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“Join the Song” is now available to purchase as a CD or for download! Click the image for more information!

Hang in there everyone! We are just a couple weeks away from having the album in hand… Thanks for being patient! We think it will be worth the wait!

I am currently at the National Worship Leaders Conference in Leawood, Kansas (basically Kansas City) and am having a great time soaking up information and responding in worship.  I am listening to Leonard Sweet at the moment (and he encourages tech responses to happen while he is speaking), but I wanted to also take this opportunity to give you a sneak peek at one of the songs from the upcoming album.  If you have attended any of our live worship concerts, you will know the song “Join the Song” already.  So… take a listen in the media player on the right side of the site.  Looking forward to the things that God is going to do this week!

So… we haven’t actually dropped off the face of the earth… it just may seem like it!  In fact, we will be opening for Building 429 in just nine more days (July 2nd @ Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Greenville, TX) so we’d love to see you there!

We are currently very busy recording songs for our first album (I say “first” because we are writing and performing way more songs than we could possibly fit onto one album… I guess that’s a good thing) and while it is slow-going, it is also turning out well at this point.  Hopefully we will have some more music posted here in the near future.  For those of you that have heard us live, you will probably recognize these songs, but here are some of the ones that will probably (99% sure) make it to the album:

Arise, Shine

Come Inside

Join the Song (Your Redeemed)

Faith My Way

I Stand Amazed

We have also gotten some new t-shirts that will be making their debut on July 2nd as well… pretty fun stuff.  I am excited about what God is doing in the band and in our respective churches and also about the ministry platform that He is giving us within our community.  To Him be all glory and honor!

- jonathan

So, I was reading my favorite book this morning – the Bible. Specifically, I was reading the book of Luke, chapter 8:22-25. Yeah, it’s the part where Jesus and the disciples are out on the sea when a huge storm comes rolling in. Well, many of these guys were fishermen and had seen their share of storms. This must have been the perfect storm considering their reaction. So, they all run down to Jesus where He was SLEEPING (OMG!) and they screamed like little girls, “We’re all gonna die!” What does Jesus do? He get’s up, calms the storm as though He were making His bed or blowing out a candle – easy stuff for the Son of God.

But then He rebukes His disciples! He says, “Where is your faith?” For as long as I have been familiar with this story, I have never understood why He said that. Yes, I’m a little slow. But if you are as slow as me, let me share with you what the Holy Spirit revealed to me this morning.

My first thought was, what were the disciples SUPPOSED to do? I mean, they were about to get swept away by this storm as far as they knew; and Jesus was taking a nap! Were they supposed to just sit there? And then it hit me.

OF COURSE they were supposed to wake up Jesus! Isn’t that what having a savior is all about? He should be the first One we go to for EVERYTHING – good OR bad. The reason they didn’t have any faith is because they were AFRAID. They were so afraid of dying that they couldn’t see past their own nose to the Person that was in the boat with them! Perhaps a more appropriate response for the disciples would have been, “Hey, Jesus, can you please calm this storm? Or not. Either way, we know you will take care of us. You WILL calm the storm? SWEET! I want to watch! Thank you, Jesus.”

Thank you, Jesus.

Going through a scary storm? Don’t be afraid. Just go talk to Him for awhile and wait and see what He will do!

-b

Some of the band will be attending (not playing on the same billing, silly) the Rock and Worship Road Show concert in Dallas tonight (featuring MercyMe, Jeremy Camp, Hawk Nelson, Addison Road, Tenth Avenue North).  Then tomorrow night we will be playing at The Well Coffee Lounge in Royse City again… good folks with a great establishment (tasty food and drink… seriously!).  Sunday morning we will each be at our respective churches doing what we do (hopefully doing it well) and then we pack it up and will be driving a few hours over to Magnolia, Arkansas, to lead in a night of worship at The Church at Waterbrook.  I’m personally looking forward to this one because I’ll also get to see a good number of friends and family (and they have not yet heard evenstill… I’m excited for them to hear!).  Pray for us this weekend for safe travels and for healthy voices and fingers!

- jonathan

So… I was awakened from my slumber this morning at about 4:15 (I think)… in Sterling, Kansas… in a strange person’s bed (we’re staying with Brad and Pattie Nix… great friends… though Brad IS strange!)… and God told me to get my rear out of bed and pray.  I was prompted to pray for our new friends at Westbrook Baptist Church and Venue 302 in Hutchinson.  God is doing mighty things among the people in Hutchinson… smack in the middle of Kansas… who would have thunk it?!  I prayed for our upcoming morning service at Venue Sterling and for the Youth Alive service back in Hutchinson.  I prayed for each of our churches that we are away from this weekend… Highland Terrace, Trinity Baptist, Trinity Fellowship, Ridgecrest…

Then I popped onto Facebook, curious to see what other crazy folk were out there up at hours of the day that I sometimes forget exist… there was my friend, Sarah Thompson… in India… where it’s not such a crazy time of the day (it’s actually mid-afternoon).  Sarah asked me to pray for her lost friends there in India… so I did… This morning, Sarah’s burden for the lost became my burden for the lost.  I’m hoping today that my burden for the lost will become your burden for the lost… will you pray for Sarah Thompson and her friends in India… will you pray for life-changes on the campus of Sterling College… pray for the people desperately searching for hope today in the greater Hutchinson, Kansas and Greenville, Texas area… and pray for us… that we become empty vessels that long for nothing but to give God all glory and honor.

God prompted me this morning… He’s probably prompting you as well… are you snoozin’?

I’ll just let this story do the talking. Thanks for the encouraging words Brandy.

As a young girl, a lot of my nights were spent with my parents…not at home, not at church, not at a family member’s house, but at a bar.  I would fall asleep most of the time to the blaring music and a smoked filled room.

I dreaded it, my mother loved to “go out” and so there we were, my brother and I sitting in a bar, even if it was a school night.

I would watch everyone around me, and I knew that this was not okay.  I told myself that if I were to have children, that I would try my best to do things differently.  I AM NOT saying that I am a perfect mother, but God used those situations to teach me that this cycle had to stop with me. ( I am also not trying to act as if I have never gone out and had drinks with my friends, sadly I have had too many of those nights in my past, but never around my kids and I will say that my kids have Never seen me under the influence of alcohol…never.)

So tonight as I sat in a Christian Coffee House in Royse City, I closed my eyes and remember those nights so vividly. (Tonight the kids and I went to see a Christian band sing.  They are friends of mine and Lee’s.)  What brought me back was when I looked at Andrew from across the room and he mouthed, “It’s kinda loud!”  There is a big difference though… we were in a coffee house, drinking coffee, no smoke filled room, and they band was worshiping our Father.  It felt amazing to hear them sing and praise the Lord, and my children were with me and watching me sing the words, (until they ran off to play board games)

I just can’t express how my heart feels.

My life is changing more and more with each day.  Each day I strive to be more like Jesus, I’m not perfect and I will never be perfect, but with each waking day I pray that I can empty myself and let God fill me with the Holy Spirit.

Seriously, if someone would have told me 5 years ago that I would be spending my Friday night in a coffee house listening to a Christian band, well I don’t know what I would have said.  I surely wouldn’t have believed them.  I will say though, I am thankful for my relationship with Him and I never want to live my life for me.  It’s not about me, never was, I am so glad that I know that.

“But by the grace of God I am what I am”

1 Cor. 15:10

So… many of you have been anxiously awaiting an opportunity to take a listen to our music.  The day has finally arrived… BUT… it is still a rough mix.  I just didn’t want to leave you guys hanging for TOO much longer.  So, click on the music link and take a listen to the song, “We Have Seen Your Glory.”  Info and a devotional on the song will be coming as well as chord charts and lead sheets in lots of different keys… so stay tuned!

- jonathan