"Mary Did You Know?"

Here is the latest S2S and you've probably heard the song before, but it has a great message and story. I hope you enjoy listening to it. If you haven't heard it before, take it in, it's good.

Newsong - "Christmas Shoes"

I have a feeling that a number of you have heard this song. I consider it the "I Can Only Imagine" of Christmas songs. There are no lyrics included here because I think they are pretty clear in the song and many of you may have already heard the song. I hope you enjoy it.

Mercy Me - "Joseph's Lullaby"

I thought about combining a general posting with this but decided against it. Anyway, here is the latest song I've chosen to post. This is a song I only hear around Christmas and it's a great song by Mercy Me called "Joseph's Lullaby." I hope you enjoy it.

Lifehouse - "Everything"

This time you have two videos to watch. The first one below is the song with lyrics, so you can hear the song and get its message. The second one is a powerful skit that was performed to the song. I'm not sure when or where it was performed, but it is amazing. I first saw it a while back and then just came across it again this past week. If you only have time to watch one of the videos, I highly recommend you watch the skit...it is much more powerful.

I know I said I was going to start doing Christmas songs after Thanksgiving, but I wanted to share this since I came across it and didn't want to pass the opportunity up. I hope it hits you as hard as the first time I saw it.

Brandon Heath - "Give Me Your Eyes"

If you were in church a few weeks ago, you heard Bryan sing this song. It is a great song and, like the other I have posted before, has a great message about trying to see things through God's eyes, which is pretty much impossible for us humans. I hope you enjoy the song. By the way, this is the actual video for the song. Lyrics are below.


Lyrics | Brandon Heath lyrics - Give Me Your Eyes lyrics

Mercy Me - "You Reign"

Here is the next installment on S2S. This is from Mercy Me, which has had many great songs. You've probably heard their biggest one "I Can Only Imagine." This one is called "You Reign" (this appears to be the official video...lyrics are scrolling separately below) and feels to be a song for me personally right now as I have been struggling with myself much more than normal lately. It's a good reminder that he is in control and that even though, often times things seem to be not what we want, He is still good to us.


Lyrics | Mercyme lyrics - You Reign lyrics

S2S in honor of Andrew - Mark Schultz "He's My Son"

There has been some sad news for many in our church this week. An 18-year old young man named Andrew passed away this past Monday night from cancer. He was diagnosed about 10 months ago from what I've read in a friend's blog. While I was not lucky enough to have known him personally, I can see what a great person he was through my friends at church who did know him. I thought this song would be appropriate to post in his honor despite the fact that I did not know him. Just in case you haven't heard this song, you may want to grab some tissues.

Third Day - "Revelation"

Here is another great song from Third Day called "Revelation." The lyrics are below the song in case you want to know what they are I hope you enjoy.



- Third Day Lyrics

Tenth Avenue North - "By Your Side"

Here is the second song of the S2S series. This is definitely one of my favorite songs right now. The first time I heard this song, I was caught up in it instantly. The music is great and the lyrics are powerful. I'm not sure what else to say so I'll let the song speak for itself.

Robbie Seay Band - "Song of Hope"

I'm excited to start something new here on my humble little blog. It comes from something I did earlier this year with a group from my church for spiritual formation. I would weekly share a song via link in an e-mail where they could then listen to the song and hopefully get something out of it.

Now I'm trying to open it up to a bigger audience and maybe even turn it into a ministry of sorts. This is why I have enabled a new feature on my blog where you can e-mail the posting to any of your friends and others. I'm also looking for feedback which you can do by e-mailing me or posting a comment on my blog. I have to approve comments before they are posted on the blog so if you respond that way and don't want me to post it, just let me know and I'll keep it off the site.

What I'll be doing is posting videos of songs that I think have a powerful message. Some of the videos will be official videos and others will be more along the lines of what we do in our church during worship where there are pictures or videos playing behind the words. The words are my main focus on the songs I post here as they are what convey the message of the music.

I've already got 5 songs I'm ready to share and I'm not going to limit it to one per week. So, on with the first song...

I have chosen "Song of Hope" by Robbie Seay Band to be the first song partly because I will be attending the concert they are doing at our church on Wednesday night. I never go to concerts so I'm excited about this being at a place that is familiar to me and that I love going to. This song is also very appropriate with all that is going on in the world right now with the economic issues worldwide and a new president about to come into office who has been associated with bringing hope with him. We can all use some hope during the tough times and there are plenty of tough time to go around right now. I hope you enjoy this song (it is not the official video, but rather along the lines of having pictures behind the words).