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I am in NSW

Also does anyone else live in Vic and homeschool?

Haha, yeah, unfortunately

Sure you can. And you have my condolences for living under "Dictator Dan" 😟

Can I join? I live in Victoria/Australia

It's wonderful that you write songs!
Keep it up. I have written a few also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im5k23-emz4

sing and lead the worship service about once a month

me too guitar piano song writing, wrote one today

Chuck Girard reminds me a bit of Keith Green!

I hadn't heard of the Boldness conferences.
I went to a music conference in Perth in about 2006.
So are you a musician, or songwriter?
I play guitar and piano and some singing also.

we used the Praise and Worship songbooks when they came out as well.

Chuck Girard was there as well and he lead amazing worship . long time ago but memorable , song i remember singing there was "As a Deer"

probably about the same as you but i went to a music conference in Sydney called BOLDNESS '85 and Dale ant David were there and i remember singing "Hallelujah for the LORD our God the Almighty reigns" and I think we sang their Musical "First Love" at the conference

Can you remember when you first heard Scripture in Song?

Wow that was an interesting read.
They knew Carol and Jimmy Owens, so that explains why they included many of their songs.

In 1983, when I first heard these songs, I just assumed they had been around for many years, like hymns (and some of them may have been).
But I didn't realise that many were like the "latest hits" of worship music, just written a few years earlier.
Our gospel chapel had many new converts (including our family) and they sang these songs with such enthusiasm.
Several of those families went on to become missionaries overseas.
I think Scripture in Song had a significant role in many Christian's lives which had a lasting impact.

https://www.scriptureinsong.org/our-story

an honorary Aussie Nicodemus!

Thank you for sharing those links! I'm not an Aussie, but thank you!! Perhaps an Aussie at heart, since you're my brothers and sisters.

listening now . The First one I dont know , but I know heirs of the Father Romans8:17, I have learned Isaiah 53 one of the greatest prophecies in the Scriptures. i like to learn the scripture by singing the words that side of my brain seems to work better! one of my scripture songs Colossians 1:15-20 we do sing in church. so it is one passage i can do without errors,

Here is another one from Book 1 they wrote which you probably know:
"We are Heirs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bypASmY7ZwU

Yes, she was definitely a great mother to us!

You are right about Bible based songs.
It seems not many are writing songs like that anymore.

I found out recently that Jimmy and Carol Owens were prolific songwriters in the 70s and some of their songs were included in Book 1 of Scripture in Song.
For example, "Freely Freely" and "Holy Holy".

Here is one I never heard before of Isaiah 53:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAMwitrFhhk
I think it's well done and almost literal scripture.

Also what a great mother to encourage you in the Scriptures . Your Testimony honours her.

so good . The Lord really used those songs. Would be great if more scripture songs used in the churches . We do not realise how powerful God's Word is in our mouth... sharp twoedged sword!

What you said about it staying with us is true.
As I relearn chapters of the NT, I feel it's much easier than if I was doing it for the first time.

Oooh, yes, the old Scripture in Song.
I used to play piano for church, and as practice, I would play all the Scripture in Song songs that I knew.
(book 1 and 2)
I preferred book 1 (the brown one) as it was the one we used in the Gospel Chapel when our family first came to Christ. (I was only 7 then).
After that, we did ACE homeschooling and spent about 2 hours a day on Bible memory (KJV) for which I am very grateful.
My mother gave my sister and I a dollar for every chapter we memorized!
We didn't do it for the money but it showed that Mum supported us in our ambition to memorize the NT and Proverbs.

We benefit from all of it! Praise the Lord! What you learned in high school will stay with us . lot of verses i learned through scripture in song back 30+ years ago

When I was in highschool I memorized Proverbs, but if I had to a chance to make that choice again, I would have chosen Psalms or Matthew instead.
Psalms is about twice the size of Matthew and three times the size of Proverbs, but it has much depth and even Jesus quoted from it.

That's an ambitious project!
Psalms are so helpful for prayer and comfort.
I hope you can finish it.

i am up to 26

I see, that's very good.
So are you saying you are memorizing the whole book of Psalms, or just whole chapters rather than verses?

on my first account I was very haphazard in what i was learning but i did not want to delete all that work and start again . so i started new account with the view to learn more systematically. Psalms Proverbs revelation Mark Song of songs , Other advantage i found is when i am struggling to learn a particular passage or verse i can do it twice

I'm kind of curious. What is the advantage of having two accounts?

It's wonderful that the Holy Spirit is teaching you.
Staying immersed in Scripture is one of the best things we can do!

Thanks for that.
If you go to the protests, make sure to bring good earplugs. I saw that all the police were wearing them...
God bless you, Janet.

https://nationaldayofprayer.org.au/

Through the Word and the Holy Spirit He speaks to me . So if I have a thought or a question about something . i start to think about it more , The thing about the horses started with the scripture "he has lifted up his heel against me" that is how i got started looking at the horses. I had no idea what it meant at first.

Keep going with Revelation! 11 chapters is excellent.
I'm only up to chapter 4, but am planning to learn the whole book.

I'm a long way from there in QLD, but I think the protests are great.
I wouldn't want to be there with the police using sonic weapons. I wouldn't want to lose my hearing.
I might be fasting on that day.
So good to hear the Lord is speaking to you.
Is it through dreams?

PS will you be participating in Saturday National day of prayer and fasting and also have you been going to protest rallies eg in Canberra?

on my other user Goodnews I am up to Revelation 11, It is so interesting to have it start to make a little bit more sense. I put together the horses verses because the
Lord has been speaking to me about horses.. 187 mentions of horses in the Scriptures