From Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll to Jesus: A Hippie's Journey to Faith, with Chuck Girard
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2021
- My dad has had truly one of the most interesting lives. As a successful studio singer in Los Angeles as a young adult, rubbing elbows with The Beach Boys, to becoming a hippie living in Hawaii, he encountered the gospel of Jesus Christ at a little country church after searching for God through Eastern Mysticism, LSD, and popular philosophies of the '60s.
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I was the Pastor of a small struggeling Church in New Zealand, I recieved a phone call one night out of the blue, from Chuck, I did not know him or he know me, he asked if we wanted him to come and play at our church. Told him we could not afford it, that was not an issue, he aim was to bless small struggleing churches. He came, he blessed us all and I am still blown away by his service, humilty and true deisre to serve and bless. After years in ministry I have seen many people come and go, but Chuck has left an amazing legacy.....
YOUR DAD IS CHUCK GIRARD ??? I saw Chuck Girard in concert in Denver when I was 17. I tell Alexa at least once a week, "Alexa, play Chuck Girard". I was leading a meeting at our church ladies group and there was a sense of heaviness in the meeting. I got out my cell phone and played a song for them. "Lay Your Burden Down." I still have that album. From 17 years old to now 62, Chuck Girard music has always blessed me. How fun for me to see this interview.
I love this 😍 That album was really powerful. Chuck’s songs are true and so pure, they are timeless and bring the Love of God 😍✝️❤️
Wow!!!! My thoughts exactly including YOUR DAD IS CHUCK GIRARD??? I’m 63 so same experience during that time.
For any young folks like me, I highly recommend listening to Keith Green's music; his music is just another level of beautiful worship music.
Yes. Beautiful music. Only thing I didn't like was he despised n judged the eternal destiny of Catholics and other Liturgical churches
He was what Larry Norman should have been. Was he perfect? No. But he was the same guy off the stage as he was on the stage, and practiced what he preached
Chuck played at an Messianic event in Long Beach in 2001 that was put on by American Trust, where my late husband Doug proposed to me!
Yes and Keith Greens book No Compromise couldn't put it down
I just started watching your channel. My Dad's absolute favorite song " Sometimes Alleluia" he passed away from cancer May 2019. We played this song at his funeral. Such a beautiful song and I cry every time I hear it.
I miss my Dad so much 😪
My parents took us to the Jesus movement here in California in the 70's
Hey this was great. I was a Jesus person in the early 70s Chuck, Larry Norman, Love Song, Honeytree, were my staples. This really took me back. Very cool.
When I became a Christian in 1975 at the age of 11, Love Song was the first Christian band I had ever heard, and I LOVED their music! It’s so great to see you and your dad together, and it’s such a great discussion! Thanks, Alisa!
Oh!! Dear Chuck Girard! I have been a huge fan of his music for decades, my parents inteuduced me to Love Song, and his solo album work has moved in my heart for decades, I saw him in person in Battle Ground, WA. I wrote him an email over a year ago and he got back to me, it was really special, Chuck is a wonderful brother in the LORD ♥✞♥
I LOVE your dad’s music. He was one of the first Christian artists I ever interviewed...a wonderful and godly man!
I think more apologists should have a before/ after story guest on. Years ago during Walter Martin radio days, mostly Christians would listen on Christian stations. But now with mobile, you are reaching unbelievers. So good for society. Thank you both.
Amazing!
Wow, I started listening to your dad’s songs the album “The Name above all names” 23 years ago, I would play the songs in my car while driving my 3 kids to school. Today, my 29 year old daughter and I was talking about her walk with God and she mentioned about her remembering the song Soldiers of the Lion when she was down and she would sing it and it would encourage and strengthen her to get back up and trust God. 🤲🏼
Wow Alisa, I had no idea Chuck Girard is your dad! I was listening to him in my youth along with people like Larry Stone Hill, Honey Tree, 2nd Chapter of Acts, just to name a few. Their music grew out of the Jesus movement and it dramatically influenced me in my walk with the Lord as a new Christian in my early teens. Blessings to both of you.
You must mean Randy Stonehill. I remember seeing him with Phil Keaggy in concert in the early 80s. I was a new believer at the time!
Alisa, your dad was one of my favorites, too! Every time I heard "Lay Your Burden Down", I wept. Forty years later, I still do. Such a powerful and tender song! 😊🙌🙌🙌🙌👍
@@kathierouse5306 you’re right. Somehow I jammed Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill together. Two different people, each equally important Jesus music era.
Great interview, Alisa! Your dad made a huge impact on me and my husband after we came to the Lord in 1971. My husband, being a musician himself, was so encouraged to find our kind of music in the Christian world, as we’d given up all the old stuff, the Beatles, etc. because it had such a hold on us. I had come out of the hippie drug scene. (I didn’t realize he was your father until quite awhile after I began listening to your podcasts.) Many of your podcasts have helped us greatly because one of our adult children, also a musician and producer, has gone the way of Progressive Christianity. You and your guests give us much encouragement and hope. Thanks for serving our LORD and King.
Thanks to your dad for his candid story of overcoming alcoholism. Way to go Chuck.
Love Song a very anointed album. Highly recommend.
God bless you both, and all watching 😊✝️🙏
I remember listening to this music on the 8track in my car.
I Met Your Dad at a conference and discussed how my parents were saved from their drug addiction during the Jesus movement Back in 1970.
I too was a child of Jesus Revolution parents.
I remember even at 4 years old the presence of God so powerfully during that great Revival and Awakening.
At that conference, your dad saying the song Sometimes Hallelujah and it's stoked up my heart with love for Jesus.
I listen to that song on RUclips when I am in distress and trying to go to sleep and that song just puts me right to sleep.
WOW! what a flashback. i was one of the first christian dj''s back in the 70's, in so. calif. it was a joy to play love song's records! great to see the family, and kudos for being so honest. we need it today
. thanks!
We had Chuck out here in western Montana about 18 yrs. ago. Such a blessing since my wife & I cut our baby Christian teeth on his music along with others. Enjoyed dinner out with him at a local eatery. We were the worship team for the meetings and one of the coolest things was when we were practicing one afternoon. Our drummer hadn't shown up yet & we suddenly heard the drums come in but definitely a cut or 2 above ours. When we turned around, there was Chuck! Blessings on you brother!
Don't shoot the wounded - my favourite from Chuck Girard. Actually the whole tape was one of my favorites back in the eighties and all those years later. E few weeks ago I rediscovered this old tape and yes, it still works - these songs just dropped again into my heart like back then.
Thanks Chuck Girard for getting Gods word out and leaving footprints in my life
Alisa, having come to Christ during the Jesus movement’s impact in the early 70s I can say, there is no one with more impact, integrity or longevity as Chuck Girard. Thank you for this honest interview with your Dad. Both you and your father are examples of what God can do.
Awesome testimony, thank Alicia for giving us a peek in your family's walk with Christianity. I just love your dad's calm demeanour. God Bless.
In '76 or '77 I went with friends from Windsor Ontario Canada to Detroit to see Chuck and Lovesong live (loved it). This was back in the day when you could hop on a bus at the border no ID.
Over the years I played ZOEgirl for my kids, and I still have "And The wind was low" loaded on my phone today.
Thank you for songs etc. pointing us to real saving faith in our Lord Jesus. I have Alisa's book and highly recommend it and I'll be reading Chuck's book soon.
maranatha
I just listened to your Jesus Revolution review and I can’t believe your Dad is Chuck Girard! I grew up in the Jesus movement on the East coast in the 70’s and when I was in high school I worked at a Christian bookstore. I listened to your Dad all the time!
Don't Shoot the Wounded"
by Chuck Girard
from the album The Name Above All Names. This was and still is one of our favourites and also so relevant to the Christian life. Thank you for the interview!
About 15 years ago I was a new Registered Nurse at a local hospital and I worked on a floor that had very ill people and was very hard work. Before work I used to get on my knees and sometimes on my face before God. I remembered your Dad's song "Holy, holy, holy." and would sometimes listen to that several times in a row and it would bring me into the presence of God before I would face a challenging day. When I would arrive at work I felt God's peace and presence. That song is anointed! 🔥🕊🔥
Chuck Girard’s “The Warrior” is an epic Christian rock song. Found it just before learning he is Alisa’s father.
So I got saved in 1978 when a friend brought me to the Vineyard Church. I believe it was in Resada,California, afternoon service in a methodist church. Correct me if I'm wrong. But someone gave me a copy of Chuck's music and I listen to it nonstop over and over and over again because It really ministered to me. Just so pure. I remember Keith Green doing special music as well. I moved over to Jack Hayford's church and then down to Long Beach and went to Chuck Smith's church for a year. Back in Michigan now but those days were some of the best! Love this conversation with Chuck Girard.😍
“He’s the power, and the glory, He’s the King of Kings the mighty risen Lord”! Oh my goodness I loved that “tape”! We listened to it 24/7 as new believers. Wow!!!
I was at Explo 72 in Dallas and I had a number of your Dad's vinyls at the time....very inspirational dude. Christmas 1972, I was in a Bus Accident that killed 19 kids from Woodlawn Baptist Church , Austin Texas. The accident happened outside of Ft Sumner NM. Your Dad's music and love song helped me in a lot of ways back then. Thank you very much.
I relate to your dads alcohol problems, and am very grateful for His honesty towards it.
I was delivered from alcohol 2019 after receiving Christ.
Last year I started having a beer here and there, cos you know I'm strong 😒and then at Xmas I found myself chugging it down(just the one) whilst people weren't looking..I realised then, it's only going to end bad if I continue like this.
I spent almost 20yrs trying to get rid of alcohol from my life. Jesus took it away in an instant. Why would I wanna go back to something that held me in bondage?
I now will not have a sip, am I tempted yes, but I cannot drink a drop because my flesh is so weak. People have tried and tried it's okay Donna one drink won't hurt. But they don't understand the bondage I was in or the freedom Christ has bought me. I will drink wine again with the Lord one day and it'll taste all the more sweeter. I look forward to that day, not the wine but my Jesus.
I recently (two months ago) discovered your podcasts through a nurse that I work with (I'm a hospital chaplain). Your podcasts are so enlightening and encouraging. Today, while having some time at the hospital I decided to look up your RUclips podcast and WOW! Church Girard is your dad! Amazing!!! He is definitely the pioneer with his group, Love Song from the 70's Jesus Movement and the up and coming Christian music scene. I was in high school and college in the 70's and his music was so inspiring and worshipful. I still listen to Love Song and now his daughter! Terrific.
Love your apologetics and appreciate your emphasis on exposing Progressive Christianity.
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God bless Chuck Girard and his legacy.
Music is a true gift from God.
I have his records on vinyl. My favourite songs by Mr. Girard:
1. Slow Down
2. Everybody Knows For Sure
3. Lay Your Burden Down
4. Fool For Jesus
@@user-wq4xy5tf8x Slow Down is one of my very favourite Chuck Girard gems. 🧡
I was so excited to see this interview with your Dad! Chuck Girard was and still is my all time favorite Christian music artist. I listened to him from high school to now, at age 62! His music never grows old to me.
I was a traveling musician in the early 90s, old school bus, and everything, we were on our way in the country music scene, and then my life changed. i came to Christ on the road and have been following the Lord since.
Chuck Girard's music was formational in my early Christian life and college years. "Sometimes Alleluia" is a beautiful song. I saw him perform solo at Berry College. I was astounded when I learned he is your father. Thanks for sharing this.
Your father was at my church this weekend! Truly a blessing!! ❤️
I love the song 'Sometimes Hallelujah' he wrote and sang. It's almost like the anthem of the Jesus People movement.
In college I was a Roadie for all the Christian bands that came into Dallas Fort Worth. We had Chuck in one evening and I was picked to drive Chuck to and from the Venue. I loved that time I got with him. I shared some hurts that I had gone through in being a young zealous baby Christian. And I'll never forget Chuck's words to me that night. He said, "There is no such thing as a servant without scars". I have traveled globally as a preacher, been on staff at mega churches but have always kept those words from Chuck in my mind. "There is no such thing as a servant without scars".-Thanks Chuck
Thank you for posting this … when you said on another video that your dad was associated with Calvary Chapel I wondered who your dad was … I was saved in 1989 and he was on staff with Mike Mackintosh in Claremont Mesa about two blocks where I lived and where I had a religious experience with Jesus on mushrooms … anyways your dad baptized me in San Diego bay one day when the church had a large baptism! It was amazing what God was doing … Please tell your dad I went to be a missionary in hungary with Calvary chapel when there was a revival there and many youth came to God after communism fell. Today most of those who were saved are pastoring or serving in some capacity in the 40 or so Calvary chapels that are in hungary … now my wife and I pastor a Calvary chapel in the North of England … thank you thank you thank you for posting this … so good to hear!!! Thank you also for walking with Jesus and serving him!!! I first saw your work on Ruslan’s channel and then have been following you on unbelievable and your thoughts about Ashbury …. One more thing for your dad … my wife started a refugee camp ministry when we were in hungary and two significant people were saved in those camps … both went to a Calvary chapel Bible college in vajta hungary and after completing their time there, one went to Ethiopia and now runs a orphanage with over 100 orphans and the other pastors a Calvary chapel in Nigeria … I went there last year and was part of the first Calvary chapel pastors conference and there are now about ten calvary chapels out there so the fruit keeps showing up … please tell you dad that God used him mightly!
Hey, great video! So much of me here. I love early Jesus music, and I'm also strongly into apologetics. Glad I got a bit of both in this vid. Cheers!
This so hit the mark for me today - your dad's story is so encouraging and what an amazing warm and engaging dad to have! No wonder you turned out so well - he must be a proud of you Alisa! Great interview - thank you!💕🙏😇
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All this time I didn’t know your dad was Chuck Gerard! I was born in 1970, and I was impacted greatly by the Christian music scene of the 70s.
Bless you for your work in apologetics! So greatly needed!
I am 17 hours ahead in australia. 2023 . You and your dad are JUST LIKE ME AND MY DAUGHTER.. CHUCK was my Pastor. I am from Newport beach CAL.. moved to Australia for my wife of 35 years (no family down here) who is Australia and giving my life as best I can to share OUR LORD AND GOD,THE ONLY GOD AND ONLY SAVIOR "JESUS" with a country who doesn't for the most part believe in Jesus or the bible. By Gods grace a door has opened up to me to SPEAK IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EVERY TUESDAY, PRAY FOR ME ....LOVE YOU MORE (ps.. chuck an your beautiful daughter, that's just special bonding between my beautiful daughter JESSICA still in NB, CAL.)
Wow! Chuck Girard is your dad. My husband and I attended a Calvary Chapel for years. I became familiar with your Dad and his music through my late hubby and Calvary Chapel. No wonder I like you so much. 😉
This is SO COOL! I knew of Chuck Gerard but I didn’t become a believer until after Keith Green died. I DEVOURED Keith Green’s music! I LOVE hearing about ALL of your dad’s experiences! Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, The Hondells, Brian Wilson, The Beatles, Dylan… JUST AMAZING! thx for sharing!!!
I listened to him as a teenager and met him as an adult. Lovely man!
THANK YOU!
I was there, Southern California, Costa Mess, 1976, hippie era, charasmania all around. This story reveals rich biblical doctrine. Fascinating to me, takes me back, down memory lane.
I could not constr 45:52 ain myself listening to this. I had to holler. Hallelujah, praise to God for his grace, for his grace, for his grace for a wretched sinner such as I. What a gracious God. I tell sailors, soldiers, and airmen, I am such a mess, we all are such a mess, but his grace is greater than all our sin!
I appreciate you guys so much! God bless you!
I appreciate the Apple that fell from the tree. Thankful for this ministry!
Chuck Girard was the first Christian artist I listened to as a teenager. I loved him!
I discovered your dad while I was a high school student back in the 70's. LOVED his music! Love your podcasts too!
Awesome! Miss the Girards. Blessings
Thanks so much for this wonderful conversation. Have always admired Chuck’s transparency and hopeful witness. As that “theologian” Oscar Wilde said, “Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.” God bless you both as you serve our Risen Savior.
Met Chuck at the National Street Ministry conference in Dallas 1988, 1989 & 1991. Good times!!
Met Chuck in England when he was on tour with Liberation Suite. (1976) Love Song was so influential in those days. My co-pastor traveled with them to preach at their concerts. Good to see him again.
That why Jesus in The Chosen is such a real picture of Jesus. The spirit of Jesus is seen clearly in his eyes, and face. This lesson is so good John. We will have to listen to it over and over. Thank you John
OHMYGOSH!! How cool is this?? 🎉🎉🎉
Chuck Girard for president.
Oh my gosh. I have been singing the song Sometimes Alleluia all week and decided to listen to it on RUclips tonight and found this video as well. I LOVED this song as a new Christian in the 80's. This song was so anointed. I just had to stop what I was doing and enter into the worship. Thank you for this.
I became a Christian in the late 70’s and Chuck Gerard’s albums were very special to me.
Always loved Chuck Gerard! Love Song was one of my first albums when I came to Christ. I was always a rocker and loved finding great music with such positive messages. Now love Alisa :) Love to see the legacy.
I been a big big fan of your dad ....great singing song righted. ......Sometimes Hallelujah the best song ever heard sung
I met Chuck in a small church in Arleta , Ca
The Osborn Neighborhood Church he was playing his Guitar singing and I got Baptized in the Holy Spirit as l began to speak in tongues out loud which for me that was very odd because I never wanted to make a scene because I was comfortable being in the background.
Since then I’ve been on many missions trips and helping lead Worship in a local Church for 20 years in the San Fernando Valley.
Thank you Chuck for being obedient to the Lord to minister to the Body of Christ!
'In My Room' was a favorite. Your voice! JESUS Testimony.
Your dad is Chuck Girard? Oh wow. I grew up on his music as a young adult. Are his albums on DVD?
I didn’t know he was still alive.? This is really cool!!! I have a close affinity with Jesus music. I rededicated my life to the Lord on September 29, 1978 at a Keith Green concert at Knoxberry Farm California. To me the music of your fathers era is the best Christian music ever!
Ask your dad if he remembers Danny Taylor‘s music?
I made my comment about Keith Green before you guys started talking about him. I’m going to have to watch it a few more times... reminiscing about the good all days!
Did Danny Taylor do Meltdown at Madame Tussaud‘s? He went on to be a producer of The Newsboys.
Love Song was the first Concert I ever attended when I was 15! Produced a concert that included Chuck’s band in the late 70’s.
Great show Alisa with your dad Chuck who found Jesus as Lord and Saviour. Also impressed on how he pioneered music and made it on the Charts. Keep up the good work Alisa.
Thank you for this! My parents are of that Jesus movement generation and they have such a love for God. I pray that kind of movement can sweep this current generation
Hey Alisa. I knew Hal since I had played drums with Gary Lewis and the Playboys and many others lat 70's early 80's though. I was Hals phone buddy toward the end of his life when he was staying at his daughters house. I did share the gospel with him but not sure what happened if anything. Gary Lewis is a Christan now. Thanks for making the video on the Asbury Revival. Appreciate you
Ask your dad if he remembers playing at a little church in central Oregon to a tiny group of teenagers. There was a fledgeling group just starting out. They gave him their electric piano. That was my best friend. I remember him toting either you or a younger sister/brother out the door. Your mom was there.
So ,so blessed.
Super big fan of Chuck and the work the Lord is doing through him. Pleasant surprise to find out he's your dad. I really love Jesus, keep doing the Lord's work. Said a prayer for the both of you.
I'm 70 and became a Christian in college. In the late 70s i think it was i went to a concert of your dad's. It was the first Christian concert I'd ever been to. I listened to Lay Your Burdens Down constantly! I wrote your dad a fan letter telling him how much his music meant to me, and I was so surprised that he actually wrote back thanking me. This is so wonderful to see this!!
Her dad is very gracious and allows Alisa to interview him and fill in gaps, as a good interviewer should, without seeming to feel disrespected or offended - just 2 adults having an honest conversation. This is great!
Thank you Alisa and Chuck. Chuck, your voice and gift have been an encouragement to me since the early days of the Jesus movement. Appreciate your humble honesty here. Blessings to you and to your wonderful daughter.
So happy you mentioned Kenn Gullikson. He was important in my early years in El Paso. He and his wife even lived in El Paso for a while. The movement was huge there.
I still have my Love Song & Chuck Girard albums from the 70’s! These songs were a very integral part of introducing our family to God’s word, truth & worship, as my then young adult parents were searching (I guess they were deconstructing their faith:)
I’ve recently finished Alisa’s book & look forward to reading Chuck’s too.
Thank you both for this interview 🤗🙏🏻💕
Treasures for sure
I saw Chuck in concert and remember that story about realizing that was his voice on the radio. I also remember seeing Steven Curtis Chapman open for Whiteheart. Imagine!
Thank you. Enjoyed the interview so much.
Great interview. The strengths and humility of you both were on full display.
Can't wait to watch
This is so cool I have Love Song albums and Chucks albums . God Bless you both. I was in high school and JC when this was all happening!! Still love the lord😎🙏✝️
Soooo cool, wondered if he played with Keith Greene....so cool...we got to hear you Dad last night at our church. I (Lynnel, Lyle's wife) am one of those hippies who found Jesus in the that day....loved just hearing his story, the Vineyard, Lonnie, etc...just such wonderful memories...so many of us walked out of bad lifestyles, took a bit of work from the Lord, but He's always there for us. Your dad is amazing...such a blessing, it's like I went full circle last night listening to him...and then to just sit and hear him speak again.
Tears flowed from time to time. So many times in what you said I thought of my one and only daughter.
She has always been a girl of faith. But we know everyone has to come to their own stance on Jesus which she has. Yet life will bring all the challenges. So I must always keep her in prayer.Thank you for this. Inspiring to me, and I have sent it to her. Love, peace and joy.
papa Girard.. an OG of hippydom😌
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Alisa - you and your Dad have been in my car! (And your mother and sisters). I drove you all from the airport to your hotel in Brisbane when Chuck was playing there a very long time ago.
Blessings to you all!
What an amazing earthly father you have! I love his authenticity!
This mans music is incredible speaks to the heart and soul found him the other day by mistake but then again nothing is by mistake in jesus christ .every believer should listen to soldiers of the lion incredible song god bless this gifted man.
Great joy to come across this interview. Loved listening to Love Song growing up in Scotland
First time watching. I remember Zoey Girl, but did not know that you were a part of that. I definitely remember your dad and Love Song. That music meant so much to me back in the 70s. God bless you both and thank you for ministering to the Body of Christ!
I love your Dad. He's been an encouragement to me for decades.
Just reading all the comments brought tears to my eyes. Your dad has made such an impact on so many! Praise God!
I jut watched this Feb of 2023 and it was good timing right after watching the Jesus Revolution movie!
I respect how “right on” he is with his attitude and honor of the Word. But very real and open about how we can come to our conclusions.
More people need the freedom to explore and ask questions. Key point he brought out-the Holy Spirit leads and guides. Rich legacies coming from the the of you! What a blessing!
What an amazing testimony🙌🏻Praise The Lord! What a wonderful dad you have Alisa. Blessings from Denmark.
Omigosh, this brought back some memories! I still have -- on vinyl -- "Love Song, Good News", "Love Song, Final Touch", and "Chuck Girard". I also have Keith Green's "No Compromise" and "Songs for the Shepherd", along with many other Christian albums from those days. So much good music from back then. And I still remember the Scripture songs we sang in church (they're underlined in my old KJV).
Thank you for a great interview and, like some others, I did not know Chuck Girard is your dad. 🙂
Wow! It is amazing to meet a former hippie. :)
Excellent conversation!
Hi Alisa. Great conversation with your dad. Please tell Chuck thanks….for coming to my dads Church around 1980 in Santa Rosa (Christian Life Center) in a tent. Love love love Chucks ministry.
I love the Jesus Movement and the music that came through it!!!
Your Dad is CHUCK GIRARD??!! Wow! how cool is that?