Connection Through Praise and Worship: Matt Redman & Mark Schultz
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We all value connection: to our loved ones, to the world around us, to the principles that matter to us. And our most important connection is with God, which can feel so powerful through our praise. Worship leader Matt Redman shares how music became his escape from the darkness he endured in his youth—his father’s suicide early in his life, then abuse in his teen years. But when Matt was introduced to Steven Curtis Chapman’s music in college, he found a path that would draw him near to God through living in a state of constant wonder. Singer/songwriter Mark Schultz was struggling to make it big in the Nashville music scene when he met a youth pastor who would change his life. After working with kids and singing songs from the heart, Mark landed a record deal, and today, he’s built a beautiful life by putting praise for Jesus above everything. Plus, after being adopted in his childhood, Mark finally understood the heavenly meaning of that word when he adopted his own little one.
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Jesus Calling devotional
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Jesus Calling Podcast Episode with Steven Curtis Chapman: "A Father's Love Is Special"
BibleGateway.com Psalms
10,000 Reasons song
Let There Be Wonder album
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Interview Quotes:
“I needed to talk to God. I needed to cry out to God. Music seemed like a really powerful way to do that.” - Matt Redman
“I loved that we weren't just singing about Him, but we were singing to Him.” - Matt Redman
“One of the challenges of trying to portray God through music is to do with trying to paint the biggest picture of Him that you can.” - Matt Redman
“He's the lion and the lamb, He is the God who thunders and whispers. He's a God who terrifies, and yet He befriends. He's the one who knelt down, washed the feet of His disciples, even though He's the one whose footstool is the earth.” - Matt Redman
“There's something special about hearing a father's words speak over you, that they believe in you, and cast a vision for you, and I think there's something about that that you kind of grow into that as your story unfolds.” - Mark Schultz
“That would be one of those moments that I look back on that I feel like it was a dad's vision and a belief in me, just following that.” - Mark Schultz, on a dream fulfilled to play at Ryman Auditorium
“God doesn't want something from us—He wants something for us.” - Mark Schultz
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| 0:00.0 | There's something about worship music when I don't know if it's a softening of the heart or opening of the heart I'm convinced there's something about drawing near to God that's going to keep you open it to some |
| 0:15.0 | some degree. Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Today's guests share the indelible power |
| 0:20.0 | that music has to heal our hopes and hearts. |
| 0:23.0 | Worship leader Matt Redmond and singer-songwriter Mark Schultz. |
| 0:27.0 | Grammy winning worship leader Matt Redmond has traveled all over the world bringing people |
| 0:34.4 | together in song. Along the way he has sung in venues such as Madison Square Garden, |
| 0:38.6 | Wembley Stadium, as well as recording an iconic studio such as Abbey Road in London and capital records in LA. as through music for saving his life during an extremely difficult time. My name is |
| 0:55.1 | Matt Redmond. I was born in the UK. I currently live in California with my wife |
| 1:00.2 | Beth and our five kids. We've got one daughter and four boys from the age of |
| 1:06.6 | 19 down to 10 and so it's never a boring moment and we love doing life. |
| 1:17.0 | Sometimes people ask me why do you write songs or how did you start writing songs and the reason was because I needed to I needed to talk to God I needed to cry out to God and music seemed like a really powerful way to do that. |
| 1:38.0 | When I was seven years old I lost my father he actually took his own life and that was |
| 1:45.8 | obviously a crazyly hard thing to take in and process at the time but then things didn't get much better. Some abuse happened to me in my teenage years. The guy who did that ended up |
| 1:51.8 | going to jail and it was a crazy turbulent time |
| 1:55.7 | But the thing that was keeping me sane and stable was my faith and particularly |
| 2:01.4 | Faith expressed through music. So I started playing music |
| 2:06.7 | because I wanted to sing some of the songs we were singing at church. What actually happened was a group came over from America a month after my dad died and they |
| 2:16.1 | brought this wonderful new expression of worship music. And for me it was so captivating. I couldn't have summed it up at the time, but I guess the dynamic that I was seeing was the people of God in the presence of God pouring out the praises of God. |
| 2:30.4 | There was something so appealing about what these guys were doing. |
| 2:36.6 | And so from that moment on, I loved Worship Music. |
| 2:40.9 | I remember the first song I ever led, it was There is a Redeemer by melody green and it was just |
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