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*This blog post is a follow-up to Episode 119 of the Provoke & Inspire Podcast: “Episode 119: Herding Cats, David the Laser Praiser, and Useful Christian Doubt and Deconstruction!"*

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The skies themselves testified my departure from the industry of Christian music, or so it seemed to this melodramatic fool looking for a sign. Handing in my corporate key fob, I walked through the doors at 101 Winners Circle for the last time. It was 5:30 PM CST on January 5, 2009. A warm weather front had temporarily convinced me that it did not “winter” in Nashville, but the skies were tornado dark, brooding, and pouring down rain as if God and the devil were fighting overhead.

*This blog post is a follow-up to Episode 118 of the Provoke & Inspire Podcast: “Holiday Day Inn Hot Tubs, Drug Store Encounters, and Having Godly Ambition!”.* 

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“We all have a hunger” - that empty feeling inside us, that loneliness, that weight with which our heads hit the pillow at night, when no one else knows. It’s part of being human, as if we’re born with something missing, something beyond us and beyond this world. Sometimes this heartfelt need is expressed in honest art, when an artist is bold enough to speak out.

I was prepared to write a blog entry on Proverbs 24:10 because the verse leapt out at me this week. Then I received a text message from my friend George, and instantly, I felt that my answer to him might also apply to you.

*This blog post is a follow-up to Episode 99 of the Provoke & Inspire Podcast: Do you play it too safe? Take more RISKS!
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