October 3, 2011

A good friend of mine did a post at her blog today on some of the earlier Christian music she remembers.  That got me to thinking about when I was first introduced to Christian music.  I can remember being in Junior High.  The youth group at my church went to another church that was having a youth group get-together.  The highlight of the evening was a performance by a local Christian band that was in northern Indiana at that time. They were called Isaac.  They were great and I loved everything they played.  I did a quick google search just to see if they were by chance still together, but didn't come up with anything.


I remember my first Christian record album. Yes, an actual album.  It was by Don Franscisco and it was his Live Concert album. My favorite song on that album was He's Alive.  This album was really the only Christian album I can remember owning.  I did not buy many record albums when I was a kid.


Something I often challenge myself in is to find Christian themes in secular music.  There really arn't very many of those, but if you look there are some.  An old Queen song called Jesus.  It is odd that Freddie Mercury wrote such a song as he was not a Christian.  And the song is typical Queen fashion, but the words are interesting.  They did another one called The Prophet's Song which is on the darker side.  The words in that song, I think are an interpretation of the book of Revelation.   Here is their song Jesus.  As I said, typial Queen rock.



Quite a few U2 songs have Christian themes, then there is Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven and others if I think on it enough.  Also, John Denver recorded a song called Gospel Changes.  Good song.

Ok..enough rambling memories for the night!