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All right, welcome back, fellas. This week's Daily Blade dives into music that doesn't fit the

typical contemporary worship mold. But like it or not, we are called to sing to the Lord,

and I just want to expand your category of what qualifies as worship music. Yesterday, we looked at

the song What It Comes to by the ska punk band at the O.C. Supertones. And today we're looking at the song multiplied by the indie folk rock band Need to Breathe. Now, before we get to the song, I just want to talk to you a little bit about raising your hands in worship and getting emotional during a song. So if you've listened to my main show on Daunted Life of Man's podcast, you've likely heard me talk about this. But I did not grow up in church. So I grew up steeped in what I've grown to call country music theology. So I was around a bunch of people that thought that if you believed in God, voted Republican and listened to 90s country music, that you would get to go to heaven, right? So it wasn't until a Sunday night during my sophomore year of high

school when I was disabused of that notion by a guest preacher at First Baptist West in Lott,

in Oklahoma. That night, the scales fell from my eyes. I realized that I was a wretched, black-hearted

sinner on the pathway to hell. Hell sounded terrible, so I decided to repent and put my faith in Christ.

And then I started attending that small Baptist church as a member. I say all that to say that it did not, you know, or I didn't come from a background or a tradition that lifted hands and worship. So for the first 15 years of my life, I didn't worship at all because I didn't go to church, really. And then after I became a believer, I didn't lift hands in worship because no one else in my church did.

I mean, frankly, I didn't even know that was a thing until I was an adult.

So as I age and as I grow more sanctified, I'm getting more comfortable with raising my hands during worship, depending on the setting.

And it's just not old hat for me yet.

But I can remember a time about a decade ago where during a part of a song at a concert, not a Christian concert, I felt everything slow down and I felt God's presence.

And while listening to that song, I lifted my hands.

So I was at a Need to Breathe concert in Oklahoma City, and they started playing the song multiplied off of their 2014 record rivers in the wasteland.

So I liked the song,

but it really wasn't one of the songs that I was most excited to hear them play live. But then they

started the song. And it immediately caught me off guard a little because the track on the album

starts with an acoustic guitar or a marxophone playing, maybe even a mandolin. I'm not exactly sure which.

But for the live version,

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