabaster in its purest form is a snow-white mineral which is especially useful in sculpture.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Comedy/Music Comment: Chonda Pierce. A Piece of My Mind
Chonda Pierce is a hilarious Christian stand-up comedian and singer whose performances have the same effect as those of Michael Jr. whom I have mentioned in several earlier posts. While making the listener laugh uncontrollably, she carries a sword, and thrusts with that sword to deliver her message. She is a warrior and an evangelist of the first order. All of her comedic routines are sermons.
Chonda talks about subjects not normally considered to be funny, especially for a Christian comedian. Her topics include menopause, depression, clothes which for some unknown reason no longer fit, aging parents, annoying neighbors, and family dysfunction. Nothing is off limits. Why should it be? Christians live in the real world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LdGs-eioMQ depression
Chonda Pierce. A Piece of My Mind, INO Records, 000768303917
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Film Comment: Bill and Ted;s Excellent Adventure
The video clip below is from a cult classic movie named Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989). The film is truly hilarious because it is so ridiculously mindless and vapid. This is repeat of a prior post because the video was soon blocked by you tube.
In 2688 AD/CE, Rufus is chosen to save the Utopian future by using a time traveling phone booth to go to 1988 and to ensure that the Two Great Ones,Bill and Ted , are able to form the rock music band Wyld Stallyns (Wild Stallions) because their music is destined to save the world. To preserve the future, Rufus has to help the two empty headed boys make a passing grade on their high school history project.
The future society has based itself upon the music and philosophy of the rock music band, resulting in world peace.
(Some videos will not play properly when you click on the triangle. Instead, click on the title line in the picture and the video will begin . When the video is completed, close the You Tube pop-up window to return to this blog.)
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“I think they want us to say something.”
“What should I say?”
“Make something up!”
“Be excellent to each other!”
“Be excellent to each other!” This is excellent advice but is a very naive basis on which to build a society because of the fallen nature of man. History has repeatedly proven that we will not “Be excellent to each other!”
Only a complete change in our nature, a total transformation in our understanding of the nature of reality, will suffice. We need to be of one mind about things. Christians are capable of this because we are indwelled by the Holy Spirit. We have the Mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 1:10, 2:16; Philippians 1:27)
“In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.” 1John 3:10-11
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Amazing Grace Snow Globe
Snow globes are glass balls filled with water and a substance resembling snow. When the globe is shaken, the interior of the globe seems to be engulfed in a blizzard of swirling snow. Various scenes, often of a religious nature, but not always, are depicted by tiny figurines and landscapes inside the globe.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
福音歌 (The Gospel Song)
This is absolutely beautiful! William Chong’s daughter loves her daddy and helps him sing
his song. William is a gathered
worship leader at Howick Baptist Church in Auckland, New Zealand.
聖潔神以愛成為
完美人承擔我罪
十架上受苦犧牲
祂受死我得永生
Holy God, love becomes
Perfect bear my sins
Sacrifice on the cross of suffering
His death I have never
Shèngjié shén yǐ ài chéngwéi
wánměi rén chéngdān wǒ zuì
shí jià shàng shòukǔ xīshēng
tā shòu sǐ wǒ dé yǒng
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Amazing Grace on a Wind-up Metal Musical Church Box
Little boxes such as these are often seen as children's toys. What a wonderful teaching tool.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Amazing Grace Performed on the Blues Harmonica
Amazing Grace performed on the Harmonica in the blues music style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7e3JWnLEDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crxqFzslD0Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EggMezlS04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWark492C0
This next link has nothing to do with the links above except that it shows one of the true blues masters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny5ajCn0xw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7e3JWnLEDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crxqFzslD0Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EggMezlS04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWark492C0
This next link has nothing to do with the links above except that it shows one of the true blues masters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny5ajCn0xw
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Dude With a Limp
Michael Jr. tells you that he is a stand-up comedian. His jokes and stories have people rolling in the aisles. Then, he pulls out the Sword of the Lord and thrusts. This is a man of God. This is an evangelist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1_5DzWNxw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1_5DzWNxw
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Amazing Grace Performed on Several Musical Instruments
Amazing Grace Performed on Several Musical Instruments
Ukelele
Q-chord
Bluegrass version
Harmonica
Trump (aka: Jew’s Harp)
Harp
Camille and Kennerly Kitt
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Amazing Grace Sung in the Lakota Language by Tiana Spotted Thunder
The Native American Lakota Tribe is more commonly known as the Sioux. Some, but not all, consider the word "Sioux" to be an insult word (see the third link)..
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Amazing Grace Sung in the Navajo Language
Amazing Grace in Navajo, sung by Elizabeth Bryant and Virginia Greymountain
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Ueno Yoshie Performing Amazing Grace on the Flute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFOjMWw5Vok
The flutist, Yoshie Ueno, should not be confused with the international
judoka, Yoshie Ueno.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Several Electric Guitar Renditions of “Amazing Grace”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69RA7vxmIcw
Several listeners insist that this is Jeff Beck rather than Carlos Santana. The guitar style does seem to be more like Beck than the more Latin inspired Santana.
Several listeners insist that this is Jeff Beck rather than Carlos Santana. The guitar style does seem to be more like Beck than the more Latin inspired Santana.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Two Fathers
Today is Father’s Day.
The holiday is observed in at least fifty countries on the third Sunday
of the month of June. The day celebrates fathers and their influences on the
lives of their children.
A wonderful song for Father’s Day is Beautiful Boy by John Lennon.
Every father should hear it.
One of the most important biblical stories about a father is
that of Abraham and Isaac. Abraham
had already had to send away his first-born son, Ishmael, the son of his wife’s
servant/slave girl. Surely he had loved this son. Now, God was asking Abraham
to sacrifice his adored young son, born to Abraham’s long-barren wife.
I believe that this story tells us about two fathers: Abraham and God.
Genesis 22:1-19
22 And
it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto
him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son
Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him
there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and
saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and
clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of
which God had told him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes,
and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye
here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again
to you.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering,
and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife;
and they went both of them together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and
said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire
and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide
himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
9 And they came to the place which God had told him
of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound
Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took
the knife to slay his son.
11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of
heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad,
neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God,
seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and
behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and
took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place
Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be
seen.
15 And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out
of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord,
for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine
only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in
multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the
sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his
enemies;
18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they
rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
The traditional understanding of this passage is
that God was testing the faith of Abraham. Obviously, the omniscient omnipotent
Creator knew the answer before He gave the test. I believe that there is much
more there: God was also teaching Abraham at least three things:
1.
This is what I expect. You should put nothing
ahead of Me.
2.
This is how much you love Me, that you would have
done this thing if I had not stopped you.
3. I will provide/have provided the only
sacrifice necessary for you to be acceptable in My sight; the Blood of Jesus,
the Lamb of God.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
You Will Be Unable to Keep a Straight Face
Everyone has at times been fidgity or sleepy or distracted at church. Mr. Bean just takes it to extremes.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Just a Day at Work
Watch what happened at this photography processing shop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AnMlQNw1M8&annotation_id=annotation_709575&feature=iv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AnMlQNw1M8&annotation_id=annotation_709575&feature=iv
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