BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Kees Who?

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Kees Who?

Kees Kraayenoord is a Dutch gospel singer who is gradually becoming world famous within the Netherlands. It's about time the rest of the world finds out about him! Recently Kees appeared on national TV in a popular prime-time talk show. Claudia de Brey, the host of the program, clearly doesn't know a thing about praise & worship music and she tries to understand why on earth people can sing so passionately about God and Jesus. Kees starts to explain that Christians love God and that praising Him together is better than using drugs or getting drunk at a party. And when you sing about God, you are also singing about human emotions, relationships, life's big questions etc. - so it's not like you are only singing Hallelujah, praise the Lord! during a P&W concert. Both the audience and the talk show host just don't get it. Untill Kees starts to sing... I guess that is when they start to sense where Kees' happiness is coming from. Even if you don't understand a word of our funny language, do check out this clip and wait until Kees starts to sing (in English). Be patient, Kees starts to sing towards the end of this interview. You will also see a fragment with Michael W Smith (also unknown to the general public in the Netherlands)- Kees was his support act in the Netherlands.
If you like his music, do scroll way down to the bottom of this screen and have a look at / listen to God of the Moon and Stars... I want to know what you think about this, so feel free to leave a comment!

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Have you ever wondered why God gives so much? We could exist on far less. He could have left the world flat and grey; we wouldn’t have known the difference. But he didn’t. He splashed orange in the sunrise and cast the sky in blue. And if you love to see geese as they gather, chances are you’ll see that too. Did he have to make the squirrel’s tail furry? Was he obliged to make the birds sing? And the funny way that chickens scurry or the majesty of thunder when it rings? Why give a flower fragrance? Why give food its taste? Could it be he loves to see that look upon your face?

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Sadhu Sundar Singh

I do not condemn theologians wholesale, but it is unfortunately the fashion in Western thinking to doubt and deny everything. I protest this tendency. I never advise anyone to consult theologians, because all too often they have completely lost all sense of spiritual reality. They can explain Greek words and all that, but they spend too much time among their books and not enough time with the Master in prayer. It is not that I oppose all education, but education without life is certainly dangerous. You must stop examining spiritual truths like dry bones! You must break open the bones and take in the life-giving marrow.

Oswald Chambers

In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. "The clouds are the dust of His feet" (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clear-shining brightness. (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, July 29th)