Video: The Story Behind "Eyes Wide Open"
VIDEO: The Story Behind "We Will Follow"
VIDEO: THE STORY BEHIND "CALL MY NAME"
VIDEO: The Story Behind "Small Rebellions"
VIDEO: Jars of Clay Explains the song, "Shelter"
VIDEO: Jars Perform "Shelter" on Total Axxess
ARTICLE: FROM THE TENNESSEAN
Explaining The Shelter: "We Will Follow"
As we count down to the release of our new album, The Shelter (Oct. 5), we are spending time sharing more about each song on the project. Today, track 3: "We Will Follow."
Charlie: I love the imagery that we as a church are carrying on a pilgrimage that started in the Old Testament...wandering, straying, remembering, following....
Dan: We may not know where we are going, we know who leads us, and thus we can sing with confidence even into the valley of death.
Stephen: To make yourself available to God's love and His people is to push against fear and offer yourself to God's service as an ambassador of love and an agent of change.
Matthew: Nothing in our view you haven't made, No one that you've touchd you that you haven't saved.
Explaining The Shelter: "Call My Name"
As we prepare for the October 5 release of The Shelter, we are sharing specific thoughts on each song from the album. This week we share about track 2, "Call My Name."
Charlie: A prayer that we might know the value of each individual life - and our calling to value dignity and story as we bring God's hope into brokenness.
Dan: Good community never lets us stay in its safe fold for long, rather it allows our hearts to venture out to harm's way in search of God.
Stephen: God calling your name means being known by the creator of everything, who redeems us and everything around us in beauty.
Matthew: To think that God knows us by name has deep and far-reaching implications. To actually hear him use it changes everything.
VIDEO: Dan Introduces The Shelter
Explaining The Shelter: "Small Rebellions"
Over the coming weeks, leading to the 10/5 release of The Shelter, we will be sharing more about the songs from the album. This week, we share thoughts on track 1, "Small Rebellions."
Charlie: May our small, daily protests to the chaos define us as those who choose love over fear and judgment. A prophetic song of hope paired with action.
Dan: Any act that fights against isolation is the greatest form of counterculture. The greatest risks we take are the ones that prove we are implicated in each others stories.
Stephen: This song celebrates the courage it takes as a community to change the lives of those around us with a subversive love.
Matthew: For those willing to adventure into the confinements of intentional relationship will find a richness missing from even the most charmed of lives.