For your Soul
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you shall find rest for your soul." Matthew 11:29"
The “Good News Starts Here” is now a book and is available for purchase. This epic rendering was published by Tate Publishing 03/18/2014. Your copy of the “Good News Starts Here” is available, now, for just $9.99. Just click Here
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Christian Rap Hip Hop, also known as Gospel Rap, Holy Rap, Holy Hip Hop or Christian Hip Hop is an emerging musical genre for many young adults. Although this genre has been around for more than two decades, it is now beginning to really take off. The content of these web pages (Christian Rap Music and Christian Poetry) were developed to provide another venue to tell the Jesus story and act as a teaching tool for the young and the old.
Reading the Bible, while encouraged, can be tedious work. These poems and their musical renderings, provides a vivid vista of God’s love for mankind based on the words as written in the Bible. The rendering of the Gospel (hence The Good News) to a poem has never been done before now. This is a first. Check it out. Each chapter in the videos and the screensavers identify exactly which book in the Bible upon which the poems are based.
As you may know, in days of old, traditions and culture were handed down to the next generation orally. Even today story telling is an effective means of conveying information. These Christian Rap Hip Hop Poems and Poetry will prove to be a valuable teaching aid in the conveyance and perpetuation of the Christian culture, values and norms.
So why did Jesus have to go to the cross? The answer lies in the Genesis story of the creation. After God finished his creation work, the serpent came to the woman and asked, “Has God said you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?” Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.
And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
The LORD God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock
and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
He shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise His heel.”
(Genesis 3:1-15 ESV)
“He shall bruise your head” is God’s reference to Jesus who would be sacrificed to redeem mankind back to God. Note, that it didn’t take much time for God to provide a solution to the problem, “Mankind’s Fall from Grace”, but at a great price.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that any one who believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life - John 3:16
