The Same Love Enhanced eBook: A Devotion
By Paul Baloche
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This enhanced eBook includes four videos and eleven songs, including the title track, "The Same Love."
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The Same Love Enhanced eBook - Paul Baloche
Welcome to this enhanced ebook from David C Cook. As you read, you’ll come across songs and videos you can play on your reading device. Tap the play button to access media controls.
To my Papa:
Roger M. Baloche 1915–2011
You lived well, loved well, and left an everlasting legacy to your family.
Contents
Dear Reader
THE SAME LOVE
LOVED BY YOU
JUST SAY
WE ARE SAVED
ALL BECAUSE OF THE CROSS
YOUR BLOOD RAN DOWN
SHOUT FOR JOY
OH OUR LORD
MY HOPE
REIGN IN ME
LOOK UPON THE LORD
KING OF HEAVEN
CHRIST THE LORD
Concluding Thoughts
Song Credits
Media
Video: The Same Love
Audio: Loved by You
Audio: Just Say
Audio: We are Saved
Audio: All Because of the Cross
Audio: Your Blood Ran Down
Video: Your Blood Ran Down
Audio: Shout for Joy
Audio: Oh Our Lord
Audio: My Hope
Audio: Reign In Me
Audio: Look Upon the Lord
Video: Look Upon the Lord
Video: King of Heaven
Audio: Christ the Lord
Dear Reader
In many ways every recording project that I have done is like a journal. Life doesn’t stop just because you are in the studio. And life has a way of working itself into the songs and into the process of songwriting. From start to finish, each project I’ve recorded has taken about nine months. It’s like having a baby.
This particular project was a completely different story. The Same Love took over a year’s time to complete. A lot of things can happen in a year. And in a year marked by personal milestones—my youngest child leaving home, my father’s death, my twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, and my twentieth year in ministry—it forced me to reflect on who I am and commit myself afresh to God’s calling and purpose for my life.
The songs on this project were meant to help others worship. Often we struggle to find the right words to express our hearts to the Lord, and we find them in contemporary songs, hymns, or ancient psalms.
Psalms are the vocabulary of worship. For years I have practiced singing the Psalms and praying the songs. I model this approach after the Old Testament Levites, who 1 Chronicles 16 describes as ministering unto the Lord through praising God, giving thanks, and offering prayers of petition. Ministering to the Lord in private is the foundation and prerequisite for leading in the public meeting. As we get the words of the Psalms off of the page and into our hearts, we discover all sorts of benefits. The primary benefit being that we are drawn closer to the Lord in our personal walk. We begin to relate to Him relationally—biblically—truthfully.
That spills over into our public role of encouraging worship in the community that we lead in. We start to experience times when entire Scripture verses come rolling off our tongues in the midst of connecting one song to another. It’s an exciting realization when you feel like the Holy Spirit is bringing up scriptures that you have stored in your heart and releasing them in a timely moment.
During those private times of singing the Psalms to various melodies and chord progressions alone in the sanctuary, I’m often inspired to capture them with my iPhone’s digital recorder, and they become the beginnings of new songs to come—potentially. Either way it’s a practice that has helped keep my heart fresh toward the Lord—to keep God from just becoming my job.
It keeps it real for me so that I don’t feel like a phony when leading a group in worship.
As I said, the fruit of singing the Word is that I get lots of song ideas. Years ago Ed Kerr and I were invited to write songs for a Scripture Memory Series.
The entire project spanned twenty-six CDs and required a few hundred songs over the course of a year. We would meet