Music, Loss, and the Kindness of God with Jeremy Casella

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4.7 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jeremy Casella has been a singer songwriter and performing artist for nearly twenty years. He’s performed and collaborated with people like Andrew Peterson, Phil Keaggy, and the Blind Boys of Alabama. Casella has released 6 full-length albums and an EP. He’s also been an integral part of the influential hymn collective Indelible Grace Music whose songs are sung in churches all over the United States. On this episode, we talk about his journey as an artist, about the Christian Music industry’s rise and fall, and about his personal story – how the end of his marriage led to a deeper sense of God’s presence and kindness. You can learn more about Jeremy at www.jeremycasella.com Cultivated is Produced by Narrativo Group It’s hosted by Mike Cosper Our theme song is by Roman Candle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.1	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.
0:14.5	Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at Apologeticsky.com.
0:44.0	Music Michael Del Rosario at apologetics guy.com This is Jeremy Cicelo. Well, I didn't want to lay it down, but I knew I had to give it up.
0:49.7	I was fooling myself for far too long, and I finally found I had known.
0:53.0	Then I got broken down as I could be.
0:56.0	It took a while, but I busted free Through the rattling, shining rhythm and rhyme
0:59.0	And the rustle of the falling leaves
1:02.0	Praying with the pouring spirit
1:08.0	Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me
1:18.6	When you started playing music?
1:21.6	Fifth grade.
1:22.6	Okay.
1:23.6	Yeah, acoustic guitar wanted to learn how to play.
1:25.6	I went to a Catholic school, and there was a
1:29.8	brochure that came home one day in our school papers, and you could take classes, you know,
1:37.1	or guitar lessons and music lessons at school if you wanted to. And I told my mom that I wanted
1:42.9	to play the guitar, and I always loved music but guitar just kind of came
1:49.0	naturally and started taking lessons when I was in fifth grade so okay and it was this little Yamaha acoustic guitar I still have it Yeah, yeah. I wish I had my old guitars.
2:02.0	Isn't that funny how that is? Yeah, I think back on, like, my, the first one I ever bought was like a real nice, I worked
2:08.5	all summer and bought a, this pretty nice Japanese epiphone Riviera.
2:13.6	Oh, yeah.
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