G.O.S.P.E.L.

The fusion of Christian community and the hip-hop culture is very real, very significant, andsadlyvery incomplete. While Christian themes and concepts are prevalent among the listeners to Christian hip hop, it often comes with little theological depth beyond a 3-minute rhyme. They lyrics are meaningful, but that meaning escapes the majority of its audience.To fill this critical gap of understanding Pastor D. A. Horton (aka hip hop artist Azriel) has written G.O.S.P.E.L. in the language of hip hop with the crystal-clear power of Scripture. It's a sound, compelling presentation of the life-changing truth many professing believers fail to grasp: the gospel. Undiluted. Unmistakable.

D.A. HORTON (D.Ed.Min candidate at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO) was born in inner city Kansas City, KS and was \u201cheaded to the grave or prison\u201d before God called him to salvation and into evangelism and Gospel rap (under the name Azriel). Horton is now the Lead Teaching Elder at Koinonia Bible Church in Kansas City, MO and a professor of Systematic Theology and at Calvary Bible College and Contemporary Theology at Calvary Theological Seminary (Kansas City, MO). He is currently developing Urban Ministry courses for the college as well as an Urban Ministry masters degree program for the seminary. D.A. (Azriel) is still a D.J. and rapper who seeks to utilize his theological training to pronounce the gospel through his lyrics.