Hello my friends and welcome back for another service of Cowboy Church.
Today's musical selection begins with The Sons of the Pioneers singing I Believe. This version comes from the group's 1963 album, Hymns of the Cowboy. Next comes one of the most popular country gospel songs performed by the man who wrote it. The song is I Saw the Light and the singer and songwriter was Hank Williams. Hank wrote this song as he was heading home from a dance in Fort Deposit, Alabama. His mother was driving him home and told her son "Hank, wake up, we're nearly home. I just saw the light" (she was referring to the light near Dannelly Field Airport). Hank wrote the song on the rest of the way home. The song melody-wise strongly resembles Albert E. Brumley's He Set Me Free, but I Saw the Light has certainly taken on a life of its own apart from the earlier song, heavily through the powerful and inspiring lyrics that do what Hank did best as a songwriter, convey something powerful and moving in a way that seems so simple and unpretentious. Hank recorded this song on his first MGM recording session (April 21, 1947). However even though he was the first to record this song, his version was not the first released. Producer Fred Rose gave it to two other singers (Clyde Grubbs and Roy Acuff), both of whom had their versions released before Hank. When Rick Ruben and Johnny Cash began working together, Rick Ruben had Johnny come over to his house and sing and record whatever came to his mind, alone with his guitar. Gospel music was one of the first types of music Johnny fell in love with as a child and it always remained near and dear to him. So it is no wonder John picked some gospel songs to sing. One of these songs was an old gospel quartet song called The Fourth Man in the Fire. There is a little conversation at the beginning of this recording where John asks if they need to redo the intro and is told that he has too. This was because the song had a long spoken intro and when done in the big studios John was used to working in, you could reuse the intro even if you redid the song, but since this was recorded in Rick's house doing it that way was not a possibility. When God Dips His Love in My Heart was written by Cleavant Derricks a minister from Cattsnooga, Tennessee, who spread the gospel throughout the mid-south. The hymn was published in 1944 by Otis McCoy for The Church of God's Tennessee Music and Printing Company (in Cleveland, Tennessee). McCoy would later release the first recording of the song in 1949 in which he preformed it with the Daniels Sisters. In the 1970's Cleavant Derrick met a man named Aaron Brown, who worked for Canaan Records. When Brown heard the Derrick had written the song Just a Little Talk With Jesus, he decided immediately to sign the man up to the label. Derrick made two albums there, the first was released in 1975 and called Just a Little Talk With Jesus and featured gospel songs that Derrick had written including When God Dips His Love in My Heart. This remains one of the best versions of this great gospel song. Next comes the King of the Cowboys and the Queen of the West, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, performing a medley of country and gospel songs (The Place Where I Worship, He Walks with the Wild and Lonely, Texas Plains, Happy Trails) on the TV show Hee Haw. We continue with The Charlie Daniels Band performing The Old Crossroads. This version comes from their 2005 bluegrass gospel album, Songs from the Longleaf Pines. Today's musical selection ends with Willie Nelson and sister Bobbie Nelson performing How Great Thou Art.
Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent– the Lord detests them both. Proverbs 17:15
All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. John 6:37-40
So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace. Romans 11:5-6
This is the word of faith we proclaim: If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:8-10
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13
To the person who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. Ecclesiastes 2:26
The hope of the righteous will be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked will perish. Proverbs 10:28
The joy of the Lord is your strength. Nehemiah 8:10
Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces. Psalm 34:5
Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I [Jesus] am He [the Messiah], you will die in your sins. John 8:24
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness. Genesis 15:6
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:18
Thank you for joining me come back next week for another service of Cowboy Church. Happy trails to you until we meet again.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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