I enjoy many of the contemporary praise and worship songs HOWEVER many of the songs are so mediocre it is sad. The tunes are forgettable, there are no musical hooks, and they try to cram a ton of lyrics into each song.
I find many of the songs have good meaning in the lyrics but are not good musicaly. Everybody thinks they are a songwriter!
Some other songs that are timeless are Amazing Grace and How Great Thou Art.. there are more still trying to think of the names...
Absolutely. Those are classic hymns though and I was just trying to list praise and worship songs of the modern era.
Of course even with hymns there are stinkers! For every Amazing Grace there is a "Royal Telephone" or "Stairway to Heaven". I loved those songs as a kid because they were so weird.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Full screen behind the musicians, monitors further back in the sanctuary so everyone can see a screen, and alternate screens in the corners that generally have some sort of words describing Jesus, or praises, or something along those lines projecting on them. It's not a huge church, but they try to accommodate everyone's needs.
How 'bout streaming to people's iPhones/iPads?
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
I enjoy many of the contemporary praise and worship songs HOWEVER many of the songs are so mediocre it is sad. The tunes are forgettable, there are no musical hooks, and they try to cram a ton of lyrics into each song.
I find many of the songs have good meaning in the lyrics but are not good musicaly. Everybody thinks they are a songwriter!
Yeah, and the worst of them usually blame God for it! "The Lord gave me this song last night. I hope you like it."
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Yeah, and the worst of them usually blame God for it! "The Lord gave me this song last night. I hope you like it."
LOL!!!
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
My favorites are songleaders that say, "we used to sing a little song in 1956" and then tear in. I can play, but not well enough to make heads or tails out of some of them.
The classics are just that. Selah does some nice work with them, but after awhile it's like too much vanilla ice cream. Some of Hilllsong's numbers are good. But seem to run a very similar manner. And when we did "Oh How He Loves Us", everybody in church was cool until we got to the part about "a sloppy wet kiss". And yep there went everybody over 16 into apoplexy.
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If it was raining soup, we'd all run outside with forks!
My wife, daughter and I were listening to Kurt Carr and his singers singing "For Every Mountain" off of his live album. Same song he just sang at Murrell Ewings funeral this week.
It is an incredibly powerful song but what it brought to mind for us was the soloist back in Austin, Texas P.J. Cook who tore it up. As we were discussing this we realized that pretty much every song P.J. sang gave us goose bumps. In part because no one can match her singing and in part because she had such an incredible voice she got the solo's for the incredible songs that required a lot of range. Her younger sister is a member of AFF and I have wondered if she can sing or "sang" as they say in the deep South like P.J.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
My favorites are songleaders that say, "we used to sing a little song in 1956" and then tear in. I can play, but not well enough to make heads or tails out of some of them.
The classics are just that. Selah does some nice work with them, but after awhile it's like too much vanilla ice cream. Some of Hilllsong's numbers are good. But seem to run a very similar manner. And when we did "Oh How He Loves Us", everybody in church was cool until we got to the part about "a sloppy wet kiss". And yep there went everybody over 16 into apoplexy.
We don't say sloppy wet kiss. That is only one version. We sing "unforeseen kiss".
We sing Hillsongs, Israel Houghton, Ricardo Sanchez, Chris Tomlin, etc. And for our monthly Saturday Night Youth Worship Service we sing Desperation Band, Planetshakers etc.
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