For several years, I and an evangelical friend of mine have been collaborating on songwriting. This began with secular or semi-secular country-western songs, which might mention the Lord once or twice, but progressed towards gospel songs, some of which have run up hundreds of listens on Soundcloud.
What we want to beg of "religious" FReeperdom is PRAYER SUPPORT. That the Lord make a way for our songs if they are a valid ministry which I believe they show a number of signs of being.
Some of them may come off as offbeat, for example "A Humble Redneck I Was Born" -- which gets at Christian themes in a way both humorous and serious, like the tone of Psalm 2. I believe all of them in a Christian vein occupy a very little occupied niche of either prophetic or praise song.
Anyhow, my buddy and I have been drawing a great deal of spiritual flak in our lives, and the reason has finally dawned on me -- we have been readying weapons but have set up little or no prayer support over it.
I'd like to "draft" the help of willing FReepers to correct this oversight, at least till we can get something better going.
One possibility would be to ask the Swaggart radio ministries (which were set up by the former disgraced televangelist, now running an operation with integrity) to take this under their spiritual wing. I don't know what they have set up for the purpose of spiritual coverage, but sitting right in the middle of voodoo territory like they are (Baton Rouge) I'd think they couldn't even keep it up if they didn't have something. The reason I mention Swaggart is that they asked my buddy for copies of all of our songs just about a week ago, and I'm getting ready to add one more key song of my buddy to my Soundcloud listings.
Anyhow, my material can be seen here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-levy-6/
Again, some of this is secular or semi-secular, and doesn't need coverage as it wouldn't be presented as such. But at the least we'd like prayer that blowback from our previous publishing wouldn't harm the rest. (Songs like Oh, The Smoke for instance, which are thought provoking and intended to put a "cleaner" angle on an otherwise demimonde topic, but not necessarily gospel themed.)
Thanks for prayer and any specific constructive suggestions along with it.
Redneck / Daniel aka "Hawk" Ronnie aka "Eagle"
a random ping... please feel free to avalanche this with appropriate pings... thanks
and, Jim and John Rob to apologize/ask for the thread to be moved if necessary, if it can’t stay here. This is spiritually serious Jim and John, if anything was. Thanks for understanding, Jim and John.
Though actually... a case could be made for symbolism in “Oh, The Smoke.” My secular songs sometimes turn out symbolic that way. But one step at a time.
another random ping to some Protestants
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SuccessfulChristianSongwriters/
Prayers up for you RedNeck!
Prayers always for your success. :-)
Praying the Lord leads you into His plan for this ministry.