{"id":909,"date":"2011-01-31T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/01\/matt-maher-more-music-for-mondays\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:29:09","slug":"matt-maher-more-music-for-mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/01\/matt-maher-more-music-for-mondays.html","title":{"rendered":"Matt Maher & More (Music for Mondays)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Feast of St. John Bosco<\/a><\/i>\u00a0<\/div>\n

A while back, I did a music post on Matt Maher<\/a>, the Catholic Contempory Christian artist. Maher and his band are top notch, and I hope to take my kids to one of his concerts if he ever wanders our way.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why I like his stuff. As Christians, we should measure the worth of an artist by how well they get \u201cit\u201d right about the human condition, don\u2019t you think? Some of us go searching for \u201cit\u201d in music.
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Now think of this as Christians walking around holding a tuning fork in our hands. Sometimes, popular contemporary artists will sing a song that appeals to us for all the right reasons, and the tuning fork will sing too. Most often though, they miss the mark.<\/p>\n

Not so in the case of Matt Maher<\/a>. This dude, and his band, is always on the mark and the tuning fork is constantly humming. At least that has been my experience. So for this weeks set, we start up with a couple of knock-out songs from him that should have you running to the i-Tunes store pronto. Then we\u2019ll wind our way through a few post-related songs and wind up with a violin and a piano.<\/p>\n

Matt Maher, Love Comes Down.<\/i> I\u2019ve been listening to Matt Maher\u2019s Alive Again<\/i> album for my \u201ccommute to work\u201d music lately. I heard this one this morning and I hit the repeat button at least three times. I can\u2019t get the song out of my head, and you know what? I don\u2019t want to either.<\/p>\n