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Brand New Day |
Sarah Kelly |
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Glorious King |
Sarah Kelly |
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Sit with You Awhile |
Sarah Kelly |
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You Overwhelm Me |
Sarah Kelly |
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Born to Worship |
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Amazing Grace |
Sarah Kelly |
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Not Home Yet |
Sarah Kelly |
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Everything to Me |
Sarah Kelly |
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Beautiful God |
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Faithful Father |
Sarah Kelly |
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Reason to Believe |
Sarah Kelly |
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Brand New Day
If there is a personal anthem on this album, it is this song. The theme of this song is "your mercies are new every morning"...and the revelation of what that means. This song captures a key moment where I continued my journey from victim to victor, walking out of my past filled with self hate and abuse, into a new day. It's not surprising that I wrote this with 2 very close friends, Brandon Culvey and Matt Owens, at a very unexpected moment in life. We were touring in England, sitting in the back of the van, bored out of our minds, when Brandon started strumming, I started humming and Matt, well Matt was Matt!....30 minutes later the chorus was done in it's entirety. Boy do I wish all songs came out that easily. I guess we had all been living it, so it came out fast.
Glorious King
I heard this song when my producer, Mitch Dane, played it for me. When I heard it, I felt it was a song I could have written myself and we moved forward recording it for this project. I love the way it came out and look forward to singing it far and wide with worshippers everywhere.
Sit With You Awhile
I remember starting to write the words to this song after a Sunday school lesson about Mary and Martha. I remember my teacher Miss Rita, inspiring us to FEEL what Mary felt. She acted out what Martha might say...."hurry up and help me, I'm cooking and I can't get to everything myself” But Mary, just stunned, dared not move and ruin the moment that she was having with Jesus, no matter what the moment cost her. So I tried to imagine what she would say, right in that moment, in the business around her, in the sheer delight of life making sense for maybe the first time. It wasn't used in a worship setting until my junior year in high school, when I was a piano player and my best friend a singer for a small church group. I would teach her my songs and she would sing them, because I wasn't comfortable singing. Later the song hit the heart of the college age group Masters Commission and after they graduated, they brought the song home to their churches. I still hear it once in awhile, especially in youth groups, when I am out and about....and am always surprised as to how they know it, as this is the first recording of the song.
You Overwhelm Me
This was the 2nd choir piece I ever wrote. The first version of this song was definitely more ballad Disney style and makes me laugh still, but give me a break I was 8 years old! Though I decided to leave most of the choir parts off for this recording, I know they will pop up in my future as they are too close to my heart to let go of completely. The story that inspired this one was the woman with the issue of blood. How absolutely shamed her life was, even though she did not probably deserve the lonely painful life that she had. I tried to catch the moment when she touched Jesus, and was instantly healed. That thought birthed the words "you lift my head and I'm blameless before you." I wrote the 2nd verse just this year, so this song is literally 20 years in the making! One of the most surreal and beautiful moments of divine purpose I have ever experienced was hearing this song sung by Alvin Slaughter and Phoenix First Assembly on a Sunday morning that I was just passing through. They didn't know who wrote it and I still don't know how they heard it.......probably from a college student, because this was one of the favorite congregational songs I introduced in my 5 years as worship leader to a college group in Rockford, IL.
Born To Worship
This is the newest song on the album. Last year I got to spend two months leading worship in South Chicago.....this was a luxury for 2 reasons. I got to sleep in my own bed in Rockford Illinois, and I made friendships that will last a lifetime, I hope. This congregation of 2000 that met in a high school auditorium taught me a thing or two about the true meaning of worship. I have never felt so comfortable being myself, and so loved by church people in all of my life. These people knew what hard times were and they worshipped with all of their heart in the center of their circumstances...so of course I stayed with them as long as I could! The heart of this song popped out of me in the middle of a "spontaneous" bluesy feel worship. I will never forget the faces when we all started screaming "I'll sing it in my streets, I'll sing it in my church, I'll sing it out loud until it hurts"...over and over....let's put it this way......that my mouth seriously hurt from smiling so big after that worship set. So here's to you Chicago, you're my title track, "Born To Worship".
Amazing Grace
I feel like I finally know what grace means. I have spoken, believed and thought I had experienced it fully for all of my life, but it wasn't until just last year that I finally got it. I can never ever earn my way to Heaven, never serve a church enough, never "raise my convictions" enough....to earn my way in. I think it might take a few big mistakes to truly grasp grace. And let me tell you I have made quite a few! This song is me resting in the fact that there is nothing that I can do except trust that grace will lead me home. Though I have been saved since I was a wee one, I felt like I was missing a huge part of it....the knowledge of grace, and my own need to daily lead me to him!
Not Home Yet
This is another song that started to form within me in my youth....the chorus "behold and adore"....I remember trying to write what His return might sound like. Thinking of all the kinds of praise that may be going on, starting with the Spirit, "behold and adore, King of Kings, Lord of Lords", then the angels "holy, holy is the Lord Almighty" and finally the Bride "you are my bright morning star". This was the 3rd choir piece I wrote, but it wasn't until just recently that the whole song came together. The whole concept of grace has become so real and stunning to me because, well I needed it! All at once it hit me that Grace will lead me home! This isn't home; home will be start when He returns. So this song is a bit like a daydream pondering on His return!!
Everything To Me
This was the last song I introduced to my home church in Rockford IL, (Masters Commission)...before I got the infamous call congratulating me on my first Grammy nomination. It was then that I decided maybe I should in fact pursue singing. I never even thought to dream of it seriously before then. My favorite line in this song is "you are the truth that freedom needs"...I had just been through a time in my life where I was concealing a lot of my own pain. It was out of a good heart that didn't want to hurt people or let them down, but it was hiding, or whitewashing sin, none the less. This song was me drawing the line to get honest once and for all. You know, I think we make it so hard. He said "the truth will set you free"...yet we still pretend. We encode with religious terminology like "Jesus is the truth and he will set you free....".....but we don't stop to think...just being honest, in itself is a deep freedom. Jesus is honesty...."the truth that freedom needs." With this realization came some major life changing decisions that would better my life and help my character and integrity grow
Beautiful God
This song was the last song to come together on this album... my producer Mitch, my guitar player, Brandon and I sat down and pounded out some exciting chords and then I had some lyrics that perfectly fit. It is a song in the same vein of David’s Psalm...."see if there be any wicked way in me"....this song shows my humanity.
it shows that I, like every other human being am capable of falling again and again, but do not need to be scared because I do not walk in my own strength, or I would definitely fail, but I walk in His! His eyes never let me go!
Faithful Father
I wrote this song in a teaching session. You see, I truly believe that everyone can write music. In 2002 or so, I was traveling to different colleges and church teams teaching teams how to write together, to provide current and heart felt expressions to God. The verse came in Toronto with a small group of unsuspecting students. The chorus came with a bunch of students in my home church of Rockford IL. That is why to this day there are a lot of writers listed on this song. Faithful Father became the theme song for 3 years straight for my own group of 200 students, as well as other college groups around the nation. And I wrote it with unpretentious hearts, just wanting to love Jesus in a song! If you ask me, those are the best! This was the first song I heard being played in "big people church" as well.
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