James Tealy

It Is Finished

A few weeks ago, Chad Cates and I wrote a new song for the boys and I to use in worship. We wanted a chance to declare something powerful. We wanted to shout three of the most important words in recorded history. John records these three words as the final ones Jesus spoke on the

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“We Are” by Kari Jobe

Sparrow Records artist Kari Jobe just released “We Are,” the first single off of her new record due out in January 2012. I woke up this morning to find it #1 on iTunes Christian songs chart. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/na05Rr. I co-wrote the song with Chuck Butler and Hillary McBride a while back and it’s the first time I’ve ever been directly asked to write a specific song by someone other than the artist.

I was sitting in a Sunday morning worship gathering…

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Deep Cuts

Once people find out I write songs for a living, the next inevitable question is, “have you written anything I would know.” It is always safe for me to answer “probably not” in this sea of 6,000,000 songs floating around iTunes. Most of the songs I’ve written have stayed in relative obscurity. And depending on

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