ChristianDance

Grace is stronger than the grudge  “Forgiving You For Me” by Lauren Gruwell is a song written by Pat Melfi, and it’s the fourth release for Lauren’s upcoming album. The theme of the song touches a truth many people seem to want to avoid or just don’t realize. Forgiveness isn’t about the other person at all. Lauren sings about carrying someone’s words “like stones in my chest,” replaying memories that stole her rest. Sound familiar? Most of us have held a grudge, convinced it gave us control. But that is control built on bitterness, and that negativity will always cause it to collapse. That negativity is like a bad spot on an apple. If you don’t take it out, it will continue to affect everything around it…  The song captures the moment when holding on stops feeling like justice and starts feeling like a prison. Then comes the whisper: “This isn’t justice, this is your soul.” That’s the shift we need to make. To stop the negative energy from spiralling through us and contamina...

Can His goodness hold you when you stumble? Picture the wind that picks up, the sun dropping below the horizon, and a darkness that creeps into every corner. That’s the opening image of “The Good” by Jensen & Company, a picture of ordinary life. Heidi Jensen North wrote this song to capture something rare: angelic intervention and the hearts of everyday people working together to bring even more love and compassion into the world! You don’t need wings to do that. You just need to show up.  The chorus repeats: “God is the good — the light the way.” That’s not a general idea or a theory. It’s a heartbeat. Heidi sings, He’s “the heart that beats in me and you.” That makes it personal, and it’s something that we can use daily to make the world around us a better place.    The song connects directly to Psalm 34:8: “Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!” Tasting means experiencing, not just believing from a distance. Have yo...

Does God really hear me when I pray? Grief has a way of making you feel unseen. Fishburn’s Bukra project wrestles with that feeling head-on. The song before this one, “Take It Away,” sits inside the grief and pain. “Pray To Me” is Jesus’ answer to our struggles & pain here on earth… He says just “Pray To Me” and He’ll hear them. Jesus isn’t a distant, unreachable figure. He’s close. He’s looking at you.  Fishburn sings: “When your heart is weak, I will hear you speak.” No conditions. No waiting for you to get your act together first. Just come as you are, “hands up, head down,” pray and watch what he will do.  In Philippians 4:6–7 we read: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” Anxious thoughts spiral fast; that’s in our nature. One worry breeds three more before breakfast. The apostle Paul doesn’t tell you to suppress that spiral — he tells you where to send it… Make it...

Reverence isn’t fear — it’s recognition. Some songs whisper. “One True God” by Chase Skeleton shouts. “One True God” pulses with the kind of energy that belongs cranked up in a car, windows down, yet the words underneath are pure worship. The song names God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three in one, and doesn’t let that truth stay quiet. “Almighty Father, righteous you reign” is a declaration, and declarations change how you see and walk through life. The lyrics name what God is already doing: “giving every sinner chances to heal,” “changing hearts so they can learn to see,” giving “restless souls the peace to be still.” That’s real problems being solved. Read what Colossians 1:17 says about Christ: “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” Everything you’re carrying today — the deadline, the diagnosis, the doubt — it holds together in Him, no matter how tight you grip it. Ask yourself, do you believe that, or are you just reciting it because others expec...

Choosing Jesus isn’t a one-time decision. Running can feel so much safer than staying, especially when the road ahead looks dark. Marisel knew that dark road ahead quite well. “I Choose You” by Marisel started as one of her earliest originals, and years later she brought it back to life with a fresh arrangement, because the message itself never got old: “trust God’s love and choose Him daily, no matter the season of life” . The lyrics open with an honest confession —  “All I knew was to run from you”  — pain had built walls that were too thick to climb. Does it sound familiar? Maybe you’ve done (or are still doing) the same thing, dodging God instead of running to Him. The chorus is a turning point. Marisel sings “Guide me to the light // I know there will be pain these nights // But I will be alright // Your joy will come with the sweet sunrise.” This isn’t a denial of pain, but a decision made in spite of the pain to trust God. We can read about similar crossroads that Joshua faced ...

Do you know you’re carrying something sacred? Moses watched a cloud lead his people through the desert. David danced through the streets, undignified, as the ark of God rolled into town. Both scenes point to the same longing: to be near the presence of God. Overland Missions Music captures that longing on their acoustic album “The Prodigal” with a groovy, joy-filled track about a truth many believers forget. In the acoustic version of their song “I’m A Temple,” they sing, “Now the Spirit lives inside of me // And you can’t get him out.” There’s no cloud needed, and there’s no ark to chase after: “The clouds no more, ’cause the Holy Ghost lives in me.” The Holy Ghost also wants to live inside of you. The apostle Paul told the Corinthian church something radical: “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?” (1 Corinthians 6:19). Your body — not a building, not a mountain, not a sacred cloud — carries the presence of the living G...

Have you ever wondered if you’re loved unconditionally?   Every heart searches for something more. We all know that hunger, chasing answer after answer, yet never finding a worldly reply that satisfies our hunger. In “For God So Loved the World,” Gresha Schuilling sings about how she heard the voice of Jesus. Not as a set of rules or a religious formula. A Love that reaches out to us through the darkness, and calls us home. The end of that search is captured in the chorus: “For God so loved the world, He gave His only Son, that all who believe in Him shall live on.” To most of us, this scripture passage isn’t new, we’ve heard it quoted so many times. The apostle John wrote it two thousand years ago: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). “Whoever…” , not the perfect. Not the “put-together”. You and me, we’re all equal… Everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life! Hold on to ...