This week sees the publication of a book called ‘Marry Him: The case for Settling for Mr Good Enough.’
Written by a Lori Gottileb a 40 year old single mother, the book encourages single women in their late 20s to get a move on to find Mr Right or they might spend the rest of their lives on their own if they don’t find him by 30.
Gottileb puts paid to the myth of women finding ‘The One’, stating its a lie fueled by Hollywood and romantic fiction and encourages singletons to settle for and marry men that are OK – men who treat them nice, have a job and want to settle down.
She states she wished that she had settled for any of the perfectly acceptable but uninspiring men she rejected during her search for the perfect man. “We grew up idealising marriage, but we’d had a more realistic understanding of its cold, hard benefits, we might have done things differently, so we walked away from uninspiring relationships that might have made us happy. What make a a good marriage isn’t necessarily what makes a good romantic relationship.”
She also goes on to say that if you were to ask any honest 40+ single woman what she most longs for in life she is likely to say a husband and a family. “Every woman I know – no matter how successful and ambitious, financially and emotionally secure – feels panic coupled with desperation if hits 30 and is not married.”
Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
Randal D. Pinkett (born 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a business consultant who in 2005 was the winner of season four of the reality television show, The Apprentice. Pinkett was the first African American to win the US version of The Apprentice.
Well it just so happens that he is a great believer in God.
It is so encouraging to read about his love for God on his website!
He writes on his Website…
My faith and belief in God have always been a source of strength. First and foremost, I am a child of God – a spiritual being with a physical manifestation, rather than a physical being with a spiritual element. My spirituality permeates my personal relationships, my business interactions, and my volunteer activities. I thank the Lord every day for allowing me to see another day, for the food before me when I eat, and for the people he has brought into my life. In reading Bible scripture on a daily basis, I strive to allow God’s word to be the compass that guides my life.
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Bishop Wayne Malcolm
The Entrepreneur’s Pastor
They call him the entrepreneur’s pastor, because his ministry nurtures entrepreneurship and supports entrepreneurs.
You can also join him for free on Saturday 27th at the Crowne Plaza hotel for a half-day seminar entitled: Mis-education exposed!
Its based on his book, the Mis-education of the masses in which he will explain that modern schooling is, for the most part, a sales pitch! During those years we are sold a life plan. It’s a 40 year plan from age 25 to 65. It involves joining the workforce and giving your best years to an employer in exchange for just enough to survive. The truth is that an alternative life-plan exists but few people know about it. He’d like to share it with you at his event.
To register go to www.icancoach.co.uk. Look up the events page and register for the event.
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Gospel DJ Dave P and his wife Helen are celebrating. Not only have they signed up as a team to host a radio show on Premier Radio Digital station but the couple are excited as they are expecting twins in May.
The show Arise And Shine with Dave P & Helen Le Paul airs every Sunday morning at 7am – 12pm on Premier Gospel Radio
You need to have a DAB Radio or listen online www.premierradio.org.uk/gospel/live
For further details go to www.premiergospel.org.uk
The gospel show on Ujima Radio Station, Bristol, has been without a DJ presenter for just under a year. Everything changed in 2010 with the two new presenters Mel Carrol and Carmen McLaughlin stepped up to the mark.
Station: Bristol’s No1 Urban Radio Station UJIMA RADIO 98FM
Time: Sunday morning 10am – 11am
Tel: 0117 942 8313
Text: 07960 240 198
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group
Webcast: www.ujimaradio.com
Podcast: http://soul2sole.mypodcast.com
This event features an array of international and UK based speakers who will teach attendees about the principles of prayer in order to energise believers relationship with God and their prayer life. They’ll also be prophetic prayer and teaching sessions from 10am-12.30pm between 22-23 February 2010
Kevin Bond is perhaps the finest producer in the gospel music industry today! In many circles he has been dubbed “The Million Music Maker.” Few could argue with that assertion or his credentials, as his name and production credits have thoroughly permeated the most prominent gospel CD and cassette jackets over the past 20 years.
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Kevin arrived on the gospel music scene in 1983. That year, as a 19 year-old prodigy he became the organist for the highly acclaimed Edwin Hawkins Music and Arts Seminar Mass Choir. Teaming with gospel pianist extraordinaire Richard Smallwood and a host of other gifted minstrels (including guitarist Jonathan Dubose and drummer/bassist Joel Smith), Kevin formally introduced himself to the gospel nation on the 1984 EHMAS release, Angels Will Be Singing.
Proverbs 18:16 states, “A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.” Kevin stepped securely into that promise during the years immediately subsequent to his inauguration into the gospel music industry. His fresh approach to music directing coupled with his ultra-clean, innovative, yet sophisticated piano technique won him favor with the renowned Walter and Edwin Hawkins and The Hawkins Family. Serving as music director and keyboardist for the Hawkins music umbrella afforded him the opportunity to hone his skills in a privileged, yet challenging environment. That environment served as a major foundation for his ultimate musical destiny!
Well-established as a keyboardist and music director, Kevin began to exercise his production talents during the early 1990’s. He collaborated with a number of artists, including Stephanie Mills, Donald Lawrence and The Tri-City Singers, The Kurt Carr Singers and Trinitee 5:7, among others. His impeccable work with these artists proved him highly competent as a producer and firmly validated the “production” facet of his calling.
2010 seems set to be a good year for Muyiwa.
Profile of gospel singer Tonéx. Anthony Charles Williams II has never had a comfortable relationship with the industry that made him famous.
Fans know him as Tonéx. His eccentric style and vertiginous high notes helped make him one of the most acclaimed praise singers of the past decade, and, for a time, one of the most successful. He had a certain hip-hop swagger and the status of a sex symbol.
A boisterous live double CD, “Out the Box,” won him six trophies at the 2005 Stellar Awards, gospel’s most prestigious event. Tonéx was a welcome guest at all the biggest black churches, a regular presence on BET’s gospel shows, and a headliner at gospel festivals. He has released dozens of CDs, which contain some of the strangest and most seductive Christian pop music since the glory days of James Cleveland; his most evident musical forbears are adventurous pop stars such as Stevie Wonder, Janet Jackson, and Erykah Badu. He made it a habit to tweak old-fashioned, upstanding churchgoers.
News agency Christian Telegraph released a list of Christian ministers who, in our opinion, had most impact on world Christianity in 2009.
1. Rick Warren – newsmaker of the year
Pastor of the famous church in the USA – Saddleback Church, became one of the most important newsmakers in the year of 2009. He led the prayer during President Obama’s inauguration, took stand to protect Christian values in America. His name most often appeared in the news headlines than the names of other Christian ministers.
2. Brian Huston – media person of the year
Senior pastor of the Hillsong church Sydney that has its affiliate churches in capital cities of many other countries received the title of the media person 2009. Pastor Huston and his team began to actively use social Internet services in their ministry. The new worship album of Hillsong United jumped to top positions of the world charts and became the leader of downloads on the Internet. Also a major presentation of Hillsong TV-project The I Heart Revolution: We’re All In This Together was held in Sydney this year.
3. Rick Joyner – teacher of the year
The head of the MorningStar Ministries took the role of referee and spiritual mentor of Todd Bentley, who left the ministry in 2008 after the scandal following the divorce with his first wife. In the video interview Rick Joyner took with Todd and his new wife, he tried to show the root of the problem that happened with the young minister and to teach other Christians to escape such problems in the future.
TD Jakes Writes…
For years I’ve been telling you to Get ready…Get ready… Get ready. Now, it’s time to Be Ready! We’re entering the year 2010 and I am very excited about what God is about to do. The most important thing I want to stress for the New Year is “Strategy.” If you’re planning to use the struggle and adversity from 2009 to propel you forward in 2010, I believe you will be blessed!
The Bible says “write the vision and make it plain” (Hab 2:2). I’m encouraging the church and believers to get a strategy in place for 2010 by participating in the “My 2010 Plan” Campaign.
Consider sowing a special seed and over the next 365 days, let’s work together to set in place systems, order and structure for the entire year. To equip you with a few tools to help get your plan in place, we created a special web site: www.my2010Plan.org.
The year 2010 is not just a date, but looking back at 2009 and the worldwide recession gives us an indication of what is to come. Whenever God pulls back a bow, the arrow is going to go further than it’s ever gone before! I believe the year 2010 is going to be that turning point. God promises to restore the years that the cankerworm, palmer worm, and the locust have eaten.
In 2009, these vermin ate into resources – retirement, homes and finances. But our God has declared that the coming year will be the time of restoration and renewal. But you have to be prepared! I can’t stress that enough.
Start right now preparing your strategy and plan for 2010. Write your goals, work your plan and get ready to sow your seeds in expectation of a double portion harvest! I’m believing God for a double portion, not just financially, but of wisdom, faith, inspiration and the most important thing, a “Strategy.” Remember, what you plan for is what you are going to get!
Plans are in motion to bring together British Christian artists from the world of gospel, urban gospel, praise and worship and CCM music to record a charity single on February 27, 2010, at the world famous Abbey Road studios in St Johns Wood, London, to raise money for victims of the Haitian earthquake.
Lawrence Johnson, co-founder of the London Community gospel choir and Les Moir of Kingsway Music have joined forces to organise the recording after being moved into action after watching the scenes of devastation caused by the earthquake that hit the island of Haiti on January 12, leaving over 200,000 people dead and the infrastructure of much of the country destroyed.
Artists that have pledged their support to this charity recording initiative include X Factor finalists Voices With Soul and Beverley Trotman, Amy Stead, Graham Kendrick and Tim Hughes, Britain’s leading praise and worship artists, Ken Riley, LZ7, Simon Brading, Tre Shepherd, MOBO award winners Victizzle and Jahaziel, E-Tizz, New Direction, 29th Chapter, Roger Samuels, Cie, Lurine Cato, Priscilla Jones, Cie, Faye Simpson, Trumpets of Zion, Festival of Light Choir, New Wine Choir, IDMC and the Audrey Mattis Chorale.
In 2006 videographer Fred Wilharm and his freelance writer wife, Sharon, went to the theater to see Facing the Giants.
“We were excited to see an independent Christian movie so well done,” says Sharon. “It inspired me to go home and write a screenplay.” She immediately wrote Class of 91, but it didn’t work out for them to produce it at that time.
Three years later, the Wilharms saw Fireproof and decided the time had come to produce their own movie.
Class of 91 makes its premiere on March 6 when churches in 17 states plus Canada will be hosting free Class of 91 Movie Premiere Events.
