Christian Singer/Worship Leader Vicky Beeching, says I'm Gay, Premier Christian Radio.

Worship leader and Christian commentator Vicky Beeching has opened up on her sexuality to a national newspaper.

The 35 year-old, who became known by performing at Christian festivals both in the UK and the US, says she's struggled with the issue her whole life but is now ready to go public.

Speaking to The Independent she explained how she first noticed her attraction to other girls at the age of 12.

She said: "Realising that I was attracted to them was a horrible feeling. I was so embarrassed and ashamed. It became more and more of a struggle because I couldn't tell anyone."

In the in-depth interview she talks about how she sought help to get rid of her same sex feelings firstly by going to confession with a Catholic priest then by asking for prayer at a large Christian event.

At the conference she said a group prayed over her that the demon of homosexuality would free her but she found the experience "degrading" and "humiliating".

Her career has seen her release several worship albums and tour the world but she exited the spotlight after being diagnosed with an auto-immune disease called linear scleroderma morphea.

Her condition required chemotherapy.

She was told by a doctor that it was stress induced and she believes her trigger was her battle with her sexuality.

It was a result of this part of her life that she vowed to tell friends and family.

Now a regular commentator on Christian issues on both TV and radio she says she's ready to let the world know and wants the Church to reconsider the way it views homosexuality.

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Question:

Should Churches and Christians listen to and sing to Vicky Beeching’s songs since her public  announcement  that she is lesbian ?  My answer is no

Read the article in the Independent here:

Vicky Beeching, Christian rock star: 'I'm gay. God loves me just the way I am'

Comment:

Although like many of you, I have sing along to Vicky Beeching songs in various Church Settings,   I’m saddened to hear that she is claiming to be Gay(Lesbian) ,  the Bible clearly states that homosexuality and a homosexual lifestyle is both a sin and sinful, and there are no scriptures that support, encourage and confirm that the homosexual lifestyle  is a choice for the Christian, I’m sorry the Bible clearly states that you can’t be a Christian and Gay, the choice is yours,  but you can’t be both. Homosexuality is Sinful, anyone who lives this lifestyle or supports this lifestyle... the Bible is clear you need to repent of your sin.

1 Timothy 1:9-11The Voice (VOICE)

9 we also know the law was not designed for law-abiding people but for lawbreakers and criminals, the ungodly and sin-filled, the unholy and worldly, the father killers and mother killers, the murderers, 10 the sexually immoral and homosexuals, slave dealers, liars, perjurers, and anyone else who acts against the sound doctrine 11 laid out in the glorious, holy, and pure good news of the blessed God that has been entrusted to me.

1 Corinthians 6:8-10New American Standard Bible (NASB)

8 On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators,  nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [a]effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 5:16 -21 The Voice

16 His free gift is nothing like the scourge of the first man’s sin. The judgment that fell because of one false step brought condemnation, but the free gift following countless offenses results in a favorable verdict—not guilty. 17 If one man’s sin brought a reign of death—that’s Adam’s legacy—how much more will those who receive grace in abundance and the free gift of redeeming justice reign in life by means of one other man—Jesus the Anointed.

18 So here is the result: as one man’s sin brought about condemnation and punishment for all people, so one man’s act of faithfulness makes all of us right with God and brings us to new life. 19 Just as through one man’s defiant disobedience every one of us were made sinners, so through the willing obedience of the one man many of us will be made right.

20 When the law came into the picture, sin grew and grew; but wherever sin grew and spread, God’s grace was there in fuller, greater measure. No matter how much sin crept in, there was always more grace. 21 In the same way that sin reigned in the sphere of death, now grace reigns through God’s restorative justice, eclipsing death and leading to eternal life through the Anointed One, Jesus our Lord, the Liberating King.

Romans 6:1-12 The Voice

6 How should we respond to all of this? Is it good to persist in a life of sin so that grace may multiply even more? 2 Absolutely not! How can we die to a life where sin ruled over us and then invite sin back into our lives? 3 Did someone forget to tell you that when we were initiated into Jesus the Anointed through baptism’s ceremonial washing,[a] we entered into His death? 4 Therefore, we were buried with Him through this baptism into death so that just as God the Father, in all His glory, resurrected the Anointed One, we, too, might walk confidently out of the grave into a new life. 5 To put it another way: if we have been united with Him to share in a death like His, don’t you understand that we will also share in His resurrection? 6 We know this: whatever we used to be with our old sinful ways has been nailed to His cross. So our entire record of sin has been canceled, and we no longer have to bow down to sin’s power. 7 A dead man, you see, cannot be bound by sin. 8 But if we have died with the Anointed One, we believe that we shall also live together with Him. 9 So we stand firm in the conviction that death holds no power over God’s Anointed, because He was resurrected from the dead never to face death again. 10 When He died, He died to whatever power sin had, once and for all, and now He lives completely to God. 11 So here is how to picture yourself now that you have been initiated into Jesus the Anointed: you are dead to sin’s power and influence, but you are alive to God’s rule.

12 Don’t invite that insufferable tyrant of sin back into your mortal body so you won’t become obedient to its destructive desires

Be Thou My Vision, Christian Classics

English version by Eleanor Hull, 1912[edit]

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,

Be all else but naught to me, save that thou art;

Thou my best thought in the day and the night,

Both waking and sleeping, thy presence my light.

Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word,

Be thou ever with me, and I with thee Lord;

Be thou my great Father, and I thy true son;

Be thou in me dwelling, and I with thee one.

Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight;

Be thou my whole armour, be thou my true might;

Be thou my soul's shelter, be thou my strong tower:

O raise thou me heavenward, great Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise:

Be thou mine inheritance now and always;

Be thou and thou only the first in my heart;

O Sovereign of Heaven, my treasure thou art.

High King of Heaven, thou Heaven's bright sun,

O grant me its joys after victory is won!;

Great heart of my own heart, whatever befall,

Still be thou my vision, O Ruler of all.

Some verses from the modern Irish version

Bí Thusa ’mo shúile a Rí mhór na ndúil

Líon thusa mo bheatha mo chéadfaí ’s mo stuaim

Bí thusa i m'aigne gach oíche ’s gach lá

Im chodladh no im dhúiseacht, líon mé le do ghrá.

Bí thusa ’mo threorú i mbriathar ’s i mbeart

Fan thusa go deo liom is coinnigh mé ceart

Glac cúram mar Athair, is éist le mo ghuí

Is tabhair domsa áit cónaí istigh i do chroí.

10,000 Reasons CAMPFIRE - Rend Collective

My Uttermost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers, Do not despise the Discipline of the Lord, Daily Devotionals

My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him —Hebrews 12:5

It is very easy to grieve the Spirit of God; we do it by despising the discipline of the Lord, or by becoming discouraged when He rebukes us. If our experience of being set apart from sin and being made holy through the process of sanctification is still very shallow, we tend to mistake the reality of God for something else. And when the Spirit of God gives us a sense of warning or restraint, we are apt to say mistakenly, “Oh, that must be from the devil.”

“Do not quench the Spirit” (1 Thessalonians 5:19), and do not despise Him when He says to you, in effect, “Don’t be blind on this point anymore— you are not as far along spiritually as you thought you were. Until now I have not been able to reveal this to you, but I’m revealing it to you right now.” When the Lord disciplines you like that, let Him have His way with you. Allow Him to put you into a right-standing relationship before God.

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How the Left cynically exploited a troubled woman's suicide to score points on welfare, writes STEPHEN GLOVER. Daily Mail

To many critics of the so-called bedroom tax, the tragic suicide of Stephanie Bottrill in May last year was proof this is the most monstrous measure dreamt up by the Coalition Government.

Before she walked into the path of a lorry, Miss Bottrill left a note to her son, Steven, in which she wrote: ‘The only people to blame are the Government.’ 

Understandably in the circumstances, Steven declared that the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, had ‘blood on his hands’.

Less forgivable was the response of David Jamieson, leader of the Labour Group in Solihull at the time. He claimed the ‘cruel’ tax had ‘brought about this tragedy’.

But did it? An inquest into Miss Bottrill’s death heard from her GP on Tuesday that she had been treated for depression ‘on and off’ since 1993, and had attempted suicide in 2005.

In the view of her brother, Kevin Owens, the prospect that the ‘bedroom tax’ would require her to move from her three-bedroom terrace house to a smaller bungalow — or lose £80 a month in housing benefit — may have been the ‘catalyst’ to her suicide, but his sister had been troubled.

As it happens, Mr Owens supports the ‘bedroom tax’ for social housing.  He said: ‘It’s terrible that people are crammed into one or two-bedroom flats with children while others sit on three-bedroom houses’. Isn’t he right?

I don’t believe Mr Duncan Smith has blood on his hands, though Work and Pensions officials were gravely at fault in telling Miss Bottrill that she would have to move or lose £80 a month. It turns out that as a long-term tenant who had claimed benefits continuously she was exempt from the cut.

A terrible administrative error was made that may well have contributed to her death, but it is ridiculous to try to pin the blame on Mr Duncan Smith or the ‘bedroom tax’.

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Comment:

The unfortunate death of this lady through suicide is a tragedy,   she was someone with long term mental health issues,  who felt that she couldn’t continue, and saw no other option but to take our own life, to blame the so called “ Bedroom Tax” and the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan –Smith for her death is unfounded,  Britain’s benefit bill is increasing,  for many living on benefits can be lifestyle choice, however for others  it is necessary short-term safety net.

Now you may need SIX bins: Warning from Britain's biggest waste firm over new EU rules forcing people to recycle more Daily Mail

  Waste company Veolia has launched campaign against 'unnecessary bins'

  Firm says EU rules could mean people have to separate rubbish six times

  However legislation is so badly worded that full impact remains unclear 

Families may have to separate their rubbish into six bins from next year, Britain’s biggest waste firm warned yesterday.

EU rules coming into force this January dictate that councils should collect glass, paper, tin cans and plastic separately, to avoid contamination and ensure they can be properly recycled.

Veolia, which collects or sorts rubbish for a third of the population, said the regulations are likely to force councils to place more bins outside every home.

A spokesman said the firm is calling for ‘a nationwide policy of “no more unnecessary bins”’.

They warned: ‘From January 2015, EU rules mean households and businesses may need to separate their waste into six separate bins. Veolia thinks most of the sorting can be done post-collection and that four bins are more than enough.’

Government officials insist councils should be left to decide how to collect rubbish. They are looking closely at the wording of the revised EU Waste Framework Directive, which remains shrouded in confusion.

They claim the rules may not lead to more bins – as local authorities could be exempted if they demonstrate that adding bins is not feasible.

Officials also say waste could be collected in fewer bins and then separated by binmen on the pavement – but Veolia has dismissed this proposal as dangerous.

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Comment:

Currently I use  3 bins, 2 for re-cycling ,(Brown and Green) and 1 for general waste, (Black)  all of which are provided by my local council,  the council uses an alternative weekly collection, so 1 week the green bin is collected, and on the 2^nd week the brown and black bins are collected,  this is because of some bureaucrats in Brussels have decided we need to re-cycle more,  increasing  from  3 bins up to 6 bins is just stupid  I agree we need to do some re-cycling ,  however for example, some plastics can be re-cycled, some cannot be re-cycled,  The UK Government and local authorities need to provide us with a more considered approach to the re-cycling process.

Dambusters reunited: World's only two airworthy WWII Lancaster bombers fly together over Britain for the first time in 50 years Daily Mail

Lancaster bombers united on windswept RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire for what will probably be last time

Lancaster Thumper, part of RAF Battle of Britain Memorial flight, joined Canadian Lancaster Vera from Ontario

Two aircraft are expected to visit some 60 air shows and public events across the UK over the next five weeks

Planes had been due to pass over Lincoln Cathedral last Friday, but poor weather caused flight to be postponed

Lancaster bombers most famous for Dambusters raids - attack on German dams with 'bouncing bombs' in 1943

Two Second World War Lancaster bombers flew together in the skies over Britain yesterday for the first time in 50 years.

The world's only two airworthy Lancaster bombers were united on a windswept Lincolnshire airfield for what will probably be one of the last times.

The Lancaster Thumper, which is part of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial flight, joined the Canadian Lancaster Vera from a museum in Ontario.

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