1 Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians Copyright 2011 by David W. Cloud This edition December 5, 2011 This book is published for free distribution in eBook format. Published by Way of Life Literature PO Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061 866-295-4143 (toll free) - [email protected] www.wayoflife.org Canada: Bethel Baptist Church 4212 Campbell St. N., London Ont. N6P 1A6 519-652-2619 (voice) - 519-652-0056 (fax) [email protected] Printed in Canada by Bethel Baptist Print Ministry ebook creation: [email protected] 2 7EVENTH TIME DOWN ......................................................10 ABANDON ............................................................................12 BALOCHE, PAUL .................................................................14 BEATLES AND CCM ............................................................16 BROWN, BRENTON .............................................................24 BROWNSVILLE OUTPOURING .........................................25 CAEDMON’S CALL .............................................................25 CALVARY CHAPEL AND MARANATHA MUSIC ............30 CARD, MICHAEL .................................................................44 CARMAN (CARMAN DOMINIC LICCIARDELLO) .........49 CASTING CROWNS .............................................................55 COOLEY, LINDELL ..............................................................57 DAVIS, GERON .....................................................................60 DELIRIOUS............................................................................ 62 DOERKSEN, BRIAN .............................................................68 DRISCOLL, PHIL ..................................................................68 ENGLISH, MICHAEL ...........................................................71 FISCHER, JOHN.................................................................... 76 FOUNDS, RICK .....................................................................81 3 FRANCISCO, DON ...............................................................82 FRANKLIN, KIRK ................................................................85 GAITHER, BILL ....................................................................95 GAINES, BILLY AND SARAH ..........................................109 GAY, ROBERT .....................................................................109 GETTY, KEITH AND KRISTYN ........................................109 GOODMAN, VESTAL .........................................................110 GREEN, STEVE ..................................................................110 HAYFORD, JACK................................................................ 116 HEMPHILL, JOEL ...............................................................120 HILLSONG ...........................................................................120 HUGHES, TIM .....................................................................121 INTEGRITY MUSIC ............................................................124 JOYNER, RICK.................................................................... 130 KEAGGY, PHIL ...................................................................130 KENDRICK, GRAHAM ......................................................137 LEDNER, MICHAEL ..........................................................143 LOWRY, MARK ..................................................................144 NYSTROM, MARTY ...........................................................149 MANDISA ............................................................................149 4 MARANATHA MUSIC........................................................ 150 MERCYME ..........................................................................150 MOEN, DON ........................................................................152 MULLINS, RICH .................................................................155 NEWSBOYS .........................................................................163 NEWSONG ...........................................................................165 NYSTROM, MARTY ...........................................................170 PARIS, TWILA .....................................................................170 PATTY, SANDI .....................................................................175 PHILLIPS, CRAIG AND DEAN .........................................178 PROSCH, KEVIN AND “PROPHETIC” WORSHIP .........179 REDMAN, MATT ................................................................190 RUIS, DAVID .......................................................................193 SAMPSON, MARTY ...........................................................204 SANCTUS REAL .................................................................205 SECULAR ROCK AND CCM .............................................205 THE SHACK AND OTHER FALSE CCM GODS ..............213 SMITH, MICHAEL W. .........................................................217 STEVENS, MARSHA ..........................................................222 STRINGER, RITA ................................................................224 5 STOCKSTILL, JONATHAN................................................ 224 STONEHILL, RANDY ........................................................225 TALBOT, JOHN MICHAEL ................................................228 THIRD DAY .........................................................................244 TOMLIN, CHRIS ..................................................................246 TORONTO BLESSING........................................................ 247 TOWNEND, STEWART ......................................................247 TROCCOLI, KATHY ...........................................................253 VELASQUEZ, JACI ............................................................256 VINEYARD CHURCHES ....................................................258 VOGELS, JO ........................................................................258 WALKER, TOMMY .............................................................258 WIMBER, JOHN, AND THE VINEYARD CHURCHES ...259 ZSCHECH, DARLENE........................................................ 286 6 DIRECTORY OF CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP MUSICIANS By David Cloud The following are influential contemporary worship musicians who are creating the music that is being used ever more frequently by fundamentalist churches. All of these people are radically ecumenical and the vast majority are charismatic in theology. To our knowledge, not one of them takes a clear stand against end-time apostasy. All are enemies of a fundamentalist separatist stance. This Directory documents the history of contemporary praise music from its inception in the Jesus People movement. It documents the intimate association of contemporary praise with the charismatic movement in general as well as its most radical aspect, the “latter rain apostolic miracle revival.” (See “Calvary Chapel,” “Lindell Cooley,” “Tim Hughes,” “Integrity Music,” “Kevin Prosch,” “David Ruis,” “Michael W. Smith,” “John Talbot,” and “John Wimber.”) The following documentation proves that Contemporary Christian Music is a jungle of end-time apostasy and that it is led by “another spirit” (2 Cor. 11:4). When you look at the fact that CCM has an illicit relationship with the world, which the apostle John plainly stated is “not of 7 God” (1 John 5:15-17), that CCM represents the charismatic movement in all of its dangerous heretical weirdness (e.g., gibberish speaking, spirit slaying, holy laughter, holy drunkenness, word-faith name-it-and- claim-it, latter rain miracle revival, fourth dimension prayer, end-time prophets and apostles), that CCM is ecumenical through and through and closely affiliated with Rome, that most CCMers love Dietrich Bonhoeffer and C.S. Lewis and a galaxy of other rank heretics, that CCM is permeated with Roman Catholic contemplative prayer mysticism, that many CCMers love wretchedly corrupt “Bibles” such as The Message, and that large numbers of CCMers love The Shack and its idolatrous god, etc. -- it is obvious that we are dealing with “another spirit” rather than the Spirit of God who is the holy Spirit of Truth and Righteousness (John 4:23; 14:17; 15:26; 16:13; 1 John 4:6). “For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth” (Ephesians 5:9). We have provided extensive documentation of these charges in this Directory as well as in “Biblical Separatism and Its Collapse among Fundamental Baptists,” which is also available as a free eBook at the Way of Life web site. Contemporary Christian Worship music is sweeping through all denominations from Roman Catholic to fundamental Baptist. There is something deeply and inherently wrong with music that is at home in the midst of the most wretched kind of heresy and apostasy. And 8 that is exactly where Contemporary Christian Worship is most at home. That is where it was birthed and it is frolicking happy in the midst of the most radical kinds of ecumenical disobedience, such as the yoking together of Roman Catholics and Lutherans and Methodists and Baptists at conventions like New Orleans ‘87 and Indianapolis ’90, and St. Louis 2000. I was an eyewitness to these conferences to report on them for O Timothy magazine, and they represent gross disobedience to the Word of God. At those meetings Roman Catholic priests conducted contemporary praise masses, glorified Mary as the Queen of Heaven, exalted the pope as the “vicar of Christ,” and said that