"Kingdom" Music

Here's another entry in my ongoing series of posts featuring faith-based songs centered around a theme. This time up, the songs are about the kingdom of God. Inspiration for the post came from my recently hearing and loving the first song in this collection. But I enjoyed discovering (or hearing again) all the other songs in this set as well. Hope you will, too!  ~  JH

1)  Rend Collective  ~  "Build Your Kingdom Here"

2)  Elevation Worship  ~  "Kingdom Come"

3)  Nicole C. Mullen  ~  "Kingdom Come"

4)  Jason Gray  ~  "With Every Act Of Love"

5)  Covenant Worship  ~  "Kingdom Come"

6)  Group 1 Crew  ~  "Keys To The Kingdom"

7)  Jesus Culture  ~  "Kingdom"

8)  Starfield  ~  "The Kingdom"

9)  Laura Story  ~  "There Is A Kingdom"

10)  Canton Jones ft. Mouthpi3ce  ~  "Kingdom Business"

11)  My Dirty Silver  ~  "Kingdom Come"

12)  Hillsong Live  ~  "Yours Is The Kingdom"

13)  Matt Maher  ~  "As It Is In Heaven"

14)  Dwayne Tryumf ft. A Star, Tru2DaName, & Matthew Allen  ~  "Thy Kingdom Come"

15)  Jesus Culture  ~  "My Romance"

16)  Sidewalk Prophets  ~  "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us"

17)  Kutless  ~  "In The City"

18)  Keith & Kristyn Getty  ~  "Hear The Call Of The Kingdom"

19)  Matty Mullins  ~  "Glory"

20)  Paul Baloche  ~  "King Of Heaven"

21)  The Silver Pages ft. Mona Reeves  ~  "When Your Kingdom Comes"

22)  Brandon Grissom  ~  "Kingdom Come"

23)  Sanctus Real  ~  "You Are God"

24)  Cindy Cruse Ratcliff  ~  "Kingdom Come"

25)  Worship Central NZ  ~  "Kingdom Come"

Fruits Of The Spirit Songs: "Humility"

This entry in my "Fruits of the Spirit" series was one of the hardest of all of them. Various Bible translations use the words "gentleness," "meekness," or "humility" to describe this "fruit." Well, there almost no songs that directly speak of gentleness and very few that cover meekness – shocking, I know. But I found that there are quite a few songs that – in their lyrics or merely in their themes – deal with the subject of "Humility." So that was the tack I took with this one. And a fine set of songs it is, too! I truly hope you will enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Graham Kendrick  ~  "Meekness & Majesty"

2)  Big Daddy Weave  ~  "Audience Of One"

3)  Colton Dixon  ~  "More Of You"

4)  Jennifer Knapp  ~   "Martyrs & Thieves"  (BLOGGER'S NOTE: Yes, I DO know she identifies as a lesbian now. But that fact does not lessen the truth or the message of this song, which Jennifer wrote several years ago when she was then identifying as a Christian musician.)

5)  Kutless  ~  "Give Us Clean Hands"

6)  Hillsong Live  ~  "Unending Love"

7)  Christafari  ~  "Here I Am To Worship"

8)  Israel Houghton  ~  "I Surrender All"

9)  Austin Chamberlin & Lauren Zielenski  ~  "All I Am"  (This is a lovely cover version of a Phil Wickham song, for which I couldn't find a music video.)

10)  Hillsong Live  ~  "To Be Like You"

11)  Planetshakers  ~  "Surrender"

12)  Flame ft. J.R.  ~  "Tonight (All Of Me)"

13)  Hillsong United  ~  "Like An Avalanche"

14)  Jimmy Needham  ~  "Being Small"

15)  Chris Sligh  ~  "Empty Me"

16)  Hillsong Live  ~  "Narrow Road"

17)  Leeland  ~  "Holy Spirit, Have Your Way"

18)  Flame ft. V. Rose  ~  "Surrender"

19)  Chris Tomlin  ~  "Lay Me Down"

20)  Hillsong Live  ~  "You"

21)  Deitrick Haddon  ~  "Have Your Way"

22)  FFH  ~  "Wholly To You"

23)  Seventh Day Slumber  ~  "Surrender"

24)  Rend Collective  ~  "All That I Am"

25)  Hillsong Live  ~  "I Surrender"

Fruits Of The Spirit Songs: "Faithfulness" (Part 2)

Here's the second half of my earlier post, part of my ongoing "Fruits of the Spirit" series featuring songs about "Faithfulness." I would say "enjoy," but I know if you listen to them you will anyway.  ~  JH

1)  Chapelhill Music  ~  "Faithful God"

2)  Skillet  ~  "More Faithful"

3)  Rend Collective  ~  "Faithful"

4)  Steve Green  ~  "The Faithful"

5)  Greg Sykes  ~  "Faithful"

6)  Shawn McDonald  ~  "Faithful"

7)  Jesus Culture ft. Kim Walker  ~  "You Are Faithful"

8)  Brooke Fraser  ~  "Faithful"

9)  Brian Doerksen  ~  "Faithful Father"

10)  Beth Jesus ft. Sonnie Badu  ~  "Faithful God"

11)  UMobile Worship  ~  "Our God Is Faithful"

12)  Kutless  ~  "What Faith Can Do"

13)  Elevation Worship  ~  "Give Me Faith"

14)  Jeremy Camp  ~  "Walk By Faith"

15)  Bethel Music ft. Bobby Strand  ~  "He Is Faithful"

16)  Byron Cage  ~  "Faithful To Believe"

17)  Plumb  ~  "Faithful"

18)  Johnny Minick  ~  "Faithful Man"

19)  Tanya Felli  ~  "Faithful"

20)  Newborn Music  ~  "Faithful God"

Fruits Of The Spirit Songs: "Kindness"

Continuing the "Fruits of the Spirit" series, here's a collection of songs about "Kindness." There are a couple of songs here by – gasp! – "secular" artists, but I chose them because the lyrics in these songs embodied the Biblical concept of kindness as well as any "Christian" songs I could find. That being said, enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Elevation Worship  ~  "In Your Presence"

2)  Chris Tomlin  ~  "Kindness"

3)  Laura Story  ~  "Mighty To Save"

4)  LeAnn Rimes  ~  "Give"

5)  Rend Collective  ~  "Find Your Kindness"

6)  Darlene Zschech  ~  "Change Your World"

7)  Glen Campbell  ~  "Try A Little Kindness"

8)  Steve Bell  ~  "Kindness"

9)  Bebo Norman  ~  "I Will Lift My Eyes"

10)  Natalie Grant & Jordin Sparks  ~  "Human"

11)  Third Day  ~  "Sing A Song"   (Bonus track included: "Come On Back To Me")

12)   Jewel  ~  "Hands"

13)  Eleven22  ~  "Hands Of Kindness"

14)  Elevation Worship  ~  "Everlasting Father"

15)  Rebecca St. James  ~  "The Kindness Of Our God"

"Second" Songs

I was going to do a short miniseries of posts with the words "First," "Second," "Third," and so forth in the titles. But as it turns out, I've already done "First" songs previously (in a "First" & "Last" Songs post), and "Third" songs and beyond are pretty hard to come by. So here's a small selection of "Second" songs. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Shinedown  ~  "Second Chance"

2)  LIGHTS  ~  "Second Go"

3)  Eddie Rabbitt  ~  "On Second Thought"

4)  Shalamar  ~  "The Second Time Around"

5)  Faber Drive  ~  "Second Chance"

6)  Smokey Robinson & The Miracles  ~  "I Second That Emotion"

7)  38 Special  ~  "Second Chance"

8)  El DeBarge  ~  "Second Chance"

9)  Jeff Bates  ~  "One Second Chance"

10)  TV On The Radio  ~  "Second Song"

11)  Darryl Worley  ~  "Second Wind"

12)  Rend Collective  ~  "Second Chance"