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Songs Featured:
He Gave His Life (Vocal Union): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H5cQKd3z4c
Sons and Heirs of God (Darby Hughes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ykjuHG9NM
We Shall See Jesus (The Cathedrals / Dianne Wilkinson): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3S_huLGIrk
Behold, What Manner of Love (The Maranatha Singers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KGAWKgAbE
We Shall Be Like Him (Flora Kirkland, George C. Stebbins): https://hymnary.org/text/we_shall_be_like_him_the_son_of_god_most
I Am Not My Own (Skye Peterson, Keith & Kristyn Getty): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeEznQWhGdA
Faithful (Erik Nieder): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctz4F3Ju0nQ
The Love of the Father (CityAlight): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVA5s0w17I8
When Christ Our Life Appears (Sovereign Grace): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf8vNFEdmTM
When We See Your Face (Sovereign Grace): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0ac4sT-4-o
Hunter Lynch:
https://www.instagram.com/hunterlynchmusic/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6rDvFqOaHyTbYI0ShRCaAX
Our Glorious Hope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyY5CVjdNdY
Make Us One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcLue41Qos
Psalm 109 (Gone With Evening): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBu87tsoqI
Transcript
Lightly edited for clarity.
Daniel J. Mount:
Welcome to the Expository Songs podcast. We discuss songs where the main idea of a passage of scripture is the main idea of a song. My name is Daniel Mount, and today we’re discussing songs from I John 3. I am joined today by my friend Hunter Lynch, welcome.
Hunter Lynch:
Thanks, Daniel. I’m glad to be here again. Really excited to talk about this chapter.
Daniel J. Mount:
Thank you. Glad to have you here. Hunter is Minister of Music and Youth at Highland Baptist, Vicksburg, Mississippi. He’s also a talented songwriter. He appeared on episode five of this podcast, discussing his song, “Our Glorious Hope,” co-written with David Hill.
We have each picked what we think are five songs worth singing, songs worth listening to from I John 3. We haven’t compared notes so we don’t know if our lists have any overlap.
But before we go into the songs, I thought it might be helpful for our listeners if we take a minute or two and just discuss what we had in mind as we were looking through songs.
And I can go first. Obviously we’re looking for doctrinal content; both “is this song sound theologically?” and “does it have a connection to this chapter?” After that, my context is a fairly small Southern Baptist Church, about 40-50 people, single instrument piano, other than the pastor’s family and my family, most of the attendees are 65+. So we do a lot of traditional hands we do some modern hands and do some praise songs, too. But it’s a pretty traditional context so the songs that work well in our context are necessarily the songs that would work as well in a different one hunter what did you have in mind when you were looking through songs and what does your context look like?
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah, absolutely. So just like you, I’m wanting to find songs that I can make direct connections to the text with—songs that I really feel like explain the heart of the text. And so see, that was definitely kind of first and foremost, kind of the North Star of my process.
And also, our context is very blended. It would not be out of character for us to have more contemporary radio music kind of smashed up against a hymn that’s been out for, you know, decades. So, and even longer. But yeah, so I think it varies. It’s a delicate balance. And I see it as consulting the whole of what we have in terms of for the church. And yeah, so that’s kind of what our context is. It’s a mixture of old and young. I can’t make everybody happy, but I do my best to be faithful to pick the best of the best, for sure.
Daniel J. Mount:
That’s great. So as we count down our songs, would you like to go first with a first pick or second and finish with the last pick in the end?
Hunter Lynch:
I’m happy to go first, I guess, so I can do that.
Daniel J. Mount:
Go for it! What do you have at number five?
Hunter Lynch:
So I have “I Am Not My Own.” That’s a Skye Peterson and Getty song. Just the heart of living as children of God. This chapter has a lot to do with identity, who we are in Christ, members of God’s family, His children. And so I felt like that was just a very opportune song to pick in terms of what it looks like to live out that identity as a child of God. So yeah, that’s kind of where my mind was at there with “I Am Not My Own.
Daniel J. Mount:
I think when I am—Lord willing, if we do a series on I Corinthians—definitely picking this one in chapter five or six, where it has that passage, “You are not your own, but you are bought with a price.” I actually don’t have it on this one because—you know, that is an excellent song and it makes sense in this chapter—it just didn’t occur to me to have it here, because I think of it as a I Corinthians song, in a sense. But that is an excellent song and that would be one that I’d happily do here.
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah.
Daniel J. Mount:
So I have at number five a song called “He Gave His Life” by Vocal Union. It comes from verse 16: “By this we know love because He laid down his life for us. And so we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”
To be honest, I had a different song at number five till just a few minutes ago. I swapped it out right before the podcast. It was a Isaac Watts hymn him and it was good But I pulled my notes together a few weeks ago and by today I couldn’t even remember a word of that him, but I could remember the whole chorus of this one.
I think the verses aren’t quite as strong. The verses are decent. I think the chorus is really strong and. Most churches couldn’t do this one. But I think this song is a song that’s great to listen to for personal edification. If you’re familiar with the Christian acapella group of the 80s and 90s GLAD, it’s kind of in that style. You have to have some good singers, I think, to do this as an acapella song, to do it right. But some churches could do it. I think for most churches it would be something that people would listen to the other six days of the week. What do you have at number four?
Daniel J. Mount:
So what do you have at number four, Hunter?
Hunter Lynch:
Alright, so for number four, kind of continuing in the same vein of living as people of God, as children of God, there’s a song called “The Love of the Father” by City Alight. It’s just really kind of upbeat, really accessible, easy to sing song, that is kind of typical City Alight where that’s a very approachable melody, really easy to sing. The chorus is just kind of this rousing declaration about us being the people of God and declaring the love of God that is the banner that’s over us. And so, yeah, that was a pretty quick pick for me because when I was thinking about being the people of God, I was like, oh man, I remember that chorus instantly.
Daniel J. Mount:
So what I have at number four is old school—not old school in the sense of centuries old, but a song I grew up singing in church. And it’s the Scripture song, “Behold, What Manner of Love” by the Maranatha Singers. I grew up singing this one in church and I would guess that many listeners who are mid-thirties and older and grew up in church probably did too. It’s a Scripture song so it says the verse word for word. “Behold a manner of love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called the children of God.” It doesn’t reflect in the lyric beyond that, but there’s definitely time and place for Scripture songs. And this one had a nationwide reach in the 1980s and 90s for a reason because it’s pretty singable and memorable.
So Hunter, what do you have at number three?
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah, so this one is actually one that I’ve led in a variety of situations, mainly with youth. It’s a song called “Faithful” by Eric Neider. And so this is a song that is actually pulled from Psalm 139 and also 2 Timothy 2.13, “when we are faithless, He is faithful for He cannot forsake His own.” And we see in chapter 3 here this idea of God being greater than our hearts.
Daniel J. Mount:
Yes.
Hunter Lynch:
It says if our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts and He knows everything. And so this song is basically saying like, God, you search me, you know me, but even when I’m not, you’re faithful. And that’s kind of the whole like that II Timothy passage is kind of the anthem of the content of the chorus. “Even when I’m not, You’re faithful, even when I doubt Your truth holds.” And so I felt like even though it wasn’t this text in particular, it continued with the heart of it for sure. And so yes, it’s a great song, absolutely.
Daniel J. Mount:
Yes, and there’s a bit of a through line here with our picks in that you’re picking songs that are in a sense more actually usable in a church context. Some of the ones I’m gonna mention here are just probably wouldn’t be used congregationally, but have maybe, in my case, have a little closer of a connection to the passage. Where I think some of your picks are more of a thematic fit, but are one that fits the theme, sometimes even the wording, and would actually work in your church context, which is probably a more practical approach than mine, to be honest, for this episode.
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah. I think that with a lot of these, I really wanted to go with songs that I could see myself doing.
Daniel J. Mount:
Mm-hmm.
Hunter Lynch:
And so there were a lot of, you know text songs, and I guess we’ll get to this later about I feel like there’s, there’s not a ton out there that is like explicitly this text right here. But I definitely wanted to go with, with songs that I felt like it at least captured what, like the gist of what was being spoken of here. And so I just wanted to do my best to do due diligence there.
But yeah, I think the last two that I have more to do with the actual, you know, kind of word for word here.
Daniel J. Mount:
Great. Yes, so I believe you just did your number three, right?
Hunter Lynch:
Yes, I did.
Daniel J. Mount:
So I’ll do my number three, which again is to my point of one that almost certainly wouldn’t work in your context, being a little more contemporary. Might even be a stretch in mine. But I do like the lyrics. It’s a song called We Shall Be Like Him by Flora Kirkland and George Stebbins. George Stebbins wrote the melodies in the 1800s for “Have Thine Own Way” and “Jesus, I Come” (Out of My Bondage Sorrow and Night.) So he was a really good composer.
This comes almost directly from I John 3:2: “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He is revealed we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.” And I would venture to say from classic hymnody, from hymns of the 1700s and 1800s, this one might be the best option we have from this chapter. Just an example for the lyrics:
We shall be like Him, the Son of God most holy,
We shall be like Him, sweet promise of His grace!
Christian, press forward! some bright, some glad tomorrow
We shall be like Him, for we shall see His face.
And then the chorus takes, “We shall be like Him, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is,” but keeps building it up musically higher and higher until it has its soaring conclusion. And then the other verses reflect on the concept of being like Him. So it’s really a thoughtful take on that passage on being like Hom.
I wouldn’t say the melody is as strong a melody as the Stebbins ones that we know best, “Have Thine Own Way,” “I Found a Friend, Oh Such a Friend,” “Jesus I Come,” but it actually is a pretty nice melody. It does sound a little dated, like 1800s melodies do, but within the context of churches that do like 1800s-style melodies like my church does, I could actually see this one working congregationally.
So Hunter, what do you have as your number two?
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah, so the last two that I have really focus on this idea, the beatific vision that we kind of see, like just in the song that you just talked about as well, verse two, “we know when Christ appears we shall be like Him, we shall see Him as He is.”
And so number two for me is “When Christ our Life Appears” by Sovereign Grace. They actually claim both the top two spots for me. But Sovereign Grace does such a great job—I feel like they’re kind of the sweet spot for us in a lot of ways if we’re gonna do something that kind of mixes old and new. But yeah, I love the words here:
When Christ our life appears, our hope will be complete.
Our longings finally rest as we fall at his feet.
When Jesus comes to reign, restoring everything,
Our tears will turn to tides of praises to our King.
And so I just, I love the imagery that fills this song. I love the hopefulness that it has. And just this idea that, you know, when we see Christ, we will behold Him and everything changes. It’s just such a joyful song, such a forward-looking song.
Daniel J. Mount:
That is probably one of my five favorite Sovereign Grace songs. That’s a very good song. I actually, as a songwriter, somewhere 2005 or 2008, I started work on a song with the title “When Christ Our Life Appears.” And it’s a bit of a different take than what they were doing. And I never did quite finish, never did get it where I was happy with it. But once their song came out, I’m like, mine’s going on the shelf indefinitely, maybe permanently. [Laughter.] I think most songwriters can appreciate that. We’ve all had somebody like, they did that idea better than I could have.
Hunter Lynch:
Oh, yeah.
Daniel J. Mount:
So at number two, I’m actually gonna pull from from the modern hymns genre but not from one of the best-known, most-publicized writers in the genre i’m going to pull from a fellow named Darby Hughes. He wrote a song called “Sons and Heirs of God.” He might not have a big platform but he’s putting out some excellent songs.
And when we look at what we classify as modern hymns stylistically. I think this song is probably the best modern hymn we have that’s really pulled directly from this chapter and probably any genre, the best song written in the last 25 years or so from this chapter.
And it pulls from a number of passages, but verse one has: “Chosen in grace before the first days of creation.” And then here’s the I John 3:1 reference, “Behold what a love the Father above held in store for us / before we had ever betrayed Him His kindness was lavished on us / calling sinners His children”—and then here’s another I John 3 reference—“to make known the praise of His glorious grace.”
Hunter Lynch:
Mm-hmm.
Daniel J. Mount:
The Gettys, Sovereign Grace Music, and City Alight are putting out some wonderful material, but there are some independent hymn writers who aren’t signed to one of the—
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah.
Daniel J. Mount:
if you will, the big three in modern hymns and I think he’s a great example of that. Quality-wise, lyrically, and melodically this song is really solid. Whether or not we’d stay long enough in I John 3 to get around to introducing it as a new song, or maybe as a special music, this is just a really high-quality song.
And one of the things I hope to do with this podcast is draw some attention here and there—when it’s deserving, of course, and here it is—to writers like Darby Hughes, who don’t have that big platform, but are putting out some excellent music. And I think this one definitely deserves to be high up on my list for chapter three.
Daniel J. Mount:
All right, so Hunter, what do you have as your top pick from this chapter?
Hunter Lynch:
Okay, yeah, so as I said, another Sovereign Grace song, but this is my favorite. This is one of my favorite all-time songs, actually. And it’s “When We See Your Face” by Sovereign Grace. I didn’t mean for that to rhyme. But yeah, it is such a great song. We’re actually, you know, we were going to pick songs that are applicable to our context. We’re going to sing this very soon.
I feel like it is, it’s just another forward-looking, you know, one day, all the things that we’ve been facing here on Earth, they’re going to pass away. They’re temporary, they’re fleeting, and we’ll behold Christ. And we will see, we will know like we’ve never known before, as the chorus says. This idea of being home with the Lord. And I think that right now, in particular, in a very rough season of ministry, where if feels like everywhere we turn there’s just something new, something tragic that’s happening in our church family. And it’s so good to be reminded of the fact that we will see Christ who is our life and we will see the death of all bad things here on earth and He will make all things new. And so it’s such a wonder and such a comfort.
Sorry if you hear my cat meowing in the background. She’s really angry right now with me.
Daniel J. Mount:
No worries. It’s all good. When we did the episode with you and David Hill and he had his cat on his shoulder, I have to say that cat got more comments and discussion [Laughter] than anything else from that episode. In fact, I had several people say, you know, I watched the episode, the conversation was great. I loved the cat! That was cool!
Hunter Lynch:
Oh my goodness.
Daniel J. Mount:
Sorry. Random off-topic, back to you!
Hunter Lynch:
Of course! Cats, man! I was a dog person before I got married. Then we had to made to make the switch! Anyway.
Daniel J. Mount:
Yep. So I’m actually going back to the beatific vision, which is a term that comes from the medieval era for the vision of God and His holiness. I’m going back to I John 3:2 for my final pick. To read it one more time: “Beloved, now we are children of God ,and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”
And for my number one pick, this one isn’t a congregational song. It’s not going to work in a lot of churches. Those that do probably work as a special music. But I really like this song. And so I’m going to put it at number one anyhow. And that is “We Shall See Jesus,” performed by the cathedrals and written by Diane Wilkinson. One of their biggest songs ever and her biggest song is a songwriter.
And it’s Southern Gospel. You know, it won’t fit in every church, but it doesn’t have to be done very Southern gospel. It could be done in a little more contemporary context.
With those caveats, I’m biased. I love the song I’ve loved it for twenty years. And if my church was going through this chapter, I’d try to find a way to fit it in.
And so that I’m not hiding any bias: This song was my first introduction to its writer, but I had the opportunity to interview its writer for a website I ran a number of years ago, which ultimately led to me collaborating with her on her autobiography. So I co-wrote that with her. And now she’s now in heaven, but working with her in great deal on her autobiography was a delight. It’s her best-known song. There’s no way around saying I’m really biased in this one because I worked with her, told her story in her autobiography, etc. But bias aside, this is a really good song. I loved this song years before I knew who she was.
So we’ve made it through our list and this is actually the first episode I’ve recorded so far where we haven’t had any overlap which is pretty cool anybody who’s listening through this instead of getting five, six, seven songs gets a full ten. [Laughter]
And we can maybe throw in a few more. Do you have any honorable mentions, anything that really came to mind but maybe didn’t quite make your top five?
Hunter Lynch:
You know, I did listen to one that you recommended me and it was hard to tell if I enjoyed it or not, but it was Michael Card’s “To the Mystery,” describing Christ as a holy embryo. That was actually, probably, sadly, one of my my first songs by Michael Card that I’ve actually listened to. I feel like I’ve missed out on Michael Card for a while. My dad listened to a lot of Rich Mullins and you know, REO Speedwagon and so—I know those are two polar opposites there but—sitting in the car with my dad it was either you know, Pink Floyd or Rich Mullins or Phillips, Craig and Dean—you know, a cycle of secular and non-secular stuff. But I don’t think Michael Card ever made it into the mix there. But yeah, “To the Mystery” by Michael Card, that was interesting, very interesting words.
Daniel J. Mount:
Yes, that was one of his push the edges sort of songs, I think. He has other ones that would fit better in my context, but definitely. I enjoy his music. In the database of songs written from scripture. He’s easily in the top ten for using so much Scripture in his songs. Sometimes it’s a full song about a particular passage and sometimes it’s just a song that has pulls from ten or fifteen or twenty passages. I appreciate his songwriting.
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah.
Daniel J. Mount:
This for me was a chapter where… I think my top two were pretty clear. I was gonna go with “Sons and Heirs of God” by Darby Hughes as my top congregational song and then as a top special music type song I was gonna go with “We Shall See Jesus” because it pulls from that passage in such an inspiring and triumphant sort of way. But the rest of my top five just wasn’t obvious picks for me. I was like, you know, I think I’m going to go with these three. Lord willing, if more great music is written a few years down the road, and if I was to revisit I John in 10 or 20 years, wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve got three, four new songs in my top five.
But that said, even though I was not too definite, like these are definite top five, there were a number of other songs that I appreciated. and thought were worth honorable mentions, more so than probably for any of the other chapters here. Graham Kendrick, who wrote “Knowing You” and “Shine Jesus Shine,” he wrote a song called “For This Purpose,” which is from I John 3:8. There’s not much from that.
I got a couple more songs from I John 3:1, “behold what manner of love.” And that would be the Isaac Watts hymn, “Behold What Manner of Grace,” that I actually had in my top five until a few minutes ago, and a song by the Mylon Hayes family, “What Manner of Love.”
And then from verse two, the beatific version verse, Sandi Patty had a song called “We Will See Him as He Is, which is real strong.
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah, my wife actually suggested that one.
Daniel J. Mount:
A couple of other hymns: “Oh Blessed Hope” by E.E. Hewitt and William Kirkpatrick and “Beloverd, Now are We” by James McGranahan so there were a number of other songs I think that are at least worth a listen.
Moving into a couple of overview questions—and I think, Hunter, you kind of already addressed this one at some level: You know, I’ve asked other guests if your church was teaching through first John 3, which of these songs would you be most likely to actually do in the service? I think you might be able to answer all of them
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah.
Daniel J. Mount:
Is that a fair answer?
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah, that was my goal. I wanted to be able to go into this thinking like I don’t hate any of these songs. These are all ones that I would willingly lead for our people. So yeah, I think each and every one of them are applicable to our context. I know we have a more pliable kind of ground to work with in terms of what is acceptable, you know. And so… You know, for better or for worse, for people who are just kind of along for the ride, I try not to shake things up too much. I try to have a foundation of okay, these are the regulars. I’ll you know pop in a new one here and there. But I’m not like I’m not a new song every week kind of guy.
Daniel J. Mount:
Mm-hmm.
Hunter Lynch:
I think that would be a little much. But yeah, absolutely. I think if we were doing If we were walking through this chapter, I would willingly not lead all of them at once, but absolutely would lead any of these. I think I’m more partial to “Faithful” and “When We See Your Face.” I think those two I would definitely do. Even though I love “When Christ Our Life Appears,” I think that those two, “Faithful” and “When We See Your Face,” are more our people and their speed. So, yeah.
Daniel J. Mount:
Neat. I would say that if I was to introduce a new song, the Darby Hughes song “Sons and Heirs of God” would be the one I’d be most likely to introduce congregationally.
I think there’s enough people at my church who have been in church enough years that we’d have enough of us just know the Maranatha Scripture song, “Behold, What Manner of Love.” We could probably just sing that. I mean, it might technically be introducing it as a new song, but when most of the people there know it, we could probably just sing that one. That’s why I have that on the list.
I might do “We Shall See Jesus” as a special if I could pull it off one way or another.
So next question I would have as an overview question for this chapter is how satisfied are we with the songs from this chapter? How well do the songs we have out there feel like they cover the chapter?
Hunter Lynch:
Hmm. Yeah, I would say that I wasn’t exactly grasping for straws here in terms of like—I didn’t feel like there was just like a barrenness to like picking songs from this chapter, but there is a very obvious lack of, I guess, maybe more popular music about loving your neighbor. I mean, I think that, like, you know, starting verse 11, you know, “for this is the message you heard from the beginning we should love one another” and goes on to talk about Cain. I can’t really think of any non-cheesy songs that wouldn’t maybe just want to you know make you run through a wall or anything you know. I remember I remember the kids song “Love One Another.” But there’s not a lot in the way.
And me and David have talked about this before, where there’s just not a lot of “love your neighbor songs” right now that have really gained any traction. And I think it’s something that we need to sing about. I think it’s something that we neglect.
And so I feel like, in terms of like, the beatific vision; in terms of the fact that he is—verse 21, “if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God”; verse 20, “if our hearts condemn us we know that God is greater than our hearts”—I feel like that idea of the faithfulness of God despite how we’re feeling in the moment is pretty well-covered ground. But this middle section of this chapter is moreso what I feel like there is a little less in the way of music that I would lead on a Sunday.
Daniel J. Mount:
Mm-hmm. I think that if we’re looking at this from the standpoint of, “Are there songs from any genre, any era that cover this passage?” There are a good number of songs, I think, for verses one and two, and there’s some decent songs for verse 16 that are really directly tied to the passage. But even then, a lot of them are 1800s hymns or praise songs. Southern gospel songs have a number of songs from verses one and two, actually. So those are songs that just wouldn’t work that well in many of the contexts I’ve been in. Some of the hymns would work better in my current context, but I’ve been in other churches where modern hymns are a pretty high percentage of the total songs sung, mixed with a few classic hymns and maybe a few praise songs. And in those kinds of contexts, some of the other churches I’ve been in through the years, this chapter isn’t covered that well in songs that are really directly from this chapter—where it’s the main idea of the song in Modern Hymnody. I think the whole chapter could use more songs.
And as you mentioned, really every section of this chapter could use a really strong Modern Hymn written from it. I would love if we were to come back and redo a I John series in 10, 15, 20 years. I would love it if almost my entire list was replaced. There are definitely some good songs, some songs I appreciate on this list. but I would love it if there’s some really good new songs from this chapter over the next 10 or 20 years. For sentimental reasons, I’m probably gonna keep “We Shall See Jesus” somewhere on my list as long as I’m doing this, just because of personal background with the author. And “Sons and Heirs of God” is a really good song, too. But I would love to see more from this chapter.
So Hunter, before we go, I hope to do a full episode spotlighting this sometime in the next month or two. But for the moment, you’ve just released a couple of singles. And I’d love it if you could just share briefly about those, where people can find and listen to those, and generally where people can keep up with what you’re doing songwriting-wise online.
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah, absolutely. I just released a song called “Make Us One,” which is based on the High Priestly Prayer—Christ praying on our behalf that we would be one as He and the Father are one. And so, that was a song that I wrote for our church and something that I felt was a huge need for our people as we were facing really divisive issues as a church body. And I’ve already had people messaging, saying that this was kind of an answer to prayer where like they felt like their church needed this message as well. And so I’ve been super thankful to hear that.
And also the other song is based on Psalm 109. It’s called Psalm 109 and it had the pretentious parenthetical subtitle “Gone With the Evening.” And it’s basically a kind of a—if an imprecatory psalm sounded happy, then this would be kind of that. I don’t really know where that places the song in terms of genre. It’s really almost experimental in some ways for me. It was a lot of fun to kind of put together. My friend Tim Goodson did all the production and recording for it. He did an awesome job. And so yeah, Tim is a good friend and has been a part of my life for a long time. And so super thankful for his hard work putting all that together. So really excited for both of those. They’re out now on Spotify, Apple Music. And I just uploaded the second video to YouTube. I know y’all were waiting on that.
Daniel J. Mount:
Yes.
Hunter Lynch:
So both of them are on YouTube now on Hunter Lynch Music. There’s no band name or anything on Spotify, it’s just Hunter Lynch.
Daniel J. Mount:
Anywhere on socials that you talk about your music, where people who might love what you’re doing to follow you there?
Hunter Lynch:
Yeah, yeah. So I know I’m on Instagram and Facebook. And so I don’t have an artist page on Facebook. I do on Instagram. And that’s also Hunter Lynch Music as well on Instagram.
Daniel J. Mount:
And I can link to those in the show notes. Well, thank you so much for taking the time to go through I John with us. I really appreciate it!
Hunter Lynch:
Absolutely, it’s my pleasure. Thanks for having me. And yeah, we’ll do this again sometime soon!
Daniel J. Mount:
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