( See John 3) Somehow I don’t think that is what is in mind in this song.Īccording to Bruno, sex is the ultimate human experience and Bruno wants to have sex for the rest of his days. Of course when Jesus used the phrase ‘born again’ he was not talking about the power of sex but rather our need to be made new, to become a new person and enter the kingdom of God. Speaking on the brief Kardashian wedding, Tim Keller from Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, describes the main purpose of sex as being the renewal or celebration of the marriage covenant.īut somehow this sex is about making Bruno new again, invoking the Christian phrase ‘born again’. More than pleasure though, it bonds two people together others have described it as an intermingling of souls. Sex engages the whole person: the mind, the emotion, the will, and the body. Bruno weaves spiritual language into every verse and every chorus.Īnd in a sense I agree there is something spiritual going on when a man and woman have sex. In the past, I’ve shown how heaps of songs use salvation language, often in relation to relationships and sexuality, and by far Locked Out of Heaven wins. Open up your gates cause I can’t wait to see the light What is being turned away from is unclear, but it is clear what is being turned towards: You bring me to my knees, You make me testify What is more surprising is that this experience leads to some kind of repentance: ![]() (There’s no thought for what she may think of it, by the way). It’s all about what sex does for him and what he gets out of it. I’m born again every time you spend the nightĬause you make me feel like, I’ve been locked out of heaven Bruno starts out by admitting he has not in the past had much confidence in love or miracles which has prevented him from putting his heart out:īut the sex he is getting now has changed that, and changed him:īut swimming in your water is something spiritual Nante recalled that a Clif bar and a sandwich the searchers gave him tasted good after he was found about 2 miles from his family’s campsite.ĭespite the frightening experience, he said, “I’m still going to go camping.In his latest song to hit the charts, Bruno Mars sings a love song to sex in Locked out of Heaven. But after his second night alone, Nante said he woke to noises, including people yelling his name Monday afternoon. “I just ate snow because I usually do it at home, too,” Nante said.Īfter spending the first night alone, he said he saw a helicopter hovering overhead and waved his hands and yelled but the chopper’s crew didn’t see him below. “I prayed for being found and not stuck out here for the rest of my life,” he said, adding that he ate snow to stave off hunger during his predicament. Nante spent Saturday and Sunday nights alone amid overnight temperatures that fell into the 40s. Jason Wickstrom with Michigan State Police said the area where he became lost in the 60,000-acre park along Lake Superior is “very hilly, rough terrain” with rivers that were running high after snow melt and recent rainfall. ![]() More than 150 people from various law enforcement groups joined the search on foot, in the air and on water for Nante, who is a second grader at the Hurley School District in Wisconsin. “We were hoping he wasn’t walking around that night, and he’d hunkered down.” “I was worried about the cold and that he was by himself. ![]() His mother, Jessica Buerger, said that after the group returned to the campsite and found that Nante wasn’t there, they searched for him before calling for help. Nante said he started walking toward where he thought his family had been camping but ended up lost, by a river. “So my uncle, he said to go back to camp and I couldn’t say, `I don’t know the way back to camp’ because he’d already turned around and left,” he told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Nante Niemi said he was helping relatives gather wood at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula when an uncle told him to return to camp last Saturday afternoon. An 8-year-old Wisconsin boy who spent two days lost in a remote, rugged northern Michigan park before being found says he prayed during his ordeal that he wouldn’t be “stuck out here for the rest of my life.”
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