Doxologist ContentNew MH Music This Sunday - Sons of Thunder
This Sunday the 14th me, Mrs. Johnson as well as the Shoop, McAlister and Phillips crew are debuting Sons of Thunder at Mars Hill. Check out the songs here.
The idea came about a couple months ago that developing bands should demo their material and make simple 3-4 song CDs available the first Sunday they play. That way interested folks can get accustomed to the new bands and hopefully sing along the second and third times they play. Anyway, since SOT were the guinea pigs for the project and the timing didn’t quite come together, CDs will unfortunately not be available for a few more weeks. BUT click on the link above to check out a myspace page that we slapped together.
Mad props go out to Brian-EPop-Eichelberger for his sweet skills on engineering and mixing the jams.
Enjoy.
Read on to check out a little bio I whipped up….
We’ve been thinking, reading, and thinking about our reading a lot lately. Here’s the gist of all that thinking and reading: The Apostle Paul said all of life is worship. A truth-telling preacher says God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. A contemporary philosopher says the opposite of faith isn’t unbelief but idolatry. And a retired music proff says that worship is not dependent on a time, place or a specific activity, but is constantly pouring out of us at all times. We heartily agree. And after a very personally trying year for the Johnson family, the lovely and talented Mrs. Johnson decided she would pour her heart out in song in response to a good, loving and gracious Father God with all of the abovementioned in mind. This music is the result.
Our new friends and wildly talented musical collaborators James McAlister, Jeff Shoop and Ryan Phillips graciously accepted our offer to join us in our endeavors and there’s little chance that these tunes would have seen the light of day in their present form without their musical expertise. These songs are intended to be sung corporately, loudly and enthusiastically where we all fellowship, Mars Hill Church.
With all respect, many of our fellow congregants are somewhat self-aware, prone to snobbery and likely influenced by seasonal effective disorder brought on by dark damp Seattle winters. We could all stand some personal enjoyment. These songs are meant to get hands out of pockets, eyes off the floor, toes tapping, frowns turned-upside-down and voices singing together for the purpose of hearts being elated to His glory.
i really like the words following “with all respect,”. i lead at a church in shelton [near olympia] and i thank you for these sounds.
thank you for all the hard work of this new music! I am very much looking forward to acknowledging in song the joy of the Lord as a stronger force than the seasonal effective disorder…
Hands out of pockets, eyes off of the floor, and hearts being elated - now that sounds like some music I can dig on. You are my role model.
I was completely blown away by Sons of Thunder last Sunday. I have always loved the music at MHC but this took it to an entirely new level. I found myself standing with both hands raised, chills going down my back and tears running down my cheeks. And it was obvious that I wasn’t the only one. Looking around, I had never seen so many with their “Hands out of pockets” and raised to the Lord.