Creation’s Cry, the band at my church in Acworth, GA (Four Points), has just released their debut EP!!
From their website:
Simply put, God took four guys… four sinners… four average musicians… and brought us together to form the band, Creation’s Cry.
You can listen to two samples as well as purchase their EP by clicking here to visit their website.
The EP is now available on iTunes!! Click here to listen to samples and purchase.
Come all you weary, with your heavy loads,
Lay down your burdens find rest for your souls.
Cause my yoke is easy and my burden is kind,
I’ll take yours upon me and you can take mine.
Come all you weary, move through the earth,
You’ve been spurned at fine restaurants and kicked out of church.
I’ve got a couple of loaves, so sit down at my feet,
Lend me your ears and we’ll break bread and eat.
Come all you weary
Come gather ’round near me
Find rest for your souls
Come all you weary, crippled you lay,
I’ll help you along, you can lay down your canes.
We’ve got a long way to go but we’ll travel as friends,
The lights growing bright further up, further in.
Come all you weary
Come gather ’round near me
Find rest for your souls
Rest for your souls
Come all you weary
Come gather ’round near me
Come all you weary
Come gather ’round near me
Find rest for your souls
Rest for your souls
Rest for your souls
Rest for your souls
Come All You Weary
Thrice
The Alchemy Index, Vol. 3 & 4: Air & Earth
Jason Boyett wrote a great post on things that annoy him about “worship” (the first being that people seem to assume that worship only happens during the singing portion of a church service). Anyways, one thing he mentioned has been eating at me for awhile.
Okay.
More like a few years.
Why are the lyrics to many worship songs (and many Christian songs in general) so thoughtless?
One example he uses that I can relate to is the line “Show me Your glory”.
Sounds good, right?
There are several songs with this line or a variation.
I mean, what’s wrong with asking God to show you His glory?
Oh, that’s right. Because when Moses asked God to show him His glory God warned him that it would KILL HIM! (Exodus 33:18-23)
Here’s another example – a song that, while not theologically incorrect, is still annoying because of it’s vagueness. It’s called You Are.
You are the love of my life.
You are the hope that I cling to.
You mean more than this world to me.
I wouldn’t trade You for silver or gold.
I wouldn’t trade You for riches untold.
You are, You are my everything.I wouldn’t take one step without You.
I could never go on.
I couldn’t live one day without You.
I don’t have the strength to make it on my own.You are the love of my life.
You are the hope that I cling to.
You mean more than this world to me.
I wouldn’t trade You for silver or gold.
I wouldn’t trade You for riches untold.
You are, You are my everything.Until the world stops turning,
until the stars fade from the sky;
until the sun stops striving,
I’ll need You in my life,
and here’s the reason why.You are the love of my life.
You are the hope that I cling to.
You mean more than this world to me.
I wouldn’t trade You for silver or gold.
I wouldn’t trade You for riches untold.
You are, You are my everything.
Could those lyrics be describing Jesus?
Yeah.
They could also be describing your prom date.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t sing songs that declare our love for Christ and dependence upon Him. But those songs shouldn’t be vague. Seriously – if the first time I’d heard that song had been on the radio, I would have never associated it with Jesus. I would have thought it was the latest Top 40 love song.
For Jason’s full post click here.
Got any examples of your own?
For those who think Les Paul is just the name of Gibson’s flagship electric guitar, you have much to learn.
Les Paul is, or was until this morning, a real person, without whom music would be a VERY different world. Dissatisfied with the acoustic guitars of the day, in 1939 Les Paul created one of the very first solidbody electric guitars (Leo Fender and Adolph Rickenbacher also created their own namesake models during the same time period), nicknamed “The Log”, which was nothing more than a length of common 4″ x 4″ lumber with bridge, guitar neck, and pickup attached. For the sake of appearance, he attached the body of an Epiphone hollow-body guitar, sawn lengthwise with The Log in the middle. This solved the two main problems he had with acoustic guitars: feedback, as the acoustic body no longer resonated with the amplified sound, and sustain, as the energy of the strings was not dissipated in generating sound through the guitar body.
In the 1950′s Gibson Guitar Corporations presented Les Paul with a guitar they designed based on his innovations and the rest is history.
Sort of.
While most think of Les Paul as a electric guitar pioneer, he had many other musical accomplishments and innovations. You can thank Les Paul for recording effects such as overdubbing, tape delay, sound-on-sound delay, phasing and even multi-track recording itself. He is also a Grammy award winner and inspiration to dozens of guitarists across several genres. So next time you’re drooling over that Gibson Les Paul hanging in a music store, remember the man behind that name.
