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And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it. And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. The guards shook for fear of him and became like dead men. The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified. He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said.”
-Matthew 28: 2-6
He arrived on the earth an enigma, the presumed illegitimate son of a carpenter.
The baby slipped into the world in a stable, lauded by a heavenly choir and a group of shepherds. Everyone else in Bethlehem and beyond missed the royal birth.
His presence came to Herod’s attention via astronomers who had been alerted by the appearance of a bright star in the sky and were searching for Him. Worried his title “King of the Jews” might be usurped by a Hebrew upstart, the king sent soldiers throughout Judea to slaughter all Jewish boys under the age of two.
Jesus and His family were already gone, having been warned by God to flee to Egypt.
The child grew up in a town beyond the shadow of the temple meant to represent God’s dwelling place. No one thought to look for God at a carpenter’s workbench. An obedient son, a builder like the man who raised him, He must have appeared quiet, common, resigned to a life working with wood.
The year He turned twelve, His family went up to Jerusalem with a group of relatives and friends to celebrate the Feast of Passover. On their way back, they assumed He was with someone else in the group. At the end of the first day’s journey, they couldn’t find Him. They returned to Jerusalem and searched for Him. After a desperate search, they found Him in the temple, listening to the teachers and asking them questions.
When Joseph and Mary saw Him, they were bewildered; and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You treated us this way? Behold, Your father and I have been anxiously looking for You!” And He said to them, “Why is it that you were looking for Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”
-Luke 2:48-49
During His time on Earth, Jesus the Christ called Himself the “son of man.”
The Gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke use this term sixty-nine times. Setting aside the rights and privileges He possessed as Creator, Life-giver, and Word of God, He poured Himself into a jar fashioned from the dust of the earth. From this vessel He emptied Himself into the work of redemption.
The Son of Man confounded the educated, healed the broken, upturned the tables of those who profaned His house, and raised the dead. He sat with sinners and shunned the throne of a king. He healed the wound of a soldier who came to arrest Him. He refused the angelic backup waiting to rescue Him from death and took the place of a common criminal.
He was never where He was expected to be but always at the right place. He spent His final hours on an executioner’s cross. His body lay three days in a tomb meant for another man.
On the third day, the women came to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus, expecting to find Him lying on the cold stone in grave clothes. The Roman guards had ensured no one breached the sealed stone over the opening. Then the place was shattered by an earthquake and the stone was rolled away by a fearsome angel who quieted their fears with these words, “Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified. He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said.”
Once again, they looked for God in all the wrong places. The angel didn’t roll the stone away from the tomb of Jesus to let Him out, but to let humanity in on the most momentous event in history.
…concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord….
-Romans 1:3-4
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I love the message of this song and the collaboration with Jason Dunn is perfect. Pay close attention to the lyrics, they’re very encouraging. Go ahead and get addicted because this one’s for you! Listen below and on our Most Addictive Song (for now) playlist HERE.
Most Addictive Song (for now) – Grace Graber “This One’s for You” feat Jason Dunn
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Nashville, TN/Charlotte, NC (MARCH 31, 2023) -Today ELEVATION RHYTHM introduces a new song, “You Will Be Saved,” available at all DSPs (listen here). This song and the previously released “PRAISES,” will both appear on the sophomore album, This Is the Gospel, which will release on April 14th. The upcoming release is available for pre-add/pre-save here. The group’s new seven-track collection follows ELEVATION RHYTHM’s first full-length offering, Growing Pains. But unlike their emotionally-focused debut, This Is The Gospel is not only a work of art but a testament to faith.
“I felt this call and this responsibility to say, ‘OK, if the next generation needs a foundation for their faith, what does that foundation look like? What is the Gospel? What are the pillars? What is the truth?,” shares ELEVATION RHYTHM’s lead architect and primary producer, Josh Holiday. “I just knew this next album had to be truth-centered, and I wanted to create music that was going to be foundational for this next generation in their faith journey.”
The new track that dropped today is a straightforward opus and a simple invitation of salvation. In addition to the song being available, the live performance video is available now on YouTube.
Holiday continues, “Knowing Jesus as a Savior is so humbling. I never want to get to a place where I feel like I don’t need saving. I never want to live that lie. This song isn’t just a salvation call for sinners. We all need to be saved. It’s for the lost — for the one — but it’s also to remind the 99, hey, don’t ever think you don’t need a Savior.”
Repentance. Salvation. Sanctification. Wrapped in timeless melodies, these essential tenets of faith are all presented in an elementary manner on This Is The Gospel with ELEVATION RHYTHM declaring: This is what we believe.
ELEVATION RHYTHM continues to hit the road this spring for Lecrae’s “The Final Church Clothes Tour” and on Elevation Nights with their sister collective Elevation Worship and their pastor Steven Furtick. You can find a full list of travel dates for ELEVATION RHYTHM here.
ELEVATION RHYTHM new album “This Is the Gospel” releases April 14th
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — With her Conversations EP, singer and songwriter Grace Graber is continuing to open up a dialog about faith, mental health and her own story of survival.
“The Conversations EP was written from a place of finally sharing with the world how much I was struggling with my own mental health,” Grace Graber offers candidly. “I felt like people knew me as the girl who was excited and passionate about Jesus and church, all the stereotypes of a Christian woman. In reality, I was still hurting a lot. I turned to drinking and other ways to self-medicate.”
That bracing honesty served as the starting place for a collection of songs that offer a lifeline to anyone experiencing the same shadows. Title track “Conversations” was born from that place of secret struggle. Grace had just written the song “Do it for Me” with Holly Halliwell, clinging to the track record of a God who is constantly “making new things out of the dust.” That session led them into a raw conversation in which Grace admitted that she knew she needed to go back on medication for anxiety.
Paired together, “Do it for Me” and “Conversations” are the compass points that orient the collision of personal pain with God’s comforting light. This is carried through in “The Light,” a hopeful song that is indicative of Grace’s venture back into her punk pop roots. For Grace, dialing up the guitars is an act of freedom, a return to her more authentic self.
After all, Christian pop punk started everything for Grace.
When Grace Graber was a suicidal teenager struggling with PTSD, it was music that gave her the ability to survive— specifically, a Hawk Nelson song. That’s why when Grace wrote the testimony song “This One’s For You” with Chris Cleveland (Stars Go Dim) and Tony Wood (Colton Dixon, Big Daddy Weave), it felt like having original Hawk Nelson singer Jason Dunn guest feature would bring it all full circle.
Fortunately, she knew a few people who offered to make the fall. Soon Jason was recording his part on “This One’s For You” from Canada, lending his voice once again to Grace Graber’s story.
“I’m literally singing my story with the person who saved my life,” Grace reflects, her voice full of emotion. “The lyrics that Jason sings are just so perfect because verse 2 talks about how he’s got a long way to go. He had a whole life with Hawk Nelson, and now he has a whole other life with his family. I think it represents so perfectly how much I can still learn from him.”
In the same way that musicians like Jason Dunn have modeled a life of candor and faithfulness for Grace, the rising songwriter is now doing the same for her own listeners. With every story of brokenness made while in her own life, Grace hopes to communicate the way that’s possible for everyone.
“These are all my thoughts, these are all my words, but it’s all just a representation of what God is able to do in anyone,” she concludes, reflecting over the divine personal touches God put all over the project. “This is anointing that I cannot take credit for. It’s about what God wants to do in His people, specifically through mental health. I’m not doing music for me, to get on radio, to get signed. I’m doing music to save lives.”
With that heart held front and center, Grace has seen the right people come around her to support her vision— even as an independent artist. In addition to her co-writers, Grace worked with producer Blake Cross in Nashville to record the songs. She’s working with Faith Artist Agency to book concerts and speaking events. And she is keeping the conversations going with a second season of her podcast on the NewReleaseToday network.
From Grace’s view, “Staying independent for this project and still seeing God move is a miracle in itself.”
“Emotionally, it’s been very healing,” she adds, looking at this new era of her music and ministry. “Eye-opening. It’s guiding me in what I know I need to say for the rest of my life. This has sparked a conversation that might never end.”
You can stream the Conversations EP by finding it at https://slinky.to/Conversations starting March 31. For more from Grace, follow her on Facebook and Instagram, where her authentic discussion of her story has given her widespread reach.
Grace Graber releases heartfelt Conversations EP, including new track featuring Hawk Nelson founder Jason Dunn
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Disciple has released the new song “Bad Words,” the latest track from forthcoming album Skeleton Psalms, which is due out from BEC Recordings on April 28. Along with the new song, the band launched vinyl and CD preorders. You can stream “Bad Words” and find all preorder and presave options at https://ffm.bio/disciple.
“Bad Words” is a blistering rocker touting a subversive message about what we are and aren’t allowed to say.
“We really like to write songs that make people excited about their faith,” band lead singer and founder Kevin Young shares. “Hopefully, not make people annoying, abusive or violent Christians. More that they’ve set the constitution of their heart to where they are unashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ: I am going to love you. I’m going to love you no matter your political party, or your race, or any other kind of adjective that separates you from someone else. For God so loved the world, and therefore I so love the world.”
He continues, “But if you think it’s a bad word for rme to say Jesus? I just need you to know that I’m going to say what I believe, because of my love and my passion for Him and my love and my passion for people. That they need to know that there is a God. And He did not come to the world to condemn the world, but He came to the world to save them. That’s our message: this bad word known as Jesus.”
“Jesus
The Ghost that haunts my house
That drives my demons out
The only hope for me
Is found in just one name.”
You can watch the full lyric video on YouTube.
Like the rest of the album, “Bad Words” was created in house: produced by guitarist Josiah Prince at his studio The Ranch, written by Kevin Young, Andrew Stanton (guitar) and Josiah Prince, with drums from Joey West and additional backing vocal support from touring bassist Marco Pera. The band called on mix engineer Nick Rad (Skillet) and mastering engineer Sam Moses (Tenth Avenue North) to round out the creative team.
The song follows the release of “Promise to Live” and “The Executioner,” which just recently topped CMW’s Christian Rock chart. The band also just wrapped a stint on Winter Jam Tour, playing 40 arenas around the country. Currently, in addition to preparing for the release of Skeleton Psalms on April 28, Disciple is playing both rock sets and leading worship through their other musical project Honor & Glory. You can find a full list of tour dates at disciplerocks.com/tour.
For more from Disciple, you can follow them on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
Disciple releases new song “Bad Words” alongside preorder of upcoming album Skeleton Psalms
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