Cowboy Church #29

Hello again my friends and welcome to another service of Cowboy Church, 

We begin our musical selection off with Ray Price performing Don't Give Up When Your Down from his 1974 album This Time Lord. Next comes Roy Acuff's 1940 recording of The Precious Jewel. This song was written by Roy himself though the melody is borrowed from the old murder ballad The Hills of Roan Country. That old song was actually written by a real murder, Willis Maberry, who killed his former friend Thomas Galbreath in a fight in 1884. He wrote the words as a poem when held in jail in Kingston until his trail. Many people probably recognized the similarities between the two songs as The Blue Sky boys recorded The Hills of Roan County in 1940. After this comes the Queen of the West, Dale Evans performing (I'll Pray For You) Until We Meet Again from her and her husband, Roy Rogers' 1960 album Jesus Loves Me. Next comes The Sons of the Pioneers' 1937 (when Roy Rogers (then Leonard Slye) was still a member of the group) recording of the classic gospel song, There's Power in the Blood. This is followed by The Stanley Brothers' 1949 recording of Gathering Flowers For the Master's Bouquet. This song was originally written by Marvin Baumgardner for the 1940 Hymnal, Golden Key. The Maddox Brothers and Rose recorded the song in 1948 just a year before the Stanley Brothers. The Stanley Brothers version is pure bluegrass gospel at its best. Next is Jim Reeves' recording of Thomas E. Dorsey's Take My Hand Precious Lord. This comes from his 1962 album, We Thank Thee. We end with Emmylou Harris with Precious Memories. This comes from her all acoustic 1987 gospel album Angel Band. 


























With joy you will draw from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12:3

Dear children let us not love with words or speech but with power and truth. 1 John 3:18

Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28

 The Lord says, “Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are one of the smallest towns in Judah, but out of you I will bring a ruler for Israel, whose family line goes back to ancient times.” Micah 5:2Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Ephesians 4:28For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life John 3:16What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. James 2:14-17In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ Acts 20:35

Thanks for joining me for another round of Cowboy church come again next week. Happy trails to you.


-Michael J. Ruhland