where to go, really. I just think that’s a powerful that song with a couple other guys and Katie it transitions into the bridge. But before I start
message for so many people, especially in this Torwalt covered it. It’s another one of those singing the bridge I start singing spontaneously
day and age that we live in. You turn on the songs, I just love the words and what it says live each night. That just felt like the right spot to
news and there are a lot of things that you can about who God is. That He’s the defender of do that, on the bridge. There’s a couple time’s
be fearful about. I think this is a strong message our heart, He’s protection, He picks up all the I went to some spontaneous worship on the
about something a lot of people wrestle with. pieces of us and He puts us back together. chorus, but it just always felt really good right
It can look different, whether it’s fear of man, That’s truth right there and that’s important to a there. But what came out of me changed each
or fear of the unknown. There are so many lot of people. “When I thought I lost me He knew time.
different levels and capacities. where I left me…” that’s a really powerful truth. The kinds of songs that have these authentic There’s so much in that song that I connect
I think it speaks so much to me because fear messages that so many of us can identify with with and it kind of pulls this other message out
is definitely something I’ve wrestled with at are just really powerful, and important to sing. of me. On the recording that moment was just
different levels in different seasons of my life.
right there, right before we went into the bridge,
It’s something I feel very passionate about [WM] With the exception of opening things up and it felt like it was leaving some room for us
dispelling and getting rid of from my life. I love towards the end of a song like “Center of Your all to express our own heart and worship right
this song and I love when we have songs that Love”, do the forms change from night to night, there. It felt really good before all jumping into
provide powerful words to sing when you’re and if so how? unison and doing the bridge together. It’s one
battling those things.
I also really love “Defender”. Rita Springer wrote
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of those songs that makes a declaration about
[Kim] For the recording on that song, I sing who God is for us and to us. But also, to me it
through the verses and chorus a few times, then feels like a challenge of what I want to push into
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