Members blossom Posted January 11, 2012 Members Share Posted January 11, 2012 I gave my life for thee, There is a fountain, Day by Day, He hideth my soul, My Jesus I love thee, Who can give just one, there are so many........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sissytishad Posted January 11, 2012 Members Share Posted January 11, 2012 My favorite is Here I am and the most current one for my life is I need you every hour. My kids like Battle hymn of the Republic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John81 Posted January 12, 2012 Members Share Posted January 12, 2012 My favorite is Here I am and the most current one for my life is I need you every hour. My kids like Battle hymn of the Republic. I don't want to get into the whole battle some have with this, but if you ever wish to check the actual history of the Battle hymn you will discover it's not actually a Christian song. The author believed that man must create paradise on earth themselves. This song is about that and some of the references many Christians believe are referring to God, the author was actually referring to Lincoln! Unfortunately, it's a catchy tune, hard to get our of ones head, and the propaganda built up around that song for over a century now has it placed as a high holy song among many American Christians. If you can find a resource showing the authors notes on the song then this all becomes very clear. Just to be clear, I'm not saying anything bad about you or you children for liking the song! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sissytishad Posted January 12, 2012 Members Share Posted January 12, 2012 Yeah I know the history of the song but like you said the tune sticks in your brain. They hear it on their christian music for kids cd. I finally got them to listen and sing to something other then Father Abraham had many sons. So their favorite song changes on a weekly bases. There are several songs that are promoted as christian but you can hear them on the local rock radio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators OLD fashioned preacher Posted January 12, 2012 Moderators Share Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) I have a host of favored songs, if I had to use only ONE for most every occasion it would probably be "Is Thy Heart Right With God?". Unfortunately, it is not in our primary hymnal (and missing from many these days) Edited January 12, 2012 by OLD fashioned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brother Rick Posted January 12, 2012 Members Share Posted January 12, 2012 A Mighty Fortress is Our God Arise, My Soul, Arise The Sands of Time are Sinking Ivory Palaces Am I a Soldier of the Cross"Must I be carried to the skies On flow'ry beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize And sailed thru bloody seas?"Amen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brother Rick Posted January 12, 2012 Members Share Posted January 12, 2012 I don't want to get into the whole battle some have with this, but if you ever wish to check the actual history of the Battle hymn you will discover it's not actually a Christian song. The author believed that man must create paradise on earth themselves. Postmillennialism? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LindaR Posted January 12, 2012 Members Share Posted January 12, 2012 Postmillennialism? I found this in my Fundamental Baptist CD-ROM Library from Way of Life about the Battle Hymn of the Republic:HERESY AND “THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC.” Friday Church News Notes, August 5, 2005 (Fundamental Baptist Information Service, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The popular song “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” is in many hymnbooks and is sung in Bible-believing churches, but few know what it is all about. The song was written by Julia Ward Howe in 1861 in a Union army camp and expressed her theological heresy and dispensational confusion. Howe, a Unitarian universalist, confused the coming of Christ with the armies of the North and the defeat of the South. She misidentified God’s altar with “the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps” and falsely claimed that His gospel was “writ in burnish`d rows of steel.” (This was how the original hymn read, though it has been modified in many modern hymnals.) Howe delivered a pantheistic, universalistic message at the 1893 Parliament of the World’s Religion entitled “What Is Religion?” (http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_1893_pwr_howe.htm). Howe was related to the famous Beecher family. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), is known as “the little woman who started the big war,” as her book incited anger against the slavery states and provoked violent-prone hotheads on both sides of the issue. Harriet’s brother Henry Ward Beecher was the liberal pastor of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. He “once argued that a Sharps rifle held a better argument than a Bible for persuading slaveholders--hence these rifles were nicknamed ‘Beecher's Bibles’ when used to combat the spread of slavery in the Kansas Territory before the American Civil War” (http://www.embassy.org.nz/encycl/u1encyc.htm). During Beecher’s tenure at Plymouth Church, he opened his pulpit to Unitarians such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Horace Greeley and even to agnostics such as Mark Twain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brother Rick Posted January 12, 2012 Members Share Posted January 12, 2012 Ha! My wife made a music CD in which the Battle Hymn of the Republic is part of a medly with another one of her songs. I've always had a bent against BHOR, but she wrote that song before she met me. Now we have 500 music CDs in the garage with this heretical song in them! :ROFL: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gabrielle A Posted January 24, 2012 Members Share Posted January 24, 2012 I like all kinds of Christian genre...some of my favorites from the country/Gospel section are: In the sweet, bye and bye How beautiful Heaven must be When we shall reach, that heavenly shore. Oh Happy Day Why Me Lord Amazing Grace How great thou Art Softly and Tenderly ------------------------------------- Ole Time: Ole Time Religion It is well, with my soul Life's Railway Just a closer walk Down in the valley The Lord's my Shepherd Pie jesu from Requiem The Prayer just to name a few..................... :clapping: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gabrielle A Posted January 24, 2012 Members Share Posted January 24, 2012 I like all kinds of Christian genre...some of my favorites from the country/Gospel section are: In the sweet, bye and bye How beautiful Heaven must be When we shall reach, that heavenly shore. Oh Happy Day Why Me Lord Amazing Grace How great thou Art Softly and Tenderly ------------------------------------- Ole Time: Ole Time Religion It is well, with my soul Life's Railway Just a closer walk Down in the valley The Lord's my Shepherd Pie jesu from Requiem The Prayer just to name a few..................... :clapping: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Invicta Posted February 18, 2012 Members Share Posted February 18, 2012 CONSIDER Christ,the source of our salvation,that He should paythe penalty for me.Though He was pure,a lamb without a blemish,He took my sinsand nailed them to the tree.RefrainMy Lord and GodYou are so rich in mercy.Mere words aloneare not sufficient thanks.So take my life,transform, renew and change methat I might bea living sacrifice.2 Consider Christ,that He could trust His Fathere’en in the gardenof Gethsemane.Though full of dreadand fearful of the anguish;He drank the cupthat was reserved for me.3 Consider Christ,for death He has defeated.And He arose,appeared for all to see.And now He sitsat God’s right hand in heaven;where He preparesa resting place for me.Bryson Smith, b. 1958© Emu Music Australia Inc.Tune Londonderry Air Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Old Regular Posted March 15, 2012 Members Share Posted March 15, 2012 A few of my favorites: Amazing Grace Jesus Thou art a Sinners Friend I'm Not Ashamed to Own My Lord Just to name a few. If you want to hear how the Old Regular Baptist sing go to my webpage and give a listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members swathdiver Posted March 15, 2012 Members Share Posted March 15, 2012 Tonight we sang a couple of favorites: "Brethren, We Have Met To Worship" and "He Walks Beside Me" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crushmaster Posted March 24, 2012 Members Share Posted March 24, 2012 Be Thou My Vision is one of my absolute favorites. God bless, Joel ><>. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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