Could movie-makers—perhaps without even realising it—capture something of God in their films? That’s what author and film critic Jeffrey Overstreet believes. In fact, he says that’s what sets timeless films apart from the others. Jeffrey will join us this week to talk about finding God in the cinema.
Plus, we’ll take a peak at the technology of tomorrow and where it will take us, and talk to the man described as the ‘father of modern worship music’—Graham Kendrick.
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It’s really nice to hear that Graham Kendrick is O.H.’s upcoming guest. It’s true that he’s a ‘father’ of modern church music. Also in a consistently unassuming way, he’s quite a trailblazer, in the sense that he’s written about subjects that some songwriters would find easier to avoid, e.g. servanthood, persecution, racial tension and martyrdom.
There’s a rare 1980’s CD called Kendrick Down Under produced by Peter Beveridge & featuring Aussie Christian musos. It takes his songs out of their normal liturgical context, puts them into rock, jazz & pop settings & really shows the strength, uniqueness & continuing relevance of GK’s work.
The chorus of ‘The Servant King’ shows how Jesus’ call is so different from the ‘me-ness’ of modern thinking - and if you’re not familiar with them, how about the following songs for the modern church to sing? Some of them are richly poetic, some are childishly ‘simple’ but all still radically challenging:
O Lord the clouds are gathering
The fire of judgement burns
How we have fallen!
O Lord You stand appall’d to see
Your laws of love so scorn’d
And lives so broken.
Have mercy Lord…
Forgive us Lord …
Restore us Lord
Revive Your church again
Let justice flow
Like rivers
And righteousness like a never-failing stream.
And:
Jesus taught us how to live in harmony..
Different faces, different races, he made us one…
Jesus’ love has got under our skin…
Deeper than colour…richer than culture…stronger than emotion…wider than the ocean…
Posted by terry darmody | October 27, 2007 12:34 AM
Posted on October 27, 2007 00:34