Hello my friends and welcome back to another service of Cowboy Church.
Today's musical selection starts off with The Gospel Plowboys performing The Dream from their 2016 album Welcome Home. This is followed by The Monroe Brothers with their 1938 recording of When Our Lord Shall Come Again. This marked the last song the Monroe Brothers recorded together. They would spilt up due to heated arguments. However no animosity seemed to find its way into this recording, which is incredibly joyful. This is pure toe stomping bluegrass music at its best. This is followed by The Sons of the Pioneers with their 1948 recording of The Touch of God's Hand. This song was written by one of the group's founding members, Bob Nolan. As is true of many of Bob's best songs, the lyrics here bring very beautiful and vivid images to ones mind. Though he often times doesn't get credit for it, Bob Nolan was one of country music's greatest poets. This is followed by The Stanley Brothers with Over in the Gloryland. Next is Sons of The San Joaquin with The Lily of the Valley. This comes from their 2005 gospel album Gospel Trails. After this is Loretta Lynn with When the Roll is Called Up Yonder. Following is Don Edwards with Make Me No Grave from his 2009 cowboy gospel album Heaven on Horseback. Up next is song from one of the best cowboy albums ever made, Marty Robbin's 1959 classic Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs. The song is The Master's Call. Today's music selection ends with George Jones with I Know a Man Who Can.
Today's movie is Rainbow Over Texas (1946) starring Roy Rogers and directed by Frank McDonald (who directed many Roy Rogers films at this time including the infamous My Pal Trigger (1946)). This movie features all the fast paced action and great songs you could want from a Roy Rogers movie. All the songs are written by either Jack Elliott (one of the all time great writers of Cowboy songs) and Tim Spencer of The Sons of the Pioneers (The Sons also appear in this movie). A review in The Film Daily stated "Wholesomeness and excitement soring from this expertly made and appealing outdoor drama..." The same review also called this the "...best of the Rogers-starring films." A review in The National Board of Review Magazine stated "Unexciting as westerns go but holding interest because of pleasant music and its likable star."
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.
If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling,
no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;
they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
“Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
Psalm 91
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:8
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. John 13:34
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. Proverbs 10:12
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 1 John 4:18
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
though you are small among the clans of Judah,
out of you will come for me
one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
from ancient times. Micah 5:2
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your king is coming to you;
righteous and having salvation is he,
humble and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zachariah 9:9
Thank you for joining me come back next week for another service of Cowboy Church. Happy Trails until we meet again.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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