Today, on Easter Sunday, I was thinking about my blog I wrote highlighting my top 10 favorite songs of all time. I thought maybe it’d be time to update it and reshare it. I looked through the JFH blog and found that I’d written it 10 years ago this year. […]
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“Noteworthy Kids: 50 Encouraging Notes Every Child Needs To Receive” Review
Communicating openly with our kids regularly is a crucial, yet challenging, task for many parents. When I was a kid, I loved that my mom and I would often exchange little notes on my bedroom desk, and I’d come home from school to find a new reply from her. (And […]
JFH 25: John Underdown’s Top 25 Petra Songs
In 1972, a group of young Christian men came together to form a band that would go on for over 30 years of ministry. In that time they released 20 studio albums (two of which went gold), won multiple Grammy and Dove awards, and had a wide reach of impact […]
JFH25: Josh’s Top 25 Sixpence None The Richer Songs
Sixpence None The Richer should get an award—if you know their story at all, you know it was one fraught with delay and frustration. They were (are?) a supremely talented band with poetic lyrics, the angelic voice of Leigh Nash, fantastic guitar work, and the right amount of melancholy. For […]
JFH25: Scott’s Top 25 Showbread Songs
Showbread is one of the most intriguing and divisive bands to ever exist in the world of Christian music. You might love them, you might think they’re weird, or you might love them and think they’re weird. Or you could just hate them – who knows? Regardless, their uniqueness is […]
JFH25: Josh’s Top 25 Relient K Songs
I certainly hope this isn’t the last we’ve heard from the Relient K fellas, but if it is then fans myself included have much for which to be thankful. What a body of work! At my last count their have recorded and released a whopping 193 songs in their time […]
JFH 25: Joel’s Top 25 Demon Hunter Songs
Metal titans Demon Hunter have nary a skippable song in their whole discography. Beginning in 2000, they’ve amassed ten full-length albums, remaining incredibly consistent throughout. They frequently cover darker themes such as death, pain, and depression, tapering them by either offering hope in Christ, or reversing it to show how […]
25 Years Later: Eric Champion, “Transformation”
As we continue to look back at the music that released when JFH was founded 25 years ago in 1996, an album that I often still come back to is Eric Champion‘s self-reinvention album, Transformation. (I think the very first iteration of JFH even had an image of Eric from […]
“100 Greatest Christian Albums of the 90s” by Josh Balogh
Ahhh, the 90s! What a decade of great music. Truth be told, though this is the decade of my formative years, and therefore my favorite overall decade of Christian music, I’ve put off making this list. Well, better said, I’ve delayed finishing this list for a long time. Many a […]
25 Years Later: Seven Day Jesus, “The Hunger”
JesusFreakHideout.com continues celebrating its 25th anniversary by looking back on the best and most important Christian music released in 1996. Today, we look back on one of the earliest releases from 5 Minute Walk Records and one of the most beloved independent Christian alternative albums from the era: The Hunger […]