What's your favorite Michael Jackson song?

[HOPE - Psalm 43:5]

You can even list your favorite MJ video(s) as well.

[HOPE - Psalm 43:5]

My fav song is The Crow's Anthem also known as You Can't Win. Do you know many people who are scarecrows who are afraid of the crows in their lives instead of chasing those crows away?

[Ms. Elaine Johnson]

Aw gosh, forgot about that whole angle. The Wiz! The Crow's song was awesome. Albeit, I don't believe in proclaiming 'You can't win' because God's children always win in the end.

But wow, yeah, let us all banish the satanic scarecrows out of our lives. Pray for 'all' to that end Minister Tracy.

[Ms. Elaine Johnson]

Hi Minister Tracy Busby, great topic but aw, man, there's so many. Where to begin? Okay, I'm presuming JACKSON 5 songs count right? Okay, 'Who's Lovin' You.' No wait, "Never Can Say Goodbye." Uhm, no, it's "Stop The Love You Save." Wait, this time it's, "Enjoy Yourself and Dancing Machine." Oh, now, "Mama's Pearl" and "ABC" are in the running for favorite.

"Ben," yeah, what a beautiful song song by Michael even if it was about a rat. Oh, ROCKIN' ROBIN, what am I thinking? How could I forget? :-)

Okay, here's the ultimate, his entire "Music and Me' album and his Destiny album. I loved every song.

These are my favorite songs, and don't even get me started on his duet with Paul McCartney, "The Girl is Mine, The Doggone Girl Is Mine".

Thriller, Beat It. Albeit, truth be told, I liked the older songs better. Okay, I'll stop here or I won't stop at all. :-)

[HOPE - Psalm 43:5]

BEN!!!!

Oh that movie made me cry EVERY time I saw it and the song BEN was the straw that broke my emotional camel's back LOL. I couldn't look at rodents the same after that. :(


You know, as a minister, sermon illustration pop out at me all the time. I have to keep pen and paper at the ready bcuz I never know when the Holy Spirit will expound on a biblical principal thru a situation, someone's comment, a song, a book, a movie, even a cartoon! LOL

When I thought about my fav Michael Jackson song, I went back and looked at the scene. Man that entire scene "can preach" as they say. LOL

Those crows can be demonic influences or people who speak negatively about you your entire life and all you can believe is that you can't win, you can't this you can't that... I know some people who have sung the crows anthem all their lives even after being saved. The scarecrow wasn't tied to that pole he was just sitting up there and had all the word he needed already inside of him.

Some saved folk will stay baby christians all their lives bcuz they either don't know how or are too afraid to activate (faith in action) the word from God that is already inside them. Everything we will EVER need in life God has Already provided for us.

But some of us will see a brother or sister struggling and instead od doing like Dorothy did and shooing those crows of fear and failure away from that poerson and helping them down, some Believers would rather gossip about them or turn up their snobbish "I'm a better Christian than you" nose at the person who is struggling.

That crow scene reminds me sooo much of the good samaritan parable. But instead of the person being physically beaten they are emotionally wounded. These are wounds no one sees. And most times we don't see the taunting crows around the person bcuz it is either a spiritual attack on their mind or memories of past relationship pains that keep playing over and over in the person's mind.

They hear "you can't win" while we may look at them and say "why don't they just get down? Why don't they just get up out of that situation? Why don't they just end that addiction? Why don't they just end that relationship?"

Sometimes people need help shooing those crows away. They need someone to help them walk in faith. They need someone to show them the yellow brick road of scriptures that won't lead them to a fictional place called Oz but to the truths in scripture that will lead them to a daily walk and personal and intimate relationship with God.

Walk with them ... Help them eaze on down...
Remember take it slow with them...
Eaze on down

Help them find one Yellow Brick of scripture by yellow brick of scripture at a time...

Eaze on down the road

His yoke is easy and his burden is light so...

Don't you carry nothing that might be a load (like depression, addictions to drugs, alcohol, sex, food, too much internet and movies and video games that substitute live interaction with people, too much time at work, church, school that keeps away from your family and keeps you from building those important relationships, etc)

Don't carry nothing that might be an emotional or physical load

Come on and eaze on down the road.

The walk of faith is just like walking...day by day step by step...

Man let me stop... I have a whole sermon series in my mind using the storyline of The Wiz as a sermon illustration...LOL

[Ms. Elaine Johnson]

Hi again Minister Tracy Busby, not only did you preach a 'sermon' about the 'crows' but you preached a sermon amidst that sermon that I would like to expound upon. You stated: "You know, as a minister, sermon illustration pop out at me all the time. I have to keep pen and paper at the ready bcuz I never know when the Holy Spirit will expound on a biblical principal thru a situation, someone's comment, a song, a book, a movie, even a cartoon! LOL


How true it is that the Holy Spirit deals with us wherever we are at or whatever we are observing. I can watch a sunset and get insight to God's glory.." The Bible says 'all' 'things' work together for good to the called (Rom. 8:28).

One of those 'things' that works together for our good is the 'black experience.' I think spirituality is wrapped up in the African/American experience. What I mean is, amidst the enslavement of our ancestors true spirituality was enacted. Oh, they didn't have Bible Scriptures but they had 'TRUTH' and 'TRUTH IS GOD' (Jn. 14:6).

They didn't know all the Elohims, Adonai, Yahweh, Yahshua, etc. All they knew is to call on an awesome God. They called Him Jesus and He answered them. He raised up those song and unsong heroes and heroines to do exploits and exploits they did.

It almost goes without saying the heroine name of HARRIET TUBMAN. Her testimony is that 'The Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and at that time she would donn herself and go back into the jaws of enslavement and rescue God's precious men, women and children.' 19 times the Spirit of the Lord came upon HER and 19 times SHE answered the call and came forth victorious with God's precious, stolen-back cargo of African/American esnlaved chidlren.

For the record, this is the same 'Spirt of the Lord' that would come upon 'Samsn' (Judgs. 14:
6, 19)

Again, it wasn't a matter of her pronouncing the Savior's proper name rather, it was a matter of a people calling on the Almighty to not only sustain them amidst this barbaric, demonic evil. but And so the Almighty did through Harriet and others. 19 times the Spirit of the Lord would come upon this righteous woman and 19 times she would go into the jaws of enslavement and bring out God's precious, men, women and children.

Oh, the black woman had a testimony, that the talk of all critics cannot touch. Righteous black women KNOW how to call on our God! We Know that that is the only answer. Always has been and always will be. May the Jacksons receive the comfort of the Almighty who the rightoeus are calling on to be in their midst during this triying time.

Anyway, thank you for this blessed testimony.

Oh, one more thing, yeah BEN, how could we NOT help look at the rat as 'different' from then on? lol

[Rev. Kenneth R. Jenkins]

My goodness the list is endless: "Beat It", "Wanna Be Starting Something", "Never Can Say Goodbye", "Smooth Criminal" (favorite video) the list is too long to list here.
Michael will be missed. RIP Mikey......

[HOPE - Psalm 43:5]

Oh man as far as his music videos, next to Thriller, Smooth Criminal is my fav!!!

[Anthony]

As you are about to see, I'm having trouble choosing just one, I turned your singular, "song" into a plural songs.
Let's see the Jackson 5 albums are classic.I guess, my fav. wouldn't be a song but an album, I would have to say "Off The Wall" that legendary album was before all the changes, and was basically an album played mostly in the black community, I'm not saying the crossover was a bad thing, "Thriller wasn't an album but a movement, it was out of this world. If I did have to pick one song it wouldn't be only Michael on the song "We Are The World" because of the purpose behind the song and the impact of the song, all the singers represented the United States of America, that one song touched the world over night. USA for Africa. Thanks to Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones.

Videos, "for get about it" Michael Jackson didn't make videos, Michael made blockbuster smash hit one of a kind set down & watch TV movies. I really don't know what to call Michael videos because videos are something you may catch on TV, but not something you plan on watching, and today's videos are all the same cars, rims, sexy women, jewelry, big house, showing off money. Michael videos was small movies people knew the date they was going to air and planned to watch it. Waaaay to many video to name just one.

Yours truly,
Anthony Smith

[Ms. Elaine Johnson]

Well Anthony, from your replies it is obvious that you are a 'generation' younger than 'we', yeah 'we' Tracy. lol

Greatest album? How about Michael's GOT TO BE THERE eh Minister Tracy? lol

'Music and Me', Remember? :-)

This Kid is altogether alleviating, 'ABC', 'Going Back To Indiana", etc. :-)

Hey, how about some, 'MAYBE TOMORROW' kid, you ever heard of that Jackson 5 classic?

These songs rival 'Off The Wall.'

Check them out Anthony, check them out.

[HOPE - Psalm 43:5]

Oh now Sis Johnson you too have touched on a poignant point. I truly believe that most (not all) people don't fully realize nor appreciate God until they/we are in situations where we need Him.

It is thru the vehicle of suffering in various degrees that obedience is learned. How sad but true. Even out Lord and Savior did not escape this lesson. Hebrews 5:8

The Black experience has "colored" American culture in such a broad array that we can rarely think of American icons without considering some African American ancestor or descendant. But as you said especially in the arena of religion and spirituality.

I wonder if there will ever be a Black pope. LOL

[Ms. Elaine Johnson]

Amen Minister Tracy, Amen! That well sums it up. As for a 'Black Pope' I've heard the prophetic teachers proclaim there will be in the near future. However, this same group of Caucasian alleged 'prophetic teachers' who are now claiming Obama to be the 'Anti-Christ', have already proclaimed that the 'next' pope or the one after him, will be the 'false prophet' and this same next pope is he who will be black, go figure, eh? lol

[Evangelist Altha Fugett]

whats the name of that song that said " you will always be the lady in my life" ?