Becoming the Songs We Are Singing | Jonathan and Melissa Helser

Jonathan David & Melissa Helser Podcast

Jonathan Helser

Christianity, Helser, Music, Cagelessbirds, Worship, Aplacefortheheart, Religion & Spirituality, 18inchjourney

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Watch the official live video for Cathedral (Extended): https://youtu.be/eaV9BgMS_ho

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In this podcast, Jonathan & Melissa share about the process of becoming the songs we are singing from the journey of writing their new song “Cathedral.” This is a conversation about the discipleship that takes places in songwriting and in giving your heart to cultivate a life of worship.

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0:00.0	I can see myself as like a 75-year-old man walking around this land, just still praying, like, God, make my heart a cathedral.
0:06.9	Yeah.
0:07.2	Make my soul a temple.
0:08.4	Right.
0:08.6	It's lyrics that I want to become.
0:10.7	Like, the lyrics are a path of spiritual formation.
0:13.5	And they do reflect what we've been, what we are, and who we hope to become.
0:18.8	We talk about that a lot.
0:20.1	Like, sometimes we write music to reflect on what's happened.
0:24.5	And then sometimes our songs are pulling us into a new understanding of the Lord and ourselves.
0:31.3	Yeah.
0:31.6	This song, Cathedral, is both.
0:33.5	I think it's like what God has been building in us for 25 years.
0:37.5	Yes.
0:38.4	And then what we longed to be for the next decades to come.
0:42.9	And it's like a dangerous song too.
0:44.8	Like Jesus come flip every table.
0:46.8	Right.
0:47.5	It's like saying yes to the passion of God.
0:50.1	Yeah.
0:50.5	On behalf of like my inner world.
0:53.3	Like come passion of Jesus. Like that intensity, that anger and passion, like, come,
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