So the theme in Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel” is how someone's life is heading towards a dreadful path, the person can’t take control of their life. They don’t know what to do or how to help themselves so, this person reaches out to Jesus to ask for guidance, advice, and to completely take control of their life. This song uses metaphors, similes, allusion, and symbolism in many of the verses. This song was a hit all over, staying at #1 for 6 consecutive weeks on the Billboard of Hot Country. It was also was #4 on Hot Christian Songs and topping highly on the Billboard of Adult Contemporary. This song also won the ‘Single of the Year’ in 2005 at the CMA’s (Country Music Awards). can’t do this on my own/ I’m letting go/ So give me
Peter Wehner’s article, “What Wouldn't Jesus Do?” highlights the peculiar political climate of the 2016 election, as some of the most despised candidates to have ever run for presidency campaign. Wehner writes this article in an attempt to persuade those who are Christian (specifically Evangelical) to not support the candidate Donald Trump and gives reason through both fact and opinion. While some of the arguments are valid, Wehner writes an overly one-sided piece. He provides few facts and bases all of his claims off his own thoughts and opinions, leading to an extremely biased article that lacks consideration and panders to a specific crowd.
In reading Bill Davis’ book, In All Things Christ Preeminent, it is evident that receiving an education at Covenant College will be a unique spiritual and intellectual experience. With Christ present in all areas of the school, the structure of the college and what it as an institution aspires to accomplish varies greatly from that of the high school I attended. Based on the Christ-like goals, instruction, and student body of Covenant College depicted in In All Things Christ Preeminent, receiving an education from Covenant seems vastly different from my secular experience at LaFayette High School.
This song represents confidence because Clarkson said that even when things are bad you can always handle it and can always pull through and by pulling through you’re getting stronger.
When I was reading the book Jesus Made in America by Stephen J. Nicholas, I came across a very interesting chapter titled “Jesus on Vinyl”. This chapter discussed in detail the state of the use of Jesus in contemporary music from the 1950s up to the current times. Back 3in the 1950s there were contemporary artists who putting out albums of hymns, like Johnny Cash’s Hymns of Johnny Cash. Not surprisingly, the most significant time for Christian gospel music was during the hippie era in the 1960s. During that time, gospel, youth, and music had merged together into songs that preached about Christ and love. Many people became Christians during that time to protest the ongoing war in Vietnam so it would make sense that they would start to make that a main topic in the music of that time.
“Inside Your Heaven” was one of the top selling songs of the year, however; the country music industry shunned it because “it was to pop” (La Bella 33). Even though Carrie started out her career by being shunned, she was determined to win a lot more
Jesus Camp is a contentious documentary about the idea of Evangelical christianity itself and how it ties in with politics at the time. The basis for this film is a Evangelical camp of rare devotion in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota. The pastor hosting this camp is Becky Fisher and her ministry, “Kids In Ministry International”.
Faith, baptism, and worship are just a few words that embody Carrie Underwood’s lifestyle and beliefs. Underwood grew up in small town Checotah, Oklahoma where her passion for singing began in her church choir. From there her talent and fame only escalated. She came into the public’s eye in 2004 when she auditioned and later won season 4 of American Idol- earning her college credit towards a Mass Communications degree that she graduated with shortly after her win (“Carrie Underwood” People). Underwood was later named the highest debuting country artist in history for her record-shattering album Some Hearts, carried by her faith-filled song “Jesus, Take the Wheel” (“Carrie Underwood” People). That is the first of many Christ centered songs
Tim McGraw is a well known country singer and songwriter. The song I have chosen is a love song called ¨Don't Take the Girl¨. This song is about a boy named Johnny and his journey with the love of his life. In the beginning of the song Johnny's father is taking him fishing, but a little girl wants to tag along. Johnny begins to beg his father to not let the girl go fishing. As the song goes on the relationship between the boy and girl progress from a friendship into a romance. During this transition the couple goes through stages, in each stage the couple is placed in a situation where johnny will give up anything and everything just as long as the girl is not harmed.
The image contained within the "Invisible Man" archive, that I have unofficially titled "Black Jesus" for ease of reference, contains a black male in 1952, New York angrily presenting a picture of Jesus, one of the most important figures in the Christian belief system, portrayed as black rather than middle eastern. "Black [Jesus']" conveys a message that no one is has a greater moral value due to their skin color through the picture and the man holding it.
In their book Lead Like Jesus Ken Blanchard & Phil Hodges encourage readers to ask themselves three key questions:
“The song has to be of a certain quality for me to sing…One aspect it would have to have is that it didn’t repeat itself” (Bob Dylan). Transforming into new people throughout his life, Bob Dylan reverted to the Bible and other religious findings in his songs. Dylan is able to reveal a fulfillment from spirituality as he perceives his music as a sacred landscape. Bob Dylan brings up a theme of religion, referencing the book of Isaiah in his 1967 song “All Along the Watchtower” as he writes a story about two people at the watchtower, where the significance of life is found. Dylan’s spiritual lyrics conceived his work as a an artist through imagination and religion that creates a hallowed dwelling for him to aqurie attainment.
An idea that interested me in the song “Fix you” by Coldplay was how you will always have someone to lean on no matter what. When Chris sings “lights will guide home” he is using personification in this line because saying the lights will guide them is a human thing to do, as people guide each other which I think Chris is trying to demonstrate when he sings the lyrics “lights will guide you home.” It shows life itself because no matter how big the mistakes you make, no matter how bad life may seem, there will always be someone that will have your back. This reminds me of my friends who are always there for me whether its for when I’m feeling down or if I’ve had a bad day. These lyrics also emphasize that everyone goes through rough patchs in their life and they should let people try to help them. When my dog died this year, I didn’t take it well and I was distraught, but it made me going through the loss easier
Jürgen Moltmann, one of the more revered theologians of our era, and an esteemed author—known most famously for The Crucified God—offers a sermon from Luke 18:9-14 through an alternative perspective than the maligned tropes of the arrogant Pharisee and the humble tax collector. Rather than portray the Jew as the ‘bad person’ and the tax collector as the ‘good person’, he, unconventionally, encourages us to reverse our understanding. Moltmann, aware of the long-standing anti-Judaic sentiments that run through the interpretations of not only this passage, but of the New Testament itself, reminds his audience that the Pharisee is the ‘good person’ in this passage. A former Nazi Air Force auxiliary himself, Moltmann is keenly aware of how problematic
Discuss how the title helped to explain some aspect of Jesus’ character or role and why that would be attractive to the audience of the writer.
Jesus then goes from speaking to His disciples specifically, to calling out to the whole crowd, in which He goes from speaking plainly to once again speaking in metaphors and riddles. Within this passage Mark uses the words of Jesus to reveal the true cost of discipleship. He tells the crowd that if anyone chooses to come after Him then the condition of that decision is that they must take up their cross and follow Him. So one must ask: What does it mean to deny yourself? What does it mean to take up your cross? And when you follow Him where are you going? So then one must put this into context by looking at what has not yet happened in Mark. When Jesus denies Himself, He is essentially denying the human instinct to self preserve through a fight or flight response. When Jesus picked up His cross, He was deciding to be rejected, tortured, mocked and falsely accused on His way to Calvary where He died for the sins of all. Therefore, if you want to go after Jesus, you must be willing to commit to sharing the gospel with others at all costs, you must be willing to tortured, mocked, and falsely accused and you must also be willing to die, not necessarily for anything that you have done, but so that others can reach salvation. Historically, during this time period, the cross was a well known style of execution in Rome, and so although one reading this might see this as simply a metaphor, it is actually a foreshadowing of reality, which can be seen in the fact that all the