Balm in Gilead

Balm in Gilead


44 – Mars Hill Music: Review of the album “Citizens” by Citizens and Saints

October 19, 2021

Psalm 44

What We’re Listening To

Bryan

Citizens and Foreign Made. Anyone surprised?

Justin

New automated playlists

Grant

* Citizens* Peter Gregson* Christi Stills* Barrage* Crown & Covenant

Songs of Mars Hill: Citizens

Sweetness of Freedom

Zach Bolen and Brian Eichelberger

Verse 1:

Within my heart’s a Rebellious side / Conflicting with the Spirits’ desire

To keep my heart in step with you / So I do not do what I want to do

Chorus

All my life I, live to follow / You alone, as you change my desires

Liberated by the blood of Jesus / I’ve found life in the sweetness of freedom

Verse 2

Only you have the power to break / Every chain I placed around my neck

I heard your call from the pit of death / To surrender all and nothing less

Verse 3

Through the spirit I have righteousness / Sweet victory over the flesh

I can walk with confidence in you / As you gratify my soul with truth

Made Alive

Zach Bolen and Brian Eichelberger

Verse 1

I once was dead in sin / Alone and hopeless / A child of wrath I walked / Condemned in darkness

But Your mercy brought new life / And in your love and kindness

Raised me up with Christ / And made me righteous

Chorus

You have bought me back with the riches of / Your amazing grace and relentless love

I’m made alive forever with you life forever by your grace I’m saved

Verse 2

Lord you are the light / That broke the darkness / You satisfy my soul / When I am heartless

If ever I forget / That you’re my true identity / Show me who I am / And help me to believe

Bridge

My sin has been erased / I’ll never be the same

I Am Living in a Land of Death

Zach Bolen and Brian Eichelberger

Verse 1

I am living in a land of death / The trees are burnt and grey

There’s a smoldering smoke overhead / And the night looks the same as the day

It seems a miracle that I can stand / When everyone I’ve known

Drifts up in the air with the ash / Everytime that the wind starts to blow

PreChorus

But I feel alive with a life that’s not mine / Your law is a stream in this wasteland, my lifeline

Chorus

So much more than precious gold are Your promises my Lord

By them is Your servant warned and in keeping them great reward

Verse 2

Your direction is my delight / Your law secures my roots