Music Video: John Mark McMillan - "Death In His Grave"

I think contemporary Christian music has reentered a place it hasn't been since the seventies in that the best music it has to offer is coming from the Church. Worship bands such as Gungor, The City Harmonic, Rend Collective Experiment, and Jesus Culture are making music that is much more raw and interesting and passionate than the schlock that mainstream Christian labels are signing and putting out.

One of the most exciting success stories of the past few years has been John Mark McMillan. He's too good, too interesting, and too weird to be on a Christian label. And yet he is. And it's Integrity Music, seemingly one of the most conservative labels around. But because he wrote one of the best worship songs of the past decade, "How He Loves", he is able to put out music as excellent as the stuff on his album The Medicine.

John Mark writes worship songs that don't rely on cliches like verses that start with "I fall on my knees" or choruses that only contain the word "holy". His music has challenged me as a songwriter and I hope it's doing the same for others. And the guitars on the album are phenomenal. John Mark's lead guitarist James Duke gets some of the best tone I have heard.

Check out a great video, recorded live (I like it just a bit more than the album version), of the song "Death In His Grave".

"Sunday's Coming" Trailer

This is so good I'm gonna post it here, on Twitter, and on Facebook. But I'll start here and wonder (as always) if anyone even visits my blog.



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I'm glad Tim Hughes wrote this song.

Questions (When The Tears Fall)

I've had questions without answers
I've known sorrow I have known pain
But there's one thing that I'll cling to
You are faithful Jesus You're true

When hope is lost I'll call You Savior
When pain surrounds I'll call You healer
When silence falls You'll be the song
Within my heart

In the lone hour of my sorrow
Through the darkest night of my soul
You surround me and sustain me
My defender forevermore

When hope is lost I'll call You Savior
When pain surrounds I'll call You healer
When silence falls You'll be the song
Within my heart

I will praise You I will praise You
When the tears fall still I will sing to You
I will praise You Jesus praise You
Through the suff'ring still I will sing

When hope is lost I'll call You Savior
When pain surrounds I'll call You healer
When silence falls
You'll be the song within my heart