Found this website that may be what you are looking. Don’t know what Southern did when they closed down their music school but it seems they have many of the things you are looking in their library.

Blessings,
Tim

I feel that this is relevant to the conversation. I am looking for commercially available traditional Christian music, especially hymns and classics sung by choirs or at least “the traditional style.” I suppose that liturgical music counts, but I am not interested in Roman Catholic music. I am also uninterested in country gospel, southern gospel, or any of the other pre-CCM/Christian rock styles that a lot of people take to be traditional but really isn’t. (And also, no Mormon Tabernacle Choir stuff, which is I am just as averse to as Catholic music.)

I have been searching for quite awhile on Amazon.com, online and places like that, and all I can find is either things by and for Roman Catholics, things made by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, southern/country gospel (which I am not averse to … it is just not what I am looking for at this particular time) or CCM/Christian rock versions of hymns and traditional songs (again, not against CCM or Christian rock … it is just not what I am looking for right now).

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Searching for song titles on Amazon.com does me no good, because 95% of what I get is the CCM versions. But if anyone has album titles or artist titles, I would REALLY appreciate it. I just acquired a “30 All Time Favorite Hymns” from Lifeway that I thought was just what I was looking for … it contained “Amazing Grace”, “Rock of Ages”, “Holy Holy Holy”, “For The Beauty of the Earth”, “The Old Rugged Cruss”, “O For A Thousand Tongues”, “Trust And Obey” etc. on it, and it turned out to be generic CCM. I bought a similar CD set from Lifeway previously and it was generic Southern/country.

Thanks!

Good to hear from you. I have grown to respect Brother Jerry in such a grand way. I tease him that we cannot get from point a to point b in a reasonable time because he is stopping and witnessing to people. He is a consistent soul winner and I am convicted everytime I get around him. What a precious saint he is. The next time you see him, if he hasn’t told you already, get him to tell you about the Insurance Salesman coming to his house. That was one story I got him to tell many times on this trip.

Blessings,
Tim

I certainly agree with you in that I disagree with the Reformers’ doctrine of baptism. Luther clearly believed in baptismal regeneration. I’m not entirely sure where to categorize Calvin, but his Presbyterian descendants fall on a spectrum of views ranging from baptismal regeneration to baptism of infants as a sign of expected regeneration to come.

I have no interest in defending infant baptism. It is unbiblical. But the priority of regeneration is not tied exclusively to a paedobaptist view.

… I think some of the earliest reformers were wrong on “regeneration”. They taught that an infant was ingrafted into Christ and regenerated during sprinking/pouring (prior to faith). Did they get it wrong? I think so.

The Westiminister Confession of Faith 1646
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Of Baptism.
I. Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible Church; but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, of his ingrafting into Christ, of regeneration, of remission of sins, and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to walk in the newness of life. Which sacrament is, by Christ’s own appointment, to be continued in His Church until the end of the world….

When looking at the Bible text … overwhelmingly … you find that we are saved by grace through faith … that is … we believe and receive.