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"Night Fever," new song of mine could have many biblical implications

   Many people think of going to do something for the Lord like the preach the gospel, but will they really consider what the backlash would or could be like against them in many forms? 
   During my years of preaching with and alongside Third Street Ministries the typical level of discomfort normally experienced was just the prodding of scoffers and mockers in the mission field. It was kept from encroaching on our personal lives for an extended time, even despite posting videos. My testimony would indicate just how cautious, circumspect, and in agreement with your fellow believers you have to be in order to avoid a problem. That is especially true if you are working at the "trenches" level of confronting the unbelieving world. 
   In this new song "Night Fever," I just describe in vague terms one day in July 2011 when my ministry efforts with them finally got derailed more seriously. Tom of 1tmoch fame called my cellphone (or we called each other) and I planned to go to Santa Monica to assist that night with the preaching. I never really actually made it out that night and he probably did not hear from me for several weeks due to what happened to me. 
   However, after understanding that I just experienced an upsetting series of events that completely knocked me out of a ring of contenders for several weeks, that is not really just grounds to enforce a hyper-Calvinistic view that I was therefore predestined to eternal damnation. Things just happen to people sometimes, and we already know from the Bible that God sends testing and trials, and believers experience persecution. It's a test of your faith, and like what happened to Job, the Devil could be in a war for the very soul of you. Anyway, no matter what happens to a person you can be a witness in all the places God sends you.  It doesn't have to always be one particular place, after all. 
   I did actually hear from Tom later the reasonable view that once I felt well enough again I was welcome to come out there again and help. It is just too bad that over time it felt and seemed to me that things could never really run the same way again. Some of the ministries seemed to fold within a year or so thereafter, and never had a strong presence again in the same place on a regular basis as before (which was every week, ongoing).
   Anyway, I have just completed recording and mixing down the song and it's under final review by me. I don't know exactly when the release date will be, but I will keep everyone updated.   

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