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What do you say to those who claim drinking is OK because Jesus drank wine?

You say, “I think you meant to add just a word or two to that sentence, like ‘drinking can be OK’ … OK?” The statement “It’s OK” may or may not carry in their mind a pattern of life that’s healthy.

I would say some drinking is definitely not OK, like drinking to drunkenness. That’s clear in the Bible. Another one that’s not OK is drinking with a person who is manifestly having their conscience wounded and being tempted or drawn into something that they just spent six years trying through Teen Challenge and AA to get free from. And now you’re drawing them right in to what killed them! And it kills millions of people in this culture. It’s killing marriages, it’s killing jobs. Alcohol is deadly in this culture.

Now I don’t know how deadly it was in Jesus’ culture. Drunkenness was real. Clearly the Bible condemns it. How real and deadly it was though, I don’t know. I just know what I’m dealing with when I go to talk at Teen Challenge or when I pray with a man like I did after church last Sunday who said, “When I’m done here, I’m going out and getting drunk, because I’m  done. I think I’m apostate, and I’m beyond help and forgiveness. And I’ve been through treatment so many times it’s hopeless.” I just know that is so prevalent. People that are cavalier about this thing called alcohol make no sense to me.

So, I’m just saying, “Add a word to that sentence.”

Of course you can’t defend teetotalism in any absolute way from the Bible. It’s clear that wine is a blessing in the Bible.

If you make the choice, like me, that I’m going to be a teetotaler, it’s just not based on the condemnation of the evil of wine. That’s just not it at all! It’s the context in which I live. It’s my children and my grandchildren. It’s my addictive personality. I can’t even buy a pack of gum without going through it in an hour.

I sense a lot of young guys who don’t want to be legalistic and want to spread their wings and know gospel freedom are just not very realistic about the world in which we live.

So that’s a little warning. And I know the pushback would be real strong from a lot of people I admire greatly that I could easily fall into a trap of ruling out for everybody what God has given as a precious gift.

Just a month ago or so, a gospel artiste (a well known for that matter) was being interviewed on a national television, on a show that most Kenyan youths watch or connect to. He was asked on the revolutionary on the gospel music industry, his answer â??gospel nowadays has swagger that even the secular cant topâ? that got me mad, asking myself how can a minister not even mention or drop some memory verses but confident to say our swagger cant even be topped by the world? We are in the age where the word has got a highway in our mouths, like a freeway at night. But really what are we confessing to ourselves? With so many songs with the word, we have accepted it as if itâ??s a good word, or you may. If I remember well the word wasnâ??t in use that much until jay-z, T.I and there pals dropped the joint â??swagger like usâ? this was followed by gospel ministers using this word on their joints, even others naming their joints the name. Milliyon, a HHH (Holy Hip Hop) artiste singed to CAJOint, dropped â??swagingâ?. first of all the whole joint lived to the name, its all about swagger with the lyrics going like â??from the way I walk/to the way I talk/ homey am just swagingâ?¦â? the video is shot inside limos, in conferences, hummer tracks n whatever u imagine to see in secular videos. Buddycrunk, another HHH artiste singed to CAJOint, drooped â??swag n poseâ? with the lyrics like â??now swag/now poseâ?, Mouthpi3ce dropped â??blame it on my swagâ? just to mention a few international artistes. The syndrome spread fast to our local ministries with Holydave jamming the line â??na bounce na swaggerâ?¦â? a well known producer when asked what new thing he is doing to the market answered â??am giving Kenyan gospel swagâ? these are just few instance I can remember on â??swagâ?
On the flip side few gospel artistes sing against swag, with guys like KJ-52 on â??swaged out tugs outâ? featuring Da T.R.U.T.H, and the remix with Victory. Pro with, â??Murder swagâ? just to mention a few. But really what is swag? As per the Oxford pocket dictionary  swagger as verbs is, â??walk or behave arrogantlyâ?. Well swag is pride, In Jer 13:15 the Bible says â??Hear and give ear; do not be proud; for Jehovah has spokenâ? so are we going against what Jehovah has spoken? Look at king Nebuchadnezzar, he was sent from men as a result of his pride (read Daniel) the Lord with always deal with the proud, but still on the king, he was returned to the throne after he was humbled, this also applies to us, humble yourself and the Lord will restore you to your position. In order for us to make disciples (as the great commission commands us) we need to kill pride in us, we cant reach out to people while showing we are better than them, even Christ himself lowered himself to our level, but still remained relevant to the word. Christ came in a manger, not in a five star hospital (heheheheh if it exists) Christ rode on a donkey, not on a escalade, why are we busy showing how blinging we are getting by the days? Why are our gospel ministers busy trying to show they are better than others? Pride will kill us, we need to be humble, this is accepting that we are not the best, and there is someone way good. Humility brings grace, believing on someone to have favour on us, which we donâ??t even qualify to have, grace demands faith, this is believing someone will do something great in our situations, situations that may look impossible, that we may even look like fools, yeah ad rather be a fool for Christ, whuz fool are you? You canâ??t have grace when u believe in yourself, you canâ??t have faith if grace is an alien word or experience in you. We got to murder swag. So looking the definition of â??swaggerâ? are our artistes using the word in a different way? Or are they using it as the arrogant meaning? And do u think you are being proud when you say u have swagger? We need some self examination. Thanks family. PEACE
*am not against anyone, am just against pride, hiding in swag

<Story Courtesy Of Juma Johnson;an x-hoodz correspondent>

Dear Friends and Supporters:

First I want to thank everyone for your understanding, mercy and grace while my family and I worked on rebuilding our marriage and reconciliation. From the very beginning, I have wanted to communicate with you. However following the advice of the church leadership, and others to whom I entrusted my restoration, I remained silent.
Back in late April 2009, the Lord exposed me and consequently delivered me from being entangled in a season of willful disobedience, deception and darkness. I was involved in a non-sexual but very inappropriate relationship with a woman other than my wife, thereby betraying my Lord, my wife, family, Epiphany Fellowship (the church I love and was instrumental in founding) my co-laborers and ministry supporters like you.
It has often been suggested that no genuine Christian can willfully sin habitually for a prolonged period (1 John 3:6). And that those who do sin cannot do so without some sense of great conviction and internal disturbance. My life is a personal witness to this statement, as I for several months battled great depression, gradual and graphic spiritual deterioration. However, it indeed was Godâ??s mercy that exposed me, breaking sinâ??s enslaving grip on me. It was also His mercy which used that to lead me to experience what David did when Nathan revealed that the â??gig was upâ? and said, â??You are the man!â? (2 Samuel 12:7).
Like David, I instantly knew that, â??I have sinned against the Lordâ? (2 Samuel 12:13). I was crushed by an enormous weight of guilt, shame, fear and sorrow, and I knew that the journey back to â??ground zeroâ? would be insanely difficult. Even to this day, I wrestle with that shame from time to time, but I also know there is one place I can turnâ??the gospel! I have to continually contradict my feelings and believe the rest of 2 Samuel 12:13, â??The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.â?
After nearly a year of retreat, rehabilitation and intense family focus, Godâ??s grace has me reset on a trajectory toward spiritual wholeness. Like Paul the great apostle I admit, â??Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfectâ?¦â? â??But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesusâ? (Philippians 3:12-14). Godâ??s grace is teaching me that I am not supposed to attempt to â??workâ? my way back to some supposed level of super-spirituality and then come out feeling â??qualified.â? But I am to recognize that I am never â??sufficient in myself,â? but â??our sufficiency is from Godâ? (2 Corinthians 3:5). As someone once said â??He doesnâ??t call the qualified, but rather qualifies the called.â? I am deeply comforted by this gospel truth and equally dependant on its reality. Without this comforting and affirming word, I might never have come back to the service of our Lord.
So I say now, what I believed thenâ??I sinned greatly against the Lord Jesus, my wife and family, the other woman and her family, my church, and all my ministry co-laborers and supporters. I ask you to forgive me for being a prime example of the spiritual leaders I have often â??put on blastâ? in the past, and further reinforcing the notion that the church is full of hypocrites. Forgive me for how my actions have caused many to be confused and insecure about the faith, and brought disruption to the peace  of homes, churches, and ministries. May God give you the grace and the ability to forgive me, â??as I have received the Lordâ??s forgivenessâ? (Colossians 3:13). By Godâ??s grace, many that I have offended have forgiven me, most notably, my wife and kids. Pray that the Lord will continue to permit us to build on this foundation that will give the Lord Jesus Christ the greatest glory.
This has been an extremely painful time and now I accept the fact that although Godâ??s grace is based on the merit of Christ and not my own performance, favor with man (Luke 2:52) must be gained through consistency over time. All I ask is for the opportunity to get started!
I have spent the past ten months in concentrated prayer, counseling, reading, studying, and fellowshipping with saints, and I am committed to diligently continuing on this course. Unfortunately, the sin has taken a toll and has created some unpleasant consequences. Among many, the one that particularly grieves me is the separation from my church. With regard to the Epiphany Fellowship, I will not be permitted by the leadership to continue in covenant fellowship. This decision brings me much grief. However I trust the Lord Jesus Christ to heal my heart and that of my family and the covenant community. After all this I have so much more tenderness toward the â??fallen,â? and an appreciation for the glory of a gospel that is so easily preached but not as easily applied. Lord permitting, I plan to proclaim the gospel with even greater passion than ever before and herald its liberating truth wherever the Lord will allow. The plan is also to musically represent the Lord Jesus so that the â??fall of Ambassadorâ? will not end with a period, but rather, with a comma. As you may or may not know Cross Movement the group had retired but as a soloist I was planning to continue as long as the Lord Jesus would provide grace. The release of my third solo album The Chop Chop actually fulfilled my contractual obligation with Cross Movement Records, so now as The Ambassador Iâ??m trusting the Lord for new direction and for what lies ahead.
My experiences during this time of seclusion and obscurity have indeed been very challenging. And, Iâ??m still not clear on all the things that the Lord has been doing. But I plan to leverage every lesson learned and every insight gleaned for the glory of God and the benefit of others. Since the very beginning, I have been under the care of a restoration team led by Pastors Byron Craig of Macedonia Baptist Church (Norristown, PA) and Zach Ritvalski of Sweet Union Baptist Church (Philadelphia, PA). They have given me the â??green lightâ? to move forward in serving the Lord Jesus Christ publicly. My wife has also given her blessings and support to this decision. Therefore the Uplift! Group and I are actively seeking Godâ??s direction for new opportunities to honor the name of Jesus Christ. The nature of my call to be an aroma of Christ (2 Corinthians 2:15), a minister of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18), and his ambassador (2 Corinthians 5:20), compels me to reengage my generation and â??proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you (me) out of darkness into his marvelous lightâ? (1 Peter 2:9). This experience has taught me many things but one that will always stand out and I hope to become the embodiment of is Godâ??s grace and mercy is more than sufficient.

William â??The Ambassadorâ? Branch

The 5th groove awards was extremely awesome and splendid to one daddy owen whom shocked many people by scooping 6 (six) awards including Male Artist of the Year and Album of the Year. His collabo called Kiriro with Allan Aaron and Kerah netted Song of the Year, Video of the Year, Collabo of the Year and Central Song of the Year. daddy owen has swiftly changed the gospel industry and even the secular industry have testified to the fact that gospel music has taken over the music scene with likes off  Dr eddie the producer what  more can you say we hope owen will continue taking the gospel industry to international levels that East africans deserve to be .

Apart from Daddy Owen, this year’s winners were evenly distributed as the only other artists winning multiple awards were Emmy Kosgei and Eko Dydda. Emmy Kosgei got 2 nods for Female Artist of the Year and Rift Valley Song of the Year and Eko Dydda bagged 2 for New Artist / Group of the Year and Hip Hop Song of the Year for his collabo with Holy Dave on the song Niko na Reason

Catch A fire went down on the 2nd of may with the likes of the Jeffro, Holydave,Juliani,Hey-Z,Dj Gee gee Dj Octave Dj priesty Informerz,Fgtz,So real and Bgpz and Mr T who graced the stage.Catch A fire Concert an initiative of Madlove lounge,X-hoodz Entertainment and full house records was a concert that idealy was to reach the young at heart with the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hiphop,spoken word and crazy Dj mixxes were the highlight of the show.

The concert promptly  started at 2pm with Jeffro opening the gig with a word of prayer and thereafter The days Mc’s,Mc Dice and Nellex taking stage.Artists from the madlove lounge took stage giving the audience some freestyle sets with Jeffro leading the pack.Dj Geegee and Dj octave graced the decks with tight scratches and came to a beautiful end at 7.30pm.

Below we’ve put up a gallery for you.

And for all that came,we say a big thanks to you and God bless.

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well well well the game in the gospel industry is getting hotter everyday and without doubt the gospel industry has taken over the entertainment field with a bang! .And the is no other person who has marked the gospel scene better than (MR.GOOGZ) with his first album entitled “first love” which rocked the gospel scene,MR.GOOGZ has no doubt proven that he is good at what he does and has changed the gospel music and taken it to  another level now he hits back the scene like two months ago with his now hit song entitled “gospel celebrity -tell them straight stop entertaining” and even after the two months the song still rings in my head like a melody on top googz has being nominated for an award by talanta  afrika an in deed seems to be hitting the international scenes in a big glorious massive way ‘ CONGRATS GOOGZ CONTINUE FLYING JESUS NAME HIGH.

The basic question that every human has always wanted to know is,  what will happen tomorrow?  There are a million ways to explain this; those who donâ??t believe in the authority of the bible have myriad conclusions, however  those who believe in the authority of the word can rest assured that God has already revealed the end even before the beginning- this is what we call the prophecy.

The bible is the authentic word of Jehovah God of heaven and has been proven right for thousands of years, actually some events prophesied in the bible are happening right before our eyes, we can trust what God tells us about our today and tomorrow.

THE UNFOLDING PROPHECY.

This is a book that seeks to remind us that the coming of the lord is near, taken from the book of psalms 42 through 50, the book opens the prophecy to show Godâ??s end time plan for man kind, it seeks to clarify the confusion of our time by shedding the light of Godâ??s prophecy to let us know what is ahead and what we need to do to be ready for the forthcoming events.

with evident confusion of the world ever changing political, financial, moral and religious crisis only God has the escape plan for those who will listen to him, you need to walk in knowledge even as the eminent end approaches. When you see,

Middle East crisis at its height,

Revival of the church,

Appalling wickedness,

Skyrocketing scientific technology,

Dynamic world politics,

These are some of the end time signs. You need to walk in knowledge of the unfolding prophecy.

The DVD materials will be available soon, for more information on the book , the author , his ministry check on this  facebook page -tomorrow today, or write to him through this email address-jtmugwe@yahoo.com or call him +254 723 686 865

THE ADDVOKET- THE WORLD IS BLACK IS WHITE BUT LOVE IS GREY

Name: The Addvoket
Album: The World Is Black And White But Love Is Grey (2009)
Genre: Hip-hop (Rap)
Launch date: ….2010
Studio: Sauti Media Productions

A couple of tracks you can listen to from his Album:

1. Priceless rap (Shine FM Commercial Break Freestyle)
2. Nairobi (Teaser)
3. Not my place (Mlevi.com Bonus)

The Addvoket is a topical Hip-hop/Rap artist based in Nairobi, Kenya. He was born and raised in Malawi. He has been severally titled the new generation sound of Kenyan Hip-hop/Rap because of his great delivery, catchy lyrics and diverse concepts and sound.

He has currently compiled his debut album titled “…Love is Grey” (The World Is Black And White but Love is Grey) and in the process of shooting videos to â??Greyâ? ft. Molline and â??Am A Kingâ? ft. Pepe Haze (who played Tye in MTV’s Sugar). Plans are already under way to have an album launch later this year (2010).

The album titled “…Love is Grey” is metaphorical of the extremes in the world which are represented by the extremes white and black colours. He uses this platform to discuss issues on race as in the song “Grey” ft. Molline and “Blame it on Hip hop” where he questions, “How can we have 3 different worlds in 1 single sphere?” Track 1 “In Look Around,” he tackles life issues, slam dwelling, moral decay, and eagerness of Africans to ape Western mannerisms without mentally reasoning. He also raps to the media and society saying questioning them how talents/artists with no care of how their gifts impact children get airplay while artists with message are locked out by rapping: “(situations may) make a blind man regret having his vision back/like when you turn on the TV/ just flip the channel (you are) guaranteed not to see me/you’ll some girl busy shaking her booty/or in a block buster having sex in a movie/and yup, she getting an Oscarâ?¦ academy award all because she dropped her/ panties, then lifted her shirt/and the media is happy cause they selling us dirt.” He collaborates with Pepe Haze on Track 7: “Am a King” to promote African self-pride, goodness and self esteem underlining the message God exists and is an option that many overlook for the society to replenish. Am a King clearly displays freshly new talent as all beats are percussioned by mouth! In this album debut, he throws something in for everybody: “How Bout Your Love” for the ladies, “The Journey” for underground hip-hop heads, “Nairobi” for Crankers, “2 Step Program” for the Bass Nerds &”Auto-tune” and “the outro” where he summarizes the album with a funny message for people who just want to laugh cause celebrities take themselves too seriously.Clearly displaying craft and genius as he doesn’t get swallowed trying the different styles of Hip-hop.

As we listen to the album, itâ??s clear The Addvoket isn’t about gaining recognition. He has mastered his diction and out to make a difference for Africa and the world in total by calling for Love between people, races, religions, family, leaders and importantly oneself  (Black + White= Grey (which is Love)) with his unmatched skill.

Not supporting/buying/promoting this album will leave the industry suffocating of unrealistic rappers who’ve totally put-off Kenyans.

Its time to see new talent and local music progress. I propose a new standard of Good sound music and it starts with The Addvoket’s album â??The World Is Black And White but Love is Grey.â?

Most definetly this is an album to listen to.I just couldnt stop putting this tracks on repeat.Support Local talent people.

Visit/email His FB Group: The Addvoket or Visit mziki.co.ke/The_Addvoket to listen to his forthcoming album

To get a copy of the album email jaredbilla@gmail.com