Right now I’m sitting on my front (side) porch, computer resting on my lap, just watched the sun set, and thankful for the gentle breeze that is keeping the temperature at a very nice “cool” for the moment (it feels like rain *wishing, hoping and praying* but the sky doesn’t look too hopeful yet…maybe tomorrow).

I’m playing Skillet’s newest CD: Comatose. Great album. It focuses on the inperfections that we all can be and yet…God loves us. This awsome rock group has always been on my top favorite list. They incorproate a lot of unique sounds (including strings) into their songs and the vocals are so inmistakable it makes for a great band. This new album is deffinitly worth listening to as well (I went out and bought it right away and love it–listen to it all the time).

I love that there are so many varieties of music that are there to praise God and to offer ministry unique as each and everyone of us. Skillet is a great rock group, who will be in Orlando, FL at Universal on Sept 8 (for a complete list of their tour, go to their website…they also have some of their songs and videos from Comatose on there as well). But just as I said with the Christian hip-hop ministry, it is a ministry, whether or not people believe it. No it’s not heathenistic for artists to like a specific type of music and to make their ministry reach others who share their love of that type of music (whether it be rock or hip hop or evn contemporary which is the same as pop, by the way). It’s a ministry, there isn’t anything to complain about and I don’t unserstand why people do. There are some people who only listen and only like rock music. Ok, so let them listen to it. And, I thnk that it is that much better if they are willing to incorpoate a Christian message into what they are listening to (because you really do listen to the words whether you think you are or not, it gets inside your head). So why not make it something with a good message AND a good beat that people like. I think that these ministries are awesome and groups like Skillet are awesome.

Here are the lyrics to one of the songs from Comatose album, it’s called Rebirthing.

Verse 1
I lie here paralytic inside this soul
Screaming for you till my throat is numb
I wanna break out
I need a way out
I don’t believe that it’s gotta be this way
The worst is the waiting
In this room I’m suffocating
Pre-Chorus
Feel your presence filling up my lungs with oxygen
I take you in
I’ve died
Chorus
Rebirthing now
I wanna live for love, wanna live for you and me
Breathe for the first time now I come alive somehow
Rebirthing now
I wanna live my live, wanna give you everything
Breathe for the first time now I come alive somehow
Right now
Right now
Verse 2
I lie here lifeless in this cocoon
Shedding my skin cause I’m ready to
I wanna break out
I found a way out
I don’t believe that it’s gotta be this way
The worst is the waiting
In this room I’m suffocating
Pre-Chorus
Feel your presence filling up my lungs with oxygen
I take you in
I’ve died
Chorus
Rebirthing now
I wanna live for love, wanna live for you and me
Breathe for the first time now I come alive somehow
Rebirthing now
I wanna live my live, wanna give you everything
Breathe for the first time now I come alive somehow
(I come alive somehow)
Bridge
Tell me when I’m gonna live again
Tell me when I’m gonna breathe you in
Tell me when I’m gonna feel inside
Tell me when I’m gonna feel alive
Tell me when I’m gonna live again
Tell me when this fear will end
Tell me when I’m gonna feel inside
Tell me when I’ll feel alive
Chorus
Rebirthing now
I wanna live for love, wanna live for you and me
Breathe for the first time now I come alive somehow
Rebirthing now
I wanna live my live, wanna give you everything
Breathe for the first time now I come alive somehow
(I come alive somehow)
Right now (I come alive somehow)
Right now (I come alive somehow)

Thanks to Christian Music Lyrics for the hookin me up with the lyrics for the song!