Redemption Songs

I found this article in WORLD magazine (great publication by the way). I thought it was very interesting, and that this band was saying something that I have long said. We don't need to make everyone feel comfortable, we need to challenge them to live the faith. We are too caught up in the world's way of doing things, and not enough people are willing to truly sell out to God.

The band is Jars of Clay. I have liked most of thier stuff. Good lyrics, not just "praise God, he gives me what I want" but deep, passionate, and artistic. They don't say alot straight out, they make you think. Their newest album sound interesting, like something I will like.

Rejecting modern praise music, Redemption Songs revives old hymns that focus on man's desperate need and the centrality of "who Christ is." Mr. Odmark, the guitarist, argued that "modern Christian music is focused on what we contribute and what we bring to God–I sing this, I give this–where hymns just have a way of saying 'I am evil, born in sin / Thou desirest truth within.'" That's why he likes hymns like John Newton's "Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder."

Anyway, check out the article, and then hey, check out the band. "Furthermore" is a great 2 cd album (one a studio recording and re recording of songs, the other a live performance, which is really cool!).

Oh, they also happen to be members of the PCA church, and hold to a Reformed theology, which is cool. Caedmon's Call does too...