Song Stories | Elevation Worship - Graves Into Gardens Thursday, April 30, 2020 Elevation Worship's highly anticipated album has arrived! Grave Into Gardens features previously released songs "My Testimony", "RATTLE!" and "The Blessing", and also includes new anthems "Available", "Authority", and "There Is A King." Click the link below to read an exclusive guest blog post from worship leaders Tiffany Hammer and Chris Brown. They share song stories of five new songs from Graves Into Gardens.
Song Story | Rita Springer - "Landslide" Thursday, April 30, 2020 Following up "Midnight", Rita Springer has released her second song from her upcoming album. "Landslide" is a song of surrender speaking to the mighty love of God that wins us over. The chorus sings out, "Every piece / Every part / You’re after it all / You’re after my heart." In an exclusive guest blog post below, Rita shares the story behind her new song "Landslide."
River Valley Worship - "Real Thing" Friday, April 10, 2020 River Valley Worship has released their "Real Thing" from their upcoming album Altars. In this exclusive guest blog post, the writer shares, "It’s the truth of Psalm 86 that nudged us to write a lyric like 'All I know right now is I’m ready / All I want right now is the real thing Lord.' Somehow it feels declarative without losing the authenticity of where we really find ourselves at times in this life. 'God I know there’s more for me to learn and grow in, and there’s a lot that I don’t know, but I do know one thing... it’s that I need you.' I would like to think that there is a tone of hopeful desperation laced throughout the entire landscape of 'Real Thing.'"
Cross Worship - "Victorious" Monday, March 23, 2020 "Victorious" was recorded at Rivers Crossing Community Church in Mason, OH as part of Cross Worship’s first live recording of original songs. The song is D’Marcus Howard’s debut as lead vocalist. Cross Worship is a collaboration of worship leaders with a heart to reconcile the body of Christ across denominational and racial divides. It was founded by Troy Culbreth in Cincinnati, Ohio as a regular gathering, inviting churches from around the city to come and worship together united as one.
Crossroads Music - "Redemption Song" Monday, March 23, 2020 Written by Austin Livingood, "Redemption Song" is Crossroads Music's latest single. Austin shares the song story in an exclusive guest post on our blog. He writes, "I wrote 'Redemption Song' because the best thing I could do to recount my own redemption, is to write out God’s redemption story." Read all of his story below.
Rita Springer - "Midnight" Monday, March 16, 2020 "Midnight" is the first released song of Rita Springer's upcoming album. She shares, "For me, Midnight has always felt like the darkest part of night. My life has been a series of waiting. Waiting on God to make good on His words and all His promises. Twelve is a big number in Scripture. God seems to like these two numbers put together. As the 'Bridegroom,' He waits to show up until midnight. Even Boaz finds Ruth (Ruth 3:8) laying at his feet, at midnight. I wrestled with this and as I went into write a record about Light, I had to address the hour of midnight. I had been tossing questions at God and one night He simply replied to my whine about why he seemed to be the last hour God. He reminded me that midnight, to me the darkest hour, was actually the first hour of the new day. It was dawn. Here I was thinking he was waiting when he was actually arriving at the first hour. I walked into the studio at Capital with Mia Fieldes and Bede Korporaal and told them I wanted to write about how God doesn’t wait for sunrise… He moves at midnight. The song was written as the three of us sat in the reality of this truth. I cannot think of a more appropriate time to release the first song of this new record of Light, by telling the story of a first hour God rushing in to show himself never late, always right on time!" In this exclusive guest blog post, Rita dives deeper into the story behind her new song "Midnight."
Stars Go Dim - Better Thursday, February 13, 2020 Stars Go Dim frontman Chris Cleveland shares his heart behind his sophomore project Better. "The past few years have been full of transition, pain, hurt, redemption, joy, love... full of life. I hope that’s what you hear when you listen to these songs. It’s just me being honest about what was happening at the time. I’m grateful for each moment and I’m grateful for the journey my family and I have been on in life and how that’s been expressed through these songs. My hope is that you can enjoy these songs in any season of life you might be in and know that on the other side of faith is joy and the life we were meant to live. A BETTER life." Original Master MultiTracks and other worship-leading resources are now available!
Sam Evans of Planetshakers - Guest Post: "Rain Your Glory Down" Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Worship leader Sam Evans shares with us the story behind the song "Rain Your Glory Down," released from Planetshakers' latest album, Rain. In this guest post, Sam shares how this song came about and how the design of it draws listeners into a new atmosphere of encountering God.