Jesus Music

Jesus Music is maintained by Sarah. It is her collection of music about, or that inspires the thought of, Jesus.

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Like a homeless baby in distress  Jesus walked into the fray  To prove a reconciling way 

The Word | Steve Schallert

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In as much as you've done it to the least of my brethren You've done it unto Me

The Sheep and The Goats | Keith Green

This track from Keith Green is an expansion of Jesus' message in Matthew 25. I'm reading a book right now that also talks about this passage (Undiluted by Benjamin L. Corey), which adds, "While it's not the doing that gets us in, the doing is what shows we have a heart that has been reconciled to God's way of doing things."

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Take a whole or a part of me And ask for my help

For My Help | Hayden Calnin

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Leave it behind You are more You are mine

Needed | Kingslynn

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Slow to anger, merciful  Yahweh, Yahweh Abounding in love, oh faithful one

Carry Your Name | A Jesus Church

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Don’t want to be here without you I need to know you believe in me

Atonement | Anberlin

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Lord, please keep making me

Keep Making Me | Sidewalk Prophets

This is such a neat stop-motion animation music video, as suggested by nathaniatan.

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Any recommendations for music encouraging us to live like Jesus?

'Jesus, you love us/We love you' songs are nice, but it's so hard to find anything else. What are your favorites?

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I’ll give my life and soul for you

Death | Tales of Olde

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My sin does not belong to me  The King of Love has set me free  He’s taken off my filthy rags  And brought me in the family

In The Family | Rivers & Robots

I am in love with the 70s-inspired sound of this song.

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We are orphans no longer

Sons and Daughters | Tongue&Pen

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Take me to church  I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies  I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife  Offer me that deathless death  Good God, let me give you my life 

Take Me To Church | Hozier

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This is the most important music video I've seen in recent memory. It tells the story of a gay couple being targeted and assaulted. (While it is short, not much is shown, and it would probably garner a PG-13 rating, it is stressful to watch and could be triggering.) The video alludes to Russia's laws and the video-taped targeted violence that occurs there, but LGBTQA people suffer from physical abuse everywhere. That violence is a result of cultures that do not value and love all people, and encourage an 'us vs. them' mentality.

As a Christian in America I can tell you, I have wrongly participated in a culture like that. When the Bible is used to ostracize people it is a heartbreaking misuse of its purpose to bring life and love. If Jesus were alive today you can bet he'd have a lesbian best friend and when Christians commented he'd ask 'who among you can throw the first stone?'

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Your grace crashes over me like a wave Out at sea And I’m caught underneath Into the stream of Your love, I go

Into Your Love, I Go | Seeker & Servant

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Steve Schallert is Kickstarting a worship album, and you should check it out. He led worship for my Discipleship Training School when I was first in YWAM, so I can tell you from experience that he facilitates some uniquely personal and justice-minded worship. In his own words...

"'SONGS OF SORROW / SONGS OF HOPE' is my attempt to reaffirm the place of lamentation within the world of congregational worship music. My prayer is that these songs, songs written all over the world in all kind of circumstances, will be both a comfort and a challenge to communities of faith. A comfort and affirmation for all of us who mourn and struggle and weep and doubt and a challenge for us all to love deeper and wider and more recklessly. These are songs of tension and weakness, songs of compassion and praise and protest… and I invite you to join me as I seek to bring them to life."

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On this mountain  By the water  No one else can touch her  But God 

On This Mountain | the Soil & the Sun

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Light intervened

Grace for Succesion | Extol

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Now we are come to the sun’s hour of rest; The lights of evening round us shine; We hymn the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit divine!

Phos Hilaron | Imago Dei Music