David Crowder Band MSN Artist of the Year!!!

If The David Crowder Band had not been voted Artist of the Year at MSN Music, I would have thought it was just another attempt to pander to the highly-affluent Contemporary Christian audience. Now I suspect that God is rebuilding the worship temple of David. Consider this scripture.

Acts 15:15-17 (New King James Version)
15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written: 16 ‘ After this I will return And will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, And I will set it up; 17 So that the rest of mankind may seek the LORD, Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, Says the LORD who does all these things.

Can I get an Amen?

The first time I ever heard The David Crowder Band, it was "O Praise Him" as covered by worship leader Mike Popenhagen. I had heard many, many worship songs before BUT this music truly introduced me to the Spirit of worship. Until Crowder, worship was just what we did before the sermon. After getting into this new music, worship became the purpose of going to church. Worship became what I did, on my face before the Lord in my living room at 10:00 at night with "Come Awake" playing softly in the background. Worship became real. Where there had once been a vacant, run down lot, the tabernacle of King David now stood in all its glory.

Apparently there was some controversy to this victory.

Read all about it at David Crowder's Xanga Blogsite. It's quite amusing.

I would like to encourage everyone to join me in praying for The David Crowder Band. First off, that fame would not alter their tender and candid songwriting and that God would always come first. Second, that The Spirit would move through their music and into the hearts of the lost like a rushing, mighty wind.

"It is about the tension that exists in the living of life, here, where the sky meets the broken earth. It is about a tsunami in East Asia. It is about a sunrise over Hiroshima. It is about too many who know intensely what pain the word 'cancer' holds and the words of my friend whispered in my ear, 'It's okay. None of us are getting out of here alive you know.' It is about victory. It is about the joy that comes when blood tests return and a miracle is announced. It is the hope in a rescue that has come, the hope in a rescue that has found us, and the relentless hope in a greater rescue that is still coming - one that has not yet arrived but is no less present. This music, broken, improper and inadequate in its response is rooted in that hope.

The Kingdom of Heaven is now and coming."

From "A Collision" album insert, page 8.

BTJ

P.S. For a deeper view into the band and some of their highs and lows, read Christianity Today's AWESOME interview with David Crowder, A Collision of Life and Death.

P.S.S. If you haven't already, buy "A Collision"!!! You have no idea what you are missing.