#gospel

No wonder he trembled – R’s Commonplace Book
▻http://randal.us/no-wonder-he-trembled

Paul preached the faith to Felix, Acts 24.24-25. He spoke about what the governor needed to hear: God’s approval, self-control, and coming judgment. No wonder he trembled.

#gospel

Interview du groupe The Staples ou The Staple Singers à leurs débuts en 1963. J’extrais une citation du père, Roebuck, sur le racisme auquel ils devaient faire face :

Staple Singers Interview
Chris Strachwitz and Barbara Dane, 3 August 1963
▻http://arhoolie.org/staple-singers-interview-2

Extrait :

Roebuck Staples: This is my land. This is ours. This land belong to everybody. To see it like that, we’d have a better United States. It’s just really rough, what the colored entertainers have to go through with sometime, in the trail. We hit down in the Southern states. It’s hard to get food sometimes. Nobody know, that’s why colored people sang the blues. That’s why they can sing with soul.

With all the integration, and what they’re saying have been done, you don’t know what’s gone on when you get out there and even the police will tell you things in your car, that you know you don’t know what’s going on, either.

Who was it, Jackie Russell? I was reading little piece where they let him go inside a white hotel. He’d let Barbara come in, and then the desk clerk had a fit. You can’t do nothing you know. It’s just so silly.

I was down south last year. I was at a cavalcade and had, how many cars would we have? About four cars. I drive a Cadillac because that’s the best car. I’m not trying to be a big shot. That’s the best car in the world to drive. When you talk about Cadillac, they always give you one. I hope they see this and they can give me a Cadillac, but they’re the best cars in the world. I don’t do nothing but put gas in that car and change the oil. We drove up to Yazoo City, Mississippi, and I never will forget, a man asked me and I told him, fill my car up. Fill it up. I was driving a brand new ’62 Cadillac. Reverend Franklin driving a brand new ’62 Cadillac. And they was kind of mad at us ‘cause we was driving them big new cars and “what about that one back there? Want me to fill up too?”

I said “Reverend you want your car filled up too…? I said “Yeah, fill ‘em up.” “Don’t you say Yeah to us white people down here.” Yes he did. He had fifty cent worth of gas in my car. I said, cut it off. That’s plenty. He cut it off. I gave him fifty cent. Thank you. My son came out of the door, and getting’ a can of something, and he said, okay to him…”Don’t say Okay, you say Yes sir to us white people down here. “

I can’t understand. We went on down the street, and I don’t know what he was thinking of. We went down, he lost twenty-five dollars. We went on down the street, we filled all the cars up.

He lost twenty-five dollars right there. We went on to the next station. We filled up. We had a full car. I don’t see how he can stand to lose that money like that. Twenty-five dollars. When you fill it up, it cost seven to eight dollars. He lost about twenty-some dollars. Right there. Just on account of he abused me like that.

Not an exclusive place. I went in to just a service station. They had a counter there, you know. I ordered, I was driving. We’d gone late at night, real late, and I was going to get something to eat here, get us some sandwiches. Went in there, and I ordered. Well, you go around to the back. Well you keep your food, I’m gone. That’s the kind of stuff. You’d be hungry too, but you don’t feel like eating it after they tell you something like that.

I took my son to get some sandwiches, in a place down there, two ladies was in there. I went to the front, and I was asking, Perv, what you doing back here? He told me, they told me to come around the back. I said, never buy any food like that as long as you live. If my money won’t spend there, if it’s not good enough to spend there, it’s not good enough to spend back here. Lady came, she said, Mr., said we awful sorry. Said we trying to make a living, so I know how you feel, but we got to do what this man said. We can’t do nothing about it. We hate it as bad as you do. Some of them, it’s not all bad white people now. Don’t think that, because she just didn’t see any sense in herself, she couldn’t see it, but there are some, yep, if they didn’t do that, they would lose their jobs, and they’d needed to work.

One girl was coming through going to Cincinnati, stopped in the house in Chicago. CORE (Congress for Racial Equality) convention was in Cincinnati, Ohio. She stopped, and I asked her how was things going. She’s from Jackson, Mississippi, right out where Evers got killed, and asked her how was things in Mississippi. She was coming on from Jackson then, in Canton, and the police stopped her. Let me see your driver’s license, nigger. Who you calling nigger? See all that kind of stuff we have to go through with, that you all don’t, the white never know about...

Près de 10 ans plus tard, à #Wattstax :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oab4ZCfTbOI

#Staple_Singers #Musique #Musique_et_politique #Gospel #Histoire #ségrégation #racisme #USA

Voici mon palmarès des 30 chansons les plus tristes du monde :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmygnicYLIA&list=PLkeA_mTMOkTt1UMWHWjnQks3r8oqM7BcD

1) Trouble of the World, Mahalia Jackson (USA, 1959)
2) Gloomy Sunday, Billie Holiday (USA, 1947)
3) I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to Be Free, Nina Simone (USA, 1967)
4) Petenera, Pepe de la Matrona (Espagne 1957)
5) Double Trouble, Otis Rush (USA, 1958)
6) Part Time Love, Clay Hammond (USA, 1982)
7) Walking the Backstreets and Crying, Little Milton (USA, 1983)
8) Let Me Down Easy, Bettye Lavette (USA, 2000)
9) Mara Beboos, Hassan Golnaraghi (Iran, années 1960)
10) Aatini Al Nay Wa Ghani, Fairouz (Liban, 1965)
11) Please Come Home for Christmas, Charles Brown (USA, 1960)
12) Lost Someone, James Brown (USA, 1961)
13) Walk on By, Dionne Warwick (USA, 1963)
14) Unfair, Barbara Lynn (USA, 1964)
15) Crying Time, Ray Charles (USA, 1965)
16) Nothing Takes The Place Of You, Toussaint Mc Call (USA, 1967)
17) Inner City Blues, Marvin Gaye (USA, 1971)
18) In the Rain, The Dramatics (USA, 1972)
19) In the Ghetto, Candi Staton (USA, 1972)
20) Ne Me Quitte Pas, Jacques Brel (France, 1966)
21) Te Recuerdo Amanda, Victor Jara (Chili, 1969)
22) Chega de Saudade, Joao Gilberto (Brésil, 1959)
23) Sodade, Bonga (Angola, 1974)
24) Tezeta, Mahmoud Ahmed (Ethiopie, 1974)
25) Assouf, Tinariwen (Mali, 2006)
26) Time, Tom Waits (USA, 1985)
27) Nothing compares 2 U, Sinead O’Connor (USA-Irlande, 1990)
28) Hurt, Johnny Cash (USA, 2002)
29) Hate, Cat Power (USA, 2006)
30) Pause, Rafeef Ziadah (Palestine, 2015)

J’en ai fait deux chroniques :
▻http://entrelesoreilles.blogspot.com/2018/09/elo341-les-chansons-les-plus-tristes-du.html
▻http://entrelesoreilles.blogspot.com/2018/11/elo348-les-chansons-non-americaines-les.html

Spotify s’y était essayé aussi :
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/716771

Voici aussi le « top 20 » des chansons les plus gaies du monde :
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/731244

#Musique #Playlist #Tristes #Gospel #Flamenco #Blues #Saudade #Sodade #Tezeta #Assouf #Soul #Jazz

A World of Peoples
▻http://randalmatheny.com/world-peoples

Three stanzas describe a little circle that excludes so many.

#poetry #gospel #kingdom_of_God #mission #Poetry

One #God and the #Bible
▻http://randalmatheny.com/one-god-bible

This article was written in simple English for an international magazine. We’d like to share it here with you.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #gospel

The #grace of God in #truth
▻http://randalmatheny.com/grace-truth

Just as in the entire world this #gospel is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, Col 1.6. The gospel speaks of Jesus. It is content and communication, the power of God […]

#Daily_Bible_Devotional

Nothing sweeter | Fellowship Room
▻http://fellowshiproom.com/nothing-sweeter

2. We were purified in order to love each other. That’s what 1 Pet 1.22 says, and it boggles the mind and challenges the heart. This was tonight’s text.

#love #Bible #gospel

Simple and Sound
▻http://randalmatheny.com/simple-and-sound

A three-minute read of two short stanzas that emanate joy, confidence, and freedom.

#poetry #Uplift #gospel #Poetry

The world hated him first
▻http://randalmatheny.com/hated-first

John 15.18: Jesus Christ is not only our example and sacrifice for sin, but he also is our comfort.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #gospel_of_John #joy #suffering

If you had known
▻http://randalmatheny.com/if-you-had-known

John 4.10: What a sad statement! May it not be true of you.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #eternal_hope #gospel_of_John #Osama_bin_Laden

When they saw
▻http://randalmatheny.com/they-saw

John 20.20: The risen Christ holds the key to #Faith, hope, and love.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #gospel_of_John #Jesus_Christ #joy #resurrection

Glory for #gospel
▻http://randalmatheny.com/glory-gospel

God is good and gives us good news. Jesus did not come to condemn (for the world was condemned because of its sin) but to save. #God unites, reconciles, redeems, transforms, empowers, entrusts, sends, and gives purpose and meaning to man. God is the great Giver. Praise and glory belong to him!

#God_and_faith #Give_Glory

Know where you came from and where you’re headed
▻http://randalmatheny.com/know-where

John 8.14 : Following #Jesus, #man knows so much more.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #God #gospel_of_John #knowledge

God opens his hand and wants you to open yours
▻http://randalmatheny.com/open-hand

Psalm 145.16 : Do like God.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #be_like_God #generosity #gospel

What a contrast !
▻http://randalmatheny.com/contrast

One man’s reaction to human depravity is far different from God’s.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #gospel #Love_of_God #Son_of_God

Action : Proclaim
▻http://randalmatheny.com/action-proclaim

1 Peter 2.9: Speak to the lost words about our good and powerful God.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #church #gospel #message #mission

Action : Send
▻http://randalmatheny.com/action-send

Romans 1.15: What do I have that I can send to further the #gospel?

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #mission #sending

Action : Go
▻http://randalmatheny.com/action-go

Mark 16.15: Take the initiative to draw people close to God.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #gospel #mission #peace

Action : Cooperate
▻http://randalmatheny.com/action-cooperate

2 Corinthians 1.24: Does my work have the nature of an invitation or imposition?

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #cooperation #coworker #Faith #gospel

#action : Hear
▻http://randalmatheny.com/action-hear

Matthew 15.10: We can and must hear and understand.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #gospel #hearing

Glory for simplicity
▻http://randalmatheny.com/2015/11/04/glory-simplicity

Glory to God for the simplicity of the #gospel of Christ, for the challenge it presents to our self-sufficiency, for the power it brings to the soul, for the sense it makes of all existence.

#God_and_faith #giveglory

The #gospel not hard to understand, but hard for many to accept
▻http://randalmatheny.com/2015/11/04/hard-gospel

Matthew 8.22: The gospel requires surrender to the Lordship of Christ.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #discipleship

The real troublemakers and what makes them such
▻http://randalmatheny.com/2015/08/29/troublemakers

They are guilty of what they accuse us of.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #division #gospel_truth

Your neighbor’s life at stake
▻http://randalmatheny.com/2015/07/15/neighbor

Leviticus 19.16b: This principle applies to physical and spiritual life.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #abortion #gospel #human_life #Leviticus

What Lord is this ?
▻http://randalmatheny.com/2015/07/04/lord

Three powerful descriptions from the #gospel_of_Matthew.

#Daily_Bible_Devotional #God_and_faith #Jesus_as_Lord #Lord_God #sermon_outlines