For those that go to church, do you prefer pipe organ music with hymns or do you prefer ccm with a band?
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personally, i prefer the ccm music with a band.  But that is not what is important!  whether you sing hyms or rock or opera or whatever, the important thing is that you are praising God with your whole heart.  can i get an amen?!  :)\nPsalm 30:11-12 You turned my wailing into dancing. You removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing to you and not be silent.  O Lord my God, I will give you thanks forever.
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I love all styles of music but Chrsitian is my favorite genre. I love Kutless, Hawk Nelson, Thousand Foot Krutch, Pillar, Big Dismal, Paul Wright, Third Day, Newsboys, Building 429, and all other christian groups.... etc, etc.....
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No...but if they are, so what?  I am a Christian and I listen to all kinds of stuff.  I think as long as you don't take what non-Christian bands are saying to heart, you're fine.
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I just wanted to clarify the point about singing Christian songs vs be Christian and have a band.  I can see this as so(although if they were really sold-out for Jesus it would shine through in their songs).  But with Creed, I heard them say on TV that maybe an individual was Christian in thier band, but they are not all Christians, and they do not sing about Christianity.  Sometimes they sing about searching, but there is no "saved-at-the-end" part to that.  If just recently they have all been saved, then YEAH!!!! and there is another answered prayer.
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Yes. If you love klove, check out Air-One at air1.com they play really good Christian contemporary music. I love Audio Adrenaline, Casting Crowns, Chris Tomlin, Jeremy Camp, David Crowder Band and the list just goes on ... lol
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No, but I've heard "Reptile" by the Church. Good band.
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Any music that brings you closer to god is good. Any types that guides you away is bad.
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Worship, pray, and enjoy.\n\nThank you for showing respect in asking for advice.\n\nDo whatever feels right in your heart.\n\nStand and sit when others do. Catholics typically sit to listen to God's Word and stand to pray.\n\nCatholics kneel during the consecration of the Eucharist (Holy Communion). You may kneel or sit at this time, whichever you choose. \n\nAs a Methodist, your beliefs about the Eucharist is not the same as ours. We believe in the true presence of Christ. Out of respect for both of our faiths, please do not receive Holy Communion.\n\nAt this time, you may be invited to go up for a blessing from the priest. If you choose, go up with your arms crossed over your heart to receive the blessing.\n\nIf you are comfortable, pray along with the prayers and sing along with the songs.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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If you are Christian, and are serious about worship, it is a very nice place to study music! I have friends that have studied there, and they play very good. Also I really like their praise and worship DVDs, and Cd's, they are pretty cool...and they record one once a year, so if you like that stuff you can be involved if you like that.....But I believe it is more practical and ministry focused than anything else. For example, if you are interested more in receiving classical music studies, or jazz, or something like that, this school is not for you, this is more practical, more about basics, more praise and worship minded, but it is nice......and for ministry, provably one of the very best in the US.......
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try contemporary Christian music. Some of the best are Newsboys, Third Day, Newsong, etc. One group you may really like who does some rap style too, is Toby Mac. Pretty Rockin' concerts, too!
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Christian Music, Is some of the greatest music I have ever listened to. I love it. Were you needing recommendations for some christian music? If so I will list a few here: Telecast, Matthew West, Chris Rice, Rebecca St. James, The Elms, Apologetix, David Crowder Band, Switchfoot, Mark Schultz, and sooo many more, you can email or send me a message if you want, my screen name is also my email @yahoo.com sooo if you need more let me know\nHeather
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http://www.christianmusicnews.net/bands.html\nthat has a bunch of Christian bands, not all rock though..
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My daughter just finally outgrew her country music stage, and graduated to pop. I can handle that, I've been listening to the local pop station.\n\nIf I were to pick a classical piece, I'd probably go with Opus 49 of the 1812 Overture, I love Tchaikovsky. Yep, I just listened to it again, and (aside from AC/DC) any orchestra/band that has somebody playing a cannon is alright by me.\n\nBut I only listen to classical when cleaning my house. I'm more of an 80's metalhead actually.
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Catholic. Every week and on holy days of obligation. I"m even planning on spending First Friday adoration there sometime (an hour of prayer before the eucharist that lasts all night. YOu sign up for your hour so the church knows to not lock the doors) and I used to be an active member of the League of Mary (a charitable prayer group)
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I do.\n\nI would go with the Baptism. . . I was Baptized (Confirmed and recieved my first Eucharist) last year at the Easter Vigil (Yes, I am a Catholic Convert) and it means a lot to me.\n\nAs I was being Baptized, and the Priest said those wonderful words "I Baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit", I heard, in my heart, someone say "Welcome Home".  I know it wasn't the Priest or anyone around me - can't explain it, but I know, deep down, that it was God talking to me.  (I know, it sounds weird and "preachy" but it happened.)\n\nAll of them are very special, and more people should be moved by the events that go on.
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Though I myself DO support the use of musical instruments in music, I am sad to see how many people who are not informed about the historical debate on this quickly toss the "LEGALIST" label a person whose views differ from their own. \n\nFolks, this discussion goes back centuries, and for many centuries congregational worship, in fact, did NOT use instruments.   So don't be so dismissive.  Try to figure out WHY people have this view, and even if you don't share it you may learn something.   And it has specifically to do with God's commands concerning the organized WORSHIP of HIM, not every specific thing we do in our lives.   \n\nSOME FONDATIONS:\n\n1) The core issue is HOW does God himself direct us to worship in ways that are in keeping with his revealed character?  Whatever "freedom" we have in worship, we are NOT free before God to decide to use any and every form we dream up or see others using.  That's what is behind the second commandment prohibition of idols -- not simply of worshiping other gods, but of trying to use idols to worship the TRUE God!  And the Law also declares "you are not to worship me in the way they worship their gods", that is, God's people are not simply to adopt whatever worship practices they may see the pagans doing.   \n\nThese basic truths DO still apply, even if the OT sacrificial-temple system does not.  They are expressed in Jesus' words "God is SPIRIT and those who worship him must worship him in s/Spirit and in t/Truth [Jn 4:24, cf Phlp 3:1-2 which relates this to the Spirit of God and to worshping CHRIST... who is the Truth].  In other words, the WORSHIP of God must be consistent with the revealed NATURE of God.    \n\n2) An other thing to keep in view --as the questioner properly points out-- is that the OT Temple system of worship involving animal sacrifices and ritual washings has been done away with in Christ (see esp Hebrews). \n\nThis is sort of related to the first point, for the CHANGE that comes with Jesus' death & resurrection brings a new, fuller revelation of God --in Christ-- AND, tied in with that, changes in how we worship God (though we DO, at heart STILL come to God by means of atoning blood sacrifice -- the finished sacrifice of his Son! --and by a cleansing work)\n\nLet's also grant that the use of musical instruments is NOT, like idolatry, ALWAYS wrong and inconsistent with God's nature.  It was deemed perfectly appropriate in the OT system and considered an appropriate image to be included in Revelation's picture of heaven's worship.\n\n-----------------\n\nPerhaps the most important question then, is whether the use of instruments in our congregational worship is itself inconsistent with the NEW revelation of the fulfillment of the Law, and esp. of the Temple-sacrificial system, in Christ.   If the Word anywhere says this OR implies it.  I think you will agree that it does not expressly forbid this practice.  \n\nHere is, I think, the key.   And I do NOT believe Scripture anywhere teaches us that the use of musical instruments is at its court bound to the TEMPLE-ritual-sacrificial system, anymore than the use of the OT's PSALMS (which the church continued) is so part-and-parcel of that system as to be inappropriate to the New Testament revelation/fulfilment in Christ.\n\nRather, I believe that the use of musical instruments is not itself an "element" of worship (that is, one of a list of specific things we are called to do, as, for instance, praying and reading the Word are), nor something (like idols) that is  itself central to the CONTENT of our worship.  Instead it is, to some degree like singing, a WAY in which that worship is carried out.\n\nIncidentally, the two main passages that "command us to sing" in worship (Eph 5:18-19, Col 3:16) actually begin with our 'SPEAKING' the Word. Tbat is, what is key is our verbally expressing the content (to encourag
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Well, I am a praise and worship leader and when it comes to my gospel music, I don't play. My favorites depend on what I am in the mood for. If I am in the mood to just really get my praise on, I listen to artists like Israel and New Breed, Tonex, Martha Munizzi, and Donald Lawrence. If I am in the mood to get my dance on, I listen to artists like Lisa McClendon, Mary Mary, Kierra Sheard, Canton Jones, J.Moss and Karen Clark Sheard. If I am preparing to worship I listen to artists like Prophetess Juanita Bynum, Fred Hammond, CeCe Winans. I guess when it boils down to it, all gospel music is good if it is about our Lord and Saviour. A few of my other favorites are Dorinda Clark-Cole, Tamila Mann, Yolanda Adams, Vicki Yohe, Shea Norman, Hezekiah Walker, Kirk Franklin, The Canton Spirituals, The Williams Brothers, and the list goes on and on. Much Love!!!!