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Singer Rachael Lampa Thought She Was Done With Music – But God Had Other Plans
Singer Rachael Lampa shot to stardom in the early 2000s, releasing numerous hit songs and albums, but, at 20 years old, she decided to walk away from it all.
After years of remaining out of the spotlight and, at moments, taking on more minor roles as a background singer, Lampa now finds herself once again making music. She even landed a K-LOVE Fan Award earlier this year for her single “Perfectly Loved,” something she said was unexpected.
“If there’s a definition of ‘caught off guard,’ that was it,” she recently told CBN Digital of her win. “I just was so sure that it wasn’t going to happen … but insanely grateful.”
It’s a return Lampa never really thought would unfold — and one she didn’t intentionally orchestrate.
Lampa’s early experience in music
The singer reflected on the origins of her career at age 14, when she found herself on the road and in the studio, very literally growing up in the public eye. The process of being a well-known Christian singer while navigating the perils of being a teen wasn’t always easy.
“[I was] trying to make sense of growing up, getting to know who I am, but also like jumping on interviews and trying to pretend I know who I am,” Lampa said.
Now 38, Lampa said she has had a very different experience this time around, describing the entire process of being “sweet, and redeeming, and refreshing.”
“I just am able to show up in an honest way and in a way where I don’t have to put anything on,” she said. “I don’t have to feel like I have to … strive for like everyone’s acceptance and everyone’s love. And there’s much more peace.”
Of course, many people want to know why Lampa chose to walk away from a busy and successful music contract years ago. Those questions aren’t new, though; she said it’s something people openly questioned at the time, asking her if she was sure about her decision.
Why she walked away
“I was 20, 21ish, and it was the time when a lot of my friends from high school were just stepping into what they wanted to do for the rest of their lives,” Lampa said. “And, for me, I was stepping out of what I thought I would be doing for the rest of my life.”
At the time, she had no definitive plan of what came next, though she said she knew it wasn’t a hiatus or a sabbatical; it was something much deeper.
“It was just a straight-up, like, ‘I don’t have peace right now. I feel very anxious. I feel lots of pressure. I don’t know what my voices, what their voices are, what God’s voice is. I can’t tell any of it apart,’” Lampa said, expressing her confusion at the time. “So, when I stopped, I literally was like, ‘I don’t know what’s next.’”
She said her first job after music was to become a nanny, taking on the role to try something polar opposite to what she’
She said her first job after music was to become a nanny, taking on the role to try something polar opposite to what she’d been doing. In the following years, Lampa said “yes” to many random opportunities — and she credited the experience with teaching her multiple lessons along the way.
“One of the things that got restored a lot in that time was the gift of music,” she said. “I realized what I used to love, what used to give me peace when I was so young, so small — before I even realized that there are careers out there to sing for the Lord — I would just sing in my room … and I felt connected to God, like even as a young, young kid.”
Lampa said that love for music and its role in her connection to faith was restored during her decade-long break. She added, “[I realized] I can just sing and just enjoy music, just to spend time with God and not have this big pressure to go change the world with it, honestly.”
Beyond that, Lampa was also able to spend more time with family and friends, calling the entirety of the experience “peaceful.”
Helping the homeless and incarcerated
One of the other efforts Lampa has engaged in over recent years is her family’s ministry, People Loving Nashville, an effort to feed the homeless and minister to the incarcerated.
“My older brother, my little sister, my little brother, we all are part of this together, and my oldest brother started it,” she said. “It has grown like crazy, which is so funny, because, for the longest time, we were just like trying to just keep it grassroots.”
But what started as a simple operation scrounging together money to buy food for the homeless in downtown Nashville has turned into what she described as a “big block party” that serves the homeless and those in need every week.
“Anybody that gets in line … gets fed,” Lampa said. “It went from 10 people, to 100 people, to, I think, it’s about 500 a night now.”
The singer called her involvement in the effort “life-changing.” Lampa specifically noted the transformation she experienced ministering to women in prison as part of People Loving Nashville.
She shares the Gospel message and comes alongside them to meet them where they are.
“It was just this really beautiful, healing time of, like, just walking with people in what … they’re going through, whether they’re fighting for custody, whether they’re trying to get out, whether they’re trying to cope with the fact that they’re not going to get out,” Lampa said. “It’s just showing up for people.”
Why she wrote ‘Perfectly Loved’
As it turns out, the experience is why she wrote “Perfectly Loved,” a song that has deeply resonated and led to her K-LOVE Award Win.
“I was not planning on doing music ever again,” Lampa said.
But God had other plans. The roots of her return to music set while she was telling friends in her small group how powerful it was seeing incarcerated women hear about God’s love and instantaneously be moved by the message. They encouraged her to take her experience and create music around it.
“They’re like, ‘You gotta write that song! You gotta write that song!” she said.
Lampa did just that. The song became instantaneously popular, and she ended up back on stage — again, a place she never thought she’d be. It’s a testament to God moving in our lives when we let Him.
Sources:faithwire
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ലോക ചരിത്രത്തില് ഏറ്റവുമധികം തര്ജ്ജമ ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ട പരമ്പര എന്ന പദവിക്ക് അരികിലാണ് ‘ദി ചോസണ്’ ഇപ്പോള്. അന്പതോളം ഭാഷകളില് ഈ പരമ്പര തര്ജ്ജമ ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്. 600 ഭാഷകളില് സബ്ടൈറ്റില് ലഭ്യമാക്കുവാനും അണിയറക്കാര്ക്ക് പദ്ധതിയുണ്ട്. ഇറങ്ങിയ മുന് സീരിസുകള് എല്ലാം തന്നെ ഹിറ്റായതിനാല് പുതിയ എപ്പിസോഡിന് വേണ്ടി ആകാംക്ഷയോടെ കാത്തിരിക്കുകയാണ് ലോകമെമ്പാടുമുള്ള പ്രേക്ഷകര്.
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With the days of Lent just around the corner, a new movie following the final days in the story of Jesus Christ’s life is on its way to cinemas. And, today,exclusive first look at the poster and trailer for filmmaker Mauro Borrelli’s The Last Supper. Starring Jamie Ward (His Dark Materials) as Jesus, James Faulkner (Game of Thrones) as Caiaphas, and Nathalie Rapti Gomex (Love on the Rock), the media gives audiences a look into one of the most important stories from the Bible that will rise into a theater near you on March 14.
Introducing The Last Supper’s trailer is none other than renowned Christian singer and songwriter, Chris Tomlin, who joins the film’s team as an executive producer. The musician sets up the tale that audiences are about to see before the teaser rolls, which opens on a shot of the production’s titular meal, where we see Jesus (Ward) breaking bread alongside his disciples at the table of the Last Supper. As the religious leader addresses his followers, instructing them how to honor the practice of communion, scenes from their time together play overtop. Famous stories from the Bible begin to flash in and out, with Peter (James Oliver Wheatley) crossing paths with Jesus for the first time, the latter throwing over the tables at the temple, and the holy leader addressing the masses on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Promising to carry audiences through Holy Week, we also see Jesus’ betrayal at the hands of one of his own, his arrest, and his crucifixion.
Anyone who knows the story of Jesus’ final days knows that there are a lot of main players, meaning that the call sheet for The Last Supper is a lengthy one. Additionally, the Pinnacle Peak Pictures-backed film will feature the likes of Henry Garrett (Silo) as Nicodemus, Daniel Fathers (House of the Dragon) as Joseph of Arimathea, Marie-Batoul Prenant (Testament: The Story of Moses) as Rachel, Billy Rayner (The Catcher Was a Spy) as Thomas, Robert Knepper (Prison Break) as Judas, Charlie MacGechan (Pennyworth) as John, Ben Dilloway (Masters of the Air) as Malchus, Fredrik Wagner (The Playlist) as Andrew, Harry Anton (The Last Kingdom) as Simon The Zealot, and more.
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“Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo — a female who identifies as bisexual and queer — is slated to portray Jesus in “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the Hollywood Bowl, an amphitheater in Los Angeles.
The 38-year-old celebrity posted about the controversial role on her Instagram story, writing, “Just a little busy this summer. Can’t wait!”
She also collaborated with the Hollywood Bowl in a post to her feed:
Erivo is not a stranger to “Jesus Christ Superstar,” as she portrayed Mary Magdalene in the incredibly controversial musical in 2020, when it was performed by an all-female cast.
The condemnations for the casting decision have been swift, according to Daily Mail.
One critic called the news “blasphemy” and “mocking Christ the King,” while another wrote, “Hollywood really is just a fishbowl of likeminded individuals; good luck with this one.”
“Cynthia should be more careful about the roles she gets,” added someone else. “This is just plain disrespectful.”
It should be noted the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical, which first debuted in 1971, is a very controversial and, to some, deeply offensive show known for depicting Jesus as a flawed man with doubts and anxieties. The musical also establishes the relationship between the Son of God and Mary Magdalene as potentially romantic and sees Judas in a more sympathetic light than Scripture portrays.
The short run for Erivo’s performance at the Hollywood Bowl is slated for Aug. 1-3.
Sources:faithwire
Michael Medved is an author, political commentator, film critic, and talk show host whose career successes came early and often.
Medved attended California public schools until age 16 when he enrolled at Yale as a national merit scholar. He went on to attend Yale Law School and then worked as a campaign speechwriter and political consultant.
He authored his first best-selling book at age 26. That book gave birth to a television series. Now, his newest project turns his latest book, The American Miracle, into a docudrama.
The movie explores moments of crisis in our nation’s history that were interrupted by the hand of Providence, or as President George Washington described it, “the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men.”
“The history of the American Experiment is a fabric woven of countless instances of improbable, unimaginable success. Whether it is the supernatural protection that surrounded George Washington – the Father of our Country – throughout his life, the mysterious weather conditions that favored the movements of the Continental Army at critical battlefield junctures, or, the unique, longstanding success of a revolution unlike any other in recorded world history; it is difficult, nearly impossible to explain the outcome of any of these, and so many more events like them, without allowing for divine intervention,” the website for the movie explains.
Sources:CBN News
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