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Learn more about new songs, the Music Team top 5, get a sneak peek of potential new songs coming to Life 97.9, and share your thoughts with us about the music we play!

Life 97.9 New Music

Dusty Bibles Josiah Queen

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Life 97.9 Music Team Top 5

# 1 What An Awesome God Phil Wickham

# 2 Oh Death MercyMe

# 3 No Fear Jon Reddick

# 4 Jesus Loves Zach Williams

# 5 Your Way’s Better Forrest Frank

Staff Favorites

My favorite song at the moment is What an Awesome God, by Phil Wickham. It’s kind of funny because I was prepared to not like this song at all. I was standing by the original, thinking, don’t mess with a classic, but WOW, what Phil has done with that song and how he’s taken it and changed it, but left the essence of what it is. It’s just incredible! I think he’s done a good job. Rich Mullins would approve. ~Jill

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Hear It Before It Hits

Left It In The River Jamie MacDonald

Lift Me Up Blessing Offor

Survivors Jeremy Camp

Glory Bound Eli Gable

How Good It Is Chris Tomlin

I Believe You Megan Woods

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God Story Anne Wilson

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“I wrote this song after thinking about all the things that have taken place in my life over the last several years. When I was 15 years old, my older brother Jacob passed away in a car accident. He was my best friend, my big brother and ever since then, me and my family have endured some of the darkest days. When this song says “I’ve gone where the hopeless go, the dead end of a broken road, and I’ve learned there’s a place so low that you can’t see a way out.” That’s what I’m talking about, but over the last few years God has done so many incredible things in my life! Now I get to travel the country sharing the Gospel getting to stand on stages and getting to share my testimony of what He has done in my life. When I look at my life, all I can say is that it’s a God story, and it’s a miracle that I’m still standing here today. I hope when you hear this song it’s a reminder that your life is a God story.” ~Anne

Won’t Start Now Seph Schlueter

“This song was written for anyone who needs some encouragement. Anyone who is going through a difficultly, a trial, a struggle and just needs a reminder of God’s faithfulness. I love in the Psalms where David says, “I was young and now I’m old, but never once in all that time have I ever seen the righteous forsaken.” It’s such a good reminder that we have a God who takes care of us. In the big things and the small things, in every single detail. He is faithful, He is consistent, He shows up, He never abandons us! I pray that this song will be a reminder to you, of a God who is for us, a God who has never let us down and won’t start now.” ~Seph


Flowers Samantha Ebert feat. Seph Schlueter

“About 5 months after a life changing diagnosis, I found myself in the pit of a valley asking God, “Why?” Through encouraging words from my family and seeing the get well flowers on my nightstand table, God reminded my heart that beautiful things can grow in the darkest of places. I wrote this song start to finish in two hours as God reminded me that even in uncertainty and hardship, we can trust that He is working out all things for our good. I hope this song reminds you that not even an ounce of your pain is ever wasted and God can bring beauty out of every hardship we walk through.” ~Samantha

Can’t Steal My Joy Josiah Queen feat. Brandon Lake

“Nehemiah 8:10 says “The joy of the Lord is my strength.” There have been so many times in my life that the enemy has tried to come and rob me of my joy. This song has served as such a great reminder to me that what the enemy couldn’t give to me he also can’t take away. This song has given me so much joy and has become my anthem song for this year. I hope you enjoy it!” ~Josiah


Still Crowder

“I don’t know what you are going through today, but I want you to know this: God is continually and relentlessly in pursuit of you. He is active, He is present, and He is working! He is working, He is still working, and thank God, He is STILL working!” ~ Crowder

Let The Church Sing Tauren Wells

“I’m so excited about this song, Let The Church Sing! The genesis of this idea was really me with my eyes closed, dreaming about one day planting and pastoring a church in Austin, TX, and what that would sound like. When I started to think about what it would sound like to hear God’s people coming together, I was thinking of these core tendons of our faith, one God, one Family, one sound. The fact that this mission that we all live for the Gospel spreads far beyond just a singular city or church if flows all over the world. So this song is an anthem of God’s people singing of His glory and goodness.” ~Tauren

Turn Ben Fuller

“My heart never broke sober before and I had just gotten out of a relationship. I wanted to go back to the old ways. I wanted to go back to the places I used to go for comfort, the things that I used to do for comfort, but after everything Jesus has done for me I couldn’t go back. I found myself in a song writing room a couple days later and I swore I wasn’t going to talk about it, I wasn’t ready to talk about it. But within a few moments of being there it all came out. And what we realized was I had no where to turn but to Jesus.” ~Ben

Be Kind Jason Gray

“Have you ever had this happen, where you hear somebody say something or you read a quote and the Holy Spirit goes “Psst, hey, pay attention to this!” That’s what happened to me when I read this quote from a Scottish preacher from the 1890s named Ian Maclaren. He wrote, “Be kind, because everyone you meet is in a hard battle.” It wasn’t long after I read that quote and I was at the supermarket and the guy behind the counter was being rude to me for no reason. I was tempted to judge him and to react the rudeness, but then the Holy Spirit brought those words to mind and then I thought, maybe he is having a hard day and there is no reason for me to make it any harder. In fact, Holy Spirit, in this brief moment that we have with each other, is there anything I can do to make it better? I do believe that acts of kindness are like the trail of breadcrumbs that we leave behind to lead people to the heart of God, and that’s why I wrote this song.” ~Jason