Jesus and the Hip-hop Prophets: Spiritual Insights from Lauryn Hill and Tupac ShakurA Likewise book. Lauryn Hill and Tupac Shakur are modern-day prophets. Written on subway walls and tenement halls, their lyrics challenge us as individuals and as a society to stop doing wrong and learn to do right (Isaiah 1:16-17). They paint an honest picture of life as it is lived, and hint at a vision of life as it ought to be lived.With this book John Teter and Alex Gee invite us to enter into the world of these hip-hop prophets--to follow their message to its ultimate fulfillment at the feet of the Prophet-King Jesus. They invite you toFollow the beats.Let the truth speak through the beats of the streets. Love is real. Hope is real. Jesus is real.Follow the beats of these poet-prophets as they lead to the feet of the Prophet-King. The Word (Love is real) The Truth (Hope is real) The God-Man (Jesus is real)Follow the beats as they drop from the lips Of Lauryn Hill Of Tupac Shakur Of the Truth-Made-FleshTill they lead you to God. |
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Page 60 - When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" "No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you,
Page 107 - And he answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented himself, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of the twain did the will of his father?
Page 19 - Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
Page 52 - For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full welL My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Page 40 - How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
Page 33 - For your Maker is your husband— The Lord Almighty is his name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth. The Lord will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit—a wife who married young, only to be rejected,
Page 60 - Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?
Page 60 - The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
Page 33 - In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but I will have compassion on you with everlasting love,