More Than Precious Memories
More Than Precious Memories

Author: Michael P. Graves

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780865548572

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-Scott Tucker, looks at the theme of "heaven" in six of the Gaither Homecoming songbooks - David Fillingim looks at how Southern Gospel Music answers the question of theodicy from the perspective of the rural, white, working class - Robert M. McManus explores selected song lyrics to show how Southern Gospel Music helps construct the identity of the community compared to Contemporary Christian Music - Darlene R. Graves identifies key sustaining personality strengths of women that tend to preserve consistency between their public performance and personal spiritual walk - Elizabeth E Desnoyers-Colas and Stephanie Howard (Asabi) explore Southern Gospel and Black Gospel music, through the influence of Thomas A. Dorsey - Michael Graves examines how the culture of Southern Gospel Music deals with its inevitable prodigal sons - Raymond D.S. Anderson analyzes the Gaither Homecoming videos as examples of the postmodern turn in American popular Christian culture - John D. Keeler presents the first audience study of southern Gospel Music employing a "Uses and Gratifications" research framework - Paul A. Creasman examines the ways Southern Gospel Music as a culture memorializes its dead by use of the Internet - Naaman Wood reviews significant scholarly approaches to the study of popular music.

More Than Precious Memories
More Than Precious Memories

Author: Michael P. Graves

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780865549555

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More than Precious Memories is the first book of its kind--a collection of essays offering scholarly analysis and interpretation of Southern Gospel Music. Believing Southern Gospel Music to be a significant cultural and religious phenomenon worthy of the best efforts of scholarship, Grayes and Fillingim have assembled a diverse group of scholars who apply a variety of methods and theories to the task of understanding Southern Gospel Music and its cultural context. These scholars and approaches include the following. - Scott Tucker, looks at the theme of "heaven" in six of the Gaither Homecoming songbooks - David Fillingim looks at how Southern Gospel Music answers the question of theodicy from the perspective of the rural white, working class - Robert M. McManus explores selected song lyrics to show how Southern - Gospel Music helps construct the identity of the community compared to Contemporary Christian Music - Darlene R. Graves identifies key sustaining personality strengths of women that tend to preserve consistency between their public performance and personal spiritual walk - Elizabeth F. Desnoyers Colas and Stephanie Howard (Asabi) explore Southern Gospel and Black Gospel music through the influence of Thomas A. Dorsey - Michael Graves examines how the culture of Southern Gospel Music deals with its inevitable prodigal sons - Raymond D.S. Anderson analyzes the Gaither Homecoming videos as examples of the postmodern turn in American popular Christian culture - John D. Keeler presents the first audience study of Southern Gospel Music employing a "Uses and Gratifications" research framework - Paul A. Creasman examines the ways Southern Gospel Musicas a culture memorializes its dead by use of the Internet - Naaman Wood reviews significant scholarly approaches to the study of popular music.

Alan Jackson - Precious Memories (Songbook)
Alan Jackson - Precious Memories (Songbook)

Author: Alan Jackson

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 1458452263

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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This songbook includes all 15 songs from the 2006 release, Jackson's first ever gospel album. Songs: Blessed Assurance * How Great Thou Art * I'll Fly Away * In the Garden * The Old Rugged Cross * Softly and Tenderly * What a Friend We Have in Jesus * and more.

Precious Moments: Little Book of Prayers
Precious Moments: Little Book of Prayers

Author: Precious Moments

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc

Published: 2013-09-03

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1400322782

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Inspire little ones to pray with this Precious Moments® themed book of prayers. Prayers of thanks, prayers of praise, prayers for school, for mealtime, for bedtime—boys and girls are sure to discover prayers that will become lifetime favorites. Featuring adorable Precious Moments characters, this case-bound, padded board book will be a cherished addition to any child’s library. Children will be drawn to the soft, inviting illustrations, and parents will appreciate the heartfelt prayers and the scriptures from the International Children’s Bible®. Since 1978, Precious Moments has grown into an evergreen brand recognized worldwide, with more than 14.5 million books and Bibles sold through Thomas Nelson.

Only the Heart Knows how to Find Them
Only the Heart Knows how to Find Them

Author: Christopher De Vinck

Publisher: New York : Viking

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780670838769

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This book is a collection of memories, memories reminiscent of the truth of our lines, poetic truth and wisdom.

Precious Moments Little Book of Bible Stories
Precious Moments Little Book of Bible Stories

Author: Precious Moments,

Publisher: HarperCollins Christian Publishing

Published: 2017-08

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 0718097637

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Through sweet Precious Moments artwork and gentle storytelling, this padded board book teaches little ones how they are precious in God's sight through simple Bible stories. Full color.

Then Sings My Soul
Then Sings My Soul

Author: Douglas Harrison

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0252094093

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In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Rather than a single rhetoric focusing on the afterlife as compensation for worldly sacrifice, Harrison presents southern gospel as a network of interconnected messages that evangelical Christians use to make individual sense of both Protestant theological doctrines and their own lived experiences. Harrison explores how listeners and consumers of southern gospel integrate its lyrics and music into their own religious experience, building up individual--and potentially subversive--meanings beneath a surface of evangelical consensus. Reassessing the contributions of such figures as Aldine Kieffer, James D. Vaughan, and Bill and Gloria Gaither, Then Sings My Soul traces an alternative history of southern gospel in the twentieth century, one that emphasizes the music's interaction with broader shifts in American life beyond the narrow confines of southern gospel's borders. His discussion includes the "gay-gospel paradox"--the experience of non-heterosexuals in gospel music--as a cipher for fundamentalism's conflict with the postmodern world.

Cherished Memories
Cherished Memories

Author: Nathan Cool

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-12

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 059538014X

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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. -Corrie Ten Boom Life brings simple pleasures to us everyday. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. -Cathy Allen In this unique, heartfelt, and often humorous collection of true, childhood stories, Cherished Memories encourages you to recall your happiest of memories-and make new ones as well-as you voyage back in time alongside of a young Nathan Cool growing up in scenic Appalachia and rural America. Nathan Cool's endearing memoirs will tug at your heartstrings and tickle your funny bone. But during this enchanting journey down memory lane, you will also be invited to reflect upon your most joyous moments from yesteryear while pondering thought-provoking quotes, facts and insights showing the genesis and significance of reminiscence. As you stroll through scenic woodlands with trout-laden streams, snow covered landscapes and lush, grassy meadows, you'll hear tales from elders, and taste the down-home foods from days gone by. As you experience Nathan Cool's dearest memories and understand their origins, you are sure to find long lost treasures that are indeed your, very own, Cherished Memories.

The Gaithers and Southern Gospel
The Gaithers and Southern Gospel

Author: Ryan P. Harper

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2017-04-26

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1496810910

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In The Gaithers and Southern Gospel, Ryan P. Harper examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither's Homecoming video and concert series--a gospel music franchise that, since its beginning in 1991, has outperformed all Christian and much secular popular music on the American music market. The Homecomings represent "southern gospel." Typically that means a musical style popular among white evangelical Christians in the American South and Midwest, and it sometimes overlaps in style, theme, and audience with country music. The Homecomings' nostalgic orientation--their celebration of "traditional" kinds of American Christian life--harmonize well with southern gospel music, past and present. But amidst the backward gazes, the Homecomings also portend and manifest change. The Gaithers' deliberate racial integration of their stages, their careful articulation of a relatively inclusive evangelical theology, and their experiments with an array of musical forms demonstrate that the Homecoming is neither simplistically nostalgic, nor solely "southern." Harper reveals how the Gaithers negotiate a tension between traditional and changing community norms as they seek simultaneously to maintain and expand their audience as well as to initiate and respond to shifts within their fan base. Pulling from his field work at Homecoming concerts, behind the scenes with the Gaithers, and with numerous Homecoming fans, Harper reveals the Homecoming world to be a dynamic, complicated constellation in the formation of American religious identity.

Seek the Precious Moments
Seek the Precious Moments

Author: Becky Blackmon

Publisher: Publishing Designs Incorporated

Published: 2019-01-11

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781945127144

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As we stand before the microwave and shout, "Hurry!" do we have any concept of what it means to be still? Do we seek moments for the blood-covered Savior who died for us on an old rugged cross? Becky Blackmon has answers for us in Seek the Precious Moments. The text is not parallel with most time-management books, but it conforms to the Good Book. Each of the 13 chapters is preceded by "Time with Becky" relating her experiences with hurrying, building her house for Jesus, and jumping into the deep end of commitment. One of her "times" describes her red-headed mom in trying moments, "She's Come Undone." The humorous narrative drives home the pointlessness of hurrying and the lasting benefit of spiritual renewal. From the first chapter, "I Am Woman, Hear Me Gasp!" to the last "Jesus Take the Wheel," readers are motivated to seek matters of the soul. Her tips on guiding parents to teach children to know the Lord are especially gripping in the chapter "Time to Love That Family." Readers participate in short "Pause and Ponder" thoughts and "Keep Seeking" scripture challenges. These "write-it-down" inserts make a life-changing impact on the heart of each reader. The bottom line question of yesterday, today, and tomorrow is, "Will you find the time for Jesus?" Pause, think, peruse, and consider. And with your Bible by your side, Seek the Precious Moments.