Showing posts with label songs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label songs. Show all posts

Friday, April 06, 2012

Sermon in Shoes (Children's Song)

A few people had never heard the children's song, "A Sermon in Shoes."  One requested I send an audio of it. It was a book in the shape of shoes that a child or two would be chosen to come forward and hold. Then the children would all sing the song from the book, page by page.

Here are the lyrics and an audio. I'm not sure who owns the copyright or where you could get the book. Publisher, you might get some sales if you comment ;-)


Do you know, Oh Christian, you’re a sermon in shoes?
Do you know, Oh Christian, you’re a sermon in shoes?
Jesus calls upon you, to spread the gospel news,
So walk it, and talk it. 
Live it, and give it.
Teach it, and preach it. 
Know it, and show it.
A Sermon in Shoes.

Here's the audio.


Tuesday, March 02, 2010

How do you experience this song?

The psychology of hymns, songs, and worship intrigues me. I know it is my childhood that makes singing/listening to a song like "Open My Eyes" rich and meaningful to me. Do others find the same richness in contemporary worship choruses? If you don't know the hymn, I'd be interested in how you experience it when you hear it for the first time. Does it have any pathos to you? Is worship and music, for that matter, mostly cultural?