Everhart’s Songs for Holy Week
It has been a long time in coming, but it is here – Pageant Music and Everhart have completed the Holy Week album. Everhart had written 7 deep and devotional songs, one for each day in holy week, and we spent the last year recording these songs. They are finished! The official release is Tuesday, March 24th.
We hope these songs will serve as a musical and poetical journey through holy week, offering you a guide as you reflect of the Son of God and the plan of redemption. The next post will provide the sheet music for these beautiful songs. This is Everhart’s reflection on the album and it’s theme:
From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, Christians around the world walk with Jesus Christ through the last days of his life. In the time between his Triumphant entry on Sunday and lying dead in the tomb six days later, Christ exposed hypocrisy, restored purity of worship to the temple, and wept like a child for the coming destruction of his beloved city, Jerusalem.
He was deserted by his friends.
From his pores flowed blood.
From his mouth, prayers of grief and anxiety.
From his heart, unceasing compassion toward even his killers.
From his soul, heaving cries to His father as he gave up his last breath.
While walking with Christ through this week, I see firsthand that God is not distant or unfeeling. He has plummeted the depths of human suffering. My sin, putting me at odds with God, was nailed into his bloodied flesh, and dealt with forever. I am free to be myself because I am identified by nothing other than his Love. His wounds give me a place to belong.
As I look toward the resurrection on Easter Sunday, I take hold of life. Death is a cloak of darkness, an impending future of unknown realities that haunts every member of humanity. Jesus lived, walked, died alone, and rose to life so that death, though it tries so very hard, and its sting goes very deep, will not have the last word.
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