Just sharing a little drifting off music with you today.
Don’t listen to it if you’re driving or operating heavy machinery. 🙂
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Same last name…same initials…same song title. And yet, neither one of us knew about the other one’s song. Can you believe two Funderburks would come up with a song called King of Hearts at two different times and not know about the other one’s version? Well, it happened, and I’d like to share videos of both songs with you today. Pretty cool, huh?
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I hope the King of Hearts is your king, too. If not, why not? What are you afraid of? Wouldn’t you love to live forever without fear of dying, hunger, pain, sorrow, and every other negative thing this world holds?
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There’s a reason why this article’s talks about prolife music being too sad. It’s because the vast majority of it is. Pretty simple right? And I include my own songs in this category. I’ve written some uplifting pro life music, but most of my songs for the pro life movement and the personhood movement have been somber, dark, and serious. Again, there’s nothing wrong with that. But I decided, a few years back to change.
I started looking for ways to talk about the most serious issue facing our nation and the world with a joyful voice. In celebration of life, and how it begins in a belly I’m sharing a short video I made for a song called “The Belly Song” It’s part of my music for kids but you might get a kick out of it, too. And it’s the perfect kind of uplifting prolife music I’m talking about. Enjoy and Love Life! (disregard the website address in the video…it’s an old site I don’t have anymore)
Because life is awesome! I dearly love that I’m alive. Don’t you? I get to think, live, laugh, and love. And I believe it’s every person’s right to have those same gifts. Every person! And every person started somewhere. It wasn’t in a hospital. Every person starts life in a mother’s womb. That’s one of the easiest things in the world to prove. Where things get confusing (for those who are easily confused) is how soon can we say a person is a person in the womb. Personally, I have no problem saying a person is a person from their very beginning.
And even if you can’t say for sure WHEN that beginning is you know without a doubt WHERE that beginning is. All it took for me to exist outside my mother’s womb was for everyone to leave me alone inside my mother’s womb and let me get from point A to point B. Simplest biology lesson there is. Any questions?
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Impossible odds are usually not as impossible as you think they are. I hope you don’t mind me getting right to the point like that, but I don’t tend to sugar coat things…unless I’m writing poetry or lyrics. It’s true…if you believe you’re facing obstacles you simply can’t overcome, then maybe you’re focusing too much on the problem and not enough on the solution. Speaking of lyrics, here’s a song I wrote about this…
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Maybe it’s time to focus on solutions and face the direction of your Creator.
In this world you won’t be friends with everyone. In fact, the majority of this world will even hate you. But Jesus said “if they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.” We’re not better than Him, and if He is for us…who cares who’s against us.
Be strong, and of good courage, and joyful, and willing. And be ready to give a reason for the hope that lies within. Remember…We Win.
Even if you’re a Christian, you feel like the world is against you, guess what? You’re right.
And that’s the view from a singer songwriter in Colorado. The views and opinions are those of this writer, this blog, and its members.
But…these things will help you overcome even Impossible Odds…
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Hold On (you gotta hold real tight)
I would love to take you in my arms
And capture all your dreams that get away
And put them in your heart where they belong
And fill it full of love so they can stay
But I wonder if there’s magic in my hands
And I don’t know for sure what I should do
To make your monsters fade and disappear
So I can only sing these words to you…
Hold on; you know you gotta hold real tight
Gotta keep your dreams where they’re easiest to see
Hold on; I know you gotta hold real tight
If you look behind the Love that’s where they’ll be
I would love to see your smiling face
And know that at least in some small way I was there
When you needed someone to help you through your darkness
And help you get your wings back in the air
Chorus
You got to keep believing in your choices
No one but you can really clear the air
And if you find you’re hearing different voices
Then it isn’t just a passing love affair
Repeat 1st verse and choruses to end
© Copyright Tony Funderburk 1986
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I hope you get to enjoy an awesome fireworks display wherever you live. And I hope you also enjoy the company of family and friends and good food and great fun. And I hope you’ll take at least a moment to thank God for the ultimate freedom He gave us through the death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus. Yep, without that I doubt very seriously there’d even be an America…much less a country that made it to Independence Day 2016.
Here’s my song and video about how truly fortunate we are to live in a country whose founding fathers recognized a dependency on our Creator for our ultimate freedom.
And, as my gift to you this Independence Day 2016, here are all the lyrics in one place:
Faith working through love…
Let’s praise God for our liberty…
Christ paid off our debt…
Only in Him are we truly free.
Love leads into joy…
Law leads back into slavery…
God gave us The Way.
Just believe, and we’re truly free.
Freedom from the law that kills,
Freedom with our own free wills,
And freedom from the world of sin…
Just let Jesus in, let the joy begin
Share a hopeful grin, with the Lord “We Win”!
Praise God for what we can become
With our freedom.
What law couldn’t do
Jesus did with finality.
He rose up from the dead
And promised the same life for you and me.
So we have…
Chorus…instrumental…chorus twice
© 2010 Tony Funderburk
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I saw a link to a Washington Post story about Bono, and the link was titled “Get Real”. Below the link I saw a description saying that was Bono’s message to Christians…to “get real”. So, I clicked the link and read a short article. I wasn’t a Bono fan, and the article only helped cement my opinion of him. That’s why the title of this article of mine is called “Going mano a mano with Bono”. For those of you not familiar with that expression, it’s based on the Spanish interpretation which literally means “hand to hand”…as in combat. This, of course, is not my attempt to call Bono out for a little put-up-your-dukes. Instead I’d just like Christians to see him for who he really is. And that ain’t a trust-in-Jesus-as-the-only-way-to-eternal-life Christian. Watch this video, and I’ll share some more info with you below…
Bono believes he knows how God wants Christians songwriters to write. Bono is wrong. Look and listen closely, and you’ll see a man deeply entrenched in the human experience. So deeply, in fact, that he can never stray far from those things which God does not hold in high esteem.
On one level, I do agree with Bono. So much of the so-called “Contemporary Christian” music is merely sugary sweet pop music. Mantra music about feelings and earthly experiences. Many songs could be played on a top 40 station, and the listener could easily mistake them for just another love song. I agree that Christian music could be more real. But I don’t agree with Bono’s idea of what “real” is. Just because he thinks it has to be about gritty things doesn’t make it so. He lifts up King David as real. In David’s Psalms you can see a lot of emotion…and not just positive thinking. But when you read the Psalms through, you’ll notice David always comes back to the positive reinforcement of God’s enduring love. Yes…love.
And why does Bono single out Christian songwriters in his suspicion? Why didn’t he mention his suspicion of all the other genres out there who either hate or ignore God outright? Why didn’t he take them to task? And why are lyrics to some of his own songs completely upside down to God? How real is that?
I’d like to share some of my lyrics, and you tell me if they’re real or not…
Do you want to change the way
Public servants act today…Say Yeah! Say Yeah!
How many laws have to be passed
Before we’re obscured in the shadows they cast
And how many plans must we invent
Before we can step beyond mere intent (from “Say Yeah” in my “Do Right” collection)
Or how about this excerpt of lyrics from “Cliché”?
We lend our money to so many nations, and
Still we struggle to pay off our own debts.
We hope for world peace and ending the hunger,
But will we ever do what no one has done yet?
We train ourselves and prepare for the future, but
Each day the future takes on a new look.
We might do better to look inside our own hearts, and
We might discover it’s not in some law book!
Is it just melodrama for me to feel this way?
I wonder…is it just me…or does it all sound so cliché?
Does it sound that way…so cliché?
I hope you’ll take this in the spirit it’s given, Bono. I’m taking issue with your claims…in the name of love. I love you enough to tell you how wrong you are. Millions of adoring fans do not love you like that. I hope my metaphorical mano a mano taps you into a realization of who Jesus truly is. Possibly you’ll never see or hear this, but there are plenty of others who would be willing to tell you the truth, too. Are you willing to listen?
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