I’m gonna take the next few weeks to step through the new EP “Open Hands” and talk a bit about the story of each song. These songs are all born of personal experience, moments of tragedy and triumph. They are the shouts and whispers of a soul in worship.
“No One Like Our God” was written with Aaron Blanton, Matt Papa, and Seth Condrey. The four of us were on a team of writers, artists, and worship leaders that traveled to Mumbai, India earlier this year. We spent our days wandering the streets of this great city looking for opportunities to tell the grand epic of our God from creation to the cross. Most we spoke with new little or nothing about the One Most High God who sent His Son Jesus that we might know Him and be fully known by Him. As we told the story of Jesus again and again we were all struck by how rich this truth is. Who else can be the perfect balance creative power and intimate presence?
Seth and Aaron wrote the chorus first while in India, a powerful declaration of the uniqueness of Yahweh. Aaron, Matt and I met a few weeks later to work through the verses. The song was born as an uptempo guitar anthem. By the time it landed on my record it had become a driving piano bit. Every time I sing this lyric I am struck again by the miracle that the same voice that spoke the world into being, sings over me in the night. There is No One Like Our God!