(This post was first started last last year.)
One day I walked out on my front porch to see that there was a package waiting for me. Inside was Vice Verses, Switchfoot's latest album. That was September 26th. Since then my buddy Nate and I have covered a lot of miles listening to this album and I've sung my lungs out. This is a powerful, beautiful and straight up solid record.
I have decided to write on each of the tracks in this album. Each is very different and powerful in its own way. Here we go.
Afterlife
This is the start of something big. This album is something of a story of a life how it should be lived. A memoir for the human soul. It's powerful and vulnerable. Musically it starts the album off on a good foot and really gets you into it. There's a darkness that carries through the whole record, a soberness, an awareness of the bitterness of life. We're not just making sound here, this is for real.
This song is about living your life. We are made to live to the fullest and live now. We can't go talking like we're going to mess around now and get serious when we get to heaven. When we are saved by Christ, when the Holy Spirit comes into us eternal life begins right then and there. We are given a Power like no other and we are supposed to use it! "I've tasted fire, I'm ready to come alive." This should be us everyday.
See in the church it's always been this way. I'm not going to trash the modern church, Paul wrote to messed up churches and Jesus even visited John in a dream to rat on churches so it's not just us. Anyway, we need to keep the eternal perspective in mind and heart. That we have hope of what's to come, yes, but also that we remember that the Lord of all creation is indwelling and present every moment of our lives. We walk with a Holy Fire and power. Show the world! And that means pray more often then you might think. Take everyday as the beginning of forever. We live in a dying world, we are called to make a difference and we have no excuse to do otherwise.
One day I walked out on my front porch to see that there was a package waiting for me. Inside was Vice Verses, Switchfoot's latest album. That was September 26th. Since then my buddy Nate and I have covered a lot of miles listening to this album and I've sung my lungs out. This is a powerful, beautiful and straight up solid record.
I have decided to write on each of the tracks in this album. Each is very different and powerful in its own way. Here we go.
Afterlife
This is the start of something big. This album is something of a story of a life how it should be lived. A memoir for the human soul. It's powerful and vulnerable. Musically it starts the album off on a good foot and really gets you into it. There's a darkness that carries through the whole record, a soberness, an awareness of the bitterness of life. We're not just making sound here, this is for real.
This song is about living your life. We are made to live to the fullest and live now. We can't go talking like we're going to mess around now and get serious when we get to heaven. When we are saved by Christ, when the Holy Spirit comes into us eternal life begins right then and there. We are given a Power like no other and we are supposed to use it! "I've tasted fire, I'm ready to come alive." This should be us everyday.
See in the church it's always been this way. I'm not going to trash the modern church, Paul wrote to messed up churches and Jesus even visited John in a dream to rat on churches so it's not just us. Anyway, we need to keep the eternal perspective in mind and heart. That we have hope of what's to come, yes, but also that we remember that the Lord of all creation is indwelling and present every moment of our lives. We walk with a Holy Fire and power. Show the world! And that means pray more often then you might think. Take everyday as the beginning of forever. We live in a dying world, we are called to make a difference and we have no excuse to do otherwise.
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
-John 17:3
