Thanks for sharing. King + Country is def one of the better modern Christian bands. Like that song with Kirk Franklin in it!
Couldnât resist
Petra was one of the first Christian rock bands, did you get to see them in concert?
I actually prefer those old hymns and gospel songs nowadays to the stuff the Christian rock scene came up with. They work well with a bhakti practice. That and the stuff coming out of the Taize community. Theyâre part of my devotional practice as well.
Yeah itâs funny how rock n roll went from âdevil musicâ to find itâs place in even the most conservative, evangelical churches as the main form of worship music.
BTW in case people donât know, honkyoku is sacred music played by Fuke-shu Buddhists in Japan. They use the flute as tool for meditation. The goal is to âattain Buddhahood through one soundâ- ichion jobutsu.
âBetterâ is subjective, but Iâm personally partial to a cappella version. Like Peter Hollens or Pentatonix
This hymn is a regular in my devotional repertoire. From watching these videos again, it appears there are verses Iâve been missing .
If youâre interested, there is a good movie about it. Amazing Grace. Came out in 2006. Itâs also about the abolitionist campaign to ban the slave trade in the UK which was pushed forward through Parliament by William Wilberforce.
My favorite Tanzanian gospel song. The title means âThere is no god like you.â They basically repeat that and add different qualities and names of God, such as âHakuna Mungu kama wewe Yawhehâ. Some of the other lyrics you will here: âunawezaâ means âyou are ableâ. And âwako upendoâ means âyour loveâ.
Well the Christian tradition has a lot of good music . Makes sense, Christianity is by large a devotional religion. The devotional circles of other religions also tend to have rich musical traditions, such as Sufi Islam and Bhakti Hinduism.
Uh⊠maybe. We really do have no reason to worry about anything because we are everything⊠the writers of the song probably didnât mean it like that though when they wrote the song.
Fun fact: nobody in Tanzania says âhakuna matata.â The only time you will hear it is when you go to the tourist traps. People will say it there because tourists expect them to. Regular people however donât use the phrase, they say âhamna shidaâ instead.
That and the stuff coming out of the Taize community. Theyâre part of my devotional practice as well.
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. Makes sense, Christianity is by large a devotional religion. The devotional circles of other religions also tend to have rich musical traditions, such as Sufi Islam and Bhakti Hinduism.
We really do have no reason to worry about anything because we are everything⊠the writers of the song probably didnât mean it like that though when they wrote the song.
