My friend Katie and I had the pleasure of discovering Nora Jane Struthers when she performed with her band, The Party Line, for the Blue Plate Special in Knoxville. This specific song is definitely more "modern country" sounding than bluegrass, but it had the best video!

This band is a new find for me. Have you heard of them before? I'm really enjoying their songs and I hope you will too!

It's been fun rediscovering music from my childhood as I enter back into that world with our boy. Of course, I wasn't listening to Mumford as a kid, but I do remember mom singing this song!

There's so much mainstream Christian music that makes me cringe and quickly change the station when it comes on the radio, but there's also some popular Christian bands who make me reach for the volume button, turn it up louder than is probably good for my ears, and turn an otherwise ordinary moment into a powerful one of worship. This song falls into that second category. 

Love, love, love this acoustic version! I can never listen to it just once. I'd love to hear a large congregation lifting up this song to heaven.

I have gone looking for a Savior. I have found myself in desperate need of a God that was bigger than my pain, my fear, and my circumstances. I've been in a place where what I thought I knew about Him was undone and I had to go searching for what was actually true. I have gone looking for a Savior I could know.

These lyrics + their harmonies = one powerful song. 

Christ knows you. He knows it all. And gosh does He love you fully. That is ridiculously wonderful news!

Some things you can only learn in the dark....

Due to our brokenness, our pain, our simple humanness, we can't help but assign Him qualities and characteristics that simply aren't true.  God will not be completely understood by any of us until we see Him face to face. That's intimidating and downright scary. Because we cannot control God, we often design a safer god that is more relatable and comfortable, but in the end, that's really dangerous. God is who He is, not who we make Him out to be.