I want the truth of God’s love to get stuck in teachers are, songs have a way of doing that. [WM] In the Bible we see how there is repetition.
my kid’s head. The process was really different I guess I would just say that songs can kind of Throughout the Psalms there are repeated
because I would simplify images. I wanted them sneak through the back porch screen door of phrases and even verses. I love the concept of
to be strong but I wanted them to be easy to your brain and your heart and have a way of “don’t forget to remember”, because I think so
remember, melodically as well. What I would do making a home there. So to introduce your kids often we need to be reminded of the truth over
is go write and then I would play it for my kids to songs that help them know, and experience, and over again. How does remembering God’s
when I got home, just once. And then if they and enjoy and worship Jesus, it feels like one of truth affect you in the day to day?
weren’t singing it later on that night or later on the most powerful things that you can do with that week I would go back and shift something them.
[Ellie] I feel like I have a very forgetful heart,
because it wasn’t sticking fast enough. So
maybe more than average (laughing), but I
that’s been a really good process for me that I I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sung songs think that also, as believers and as followers
think I might carry into my other work that I do, when I’m afraid, songs have become prayers of Jesus our work is to remember. They’re
it’s like a little test audience in your own home. for me in a lot of ways. With kids, there is no doing all kinds of things, they’re singing, they’re
“Junior Holy Spirit.” God lives in them and God writing songs, they’re building altars to tell
[WM] What would you want to share with tells us to be like them too, so inviting them the story and remember the story. For me the
worship leaders about using music to teach into singing their own songs, saying, “You can whole reason I started writing music was that I
children and help them experience Jesus? worship God, and God made you to sing, and was trying to memorize scripture with a friend
it’s not just with your voice but it’s with your life.” of mine who battled depression. I just realized
[Ellie] I love that question so much. That is Inviting them into that dance, that they have that there were so many lies I was believing
kind of why I started making music for children, gifts, that God made them to share their gifts every day, I was sitting across from her and
because I thought there are so many truths that to bring beauty and love and light into a weary there were so many lies that she was believing
I know about God because of songs that I sang world. That feels really important to me. Songs about herself and about who God is and how
as a kid, they are just locked in my heart in a way feel like a really wonderful way to invite them to He loves us, and I just got ticked off. I thought,
that no messages from pastors or children’s begin participating in that. no! You know who lies? The enemy, Satan,
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