so looking to the sky ¡ will sing and from my heart to YOU ¡ bring…
Thousand Foot Krutch 🎼 Courtesy Call
https://youtube.com/shorts/nRod5Tq6IRU?si=48Ld9gowH-jOsYG8 👈
LEVEL THE MOUNTAINS
Click on thumbnail inside short for full song…
I am not afraid of the storm that comes my way… when it hits.. it shakes me to the core.. and makes me stronger than before.
I will go before you
and level the mountains.
— Isaiah 45:2© 2026 bryanforchrist. All rights reserved.
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BarlowGirl 🎶 Song for the Broken 🎶 Sing Me a Love Song…
This week I’m digging into two deeper cuts from BarlowGirl — “Song for the Broken” from How Can We Be Silent (2007) and “Sing Me a Love Song” from Love & War (2009), their fifth and final studio album.. also nominated for a Dove Award for album of the year…
These ladies have so many deep cuts.. as a musician.. I really enjoy and appreciate them.. I listen much.. it’s good stuff..
I also added a bonus interview vid… I hope you enjoy and have a blessed Sunday…
Bonus interview 👇
🔥 Acts 4:12 (KJV)
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
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I just want to say thank you…
to all yall who check out my blog.
It honestly means more than I can explain… that anyone would take time to read — or even listen to — something that comes from me… and then comment on it?
That touches me. For real.
I’m honored by it.
I never take it for granted.
I’m grateful to be here with you all… surrounded by some seriously brilliant and talented people. I read as many blogs as I can — not out of obligation… but because yall are genuinely good at what you do. I like returning the love and support.
I’m not a big commenter though… and when I do, it’s usually short. Unless we’re deep in a conversation about something specific… then I might talk your ear off 😅
And funny enough… my girlfriend is on WordPress too… and we rarely comment on each other’s stuff. much of the time.. we don’t even hit “like” 😅
But we read and enjoy one another’s posts
That’s what matters.
Anyway…
just know I see you.
And I appreciate you more than you know.
— Bryan
Philippians 1:3 (KJV)
“I thank my God upon every remembrance of you…”
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Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.
Day one…
Birth…
The womb…
Evicted.
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Full Performance 22 minutes… it’s awesome!
…….👩🦰📏💪
💨🛞✨
💰⏳→🛻🎶
🏠🛣️🙌
👀🧒→🛻✨
🌬️🧑🦱🌅
🔥🏁
🏎️💨💨💨
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The Blues Man 🎶 O.D.’d In Denver…
Happy Friday, folks!
Got two good ones for you today… 🎸
The Blues Man came out in 1980 on Habits Old and New. it’s one of those lived-in songs.
A little cool info about this one… I’ve told yall before — I play all of Hank’s songs. over the years… this one was probably my most requested. I had an ex-girlfriend once… every time I picked up my guitar, she’d ask for it.. and it wasn’t just her.. friends… people hanging around… same thing. “Play The Blues Man.” just something about it…
Then go back a year to 1979 and Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound… to O.D.’d in Denver… so I got S.I.’d in Denver once.. but never overdosed there… thank God…
Hope yall enjoy these… 🎶🔥
*** Got my info wrong.. Waylon Jennings did not write The Blues Man according to sources.. it was written by Hank Jr… i was for sure it was Hank.. but then saw something online about Waylon and went with it before confirming ***
S.I.’d = snowed in ❄️
I’m not a walk be-hinder. I’m a new note finder 🎶
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Psalm 40:3…
I started out with music at a very young age…
I loved to sing as a little child…
I was in chorus all through grade school…
into high school…
learned how to sight read sheet music for vocals early on…
I started playing the guitar when I was 14…
as a way to let go of deep loss…
it was a life saver…
later.. I picked up the bass…
shortly after that.. the piano…
might as well throw the harmonica in the mix…
I decided music was the way for me…
As a solo artist I played nightclubs and bars…
concerts and music festivals…
I was part of a group of worldwide musicians known as ThePond…
we did online performances and in-person music festivals…
Then later…
I stopped all the secular stuff…
went full-on Christian music…
I was a worship leader in church…
also at different men’s ministries…
I had a traveling music ministry…
where I would go minister at hospitals and nursing homes and drug rehabs…
mental health facilities…
I was also in a Christian band… KingsGuard.
I stayed so busy with it…
I got overwhelmed…
I started losing the fire…
the desire to play…
About 3 years ago…
I decided I was done with it…
I got rid of my guitars…
gave them away…
I can’t fake it…
I was burned out…
About 6 months ago…
I started feeling a spark inside…
that fire again…
I realized that it’s who I am…
it’s part of me…
always will be…
Guess I just had to do life without it.
Live for a while.
…
Last night…
I started searching Amazon for my next guitar…
narrowed it down to two choices…
was planning on buying one of them…
This morning.. my uncle called me…
he’s a great musician and singer…
he’s sick…
many health problems…
two weeks ago.. they found out he has a rare cancer…
He has two guitars…
he’s giving me one…
The other is his baby…
he wants me to hold it for him…
if his health gets better…
he will get it back…
If not…
he wants me to have it…
So here I am…
that old fire starting to flicker again…
guitars coming back into my life…
not in a cardboard box from Amazon…
but out of the hands of my uncle…
a man who’s carried songs through his own pain…
It feels like God is putting a guitar back in my hands through him…
a reminder that this calling never really left…
and this time…
I don’t have to run it down…
I just have to receive it…
and honor it.
…
…
found this hidden gem of me playing back stage.. with my fellow musicians from ThePond… this was PONDFEST 2o08… at Chimney Rock.. North Carolina… Lake Lure area… same place the movie Dirty Dancing was filmed… the people in the video are from all over the world… we are just messing around here.. practicing… learning new songs.. I had been drinking vodka all day… ugg I don’t drink like that anymore 😁👇 that’s me on the left
🎸 Psalm 40:3
“He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God…”
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If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
Words are overrated…
so misused…
I say ban them all…
just to piss off
folks that talk out their necks…
the ones
that love to play with them—
trying to impress…
without ever feeling
a thing…
anyone caught using them
must clean truck stop restrooms
while eating tacos…
for an entire day…
I think I’ve said too much…
I haven’t said enough… 🤌
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Matthew Sweet 🎶 Evangeline 🎶 Not When I Need It…
🎸 Matthew Sweet — Hidden Gems
Two deep cuts worth the spotlight.. “Evangeline” and “Not When I Need It.”
“Evangeline” comes from Girlfriend (1991), Sweet’s breakout power-pop classic. It wasn’t a single, but it became a fan favorite for its hooks and guitar fire—and it was inspired by the comic-book character Evangeline, blending sci-fi imagery with aching pop romance.
A few years later, 100% Fun (1995) kept the melodic magic rolling. “Not When I Need It” is one of those perfect deep cuts—bright, punchy, and emotionally honest. Together, these tracks show Sweet’s sweet spot: killer hooks with real heart.
Discovering Matthew Sweet in the early ’90s was a blast for me—cranking his CDs, guitar in hand, playing along in my room. Hope you enjoy this little trip back 🎸
Also, I love the guitar riffs in “Evangeline”… many of his songs have it like that.
👇 bonus Paste Studio tracks
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my dream from last night…
I was asleep…
then my eyes opened —
I found myself riding in a big open jeep…
rolling through a watercolor countryside…
A man and a woman sat beside me —
strangers both…
their voices touched with Aussie accents…
I was almost certain we were somewhere Down Under…
They were warm and welcoming…
laughing too easily…
yet seemed genuinely glad to have me along…
But something was amiss…
Their smiling eyes were lanterns hiding moths…
As we rolled on…
their words moved like dragonflies over water…
I realized they were a married couple —
a wealthy one at that…
Everything we passed seemed to belong to them —
the fields…
the hills…
the winding road itself…
Soon the watercolor countryside fell away…
to a stretch lined with mansions in every color…
blooming like paper wildflowers…
They said I could choose one someday…
but not today…
First…
they wanted me to see their home —
to decide whether I wished to go on with them…
Oooo Sweet!
I guess I can opt out of this dream if need be…
Ahead, in the distance…
a fire-blue sea…
its sands like crushed diamonds…
We drove right up to the edge…
got out…
The wife sent her husband away…
once out of sight…
she took my hand…
we walked… talking…
we knelt together…
shaping small castles
from crushed diamonds…
At one point…
she moved too close to my face…
We both noticed…
We paused…
our eyes locked…
we began to kiss…
In the moment…
I was overcome with sudden…
fierce passion for her…
I stepped into it with my lips…
gave her everything I had…
Then something changed mid-kiss…
Her mouth felt wrong —
fake…
plastic…
I came to, inside the dream and thought,
What am I doing…?
I pulled away…
She kept trying to draw me back…
I broke loose…
Then she sank to her knees…
her cry landing before she did…
…
and after a moment…
away she ran…
brokenhearted…
…
I looked around…
didn’t see either one of them…
In fact…
I didn’t see anyone…
The beach was empty…
I decided to go swimming…
The water looked amazing…
so I dove headfirst into the deep…
then ¡ was surrounded by great white sharks…
My dreaming ass swam out of there with a quickness…
…
The next thing ¡ knew…
¡ was waist-deep in a shallow stream…
the banks just a few feet away on each side…
stitched with snakes…
As ¡ looked closer…
¡ saw there were many of them…
Then a deep man’s voice said…
the creatures were a rare species…
only found here in this place…
¡ felt a shiver of dread ghost in me…
¡ gathered myself…
moved ever so slowly downstream…
but It wasn’t slow enough…
…
Inevitable fangs flew like caltrops.
In an instant…
¡ was hit from both sides…
bitten on my right hand…
and my left…
¡ felt the pain…
…
the sharp pierce of skin…
…
poison enter my body…
…
¡t burned like moonshine and blood…
…
¡ knew ¡ was in trouble…
…
everything started to fade…
…
…
then i woke up…
…
was just a dream…
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