any real Christians who despise ungodly music like rock, country, rap, CCM?
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SIDEBAR......or even.......OFF TOPIC THREAD DERALIMENT.....
Lynx...........was watching the new season of Alaska State Troopers this AM...........and they had an incident where a lynx came into a town during the daytime. Attacked a pet dog, and actually killed a pet rabbit. Troopers and a Fire Chief tracked it down. The Fire Chief fired a warning shot to scare it off, but the lynx did not run, it turned and started creeping right towards him. State Trooper told him "that thing is about to attack you." Didn't end well for the lynx.
I thought of you..........and while I took no joy in the killing of the lynx, I had no idea how large they get, and how dangerous they actually are. Large enough to take down a young Elk, or a small child.
Anyway.................just saying
Lynx...........was watching the new season of Alaska State Troopers this AM...........and they had an incident where a lynx came into a town during the daytime. Attacked a pet dog, and actually killed a pet rabbit. Troopers and a Fire Chief tracked it down. The Fire Chief fired a warning shot to scare it off, but the lynx did not run, it turned and started creeping right towards him. State Trooper told him "that thing is about to attack you." Didn't end well for the lynx.
I thought of you..........and while I took no joy in the killing of the lynx, I had no idea how large they get, and how dangerous they actually are. Large enough to take down a young Elk, or a small child.
Anyway.................just saying
I play harmonica now, gave up guitar...favorite harmonica song is qoutes from psalms....
The Lord is good, His mercy endureth forever and ever to all generations
So I will stand up, and sing praise! halleluih! for I know the Lord is good!
He reached down and He touched me when I was so low,
I couldn't get up, or go down any farther
My sins, which were many, He forgave and forgot them so I know the Lord is good!
I sing it with a cry in my voice and have to fight back tears. It's a modern spiritual, but it's not CCM.
Strong in doctrine, focus is on the message and not on the music. Mostly I prefer the old hymns, the ones that have stood the test of time and have been around for many decades if not centuries. CCM has opened a lot of doors for compromise and heresy to grow, and now we have cultish things like Acts 29 network and the Emerging Church, 119 ministries....these things pop up thanks to weakness in doctrine and compromise of holiness. The mercies of the Lord are new every morning, not old fashioned. Modern culturally friendly Christianity is nothing new, going with the flow of the world and it started when Cain was thinking he could make his own way to please the lord with an inferior sacrifice that made him jealous to murder Abel.
The Lord is good, His mercy endureth forever and ever to all generations
So I will stand up, and sing praise! halleluih! for I know the Lord is good!
He reached down and He touched me when I was so low,
I couldn't get up, or go down any farther
My sins, which were many, He forgave and forgot them so I know the Lord is good!
I sing it with a cry in my voice and have to fight back tears. It's a modern spiritual, but it's not CCM.
Strong in doctrine, focus is on the message and not on the music. Mostly I prefer the old hymns, the ones that have stood the test of time and have been around for many decades if not centuries. CCM has opened a lot of doors for compromise and heresy to grow, and now we have cultish things like Acts 29 network and the Emerging Church, 119 ministries....these things pop up thanks to weakness in doctrine and compromise of holiness. The mercies of the Lord are new every morning, not old fashioned. Modern culturally friendly Christianity is nothing new, going with the flow of the world and it started when Cain was thinking he could make his own way to please the lord with an inferior sacrifice that made him jealous to murder Abel.
The stories behind the great old hymns and the writers of those hymns put to shame the cheap spirituality of modern music.
Amazing grace written by a former slave trader who had been through an unimaginably hard life before he got saved,
the hymns of Fanny Crosby and her stories..I forget most of the stories, but they are easy to find. There is good reason the old hymns have stood the test of time. This modern fad music that comes and goes liike all the other pop garbage is way too cheap to honor the Lord
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Well a Massa God protect me
And the devil couldn't slay me
Real life story
Massa God protect me
Him same one change me
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Well a Massa God protect me
And the devil couldn't slay me
Real life story
Massa God protect me
Him same one change me
My testimony, yeah
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'Im rep King Jesus Christ from Calvary, seen.
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Hey Post, do you think there might have been a few people labeling Crosby's work as evil and satanic back in the day? My bet is there were.
Come to think of it, didn't people call Christ's work evil and satanic too? Oh wait, they did didn't they? And didn't he say it was what came from the heart that made a man unclean?
It seems to me what really is at issue is a heart condition
18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Now SaintJoe, you said you'd preach to us, yet you still haven't delivered. Christ said let your word be your word - so why don't you do just that. Enlighten the rest of us what makes music fall into the acceptable or unacceptable category.
Lyrical content?
Gross revenue?
Instrumentation?
Method of recording (or lack thereof)?
Come to think of it, didn't people call Christ's work evil and satanic too? Oh wait, they did didn't they? And didn't he say it was what came from the heart that made a man unclean?
It seems to me what really is at issue is a heart condition
18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Now SaintJoe, you said you'd preach to us, yet you still haven't delivered. Christ said let your word be your word - so why don't you do just that. Enlighten the rest of us what makes music fall into the acceptable or unacceptable category.
Lyrical content?
Gross revenue?
Instrumentation?
Method of recording (or lack thereof)?
I have....if you mean "it is well with my soul". The man lost two fiances I believe, both tragically before he could marry them. I forget the whole story...I think one was killed in a horse riding accident...., but this great hymn came out of his comfort of faith in deep pain. The old hymns have remained for a good reason, because they had the power of God on them when they were written. It' s not there in modern commercialized music.
People go for the glitz and glam of modern artists who make cheap music based on cheap spirituality and it's a shame the excellent history and stories of music handed down through generations because of how precious it is in faith and the price the writers paid to be inspired to write it....it's a shame they are being neglected.
I am against modern music with any kind of rock beat, any kind of jazz, pop and any of that stuff that is used to sell music by Christian "artists". It's cheap and a disgrace to the high price our Lord paid with His blood to buy us back from Hell.
People go for the glitz and glam of modern artists who make cheap music based on cheap spirituality and it's a shame the excellent history and stories of music handed down through generations because of how precious it is in faith and the price the writers paid to be inspired to write it....it's a shame they are being neglected.
I am against modern music with any kind of rock beat, any kind of jazz, pop and any of that stuff that is used to sell music by Christian "artists". It's cheap and a disgrace to the high price our Lord paid with His blood to buy us back from Hell.
you are aware that a great deal of Fanny Crosby's hymns are set to adaptions of popular worldly music of her time period?
and that she was quite the celebrity in her day and age, very much comparable in fame to the same group of modern-day artists you call "ungodly" with a wave of the hand?
that she was also renown for writing a couple thousand wholly secular poems?
I do have some music written by modern groups that is strong in doctrine and focuses on the message for the Lord and edifying in the faith. The songs are godly songs written by godly people and they are not popular becasue most Christians don't want the real tear jerking joyfulness of music strong in doctrine and sung by people who's faith has been tested by troubles like the people whos music I will endorse. I went to church with Steven Curtis Chapman, he was a member at my church. He didn't know me, but everybody was watching him and concerned about how he would deal with the fame. I have not followed him at all the past twenty years, I hope he's doing good and not caught up in worldly pleasures and sin like befalls so many Christian "artists" like Sandi Patty. Michael W. Smith is no leader for a real Bible believing chrisitan, lots of red flags in his stuff showing he should not be allowed to lead a real Christian with music.
Back to Steven or Stephen Curtis Chapman.... I'm sorry to say a lot of his music was cheap, songs written out of a cheap faith that had not been tested through painful trials. He pumped out a lot of music and made a lot of money from it. Nothing wrong with making money, but I sure didn't buy any of his stuff, He made his name as a rock star, a cute kid, not a spiritual leader. When you listen to music, you are letting it lead you spiritually because you are giving your mind over to it's words and rythms. God wants real holiness, strength of mind (gird up the loins of your mind), and fervent focused service.
Back to Steven or Stephen Curtis Chapman.... I'm sorry to say a lot of his music was cheap, songs written out of a cheap faith that had not been tested through painful trials. He pumped out a lot of music and made a lot of money from it. Nothing wrong with making money, but I sure didn't buy any of his stuff, He made his name as a rock star, a cute kid, not a spiritual leader. When you listen to music, you are letting it lead you spiritually because you are giving your mind over to it's words and rythms. God wants real holiness, strength of mind (gird up the loins of your mind), and fervent focused service.
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