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Love Is On The Move
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The Door
"Jesus says, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me [John 14:6, NIV].' Jesus is The Door. He's our access to the Kingdom of God, to heaven. This song is like an anthem for us. We can't wait to play it live, and we really hope people yell it with us. It's an awesome declaration."--Jack -
Follow You (with special guest Brandon Heath)
"This song was a lot slower at first, but we decided to speed it up, because it gives it more of an urgency. The message of it is so strong--calling out people, saying, 'We've got to do something. We've got to follow God where He is going. And the direction God is going is taking care of the needy, taking care of the broken.' One of my favorite lines on the record is in this song: 'You live among the least of these, the weary, and the weak/And it would be a tragedy for me to turn away.'--Jack -
Via Dolorosa
"I wanted to write a song about the cross--Jesus coming down and what He did on the cross, about how He became a man, and how humbling that was, and how awesome it was for us that He did. When I brought the unfinished song to Ed [Cash, producer] and Jack, Ed said, 'I've always wanted to write a song about the Via Dolorosa. It's always been one of my biggest passions. But I've never had the right idea. What if we have this song not only talking about the cross, but talking about the road of suffering that Jesus walked on?' So we got so deep into it that we started pulling up pictures of the Via Dolorosa and clips of the The Passion of The Christ. We were praying and reading different scriptures about Jesus being beaten and bruised and walking down the road."--Leeland -
Pure Bride
"Over the course of a couple months, I heard about a lot of ministry friends of mine or people that I knew falling off in their faith or something happening that caused their whole ministry to fall. It didn't scare me, but it made me more aware that if that person fell, then I'm not exempt from that temptation of sin. And I began to look at that aspect and just pray, 'God, just give me a pure heart.' When I wrote this song, I really wrote it to myself--singing it to myself, not directing it at anyone else. To me, this is one of the first prophetic songs we've ever really had, because it talks about the Coming of God. And I hope it really encourages people to come back to a place of righteousness before God. It encouraged me to do that."--Leeland -
Carry Me On Your Back
"We were doing a soundcheck in Florida, and Leeland just started playing what became the chorus for this song. And he said, 'Guys, play this with me,' and we started singing it together. Pretty much all we had was the chorus, and we wrote the rest of it with Ed in the studio. Lyrically, it's a great visual of God saving us from a really bad time in our lives--He just picks us up and carries us out of it on his back."--Jack -
New Creation
"Leeland had this guitar riff idea, and we just started jamming on it in the studio. It wasn't really on our original list of songs that we planned on recording, but after hearing it, we were like, 'Ah man, we've really got to add this.' We love the message behind this song because it's tried and true--God's made us new. It's a really triumphant kind of song. The line, 'Death, where is your sting' really proclaims it. Sin can't conquer us. We have authority over it."--Jack -
Lift Your Eyes Up
"When we were recording the demo of this song, we didn't have any verses yet, so Leeland was just recording a scratch vocal. And usually when we don't have lyrics yet, he just mumbles random things. Well, literally, in one scratch vocal take, Leeland 'wrote' all the verses of this song. [Laughs] At the end of it, we just kind of looked at him and were like, "Those were actually really good lyrics!"--Jack
"The funniest thing about that for me was the only lyric idea I had going into the scratch vocal was the first line: It feels like your world's crashing down. And when I started singing, these lyrics just kept coming and kept rhyming. (Laughs) I was like, 'Where are these coming from? This is so random, this has never happened to me before.'"--Leeland -
Weak Man
"Leeland had this idea awhile back, and I just loved it. The lyrics are actually kind of intense. The chorus is: May I be low, low, low so You're made higher/And I'll be weak for You are strong/Weak for You are strong it the weak man. The whole idea is that literally, we are at our strongest point when we're at the end of ourselves, and we just have to rely on God."--Jack -
Love Is On The Move
"The biggest thing that I could ever understand, or get from God, is how much God loves me. For the longest time, you can hear about God's love for us, but when you really understand it in experience--how awesome God's love is for you--it changes your life and changes your world. Love is the most powerful thing we can release into the world. It doesn't matter how much anger, hate, violence or sin is surrounding us, the most powerful thing we can give someone is love. That's why we titled the record 'Love Is On The Move.'--Leeland -
Learn to Love
"I think we just kind of envisioned this as a big corporate song, just singing it before God. We've got to learn to love one another. We're coming out of a time in the church when we were really divided during election. Here right now politically, the landscape in our country is really heated with issues ranging from homosexuality to abortion and all that stuff. And no matter where you stand or what you believe, at the end of the day, we've got to show the love of God. You've got to stand for truth, and you've got to stand for righteousness, but stand in a way that doesn't tear people to pieces."--Jack -
Holy Spirit Have Your Way
"One of the days I was doing vocals, it was just Ed and me in the studio. And a number of times while we were recording, I saw Ed lean back in his seat, lift his hands up, and worship God with tears running down his face. And the presence of God ministered to me a lot as well. There were a couple times that I got choked up, and it was hard for me to sing. On the chorus of this song, there's a part that says, 'All that I need, all that I need, all that I seek is You here with me.' And on that part, there were a couple times recording vocals that I couldn't get out 'all that I need,' because God was touching me so much I was on the verge of tears."--Leeland -
Bonus: My Jesus
"This song is based on the visual that God is the living water. He's the life-giving source. Physically, water is the most important thing to our body. Spiritually, God is, in the same way, the most important thing we can ever put in our spirit--the love of Jesus. Jesus is the life, He's the water. We recorded this song live in the studio together, and for the end of the song, we chose to just worship and flow and not really have an 'ending.' We just let the song fade out while we worshipped together. "--Leeland
Leeland’s passionate, progressive music is well known for creating a stir among a new generation of worshipers. Love Is On The Move continues the band’s mission of calling believers toward an active role in being God’s hands and feet on earth so that His kingdom can continue to press into the world. With a collection of epic vertical songs, Leeland’s powerful anthems and penetrating melodies are poised to spark a new revival in the church.
Opposite Way
Released: 02/26/2008
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Count Me In
This song centers around the idea of God’s love and wanting to make the most of His plan. The idea came up a few years ago when we were playing in youth group. I remember writing the chorus in my room thinking about all of the incredible plans God has for us. It also reminds me of so many people I’ve read about in the Bible who’ve done amazing things, and it makes me realize we can all do those same things if we have love in our heart.--Leeland -
Let It Out Now
This song is really interesting how it ties directly into the concept of Opposite Way. We were spending the night in Nashville at Michael W. Smith’s house and I came up with the melody and first few lines while hanging out in the basement. I didn’t finish it that night, but wound up writing the rest on a flight to Nashville, just prior to going into the studio to record Opposite Way. I prayed for the Lord to give me some lyrics and it was really cool to look out over the clouds and get a different point of view on how small the world really is compared to being up so high. So basically the basis of the song is to not worry if you look different or even like a fool for following Jesus, because it shouldn’t matter what the world says compared to all of God’s amazing qualities. It’s one of the tunes that ties in with our goal of radically changing this generation for God.--Leeland -
Enter This Temple
I was sitting in my living room strumming my guitar and the line “father enter this temple/come touch your people” came up right there. And from there, the Lord plopped it in my lap- the fact that our hope rests in the cross- and we hope that reminder ministers to people.--Leeland -
Opposite Way
Jack and I wrote the first verse, which deals with living in the same town all your life. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that; this song is talking about the state of mind you’re living in. I think complacency is one of the biggest issues that confuses our generation, and everyone else, for that matter. But there has to be a point where we step over the line and don’t live like a mediocre Christian any longer. The chorus talks about being locked in a cage and needing to find escape, while the second verse addresses the idea of Jesus’ life and what He did on this earth. It talks about the way He spoke and the way He lived, while He also gave the opposite answers to everyone’s questions about the kingdom of God.--Leeland -
Wake Up
This is about witnessing to the world and acting out your faith. One of the biggest things the Lord’s been showing me is to look heavenward in Christ. We’re not called to live a normal life, but to be constantly going forward, witnessing and advancing the kingdom of God.--Leeland -
Beginning And The End
This song talks about what Jesus did on the cross. It’s about placing our lives in His hands and having hope in the future. It’s a lighthearted approach to a deep topic.--Leeland -
Brighter Days
When I first wrote this song, it didn’t have a hopeful ending. Since it never specifically mentioned the presence of God, we weren’t sure if it should go on the record, but then my friend said “what if it’s about someone else looking for a ‘Brighter Day,’ like a kid in Africa with AIDS or a homeless person?” So in that sense, although it may end on a searching note, it’s a great challenge for us as believers to go out and really bring hope to others. If we all act out in faith, then better days can truly be achieved.--Leeland -
Falling For You
This song’s about coming back to the Lord and the place you started when you first accepted Him. Often one’s passion for God is really strong when they first become a Christian, but that initial love and passion can often fall away. The reality of this is that God is not letting us go, we’re letting go of Him.--Leeland -
Don’t Go Away
All five of us wrote on this song. It starts out with finding salvation in the first verse and wanting to hear more about Jesus when you’ve just become a Christian. From there, it goes on to talk about going deeper, and feeling God’s presence more and more as your life continues. It’s interesting how all of the lyrics came about as we spouted off ideas about being obsessed with God, and not wanting those thoughts to go away.--Leeland -
Thief In The Night
This song talks about the coming of the Lord, particularly the Scripture that says He’ll come like a thief in the night (Revelation 3:3). It’s definitely a worship song proclaiming the glory of His name, while touching on some end-times subjects. We are just trying to imagine what it will be like when God comes back for his bride.--Leeland -
May Our Praise
It’s a worship song about honoring God; about living the life that He wants us to live, instead of just singing songs about it. It’s about letting our whole lives be worship to God.--Leeland
Produced by Matt Bronleewe (Jars of Clay) and engineered by Ben Grosse (Ben Folds, Red Hot Chili Peppers), Opposite Way is passionate and progressive music that provides an unforgettable, emotional experience for all who listen. “This album is a call to our generation to passionately walk the ‘opposite way’ of the world; that it’s OK to live the Christian life and to be on fire for God, even if it makes us look different.” -Leeland Mooring
Sound of Melodies
Released: 08/15/2006
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Sound of Melodies
The first of back-to-back workhorse songs, drummer Mike Smith says, “Every time I hear this song it’s like the first time I’ve heard it—I’m just as excited.” The title track combines rich, heartfelt lyrics with searing passion imbued in Leeland Mooring’s vocals. “The reason I think this song is so powerful,” Leeland says, “is because it’s stating a claim. It’s making a declaration that this is our sound to God. It’s the sound of your people who have been redeemed and saved by grace singing to you, God, or worshiping you, whatever you might want to say. And I think that means more to God than even the constant singing by the angels in heaven.” -
Reaching
Frontman Leeland Mooring says, “The sound of ‘Reaching’ is entertaining, but at the heart of it is a vision for reaching out to God. It’s about longing after God. It’s about making a decision to seek after God instead of doing nothing.” Keyboardist Jack Mooring agrees. “Reaching to God is moving toward God, not just him moving toward you.” -
Yes You Have
“You can’t run from God,” Jack Mooring says. “Psalm 139 says, ‘O Lord, you have searched me and known me… Where can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?’ Instead, God captures our hearts. Even if we try to run away from his love, it’s still going to find us. That’s how we feel as a band. We feel God has taken over our hearts, and this song celebrates that.” -
Tears of the Saints
Leeland Mooring says it was a Sunday afternoon during a quiet devotional time that he sensed what he calls a presence of God. “I was playing piano, just worshiping, and I asked in prayer, ‘God, just give me your heart for the lost.’” It was a hope to feel the longing God feels for people struggling to find their way. “And then I started crying—it was as if God gave me a little glimpse of his heart,” Leeland continues. “‘Tears of the Saints’ came out, and it’s about how for every person who is out there lost there is probably about five people praying for them.” More, the track illuminates the vision the band has for its ministry. “We want to see kids saved,” the songwriter affirms. “What’s awesome about this song live, is how it touches people,” bassist Jake Holtz adds. “The Lord is just blessing people. You can see change coming across their faces. It’s nothing we’re doing. God’s just working through us with this song.” -
Beautiful Lord
This track honors God for his loving, merciful character. It succeeds with simplicity. “I think constantly, everyday, we need to thank God for his love on our lives,” says Leeland Mooring. “If it wasn’t for what he did on the cross, we wouldn’t be able to have a relationship with him.” “It’s straight-up telling God how beautiful he is, so it means a lot to us,” adds Jack Mooring. “This has been a staple song of our band for the last couple of years. It’s probably the oldest song on the album.” -
Can't Stop
According to Leeland Mooring, “‘Can’t Stop’ talks about how the more we find out about God, the more we’re aware of the environment around us—family, friends and the place God has put us in, the grace he’s given us. There are more and more reasons everyday to fall in love with God.” -
Lift Your Eyes
Exemplary of the growing, collaborative character of this young band is “Lift Your Eyes.” “Mike came to me in the studio one day with this catchy rhythm line and I just started messing with it,” Leeland Mooring says. Next thing they knew, the guys were co-writing the track for the album. “We love The Police and Sting, and playing around with the music, the verse kinda reminded me of those influences,” Wood says. “We got close to the end of the recording process and we needed some upbeat songs. I got the guitar and started playing this one. It wasn’t finished yet, but luckily, [producer] Steve Hindalong was like, ‘That’s awesome!’ So we had to write it in the studio that day.” -
Hey
“This track breaks from the intensity of the record,” Jack Mooring says of the song that was in the running for a Subaru car commercial. “And it’s our opportunity to be like The Beatles.” Leeland Mooring agrees, adding, “‘Hey’ is just happy and easy to sing along with.” -
Too Much
“I was inspired to write this by the band Travis,” Leeland Mooring remembers. “It’s kind of schizophrenic, but I think it’s cool because it gives the album unexpected feeling. It’s dark in the first verse, like everything is crashing down around you. A little semi-happy in the chorus, it goes back to dark in the second verse. Then the bridge explodes super happy—finding that place of sanctuary; finding that way home to God.” -
How Wonderful
This is one for the church, the band agrees. “‘How Wonderful’ is a vertical, congregational song everyone can sing together. It is about us proclaiming to God just how wonderful he is,” shares Jack Mooring. The story behind “How Wonderful” reveals a caricature of the rich personality within this group of men.
“Leeland plays everything loud. He’s a passionate guy. He cannot play soft,” explains Jack Mooring, who is also the musician’s older brother. “For four hours, Leeland was banging on the piano and banging on the guitar writing this song. It’s 10:30 at night and my mom, who was trying to do housework and talk on the phone, finally got sick of it and said, ‘Leeland, I’m sorry honey. You’re going to have to go outside. I can’t take that anymore.’” Surprise, surprise. “I was in shock,” Leeland laughs. “I was like, ‘Are you serious? Did you just tell me to go outside as I’m writing a song to God?” Undaunted, Leeland, still dressed in his Indian-motif pajama pants, went out on the curb of the street with his guitar to finish the song. -
Carried to the Table
Inspired by the story of Mephibosheth, a man blessed by David in Second Samuel, Leeland Mooring explains. “We’re broken people. We have sin in our lives and we outcast ourselves from God’s kingdom. But God’s love is constantly chasing after us, kinda like how David sought out Mephibosheth. I think when we are taken in by God’s love, we are brought into his kingdom and brought to his table. We’re saved by grace. No one can see that we are hurt because we’re covered by the blood of Jesus. That’s so relevant to us even now.”
Hailing from Texas, Leeland is a five-piece band fronted by and named for Leeland Mooring, a 17-year-old gifted songwriter, worship leader and charismatic performer who immediately draws listeners in with a passionate transparency that is rare among artists of any age.
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Count Me In
By Jack Mooring“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” - John 15:13
So, chew on that one for a little while. That means, that no other entity in the universe can love you more than God. I can’t, your mom can’t, your husband or wife can’t. As intense and as fierce as they could possibly love you, it doesn’t come close to God’s love.
The love of God is so immeasurable, and I mean that literally. There are a lot of things we can measure: our height (mine is a bit challenged), our weight, our IQ, the length of a fishing pole, how many friends we have on MySpace. All of these things we can grasp, but the love of God is the one thing in the universe that we can’t just stretch out the measuring tape for. It’s invisible, it’s powerful, the most drastic and beautiful gift in the universe. And to make things even better, God invites us to be swallowed up by this love even when we’re dirty, grimy, and stink with sin. He still loves us no matter what. But for some reason, when we sin, we take it upon ourselves to pull out the measuring tape and put drastic limitations on God’s limitless love! We say, “God... I know You’re big, but I think your love stops here. It just doesn’t cut it for me.” What insanity!!!!!
Let’s realize today, that no matter what, He counts us in. We’ve made the team, you aren’t going to get kicked off. That’s how much he loves you. That’s what this song is about. Saying, “God, I know I’m not perfect, but Your love is perfect, and there is no way I’m passing this up.”
Let It Out Now
By Jack Mooring“Everyone has their own sound/ Let it out Now/ Let it out Now” – from the song, “Let It Out Now”
Matthew 3:4 states, “Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
John 1:23 says “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord.”
One of my favorite things about God is His ability to be...God. What do I mean by that?
Well, He always seems to choose the most unlikely people, and does the most incredible things through them. Think about it, He wouldn’t be much of a God if he needed human talent to accomplish his plans! He doesn’t need our help... but He wants it desperately.
John the Baptist was weird. He ate locusts, ran around in camel underwear, and was screaming all the time about this person coming after Him. In my mind, maybe not the ideal choice as a front-runner for the King of Kings. But, God knew what He was doing. John had “his own sound,” and God wanted the world to hear it.
So, my word to you, is for you to stop trying to make yourself “ready” to be used by God. He wants you RIGHT now, the complete mess that you are. He’s big enough to work through you, and He loves you so much. We all have a distinct “sound” inside of us that the world is longing to hear.
1 Corinthians 1:26-27, “Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But, God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.”
Enter This Temple
By Jack Mooring“Father, enter this temple/ Come touch Your people/ we need to be where You are” – from the song, “Enter This Temple”
Ephesians 2:22 says, “And in Him, you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit.”
A temple, simply put, is a place or person in which God lives. I’ve always said that I wanted to “be where God is.” I guess for us to find out where God is, we have to know where to find him. First, we know that He’s in us. That’s made very clear to us throughout our Christian walk; that God actually dwells in us through salvation. But, a second and equally important place for God to be...is “in our midst.”
But you might say, “well if God is inside of us... isn’t He already ‘in our midst’?” Yes, that’s true, but I believe that it goes so much further than that. It’s great that Jesus is in our hearts, but Him being inside of us is only half of the work!
There is a lost and hurting world, including a hurting church that is desperate to see God in a tangible way. Why can’t we experience Jesus the same way the disciples did? God wants to move supernaturally in our midst, just as much as he wants to do an inward work in our hearts. It’s unbalanced to have one without the other.
In the book of Acts, we see men that each had their own amazing inward experience with God. These men were drastically affected by Jesus, but they didn’t let it stop there! They wanted the fullness of God’s power in their midst. What does that mean? It means that they gave their lives to see the hungry fed, the lost saved, the sick healed, the bound set-free, and the dead raised
So, when we sing “Enter This Temple,” we know that God is happy to be in us, and that’s where the work begins. But, will we be bold enough to ask God to enter another temple? The dwelling of our everyday life, changing the people around us and allowing them to experience the God that we know so intimately.
Opposite Way
By Jack Mooring“He knelt in the garden and prayed/ Father let this cup pass from me/ It’s not Your will for me to stay/ Your will for me’s the Opposite Way” - from the song, "Opposite Way"
Luke 22:42 says, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not My will, but Yours, be done.”
Here’s Jesus... literally, bearing the weight of the world on His shoulders. The fate of humanity all hinging on this one decision.
Jesus knew He had to become fully human in order to accomplish this work, but one of the major drawbacks to humanity is our never-ending desire to have things the easy way. He had come face-to-face with that decision: the easy way or the right way.
One of the most interesting things about that passage in Luke 22 isn’t even what Jesus prayed to the Father in verse 42, it is what he tells the disciples earlier in the chapter. He said, “Pray, lest you enter into temptation.” In other words, the decision I’m about to make is going to thrust you into a whole life of hard choices! So pray, because I’m leaving, and then you’re called to pick up where I left off; to live the opposite way on the earth, and bring people to me.
It seems our whole generation is tempted to flow with the ease of compromise and sin. But all the while, God is calling us to a higher purpose. The decision Jesus made that night changed eternity. He chose the opposite way of the world, and in doing so... SAVED the world! Now He’s calling us to do the same.
Video: Sound of Melodies
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