Reason to Sing - All Sons and Daughters

This time away from tech has been amazing and I really needed this time off. While down at the beach I decided to be intentional with my listening to music for more than just the warm feeling it produces within. As I started listening to this song I felt the Lord speak to me in my walls and barriers. I did not realize why at times I really did not want to talk about the Lord, be in community, encourage others, or preach the Gospel to myself. I just had no desire to be in connection with the Lord, but as I have been away I can see that the reason I sing is because of the sacrifice of Christ. If I truly believe that Jesus came to the world for our salvation than my heart will know that he is worthy of my life, time, efforts, and everything that I am.

This may just be a jumble of thoughts but my main thought from this writing is the Reason that I sing. I sing because Christ has paid for my sin, he has paid the price that was assigned to me. All by the Blood of Jesus!

Here is more insight into the song from the writers and performers themselves!

This is a call to all the dead and disappointed

The ones who feel like they are done

This is a word to all the ones who feel forgotten

But you are not

Oh you are not

We're alive, alive, alive we're singing

We're alive, alive, alive and we're shaken

We're alive, alive, alive, alive in You

We are soaked in all the grace that we've been given

Unchained from all that we have done

Your mercy's rising like the sun on the horizon

We're coming home

We're alive, alive, alive we're singing

We're alive, alive, alive and we're shaken

We're alive, alive, alive, alive in You

All is Great in the Lord

Paul Shackelford

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Rise Again - Needtobreathe

I have been reading a book about the arts and Christians role in creating culture. Steve Turner, the author, asserts a major critique that modern Christian art does not speak about real life. The art created does not sound genuine or have any ties to real life that people outside the faith can connect with. While reading the book I listened through this album and I think that this song does a great job of breaking the mold. The members of Needtobreathe are all outspoken followers of Jesus but very little of the art that they produce mentions Jesus or Christianity at all. Instead they craft creative music, written from places of pain and joy. "Rise Again" steps through pain that occurs in life as we see relationships stretched and torn. The bitterness of broken hearts and friendships is then contrasted with the truth that we will get up from this pain and rise again. "I can see us moving on, I can feel that coming on strong", the j...

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