# Favourite Christianity-related songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2016, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178 "2016-04-26T11:22:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/21 "2016-04-26T22:39:22Z")
Jorma Kaukonen covering Rev, Gary Davis, I Am The Light Of This World. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c1SK3QTnGU8/hqdefault.jpg "Jorma Kaukonen I Am the Light of This World") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1SK3QTnGU8) ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/22 "2016-04-26T22:50:28Z")
Hmmm… I actually listen to a lot of Christian music when I can find decent rock there. The entire album [On Fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvN5BWXASAY), by Petra is still good listening thirty years later, if you still like the distinctly 80’s sound. Track 7 _Somebody’s Gonna Praise His Name_ is probably the best, but it’s not the hardest-rocking; 2 or 3 are the best bets for that. This album is certainly my favorite thing to come out of “Christian contemporary music.” If you like Stryper, have you heard Bloodgood? [Anguish and Pain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLjJSO1Mcxc) is a good example. Christian metal you can play D&D to! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/23 "2016-04-26T23:24:52Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:2, topic:753178”] I’m Presbyterian and collect hymnals. My tastes are probably not yours. “My Song Is Love Unknown” “Immortal, Invisible” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-I_VwA4d44g/hqdefault.jpg "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_VwA4d44g) “Savior, Like A Shepherd Lead Us” “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?” [/QUOTE] My favorite religious songs are also hymns. I do like “Immortal, Invisible” but if I had to pick ONLY ONE, I’d probably go for “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” What can I say? I’m Episcopalian now, but I was raised Lutheran. Of the four different wordings/translations of that hymn, I prefer the one with the first verse that ends \*“Let goods and kindred go/This mortal life also/The body they may kill/God’s truth abideth still/And he shall win the battle.” \* The version I was raised on may have been more literal but by today’s standards it is too sexist for my current tastes. \*And take they our life/Goods, honor child or wife/Let these all be gone/They yet have nothing won/The kindgom’s ours forever." Even as a little girl that puzzled me, I knew I’d never have a wife.😛 \* While looking for certain hymns online I came on the work of Neil Barham. As many hymn writers have done he has taken familiar music and put new words to it. [http://cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/a/r/barham\_n.htm](http://cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/a/r/barham_n.htm) I like a lot of his work, particularly the hymn set to the Jupiter movement from Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/24 "2016-04-27T00:04:19Z")
Venom - At War With Satan Slayer - Haunting the Chapel Deicide - Once Upon the Cross Mercyful Fate - Burning the Cross At the Gates - Raped by the Light of Christ Bathory - Satan My Master Sodom - Christ Passion …nobody said they had to be \*pro-\*Christianity, right? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/25 "2016-04-27T01:29:08Z")
No love for Handel’s _Messiah_? And some of Bach’s stuff. And, in a different vein: [The Twist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRufIBpJAkM). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/26 "2016-04-27T02:03:04Z")
[Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goalposts Of Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO5Y1OuQIxo), Bobby Bare [Plastic Jesus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khf3t1GQZMw), King Earl Boogie Band ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/27 "2016-04-27T02:27:48Z")
Wishbone Ash: [The King Will Come](https://youtu.be/KaCI_RAbt1E) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/28 "2016-04-27T02:34:58Z")
Joan Osbourne’s [One of Us](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPFnHdJ0dl0) ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/29 "2016-04-27T02:52:27Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > [Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goalposts Of Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO5Y1OuQIxo), Bobby Bare Drat. 49 minutes late… ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/30 "2016-04-27T02:57:59Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Drat. 49 minutes late… Yeah, **Chefguy** is an answer stealer! He got me by a few minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/31 "2016-04-27T03:50:01Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > My favorite religious songs are also hymns. I do like “Immortal, Invisible” but if I had to pick ONLY ONE, I’d probably go for “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” What can I say? I’m Episcopalian now, but I was raised Lutheran. I’m lifelong-atheist but sang in an Episcopalian choir for many years: the classics previously mentioned as well as any hymn by Ralph Vaughan Williams are okay by me. We also did some fine Jester Hairston spirituals; it’s hard to find a YouTube rendition of “Poor Man Laz’rus” that isn’t all white folks in formal dress (not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course), but I dare you to listen to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIt9yrcHz6I) without a bit of seat dancing. (On the other hand, not to be a h8r, but pretty much all the schmaltzy power ballads listed by the OP really send me…screaming from the room. Just goes to show you what a rich tradition Christian music is, to have so much repertoire for such a huge variety of styles enjoyed by people of all faith complexions and all musical tastes.) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/32 "2016-04-27T03:54:37Z")
When They Ring Those Golden Bells – Natalie Merchant does a version, as does Emmylou Harris ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/33 "2016-04-27T04:05:05Z")
[Sky Pilot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69zvFnVa03g), Eric Burdon and The Animals ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/34 "2016-04-27T15:47:18Z")
“King Herod’s Song” from _Jesus Christ Superstar_. \*Prove to me that you’re no fool; walk across my swimming pool. \* ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/35 "2016-04-27T16:35:38Z")
[Better Than a Hallelujah](https://www.google.com/url?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D6WnAia_QRIo&rct=j&frm=1&q=&esrc=s&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwin8-X2nK_MAhUFRSYKHZmxBlYQtwIIGjAB&usg=AFQjCNGIVLAINSpppRLSfe4dgsnRjLs_SA) by Amy Grant. [Untitled Hymn](https://www.google.com/url?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D0_hV8L65Rqo&rct=j&frm=1&q=&esrc=s&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwi-0s60na_MAhVKOiYKHSc0DL4QyCkIGTAA&usg=AFQjCNGiio6uODHumMjSasJo1knBsyQbRw) by Chris Rice. [Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer](https://www.google.com/url?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dy3NmfmVGblw&rct=j&frm=1&q=&esrc=s&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjn44r-na_MAhVGWCYKHflvCRoQtwIIGTAB&usg=AFQjCNGlHzkWZwPT8YgtMGy8rHk8X5lh1g), by William Williams. They changed the lyrics out from under me, so when we sing it I have to follow along in the hymnal to be sure I don’t automatically revert to “Guide me O thou great Jehovah” . But it is like [Christ is Risen! Alleluia!](https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/118) - I pretend I can sing, and go for the high note. I can’t, but “when you sing in church, to God it sounds as good as you intend it to”. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/36 "2016-04-27T17:18:14Z")
[Peace Train](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6mKMV0d2cs), Cat Stevens. It may not have started out as being about god, but got co-opted by many church bands. _My Sweet Lord_, George Harrison ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/37 "2016-04-27T17:29:21Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > [Johnny Cash (and friends) - Daddy Sang Bass](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh0gefgdpRw) I have nothing to add other than to say thank you for posting this. I hadn’t heard this song in ages, and I had forgotten how great it is. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/38 "2016-04-27T18:00:24Z")
Neal Morse left Spock’s Beard after becoming a born-again Christian, and went off the deep end writing concept albums about Christianity for a while. The music is so awesome that I can forgive the lyrics being all about what a great dude God is. I think my favorite song/album is _?_, which consists of a single track. [Here is a live version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sZel2vFeyc), pared down to a mere 29 minutes. 🙂 (FF to about 16:00 for the really intense part.) There’s also a Christian-Celtic-Progressive rock band called Iona that is freakin’ awesome. [“Inside My Heart”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAVkXtAP3yo) is one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/39 "2016-04-27T18:36:13Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > I have nothing to add other than to say thank you for posting this. I hadn’t heard this song in ages, and I had forgotten how great it is. It is completely catchy and awesome isn’t it? Inspired by [The Carter Family - Can the Circle Be Unbroken?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjHjm5sRqSA) Another favorite: [Alison Krauss - Down to the River to Pray](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkWn69VBslw) I am not religious but they have some good music! ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178/40 "2016-04-27T19:03:50Z")
[Jesus Was Way Cool](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSfa56tjBQo) by King Missile. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-christianity-related-songs/753178.md?page=3)