Live Worship Set with my friends at World Vision

What You Do To My Heart

So I do this thing where I go back and listen to a bunch of my old songs, pouring over each one, borderline obsessively.  I don't do this because I'm in love with myself (Kanye. DOWN BOY.) but because my creative mind is almost always hearing new things each time I listen to the tune.  New ideas form, or old ones get cut.  It's truly one of my favorite parts of the creative process!
Anyway,
I wrote this a while back and released it as a single.  I hope you enjoy it!

Love is Not a Fight (a Warren Barfield Cover)

I wrote a post a little while back about songs that just punch you in the heart, in a good way.  This happens to be one of those, for me.
Love is Not a Fight is absolute poetry that paints a picture of what love truly is.  It's not something we fall in and out of.  Love is not something that just happens because love, at it's core, is God.  God is a purposeful, creative Father, so why would we think love to be any different?  Love is not simply emotion, but an action that is demonstrated through peace, and pain, and joy, and sadness, and hurt, and healing, and so many other things.  Love is not something meant to be left behind.
I love this song and just had to do a cover of it, though I actually recorded it quite a while ago.  Time to revisit and share the fun!

Here is Warren Barfield's "Love is Not a Fight".

Let Me Pray About It: The Excuse We Use to NOT Act

Harkening back to an earlier post regarding justice and our responsibilities as worship leaders, I wanted to make all my readers aware of a MAJOR need and heart breaking crisis.  And I'm not asking you to make the typical Christian excuse of "I'll pray about it and see if that's where the Lord leads", cuz lets be honest, that's a total load of garbage.  Nowhere in the God's word did He ever say to stop and pray about serving the poor.  He asks us to pray, sure, but that prayer was NEVER meant to be an exit door for us to get out of taking action.

1 John 3:17-18

"But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth."

I'm not coming at this as if I'm above anyone here, I'm absolutely guilty of "the cop out prayer", I just want us to open our eyes together and stop making excuses for not making our love a thing of action.  So why am I so fired up about this today?  Well let me tell you...

In co-operation with the #WithSyria Coalition of 130 non-governmental organizations, scientists based at Wuhan University in China analyzed satellite images and have found that, since 2011, the number of lights visible over Syria has fallen 83%.  Yeah, lets read that again.  83% of the lights are out in Syria.

The reality here folks is that Syrian refugees now make up the largest refugee population on the planet.  Here is a little perspective on the massive impact this crisis is having.

Some of the worst humanitarian disasters over the past 20 years:

The Indian Ocean Tsunami impacted 5 million people.
The Rwanda Genocide impacted 4.3 million people.
The Haiti Earthquake impacted 3.5 million people.
Hurricane Katrina impacted 1.7 million people.

The Syria Crisis has impacted 12.2 million people.

Actual Impact of Some of the Worst Humanitarian Disasters in the Past Twenty Years - See more at: http://www.worldvision.org/press-release/new-poll-finds-most-americans-still-unaware-severity-syria-crisis#sthash.lMOlitBR.dpuf

Syria crisis: Impacted 12.2 million people

Indian Ocean tsunami: Impacted 5 million peopleExternal Link

Rwanda genocide: Impacted 4.3 million peopleExternal Link

Haiti earthquake: Impacted 3.5 million peopleExternal Link

Hurricane Katrina: Impacted 1.7 million peopleExternal Link

- See more at: http://www.worldvision.org/press-release/new-poll-finds-most-americans-still-unaware-severity-syria-crisis#sthash.lMOlitBR.dpuf

Syria crisis: Impacted 12.2 million people

Indian Ocean tsunami: Impacted 5 million peopleExternal Link

Rwanda genocide: Impacted 4.3 million peopleExternal Link

Haiti earthquake: Impacted 3.5 million peopleExternal Link

Hurricane Katrina: Impacted 1.7 million peopleExternal Link

- See more at: http://www.worldvision.org/press-release/new-poll-finds-most-americans-still-unaware-severity-syria-crisis#sthash.lMOlitBR.dpuf

Syria crisis: Impacted 12.2 million people

Indian Ocean tsunami: Impacted 5 million peopleExternal Link

Rwanda genocide: Impacted 4.3 million peopleExternal Link

Haiti earthquake: Impacted 3.5 million peopleExternal Link

Hurricane Katrina: Impacted 1.7 million peopleExternal Link

- See more at: http://www.worldvision.org/press-release/new-poll-finds-most-americans-still-unaware-severity-syria-crisis#sthash.lMOlitBR.dpuf

So what is it going to take for us, the ones who call ourselves followers of Jesus, to take action?  When I see the faces of these children, when I hear their broken dreams, I see the face of my daughter.

I see her in their shoes fighting for her life, losing what childhood she's had.  If these children were mine, how would I respond then?  What if this was your son or daughter? 

I'm asking you to put your love in to action.  I'm asking you to forget about politics.  Forget about any hangup or religious view and just see people.  See children who are desperate and dying.

The time to act is now.  Don't stop to pray about acting, just act.




Put your love in to action here...

I'm So In Love With You (Acoustic rough draft)

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I'm So In Love With You

Sometimes I stumble across old songs I recorded samples of years ago and then completely forgot about. Well here is one of them.

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Love is Not a Fight (a Warren Barfield Cover)

There are some songs that touch your heart in a special way.  They literally reach inside to the things you believe in and hold strong to, and stir those things up.
This song is one of those for me.
A HUGE thank you for Warren Barfield for writing this!