Alleluia!

Life imparting heavenly manna
Stricken rock with bleeding side
Heaven and earth with loud hosanna
Worship You, the Lamb who died.

Alleluia! Jesus, True and Living Bread!

Restoration Project is done. Last summer Daniel, Jason and I sat down and talked (over a choice beverage) about recording some of the songs we'd been using in church over the last few years. I don't know that I thought it would pan out; you can see the man who put in the countless hours to make it happen here.


I think of Restoration Project as a good bottle of katsup. It's not the food your soul needs, but a flavoring. Katsup has no nutritional value. A diet of katsup alone will lead to malnutrition and death. But when the Gospel looks like your aunt's dry meatloaf, I pray that Restoration Project will be a means God uses to entice you to try just that first bite. And once you taste the Gospel, you will see how sweet it is—and need katsup no longer.

Last summer we flipped the glass Heinz bottle, and for the last 9 months we've banged on the 57's. It took awhile for it to flow, but Heinz is always worth the effort. Now that it's flowing, we pass the bottle to you. Give it a few taps. If the Gospel has become bland to you, or you have never tasted of it, I pray that it will help you to yearn for the True and Living Bread. Taste of Christ that you would hunger no more—and yet hunger for him increasingly.

The good news we sing of is not salvation by the works of human hands, but by the work of Christ Jesus alone. For this reason—because Christ is the only worthy one—the glory goes to him alone.