#flyleaf band

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Little side rant about my favourite band; Flyleaf and the misinformation surrounding Lacey Sturm's sexual orientation and rumors of homophobia.

I've read her books; she never stated her own sexuality and says a few times throughout "The Reason" and "The Mystery" that "God will love his children no matter who they love regardless of skin colour, sexual orientation, gender..."

She did explain how at the time she returned to God and her Christian faith that she was dating a girl named Amanda. Her and Amanda's relationship ending had nothing to do with homophobia but rather that Amanda was a drug addict and the relationship they were in wasn't helping either of them.

Lacey shows no signs of having any resentment towards Amanda or dating her. To Lacey, God knew that the relationship was doing them no good and that He had bigger plans for the both of them.

There was another rumor about how Lacey had went on a Christian podcast that promoted regressive and oppressed ideals about abortion and the LGBTQIA+, among other things but she had only done so to spread a message to those suffering from those ideals that they were loved anyway.

Anyway, personally, I just find the rumors annoying and unnecessary so I wanted to share what I've learned from and about Lacey Sturm.

[mysticmermaid108]

“Why do you like Christian Rock? Christian Music is supposed to be joyous, that sounds so painful!”

Well, sometimes not all music is joyous. Yes, it’s wonderful to celebrate Jesus, of course, but sometimes people need him in pain too. If a non-religious person comes to a concert and hears “Jesus is wonderful!” They might not be convinced. But if they hear “Listen, I know life’s hard, and you are upset and you feel like a monster and you’re in the panic room, but there’s hope.” That might be enough to change their eternity.

When I went to see Disciple in Murphy, there were about 60-70 people there, and 12 accepted Jesus. While that might not seem like much, that’s 12 people who had their lives saved and the place they go when they die is looking up. While acts like TobyMac and For King and Country are absolutely incredible, they celebrate Jesus in every way. But at Skillet and Disciple shows, they have several teens come up to them saying “Your music saved my life.” While Toby and Joel and Luke are incredible, they can’t reach people the way Christian Rock can. The fact that these singers use a genre filled with agony and songs about death to talk about Jesus is truly something amazing.

I pray and hope that I get to be apart of this industry one day. I’m fired up about Jesus, and it’s such a beautiful and powerful thing that not only does music bring people together, and does music bring people to God, but it saves people’s lives and changes their eternity.

Plus, these performers are CRAZY talented. They have energy, amazing voices with crazy ranges, and can shred guitars and rock the drums like nothing I’ve ever seen.

So that’s why I like Christian Rock. Not just because it’s good. But because it’s freaking powerful.

[ms-rampage]

Faith Seed: I'm So Sick - Flyleaf

I didn't put in all the lyrics because I'm f**king lazy af.

This took me 5 hours of my life to make, AND it was out of boredom. ENJOY!!!!!!. I plan on making Jacob, John and Joseph next time or within the week. 🙂😊

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reblog if you’re not afraid to have the bible on your timeline

[felinecuddles]

in the dark

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        used

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       afraid

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                             c l u t t e r e d

                                            n o i s e s

                                    now

                               im

                                    afraid

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                                                               s i l e n c e

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The US National Anthem doesn’t even go half as hard as Flyleaf’s self titled album.