Meet Dennis Jernigan
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
You’ve probably sung some of his songs in your local church, but you may not know anything about the man and what God has done in his life.
Dennis Jernigan is back with a new collection of songs on his latest CD (due out this July) - ‘I Cry Holy’.
“It’s a good thing God gives us Eternity, maybe that will give me enough time to express my gratitude to Him. While I love my old songs, like ‘You’re My All in All’ and ‘We Will Worship the Lamb of Glory,’ and ‘Thank You, Lord,’ the new things God is teaching me about leading people out of bondage and into freedom automatically spills out as music with the message of hope God has put in my heart. Every week I meet hundreds of men and women who struggle with everything from homosexuality to drug addictions. Others have been wounded by childhood sexual abuses to adults ravaged by traumatic events. People desperately need to know that they too can be set free, just like I was.”
One particular song on this CD - ‘You Are The Strength of My Life’ - is especially meaningful to Dennis…
“This song is my heart song. As I learn more about laying down my life for the sake of others, I know I must become more and more transparent. It is through a transparent life that His light is free to shine. And when His light is allowed to shine through freely, His power is released to do far more than we ever imagined. No other god could ever do what my God does! No other god can take a homosexual and make him a new person. No other god could take a prostitute and make her a completely new person with new desires.”
Dennis is concerned that his testimony will be in danger of prosecution if a new recently proposed Hate Crimes Bill (H.R. 1592) is passed into law:
” … through faith in God, I successfully walked out of that way of thinking and have met thousands of other men and women who have done the same. What about our civil liberties? To pass such a bill as H.R. 1592 is to invoke fear that I could be prosecuted for my religious beliefs and speech.
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To lose one of our most basic rights, that of free speech, is to strip away what it means to be an American. Homosexuals already enjoy the same rights as all other Americans when it concerns the punishment of criminal acts against them. This legislation seeks to bestow special treatment upon a very small portion of our society. If this bill passes, Congress is telling me that I and countless others who have discovered they don’t have to be homosexual are of less value now than when we were living as homosexuals. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Every American is of equal value and should be treated with the same dignity and justice under the law.”
