“‘Reckless Love’ really is the song of my whole life. That phrase kind of dropped in my heart about ¯ve years ago. I just started experiencing the kindness of the Father, the goodness of the Father in a way that I’d never experienced before. So that phrase, ‘The overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God’ was just lodged [inside me]. I didn’t know what to do with it. One night, I woke up—it was probably 3 a.m.—and I had the full melody for that chorus. I grabbed my iPhone, and I ran in the closet and I closed the door and I sang it into my iPhone. The next day, I just sat down at the piano and pounded out the whole chorus.” —Cory Asbury “reckless lOve” cOry asbury WRITTEN BY CORY ASBURY, CALEB CULVER AND RAN JACKSON “ ” “There’s not a single one of us that can’t identify with and understand what it feels like to be shackled and bound to something when we know we’re not living in the freedom that we’ve been given through Christ. This song, it’s so hopeful, because our hope is in something as grand as the one and only Son of God… My hope is in Jesus.” —Crowder “all my hOpe” CrOwder WRITTEN BY DAVID CROWDER AND ED CASH “ ” “This song is about God as an artisan; it’s about God as an artist working His masterpiece into a work of art that’s called love. It began with Creation, and it was ¯nished at the cross; and now it continues to be rebirthed and restored in and through us. And the whole picture is response… For all we don’t know, and for all we do, and for all we think we’ve got ¯gured out, for all the questions we still have; ultimately, what we need to do is live in response— not to what we think God wants, but in response to what He’s done and what He said He’s going to do.” —Joel Houston “SO Will I (100 BilliOn X)” HillsOng uNITED WRITTEN BY BENJAMIN HASTINGS, JOEL HOUSTON AND MICHAEL FATKIN “ ” “Anyone who has come face-to-face with their own flaws and sin and received the grace of Jesus can undoubtedly say that it’s the most beautiful thing ever. The name of Jesus is beautiful; it’s wonderful. We loved the nostalgia of that word. Wonderful isn’t a really cool word, and so I think we used it quite deliberately, because I think there’s a power to that to kind of deliberately insert a little bit of wonder in there… We really loved the idea of singing about the name of Jesus in a way that unfolded some of the facets of the beauty, wonder and power of His name.” —Brooke Ligertwood “What A Beautiful Name” HillsOng WOrship WRITTEN BY BROOKE LIGERTWOOD AND BEN FIELDING “ ” WOrship SOng Of the year Nominees WOrship SOng Of the year Nominees “Sometimes when you’re just about to give up on an idea, just when you’re about to throw it away, you’ll see what it was meant to be all along… I remember back in 2014, it was a very complicated thought that I had for the song… It sat around for six months, and I said, ‘Well, we should probably just throw it away… Unless, hang on, what if it was just 6/8 time and it was ‘O Come to the Altar’?… It’s going to be an invitation.’ Four hours later, we had the song; and three-and-a-half years later, it was the No. 1 song of all Christian streaming songs… Just when I thought it was nothing, God said, ‘Give me that back.’” —Steven Furtick “o COme to the Altar” ElevatiOn WOrship WRITTEN BY STEVEN FURTICK, CHRIS BROWN, WADE JOYE AND MACK BROCK “ ” >> 76 << >> 77 << “This song is really just about our posture, which is to pray and to cry out like Jesus taught us to. The biggest lie that the enemy wants us to believe is that at the darkest and lowest point, that’s the end—that it’s over. And it’s not.” —Mike Weaver “It’s just a matter of seeing the Lord for who He is and remembering to look at the Lord… He’s what we can believe in; He’s what we can hope for, because He doesn’t let us down.” —Jay Weaver “Jesus, I Believe” Big Daddy Weave WRITTEN BY MIKE WEAVER AND JASON INGRAM “ ”
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