I’m thankful for a culture at our church that is passionate about Jesus, the Gospel, and taking timeless truths and explaining them in new ways. Most people are familiar with the preaching, but almost as important as the preaching is the music that accompanies it. I love that we have musicians that will take timeless truths in hymns hundreds of years old and update it like this one.
If you haven’t checked out Citizens yet, you need to.
• Worship band from the Mars Hill Church at the Univ. of Washington.
• $200 album that was #3 on iTunes Christian albums last week.
Stream it in the player above and then grab it for $4 on iTunes.
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This song alone is worth the price of the EP.
“Let my sighs give way to songs that sing about your faithfulness.
Let my pain reveal your glory as my only real rest.
Let my losses show me all I truly have is you.”
Ryan Adams’ Heartbreaker is one of my favorite records. My friend Grant gave me a copy years ago when we worked together at a record label and management company.
For those of you familiar with Adams, you may not be familiar with the woman singing with him, Laura Marling. In a piece on NME, Adams said this about Marling’s newest album, “Made me feel rather insignificant at songwriting…now that is songwriting!”
You can check out Adam’s album Ashes & Fire here and Marling’s album, I Speak Because I Can here.
This guy was a beast.
Eva does something similar in her high chair when she wants more sweet potatoes.
I’m late to the game on Reformed hip hop but the more I hear of Lecrae and read his lyrics, the more I love his work. Really, he’s a preacher that uses beats…just like every other hip hop artist. I guess it comes down to what you’re preaching.
Love the last verse.
I was created by God but I ain’t wanna be like Him,
I wanna be Him
The Jack Sparrow of my Caribbean
I remember the first created being,
And how he shifted the blame of this thing
For fruit he shouldn’t have eaten
And now look at us all that are eating,
Wearing designer fig leaves by Louis Vuitton
Make believe it
But God sees through my foolish pride,
And I’m weak life Adam another victim of Lucifer’s lies
But then in steps Jesus,
All men were created to lead but we need somebody to lead us
More than a teacher,
But somebody who buy us back from the darkness,
Say He redeemed us,
Taught us that real leaders follow God,
Finish the work ‘cuz we on our job
Taught us not to rob
but give life love a wife like He loved the Church
without seeing how many hearts we can break first
I wanna be like you in every way,
So if I gotta die everyday
Unworthy sacrifice
But the least I can do is give the most to me
Because being just like you is what I’m ‘spose to be
They say you came for the lame,
I’m the lamest
I made a mess you say you’ll erase it,
I’ll take it
You said you came for the lame,
I’m the lamest
I broke my life, but you say you’ll replace it,
I’ll take it.
This is one of the better music videos I’ve seen in a long time. It was so good in fact, Kim burned the granola she was making while watching it.
I need to listen to it and watch it a couple more times but from what I understand, the singer was raised in a Christian home but has since struggled with the existence of God, truth, and meaning. This song seems loaded with that sentiment. The singer, Andy Hull, asks a series of questions throughout the song but they don’t seem to be leading him to any answers. In the California volume of the Religion by Region series, Wade Clark Roof points out a characteristic of American religion that I think is on display here. He says that many people have a ‘remembered religion’; that they can tell you more about the religion of their upbringing or of what their parents believe than what they actually believe.
many people in the region can talk about their familiy’s religious history or even their own religious past better than they can affirm what they themselves actually believe in the present moment. This does not mean they have no beliefs but instead that their beliefs and doubts, convictions and curiosities are all coupled together. Living faith and spirituality in a fluid encironment is very much like that - at times confusing and complicated, yet at other times quite centered and convincing.
I will agree with Andy on two of his statements though. The truth cannot be fractioned and the truth cannot be fashion.
HT: Jesse Bryan
