Every Knee

Every Knee is the fifth single from The Unseen album, a collection of songs about rebellion and restoration. I wrote 'Every Knee' one sunny afternoon in 2014 while my kids were playing in the backyard. As a father of 5 (four in 2014), your time is shared between a lot of important people. So time to write songs needs to be grabbed when you can. Songwriting isn’t always about waiting for the inspiration to strike. Sometimes you’ve just got to take what time you can get in the midst of the busyness of life and write. Every Knee was a song like this and it came together over an hour or so one afternoon while my kids were playing around me in the backyard. Thematically, the thrust of this song is found in its first two words, “It’s simple”. The Christian life and truths are inherently simple. A saving faith in Jesus should be as easy for a child to grasp hold of and believe as it should be for a theologian. At the same time Jesus, who he is and the victory he’s won, is incredibly deep theologically as well as having amazing cosmological implications. This song tries to capture both this simplicity as well as the depth. Musically this song has a bit more 'rock' in it and departs from the slower ballad-like sounds on the album. I joke about this being my 'what if the Foo Fighters wrote worship music' song. 'Every Knee' has been sung in our local church for the last 8 years so I'm excited to finally have a version of the song to share with everyone.