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AcaDisc #48- Heroes of Faith by The Acappella Company (Acappella Scripture Songs)
Original Release: 1995 The Acappella Company
Available through the
The Acappella Company
Produced by: Keith Lancaster and Gary Miller
Production Assistants:
John Laws, Larry Sparks, and Darin Cochran
Engineers: Gary Miller, John
Laws, Gary Miner, Darin Cochran, Norman Zuercher, Kevin Schaffer, and
Robert Orr
Assistant Engineers: Roy Hawkins, Brishan Hatcher, Josh
Harrison, Aaron Herman, Tim Storms, Steve Reischl, Duane Adams, Robert C.
Guy, Gary Moyers, Scott Belin, and Hank Fenn
Recording Studios: Clifty
Studios - Paris, TN
Mixed by: Gary Miller, John Laws, Kevin Schaffer,
and Darin Cochran
Mastered by: Masterfonics
Vocals: Josh
Harrison
Gary
Miller
Duane Adams
Aaron Herman
Brishan Hatcher
Gary Moyers
Brian
Randolph
Andrew
McNeil
John Laws
Hank Fenn
Kevin Schaffer
Noah and His Family Were Saved -
Noah
Man After God's Own
Heart - David
She Loves Jesus
- Mary Magdalene
John Wrote
the Churches - Apostle John
Moses Was a Man of God - Moses
Enoch Walked With God -
Enoch
Father Abraham -
Abraham
Sarai, Sarah -
Sarah
Wildman John -
John the Baptist
Song for
Joseph - Joseph
Noah and His Family Were Saved - Noah
Words and Music: Gary Miller and Hank Fenn © 1995 Anthony K. Music
(ASCAP)
Lead: Hank Fenn
Lyrics:
Well the world was wicked
Sin polluting the land
Satan ruled the
hearts and minds of man
God saw light in Noah's clan
He knew that
Noah would follow His plan
Where on earth is faithfulness?
A faith that God will bless?
Two by two all creatures comin' on board
Noah and his family and
then God shut the door
For forty days and nights the floodwaters they
poured
And everything living on earth was no more
Where on earth is faithfulness?
A faith that God will bless?
Noah
found favor in the eyes of the Lord
Chorus:
Noah and his family obeyed
Noah and his family were saved
Brother Noah
(interlude)
Ararat - the ark at rest - the water subsided
Standin' on dry land
and celebration minded
God saw their faith - a way he provided
And
He gave a rainbow sign to keep us reminded
Noah's faithfulness
A faith that God did bless
Noah found favor
in the eyes of the Lord
Repeat Chorus (x2)
(interlude)
Where on earth is faithfulness?
A faith that God will bless?
Noah
found favor in the eyes of the Lord
Repeat Chorus
Oh yeah
Noah's faithfulness
A faith that God did bless
Noah
found favor in the eyes of the Lord
Where on earth is faithfulness?
A faith that God will bless?
Noah
found favor in the eyes of the Lord
Scriptural Reference:
"By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith." Hebrews 11:7
Man After God's Own Heart - David
Words and music: Gary Miller © 1995 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
Lead:
Gary Miller and Andrew McNeil
Lyrics:
There was a giant of the philistine nation (nation)
A mighty warrior
standing ten feet tall
He shouted boastings that no Israelite could
beat him
He was ungodly and as mean as his sin
A boy named David stepped up to the situation
Goliath's threats
became a godly call
He chose some stones, and with God's force he
started slingin'
He knew by faith the victory he would win
Chorus:
He was a man after God's own heart
He had a faith that
set him apart
He showed commitment right from the start
He was a, he
was a, he was a man after God's own heart
There was a king of the Israelite nation
Tall, dark and handsome,
rich - his name was Saul
Lost his anointing due to sin's impatience
He disobeyed the Lord and next was his fall
The Lord called David to the situation
He was a young man, but he
heard God's call
He'd be anointed, he'd be Saul's replacement
To
lead God's nation, holy chosen of all
Repeat Chorus
He was a man after God's own heart
Repeat Chorus
Israel surrounded by the heathen nation
Edom and Moab and the
Philistines
Their bloody swords dripping annihilation
Numbers and
powers seemed they had it all
David the man of God addressed the situation (he prayed)
Gave thanks
and praised the Lord all powerful
He stressed his faith among the
congregation
Wherever David went the Lord helped him win
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Man after God's own heart (he was a man)
He was a man after God's
own heart (he was a man, he was a man, he was a man)
The Lord is my
Shephard, I shall not want (man after God's own heart)
Scriptural Reference:
"As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from
Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David
heard it. When the Israelites saw the man, they all ran from him in
great fear." 1 Samuel 17:23-24
"Then he took his staff in his
hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of
his shepherd's bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the
Philistine. Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in
front of him, kept coming closer to David. He looked David over and
saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him.
He said to David, 'Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?' And
the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 'Come here,' he said, 'and
I'll give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!'
David said to the Philistine, 'You come against me with sword and
spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord
Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
This day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down
and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine
army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole
world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered
here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for
the battle is the Lord 's, and he will give all of you into our hands.'
As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly
toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking
out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The
stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground." 1
Samuel 17:40-49
"After removing Saul, he made David their king. He
testified concerning him: 'I have found David son of Jesse a man after my
own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.'" Acts 13:22
She Loves Jesus - Mary Magdalene
Words and Music: Gary Miller © 1995 Anthony K. Music
(ASCAP)
Lead: Aaron Herman
Lyrics:
There she lies, a sea of tears in her eyes
Washed away by sins she'd
come to despise
Drowing deep in her deception and lies
She needs
Jesus, yes she needs Jesus
How can she take a walk in the light?
How
can she ever see what is right?
How can she escape the darkness of
night?
She needs Jesus, yes she needs Jesus
Who would ever take this woman back? (take her back)
Who would ever
give her half a chance? (give a chance)
Now she kneels, a sea of tears from her eyes
To wash his feet and
with her hair she will dry
His compassion and forgiveness her
prize
She meets Jesus, yes she meets Jesus
How can she compare to
faithful and wise? (faithful and wise)
How can she ever be justified?
(be justified)
How can she expect to be sanctified?
She meets, she
meets Jesus, she meets Jesus
Mary lived a legacy
Her message left at Calvary
He set her free
Oh yes He did, you know He set her free
Here she stands, a sea of tears in her eyes
Above her head, her
precious Friend crucified
Gently comforting the Lord as He dies
She
loves Jesus, yes she loves Him
How can she stand with him as He
cries?
How can she see her loved one denied?
How can she feel the
spear in His side?
She loves Jesus (Jesus), yes you know she loves Him
so
Jesus said He'd take this woman back (take her back)
Yes He promised
her a second chance (given a chance)
She loves Him, she loves Jesus
Yes, you know she does
Oh yeah,
she loves Jesus, she loves Jesus
Scriptural Reference:
"Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she
poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house
was filled with the fragrance of the perfume." John 12:3
"Near
the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of
Clopas, and Mary Magdalene." John 19:25
John Wrote the Churches - Apostle John
Words and music: Gary Miller © 1995 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
Lead:
Duane Adams
Lyrics:
Chorus:
John wrote the churches
He said love one
another
Love one another in the Lord
John wrote the churches
He
said love one another
Love one another in the Lord
The Lord so carefully chose twelve, His steps to follow
Their path
would lead them into times of joy and sorrow
But in the end we see just
one with Jesus suffering
One with the Lord in faith and hope and holy
loving
Repeat Chorus
The Lord saw love as number one in John's behavior
He knew that love
would teach the world about the Savior
He drew John close with Peter,
James and taught them fully
To turn the world around with love that's
true and holy
Repeat Chorus
As Jesus died he took compassion on his mother
Her care he gave into
the hands of John his brother
John was the one, he had the love, he
knew the Spirit
To love the Lord and lead the church and not to fear it
John wrote the churches
Saying love one another
Love one another
in the Lord
John wrote the churches
He said love one another
Love
eachother in the Lord (love one another in the Lord)
(interlude)
Repeat Chorus
(interlude)
Scriptural Reference:
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John 13:34-35
Moses Was a Man of God - Moses
Words and music: Gary Miller © 1995 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
Lead:
Andrew McNeil
Lyrics:
Chorus:
Moses was a man of God (Moses, Moses)
Moses was a man of
God (Moses, Moses)
He's walkin's side by side and in His will abide
(Moses, Moses)
Moses was a man of God (Moses, Moses, Moses)
Pharaoh's heart was hard against the Lord
He slaughtered Israel's
baby boys
One was saved, saved from the heathen sword
Faith just
couldn't be destroyed
By God's design Moses lived his life
An the palace of the king (of
the king)
It was a holy sign, he's the royal line
He is a servant of
the King of Kings (servant of the King oh Savior)
Repeat Chorus
When Moses realized he was an Israelite
And found out Yahweh had a
plan
He heard his people's cry, he surely knew their plight
He had
to lead them to the promise land (to the land that He had promised His
children)
Through the Lord's inisitence, Moses showed resistance (Moses was
afraid)
I guess he was afraid to go (you really know he didn't want to
go)
But then his mind was made and no one could dissuade (he really
made up his mind)
He had a power faithful God to show
Bridge:
Man of God, his faith fires are burning
Man of God, has
love ever yearning
Repeat Chorus
People wandered in the wilderness of sin
Their faith in God was
really a mess (really was a mess)
But Moses's faith held true, he
really pulled them through
A faithful man the word confessed
It's true that in the end he did not enter in (did not, did not enter
in)
He left the earth from Mt. Nebo
A great example though of godly
selfless love
And yes the Lord did love him so (He loved him, He loved
him, He love him so)
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Moses was a man of God (Moses, Moses, Moses)
Moses was a man of God
(Moses, Moses, Moses)
Scriptural Reference:
"When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he
became her son. She named him Moses, saying, 'I drew him out of the
water.'" Exodus 2:10
"This is the blessing that Moses the man of
God pronounced on the Israelites before his death." Deuteronomy 33:1
Words and music: Hank Fenn © 1995 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
Lead:
Brishan Hatcher
Lyrics:
Living by faith
Is a thing that's hard to do
Enoch was a
man
Whose faith was strong and true
For 300 years
Enoch walked
with God each day
Then he was no more
For God took him away
Chorus:
God took Enoch from this life
He was gone from earth but
he did not die
Enoch's steadfast saving faith
Pleased God and He
took him away
Faith is belief in God
Though he can't be seen
And without
faith
He is impossible to please
For God rewards those
Who seek
him earnestly
And as he did with Enoch
He will take them away
Repeat Chorus (x2)
(Took him away, took him away)
(interlude)
Scriptural Reference:
"Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him
away." Genesis 5:24
"By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so
that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had
taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who
pleased God." Hebrews 11:5
Words and Music: Kevin Schaffer and Gary Miller © 1995 Clifty Music
(BMI)/Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
Lead: Kevin Schaffer
Lyrics:
He roamed the desert looking for a home
The only thing he knew was
God said go
He didn't question when or why or where
He knew Jehovah
was already there
Chorus:
Father Abraham, you trusted God no matter the plan
Father
Abraham, all you needed was a word from the Great I Am
Father Abraham,
you always kept God's promises in your hand
Father Abraham, I've always
wanted to step out on faith, now I know I can
Thank you father Abraham
(interlude) (Abraham, Father Abraham)
A holy angel spoke about a son
Sarai laughed she said it couldn't be
done
But she and Abraham chose to trust the Lord
And nine months
later their baby boy was born
Repeat Chorus
(interlude) (Abraham)
Your only son was to be sacrificed
What would you do, what would you
tell your wife?
You knew you had to do what God had said
By faith in
God you knew he'd come back from the dead
(God loves you) How much God must have loved you at that moment (He
understood what you're going through)
(A Sacrifice) Knowing soon He'd
have to do the same (it's the only thing that He could do)
(Blessed
Son) Through His son you were blessed
Your faith was counted as
righteousness
Through His Son the world is saved (A son would save the
world)
Repeat Chorus
(interlude) (Father Abraham, Father Abraham, Father Abraham, Father)
Scriptural Reference:
"By faith Abraham, even though he was past age--and Sarah herself was
barren--was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful
who had made the promise." Hebrews 11:11
"By faith Abraham, when
God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the
promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had
said to him, 'It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.'"
Hebrews 11:17-18
Words and music: Hank Fenn and Gary Miller © 1995 Anthony K. Music
(ASCAP)
Lead: Lydia Gott
Lyrics:
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah
A child of God, the wife of Abraham
She served the Lord, by the way
she served her man yes
Through many trials, her faith withstood the
test
And for ninety years she followed God
And her life was
blessed
By faith her life was led (life was led)
And the promise of
God was kept (and God's promises were kept)
Chorus 1:
Sarai: though you're barren
Sarah: you'll give birth to
a son
Sarah: you'll be blessed by God
You're the mother of
nations
Kings of people will come from you
Kings of people will come
from you (come from you)
Sarah: A mother now to the son of Abraham (son of Abraham)
God was
good to Sarah, just as he had said (so good, so good, so good, so
good)
They gave the name Isaac to the son (Issac was a babe)
Sarah
said laughter now has come through this little one (laughter has come
through this little one)
By faith her life was led
And the promise
of God was kept (and God's promises were kept)
Chorus 2:
Sarai: though you're barren
Sarah: you're gonna give
birth to a son
Sarah: you'll be blessed by God
You're the mother of
nations (of the nations)
Kings of people will come from you (Kings will
come from you, from you, from you)
Kings of people will come from you
(come from you)
Like the stars (like the starts) in the sky
Like the sand by the sea
(by the sea)
Sarai, Sarah
Repeat Chorus 2 (x2)
Scriptural Reference:
"Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Sarah said, 'God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.'" Genesis 21:3-6
Wildman John - John the Baptist
Words: Chris Gubelman and John Laws © 1995 Anthony K. Music
(ASCAP)
Music: John Laws and Gary Miller © 1995 Anthony K. Music
(ASCAP)
Lead: John Laws
Lyrics:
Ever wonder what the Pharisees might have had to say about John the Baptist? "Oy! We saw that wild man in the desert today. I'd like to meet his tailor and smack him but good! And what with his hair all over the place! He calls us a mess?! Snakes he's calling us! And what is that stuff he's eating there? Well, it's kind of an acquired taste, but if you can learn to like wild honey, you've got to try the bees. I'm kind of partial to locusts myself only thing is I hate it when their little legs get stuck in your teeth."
Chorus:
Well, he's John the Baptist from the wilderness
What he's
been doin' is anyone's guess
His kind of preachin' really cuts like a
knife
Says the Lord is comin' better change your life
"Yep, you better believe it. What do you know...you've been under
the sun too long! We are the children of Abraham! Hah! God can make
children of Abraham out of these rocks! I think you got a few of them in
your head...If I were you, I would repent and bear fruit... I'd rather
bear a fruit than be a fruit. Hey! Come here! Do you wanna go for a
swim? Get away from me!"
Repeat Chorus
In our pursuit of the truth
How often we are deceived
By trusting
only that which we see
Would the unsearchable God
Merely show me his
will
Through only those who look like me?
If it's the glory of Kings to search things out
And it's the glory
of God to conceal
Then a wildman prophet can be no more absurd
Than
the manger King he reveals
Repeat Chorus
Change your life (repent, repent, repent, repent, repent)
Change
your life
Scriptural Reference:
"John's clothes were made of camel's hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River." Matthew 3:4-6
Words and Music: Gary Moyers © 1995 Clifty Music (BMI)
Lead: Gary
Moyers
Lyrics:
His mother was the favored one, eleventh born of Dad's twelve
sons
He always seemed his father's favorite child
He was the son of
Dad's old age and the center of his brother's rage
A jealousy they
could not reconcile
His brothers felt it was unfair, the dreams of Joe they could not
bear
Their father's love they would not understand
A precious coat
would cinch the deal, but Reuben said they could not kill
So they sold
young Joe into a foreign land
Chorus:
He walked the path that God had laid
Though he could not
see the end of that long road
Through the years he kept the
faith
And that is why I sing this song for Joe
He wound up in Egyptian land, the life of slaves he learned
firsthand
As servant to the captain of the guard
All was good that
he began so the captain made young Joe headman
He began to think this
life was not that hard
But the captain's wife had other plans, thinking Joe a handsome
man
Her propositions came to no avail
Incensed because he would not
sin, she set him up and turned him in
So they threw him in the
Pharaoh's darkest jail
Repeat Chorus
Once again the Lord was there, they put the jail in young Joe's
care
And everything he touched seemed to gleam
He met two men from
Pharaoh's court, they began a good rapport
And God helped him interpret
all their dreams
This led to an opening and young Joe heard the dreams of kings
There
would be a famine in the land
He gave the Pharaoh good advice, and
Pharaoh saw that he was wise
So he made young Joe the second in command
Repeat Chorus
He wondered how his family was, and did his father live?
He prayed
that God would watch over his home
He realized the trials he'd had were
all within God's plan
When His brothers came and bowed before his
throne
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Walk on, walk on brother
Walk on, walk on and on
Scriptural Reference:
"Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he
had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe
for him. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than
any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him
all the more." Genesis 37:3-5
"When Reuben heard this, he tried
to rescue him from their hands. 'Let's not take his life,' he said."
Genesis 37:21
"So when the Midianite merchants came by, his
brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty
shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt."
Genesis 37:28
"Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to
Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard."
Genesis 37:36
"And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he
refused to go to bed with her or even be with her." Genesis
39:10
" Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, the place where
the king's prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the
prison, the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him
favor in the eyes of the prison warden. So the warden put Joseph in
charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for
all that was done there." Genesis 39:20-22
"Then Pharaoh said to
Joseph, 'Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so
discerning and wise as you. You shall be in charge of my palace, and
all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the
throne will I be greater than you.'" Genesis 41:39-40
"Now Joseph
was the governor of the land, the one who sold grain to all its people. So
when Joseph's brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to
the ground." Genesis 42:6
Special thanks for additions and/or corrections to: Newton Kern and Sames Davis
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