{"id":63133,"date":"2023-07-19T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=63133"},"modified":"2023-07-19T00:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T05:59:11","slug":"a-selection-of-new-songs-for-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=63133","title":{"rendered":"A Selection of New Songs for Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are spoiled\u2014spoiled by having so many talented Christian artists creating so many excellent songs. With 2023 now halfway in the books, I decided to make up a list of my favorites from the year so far. Hopefully there&#8217;s something here you&#8217;ll want to add to your own playlists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> He Calls Me Friend by CityAlight <\/p>\n<p>As it happens, I am heading to Australia today to spend some time with CityAlight and their church. They have just released a couple of new tracks from their upcoming EP and both are wonderful. The first, &#8220;He Calls Me Friend,&#8221; rejoices in our friendship with Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>I have a friend, a faithful friend \/ And Jesus is His name \/ I have a friend, a Saviour friend \/ And Jesus is His name \/ He will not leave, \/ He stands by me \/ My Shepherd He remains.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe title=\"CityAlight - He Calls Me Friend (Live)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2PpiezP6xRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> My God is All I Need \/ My God is So Big by CityAlight <\/p>\n<p>The second new track is &#8220;My God Is All I Need&#8221; which is a song of comfort.<\/p>\n<p>He is my strength when I cannot go on \/ Peace when all my power is gone \/ Hope, although<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are spoiled\u2014spoiled by having so many talented Christian artists creating so many excellent songs. With 2023 now halfway in the books, I decided to make up a list of my favorites from the year so far. Hopefully there\u2019s something here you\u2019ll want to add to your own playlists\u2026 He Calls Me Friend by CityAlight As it happens, I am heading to Australia today to spend some time with CityAlight and their church. They have just released a couple of \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":63136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[750],"class_list":["post-63133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-resources","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/music2023-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63138,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63133\/revisions\/63138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}