This honestly couldn't have come at a better time.




You feel the isolation, slowly take a toll
This season of waiting, is starting to get old
Looking for acceptance, and aching for a home
So tired of trying to make it out on your own

There's no easy answer, but one thing you should know
You're not alone, anywhere you go
You're not alone, hear the voice whisper to your soul
A promise you can always hold:

You're not alone, no

You're stuck in a dive and you've almost had enough
Because of what you've been through, it's difficult to trust
You're still barely hanging on, trying hard to fight
If anybody's listening, you want to know tonight

There's no easy answer, but one thing you should know
You're not alone, anywhere you go
You're not alone, hear the voice whisper to your soul
A promise you can always hold:

You're not alone, no

You're not alone
You're not alone

Reach out, don't reach within
I'm it the door, if you just let me in
Reach out for what you need
What you won't find in yourself, you will find in me

You're not alone, hear the voice whisper to your soul
I'll never leave or let you go
You're not alone, I'm with you to the end
You're not alone, I'm closer than a friend
You're not alone, and I'm with you to the end
You're not alone, closer than a friend
You're not alone

for sjm [III]

Hokay. So it was brought to my attention tonight that it's been a little while since I last posted a list for sjm... sorry dear! Please forgive me.

The backstory on this playlist is quite simple: About a week ago, I sold my soul (but not really!) to Steve Jobs, and bought an iPhone4. I have since discovered the joys of having iTunes at my fingertips, and have purchased altogether too much music. So, off the Purchased playlist on my new iPhone:


Format: Song - Artist (Album)

You Don't Know Me - Anna Wilson feat. Matt Giraud (Countrypolitain Duets)
Teenage Dream - Glee Presents: The Warblers
Hey, Soul Sister - Glee Presents: The Warblers
Blackbird - Glee Presents: The Warblers
Raise Your Glass - Glee Presents: The Warblers
One Of Us - Glee, The Music Vol. 4
Stronger - Glee, The Music Vol. 4
Loser Like Me - Glee, The Music Vol. 5
Get It Right - Glee, The Music Vol.5
Take Me Or Leave Me - Glee, The Music Vol.5
Airplanes - B.o.B. feat. Haley Williams
Alice (Extended Edition) - Avril Lavigne (Goodbye Lullaby)
Firework - Katy Perry (Teenage Dream)
Teenage Dream - Katy Perry (Teenage Dream)
Rolling In The Deep - Adele (21)
Rumour Has It - Adele (21)
Turning Tables - Adele (21)
Don't You Remember - Adele (21)
Set Fire To The Rain - Adele (21)
He Won't Go - Adele (21)
Take It All - Adele (21)
I'll Be Waiting - Adele (21)
One And Only - Adele (21)
Lovesong - Adele (21)
Someone Like You - Adele (21)
I Found A Boy - Adele (21)

...as you can probably tell, I've been on a real sing-along kick lately, and Glee and Adele have served their purpose quite well in getting me to sing along to super powerful singers. And that's where it's at for me now. Ima go belt something along the lines of Take Me Or Leave Me (the Glee version, of course) now...

Peace all!

for sjm [II]

Ohmigosh, has it been more than a month since I promised this follow-up?! Shoot. Please forgive me, SJM.

The backstory on this, my rock out with your...pants on playlist, is that the guys at work have been going through a real girly-pop-slash-dance-music phase lately, and B's ipod was broken for a while, and I was the only other one with such songs. Therefore, I ended up with this forever etched on my list of playlists.

Format: Song - Artist (Album)

Blah Blah Blah - Ke$ha (Animal)
Your Love Is My Drug - Ke$ha (Animal)
Tik Tok - Ke$ha (Animal)
Take It Off - Ke$ha (Animal)
Kiss N Tell - Ke$ha (Animal)
Stephen - Ke$ha (Animal)
Dinosaur - Ke$ha (Animal)
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes - Ke$ha (Animal)
Boots & Boys - Ke$ha (Animal)
Animal - Ke$ha (Animal)
Cannibal - Ke$ha (Cannibal)
We R Who We R - Ke$ha (Cannibal)
Crazy Beautiful Life - Ke$ha (Cannibal)
Grow A Pear - Ke$ha (Cannibal)
Hot N Cold - Katy Perry (One Of The Boys...)
Use Somebody - Kings of Leon (Only By The Night)
Sex On Fire - Kings of Leon
Rock Star - Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana 2 OST)
See You Again - Miley Cyrus (Meet Miley Cyrus)
Can't Be Tamed - Miley Cyrus
Party In The USA - Miley Cyrus
The River - Good Charlotte (Good Morning Revival)
Dance Floor Anthem - Good Charlotte (Good Morning Revival)
Barbie Girl - Aqua (Barbie Girl)
Doctor Jones - Aqua
Boom Boom Boom Boom - Aqua
Happy Boys And Happy Girls - Aqua
Candyman - Aqua
My Oh My - Aqua
Roses Are Red - Aqua
Buttons - Pussycat Dolls (PCD)
Jai Hoe - Pussycat Dolls (Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack)
When I Grow Up - Pussycat Dolls
Don't Cha (ft. Busta Rhymes) - Pussycay Dolls
Wait a Minute - Pussycat Dolls/Timbaland (PCD)
Beep - Pussycat Dolls (PCD)
Breakin' Dishes - Rihanna (Good Girl Gone Bad)
The Way I Are - Timbaland (Timbaland Presents: Shock Value)
Satisfaction (In Da Club Remix ft 50 Cent) - Benni Banassi
Boten Anna - Basshunter
Now You're Gone - Basshunter
Kiss Kiss - Chris Brown ft T-Pain
1,2 Step - Ciara (Goodies)
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
Don't Stop The Music - Rihanna (Good Girl Gone Bad)
Umbrella (ft Jay-Z) - Rhianna
Spice Up Your Life - Spice Girls
If You Seek Amy - Britney Spears (Circus)
Boom, Boom, Pow - Black Eyed Peas
Kill Yourself - Attitude/Sebastian/Timbaland (Timbaland Presents: Shock Value)
Sk8er Boi - Avril Lavigne (Let Go)
Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy - Big&Rich (Horse of a Different Colour)
All Over Me - Default (Comes and Goes)
Turn It On - Default (Comes and Goes)
You're Gonna Go Far, Kid - The Offspring (Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace)
On Vacation - Matt Dusk (Good News)
Operator Please - Matt Dusk (Good News)
Love Attack - Matt Dusk (Good News)
Don't Hate On Me - Matt Dusk (Good News)
Sing, Sing - Marianas Trench (Masterpiece Theatre)
Celebrity Status - Marianas Trench (Masterpiece Theatre)
Perfect - Marianas Trench (Masterpiece Theatre)
Transylvania - McFly (Motion In The Ocean)
Love Today - Mika (Life In Cartoon Motion)
Grace Kelly - Mika (Life In Cartoon Motion)
(Coffee's For Closers) - Fall Out Boy (Folie a Deux)
Don't Wanna Think About You - Simple Plan
Addicted - Simple Plan
I'd Do Anything - Simple Plan (No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls)
When I'm Gone - Simple Plan (Simple Plan)
Number One - Skye Sweetnam (Noise From The Basement)
Saviour - Skillet (Collide)
Hold Me In Your Arms - The Trews (No Time For Later)
So She's Leaving - The Trews
Pretty Handsome Awkward - The Used (Lies For The Liars)

...enjoy it! Straight from my boys' hearts to yours, dear.

Roll Away Your Stone

Roll away your stone I'll roll away mine
Together we can see what we will find
Don't leave me alone at this time
For I am afraid of what I will discover inside

You told me that I would find a home
Within the fragile substance of my soul
And I have filled this void with things unreal
And all the while my character it steals

Darkness is a harsh term don't you think?
Yet it dominates the things I see

It seems that all my bridges have been burned
But you say, "That's exactly how this grace thing works"
It's not the long walk home that will change this heart
But the welcome I receive with every start

Darkness is a harsh term don't you think?
And yet it dominates the things I see
Darkness is a harsh term don't you think?
And yet it dominates the things I see

Stars hide your fires
For these here are my desires
And I won't give them up to you this time around
And so I'll be found
With my stake stuck in the ground
Marking the territory of this newly impassioned soul...

Hide your fires
For these here are my desires
And I won't give them up to you this time around
And so I'll be found
With my stake stuck in the ground
Marking the territory of this newly impassioned soul

And you, you've gone too far this time
You have neither reason nor rhyme
With which to take this soul that is so rightfully mine

Alleluia, Sing

Like calm comes to a sea; Like snowfall quietly
You come to me

Like justice to the weak; Like a flood rising
You come, You come to me

Alleluia majesty
Alleluia risen king
Alleluia angels sing
Alleluia

Like springtime to winter’s hush
Like laughter to solemnness
Like a sun rising up
You come, You come to us

Like a song rising up in your heart, filling up
Like a heart’s not enough for this love, for this love
To sing of love, to sing of love
To sing of love, love, love…

Alleluia majesty
Alleluia King of Kings
Alleluia angels sing
Alleluia (sing!)

for sjm [I]

My 'jesus music-worship edition' playlist (or what doubles as the master list of the songs my worship team has done), simply because it's a good place to start:

Format: Song - Artist (Album)

All Creatures - David Crowder Band (Illuminate)
Be Thou My Vision
Beautiful - Paul Oakley (Father Me)
Come Thou Fount - Ghost Ship**
Consuming Fire - Soul Survivor (Glimpses of Glory)
The Earth is Yours - Gungor (Beautiful Things)
Enough - Chris Tomlin (Our Love is Loud)
The Glories of Calvary - Sovereign Grace Music (Songs for the Cross-Centered Life)
Great Are You Lord - Phillips, Craig and Dean (Fearless)
Great In All The Earth - Starfield (I Will Go)
Here Is Love - Ex Nihilo (Rain City Hymnal Vol. 1)**
Immanuel - We Are Creation [not a Mars Hill Church Band, but a worship band from Nashville]
In Christ Alone - Page CXVI (Hymns)
Jesus Paid It All - Kristian Stanfill (Passion: Everything Glorious)
Never Let Go - David Crowder Band (Remedy)
No Other Saviour - Starfield (The Saving One)
Nothing But The Blood - Matt Redman (Facedown)
O Praise Him (All This For A King) - Davis Crowder Band (Illuminate)
The House Of God Forever - Jon Foreman (EP 4 - Summer)
Exalted (Yaweh) - Chris Tomlin (Hello Love)
Poison Tree - Ghost Ship* **
Bless The Lord - Jeff Deyo (Light)
From The Inside Out - Hillsong United (United We Stand)
Gloria - Ex Nihilo* **
Gloria - King's Kaleidoscope**
Lily of the Valley - Steve Birss and Jamila Baillie [this was a recording that two members of The Gate did, and we use this format when we sing it]
Offering - Third Day (Offerings II: All I Have To Give)
You - Tim Hughes (When Silence Falls)
You're Beautiful - Phil Wickham (Cannons)
Lead Me To The Cross - Hillsong United (All of the Above)
Sweetly Broken - Jeremy Riddle (Full Attention)
Jesus, Lord of Heaven - Phil Wickham (Cannons)
Holy God - Brian Doerksen (Holy God)
All Creatures - Keeler**
Doxology - Ex Nihilo* **

*Songs which have not been done by my worship team, but that have made it onto the playlist anyway.

**Songs that were recorded by worship teams at any of the Mars Hill Church branches. Oh yeah, check out the Mars Hill Church, they're pretty rad.

when you're through thinking, say yes. part deux.

I don't think I've been more excited for a cd release date! 41 days!