Let's Look Retro! Cowboy Christian Music

Eddie Arnold

♫ "Cowboy's Dream"

Tex Ritter

♫ The Thief of the Cross" 

♦ The Cowboy Dictionary 

Roy Rogers and Clint Black

♫ "Hold On Partner"

Cowboy Copas

♫"Don't Shake Hands"

Marty Robbins

♫ "When It's Lamp Lighting Time In The Valley"

Rex Allen

♫ You Saw Me Cring In The Chapel

Wylie Gustafson

Wylie and the Wild West

♫ "Round Up Time in Glory"

The Rider's In The Sky

~Tribute to Gene Autry~

♫ "Silver Haired Daddy of Mine"

♦ The Book of Obadiah

Shortest Book of the Bible

♫ Rhonda Vincent

"I Will See You Again"

♦ Reading from the Book of Obadiah

Problem of Edam was national pride, 

they rejoiced at the calamity of Isreal.

Thier security was their rock fortresses 

and being on a trade route.

The Louvin Brothers

♫ "You'll be Rewarded Over There."

Obadiah 1:8

The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.

Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

The Primitive Quartet

Reagan Glenn Riddle

♫ "The Chicken Eatin' Preacher"

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♦ My Most Requested Poem ♦

Just Be Kind Anyway!

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Blackwood Brothers

♫ Learning to Lean

♦ My 5 Personal Tenets of Faith ♦

If you are kind and considerate of others, 

some will accuse you of having selfish motives. 

But be kind anyway.

And you may spend years building something 

that someone elase can tear down overnight. 

Build anyway.

And if you find happiness and serenity, 

there will be those that will be jealous of you, 

but be happy anyway.

The good that you do today may very well be 

forgotten tomorrow.

Do good anyway.

And most importantly give the world your 

best. Even if it's not good enough 

give your best anyway.

(Adapted from the Paradoxical Commandments by Dr. M. Kent Keith) 

Bill Monroe

♫ I Can't Feel At Home In This World Anymore

Clint Howard

♫ I Just Got to Heaven And I Can't Sit Down

Carl and Pearl Butler

♫ Dreaming' of a Little Cabin 

Frank "Hylo" Brown

♫ Will the Angels Play Their Harps For Me?

Rickie Skaggs 

Sharon and Cheryl White

♫ Talk About Suffering

♦ Romans 8:18 ♦

For I reckon that the sufferings of this 

present time are not worthy to be compared 

with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

♦ James 1 1-2 ♦

James, a servant of God and of the Lord 

Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are 

scattered abroad, greeting. My brethren, 

count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

Knowing this,that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Brad Paisley

♫ Farther Along

Mark Lowry

♦ Christian Humorist

Don Edwards

♫ The Master's call

Brother Claude Ely

♫ There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down

♦ 1 Thessalonians 4:13 ♦

But I would not have you to be ignorant, 

brethren, concerning them which are asleep,

that ye sorrow not, even as others which 

have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus

died and rose again, even so them also 

which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For this we say unto you by the word of the 

Lord, that we which are alive and remain 

unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent 

them which are asleep. For the Lord himself 

shall descend from heaven with a shout, with 

the voice of the archangel, and with the trump 

of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be 

caught up together with them in the clouds, 

to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we 

ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one

another with these words.

The Marshall Family

♫ Gloryland 

Empire Jubilee Quartet

♫ Get Right Church

The Issacs

♫ Not Afraid

♦ James 4:13 ♦

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow 

we will go into such a city, and continue 

there a year, and buy and sell, and get 

gain:Whereas ye know not what shall be on 

the morrow. For what is your life? It is 

even a vapour, that appeareth for a little 

time, and then vanisheth away.For that ye 

ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall 

live, and do this, or that.

♦ Matt 24:44 ♦

Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an 

hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Ricky Scaggs and Tony Rice

♫ Talk About Sufferin' 

Faron Young

♫ I Won't Have To Cross The Jordan Alone

Eddie Arnold

♫ When My Saviour Carries Me Home

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My Banjo Faces the South....

The farmer is close to God. 

Bill Futch, in Liberty County, GA, raises 3 maybe 4 gardens a year! 

Growing things is bout a 6-week process, so he starts 

planting/growing/watering/harvesting in March and goes till November! 

See – the south is the place to be! 

You ought to see Bill’s watermelons! 

Hush my mouth! They “beat all!"

I’m amazed at how many church people there are in the deep South. 

Draw a 500 mile line from Savannah to Mobile - that’s an imaginary 

line that travels thru “holiness nation”! Sanctified people have taken over down there!

The strong agrarian economies of Alabama and Georgia are also 

home to many huge military installations. These factors combined

with that great deep south/southern gospel/camp meeting mentality 

have always made it a traveling preachers paradise! 

Oftentimes revivals are well attended by [far from home] soldiers 

and their families. It’s no surprise that Lady Pastor Lucille Floyd, 

now in her eighties, has had such success at Fort Stewart in Hinesville. 

At my last count - there are over 60 thousand people at Fort Stewart!

You can still find lotz of modest ladies with hairdos and plain faces 

in churches below the Mason-Dixon! And the young people still 

say “yes Sir” and “yes Mam!”

When church Yankees retire and move to Florida they move one state too far! 

Now I know that Albany and Dothan and Bainbridge are not quite as warm 

as Fort Myers but the commonness of the people causes me to love it.

And you gotta love the music of the South! 

How they sing!

I started holding revivals around Savannah when I was a teen-ager for 

Pastor C.M. Butler. And I’ve never forgot my first dose of Southern hospitality.

When Mr. Carrier invented the AC it increased the population of the deep south exponentially. I've made the 21-mile trek down thru Atlanta many times and when you come out on the south side of Atlanta, it’s like being awakened to warm and mild forces. And the north/south balance of Georgia and Alabama is so neat! Cool mountains at the top and warm low country at the bottom!

Obadiah ~ Prophecy Against a Prideful People

Are you a Martha Tending to the Good and Neglecting the Best?

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Luke Chapter 10 

Are you a Martha?

Mike Snider

♫ If My Nose Was Runnin' Money

♦ Slice of Life in the Life of Jesus

♦ Luke 10:38

   Now it came to pass, as they went, that

   he entered into a certain village: 

    and a certain woman named Martha

   received him into her house.

   And she had a sister called Mary,

   which also sat at Jesus' feet, and

   heard his word. But Martha was

   cumbered about much serving, and

   came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou

   not care that my sister hath left me to

   serve alone? Bid her therefore that she

   help me. And Jesus answered and said

   unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful 

   and troubled about many things: But one

   thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen

   that good part, which shall not be 

   taken away from her.

   

♦ Ancient story with contemporary lessons in it.

♦ Matthew 6:34 

   Take therefore no thought for the morrow:

   for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.

   Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Hank Williams, Sr.

♫ "House of Gold"

♦ Jesus did not rebuke Martha for her work...but for her worry.

Connie Smith

Barbara Fairchild

Sharon White

♫ "Where Angels Fear To Tread"

♦ Proverb 3:5

   "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and 

     lean not unto thine own understanding.

♦ Matthew 6:34 

   Take therefore no thought for the morrow:

   for the morrow shall take thought for the things

   of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

 

♦ The GOOD things in life are the

   enemy to the BEST things in life."

♦  Deuteronomy 8:3

    And he humbled thee, and suffered thee

    to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which

    thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know;

    that he might make thee know that man doth

    not live by bread only, but by every word

    that proceedeth out of the mouth of the

    LORD doth man live.

♫ Chet Atkins

    Georgia Camp Meeting

♦ John 11:5  

   Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister,

   and Lazarus.

♦ Matthew 6:33  

But seek ye first the kingdom

   of God, and his righteousness; and all these

   things shall be added unto you.

 

♫ Kenny and Amanda Smith

   "Shoutin' Time"

♫ Les Paul and Mary Ford

    "The 90 and 9"

♫ Blue Highway

     "Seven Sundays in a Row"

♫ Mike Snider

   "Putting on the Dog"

♦ God's Work vs God's Will

   

James Gordon Lindsay (1906-1973) 

was a revivialist preacher, author, 

and founder of Christ for the Nations.

♫ Ricky Skaggs

   "Seven Hillsides"

♦ Amos 3:7

   Surely the Lord GOD will do

   nothing, but he revealeth his

   secret unto his servants the prophets.

♫ Pat Boone

   "The Old Rugged Cross"

♦ Titus 3: 5-7

   Not by works of righteousness which we have done, 

   but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing

   of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

   Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

   That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs

   according to the hope of eternal life.

♫ Johnny Paychek

   "The Day is Almost Over" 

    Read the Bible!

    Read the Bible!

    Read the Bible!

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