BROADCAST: Sundays
Sundays: 8AM-10AM

GODS LOVE is our musical offering to our listeners to start your day off with a Praise in your heart, a day of gratefulness in knowing you are loved, a day to be continuedly filled with love in your heart for all mankind and to radiate the freshness of another day of life. Through songs of praise by some of today’s talented gospel artist we welcome you to tune in Monday-Saturdays to get your early morning praise on and again on Sundays to hear inspirational words and message from those who have chosen a life of spreading the Good News of God’s Love .

God loves you simply because he loves you. You don’t have to work for his affection. You don’t have to set yourself straight before God can pour out his love over you. He loves you right where you are. It’s truly impossible to never know love or experience love because GOD IS LOVE, its his being. Through His messages and examples from the Bible are ways in which He showed His Love for us. His only begotten Son given as a sacrifice to redeem us back to His Love is the greatest example.

“Our prayer from 2B1 Radio is that this show reaches people in an approachable, relatable and refreshing way to show God’s Love. Enjoy!

GOSPEL MUSIC FACTS

When many African American communities migrated from rural to urban life during the first half of the twentieth century, they brought their worship culture with them. Echoing the ways of the single-room churches of the agrarian South, the storefront churches of the northern cities became the key setting for the development of Gospel.

During the 1930s, Gospel music emerged from the coalescing of three types of musical activity: a) the hymn style of Charles Albert Tindley (1851-1933) a Philadelphia minister who composed hymns based on negro spirituals, adding instrumental accompaniments, improvisation and “bluesified” third and seventh intervals; b) the minimalist, solo-sung “rural Gospel” tunes that appeared as a counterpart to the rural blues; and c) the uninhibited, exuberant worship style of the Holiness-Pentecostal branch of the Christian church.

The shift from spirituals to Gospel is evident in the recordings of African American religious songs recorded in the 1930s and 1940s. The Holloway High School Quartet of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, recorded by John W. Work, III in 1941, provides an example of a traditional spiritual arranged for four-part harmony in “Old ship of Zion,” The same group in the same recording session demonstrated the sound of Gospel, as they sang an updated version of an old spiritual, “Daniel saw the stone.”

A key figure in the development of Gospel was Thomas A. Dorsey (1899 -1993). Referred to today as the father of Gospel Music, Dorsey pioneered the form in Chicago. Before devoting his career to the development of Gospel, Dorsey, the son of a Georgia Baptist preacher, was a prolific blues and jazz composer and pianist. The energetic rhythms and primal growls of secular music heavily influenced Dorsey’s sacred composing style.

UNDERSTANDING GOD’S LOVE
Dr. Tony Evans
The Urban Alternative