Songs of death, Hell, and judgment used to be common. Some from the Colonial times are astounding in their directness. It was not only Jonathan Edwards who preached of Hell; the hymnody did, also. We live in an decadent age, though, and church music demonstrates that decay has corrupted our songs, also, and not just the songs of the Devil explicitly so like Imagine, Sympathy for the Devil, and Highway to Hell. Where is any mention of Hell or the Devil equivalent to Luther's "and tho this world with devils filled" and "the prince of darkness grim" in the CCM industry today?
The classically trained musicians who lead our Clearnote Church worship wrote an antidote and here it is. Spread it far and wide. Download it and get your sons singing it while they draw pictures or shoot their slingshots at the rabbits and squirrels.
Tim serves Clearnote Church, Bloomington, Indiana. He and Mary Lee have five children and big lots of grandchildren.
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