Gospel singer Marion Williams summed up its effect: " That's a song that gets to everybody ".

* 1950 – Barbara Fairchild, American country music / Gospel singer

* 27-Vestal Goodman, 74, American Southern Gospel singer, complications from influenza.

" Then follows the Collect prayer, and the reading or chanting of,,, and the Passion account from the Gospel of John, traditionally divided between three deacons, yet often divided between the celebrant and more than one singer or reader.

* Martha Carson – Gospel country singer from Neon, which was absorbed to make Fleming-Neon.

* Dottie Rambo – Gospel singer / song writer

* Boyhood home of well known Gospel music singer Guy Penrod.

* Joshua Rogers, Gospel singer, first male and youngest winner of BET's Sunday Best 2012

The Dove Awards were originally conceptualized by Gospel singer and songwriter Bill Gaither, at a Gospel Music Association board meeting in 1968.

Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones ( August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963 ), was an American Pianist, Blues, R & B, Gospel, Pop and Jazz singer.

:: The Passion narrative of the Gospel of John is sung or read, often divided between more than one singer or reader.

" Gospel singer Andrae Crouch stated, " They call us holy rollers, and what they say is true.

Gospel singer Charles Billingsley, leader of the church's gospel choir, solely endows the scholarship fund.

Gospel legend Mahalia Jackson sang " How I Got Over ", musician Bob Dylan performed several songs, including " Only a Pawn in Their Game ", about the culturally fed racial hatred amongst Southern whites that led to the assassination of Medgar Evers ; and " When the Ship Comes In ", during which he was joined by fellow folk singer Joan Baez, who earlier had led the crowds in several verses of " We Shall Overcome " and " Oh Freedom ".

* Dove Award-winning Gospel singer Crystal Lewis ( Born September 11, 1969 in Corona, California ), the granddaughter of Nazarene ministers, the daughter of Mary and Dr. Holland Lewis ( an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene, and the former general president of Nazarene Youth International ), began singing in her father's churches ;

* Southern Gospel singer and songwriter Bill Gaither ( born March 28, 1936 ), winner of five Grammy Awards and 28 Dove Awards, and a 1982 inductee to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, grew up in a Nazarene family, and became a member of the denomination at his home church in Alexandria, Indiana.

He became increasingly well known as a Gospel singer, and eventually attracted the attention of noted evangelist Dwight L. Moody.

( The twin railway bridges this gives rise to were featured on the cover of Irish pop singer and song writer Sinéad O ' Connor's Gospel Oak EP.

* Jon Gibson ( Christian musician ), American Soul, Gospel and Christian music singer and producer

The two brick skew arch bridges by which the trains cross Gordon House Road are shown on the cover photograph of the 1997 music album Gospel Oak by Irish singer Sinéad O ' Connor.

Shirley Ann Caesar-Williams, known professionally as Shirley Caesar ( born October 13, 1938, Durham, North Carolina ) is an American Gospel music singer, songwriter and recording artist whose career has spanned six decades.

The band's collaborations with gospel singer James Blackwood earned Grammy nominations in 1998, 1999 and 2001 ; and in 2005, Southern Meets Soul: An American Gospel Jubilee, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Album.

Currently he lives in New Zealand and works as a singer, composer, author and workshop leader, in the areas of vocal arranging and Gospel Music.

Claire Clivaz has suggested that Papyrus 69 should be regarded ' as a witness to a Marcionite edition of Luke's Gospel '.

The Yeti appears in Christopher Moore ’ s novel Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, a story that follows Jesus ( Joshua ) on his travels before the age of 30.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal is the sixth novel by absurdist author Christopher Moore, published in 2002.

* Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, a 2002 novel by Christopher Moore

* the name of a Buddhist monk who Joshua ( Jesus Christ ) visits in his quest to learn the Divine spark in the book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.

It brought Chapman several Gospel Music Association awards at the 24th GMA Dove Awards in 1993, including Song of the Year ( with Geoff Moore ), Pop / Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year, and Short Form Music Video of the Year for the title song, and Pop / Contemporary Album of the Year.

* 1864-Daniel Moore, The Age and the Gospel

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

The Gospel of Thomas found at Nag Hammadi mentions among the " disciples " of Jesus ( the Greek expression " apostles " does not appear ) two women, Salome and Mary Magdalene ( referred to simply as " Mary ", Mary could also be referring Salome's mother Mary the sister of Elizabeth and Anne who is the mother of Christ's mother Mary.

Marvin, along with Delores (" Mom ") and nephew Alvin Love III ( sister CeCe's son ), signed to CeCe's record label PureSprings Gospel.

In John's Gospel, this woman is identified as Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus.

Gospel of Philip: There were three who always walked with the Lord: Mary his mother and her sister and Magdalene, the one who was called his companion.

Gospel of John: < sup > 25 </ sup > Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Adding to the confusion, the Gospel of Philip seems to refer to her as Jesus ' mother's sister (" her sister ") and Jesus ' own sister (" his sister ").

First page of Gospel of Mark | Mark, by Sargis Pitsak ( 14th century ): " The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God ".

The opening words in the Gospel of Mark, namely " The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God " also identify Jesus as both Christ and the Son of God.

The name ' Diatessaron ' is Greek for ' through four '; the Syriac name for this gospel harmony is '' ( Ewangeliyôn Damhalltê ) meaning ' Gospel of the Mixed ' while in the other hand we have '' ( Evangelion de Mepharreshe ) meaning ' Gospel of the separated '.

John Ernest Grabe found an otherwise unreported saying of Jesus, attributed to the Apostle Barnabas, amongst the Greek manuscripts in the Baroccian collection in the Bodleian Library ; which he speculated might be a quotation from this lost gospel ; and John Toland claimed to have identified a corresponding phrase when he examined the surviving Italian manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas in Amsterdam before 1709.

The saint's body was claimed to have been discovered in a cave with a copy of the canonical Gospel of Matthew on its breast ; according to the contemporary account of Theodorus Lector, who reports that both bones and gospel book were presented by Anthemios to the emperor.

Some scholars who maintain the antiquity of the Gospel of Barnabas propose that the text purportedly discovered in 478 should be identified with the Gospel of Barnabas instead ; but this supposition is at variance with an account of Anthemios's gospel book by Severus of Antioch, who reported having examined the manuscript around the year 500, seeking to find whether it supported the piercing of the crucifed Jesus by a spear at Matthew 27: 49 ( it did not ).

Some feel it also suggests that the inhabitants of Galatia at his time were using a gospel or gospels disagreeing with Paul's beliefs, which Gospel of Barnabas could be one of them ( although the Gospel of Peter would seem a more natural candidate, as in the light of the second letter.

Also according to the Gospel of Barnabas, Jesus charged Barnabas to write the gospel:

While the gospel is written as a historical narrative, many of the facts portrayed therein are based on previous traditions of the recorded Gospel story and not on what some might consider to be historical record.

Early on, the gospel was given the title Gospel According to Luke (, kata Loukan euangelion, or, to euangelion kata Loukan ).

Critical scholarship generally holds to the two-source hypothesis as most probable, which argues that the author used the Gospel of Mark and the hypothetical Q document in addition to unique material, as sources for the gospel.

The oldest manuscript of the gospel P < sup > 75 </ sup > ( circa 200 ) carries the attribution “ the Gospel according to Luke ”.

In the middle of the 2nd century, an edited version of the Gospel of Luke was the only gospel accepted by Marcion, a heretic who rejected Christianity's connection to Jewish scripture.

In 2004 Scott Kellum published a detailed analysis of the literally unity of the entire Farewell Discourse and stated that it shows that it was written by a single author, and that its structure and placement within the Gospel of John is consistent with the rest of that gospel.

Thus Irenaeus provides the earliest witness to the assertion of the four canonical Gospels, possibly in reaction to Marcion's edited version of the Gospel of Luke, which Marcion asserted was the one and only true gospel.

By 1954, Brown had tried to get a deal with his gospel group, the Ever Ready Gospel Singers after recording a version of " His Eye Is on the Sparrow ", but returned to Toccoa when they failed to get a deal.

Agricola was the first to teach the views which Luther was the first to stigmatize by the name Antinomian, maintaining that while non-Christians were still held to the Mosaic law, Christians were entirely free from it, being under the gospel alone, see also Law and Gospel.

The Gospel of Matthew states that the " disciples were indignant " and John's gospel states that it was Judas Iscariot who was most offended ( which is explained by the narrator as being because Judas was a thief and desired the money for himself ).

First page of Gospel of Mark | Mark: " The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God ", by Sargis Pitsak 14th century.

In art, John as the presumed author of the Gospel is often depicted with an eagle, which symbolizes the height he rose to in the first chapter of his gospel.

** St Cuthbert Gospel, 7th-century Latin gospel book ; the earliest known Western bookbinding to survive

In the Gospel of Mark 16: 14, after the resurrection, Jesus " was manifested unto the eleven themselves as they sat at meat " At the meal, Jesus " said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.