Here is your chance to show us your talent! YOU choose the song and change the lyrics so it has some theological message for everyone who visits Calvinistic Cartoons. Please choose a song that everyone probably knows, not some obscure number from Burma that was written in 1924. Chic & Gumbo will chose the best (in their opinion) and create a display (as in the past winners) complete with appropriate illustration/photo and the song-"righter" will receive full credit! I will post the best the first week of April. Take a crack at satirizing open theists, emergent voices, cults, heresies, or stating some great truths of the Reformation! It's open mic night...let's hear whatcha got!
This is to the tune "A Spoonful of Sugar" from "Mary Poppins"
ReplyDeleteJust a misuse of scripture helps the heresy go down
The heresy go down, the heresy go down
Just a misuse of scripture helps the heresy go down
In an undiscerning way
A preacher selling your best life
Would at all costs avoid all strife
He'll use the verses that will please your ears
He certainly is not a dope
He'll nix the book of Job
You just believe, and you will happy be!
Just a misuse of scripture helps the heresy go down
The heresy go down, the heresy go down
Just a misuse of scripture helps the heresy go down
In an undiscerning way
That was Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
ReplyDeleteHere are some new words to that tune inspired by the monergism.com bookmark.
ReplyDeleteUm diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Spurgeon, Calvin, Flavel, Luther, Edwards, Alleine, Owen!
Watson, Boston, Brooks, and Warfield,
Bonar, Burroughs, Bunyan!
Even though they're all dead guys
Their books are all worth owning!
Spurgeon, Calvin, Flavel, Luther, Edwards, Alleine, Owen!
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
I lived for many years in fear, a sad Arminian
God brought a trial into my life that set me wonderin'
But then I read a sermon that gave this poor soul some food
It told me of God's sovereignty and how it works for good
Oh! Spurgeon, Calvin, Flavel, Luther, Edwards, Alleine, Owen!
Watson, Boston, Brooks, and Warfield,
Bonar, Burroughs, Bunyan!
Even though they're all dead guys
Their books are all worth owning!
Spurgeon, Calvin, Flavel, Luther, Edwards, Alleine, Owen!
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
That Spurgeon sermon led me to some authors of like thought
They wrote of wondrous truths of Christ that I so dearly sought
God in His grace has drawn me and He's clearing up the mist
I see His loving hand because I'm now a Calvinist!
Oh! Spurgeon, Calvin, Flavel, Luther, Edwards, Alleine, Owen! (4x)
You know, you *can* say it backwards, which is "dociousaliexpiisticfagilcalirupes" - but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteAWESOME WORK!
ReplyDeleteThis is now our favorite song- a huge improvement from the original. I am working on my own version for the verses (Keeping the chorus)
ReplyDeleteUm diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
A couple hundred years ago there lived the Puritans
For every one book we could write, they could have written ten
On subjects like one's prayer life and the sinfulness of sin
And the greatest thing about them was they weren't Arminian!
Spurgeon, Calvin.....[etc]
thank you, Mrs. Pilgrim Mommy! Now off to learn the "Misuse of scripture" song!
Emily