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dc Talk was one of my favorite Christian bands. Their albums, particularly Free at Last, Jesus Freak and Supernatural, rocked the Christian charts, and were filled with ballads and charged sonic quality with a strong and appealing evangelistic bent.

After they broke up, they reunited a few times. On one compilation album, Exodus, they offered their entry, called It’s My Will, and while I have many dc Talk favorites, this is one of my two top songs. The other one is their cover of Prince’s The Cross, on dc Talk’s Kevin Max’s The Blood, the fork in the road, where my favorite secular artist whom I could no longer listen to freely as a Christian, intersected with my new Christian world of music.

I still listen to secular music, but I do have a filter and it is self-imposed, to make sure I am not drawn away from my faith, not because of a set of legalistic rules…

It’s My Will – dc Talk

I’m setting the stage for, the things I love.
And I’m now the man I, once couldn’t be.
Nothing on Earth could, now ever move me.
I now have the will and, the strength a man needs.

It’s my will, and I’m not moving.
‘Cause if it’s your will, nothing can shake me.
It’s my will, to bow and praise you
I now have the will, to praise my God

Complexity haunts me, for I am two men.
Entrenched in a battle, that I’ll never win.
My discipline fails me, my knowledge it fools me.
But you are my shelter, the strength that I need.

I’m learning to give up, the rights to myself.
The bits and the pieces, I’ve gathered as wealth.
And nothing compares to, the joy that you bring me.
The peace that you’ve shown me, is the strength that I need.

We’ve got to be, Children of Peace

We’ve got to be, Children of Peace

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Daniel Pitts / Joey Elwood / Michael Tait / Toby Mckeehan

My Will lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing, Moon And Musky Music

The Cross – Prince Rogers Nelson (Kevin Max’s version)

Black day, stormy night
No love, no hope in sight
Don’t cry, he is coming
Don’t die without knowing the cross
Ghettos to the left of us
Flowers to the right
There’ll be bread for all of us
If we can just bear the cross

Sweet song of salvation
A pregnant mother sings
She lives in starvation
Her children need all that she brings

We all have our problems
Some big, some are small
Soon all of our problems
Will be taken by the cross

Black day, stormy night
No love, no hope in sight
Don’t cry for he is coming
Don’t die without knowing the cross

Ghettos to the left of us
Flowers to the right
There’ll be bread for all, y’all
If we can just, just bear the cross, yeah

We all have our problems
Some are big, some are small
Soon all of our problems, y’all
Will be taken by the cross

The cross
The cross

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Prince Rogers Nelson

The Cross lyrics © Concord Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group