Like A Lion

This week I chose the David Crowder song Like A Lion.  The music of this group combines bluegrass, folk, alternative, and a touch of electronic groove to it. Unfortunatlely they are not going to be together much longer, but their songs still fit into my top favorite. There's a blog about the Farewell to the David Crowder Band.  I hope you enjoy them!

I love how upbeat this song is, because it portrays how we are supposed to live for God.  If we ask God to enter into all of our being His love will explode in this world and in our lives.  This song speaks of the aliveness of God inside of us. We are to be bold in spirit and bring the roar of heaven here on Earth! So don't be ashamed because "My God's not dead. He's surely alive. He's livin on the inside roaring like a lion!"

The Well

This week I chose the song, The Well, by Casting Crowns.  They are classified as a soft rock Christian music group, and their band actually started out as a youth group praise team.  They just came out with their newest CD, Come to the Well, on October 18, 2011. 

The song starts off with the lyrics “Leave it all behind”, and it talks about how we are constantly searching for more when all we really need to do is come to our Father to satisfy us.  I find myself getting so caught up and busy as the year goes on that I forget what I really need to be focusing my attention on.  The world will try to consume us, but it will never fill us the way the love of Christ can. 

Stronger

The song for this week is Stronger, by Mandisa.  She was actually the ninth place finalist in season five of American Idol, and now she is a gospel singer.  In her songs you will be able to relate to her stories of struggle, redemption, and God's everlasting presence in our lives.   

In the beginning stages of a struggle we tend to question how are we going to get through this? The song Stronger tells us to hold on just a little bit longer, because this is only going to make you stronger.  It is important to remember no matter what God may place in front of us he is only doing it to make us stronger, and even though we may be hurting He is powerful enough to take care of our lives.

Hold Me Together

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours.  But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places.  Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.  ~H.A. Overstreet

Music has the ability to speak to everyone.  Sometimes it is was holds us together when we feel like we are falling apart.  The song of the week is Hold Me Together by Royal Tailor.  Royal Tailor would fall under the category of Christian Pop.   They have a unique way of blending pop, rock, R&B, hip hop and worship together.  The band's four men, Tauren, Blake, Jarrod and D.J. deliver the Gospel in a high-energy style that makes the listener want to dance, pray, shout and sing along.  

This song provides a prayer that all of us have wrestled with at one point.  Is God big enough to hold us together?  It speaks truth in that we can find strength with God by our side, and without Him we are falling apart. Whenever I'm having a bad day this song always reminds me of the joy we can find in Jesus!