THE FRUIT COCKTAIL PARTY [DEC11TH]

The Arts Garage

1533 Ridge Ave

Philadelphia, PA

B3AR FRUIT Presents The Fruit Cocktail Party

Live Performances by Monielle, Leah Smith, Melissa T, Young Josh, Se'Lah, C-Lite, Mark Arthur, Stephen the Levite, Zae Da Blacksmith, Average Joe

$5 Entry Fee

 RSVP{@} B3AR.FRUIT@GMAIL.COM

Doors open at 5:30

LOVE Lives Here: A 6AM Rant About Christianity

Though many may rightfully disagree due to the gross misappropriation of the mission, the point of Christianity is not solely to plant the name of the concept; the point is to plant the substance of the concept. I don't care who you say you are. I care about what you do! What does spreading Christianity mean? What does advancing the Kingdom of God mean? When we say we are waging war, what and who are we waging against? Principalities and rulers? Spirits and ideas? Ephesians 6:12 (KJV) says: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." We are waging war against the spirits and ideas that drive and inform principalities and rulers, not necessarily the principalities and rulers themselves. Perhaps we should refrain from waging war against people and take arms against (sometimes our own) spiritual wickedness, for our battle is not of flesh and blood.

LECRAE + SUDAN MISSION + REHAB

This is not about me, 

This is not about sales, 

This is not about music!!!

LEVEL 3:16 - 3 Songs from Self Titled Album

  

THE IMPARTIAL POWER OF GOD [DEC8TH]

December 8th.
	THE IMPARTIAL POWER OF GOD
"For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." Hebrews 10:14 We trample the blood of the Son of God under foot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation of the forgiveness of God and of the unfathomable depth of His forgetting is the Death of Jesus Christ. Our repentance is merely the outcome of our personal realization of the Atonement which He has worked out for us. "Christ Jesus . . . is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." When we realize that Christ is made all this to us, the boundless joy of God begins; wherever the joy of God is not present, the death sentence is at work. It does not matter who or what we are, there is absolute reinstatement into God by the death of Jesus Christ and by no other way, not because Jesus Christ pleads, but because He died. It is not earned, but accepted. All the pleading which deliberately refuses to recognize the Cross is of no avail; it is battering at another door than the one which Jesus has opened. I don't want to come that way, it is too humiliating to be received as a sinner. "There is none other Name . . ." The apparent heartlessness of God is the expression of His real heart, there is boundless entrance in His way. "We have forgiveness through His blood." Identification with the death of Jesus Christ means identification with Him to the death of everything that never was in Him. God is justified in saving bad men only as He makes them good. Our Lord does not pretend we are all right when we are all wrong. The Atonement is a propitiation whereby God through the death of Jesus makes an unholy man holy.

JAESON MA + GLORY [online release experience]

SHOUT OUT TO JAESON MA!
For those of you who missed the GLORY Online Release Experience you can watch it here recorded:

HOW HE LOVES US

The Call Nashville John Mark McMillan How He Loves

Pat Wise Craik | Myspace Video

  

He is jealous for me
Love's like a hurricane, I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy
When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
and I realize just how beautiful You are and how great your affections are for me.
Oh, how He loves us so
Oh, how He loves us
How He loves us so.

Yeah, He loves us
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves.

So we are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean we're all sinking
So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss and my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way

That he loves us,
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves

He loves us,
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves

LEVEL 3:16 "Know Him"

Level 3:16 "Know Him" by Rapzilla

Lyrics below

FLAME "Surrender" ft. V. Rose

Flame "Surrender" feat. V. Rose by Rapzilla

EX-ANOREXIC [Michelle Bonilla + P4CM]

Join Michelle Bonilla in breaking the silence!

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...to LIVE is CHRIST

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was about a year ago in Ghana, Africa that I gave my life to Christ. I was out there for a study abroad program and the last thing I had on my mind was to end up at the feet of the Lord. At about 4pm Monday October 26, 2009 I was in my dorm room feeling like I had no identity, I was defined by all that surrounded me. I started to think about a quote a friend once told me, which was “If what you have makes you who you are, than who are you, when it is all taken away from you”. Repeating this to myself made me break down into tears, and it was because I had been living a life thinking that money was all. I thought that by looking cute in my car, rocking the latest fashion items and the latest cell phones, I had it made. But I was wrong, I was in Ghana with nothing but my thoughts and my thoughts were just telling me to end my life because there was no purpose in moving forward. I was alone, no family, no friends, no boyfriend, no money; It was like I was strip down naked. I had nothing. I kept crying asking myself “who am I ?” I couldn’t come up with something valuable because all this time I had been living my life for the world, a world that gives you all you want and then brings you down with it. Well that day I cried out to God for the first time I can ever remember. I didn’t always believe in God, but I mean I had it all, why need God? So I never really put too much mind on Him, and religion can get a little bit complicated. I just brushed Him off and kept it going. However, He was the only one on my mind that day. I felt like I was in a pit hole and couldn’t see the light, like there was no way out for me. Still I cried out and said “God if You really exist, I need You to come into my life...now.” Little did I know that the Bible says “Ask, and you shall receive, Seek and you shall find, Knock and the door will be open to you.” [Matthew 7:7] And God is so faithful to His word, that at that very moment with my eyes wide open I saw two big hands reaching out to me, telling me “Welcome to my kingdom, everything is going to be alright.” I heard that over and over again. It is as if these hands came to lift me up to take me somewhere. All I knew at this point was that I wanted to know is God. He revealed himself to me when I cried out to him, what more can I ask for? It is unfortunate that many of us have to go through such situations where God is our only hope so that we may seek Him. But it was my time I guess, it was time for me to open my eyes to the truth. That day, in my room, I got on my knees and asked for forgiveness in Jesus’ name for every lie, for all my selfish ways, my perverseness, and for the idolatress life I was living. Never did I think I would be asking for forgiveness for such things, but there I was. I didn’t know much about the Bible, didn’t have a clue why Jesus died on the cross, but I was convinced that there is a living God. Now I attend an amazing church where God has filled me with Spirit and now I also know why he sacrificed his only Son, “so that whosoever believes in him, shall not perish but have eternal life” [John 3:16].


My name is Maricarmen and for me to live is Christ.

THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST [DEC5TH]

December 5th, My Utmost for His Highest
	THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST
"Only in the throne will I be greater than thou." Genesis 41:40 I have to account to God for the way in which I rule my body under His domination. Paul said he did not "frustrate the grace of God" - make it of no effect. The grace of God is absolute, the salvation of Jesus is perfect, it is done for ever. I am not being saved, I am saved; salvation is as eternal as God's throne; the thing for me to do is to work out what God works in. "Work out your own salvation," I am responsible for doing it. It means that I have to manifest in this body the life of the Lord Jesus, not mystically, but really and emphatically. "I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection." Every saint can have his body under absolute control for God. God has made us to have government over all the temple of the Holy Spirit, over imaginations and affections. We are responsible for these, and we must never give way to inordinate affections. Most of us are much sterner with others than we are in regard to ourselves; we make excuses for things in ourselves whilst we condemn in others things to which we are not naturally inclined. "I beseech you," says Paul, "present your bodies a living sacrifice." The point to decide is this - "Do I agree with my Lord and Master that my body shall be His temple?' If so, then for me the whole of the law for the body is summed up in this revelation, that my body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.

Continuation of His Harvest… [A Not-So-Traditional Treasure Hunt PART2]

The Allied guard that works at my dorm on weekends was on my mind this morning in church. As the service went on, I knew that I would have to talk to him about God when I went back home. After the service, I stepped into the Honeypot Bookstore at Antioch, and I was just browsing, not really sure what I was looking for. After making a few rounds and looking at some books, I came upon Max Lucado’s book, He Did This Just For You. I bought it instantly, knowing I was going to give it to the Allied guard. I prayed, asking God to give the guard, Rob, an open heart, and to give me the words to speak.

We got into a conversation when I got back home, about what church he attends. He told me he was a member of a church in West Philly, but he had not been going for a while since he had been working. He mentioned that he used to go for Bible study. He then talked about how he had stopped reading the Bible, but he really wanted to start up again. It was at this juncture that I told him about why I was talking to him today. I told him about how God had put him on my mind in church, and how I bought a book for him at the bookstore, all because God had enabled me too. Then he was like, “God must be calling me back to Him...” Hallelujah! He took the book, and began marveling at Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins. Then I asked him if he wanted me to pray about anything for him. He told me how his significant other had passed on in September and left him with two young kids—a 10 month old and a 3 year old. He showed me pictures of his precious 3 year old, and I was so touched. We all need Jesus…

Please pray for Rob, and praise Jesus for the way He moves in people’s hearts!

In Christ Alone,

A Not-So-Traditional Treasure Hunt

2 Corinthians 12:9

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

On Wednesday afternoon, I finally wrote out my testimony, as I understand it. To see, in ink (well, electronic ink), how far God had brought me out of the bog of not knowing Him was amazing. As I was thinking about and writing my testimony, I received an email from Everett about the Black Friday Treasure Hunt. I read the email, quite unsure of how I would actually carry one out, if I were to do so. I thought I would drive with a friend who was staying on campus for Thanksgiving. As it turns out, this was not to be (read later). Overall, the Hunt sounded like something I wanted to do, mostly because I knew it would present a challenge for my flesh, which would rather sit at home.

I spent all of Wednesday evening tormented by the emotions that arose as I read my testimony repeatedly, and with each reading, reminded of the deadness of my heart without God, and the absolute goodness of God’s heart. In addition, the initial excitement/adventure that I had imagined would be the Treasure Hunt was quickly morphing into fear/inadequacy/plain old doubt. If I did have to talk to someone about God, what would I tell him or her? Not my testimony—after all, I was feeling so fragile in light of it. I might stumble upon my words, I might cry, etc and not get the message across. It was as though I had become fearful of myself. The truth of 2 Corinthians 12:9 was not registering that night. I was letting the flesh win.

Testimony of A Humble Servant

If you know me well or only in passing, you might know that I am a Christian. Or you might not. I have never been too outspoken about my faith. However, because of series of events that have occurred in my life basically in the last year, I have finally heeded God’s call for me to serve him completely and faithfully in my life. I have known God and trusted in him since I was very young, however, I put my faith and Christianity on the back burner in college. I was a Christian in all my beliefs and I knew God in my heart, but I was not living out his commandments in my everyday life. For a number of personal reasons (fear of loosing friends, being seen as judgmental and ‘too religious’/boring) I have not made pleasing God, being obedient to Him and sharing my faith with others a priority in my life.

After being hardheaded and living for myself for so long (and also facing the inevitable consequences of such actions) I am beginning a new direction in my life and I hope to never look back. I am striving everyday to submit more to His will and live for Him.