Indelible Grace

On my trip to Oklahoma this past week I was blessed to be lead to Faith Bible Church for Sunday worship. Faith Bible is the Grace Community Church of Edmond. It's tag line is "Making and maturing disciples of Jesus Christ." The little brick sanctuary is bursting at the seams with brothers and sisters of the faith seeking strong expositional Biblical teaching and warm fellowship. Young couples, older folks, kids... all bumped around in the building, bustling from class to church to childcare with smiles and hugs. Suffice it to say, I was filled by terrific teaching (they are currently studying through Ephesians) and soulful worship that morning.

I was bummed that I would be leaving on Wednesday when I head about a concert they'd be having on Thursday, and I came home and looked up the band because it sounded terrific. It's called Indelible Grace. I'm not sure if any of you have heard of it (I hadn't). Anyway, they are unique and I appreciate what they are doing.

Indelible Grace takes hymns and writes new music for them. Some are well-known, some aren't. And some are long forgotten lyrics which never had music put to them to begin with. Here is an excerpt from their "About" page:

"Our goal is not change for change's sake, but to rekindle a love of hymns and to invite many who would never associate rich passion with hymns to actually read the words. We believe that we are impoverished if we cut off our ties with the saints of the past, and that we fail to be faithful to God in our own moment of history if we don't attempt to praise Him in forms that are authentic to who we are.

We believe that the words of a hymn actually have more emotional nuance than one piece of music can adequately capture. Thus singing even familiar hymns with different music can bring out shades of meaning that had remained unnoticed. For instance, while the traditional music for Toplady's "Rock of Ages" conveys the power and strength of the words, James Ward's more recent tune brings out the sweetness and tenderness that is also part of the emotion in the lyric."

They have six CDs I believe, all of which can be sampled on their site. The music is great and I'm so happy for this little treasure of a find that I thought I would share it with you.

Oh, and Carlos, if you're reading this, their CDs would make great Christmas gifts...wink wink...