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i don't listen to secular. i did listen to it for a while, but it was because i grew up in a home that didn't allow it, so it was more of my rebellion lol i've always loved rock, but during my "rebellious" stage, the music i would listen to was angry/depressing, and since at that time, i felt that way, i was able to relate to it. i felt better listening to it, but not edified.
as i grew closer to God, i felt i needed to get rid of the secular music i had. it was a personal choice. i didn't feel right singing to God one minute, and then listening to something that didn't help me. again, this was a personal choice. surely, i don't force this on anyone
i listen to some classical music since i play the violin.
i listen to christian rock and praise/worship music.
as i grew closer to God, i felt i needed to get rid of the secular music i had. it was a personal choice. i didn't feel right singing to God one minute, and then listening to something that didn't help me. again, this was a personal choice. surely, i don't force this on anyone
i listen to some classical music since i play the violin.i listen to christian rock and praise/worship music.
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Great topic here I love music lol. Indeed I listen to all types of music off the top of my head.. U2, bob Marley, flock of seagulls, Bruce Springsteen, joe saturiania (can't spell it) five finger death punch, theory of a deadman, Ellie guilling, wow I could go all day with that list. but I usely listen to music that has a positive meaning though some I listed have some negative meaning songs too for sure. I don't care what type it is as long as it's in a positive way for the most part but even the negative songs I can learn something from example Dublin death patrol, corn fed bruiser, these are metal bands I wish they could clean up the lyrics a little because the music itself rocks. I approach these types of music like a horror flick but in music form I don't put much weight in them as far as my thinking and who I am personally. But on the other side of the coin If the music continues to make me think in a negative way I won't continue to listen to them. There's a few sayings that represents this theory, silver tongue devil, gift of gab etc.. Which we all know we're that comes from. Know doubt some people would hang me for my thoughts and actions but my personality can be grainy sometimes sorry if I offend anyone not my intention at all just being real.
I probably listen to more secular music than Christian music. There are certain songs/artists I wont listen to as they are so overtly anti Christian. I believe that our creativity is God given and music is a gift whether it is Christian or not.
My husband and I run a Saturday School of Rock, we have also seen a range of bands and been to a number of music festivals. Including Glastonbury, V and Leeds and Reading.
Husband went and saw Primus last week. One of his fav bands is Pearl Jam. My Husband would no longer go to see Nine Inch Nail gig as they are too overtly anti Christian
Personally I like, U2, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, Manic Street Preachers, REM, Killers, Presidents of the United States, Mumford and Son's, I love Jonny Cashes version of Nine Inch Nails Hurt, I also love Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, but my current fav band is Biffy Clyro (When We Collide).
Two different years we have had bands cover Pantera's "Walk" both great covers.
One of the elders has asked my husband to play Led Zeplins Stairway to heaven at his funeral in the future.
Good music moves my soul whether it is secular or Christian. However each individual needs to work out if it is beneficial to themselves, if it puts a wedge between you and God then you need to stop listening to it.
My husband and I run a Saturday School of Rock, we have also seen a range of bands and been to a number of music festivals. Including Glastonbury, V and Leeds and Reading.
Husband went and saw Primus last week. One of his fav bands is Pearl Jam. My Husband would no longer go to see Nine Inch Nail gig as they are too overtly anti Christian
Personally I like, U2, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, Manic Street Preachers, REM, Killers, Presidents of the United States, Mumford and Son's, I love Jonny Cashes version of Nine Inch Nails Hurt, I also love Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, but my current fav band is Biffy Clyro (When We Collide).
Two different years we have had bands cover Pantera's "Walk" both great covers.
One of the elders has asked my husband to play Led Zeplins Stairway to heaven at his funeral in the future.
Good music moves my soul whether it is secular or Christian. However each individual needs to work out if it is beneficial to themselves, if it puts a wedge between you and God then you need to stop listening to it.
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Instruments alone I don't think can promote evil but add the lyrics that's a whole different ball game.
take a band called (Avatar)a song of theirs called (in napalm) disturbing for me indeed, it speaks of quenching the soul in napalm drowning the soul in sin, ouch scary stuff it all comes down to the lyrics in my view.
take a band called (Avatar)a song of theirs called (in napalm) disturbing for me indeed, it speaks of quenching the soul in napalm drowning the soul in sin, ouch scary stuff it all comes down to the lyrics in my view.
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I listen to WAY more secular music than Christian. For me personally, music doesn't affect me in a positive or negative way. I tend to pay more attention to the tone of the song rather than the lyrics. Sometimes lyrics do intrigue me though, whether they are Christian or secular. I even admittedly listen to some Anti-Christian music, but as i said before, I don't let lyrics sway my way of thinking. I do however understand that most Christians listen to Christian music for the edifying lyrics, but to me.... music is just entertainment.
When I first got saved I became kindof a nut and would not listen to music by any artist that I didn't think was a Christian, for instance you know a band called black sabbath is not Christian, so I would only listen to secular artists that I knew who were Christian like Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, then I got into Christian music to see if I could find any that was good, and there are some bands that are just as good at "rock" or "pop" that are Christian bands, but I do find that a lot of modern Christian bands lack the "punch" that was in the classic rock i was used to listening to. Having said that, it is a pretty easy to determine fack that a lot of secular music is voo-doo (jimi hendrix) or that new country crap thats about getting drunk (most of it) but I have let my guard down and have embraced all music again, as long as I give it a chance and like it. I am a musician myself and I think that most singers, the ones I would listen to anyway, even if they are not yet saved, have a direction or an emotion in their music that has a "higher loving quality about it" or projects a humane sadness to it, like the Blues. I am also glad to learn that a lot of musicians I have idoled since I was younger have come to Christ and though they don't play Church music, they refer to the Lord lovingly from time to time in their music.
The only Christian music I would listen to would be choirs singing the old traditional hymns, I don't get anything from the modern worship and praise pieces.
So, I listen to a LOT of secular music, and I find at times it can be very therapeutic (emotionally and mentally).
I would listen to rock, classic rock, blues, jazz, classical, R & B, but NOT rap.
The likes of Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton (and the bands he has been in, ie. Cream, Derek & The Dominos), Santana, Frank Sinatra (was lucky enough to see him in the Royal Albert Hall in London in early 80's), Muddy Waters, BB King, Robert Johnston, Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Donna Summer, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Elgar and MANY more...
I usually choose music to suit my mood.
Yahweh Shalom
So, I listen to a LOT of secular music, and I find at times it can be very therapeutic (emotionally and mentally).
I would listen to rock, classic rock, blues, jazz, classical, R & B, but NOT rap.
The likes of Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton (and the bands he has been in, ie. Cream, Derek & The Dominos), Santana, Frank Sinatra (was lucky enough to see him in the Royal Albert Hall in London in early 80's), Muddy Waters, BB King, Robert Johnston, Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Donna Summer, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Elgar and MANY more...
I usually choose music to suit my mood.
Yahweh Shalom
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I listen to music. I don't label it secular or Christian. I label it as: classical, oldies, rock, gospel, hymns, worship, R&B, bluegrass, jazz, big band, alternative rock, polka, shoegaze, rap, easy listening, metal, show tunes, movie scores, etc., etc.
Just because a song is played on the Christian radio does not mean the singer/band is a faithful follower of Jesus Christ. Just because it's a rock song, does not mean the singer/band is NOT a faithful follower of Christ.
My son shared with me the other day that while he was driving he listened to a powerful sermon by Alistair Begg. Afterward, he tuned in to a rock station and heard The Who's, "Bargain" and cried his eyes out as he discerned the Lord singing it to his spirit. His heart was so touched by the Lord's love for him through that so-called "secular" song.
I can relate as Bryan Adam's song, "Everything I Do" makes me cry for joy and thankfulness because I hear Jesus singing it to me every time I listen to it.
Truly, it's what's in our heart that matters. There are some tunes on the radio I really like but if I hear filthy and/or hateful words that are a direct assault against Christ Jesus, I just turn it off. And there are some so-called "praise" songs that grate against my soul as the music sounds ridiculously trite and the words just without soul and I turn it off. Let's face it, there are a lot of "Christian" singers out there producing song after lifeless song just to make a buck.
Bottom line, if the song resonates life to me in its music and words, I listen to it.
Just because a song is played on the Christian radio does not mean the singer/band is a faithful follower of Jesus Christ. Just because it's a rock song, does not mean the singer/band is NOT a faithful follower of Christ.
My son shared with me the other day that while he was driving he listened to a powerful sermon by Alistair Begg. Afterward, he tuned in to a rock station and heard The Who's, "Bargain" and cried his eyes out as he discerned the Lord singing it to his spirit. His heart was so touched by the Lord's love for him through that so-called "secular" song.
I can relate as Bryan Adam's song, "Everything I Do" makes me cry for joy and thankfulness because I hear Jesus singing it to me every time I listen to it.
Truly, it's what's in our heart that matters. There are some tunes on the radio I really like but if I hear filthy and/or hateful words that are a direct assault against Christ Jesus, I just turn it off. And there are some so-called "praise" songs that grate against my soul as the music sounds ridiculously trite and the words just without soul and I turn it off. Let's face it, there are a lot of "Christian" singers out there producing song after lifeless song just to make a buck.
Bottom line, if the song resonates life to me in its music and words, I listen to it.
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I listen to music. I don't label it secular or Christian. I label it as: classical, oldies, rock, gospel, hymns, worship, R&B, bluegrass, jazz, big band, alternative rock, polka, shoegaze, rap, easy listening, metal, show tunes, movie scores, etc., etc.
Just because a song is played on the Christian radio does not mean the singer/band is a faithful follower of Jesus Christ. Just because it's a rock song, does not mean the singer/band is NOT a faithful follower of Christ.
My son shared with me the other day that while he was driving he listened to a powerful sermon by Alistair Begg. Afterward, he tuned in to a rock station and heard The Who's, "Bargain" and cried his eyes out as he discerned the Lord singing it to his spirit. His heart was so touched by the Lord's love for him through that so-called "secular" song.
I can relate as Bryan Adam's song, "Everything I Do" makes me cry for joy and thankfulness because I hear Jesus singing it to me every time I listen to it.
Truly, it's what's in our heart that matters. There are some tunes on the radio I really like but if I hear filthy and/or hateful words that are a direct assault against Christ Jesus, I just turn it off. And there are some so-called "praise" songs that grate against my soul as the music sounds ridiculously trite and the words just without soul and I turn it off. Let's face it, there are a lot of "Christian" singers out there producing song after lifeless song just to make a buck.
Bottom line, if the song resonates life to me in its music and words, I listen to it.
Just because a song is played on the Christian radio does not mean the singer/band is a faithful follower of Jesus Christ. Just because it's a rock song, does not mean the singer/band is NOT a faithful follower of Christ.
My son shared with me the other day that while he was driving he listened to a powerful sermon by Alistair Begg. Afterward, he tuned in to a rock station and heard The Who's, "Bargain" and cried his eyes out as he discerned the Lord singing it to his spirit. His heart was so touched by the Lord's love for him through that so-called "secular" song.
I can relate as Bryan Adam's song, "Everything I Do" makes me cry for joy and thankfulness because I hear Jesus singing it to me every time I listen to it.
Truly, it's what's in our heart that matters. There are some tunes on the radio I really like but if I hear filthy and/or hateful words that are a direct assault against Christ Jesus, I just turn it off. And there are some so-called "praise" songs that grate against my soul as the music sounds ridiculously trite and the words just without soul and I turn it off. Let's face it, there are a lot of "Christian" singers out there producing song after lifeless song just to make a buck.
Bottom line, if the song resonates life to me in its music and words, I listen to it.
ShoeGaze - Polka.....I've never heard of these type of music please inlightin me
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ShoeGaze - Polka.....I've never heard of these type of music please inlightin me
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I listen to music. I don't label it secular or Christian. I label it as: classical, oldies, rock, gospel, hymns, worship, R&B, bluegrass, jazz, big band, alternative rock, polka, shoegaze, rap, easy listening, metal, show tunes, movie scores, etc., etc.
Just because a song is played on the Christian radio does not mean the singer/band is a faithful follower of Jesus Christ. Just because it's a rock song, does not mean the singer/band is NOT a faithful follower of Christ.
Bottom line, if the song resonates life to me in its music and words, I listen to it.
Just because a song is played on the Christian radio does not mean the singer/band is a faithful follower of Jesus Christ. Just because it's a rock song, does not mean the singer/band is NOT a faithful follower of Christ.
Bottom line, if the song resonates life to me in its music and words, I listen to it.
