![]() ![]() ![]() What's especially cool is how this album stays true to that biblical description. I had the chance to speak with Chad Gardner about their catchy and convicting song, "I Know." A sincere desire for the presence of God and to see His Kingdom on earth is found in every song as lead singer Chad Gardner sings the eternity-minded lyrics with an engaging and worshipful alt-rock style. Please tell me the personal story behind this song. This year has been a very difficult year for me and my wife. We both ended up resigning from the church we had met at, got married at, helped plant and worked at. She got in a car accident about a week after that. A few weeks later, we learned that my wife's father had brain cancer out of nowhere, and he passed away 10 weeks later. Then, a couple months further down the road, we lost our first child, our son, to a stillbirth, which was brutal and hard.Īll along, I'm trying to make this album, which is personal and about all of these things we were dealing with. ![]() We had this musical bed we were sitting on for this song, and I just really wanted to be able to sing a song with a very clear message, with a brash confidence in something that wasn't myself.īasically, I was thinking about how in rap music, there's bragging about someone's own strength in many cases, but I wanted a song that was about boasting in Christ. So I was thinking, what is the most outlandish thing I can boast about? It's outlandish that I am going to live for eternity with God. That's crazy!Įven on a philosophical level, you can talk with friends about Jesus, and the miracle that He paid for the sins of the world. Then you get to this idea that you're going to live forever with God in Heaven. ![]() Subconsciously, I wanted to be focusing on this idea as we faced two more family deaths and a total of four family member deaths over a 6 month period. It's been hard, and only completely by God's grace He's given us faith that He's good and He loves us. I can't pin that on me or anything I did, like what I prayed or what I read in my Bible. Psalm 87:7 (VOICE): Those who sing and those who dance will say together, "All my fountains of joy are in You."Īcts 4:12 (NKJV): Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Philippians 2:14-16 (NIV): "Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life-in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing." Which Bible verses connect to the message of the song? I wanted to sing joyful, triumphant, biblical truth to myself, based on situations and how I felt personally, and based on the musical bed I felt that was what this song is supposed to be about. Revelation 21:21 (VOICE): The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate expertly crafted from a single beautiful pearl. And the city street was pure gold, yet it was as transparent as glass. I live in downtown Seattle, and I like to go on walks during the day. I would walk down to the water and listen to tracks for this album and talk with God and pray multiple times a day, literally when the sun was going down. It felt like there's a relief and a sense of awe. I was thinking about how to capture beauty in music, and I wasn't even coming close to a sunset, which lasts just 10 minutes. It wasn't like God went away, but it was a reminder that I might not always see Him, but He's right here with me.Ī sunset felt like every night God showed me a little bit of His beauty and let me know He was with me. I started thinking about how there's so much beauty in that 10 minutes every day, and then it goes away. It got me thinking about how there's nothing really that will ever fully satisfy me here on Earth except the presence of God. I want to know Him, so bad while I'm on Earth, that I want to be in Heaven. Lewis quote became the pre-chorus and wove the rest of the song together about looking for beauty, looking for God, and knowing that the only place I can find that is in Jesus. I'm going to have Him 100% one day with no sin, and that's going to be amazing! Right now, I still have Him, but I'm fallen. I'm going to have that full relationship someday. ![]()
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