No one can hold back your hand
No man can thwart your plans
You do as you please, with the people of the Earth
All you do is just and good
You were right to cast us aside, but your delight was in the son
who came to heal the broken ones
And all of us like sheep have gone astray
turning away to live in sin
But you placed your wrath on him
It was in your heart to pour out mercy
It was in your heart to save
I've been involved in music probably since I was about 8 years old.
I kinda was inspired because my parents were worship leaders and loved music themselves.
As we did road trips, we were taught harmonies and old songs to sing.
And around when I was 8, I was enrolled in ukulele lessons with my brother and a few friends
and so that kind of got us going into music.
Music has influenced my faith and my relationship with God
in incredible ways and it's one of the reasons I continue to do it.
Because of artists who have been obedient to God
and just sung honestly to God what's on their heart
How those songs have clearly influenced my life
and it's been refreshing in ways that God has really spoken to me
and guided me throughout my life.
And that has enhanced my faith, and then through it
being able to write and being able to write things that I
find in Scripture or that God is really speaking to me is a way to express and learn and grow
in what God is showing me. And so, in various ways,
music has enhanced my faith and encouraged me in my faith in Christ.
I think as a culture, we are very often ignorant of who God is
and what's in God's Word.
Because we're not in God's Word. We're not reading it.
And this is including myself so often
Growing up in a Christian home and sometimes we can just assume that we know.
But I think as a culture in our nation, we lack conviction,
We lack so much for our lack of pursuing to know God's Word.
Being hungry for it, spending time getting to know God by his Word.
So I just think there's such a need in this time.
That we not only read God's Word but that we also return to knowing who God is.
And from that place knowing the power of the Gospel.
Knowing the power that the cross is the power of God for those of us who believe.
Hi, my name's Andrew Horrox,
and I'm part of the award.
And what happens is the winner of the award comes to my studio
and we recorded three songs.
It's a professional studio so the winner comes out with songs they could use on radio
and maybe include them - a CD is made, a 3-song CD is made.
And hopefully this is a wonderful opportunity for
the artist to grow musically and to
understand what it is to put out a record.
Every time you do a recording,
it's sort of an education in one sense because you learn about how you sing,
You learn about all the things that goes into making a professional project.
And hopefully every artist comes out better at doing what they're doing in the end.
One of the interesting things
about where we are these days as far as recording
is that a lot of people have a little recording set-ups
in our own home studios so what you can do is you can send a file
over the Internet to somebody they can download it, and they can start recording
their parts in a different part in the world.
Which is kind of fun. And with this project, Jeremy has a wonderful
keyboard player that he plays with regularly in his band, Daylight, and after we finish
the guitars here, and all the vocals and drums and bass,
we're gonna let this friend of Jeremy's play piano on the record.
And so I'm just going to send him files and he's going to send me the piano back.
And so it's great. It's very community.
The bigger studios of the world
a lot of them have gone out of business because
technology allows a lot of us to have studios in our basement.
And the world is a little smaller
as far as the community of musicians.
We can all kinda work together more closely these days.