I had never listened with close attention to hip-hop song lyrics. That's rather an understatement, I had avoided listening to them because I simply didn't like the sound. However, recently I have started listening to a lot of Christian hip-hop and it's good, really good. This genre is simply an excellent vehicle for getting across ideas, like the essential gospel message. The genre of music features in the new evening service at Mill Hill East Church, called Urban Praze, featured in an episode of my daily radio show.
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien tells a story in an imaginary world that somehow rings true. In Tolkien’s fantastic universe of humans, hobbits, elves, wizards, dwarves and monsters, a great evil threatens to cover the world in darkness and make every living being its slave. Chaos is the order of the day. Fear rules the hearts of most. Hope is faint. Yet amid the darkness, there are flickers of light in the love, unity and courage of a few heroic characters. One of them is Aragon, who is destined to be king. The trilogy ends with his long-awaited return to the throne and triumphant deliverance of his people. Mark 11:1-10 is one of the Bible passages for Palm Sunday, it tells of Jesus entering Jerusalem to the cheers of the crowd, it is the return of the King: Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a c