Cowboy Church #7

Hello my friends and welcome back to cowboy church. 

We begin our musical selection off with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans performing It is No Secret What God Can Do from their 1962 gospel album The Bible Tells Me So. Next Gene Autry performs Music by The Angels from his feature film, The Old West (1952). Next is The Carter Family's 1934 recording of Gospel Ship. I Dreamed of the Great Judgment Morning is said to be Hank William's longest recorded song. This song actually dated back to 1894 and was written by Rev. Bertram Shadduck and Leander Lycurgus Pickett. Roy Acuff also recorded this song, but did  shorter version that cut out many of the lyrics. This recording is from 1951 off of the Mother Best radio show. Next are the Sons of the Pioneers' 1937 recording of Lead Me Gently Home Father. At this time Roy Rogers was still a member of the Sons of the Pioneers before his famous solo career. Next is Waylon Jennings performing a song he wrote himself, I Do Believe. This song was originally from the 1995 Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings) album, The Road Goes on Forever. On that album as well as the songs they did together each member did his own solo song. Though the songs they had performed together where written by other these solo songs were written by the one who performed it. We end with Trace Adkins performing the gospel classic Wayfaring Stranger from his 1997 album Big Time. 

Here is a 1949 article from Photoplay magazine about popular movie western stars.

The name of the Lord is a strong fortress; the godly run to him and are safe. (Proverbs 18:10)Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. (1 Corinthians 13:12)Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. Isiah 64:8Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:6

-Michael J. Ruhland