x timothy brindle
x muzeONE
x Zae Da Blacksmith
x Leah Smith
x Alex
x The Lunchbox Kids

***Free poster with admission***

deejay essence and our good friend Zae Da Blacksmith have the opportunity to travel to Poland sharing the gift of music with about 10 other artists later this month. We’re asking you to prayerfully consider partnering with them as these artists share the gift of music and Joy of Jesus to the Poles (Polish). They’ve already learned how to say “Hello” – cześć (pronounced cheshch) which is a good way to start a conversation.

Why Poland? Here’s a snippet of the story…

“The story behind this tour is crazy… It reminds me of the promise that the Lord made to Hezekiah: “The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward” Isaiah 37:31.
A few years back, Richard Dietrich walked into city hall in Zary, Poland to surprise his wife (Brenda Promnitz) with an updated family tree. To the surprise of everyone, it turns out that Brenda’s family is the direct descendant of the Brother Von Promnitz who escaped persecution/annihilation from those who wanted to snuff out the royal family line. In short, the family Von Promnitz is still alive. In Southwest Poland, the Von Promnitz family is well known and the Polish people have welcomed back the family.

“Count” Richard was invited to bring music to Poland as the Von Promnitz family had done in the 1700’s by employing Georg Philipp Telemann as Kapellmeister (chapel master) for the court of Count Erdmann II of Promnitz. Hence, The Promnitz Tour.

The tour this year coincides with the EuroCup coming to town, and the local governments have decided to sponsor the tour as part of their pre-Cup festivities. The opportunities to testify of and enjoy the Lord’s grace and mercy keep multiplying”

For more info, check out: http://www.vonpromnitztour.com/

If you’re interested in helping support, all donations are tax-deductible.

 

One in four girls will be sexually abused before she turns 18, and most never tell. It is for this reason that Christian artist, Json, has joined the movement to end child sexual abuse.

Together in a Twitter chat,
@JSon116 and @Darkness2Light will speak out about the issue and empower others to prevent child sexual abuse on, *Wednesday, April 25 from 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (CST)*. Simply use the Twitter hashtag #JsonGP to follow along and engage in conversation during the specified time. Follow @Lampmode for a first look at the twitter chat questions.

Json’s 2012 album release, *Growing Pains*, reached #4 on the iTunes Hip-Hop Chart through a deeply personal chronicle of his family’s last year of life. His grippingly passionate song, “‘Secrets,’ tackles child sexual abuse head on and offers a redemptive conclusion to tragic events. While Json has not experienced abuse personally, a close loved one has. Chat participants will have the opportunity to ask questions to the person for which the song was written.

“Young girls and boys who have been sexually abused may never speak out,” says Json. “’Secrets’ is a powerful song because it gives a voice to the silent.”

Darkness to Light (D2L) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to end child sexual abuse. In sharing the solution of prevention, awareness and education, the organization aims to build momentum over time and ultimately
change the way our nation cares for, protects, and nurtures children. D2L exists to empower adults through educational programs to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to childhood sexual abuse.

For more information on Twitter chats, visit here.

For more information about Darkness to Light, you can click here, or the image below.

Who is the Last Missionary? …Find out on April 24th, 2012

It’s HERE! …CHECK IT OUT HERE!

We are pleased to announce our newest partnership with God’s Servant! Check out our interview with him below, and be on look out for more stuff from him this year!

Here is more info on him, HERE.

1st Prize – Kindle Fire, Json’s new album ‘Growing Pains’ and a t-shirt

2 Runner Up Prize winners will get their choice of a t-shirt from Lamp Mode’s online store.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY!!!

Click the Rapzilla logo below to learn more about Lamp Mode and Rapzilla’s partnership with Json for his new album “Growing Pains”

Json is back again! After his last album, “City Lights”, ran for a year and a half — now Json shares more of his heart on his lastest album, “Growing Pains”, which will be available on Feb. 21st, 2012. Below check out the link for his first single titled: “Making Me Over” feat. AD3 and Tedashii

Purchase the single on iTunes

“And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus
Christ whom you have sent.” John 17:3

In light of this verse, the statement I wanted to make became obvious.
Actually, not a statement, but a question:

Do You Know Him?

Why this question? Because, according to the Lord Jesus in John 17:3, each
person’s eternal destiny depends on what the answer is. There is only one
true God. To know this one true God is eternal life, which means that to not
know Him is eternal death and destruction. There is no knowing this one true
God apart from also knowing Jesus Christ, whom He has sent.

Looking at the same truth from a different angle, it can be said that all
sin is a failure to know God properly (Ex. 5:2, Jn. 16:3). In the days of
the Judges, Israel was spoken of like this:

“And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there
arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work
that he had done for Israel.” (Judges 2:10)

We see the fruit of that lack of the knowledge of God in the very next
verse:

“And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and
served the Baals.” (Judges 2:11)

There is a direct correlation between sin/ idolatry and not knowing the
Lord. Idolatry is giving other things the place that properly belongs to God
alone. This will inevitably happen when a person does not know God. To know
God is to know Him as He has revealed Himself, not as we would like Him to
be. When Moses asked God to see His glory, God responded in this way:

“I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my
name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will
show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But,” he said, “you cannot see my
face, for man shall not see me and live.” (Exodus 33:19-20)

Later on in the passage, it says

“The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God
merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and
faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to
the third and the fourth generation.” (Ex. 34:6-7)

Verse 7 presents a mystery that is only resolved through the person and work
of the Lord Jesus Christ. How can the same God simultaneously abound in
steadfast love and yet remain perfectly just in His dealings with rebellious
sinners like us? God said that He will by no means clear the guilty. The
problem is we ARE guilty. How can we be cleared without God contradicting
Himself? The cross, that’s how. To know God is to agree with Him about the
holiness of His character, the offensiveness of our sin and the righteous
wrath of God that our guilt deserves. To know God is to embrace the cross
and what Christ accomplished there.

To know God is to rest in the sufficiency of the life, death and
resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. To know God is to turn away from sin
and to run towards the Lord, who stands with open arms filled with love,
mercy, grace, kindness and compassion for those who trust in Him. To deny
His character as revealed in Scripture is evidence of not knowing Him. The
blessing of the new covenant is that all who trust in Jesus shall know God
(Heb. 8:11). For all eternity, our supreme joy and delight will be in
knowing and worshiping the God who created and redeemed us. There is no
greater news possible.

The Attributes of God project is an attempt to use music as a means of
communicating truth about the character of God. Our prayer at Lamp Mode has
been that God would use it to point people to the Scriptures and what God
says about Himself there. We’re also praying that through the gospel
presented on the album, God would be pleased to use something as “foolish”
as a hip-hop record to draw people to Himself and to help build up those who
are already in Christ.

So that’s why we chose the question, “Do You Know Him?” as the phrase to go
with the album. We hope that you’ll download the avatar HERE and that it will
spark curiosity and that when people respond, “Know who?”, you would tell
them about Jesus.

grace and peace,
shai

For those in Philadelphia, PA and the surrounding area, we are going to have, “The Attributes of God: The Multimedia Experience” held at the Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA.

ALSO, Pre-orders are available at our online store! reserve your copy today!