De nieuwe cd van de Casting Crowns is een gigantisch succes. Nederland had op 1 november de primeur, Until The Whole World Hears werd eerst in ons land uitgebracht en pas op 17 november in de Verenigde Staten. In een week tijd gingen er in de VS maar liefst 167.432 cd’s over de toonbank. Een bizar aantal.
Gisterenavond had ik het voorrecht om de nieuwe cd van de Casting Crowns, genaamd ‘Until the whole world hears’ te beluisteren. Deze cd komt op 1 november als eerste uit in Nederland, op 17 november volgt de release in de Verenigde Staten. Op de website van GMI Music, de Nederlandse uitgever van deze cd, is het volgende over deze schitterende cd te lezen…
In Zuid-Afrika luisterde ik regelmatig naar muziek op mijn I-pod en kwam het nummer ‘While you were sleeping’ tegen van de Casting Crowns. Het is een nummer met een schitterende tekst.. luister en lees zelf maar:
While You Were Sleeping
Oh little town of Bethlehem
Looks like another silent night
Above your deep and dreamless sleep
A giant star lights up the sky
And while you’re lying in the dark
There shines an everlasting light
For the King has left His throne
And is sleeping in a manger tonight
Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
For God became a man
And stepped into your world today
Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping
Oh little town of Jerusalem
Looks like another silent night
The Father gave His only Son
The Way, the Truth, the Life had come
But there was no room for Him in the world He came to save
Jerusalem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
The Savior of the world is dying on your cross today
Jerusalem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping
United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we’re sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the children
And while we’re lying in the dark
There’s a shout heard ‘cross the eastern sky
For the Bridegroom has returned
And has carried His bride away in the night
America, what will we miss while we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for its King
Will we be sleeping
Will we be sleeping
United States of America
Looks like another silent night
Na twee indrukwekkende weken in Zuid-Afrika ben ik weer in Nederland, met al mijn luxe… een auto, computers.. een toilet, warm water… midden volgende maand hoop ik wat foto’s en video’s te kunnen plaatsen.
“Love Them Like Jesus”
The love of her life is drifting away
They’re losing the fight for another day
The life that she’s known is falling apart
A fatherless home, a child’s broken heart
You’re holding her hand, you’re straining for words
You trying to make – sense of it all
She’s desperate for hope, darkness clouding her view
She’s looking to you
Just love her like Jesus, carry her to Him
His yoke is easy, His burden is light
You don’t need the answers to all of life’s questions
Just know that He loves her and stay by her side
Love her like Jesus
Love her like Jesus
The gifts lie in wait, in a room painted blue
Little blessing from Heaven would be there soon
Hope fades in the night, blue skies turn to gray
As the little one slips away
You’re holding her hand, you’re straining for words
You’re trying to make sense of it all
They’re desperate for hope, darkness clouding their view
They’re looking to you
Just love them like Jesus, carry them to Him
His yoke is easy, His burden is light
You don’t need the answers to all of life’s questions
Just know that He loves them and stay by their side
Love them like Jesus
Lord of all creation holds our lives in His hands
The God of all the nations holds our lives in His hands
The Rock of our salvation holds our lives in His hands
He cares for them just as He cares for you
So love them like Jesus, love them like Jesus
You don’t need the answers to all of life’s questions
Just know that He loves them and stay by their side
Love them like Jesus
Love them like Jesus
