A Christmas Message

Ladies and Gentlemen, as we move deeper into the Christmas season. Many of us will not be celebrating happy families, content lives and rich presents. So, this season the The Filthy Jesus Experiment will not be celebrating that Christianity offers us some kind of tonic to make us happy, content and rich. Instead we will be celebrating that God has come to earth via an illegitimate family, amongst the poverty of an oppressed people and in the filth of an animal stable. No God did not give us a cleansing tonic to cure our ills, instead God gave us a Filthy Jesus.

Everything Does Not Happen For A Reason

Ladies and Gentlemen, something beautiful happened to me at our last gig that I thought I'd share. During the gig I preached the following mini sermon... 

Ladies and Gentlemen, I know that many of us have been through hard times, we have suffered loss and tragedy and sometimes at that moment a well meaning person puts their hand on your shoulder and says "everything happens for a reason". Tonight ladies and gentlemen I have good news! Tonight I am going to call bullshit on "everything happens for a reason". Everything does not happen for a reason, no shit just happens. And this my friends is good news. It's good news because God does not have any secret plans for your life that you don't know anything about and God isn't causing loss and tragedy in your life in order to guide you in some direction. No, shit just happens and it's awful. But when shit happens we know there is something wrong with the world and that the world needs to change and collectively we might join with God in making the world a different place. 

After the gig I caught up with an old friend. We talked life including some not so great stuff. She was about to say "I'm sure everything happens for a reason" when she stopped herself, chuckled and said "well I can't say everything happens for a reason". She paused and said "I'm really sorry that happened". It was beautiful. I felt heard and empathised with.

A Riff on Galations 3:28

Ladies and Gentlemen last weekend The Filthy Jesus Experiment received our first spontaneous "Amen" from the audience. It was shouted out after we read this riff on Galations 3:28... 

In Christ brothers and sisters,
there is no Jew or gentile,
no male or female,
and no slave or free,
for we are all one in Jesus Christ.

There is no gay or straight,
no refugee or citizen,
and no good Xn or backslider,
for we are all one in Jesus Christ.

There is no virgin or slut,
no sober or drunk,
and no sinner or saint.
For we are all one in Jesus Christ.

Fremantle Gig

Ladies and Gentlemen, We're proud to announce the good folks at Church Freo have let us hijack their building for a night.

Gig Details...

Saturday November 23rd
408 South Tce Fremantle
Doors Open 7:30pm
Entry by donation to TEAR Australia.

Jesus Was A Queue Jumping Refugee

Ladies and Gentlemen after Jesus was born his family became a band of queue jumping refugees. They did not stay in their homeland and fight against those who had overtaken it, they did not return to the land they had been reassigned to. No, instead they took upon themselves not to line up and ask the relevant authorities if they could go somewhere else instead they barged into a country who had historically been their religious enemy.  

So ladies and gentlemen, if you hear of someone coming to our country, someone who has not got permission to be here someone who's faith you've been told is antithetical to the Australian way of life you might be able to greet them and say "hey, your just like Jesus"

Mystery Solved!

Ladies and Gentlemen, for the past few weeks countless Baptist Church members having being trying to guess the identity of the unnamed devilishly handsome band on page 6 of July's Baptist Advocate. Well, let us solve the mystery. That devilish handsome band is The Filthy Jesus Experiment, performing at the TEAR unEARTHed gig.

Tear unEARTHed The Night That Was

Ladies and gentlemen, The Filthy Jesus Experiment had a rollicking foot stomping good time at the TEAR unEARTHed fund-raiser.

The plan was to capture the night on video. Unfortunately, like many of the things we do, we spent too much time enjoying he moment and not enough time making things perfect which meant we recorded  just one song. It probably wasn't the highlight of the night but it's a taste none the less.

TEAR unEARTHed Concert

Ladies and Gentlemen, on Saturday 25th of May The Filthy Jesus Experiment will join  The Fisher Boys, Toyi-Toyi Theatre (Laura Hopwood & Tarryn Runkel), Jess Louwen, Gemma & Claire, Paul & David Gioia, Sheryn Hack (virtually) and more in a benefit concert for TEAR Australia. 

As well as music you can sign petitions, write letters and raise awareness. They will be donating the cover charge of $20 to kitchen gardens to feed the poor through TEAR projects. Saturday May 25th 7-10pm 197 Scarborough Beach Rd Mt Hawthorn. BYO extra money if possible for coffee/ soup and a T shirt to tie dye.

TEAR Site Page here

Facebook details here.

Rev Filthy.

Timor Fundraising Gig

Ladies and Gentlemen. On May 18th 2013 The Filthy Jesus Experiment did a fund-raising gig to help send three dear friends to Timor to run some teacher training sessions.

The night was a lot of fun and a big thank you to all who made it possible and all who turned up.

 Reverend Filthy delivers a message

 The Band delivers a dose of ye olde gospel good times

The Foxy Ladies Axillary Choir

If you would like to donate or have more photos from the gig send us an email at thefilthyjesusexperiment at gmail dot com

Rev Filthy.

One Million Dollars

Ladies and Gentlemen earlier this year it was late at night and I was praying. I prayed “God, I need a new guitar. God, I need a new amplifier. God, we need to hire go-go dancers for each performance. Otherwise I cannot do your work” Then it hit me “God, I need a million dollars!"

Then I heard God speak. As soon as I said “God I need to get million dollars” God said to me as clear as day “Bull Shit you need a million dollars Reverend! You don't need to get a million dollars, you need to give away a million dollars! There are people starving in this world so I'm not going to give a million dollars, instead I'm going to watch you give away a million dollars".

I said to God “But Lord I don't have that kind of money.” God was silent. But, I had a new mission I had to give away a million dollars.

Rev Filthy.