Easter

I wrote this song more than a year and a half ago with my friends from the band I AM THEY. While I was working on my most recent album, Echoes, I realized I wrote a chunk of songs that were inadvertently inspired by hymns. The funny thing about hymns is you donΓÇÖt necessarily find the hymns, but they seem to find you for a specific purpose.

Early in our walk, when we donΓÇÖt know God well, we pray, ΓÇÿIΓÇÖm headed toward disaster. I need a different course for my life.” We reach a point where we mature in our faith, and we realize God already has the course of our life taken care of. ItΓÇÖs a hard thing when you fully surrender to the present, and you give that to God, and then you turn around and you are able to slowly trust the mystery of an uncertain future and know that the certainty in it, is God. Part of the beauty of the Gospel is the resurrection. Sometimes things have to die in order for them to come to life.

This particular song was inspired by a third century sermon by a guy named John Chrysostom. The concept of it is very simple. God used death to destroy death. He did not even have to lift a finger. He literally tricked death into destroying itself. Jesus used the process of death to completely eradicate it. So now it just becomes a process of transformation, it is a window or a doorway. So it became this chorus of ΓÇÿChrist has risen from the dead trampling over death by death.ΓÇÖ

You canΓÇÖt have marriage without being willing to die to yourself. To be a good parent, you have to die to yourself.