I know most of you have given up on me...

...after all, it's been awhile since I posted here and people have a lot better things to do with their time than re-read old posts from me!

I've been busy! First of all, I got married on June 7th to the most wonderful woman on earth! She's a godly woman and her apparent poor eyesight and decided lack of judgement led her to fall in love with me! I think I started the rapid trek down that slope the moment I laid eyes on her, but, "once burned, twice shy" they say, so I did not immediately tell her that I thought I was falling in love with her...it took a couple of weeks!

Anyway, she's every man's dream woman and I'm so blessed that we found one another and fell in love!

My darling attended a Church of Christ, which of course is a christian denomination that I had little experience with. I've known people over the years who attend the CoC and every one of them without exception was extremely devout and faithful, but I had never attended a service at a CoC until I met her. The services are much like services elsewhere, with one exception - there's no music! I'm not sure what the reasoning is behind not having music, but I suspect that it stems from one bible verse or another that I'm not familiar with. I may ask about it when I get an opportunity. In the meantime, here's what I know about music in the church:

Psalm 150
1 Praise the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.
2 Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness.
3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre,
4 praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute,
5 praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.
6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.

Okay...it's sounds to me as if there was a lot of music going on there! In fact, I don't think that David (or whoever wrote Psalm 150) left any contemporary instrument OUT!! As many of you know, I believe in a literal hermeunetic; if it's possible to accept the scripture at face value (no figures of speech discernable), then we should accept what it says at face value. What part of "Praise the Lord with trumpet, harp, lyre, tamborine, strings, flute, and cymbals" doesn't the CoC get? As I said, I don't know the answer, but I'd like to find out. Frankly, I don't mean to make it sound like a big deal, either. The fact of the matter is, God is clearly working in the CoC and the people who attend services there and belong to that church, at least the one I've been attending, are very godly people who believe the Word of God with their whole hearts! I'm just curious about why there's no music when the Word clearly declares that there should be people praising the Lord with more than their voices!