Posted on 10/30/2019 4:34:29 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Halloween Week’s bedlam (demonic parades and gratuitous candy commercials and other occult celebrations in the media) confirm the millennium’s casual godlessness, so the release of Kanye West’s new album and film, both titled “Jesus Is King,” intrudes on that party. Its impact will be long-lasting.
West’s gospel revival coincides with his political independence. So far, this is West’s most powerful statement since President Trump and wearing a MAGA cap in public. By reviving his faith in the word of God and the independence of black Americana gospel, he forces others to remember the moral foundation of the civil-rights movement, which has been forgotten and deliberately disregarded by fervent secular liberals.
America’s ’50s–‘60s civil-rights movement was based on righteousness — justice and virtue were understood as moral measures learned from the Church, not social license. That’s what gave the fire-hosed marchers and lunch-counter martyrs their courage. While West has always defied the commonplace worldly sentiments of hip-hop culture (letting the preppie image oppose the street-thug image yet still flashing bling), Jesus Is King shows maturity. He has grasped on to the strength of faith — a belief in the moral certitude and divine promise that sustains and edifies one’s existence.
...The beautiful essence of Jesus Is King is its non-bitterness. Despite private struggle and public pushback (“Before the flood, they did the same to Noah”), West has realized a way to avoid and confound liberal media’s trap: the promotion of black bitterness as the core of African-American self-realization. Jesus Is King is a spiritual work thanks to its deep feeling — pure expression brought to today’s calamitous social condition. The album rejects any recourse to political solutions. West’s personal movement, and the public convocation of his Sunday Services, is clearly against the politics of division.
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This deserves some respect and appreciation. :)
Regarding Kanye, just last night I saw a remarkable YouTube (20 minutes) of the Jesus as King troupe filling an airplane and singing. Great performance -- both musically and for making you laugh and smile!
And I do think Kanye's move to Christianity will have a broad and positive ripple effect. Listen to his comments on this video — you can't help respect this guy's courage to defy political correctness. There's something Trumpian about Kanye: he speaks what he thinks and can't be bought.
VK, a Ping for you...
I watched that also - fantastic.
I watched that video too and there was such joy in that plane as they were all singing. I knew then the power of the Lord working through Kanye and saw him in a different light.
Kanye West performs "Jesus Walks" on Airpool Karaoke pic.twitter.com/JnjoZAc50X— Hip Hop Daily (@HipHipDaily1) October 29, 2019
He’s welcome in the Kingdom of God... We all are. Amen.
I hope Kim is going along with him for her sake.
Kim Kardashian got baptized in Armenia alongside her kids
https://pagesix.com/2019/10/11/kim-kardashian-got-baptized-in-armenia-alongside-her-kids/
One thing is clear in interviews...it's that Kanye really admires his wife...I pray their marriage withstands all attacks against it and that Kim will come to know Christ as LORD. <3
Wonderful! I read that James Corden was raised in the Salvation Army, but no longer is Christian. Hopefully, his experience with Kanye will return him to his former faith.
What a great little poster. Worth saving!
Makes me wonder: perhaps Judas was a fund-raiser for Jesus/Apostles before he turned Jesus over to the Romans. Yes, God can get some usefulness out of anyone.
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