When I was eighteen I spent some time in Mozambique, Africa living with three hundred orphans. While sitting with some of the poorest people on the planet, I learned about the portion of God’s heart that is about individuality. Christ’s heart is to stop for the one, the proof is […]
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“When A Music Video Makes You A Fan” by John DiBiase
There are many different ways fans of an artist can discover the artists they become fans of. When I was a teen, music video shows — like Signal Exchange and CCMtv — were big parts of my after school television viewing and I would be subject to music videos of […]
Ten of Michael Weaver’s Top Favorite Songs of All Time
After reading John’s list of Top 10 songs, I was inspired. I was inspired by his openness and felt like I had gained a new and better understanding of him. This caused me to look back over the songs that have really spoken to me. I couldn’t do an injustice to what John had […]
“Progress Report on Falling Up’s ‘Machine De Ella’ (Review)” by Nathaniel Schexnayder
Last year, Falling Up released possibly their best album to date, Your Sparkling Death Cometh. Earlier this year, the band threw a bone to fans in the form of the hit and miss remix project Mnemos. Now, Falling Up is using their independence to release their newsiest endeavor in a unique way. Their Machine De Ella […]
We Recommend: Glassbyrd, “Open Wide This Window”
“God Of Wonders” is sung every Sunday morning somewhere in the Western world (and beyond). But not many folks singing it would know the great artistic histories of its two songwriters, Steve Hindalong of longtime Christian Music vets The Choir and Marc Byrd, formerly of Common Children and half of […]
10 Years Later: Underoath, “The Changing of Times”
I think it to be highly appropriate to write a blog like this about a band who has recently announced their break up, simultaneously breaking the hearts of many music fans (though with all the understanding in the world from said fans). Ten years ago, one of the best things […]
We Recommend: Big Tent Revival, “Open All Nite”
My dad is about as blue collar a guy as you’re likely to meet. As a fisherman in Maine, he has owned almost twenty different pickup trucks in my life time (and surely many more before I was born) and a wardrobe made up of ten pairs of jeans and […]
We Recommend: Bebo Norman, “Myself When I Am Real”
Ten years ago, then-Essential Records folk pop artist Bebo Norman released one of his best projects, Myself When I Am Real. When Bebo first debuted, his music was considerably more stripped-down and folk-based than people have probably come to know him for in recent years. By 2002, Myself When I Am Real was probably the […]
10 Years Later: Newsboys, “Thrive”
In many ways, Thrive marked the end of a chapter of the Newsboys story. It was the last album of all-original material that the classic Take Me To Your Leader lineup would make together (sans John James, of course). After Thrive, the lads from Australia (well, mostly) would go on to make a few worship albums (with some […]
Ten of John DiBiase’s Top Favorite Songs of All Time
About a year or so–maybe even longer now–the JFH staff talked about compiling our top, favorite songs in Christian music of all-time. They’d be songs each staff member had chosen on a personal level, and we’d comment on why we chose those songs. Recently, and I forget exactly what brought […]