Written by: Laura Chambers (4/27/2016) When you look into a night sky in the middle of nowhere, or even during a blackout, it’s hard not to be struck by the beauty of the heavens. To think that all of those stars were created by God individually, separated by a vast [...]
Written by: Laura Chambers (4/20/2016) There’s a line from the song “Big Yellow Taxi” that goes “Don’t it always seem to go/That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone”. That doesn’t just go for paved-over paradises, either. When you’ve had something all your life, you tend to take it [...]
Written by: Laura Chambers (3/30/2016) Spring is the season of new beginnings. Baby animals take their first shaky steps into the unknown world; the earth is renewed with melting of snow and rain showers; children grow one year older; and you finally clean out that closet you promised you’d get [...]
Written by: Laura Chambers (3/9/2016) What can you do when it seems that the very thing which brought you together is now pulling you apart? Well, if you’re Austin and Lindsey Adamec, you put out an EP about it. The once solo artist and his wife, formerly of 1 Girl [...]
Written by: Laura Chambers (3/8/2016) Our lives are defined by seasons. The cold winds of winter; the fragrant beauty of springtime; the humid air of summer; the bright colors of autumn. Despite a few anomalous weather patterns that suggest otherwise, these seasons are usually pretty clearly defined on the calendar. [...]
Written by: Laura Chambers (2/25/2016) Every genre of music, sooner or later, is going to be picked up on by Christians and used to bring glory to God. It’s just one of those things that happens, like the changing of the seasons. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying that’s [...]
Written by: Laura Chambers (1/22/2016) To plumb the depths of a broken, wounded soul for artistic inspiration seems unthinkable on the surface; poking a tender injury over and over to satisfy one’s muse. Yet how many works of art have sprung from pain, longing, loss, despair? Deeper is no exception. Meredith [...]
Written by: Laura Chambers (1/27/2016) Cities are the center of every problem known to man. Poverty. Hunger. Violence. Greed. Illness. Whether it’s merely more noticeable in large numbers, or amplified in intensity is a debate for another time. Before we can do anything for those who dwell in our metropolises, we [...]
Written by: Laura Chambers (1/8/216) Passion returns with its latest selection of tracks conceived to stir up our desire for more of God’s presence. Salvation’s Tide Is Rising follows in the footsteps of the worship group’s annual series of projects that brings together artists from the sixstepsrecords brand. Instead of recording [...]
Written by: Laura Chambers (8/13/2015) Faith. It’s small as a seed in a God bigger than the universe. It’s what prompted a broken woman to reach out for the hem of Jesus’ robe some 2,000 years ago. What pulled Peter out of the boat and onto the waves [...]
