Faith Filled Family Magazine November 2016 | Page 90

sage you want people to be
drawn to?
When we are making an album
we don’t have a theme. We sit
down and write songs that mean
something to us, and move us
in some way. After the writing is
done we sit with the album for a
month or two, and then start to
see the theme does exist because the spirit of God has led
us to write these songs. With
this album it’s all about finishing
what we started strong, and follow through, like the title of the
album. Alot of us when we start
our walk of faith we start strong
because God has done incredible things. Then we live a decade or so with the Lord, and we
serve God, and we go to church,
and we do the right things. But
we lose that passion that we
once had. Maybe because of
disappointments we have experienced, or things didn’t go the
way we wanted. This record for
us is a new season. We were on
a poverty line for a decade just
trying to serve the Lord. The last
record helped us to start to make
a living so we would only have to
do one job.
I think there is something within
church culture, and our walks
with the Lord that we [find ourselves] not finishing as strong.
Our priorities change and we
have families. There are alot of
fun tracks on this record. At the
same time [a message that] it
takes much to push through and
finish strong, even stronger than
when we started. It’s kind of a
charge to us to keep, and push
with the same passion.
How do you, as a band with
your own families, try to have
rehearsals? How do you bal-

ance your time?
Much of life if you want balance,
whether it is time with the Lord,
or ministry or family, takes a lot of
intentionality. Find time for communication with my wife, family,
and God.

things, but kind of forsaking our
time with the Lord so we had to
come to a place to get our priorities straight. God is not that concerned with what we do for Him.
He is more concerned with who
we are in Him.

As a group [Unspoken] we sit
down with a calendar and cross
off things, and talk about what
we are doing. Some seasons
are busier than others. With this
album there were six months
where we were busy every day
with touring and making time
to write. Then my wife was like
“dude you need to be home a
little bit.” So we understand that
when we are writing a record
every 2 or 3 years that we are
super busy, but then we find balance by taking time off and learning how to say no. Realizing that
when you say yes to something
you are saying no to something
else. God doesn’t want our families to suffer for His sake.

We can work all day long, but
if we forget to spend time with
Him we are totally cheating ourselves out of the best part of the
faith. Getting back to that was a
big part of it. Then remembering
that God is sovereign. that whatever my plans and dreams are
that God is going to do what God
is going to do and to be able to
accept that and be able to walk
in that. I love this quote I heard.
One time Mother Teresa was
asked to pray for a guy. He asked
“I would love for you to pray for
me for clarity, and Mother Teresa
says: “no I’m not going to pray
that. I’m going to pray for trust.”

I’ve read that you felt burned
out at one point, like you didn’t
have anything left to give. Was
this record helpful to bring
you back into the purpose of
the group? Was there something that was a turning point
that kept you on track living
life the way you have been doing it with the band?
I think we get busy doing work
and forget the best part, which
is to know Jesus, to be in His
presence, and spend time with
Him. So the record is about that
as well. There is no way we can
follow through with our commitments to the Lord, and our family, if we are not being filled by
the Lord ourselves. I feel like
there was a season where we
had faith and were believing for

Many of us want clarity. we want
to see what is going to happen.
We want to see what our life is
going to bring. Trust means that
we are close to the Lord. Letting Him fill our lives. Letting Him
give us confidence in who He
is. We don’t have to know what
the future brings. We just have
to know God is in the middle of
it all.
Wow that just ministered to
me!
And it does to me. One thing that
is awesome about being a songwriter is that all of us are, maybe in different seasons, going
through the same things. If we
can write songs from the place
where God is dealing with us
then we can relate to people because we are all going through.