Fragrance - Jon Thurlow

After listening through this album by Jon Thurlow - Strong Love, I have fallen in love with this style of lyrical deployment. This morning I was sitting out in Tech Green working through a study that I am progressing through and I put on this song, now I have heard it many times over the past few weeks. Something this morning was simply different, the sun was soft as it rose above freshman hill and the CULC. The soft delivery of brushes under a simplistic chord progression on the keys drew me into a place of sustained rest. Then the lyrics were dropped and the pacing picks up, and oh how the power of these lyrics sends your mind back to exactly who God is and why his son is so lovely, why life has no meaning without the love of YHWH!

I can not find the lyrics online,. therefore just listen to the song and allow the power of these words soak deep.

All in the Peace of the Father,

Paul Shackelford

Arms Wide Open - Misty Edwards

What does love look like? This has been the question that I am asking, what does your love for me look like, how do I learn from how you loved me so that I can love others in that same manner. Father you are the teacher of love, how to love, what love is, what it really is. In these last few days that Father has been revealing so much about how I am to be Romanced, how can I ever Romance someone if I do not know the Romance of the Father? This fact has led me to just sit, read, ask the Father how he loves me, tangible ways, in my day, in my walk to class, in my lunch with a friend. When I accepted Christ into my life, I did more than just say some words, I accepted the proposal of a loving God who simply wants to love us! And oh how this song captures almost everything that has been rocking me in the last few days! What does love look like? is the question I've been pondering What does love look like? What does love look like?...

Alleluia - Jesus Culture with Martin Smith

Once again worship last night was Glorious! Had a great day just chilling with my SDP folks from last summer, went up the river and just talked about the past season of life and where the Lord is leading us into. Exciting and scary stuff but it was great to be back with some awesome people who speak some potent truth. Last night during worship was one of many firsts... For the first time in a long time I actually stood while I sang, for the first time in a long time I was singing from a place of Joy, for the first time in a long time I did not care how I worshiped my Lord I just worshiped. Well its not like these things have not happened ever in my life, but I just felt so much peace during worship. So I decided to throw the song that we just repeated for a long while up here, mainly cause I did not know the name so I was looking it up and now I am pumped, gotta buy this album! All the angels cry out, Holy is the Lord God ...

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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