Growing up I have had a different childhood than many. I say this knowing I have been blessed with my circumstances, yet still understanding it has been different. I have an older brother named Caleb who has severe autism, muscular dystrophy, and other disabilities. I often say despite the challenges […]
Author: JFH
“Sanity” by Kyra Isaacs
I struggled with emotional and mental illness for about a year and a half. It was really overwhelming for me because like many may feel in that space, it felt like God was nowhere to be found. Until I came across this incredible scripture in the book of John chapter […]
“Dance Upon the Promise” by John Harter of The War Within
The overarching collective grief shared across generations and cultures during our current international crisis is truly something I haven’t experienced in my lifetime. Having been saved almost 12 years ago, I consider myself someone who lives each day with a great deal of hope – however, even I have had […]
“Perspective” by Sajan Nauriyal
I remember lying on the ground with my heart beating out of my chest. Staring at the ceiling seemed to be the only thing I was capable of doing in an effort to calm down from the intense panic that gripped not only my mind, but my body. It felt […]
“God Is With Us In The Mystery” by Ian Yates
There’s a lot mystery around us There’s a lot of mystery to our faith I’ve been a Christian most of my life and I’ve been at my current church for over 30 years, yet if I’m totally honest I often feel like I know less now than I’ve ever done. […]
“Trusting God Through Covid-19” by Lance Asher of Foothills Collective
I don’t know about you, but this whole season of dealing with COVID-19 has been pretty wild for me. Even as I sit down to write this, I have an undeniable feeling that I will be learning from this season for many years to come. There is something deeply unsettling […]
“Giving Grief a Voice with the Stages of Grief EP” by Frankie Orella
I was 17 when my mom died after a 5-year battle with breast cancer. It was one of those “expected but not expected” scenarios. One day she was at work, and the next her doctor told us the stage 4 metastatic breast cancer had consumed her liver and she had […]
“The Songs of Shaping Season, Pt. 1: He Reaches to the Depths of Us” by Benjamin Daniel
Shaping Season is a two-volume project of songs that I wrote roughly between mid-2016 to mid-2018. The first volume was released April 17, 2020. The second volume is set to be released toward the end of 2020 or by the beginning of 2021. What follows is a track-by-track breakdown of […]
“Daily Communion” Song Story by Nathan Vincent
Daily Communion was a song written out of a critical heart towards the ritual of communion. A little bit of background about me…. my father was a Baptist minister and church planter from 2003 to 2015. I was raised in the church and grew up pretty critical of it. And […]
“Make This Right” Song Story by Lynn
All of my life I have loved the Lord. I have always walked with him, worshiped him, and relied on him. Even when I would start to wander, nothing compared to who he is for me. But you know those times, within our humanity, that we can’t seem to get […]