I seemed to have created quite a bit of controversy over the overly used use of overheads on my last post. Whoa! The response is overwhelming, over the top, and overboard! Everyone is over reacting. People all across this great land are over running their praise leaders and ripping down the projector screens in fits of carnal rage.
What? Oh, not really?
Oh well.
I don't want to give the impression that I loathe the overhead as much as I loathed the five o'clock youth service when I was a kid. Our little Pilgrim Holiness church in Lancaster, Ohio, as a favor to us kids, had a service specially designed for us young teens on Sunday evenings. It mostly consisted of someone asking us Bible trivia questions and conducting "sword drills". Then at six we got to go to the regular "adult" service.
So no, I don't hate the overhead, I just don't see what's so wrong with the hymn books.
"But if we use the hymn books, we can't sing all of those wonderful praise songs they play on KLOVE."
Exactly.
I'm glad I just linked to KLOVE. They list the songs they play right there on the web site. For instance, as I type this, they confess to playing:
OK, I admit to knowing who Toby Mac is (though I don't know his Christian name). He used to rap, but presumably still loves that kind of music, because he recorded a whole song once that said,
I love rap music/Always have and always will
There ain't no other kind/Of music in the world
That makes me feel quite as chill
I have heard of Jeremy Camp, the other two I can't place, but currently there is a pic of Josh Wilson on the KLOVE site. Mr. Wilson sports enough beard to say, "I'm non-conformist, I'm growing facial hair like the other hipsters", but enough Bieber hair to say, "But I'm still young!"
KLOVE, like NPR, needs your money to stay on the air. So yes, there are pledge drives every so often. About as often as I tune in to KLOVE it seems like. They're no worse than my local NPR station, though. When 90.9 The Bridge says they're having a Spring pledge drive, they mean from March 21 to June 21 they will be conducting a pledge drive.
But hey, the KLOVE songs of today are the hymns of tomorrow, right? There are Gaither songs in the song book! I just searched the most popular hymns and on one list was El Shaddai. Amy Grant sang that! At least with the overhead we don't have to hear things like, "Now turn in your hymnal to 431, Luv is a Verb."
In fact, with the overhead you get precious little info about the song. I've already said you can't see the music, that's for the pros, but you don't get to see who wrote the song, when it was published, or if anyone is still making money from it. How can you really appreciate a song if you don't know who wrote it?
"Ah, words and music by Asa Hull. I love Asa Hull."
"I thought this was Fanny Crosby."
"No, see down here on the page, Asa Hull."
"For heaven's sake, you're right. Published 1871!"
I'm really starting to sound old. What did they say when they first put hymnals in churches?
"Oh great, what's next? Bibles in English?"
What? Oh, not really?
Oh well.
I don't want to give the impression that I loathe the overhead as much as I loathed the five o'clock youth service when I was a kid. Our little Pilgrim Holiness church in Lancaster, Ohio, as a favor to us kids, had a service specially designed for us young teens on Sunday evenings. It mostly consisted of someone asking us Bible trivia questions and conducting "sword drills". Then at six we got to go to the regular "adult" service.
So no, I don't hate the overhead, I just don't see what's so wrong with the hymn books.
"But if we use the hymn books, we can't sing all of those wonderful praise songs they play on KLOVE."
Exactly.
I'm glad I just linked to KLOVE. They list the songs they play right there on the web site. For instance, as I type this, they confess to playing:
- Josh Wilson
- Toby Mac
- Jeremy Camp
- Jason Gray
OK, I admit to knowing who Toby Mac is (though I don't know his Christian name). He used to rap, but presumably still loves that kind of music, because he recorded a whole song once that said,
I love rap music/Always have and always will
There ain't no other kind/Of music in the world
That makes me feel quite as chill
I have heard of Jeremy Camp, the other two I can't place, but currently there is a pic of Josh Wilson on the KLOVE site. Mr. Wilson sports enough beard to say, "I'm non-conformist, I'm growing facial hair like the other hipsters", but enough Bieber hair to say, "But I'm still young!"
KLOVE, like NPR, needs your money to stay on the air. So yes, there are pledge drives every so often. About as often as I tune in to KLOVE it seems like. They're no worse than my local NPR station, though. When 90.9 The Bridge says they're having a Spring pledge drive, they mean from March 21 to June 21 they will be conducting a pledge drive.
But hey, the KLOVE songs of today are the hymns of tomorrow, right? There are Gaither songs in the song book! I just searched the most popular hymns and on one list was El Shaddai. Amy Grant sang that! At least with the overhead we don't have to hear things like, "Now turn in your hymnal to 431, Luv is a Verb."
In fact, with the overhead you get precious little info about the song. I've already said you can't see the music, that's for the pros, but you don't get to see who wrote the song, when it was published, or if anyone is still making money from it. How can you really appreciate a song if you don't know who wrote it?
"Ah, words and music by Asa Hull. I love Asa Hull."
"I thought this was Fanny Crosby."
"No, see down here on the page, Asa Hull."
"For heaven's sake, you're right. Published 1871!"
I'm really starting to sound old. What did they say when they first put hymnals in churches?
"Oh great, what's next? Bibles in English?"
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