Sidewalk Prophets have launched a new devotional series entitled “Live Like That.” The band is going to release a devotional every week for the next ten weeks of the summer. Each devotional will highlight a verse that lines up with one of the 10 songs on their record “Live Like That.”

Today we present to you the first devotional in this series, “Live Like That.” The verse that inspired this song is Hebrews 12:1 which says, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us“.

Watch the video below for today’s devotion and stay tuned for more devotional videos from Sidewalk Prophets!

Watch the official lyric video for Phillips, Craig & Dean’s song Great Great God.

Jesus Your name is alive.
Now Your redemption draws into our lives
Strong in battle, you overcame, the victories ours.
Now we sing Great, Great, there is no one like our God.

And be sure to pick up your copy of Phillips, Craig & Dean’s Breathe In album available in stores everywhere!

Learn a little bit more about what makes each member of Citizen Way unique as we hear from Ben C, Josh, Ben B, and David in this video. And if you haven’t done so yet, be sure to pick up your copy of their debut album Love Is The Evidence now!

In this video interview, The Afters share about the making of their latest album Life is Beautiful. Watch the video below and if you haven’t already, be sure to pick up your copy of the album now!

I think the record could be summed up in the song “Life Is Beautiful.” It’s all of these different aspects of life, good and bad, that give live its depth and richness. – Matt Fuqua

When people listen to this record, I hope they’re reminded of all the good God is doing in our lives. God is with us in the great times. He’s with us through the good, but he’s also there when we walk through the valleys. – Josh Havens

Skillet shares the official lyric video for their song “American Noise” off their new album Rise which is set to release on June 25th. Check out the video below!

Times will be bad times will be good
Things I wish I hadn’t done and some I wish I would
Cutting through the American noise
you’ve got a voice and a song to sing (and a song to sing)
Drink deep in the morning
Drink deep in the morning
See what the day will bring

La da da da lift up your voice
Let love cut through the American noise
La da da da lift up your voice
Let love cut through the American noise

In this video interview, The Shane’s share the story behind their new single “That’s How You Forgive”. Watch the video below!

The single that we chose, is a simple song called “That’s How You Forgive.” The song was really written to be a doxology of sorts, just a simple song to sing corporately as the church saying this is what we believe. -The Shanes

Their new album Bring Your Nothing will be available everywhere next week (May 14th) so don’t forget to pick up your copy!

One of my favorite things is hearing an artist/band play an acoustic version of their song. There is something so beautiful about just hearing their voices and guitars in an unplugged setting.

One band I love that does a fantastic job of this is Sidewalk Prophets. In this video below, watch them perform an acoustic version of their new single “Help Me Find It” off their album Live Like That!

One of the old hymns that I love is “O Love That Will Not Let Me Go.” It’s one of the classics written by blind preacher George Matheson.

George wrote these famous words:

O Love that wilt not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
that in thine ocean depths its flow
may richer, fuller be.

O Light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to thee;
my heart restores its borrowed ray,
that in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
may brighter, fairer be.

O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
and feel the promise is not vain,
that morn shall tearless be.

O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
and from the ground there blossoms red
life that shall endless be.

I just love these words because it just goes to show that’s how powerful God’s love is…we can rest in his wonderful love, even in our hardships and pain and know that he will never let us go. What a great reminder this is!

So this week we are offering Chris Rice’s rendition of  this classic hymn off his album Peace Like A River: The Hymns Project.

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In this video interview Shane & Shane share the story behind their album Bring Your Nothing. Watch the video below!

The title of the album  comes from Isaiah 55: 1 which says, “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.”

This idea that we have nothing to bring to Jesus, besides what put him on a cross and he gives us everything in return…it’s the great exchange. Its just another way to say,  he gets my sin and I get everything. That fuels us as we consider how much we deserve death and how much grace he gives us.- Shane B.

Hawk Nelson shares the story behind their song “A Million Miles Away” in this video interview. Check it out!

Our song A Million Miles Away is kind of the story of salvation in a sense. I think for each of us there’s things in our past we’ve moved on from when we accepted Jesus.  So much about salvation is leaving the past, leaving who you were and entering into a new way of life, walking with Jesus. Our song was a way of visualizing that. – Jon Steingard (Hawk Nelson)