Posted on 06/01/2020 5:16:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Many in the media are racing to report the story of a Christian singer who has lost his faith. But there’s another, less told story also going around: That of a country singer loving God in the midst of suffering.
American Idol star and Grammy-award winning singer Carrie Underwood is appearing in a new video series called “Mike and Carrie: God & Country” with her husband, former professional hockey player Mike Fisher. Released by the Christian nonprofit I Am Second, the four-episode show promises to give “insight as to how they, with two distinct personalities and careers, stay grounded in the midst of the many peaks and valleys of their lives.” The first episode, “I Cry Easy,” was released May 27. In it, Carrie and Mike shared their faith and personal life stories.
The show began with the husband and wife sitting casually in front of the camera and bantering with one another. They were an unlikely pair, they stressed. While Mike is a hunter, Carrie is an animal lover. He prefers sushi while she wants “not sushi.”
They also differed on the bigger issues: Mike has always been family oriented, while Carrie is more independent-minded and not a “kid person.”
“We just differ, drastically,” Carrie said. But, she stressed, “at the end of the day, we love each other very much.”
That’s because of the role of faith in their relationship, Mike said.
“I think it gives us a kind of a center ground where that’s the most important thing in anything and then your differences, if they’re rooted in that – I know your hurt, you know my hurt – there’s always a way," he revealed. "And it’s usually – it always is God working in it.”
The two met through a mutual friend at one of Carrie’s concerts in 2008. Two years later, they were married. While Carrie was hesitant about starting a family, she said that changed after her firstborn, Isaiah, came in 2015.
“Oh my gosh, I’m in love. Like, I’m in love,” she remembered thinking.
Mike felt similarly, and recalled having a moment alone with Isaiah shortly after he was born.
“It was just emotional as could be,” he said. “Just thinking about now I have a responsibility and being a dad, and always looking forward to that, and just praying for him, and it’s one of the greatest gifts ever.”
Isaiah, he said, brought him closer to God.
“It kind of made me realize how much God loves us and the sacrifice he made,” Mike continued, tearing up. “The greatest thing I want for my son is to realize like every relationship with God.”
At the end of the episode, a teaser showed the two talking about trusting God despite suffering three miscarriages.
“After the second miscarriage, she’s like, ‘I lost the baby,’” Mike said. “I was like, ‘Again?’” he said of his reaction in the series’ trailer.
For her part, Carrie “just had an honest conversation with God.”
“I was hurt. A little angry. And I told Him I needed something,” she said. “We needed to have a baby or not ever.”
Carrie first revealed in 2018 that she had suffered three miscarriages in two years.
“We got pregnant early 2017, and didn’t work out,” she said during a CBS interview, People reported. Her response at that point was, “Okay, God, we know this is, just wasn’t Your timing. And that is all right.”
But then she had another miscarriage that same year – on top of suffering from a fall that translated into a broken wrist and a facial laceration. After she had a third miscarriage in 2018, she began asking, “Okay, like, what’s the deal?”
“I had always been afraid to be angry,” Carrie admitted. “Because we are so blessed. And my son, Isaiah, is the sweetest thing. And he’s the best thing in the world. And I’m like, ‘If we can never have any other kids, that’s okay, because he’s amazing.’ And I have this amazing life. Like, really, what can I complain about? I can’t. I have an incredible husband, incredible friends, an incredible job, an incredible kid. Can I be mad? No.”
That changed when she worried that she might have a fourth miscarriage.
“I got mad,” she said. At one point, while snuggling with Isaiah, she remembered thinking, “Why on Earth do I keep getting pregnant if I can’t have a kid? Like, what is this?”
“And for the first time, I feel like I actually I told God how I felt,” she continued. Two days later, she went to the doctor to confirm her fourth miscarriage, but “they told me everything was great!”
“He heard me,” she said of God.
Her answered prayer came in the form of Jacob, a “perfect little bundle of a smiley guy,” she told People last year. In an Instagram post announcing his birth in 2019, she added, “his mom, dad and big brother couldn’t be happier for God to trust them with taking care of this little miracle!”
And miracles, well, they’re stories worth telling too.
I’ll always remember Underwood telling everyone how homosexuals are welcomed and accepted in her church (unlike those other churches).
I’m not sure if they are totally false, but their local church seems apostate.
‘I Am Second’ Features False Converts Carrie Underwood and Husband Mike Fisher
GMTA !!!
GMTA !!!
Female celebrities seem to frequently marry professional sports athletes, who quickly become *former* athletes. What’s the dynamic at work?
All types of sinners are welcome at mine!
Matthew 21:31
Jesus said to them, “I assure you that tax collectors and prostitutes are entering God’s kingdom ahead of you.
She said "how can you be a Christian and not be for gay marriage?". She's an idiot.
Freshness date/shelf life
That’s the point. Homosexual behavior isn’t a sin at her church.
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it.
Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
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2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight.
They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
Three consecutive miscarriages. That has to be devasting.
I’m doing a lot of genealogical research during the COVID shutdown and am surprised at the amount of stillborn babies and death of infants and young children in decades and centuries gone past. We all know infant mortality was high back then, but seeing it in your own family really bri gs it Home.
It makes me wonder how people coped with such tragedy back then and how it changed their relationship with God.
I just discovered that own grandmother was about eight years old when her mom and dad lost two infants / toddlers in a row.
Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?”
Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. - Acts 2:37-38
If someone on TV is talking about their miscarriages...their ratings must be down. I cannot imagine a more personal and painful part of my life—and I would not share it with anyone outside of my closest friends.
When will people understand that Hollywood is ALWAYS an act?
Didn’t Oprah hit the ‘big time’ (in part) by whatever ‘problem’ a guest had, SHE also had it so she ‘has walked in your steps’.
Oh yes and having sponsors give the audience money and product was a biggie also....
sinners are welcome at any church - where they are taught to turn away from their sin and repent. Or is your church one of those that celebrates sin and tells the sinner it’s ok?
Repentant?
But still a sinner.
1 John 1:8
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
When I meet someone hurting from the sting of losing a pregnancy I am more than happy to share my feelings and stories of losing 2 pregnancies. I have made some lifelong friends that way
For having a 40 stitch zipper wound on her face a few years back the plastic surgeons did a remarkable job.
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