Finding God in Music

Finding God in R&B: Gerald and Eddie Levert “Baby Hold Onto Me”
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Finding God in R&B: Gerald and Eddie Levert “Baby Hold Onto Me”

What I’ve always said about my series on ‘Finding God in Music’ is that it’s impossible to write a love song without touching upon the divine, because God IS Love (Cf. 1 John 4:8); and here is, yet, another example of that principle. Throughout this song we can definitely see God as the voice of the protagonist.

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Finding God in R&B: Guy “Let’s Chill”
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Finding God in R&B: Guy “Let’s Chill”

In 1990 the R&B band Guy released their second album – it was titled ‘The Future’ and it went Platinum in sales volume. My favorite song from that album was this song Let’s Chill. I was just a budding romantic eighteen year old back then; [...]

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Finding God in R&B: Musiq Soulchild “Love”
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Finding God in R&B: Musiq Soulchild “Love”

One of my all-time favorite R&B albums is Aijuswanaseing by Musiq Soulchild, who also happens to be one of my favorite artists as well. For the longest time I never got past tracks two through four (‘Girl Next Door’ – featuring Ayana, ‘You And Me’, [...]

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Finding God in Musicals: “Grease, Summer Nights”
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Finding God in Musicals: “Grease, Summer Nights”

I really do love musicals. I wish life were more like them; like people just spontaneously breaking out in relevant choreographed song and dance at different parts of the day. That would be awesome! I bet Heaven is like that. You wouldn’t think a song [...]

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Finding God in R&B: Kem “Share My Life”
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Finding God in R&B: Kem “Share My Life”

It was around the time of my courtship with the woman who I called ‘The One’ that I first heard this song by Kem, and it was ironic to me that it captured me at that time, because inasmuch as we seemed perfect for each [...]

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Finding God in R&B: John Legend “Each Day Gets Better”
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Finding God in R&B: John Legend “Each Day Gets Better”

I never really thought much of the musician John Legend until very recently. I simply dismissed him as just some local artist from the Dayton, Ohio area here that I heard could play the piano really well. Then last year, a good friend of mine, [...]

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Finding God in Rap: Skee-Lo “I Wish”
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Finding God in Rap: Skee-Lo “I Wish”

One of my favorite Rap Songs from the second generation of Rap/Hip Hop Artists was this throwback to clean fantasy lyrics called “I Wish” by Chicago native Skee-Lo. The song starts off with a DJ from the imaginary station called WSKEE (a play on his [...]

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Finding God in R&B: Babyface “Soon as I Get Home”
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Finding God in R&B: Babyface “Soon as I Get Home”

I’ve always enjoyed the blog Twisted Mystics for their attempt to demonstrate how it is that we can hardly sing a song without singing about God, more especially a love song. Even in a song with evil lyrics, we can still see God through the [...]

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