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This Tuesday the following new albums drooped from Eric Benét, Miguel, Ron Isley, Jazmine Sullivan, El DeBarge and Chrisette Michele! Which out of the 6 will you be bumping too? I got my favorite three? I will revel which ones real soon!

Ke$ha Releases “We R Who We R” Music Video

Who Love Kesha more then I do? I don’t know I think Ke$ha is hot! She is different and got that real white trailer trash 60’s let’s get high feel about her. Not to mention her voice is cute and unique. Steppin up her game Ke$ha looks more put together in this video more then her first, where she really looked like a drunken HOT MESS! To me she is a younger pink, minus the powerful voice. But the entire rebel I don’t give a f**k style is what Pink represents and now ke$ha is surely following it up. I must say the make-up is a little to much for me, nice but damn it looks like you can share with three other people just from her face alone. It goes with her style, but GEESH that is a lot! Take a walk down the tunnel and Check out Ke$ha’s video for “We R Who We R”.

My Message to you: We got to stay true to ourselves, because if you worry about what others think about you will make you loose yourself and question things that should not matter. You are who you are and if a person does not like it, they need to move along and minus themselves out of your life. Others out there will surely appreciate the minor faults you do have about yourself. Life is sweet so enjoy and live it! -Mysteria

Wet

I'm about to get on a plane to go to Melbourne to see U2. Who goes to an outdoor concert in Melbourne? Seriously. I'm gonna be wet as.

Still, who goes to an outdoor concert in Sydney this December? All I've seen of it is rain so far.

Woot for U2 though!



It did just occur to me that we're going to see U2 on World AIDS Day. I can't see Bono letting us get out of that too easily.

Kim Kardashian scary and freaky pose...............

Kim Kardashian poses like she is dead in a coffin to promote World Aids Day on December 1st sponsored by the Keep A Child Alive foundation. She looks like sleeping Beauty to me! I also think its kinda scary, but the cause behind it is for a great purpose. I wonder if she made a big deal like she did when she posed for Play boy?

Anyway she does look nice, even when she plays dead! Remember people to get tested and wrap it up, even if it is in the heat of the moment. That one slip can change your life tremendously.

Chrisette Michele spotted in Brooklyn................

Chrisette Michele spotted in Brooklyn, NY filming scenes for her single “Goodbye Game” off her latest album "Let Freedom Reign" album.

The name behind her album Let Freedom Reign came from something simply, but represents her to the fullest!

We're Back

For all those of you who were fans of Podcasting with Howie and Tom, we'll be back. But live on the computer screen. Streaming video right to your computer.

8pm AEST, 25th December 2010. Right here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/howie-and-tom-live

It'll be better than all your crap presents, but not nearly as good as your good ones.

Me and my Salvation

I was doing my Bible reading this morning, and I'm currently going through 1 Samuel because we're doing it in youth group. Today I read 1 Samuel 12 where Samuel gives his farewell speech. And it's not what you'd expect - "It's been so good leading you all, I love you lots, God bless" - Samuel lays into them and gives them a history their sin, right up until they choose a king and rejected God as their king. Samuel then says God is going to send a storm to prove they have done evil, and he does, which is a pretty awesome endorsement of your speech if you're Samuel.

Israel feels pretty convicted by the thunder and lightning and says: "Pray to the LORD your God for your servants so that we will not die, for we have added to all our other sins the evil of asking for a king." (12:19)

And Samuel replies with, "Do not be afraid. You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless. For the sake of his great name the LORD will not reject his people, because the LORD was pleased to make you his own." (12:20-22)

That struck me. Firstly because I feel like I regularly get confronted with my sin. And I think "Oh goodness, now I've done this, on top of all my other sins." So I know how the Israelites feel.

But then Samuel gives this great reply. He doesn't say "Oh don't worry about it, it's nothing. God will forgive you." And he doesn't say "Sucks to be you, God is going smash you guys so hard!"

He says "You have done all this evil". He doesn't pull punches. But having done evil their response should be to try and escape his wrath, to get away from him. But Samuel counsels them by saying "Do not be afraid" and "Do not turn away from the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart." Just when they should be running away he says come closer. Serve God. Do not be afraid. Why?

"For the sake of his great name the LORD will not reject his people, because the LORD was pleased to make you his own."

God is going to forgive and not destroy the Israelites because God's name is made great when he forgives sinful people and when he looks after his family. It's not because Israel is amazing, or God is fond of their cuteness, or they'll make it up to God. Israel are safe from God and God will forgive them because it glorifies him. For God saving and forgiving is all about glorifying himself.

And that gives me great comfort. I know I have done evil. And I'm not sure why God would want to forgive me. But God doesn't forgive me because there is anything particularly special about me, he forgives me for the sake of his great name. And there is no point where God will give up on me, not because God can't live without me, but for the sake of his great name. I am saved for God's glory. And I am safe for God's glory. Which means, it's not about me.

In my self-centredness I can get all caught up on why would God save me? I'm not good enough, maybe God will stop loving me if I keep letting him down, how much longer will he put up with me? I should work harder to please God. And really it's not about me. But God's not saving me because of how good or bad I am. He's not getting me in his kingdom because I'm a great asset with all my Christian skills, or because he saw me and thought "That guy really needs help." God has saved me, and keeps me saved, because it's an expression of his character and a testament to his greatness. God's not going to stop loving me, or drop me from the team, because I'm here to glorify him. Saving me, and sanctifying me and making me his child, that glorifies which is the primary reason I am saved. My salvation is not about me, it not reliant on me at all, it's not predicated on how good or bad I am, it's about God, who is love, doing what God does best.

It's not about me.

I was an object of wrath, I am a trophy of grace, because I am the glory of God and the glory of God wins every time.

Hallelujah.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. - Ephesians 1:3-6