Call On Me came to me after a conversation with my youngest little brother Pierre. He was training in the military at that time. I had just lost a cousin to a suicide bomber in Afghanistan and was thinking a lot about how even in the midst of the harshest of human situations, if you call on Jesus, He is the only one who cares enough about you to find you no matter what. I won’t pretend that I have a full understanding of what it means to be a soldier. Neither do I comprehend the tearing of the deepest of connections when a mother looses their child to war. I can however,  clearly say that it’s hard to justify war as a Christian. Especially when Jesus says stuff like in Luke 6: 27-28;
 
“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”

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Its All Worship Joel Auge

Stephen Leiweke (my producer) and I were playing catch in the yard of his East Nashville home on the last day of tracking for the album. We had hit a wall. A song called “Tidal Wave” was just not fitting the rest of the project. The dilemma was that we’d already had the session guys come and play their parts, and we only had nine songs, so the record was already in danger of not being a full-length record. We couldn’t however, let ourselves put something that was mediocre (at best) onto the project that we’d spent so much time working on. So, we decided to scrap it. At the very last moment, before the delete button was pushed and all the recording data was gone, I asked Stephen to put the drums for the song onto his iPod and give me a bit of time. Even the Rocks was written in about 20 minutes at his kitchen table that day. I brought it back upstairs and to both our delight, we had a song. We worked through to the early morning hours, kept and re-cut the drums to fit the arrangement of the new song, ... Read More »

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Miracle Love is among my favorite songs on the “On The Blue” project.  It has a british Beatle-esque progression at the end of the chorus. This allows my musical ego to feel fulfilled :) At the time of writing, I was afraid of congregational songs. I was actively doing everything I could to NOT write a normal worship song; and yet write a song that could still be vertical and sung in the congregation (You tell me. Did I succeed?). Lyrically I was fascinated by the philosophical idea of a universe that might contain an immovable object and an unstoppable force, which anyone can logically discern can’t exist since the presence of one eliminates the possibility of the other. But what if “universe” is still too small a term for the vastness of our God. In an existence beyond our logic, maybe He is both the immovable and unstoppable force. All this to say, I was interested in writing a song around it. It’s a Miracle that we can, as image-bearers of God, move His heart. He is THAT interested in us ... Read More »

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Its All Worship Joel Auge

Glory Glory was written in my “writing week”. As soon as Michelle had convinced me that I wasn’t finished writing songs for the church, around September of 2006, I wrote consistently every day for about a week. That just goes to show what a good wife can pull out of you :)  I went into super-content mode and songs seemed to just pour out. I was averaging about 3 complete songs/day... most of which were useless... but Glory Glory withstood the “wife test”. Michelle’s great because she has the ability to gauge which songs are “people songs”. Often the “artist” inside of me desires to “paint pictures” both musically and lyrically. Those songs a necessary purge for me, but they can be real obstacles to getting to material that can be shared by believers in a corporate or encouragement way. I owe this one to my lady. God is good - and He proves it by giving us good wives :)

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The story behind this song is unique.  We had written the tag at the end of the song which says, "We will fight for you, we would die for you, we will go for you," at a youth service and I remember all of our students screaming it out at the top of their lungs.  About the same time, our youth pastor, Jeremy Johnson, had been reciting this poem to ignite and motivate our students in their faith.

The motto of our youth ministry is Infiltrate, Destroy, Rebuild.  The concept is to infiltrate the powers of the world, destroy the darkness that is overtaking it, and rebuild it with the word of God.  This song has motivated many people to start the process and infiltrate this world for Jesus Christ.

-Sean Loche

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The Change is actually one of the first songs I had ever written.  I remember going to one of my greatest mentors, Jen Avelino, and saying, "I want to write a song that talks about a generation making a change..."  and that's pretty much what the song talks about.  As believers, we can make a difference for the kingdom of Christ.  I believe that the problem is that we are waiting for a revolution to happen and then we will jump on board, when really, a revolution begins with each of us.  When we all step out individually for the purpose of Jesus Christ, that is when we can really see a change happen in this nation and world.

-Sean Loche

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Its All Worship Worth Dying For