🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌

Relevant Magazine recently reported "Christian music is finally having a real mainstream moment." For the first time in over a decade, two Christian songs made Billboard's "Hot 100" list simultaneously. "American Idol" aired a three-hour "Songs of Faith" special on Easter Sunday. Christian singer and songwriter, Brandon Lake performed "Hard-Fought Hallelujah" on Jimmy Kimmel Live and made a surprise appearance at Stagecoach Festival, co-leading 75,000 people from every walk of life in an incredibly relevant psalm.

Secular and Christian news have reported the same thing... Something is hitting different this time. This isn't Christian artists keeping songs "safe". The "mainstream" world has heard it all by now, and they aren't looking for safe. We live in the fastest speed of life in history with instant access to almost anything. It's not about being bigger, better or faster anymore. The whole world is listening for something that matters, something that sticks.

The charts will change. The news will too. But hallelujahs stick. The hard-fought ones echo louder into heaven from the dark, cold valleys.

Is it possible that the generation that has grown up with the world at their fingertips... the ones who never waited by the radio with their cassette tapes to try and record their favorite song when it played... the ones whose every question, hunger and thirst are a swipe away...

Is it possible that this very generation is the one that will have ears to hear the realest, rawest worship - whether it's from stage or from the kindness we extend on a regular day?

An over-saturated world hungers and thirsts. They're looking for Jesus. If He's in you, then they're listening for your hallelujahs so they'll know how to sing theirs. We all want our lives to be about something that sticks.

Listen to Brandon Lake's "Hard-Fought Hallelujah", and don't hold yours back.