A New Revelation

Well a new revelation for me anyway. I grew up with traditional gospel music, you know like the old hymns. Now i love the old hymns and i will be the first to stick up for them nor will i ever give them up but, does that really have to be all there is in the life of a Baptist? I love the music we play at our church but, sometimes i just long for some of those songs that make you want to lift your hands to the sky and shout Praise the Lord! What is wrong with that? Why are “Baptists” so afraid of showing some feeling,happiness, gratefulness and praise to our God?


There is nothing wrong with drums and guitars when they are used in a way that glorifies the Lord. We can sound happy and full of life without sounding like a rock band. It’s just even though i love the songs we sing they seem more like elevator music. I wouldn’t mind a good uplifting praise song thrown in here and there. Maybe it would even wake some of us up. Praise music is another form of worship and i don’t think it should be eliminated from the church service. I’m sure the only reason there weren’t guitars in King David’s day was because they hadn’t thought of that design yet. Does that make it wrong because we thought of it and they didn’t?



I’ve recently been listening to praise music and i really do like most of what i’m hearing. I’ve been listening to groups like Hillsong and Maranatha, also i discovered a guy named Don Moen. I never heard of him before but, i like his music and his style. A lot of the songs they put the lyrics with so it’s easy to sing along with them. Don Moen has songs like; Power of Your Love, God Will Make A Way, There Is None Like You, Thank You Lord etc. All awesome songs in both word and melody. A lot praise music follows certain scriptures or even sings the scriptures. What a way to praise God by singing His word! Well anyway, as i was sitting in church a week or so ago i got to thinking and this thought hit me, many years ago they used to only sing out of a Psaltery. I think that was the Psalms they were singing then. Then someone tried to introduce hymns and the church leaders had a fit because they weren’t singing words directly from the bible. Now i plan to do more research on that but, i got to thinking… isn’t that what a lot of us are doing? Oh my that’s new and different, it’s too lively, it’s sacrilegious, ack! it has rhythm oh my goodness we can’t have that in church people may think we are getting worldly!!!! I love The Old Rugged Cross, Be Thou My Vision, Praise Him, Praise Him, At Calvary, Trust His Word, Trust and Obey along with so many others but, we need (i need) the uplift of Praise Songs. It seems to me we are doing the same thing they did many years ago when someone tried to introduce hymns in a hymn book and people fought against the idea. It wasn’t that there was anything wrong with the hymns it was just, you know how people say, “We ain’t never done it that way before”! They just didn’t like the idea of doing things differently. Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to try something new. Sometimes we get so caught up in listening to other peoples views of what is right or wrong or what we should or shouldn’t do we forget how to think for ourselves and take it to the Lord and ask Him what He says is right for us. I think we have gotten so worried that we may look or sound worldly that we have forgotten how to feel the words to the music and sing them from our hearts. Heaven forbid we show any outward emotion and that is sad because we are missing out on so much blessing that way.



Jehovah Jireh

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Psalm 150

Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in His mighty heaven! Praise Him for His mighty works; praise His unequaled greatness! Praise Him with a blast of the ram’s horn; praise Him with the lyre and harp! Praise Him with the tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flutes! Praise Him with a clash of cymbals; praise Him with loud clanging cymbals. Let everything that breathes sing praises to the Lord! Praise the Lord! NLT













Psalm 100:1 – 2



Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth! Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before Him, singing with joy! NLT







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