i have had mixed experiences with new years eves and days – more often they have involved me running around trying to organise events and keep everyone else organised or entertained or worshipping or something like that and generally the ones where i have managed to avoid planning/organising/running anything have been the good ones [altho i do have great memories of some of the others don’t get me wrong] and last year’s hike to cape point was a definite positive memory… and so this year i am gonna kinda be straddling the middle ground – so not really organising anything, but definitely being involved and if you don’t have plans yet and can make it, you should consider joining us at arisefest…
here is the welcome to the arisefest website:
Bring in the New Year at ARISEFEST, the Christian music and lifestyle festival. Held at MIDMAR DAM in KZN from 30th DECEMBER 2010 TO 1st JANUARY 2011. Let top Christian artists from all over South Africa create a New Year’s to remember. This years theme, BE THE CHANGE, is inspired by 2 CORINTHIANS 10: 4 – “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.” We look forward to seeing you at this years festival but until then go have a good look around our website to find out more information and thanks for visiting!
so go check out the website here, here, or even here, but definitely not here cos that is something else and start planning…
amongst the bands playing, in no particular order (except alphabetical), are such diverse elements as arise band, cjay, coals of juniper, david phipson, harbourlight, jersey, remix’d, scarlet hill, show and tell, skylit city, straatligkinders, the arrows, theatre, the exploits, the kifness, to our divine, versus the wolf plus a whole bunch more on accoustice vibes…
should be a lot of fun… maybe see you there?
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sounds excellent!! man, so great to hear this is happening in my old neighborhood. God is moving! also very proud of my cousin, david phipson’s new album, you guys are in for a treat, wish i could be there!
How much do you have to pay for this festival of self glorification? Are you saying we must pay to go to this festival. Then we watch people glorifying themselves on stage with cheesy so-called rock music.. No way, give me a wild party any day. Something real and unpretentious.
It is R300 for this cheesy festival of hypocrites. To cover costs, it should be more like R40 per person entry. This makes a nice profit for some so-called Christians. But we all know Christianity is a business and that God needs lots of cash.
Whenever I hear about something like this, I think of coolaid being diluted with more water. At these festivals you encounter people drinking and grabbing each other all over the place. Its really just a party for those who somehow have no other option for NYE. NYE is also a man-made farce and money making scam. But as has always been the case, the Church is right behind it, propping up a mechanized commercial society seeking to enslave us. I will have no part of organized religion and its devious manipulations.
If you want a Christian revolution, you must throw away all the ways of man. You must realize that you are a slave to the banks and you do not even know that you are slaves. Why the R300 for a so-called Christian music festival? Is this buying the stairway to heaven? The Church is there to prop up a corrupt society. If this continues, real Christianity will die out. It is time for people to get out there and stop using Christianity to make money, to prop up a regime.
morne, you make me laugh, you make me cry
most people i know would simply delete your comments but i choose to approve every one of them individually because i want this blog to be all about being real and trying to live life to the full…
if i had my way all Christian events would be free – i am not running this event though and there are costs for venue and bands and sound equipment and admin and so on and so i imagine the money goes there – i met with tyron last week who is heading up arisefest and i’m pretty sure it’s not going to line his pockets or set him up with a huge car and house and luxury jet
i can only really say why i am going – i love God and i love people who love God and arisefest looks like being a great combination of both – i’m sorry to hear about your experience of festivals in the past cos that doesn’t sound like the ones i am used to being involved with – and we will frown heavily on people grabbing each other…
you seem like a glass half empty kind of guy from your responses to my posts – i encourage you to take a moment and engage with the other half of the glass – there is liquid in it and it is life-giving and refreshing and can blow your mind away – instead of digging in and looking for all the negative you possibly can, why not reflect on the fact that yes it’s a bunch of humans getting together and so there will be some bad motives and some greed and some glorification and whatever – that comes with being imperfect – but there will also be love and community and unity and worship and a call to a greater purpose – i challenge you to come and check out arisefest and then post your reflections on it afterwards…
I refuse to pay for these bands. They are making money out of it, so how do we know they are genuine? Besides these Christian bands sound very cheesy and make me fall asleep. There will be some self glorification and greed, and I will not pay to support this, nor will I be a part of something like this.
morne, i for one am glad that you will not be coming, at least until you have a change of attitude, because you just seem to always be looking for the bad. i am looking forward to a time of worshipping God, recharging my batteries, vibing with people and having a good time doing it and i’m pretty sure that is allowed… for the other side of things check out my christmas note with some opportunities of how to make christmastime a much more giving time – every year my family joins with a bunch of people in making sandwiches and driving around and giving them to homeless people and least giving them a sense of being loved and appreciated for one day in the year – just a small thing for sure and a lot more can be done but it’s a start and if each person took a time out of the consumerism of christmas and looked out for someone else, this could be a life-transforming time, maybe even country-transforming…
Well maybe there are some Christians like yourself that are better than others. But you should try not to use Christianity to prop up a corrupt system. Have a look at this http://www.davidicke.com and you will see how Christians have propped up the globalist elite and perpetrated most of the wars on this planet.
And here is this guy’s house.. Give to Jesus.. Give to Jesus….
Money money money….
dude no one – definitely myself included – will disagree that there are some people, make that a lot of people, doing very non-Jesus things in the name of the church or christianity or god or even jesus – but that doesn’t mean you throw the whole thing out – that is why i like to distinguish between christians (people who call themselves that) and Christ followers (people who live it) because there is such a difference which Jesus Himself spoke about a lot in Mattrhew 7 and dont be fooled, God will judge those people harshly when they stand before Him and they will be thrown out along with everyone else who didn’t acknowledge Jesus as king because that is effectively what they are doing – putting themselves above Him…
but with arisefest i know the guy running it and He is a Godly man and i know there will be a lot of Godly stuff happening there – yes it’s a pity that it costs money but so does everything in the world and so to be able to run an event of that magnitude there will be costs involved and so people can choose whether to go or not – buit there will be no ‘give me your money so i can build me a big house’ mentality or preaching at all
in fact the theme of this years fest is Be The Change and so the message spoken from the front when there is one (and i am mc’ing the gig so it will be loud and clear) is go back to your communities and live out this thing – look after the poor and the needy and the lonely and sick and imprisoned – change the world…
yes there are a lot of christian named people messing up the picture a lot but fortunately i know an incredibly huge amount of Jesus following people all around the world who are being the change and transforming their communities and the world around them – climb on board that train…