Christian rock group Relient K recorded the song " Plead the Fifth " a cappella on its album Five Score and Seven Years Ago.

* Conspiracy No. 5, an album by the Christian rock band Third Day

In 2005, Christian progressive hard rock artist Neal Morse released the concept album "?

Christian alternative rock is a form of alternative rock music that is lyrically grounded in a Christian worldview.

Some critics have suggested that unlike CCM and older Christian rock, Christian alternative rock generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content as a defining genre characteristic, though the degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist.

On " Alone Again, Natura-Diddily ", a Christian rock singer named Rachel Jordan ( played by singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin ) sings that she " was drinking like a Dartmouth boy.

* 1953 – Dana Key, American Christian rock guitarist, singer, and producer ( DeGarmo and Key ) ( d. 2010 )

* Guardian ( band ), Christian rock band previously known as " Fusion "

The bands that embraced the Gothic rock genre included Bauhaus, The Damned, The Cure, early Adam and the Ants, The Birthday Party, Southern Death Cult, Specimen, Sex Gang Children, UK Decay, Virgin Prunes, Christian Death and Killing Joke.

* The Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos wrote a song titled Hound of Heaven on their 1978 album Horrendous Disc that is based on the Thompson poem.

Contemporary Christian worship, as often found in Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, may include the use of contemporary worship music played with electric guitars and the drum kit, sharing many elements with rock music.

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

A passage in the book also influenced the name of contemporary Christian Texan Grammy-nominated pop / rock group Sixpence None the Richer.

The Christian pop and rock music industry is based along Nashville's Music Row, with a great influence in neighboring Williamson County.

In 1980, Lawhead became the manager of the successful Christian rock act Degarmo and Key and formed his own record company, Ariel Records.

** Christian Lorenz, German rock musician ( Rammstein )

* Justifide, a Christian rock band, 1999 – 2003

The following year, three diverse groups released songs: hard rock group LA Guns included " Ok, Let's Roll " in their album Waking the Dead, country music duo The Bellamy Brothers's song " Let's Roll, America " was on Redneck Girls Forever, and Christian rock group dc Talk reunited to record and release a single entitled " Let's Roll ".

By the 1990s, many of these bands and artists had disbanded, were no longer performing, or were being carried by independent labels because their music tended to be more lyrically complex ( and often more controversial ) than mainstream Christian pop.

The Psalters are a folk punk band with an affiliation with Christian anarchism, though most anarcho-punk bands are generally critical of Christianity.

Christian rock is a form of rock music played by individuals and bands whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the Christian faith.

The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands.

Many bands who perform Christian rock have ties to the contemporary Christian music labels, media outlets, and festivals, while other bands are independent.

Among the nation's first bands that played Christian rock was The Crusaders, a Southern Californian garage rock band, whose November 1966 Tower Records album Make a Joyful Noise with Drums and Guitars is considered one of the first gospel rock releases, or even " the first record of Christian rock ", and Mind Garage, " arguably the first band of its kind ", whose 1967 Electric Liturgy was recorded in 1969 at RCA's " Nashville Sound " studio.

Many of the popular 1990s Christian bands were initially identified as " Christian alternative rock ", including Jars of Clay, Audio Adrenaline and the later albums of dc Talk.

Among popular Christian rock bands of the first decade of the 21st century that exemplified this trend were RED and Fireflight.

The Orthodox Christian lyrics of these bands often overlap with historical and patriotic songs about ancient Rus.

Other bands perform music influenced by their faith or containing Christian imagery, but see their audience as the general public.

Many of these bands are on predominantly Christian record labels, such as Tooth and Nail Records and Facedown Records.

Rock artists, such as Switchfoot, do not claim to be " Christian bands ", but include members who openly profess to be Christians or at times may feature Christian thought, imagery, scripture or other influences in their music.

Some of these bands, like Creed and R3D, played up the spiritual content of their music and were widely considered a " Christian band " by the popular media.

Some bands reject the label because they do not wish to exclusively attract Christian fans, or because they have been identified with another particular music genre, such as heavy metal or indie rock.

The aims for making Christian music vary among different artists and bands.

A runic inscription on a fibula found at Bad Ems reflects Christian pious sentiment ( and is also explicitly marked with a Christian cross ), reading god fura dih deofile ᛭ (" God for / before you, Theophilus!

because it does not explicitly make use of religious titles for Jesus, such as " Christ " and Domin-(" Lord "), which are used in the BC / AD notation, nor does it give implicit expression to the Christian creed that Jesus was the Christ.

On June 1, 2006, USA Today reported that Rockies management, including manager Clint Hurdle, had instituted an explicitly Christian code of conduct for the team's players, banning men's magazines ( such as Maxim and Playboy ) and sexually explicit music from the team's clubhouse.

Despite its explicitly Christian nature, Clement's work draws on Stoic philosophy and pagan literature ; Homer alone is cited over sixty times in the work.

They argued that the Old Covenant required a priest to mediate between God and humanity, but that New Covenant explicitly abolishes the need for priestly role by making every Christian a priest with direct access to God's grace.

Examples of this are certain commandments that God states explicitly shall abide " for ever " ( for example, ), or certain practices which God prohibits as abominations, but which are not prohibited by most Christian denominations.

Founded as an explicitly Christian democratic group, it declined at first but reversed its fortunes in the 1980s and 1990s when, as a result of the gradual enlargement of the EPP ( party ), it started to pick up members from other centre-right but non-Christian democratic parties.

The general view is that the central theme of the Grail is Christian, even when not explicitly religious, but that much of the setting and imagery of the early romances is drawn from Celtic material.

The statements and institutions of the founding generation that have been preserved are numerous, and they explicitly describe many of their biblical motivations and goals, their interest in Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible, their use of Jewish and Christian images and ideas.

The Old Testament is a Christian term for a collection of religious writings of ancient Israel that form the major and first section of Christian Bibles, in contrast to the Christian New Testament which deals explicitly with the 1st century Christianity.

Presidential proclamations, from the earliest days, have often been laden with religious if not explicitly Christian language.

The 2nd century Christian scholar Clement of Alexandria, drawing on earlier works, explicitly attributes the invention of the trireme ( trikrotos naus, " three-tiered ship ") to the Sidonians.

The UUA is no longer an explicitly Christian organization and does not focus exclusively on the core teachings of Jesus Christ or Christianity.

In her 2005 campaign, Angela Merkel was unwilling to express explicitly Christian views, while maintaining that her party had never lost its " concept of values ".

Though many conservative and centre-right parties have electoral support from the Christian Right, most of these parties do not explicitly define themselves as " Christian ".

Significantly, for Asterius the Christian feast was explicitly an entry from darkness into light, and although no conscious solar nature could have been expressed, it is certainly the renewed light at midwinter, which was celebrated among Roman pagans, officially from the time of Aurelian, as the " festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun ".

Early Christian sources explicitly described this event as a sacrificial offering, with Jesus in the role of both priest and victim, although starting with the Enlightenment, some writers, such as John Locke, have disputed the model of Jesus ' death as a propitiatory sacrifice.

Alan Thicke privately counseled him that more explicitly Christian entertainment might be a better fit for Cameron, commenting that Growing Pains was " about as pablum as it gets " in mainstream entertainment.