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stuff in my itunes i’d rather not broadcast i have….
so i am sitting here in sydney at our excellent friend’s house claude & keren’s in the western hills suburb of seven hills… i am checking the intertubes and i wander over to my blog {this one you are reading now} and i can see that my “recently listened to” Last FM widget is listing songs by DIDDY… hmmmm… i’m not home in front of my iMac that feeds my last.fm account, so who is? i think what is happening is that benita has been playing one of her favourites Deitrick Haddon and she has walked out of the house and left iTunes playing… sigh…. let’s see what crazy stuff gets dredged up today…
i apologise in advance for the embarrassing music in my itunes collection.
Posted in 001] benita, 040] music, 090] thoughts, 099] everything |
Commentsray boltz… who would have thunk it?!
if you grew up in conservative christian circles in the 80’s / 90’s then you might be familiar with the mighty mullet & moustachioed one known as Ray Boltz…
he was incredibly popular with camps and “special numbers”… i can’t tell you how many times i’ve heard someone belt out Ray’s hit “Thank You” in church services through the years…
he was in my opinion the king of “schmaltz”: soppy emotional numbers that old ladies would weep to… not my cup of tea…
he released a gang of albums {15?!} in his career, married with kids and all round super christian dude in the nsahville “CCM” scene.
anyway today i learnt that a few days he ago he “came out” publicly as a homosexual. read about it here. you can even see how he looks with no mullet these days on his website here.
you know back in the day i might have been really upset about this, and i know that thousands of his previous fans will be devastated over this, his albums and music will be pulled from radio stations, from stores and a lot of his “product” will be thrown out by his once fans… but i don’t feel upset… for one, i never really liked his gig, but big picture wise, it’s not my place to condemn him, his story is not over yet, and i know Jesus is not finished working in Ray’s life. My world view and doctrine / dogma has not changed at all {i believe that quite clearly that Father has revealed through His word in the Bible that homosexuality is just one of myriad of deviations from His designed sexuality, right up there with adultery, divorce, lust etc}… but you know what has changed in me? my understanding of how LOVING Father is, how patient He is, how Big He is…. and i know all of that applies to Ray Boltz and his journey…. Father is not finished with Ray yet, and Jesus has not called me to sit on a little throne of judgement to condemn him.
does that make sense?Posted in 000] Father, 006] christianity, 040] music, 090] thoughts, 099] everything |
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