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From: hilliard@en.ecn.purdue.edu (William K Hilliard)
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Re: looking for the music for `Our God is an Awesome God'
Date: 16 Sep 92 02:33:29 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

I play in the Campus Crusade band here at Purdue, and we use slightly
different chords... (oh, why not, I'll put the way we play the whole
thing...)

NOTE: since I don't know the name of one of the chords we use, I'll
just call it X -   =========== 
                   - - - - - -   <-1st fret
                   1 - - - - -   <-2nd
                   - - - - - 3 
all -'s are open frets

Em
When He rolls up His sleeves He ain't just puttin' on the ritz
    C         D       Em
Our God is an awesome God

There is thunder in His footsteps and lightning in His fists
    C         D       Em
Our God is an awesome God
    Am  
The Lord wasn't joking when He kicked 'em out of Eden,
   Em                           G    X   Em
It wasn't for no reason that He shed His blood,
      D
His return is very close and so you better be believing that
    Em        D       Em
Our God is an awesome God

(chorus)
    Em         G              D           G      X Em
Our God is an awesome God, He reigns from Heaven above,
             G                 D         G  X    Em
With wisdom, Power & Love, our God is an awesome God [2X]

And when the sky was starless in the void of the night
Our God is an awesome God
He spoke into the darkeness and created the light
Our God is an awesome God
Judgement and wrath He poured out on Sodom, 
Mercy and grace He gave us at the cross
I hope that we have not too quickly forgotten that
Our God is an awesome God
[chorus]
[chorus - acapella]
[chorus]

Say, would anyone be interested in posting the chords for other songs
as well???  (for example, I just finished figuring out the chords for 
"In The Kingdom" by Whitecross...)

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From: steiner@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (jason "Think!" steiner)
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Re: Mark Heard
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:47:43 GMT


    you don't have to send me flowers
    you don't have to cry
    here you stand on hallowed ground
    under a sad and angry sky

    but i'm not living there...
		- Funeral, Breakfast With Amy
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Is music amoral??
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 20:20:08 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.143034.2423@news.cs.brandeis.edu> aaron@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.114350.27292@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, noel@crs.cl.msu.edu (Noel Estabrook) writes:
>>But that wasn't the question - the question was whether it was bad for
>>Greg Volz to perform it.  If that song will cause brothers or sisters to
>>stumble, then their obligation is not to perform it.  Again, we're dealing
>>with an issue of rights vs. what is right.  Sure, they have every right
>>to perform it, but should they?  A song that has the connotations that 
>>Dream On has for many, I don't think it's appropriate.
>
>I thought the question was the morality/amorality of the song.

I thought so, too.  The blame for the "evil" keeps wandering about,
heading from performer to song and back again.

And we're certainly ignoring the listener!  Someone who's going to be
investing money in a concert will USUALLY (although not ALWAYS) know
SOMETHING about the performer, and probably should KNOW that they'd be
offended or bothered by something in the performance.

>Anyway, what you say is quite true.  However, in a concert setting,
>Greg or whomever is not going to know the backgrounds of every person.
>By your logic, no one should ever perform a concert because one of the
>songs in the show might have bad associations for the audience.  (As
>someone else has posted, a Christian song could have bad associations
>just as secular songs do.)  The performer cannot know.  You raise a
>very good point, one that I cannot refute, but the song is still not
>bad for me because it doesn't have the associations it has for you.

It CANNOT be our PRIMARY priority to try to avoid ALL offense.

(a) The Cross of Christ is offensive, to many.  Even within the
church, the idea that Jesus died BODILY has often been a problem.
People have tried to "spiritualize" it - and take away the "fleshly"
fact.

(b) The Bible is offensive to many people, both outside the church AND
inside.

To some extent, the reason is that sinful man wants to reject it.

But ALSO, people professing to be Christians have misused scripture
many times.  We see this in the way that "fundamentalists" get
stereotyped in our culture.

People have used the Bible to justify many wrong acts, whether it be
the "minor" sin of legalism, or more "obviously" evil things like
racism and the occasional genocide.

I think that this thread is heading into a fairly abnormal area;
using legalism WITHOUT scriptural backup.


-- 
Christopher Browne
cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca
University of Ottawa
Master of System Science Program
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
From: mdw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (mark.d.wuest)
Subject: Re: Humorously Diverse Tastes
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:33:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.050103.14266@athena.mit.edu> pepsi@athena.mit.edu (Geoffrey R Gustafson) writes:
>Anyone else out there listen to completely opposite styles like this?

Let's see, my favorites are:
Anything by Linda Ronstadt (Spanish stuff makes me homesick for NM, tho)
Most of King's X
All pre-split Kansas
Ted Nugent before he left the Amboy Dukes
Anything non-suggestive by Reba McIntire (what a voice!)
Ditto for Barbra Streisand
Amy Grant's Straight Ahead (but don't tell my wife I really like it)
Anything by Glenn Miller
Anything by Stravinsky
About half of Copeland
....

better quit - I realized I have a lot of "favorites"!

Mark
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Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
From: tll6551@zeus.tamu.edu (Scholar and Fool)
Subject: Re: Tourniquet/Deliverance
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Fool's Gold Enterprises
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:23:00 GMT

mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes...
>kimmel@epx.cis.umn.edu (Eric Kimmel) writes:
> 
>>sort of Christian death metal.  Can't remember the name exactly.  Does anyone
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>That's the biggest oxymoron I've seen since "postal service."

but nevertheless, the term is used to define a couple of bands in the
Christian music genre.  (Mortification is the 1st one to come to mind.)

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From: hare@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Hare)
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Bob Bennett - new CD
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:52:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

Would someone tell me the title of Bob Bennett's new CD? I'd like to order
it but the sales clerk at the store I purchase from didn't know the title
either. Thanks,

Steve Hare
hare@cs.purdue.edu
From: rhm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Miller)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:30:02 GMT
Subject: Re: TANGENT: Re: Is music amoral??
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian

In rec.music.christian, ajw@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.j.whitman) writes:

> Me?  I think Schaeffer missed the point.  Schaeffer spends a lot of
> time defending the notion that life without God logically leads 
> to nihilism and despair.  I happen to agree with him.  But when
> he sees that nihilism and despair reflected in the arts, his 
> response is to denigrate it.  Why?  Because it isn't based on a
> Christian understanding of truth.
> 
> But that's the whole point, you see.  Starting and ending with man,
> then life is indeed a nightmare, a horror, an absurdity, the
> random strivings of a tiny, insignificant planet in an infinite,
> cold universe.  And twentieth century authors, painters, and 
> musicians have hammered home the point again and again.  They're
> wrong in what they believe.  And they're absolutely right in 
> their portrayal of the consequences of those beliefs...

I agree with you (imagine that!!;-). There is a value in art that 
reflects the philisophical dead-end that results from abandoning
God.

> Given the fact that virtually every twentieth-century innovation in the 
> arts has been used successfully by Christians, and every major philosophical 
> theme has been explored by Christians in the arts, I'm curious as to which
> philosphical themes or modes of expression would be inappropriate
> to use in extolling the majesty of the God of creation.  
> 
> Bob tells us (and Francis Schaeffer would agree) that certain forms of
> art are inappropriate for Christian expression...
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Your word, not mine (I said "not very useful"; I used "inappropriate" to 
describe the act of labeling such artistic styles "evil"). You and others have
pointed out exactly the proper use of such forms of artistic expression! 

But once you have used such a nihilistic style to point out the absurdity of 
reason w/o God (and hopefully offered the Christian alternative), do you 
continue to use the same style for, say, high praise -- when you're done with 
the "all is vanity" statement? Such a use is IMO a bad marriage of art and 
message. Remember that classic statement of a couple of decades ago, "the 
medium *IS* the message"? It wasn't a CCM-bashing Jimmy Swaggart that said 
that!

I get the feeling that the emotions surrounding this issue belie a concern that
the next step is to identify the "sin-beats" and the styles which are flat-out
inapropriate for the christian to *ever* use. I would fight that, too. All I 
want is for us (as artists) to *think* about what kind of art we're creating.
For crying out loud, every *other* artist does...

I think I've said about all I have to say, publicly ... I'll happily continue
the thread offline with anyone who e-mails ... though I reserve the right to
come out of retirement....;-)

Bob (I don't expect to see Moloch in a museum in Heaven...) Miller

Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
From: harling@pictel.com (Dan Harling)
Subject: Re: looking for the music for `Our God is an Awesome God'
Organization: PictureTel Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:38:09 GMT

In article <BuLLH8.71J@acsu.buffalo.edu> psyrobtw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Robert Weiss) writes:
>
>HI,
>	I'm looking for the music, guitar chords actually for _Our God
>is an Awesome God_.
>
>	The rest of the lyrics go:
>	
>	Our God is an AWesome God
>	He reigns from heaven above
>	with wisdom, power and love,
>	Our God is an awesome God.

I would send this via E-mail, but I suspect that enough people would
like to learn how to play it, based on its popularity, that posting it
would be ok.

My group ("Carmen Christi") plays it in F#m (lyrics are from memory,
and I only sing the choruses, so be nice if I misquoted something):

VERSE:
|:       F#m
[When He rolls up his sleeves, He ain't just puttin' on the Ritz

    D         E       F#m    :|
Our God is an awesome God...]


CHORUS:
    D         A
Our God is an awesome God

   E           F#m
He reigns from heaven above

     D       A
with wisdom, power and love,

    D         E       F#m
Our God is an awesome God.


That should be enough to get you through the whole thing.
____________________________________________________________________________
Daniel A. Harling                        (harling@pictel.com)
PictureTel Corp.             Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of
Peabody, MA  01960                 PictureTel, but they ought to be!
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
From: tll6551@zeus.tamu.edu (Scholar and Fool)
Subject: Re: Intermosh Vol. 3 / THRASH?!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Fool's Gold Enterprises
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 01:57:00 GMT

kowtko@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Jacqueline Kowtko) writes...
>I am somewhat surprised to hear of people who actually listen to
>`thrash' music.  (Yes, true!)  Especially what seems like a
>substantial Christian Music audience.  Seriously, what is its appeal?

appeal.....appeal.....I guess an enjoyment in the sound being produced.
Perhaps to enjoy the intense feelings that can be produced (and, btw, 
anger and violence are not the only moods that can be 'intensified' by
thrash/metal/alternative/etc). To listen to lyrics that are in your
face, that have really probing, deep, heart-felt questions or statements
that wouldn't be screamed :) or sung with your typical mellower styles
of music. It's sorta like brocolli (which I don't like, btw) - some 
people don't like it, some people do like it, and some people do or 
don't like it because that's what the peer group they want to be accepted
by tells them. It's a choice. It's a preference. It's a taste.

>Do you need to be in some sort of aggressive/wild mood to listen?

Hhhhmmmm....no, although it might help (for me, at least) to be in an
energetic or 'pumped up' mood. Or at least not minding getting into that
type of mood by listening.

>Is anyone in the industry (performer or fan) over age 25?

I'm pretty sure that there are, although I can't say *for sure*. I would
bet that Roger Martinez is over 25....  I, personally, am 23.

>The only time I ever heard thrash was when listening to a sample
>of One Bad Pig in a bookshop.  (It was in the pop section...)  

I bet the members of One Bad Pig are somewhere near the 25 mark, if not
over it. My bet would be on over it. But I don't know that you could 
classify them purely as 'thrash' - some of their music is fairly thrashish,
but they've mellowed out over the last couple of albums, too (imo).

>Please inform me on the subject.

Hope that helps a little, for anyone who might have been wondering the
same thing. :)

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Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Date: Sat,  5 Sep 1992 03:31:57 -0400 
From: Julian Leonard Lanphar <jl8z+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Intermosh Vol. 3 / THRASH?!
	<10631@scott.ed.ac.uk>

I was really surprised to find out how many people listen to One Bad
Pig.  Personally, they're a bit off the wall for me, but one has to
admit, they are rather humorous.  I'm a Vengeance fan myself.


Lenny Lanphar
-On an eternal quest to locate the off switch on the Mac

Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
From: mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson)
Subject: My opinion on the new Michael W. Smith
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:15:46 GMT

I LIKE it!

Yeah, its different...that doesn't make it bad. Kinda funky feel, like
White Heart's Emergency Broadcast and Freedom. Its almost a dance
album..certainly it has that 90s beat to it.

I even like the new Friends version. Different. Not necessarily better
or worse, but different.

Lyrics: Good common sense, biblical values, biblical references.
That's the MWS I know. In response to the person (can't remember who
it was) who said this album was full of humanistic values....well, I
just can't see it. In a quick read through of the lyrics, I couldn't
find anything that can't be supported by a biblical passage. Certainly
nothing contradicting Christianity here.

And for those who said this was his worst album, I only have one
question:

  You mean you ENJOYED "The Big Picture"????????????

Ick. :)

Michael
"I'm living in Jacob's Dream....and I can't get up!!!"
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
From: jeffries@iastate.edu (Anthony G Jeffries)
Subject: Re: Christian F.M. Radio Broadcasting
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:55:53 GMT

In <1992Sep14.221610.651@news.duc.auburn.edu> hendefd@woof.duc.auburn.edu (Frank Henderson) writes:

>In article 0170@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA, G06C000 <G06C@UNB.CA> () writes:
>>i am looking for call letters and locations of any stations
>>throughout the U.S. and Canada.
>>Thank You ....Phil
>>


Here's what I can remember about Iowa:

Boone

KFGQ-FM         99.3 (I think)
KFGQ-AM         (can't remember at all)

FM side is strictly monaural.  They have Focus on the Family, and (I think)
Through the Bible Radio--it's either on this station or on one from 
eastern Iowa (where I grew up).  KFGQ-FM doesn't come in very well here at ISU,
which is about 15 miles away from Boone.  As of a couple of months ago, the
station had been authorized by the FCC to install a new FM transmitter, but 
they are still working on the funding.

Des Moines

KDMI-FM         97.3

Last I knew, Bob Larson was on at 3.  CCM is broadcast in stereo (the station
does not broadcast in stereo, except for certain programs on Saturday) 
Saturday afternoons, and is followed by what is, in my humble opinion, some
great gospel music, from black groups (I think).  Good Stuff.

KWKY-AM         12(something), I think.

Haven't listened very much, so I can't comment on their programming.

Waterloo

KNWS-AM         1090
KNWS-FM         101.9

Both are highly conservative (IMHO), no CCM.  Music is on the soft side.
Has stuff like Focus on the Family, etc.

Cedar Rapids

KTOF-FM         104.1

softer CCM.  Bob Larson is on at 3 CDT.  They also have stuff like KNWS has.

If anyone out there in netland knows more info about Iowa Christian radio 
stations, I would be very interested to see it, and if I need to stand 
corrected, I would be very happy to do that, too.  
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N0NRO@N0AN.IA.USA.NA  (packet--ham radio) |-Iowa State University--|
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From: munns@cae.wisc.edu (Scott Munns)
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Rich Mullins Music
Date: 8 Sep 92 01:58:27 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering


	Just wanted to know if it is possible to get a piano
book for the Winds of Heaven...Stuff of Earth CD.  Haven't seen
any in the Christian bookstores.  In particular, I am looking
for the background piano part for "If I Stand".  If you have
the music, please comment on how close it is to the real McCoy.
I like to perform a song as closely to the original music as
possible.  Are the studio copies available?  Also, is there
a common mailing address or fan club for Rich?  Thanks!
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
From: caw@gtech.com (Christopher A. White)
Subject: Re: Humorously Diverse Tastes
Organization: GTECH Corporation, West Greenwich, RI
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:03:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.170327.476@cs.rose-hulman.edu> pearsodc@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (D) writes:
>
>As long as we're rattling off favorites...

I'll join in:

Mozart - concrtos mainly, and symphonies. Opera on occasion.
Queensryche
Amy Grant - What a voice!
Iron Maiden
Tchicovski (sp?) - His ballets, mainly.
Bobby McFerrin - Just got his latest with Chick Corea, all improvisation!
Richard Marx - [asside] He reminds me of Andre Agassi 
Rush
14th - 16th century Irish/English music - reels, madrigals, etc.
Scottish folk music - (Let the wind blow high/let the wind blow low/
                       through the streets in m'kilt I'll go)
Stryper
Leslie (Sam) Phillips 


I've been asked on more than one occasion why my CD's don't spontaneously
combust?!

Topher
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From: hlr3408@rigel.tamu.edu (RUIZ, HECTOR LUIS)
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Re: Christian F.M. Radio Broadcasting
Date: 15 Sep 1992 17:39:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <drice.716515808@ponder>, drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice) writes...

>Yes.  KLTY is still going in D/FW.  Here is a listing of most of the
>Christian radio stations in the D/FW area:
> 
>FM stations:
> 
>	KLTY	94.1
>	KVTT	91.7
>	KCBI	90.1	(I think that's the freq.)
                   ^
		   |
	     (should be 90.9)

>AM stations:
> 
>	KHVN	970
>	KPBC	770
> 
>TV stations:
> 
>	Channel 58	Trinity Broadcasting Network	(don't know call lets.)
>	Channel 55	The Power Channel (Robert Tilton)	KLDT
                 ^
		 |
	  (has been cancelled)
> 
>When I was living in Houston 4 years ago, there was an FM station whose
>call letters were KSBJ at 88.1 FM.  Don't know if it's still around though.
		    	    ^
			    |
			(it's 89.3 now)

Hector Ruiz