She’s a regular contributor to ministries like Desiring God and The Gospel Coalition (she’s speaking at TGC’s 2016 Women’s Conference), and is at the forefront of the new spoken word movement.

Jesus is coming to reign, and all you who fear and tremble because of your enemies, cease to fear them, and learn to fear to offend God, fear to transgress his laws, fear to do any evil to your brother, or to any being upon the earth, and do not fear Satan and his power, nor those who have only power to slay the body, for God will preserve his people (DBY, 114). It’s precisely these poets’ willingness to “go there” that’s selling out concert venues all across the nation. Today is Tuesday, not Monday, but it is another day just like the previous one. They have virtually no radio success (an eight-minute poem is a hard sell for the airwaves) and no major record labels pouring marketing dollars into them.

December 24nd, 2019. But the power and principles of evil, if they can be called principles, will never yield one particle to the righteous march of the Savior, only as they are beaten back inch by inch, and we have got to take the ground by force. Words matter. Famine will spread over the nations and nation will rise up against nation, kingdom against kingdom and states against states, in our own country and in foreign lands; and they will destroy each other, caring not for the blood and lives of their neighbors, of their families, or for their own lives (DBY, 111–12). How do we become sanctified? Herod didn’t want a Saviour King because he was too busy “saving himself”, even at the expense of others. This Week on TV Miss Dr. Stanley's weekly sermon? President Young said that we should sanctify ourselves in preparation for Jesus Christ’s Second Coming. They will have to bow the knee and confess that he is God, and that Jesus Christ, who suffered for the sins of the world, is actually its Redeemer; that by the shedding of his blood he has redeemed men, women, children, beasts, birds, fish, the earth itself and everything that John saw and heard praising in heaven [see Revelation 5:13] (DBY, 113). There was an expectation—even a desire—that they would have their theological and moral cages rattled. - How to Live a Consistent Life (7 of 7), Dear Philadelphia: Stay Faithful! New Testament historian NT Wright records how Herod thought nothing of killing even his own family members, including his wife, when he suspected them of scheming against him. If something important was happening on earth, you could expect to see it reflected in the heavens. As a Church leader for almost another 40 years, President Young taught the Saints to continue in the Lord’s redemptive work and to be unafraid of the turmoil prophesied for the last days. Epiphany 4 | Ordinary Time 4 - B. These poets are defying convention by any estimation. Every one of us has probably been awestruck by an incredible star-filled sky. You got a new car, but it was a used new car, meaning that it was new to you. We are the gift in God’s eye… we bring ourselves to Him. Let the whole people … be possessed of that spirit and here is the Millennium, and so will it spread over all the world (DBY, 115–16). Within the ancient near east culture many people had developed the study of the stars and planets into a fine art. We have the words of eternal life, we have the privilege of obtaining glory, immortality, and eternal lives, now will you obtain these blessings? A grassroots following has sprung up around these individuals, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down.

Let our anxiety be centered upon one thing, the sanctification of our own hearts, the purifying of our own affections, the preparing of ourselves for the approach of the events that are hastening upon us.

Festival 3. One of the four PIA poets, and perhaps best known of the bunch, Jackie Hill Perry [interview], is using her candor as a former lesbian turned God-chaser to speak into the lives of thousands struggling with same-sex attraction and sexual addiction. People in power were disturbed, people waiting in hope were excited. Please make sure all fields are filled out. That there’s any hesitation to say this shows how sexually confused and broken the West has become. On his deathbed, Herod actually gave orders to slaughter leading citizens of Jericho so people would be weeping at his funeral. You can also hear it on his latest album, Vice & Virtue. He performed his first poem there six years ago.