I totally love Keith Green's music. Another great artist from years back is Steve Camp.
I don't buy a lot of Christian CD's anymore. I did more of that back when I was in High School and early college. I'm not appalled by main stream Christian music but it does feel too commercialized for me and I'm so not into commercialization, especially of anything Christian.
In High School I absolutely loved Michael W. Smith. Now I really don't care for his music because he seems so commercialized. The only CD's of his I listen to really anymore are the praise and worship ones. I love playing praise and worship in my CD player and I'm so glad that I now have a car with a CD player in it so that I can play CD's in my car instead of having to listen to the radio.
Which btw, K-Love says they're commercial free but they have a lot of non-music segments on there that sound an awful lot like commercials to me.
I loved the phrase "What would Jesus do?" when I was a kid at camp and one of the camp leaders posed that question to us saying we should ask it to ourselves before we do or say anything. But then years later the WWJD bracelets and merchandise came out and was such a huge fad that I ended up disliking it. I'm just not into fads or mainstream. I've always been rather independent in that regard.
Nowadays instead of asking myself "What would Jesus do?" I like the question, "Is it holy?" I think asking myself "is it holy?" is a much more powerful question.
Betty W01 said:
Yeah, he's the first really stimulating musician I ever listened to. His lyrics tended to grab you and make you think about things from a new angle.
I love "Make My Life a Prayer to you" and "The Lord Is My Shepherd".
I LOVE "Make My Life a Prayer to you." I was once a part of a musical skit that used that song. Someone sang that song and the rest of us mymed. The skit involved a few of us sitting in a row in church and the offering plate is passed to us. Some people were stingy, others wouldn't give, others made a show about how much they gave, etc... The last person took the plate and realized they had no money and gave the plate back to the usher. The rest of us laughed at that person and then an idea came to that person and they motioned for the usher to come back. The person then took the plate, sat it on the ground, and stood in it. (You've got to use a big enough offering plate for that to work.)
Another Keith Green song that's very powerful and I saw others do a myme to is "The Prodigal Son Suite."
Another one of my all time favorite Keith Green songs is "Song to my Parents." Not to mentione "Rushing Wind" which we used to sing in church and "To Obey is Better than Sacrifice."
"The Lord is my Shepherd" doesn't appear to be on my cd. I'm not sure I've ever heard it.