tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85974187593788691112024-02-06T20:48:14.056-06:00every question's answer...a blog from worship artist Mark RoachMark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-81589377992677428092012-08-31T00:16:00.000-05:002012-08-31T00:16:56.045-05:00Tara's Story...a few weeks ago, I was perusing my facebook page on my phone, as I often do, and came across a new message. I was ill-prepared for the flood of emotions I was about to feel, and I literally could scarcely read the message aloud to my wife as I wept through portions. I have asked Tara, the sender, for her permission to share, and she graciously obliged:
Dear Mark,I'm not sure if you remember me Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-91236832539660086342012-07-04T01:39:00.001-05:002012-07-04T01:43:54.321-05:00Song Story: "Beautiful Truth"Every once in a while, I'll say something while on the platform leading worship... and it becomes a sort of instant mantra. Does that make sense? Like a spiritually-infused slogan. Anyway, some of you get me, I'm quite confident. :) Regardless, those thoughts and phrases, musings and perspectives often eventually turn into lyrics. Case in point, if you know your 'Mark Roach' Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-54686641203857194112012-06-29T15:44:00.000-05:002012-06-29T15:44:27.178-05:00Song Story: 'Transformed''Transformed' is the only co-write on this EP, and was written several years ago with Matthew West. Matthew and I got together to potentially write something for my first record, Every Reason Why, and 'Transformed' is what came out of our time together. Again, I often try to write worship tunes from the perspective of the things I would want to say to God while sort of lost in worshipMark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-42424063969636730372012-06-22T11:07:00.000-05:002012-06-22T11:07:36.244-05:00Song Story: 'Holy Lord'Probably the most straight-forward corporate worship song on the EP, 'Holy Lord' was honestly inspired by the massive feedback I received about the song 'You Are' on my first record. Songs flooded with scripture references that teach biblical truths as we worship and are primarily about God, not us, seem to be in short supply according to many. With that in mind, the lyric of 'Holy Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-32985861344284789122012-06-13T11:37:00.001-05:002012-06-13T11:38:24.937-05:00Song Story: 'Every Reason Why'I know, I know... you're wondering why I have a song on my new EP that has the same title as my last CD. Well, here's the answer: The CD project Every Reason Why actually got it's title from a lyric in the song 'You Are'...
"You are every question's answer | You are every reason why..."
As you can see, this blog also got it's title from the sameMark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-45818716017369369402012-06-07T01:08:00.000-05:002012-06-07T01:08:06.083-05:00Song Story: 'Here With You'Truth be told, I'm super amped about this one. It's actually the first single on the EP and the favorite of quite a few of the people who have given me feedback both before the project released and since. I was actually writing another song, 'Holy Lord,' when the chorus of this one kinda just fell on me. Lyrics and melody, all at once--and I love it when that happens--just kinda came out one day.Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-11405050549744770122012-06-01T01:20:00.003-05:002012-06-01T01:20:37.174-05:00Song Story: 'Glory Hallelujah'Unity is huge. It's not just huge in sports teams and in successful businesses. It's not just huge in committees or even families. Unity is huge to God. It's huge in churches, from the leadership all the way to the last attender and even more it's huge in terms of the Church with a big 'C'... the collective Christ-followers and the churches in which they worship throughout our Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-30625503089281315182012-05-28T01:57:00.002-05:002012-05-28T01:57:27.203-05:00Beautiful Truth: Song StoriesHey all! It's been just over a month since my new EP Beautiful Truth was released, way longer since I've posted here. Lots of new content is on its way soon on facebook.com/markroachmusic and eventually at markroach.com but I thought it would also be cool to post some inspirations and stories behind the six songs here over the next couple weeks. I'll go one by one, starting withMark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-80094082821475896632011-08-04T01:56:00.010-05:002011-08-04T23:08:35.311-05:00more than a song...Last Friday I had the opportunity to be a part of Restore Fest in Joplin, MO alongside Mercy Me, Mandisa, Hawk Nelson and several others. Almost a dozen bands/artists gathered on two stages in Landreth Park to love on this community in the best way we know how--through music. In response to the countless people who've asked or may be curious as to how it went:Several weeks ago, I stood before theMark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-56830141370333626802010-01-12T16:17:00.005-06:002010-01-12T16:56:50.162-06:00worship confessional from the road...Just left Temecula, CA this a.m. after a great Sunday at Sunridge Community Church. The Worship Leader there, Rich Kirkpatrick (@rkweblog) and I met a few years ago at a conference in Nashville and have had many a compelling conversation about church, leading worship, pastors, philosophy, theology and so on. He's the real deal and he asked me to come out and lead at his church yesterday... so IMark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-3967391430216293252009-11-21T17:00:00.008-06:002009-11-21T18:20:57.852-06:00day three.sorry about the delay in posting. as it turns out, of all the things I could have contracted in Peru, I came home with what my doctor thinks is strep. Not sure how or where I got that, but I'm already feeling better than I was last night, so hopefully it's short-lived.On Thursday, we got the opportunity to bookend the day with the bookends of the programs offered by Compassion International. We Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-86490361695106586092009-11-19T22:09:00.002-06:002009-11-19T22:17:23.946-06:00late night, early morning.ok, so I'm way excited to unpack this final day here in Peru for you all... I have more stories, more pics, more thoughts. Unfortunately, it takes a while for me to process stuff and get it into presentable form, not to much the import/upload of photos. We have to be leaving the hotel no later than 4:30a.m. tomorrow so I absolutely have to get some rest. I promise to blog soon, if not tomorrowMark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-87655948064940514392009-11-18T23:52:00.000-06:002009-11-19T02:48:19.718-06:00day two.So today can be prettily easily summed up by two things: an eye-opening home visit and lots of time with the kids at another Compassion Project. We arrived to the church and were welcomed with a full out concert from the students. The kids absolutely cling to you, and you'll be able to see that in a few of the pics below. We visited a home on the hillside, visited some classrooms and then hadMark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-34295363252931814512009-11-17T22:03:00.013-06:002009-11-17T23:39:38.557-06:00day one.ok, so getting to Peru was certainly a bit more of a challenge--at least in terms of time--than we thought. After waking up at 3:30am, an early flight to Miami, an extended layover (7 hours) and then maintenance-induced delays, the 5.5 hour flight and 45-minute drive to the hotel landed heads on pillows around 3am. I'm certainly not complaining, though, as the hotel is clean and comfy, much Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-23261603677703348182009-04-21T02:24:00.001-05:002009-04-21T02:24:37.296-05:00anybody miss me?(just curious) :)Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-81722121233023851482009-02-07T23:27:00.005-06:002009-02-08T00:29:20.572-06:00my week at re:createI just got back yesterday from an amazing week at a think-tank unconference called re:create in Nashville, TN. This is my 3rd year attending and it's been great every year. This year was certainly no exception... I don't wanna bore you, so I'll fly through what the week looked like for me.Monday - day 15 hour drive followed by an initially awkward (not a socialite) but eventually awesome time Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-7178118887310236722009-02-03T00:56:00.003-06:002009-02-03T01:47:56.304-06:00worship confessional (2.01.09)This weekend was the first in our new series 'Bringing Sexy Back' ... no, the band won't be playing the Justin Timberlake tune, but the intro does make a cameo right before the message :) Anyway, the series is about sexuality and this weekend our pastor delivered a great message to kick it off.The front setlist was back to three songs this week... Here's the setlist:As Long As I Have You - (M. Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-84450785781197529692009-01-20T00:50:00.002-06:002009-01-20T01:40:05.297-06:00worship confessional (1.18.09)Ok, so services went great this weekend overall, but I did have my most embarrassing worship moment of 2009 (so far) ... I'm wondering has anyone else ever done this? We were singing Matt Redman's 'You Never Let Go' and you know how the bridge lyric is kinda borrowed from the second verse lyric? Well... I was singing the second verse--my mind was really resonating with the truth in the words, Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-30740920873874494382009-01-13T00:59:00.003-06:002009-01-13T01:39:47.197-06:00worship confessional (1.11.09)2009. seriously.anyway... I've been back into 4-song sets again recently, so that's what we did this weekend. The set felt great, but as it turned out I pro'ly should have done a 3-song set... we went über long (is that geeky to include the umlaut? hmmm.) at any rate... setlist looked like this:Happy Day (Tim Hughes, Ben Cantelon)From the Inside Out (Joel Houston)You Are (M. Roach)You Gave Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-77307557390977515032009-01-10T11:00:00.003-06:002009-01-10T20:47:55.944-06:00Conner plays and sings 'A Thousand Hallelujahs'ok... this is simply too much for me to handle :) hope you enjoy! Make sure to watch 'til the end as you'll see the 5 year-old in him really show :) Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-917412590700642972009-01-07T07:14:00.003-06:002009-01-07T07:38:24.460-06:00worship confessional (1.4.09)well, after after a Christmas season littered with music and media galore, our first weekend of '09 started off with a fairly simple, straight-forward service. We kicked off a brand new message series about money, of all things. As odd as that seemed to myself, our Worship Design Team and much of the congregation I'm sure, I have to give plenty of kudos to our pastors who prayed diligently Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-83952644018442073352009-01-02T00:05:00.002-06:002009-01-02T02:00:21.282-06:00worship confessional - Christmas 2008ok, so I got just buried enough in the craziness of the Christmas season at the church, making sure that I was able to spend time with my family and, of course, my outward ministry that I completely defaulted on like, three straight weeks of worship confessionals. So, I'm just gonna recap some of my thoughts on the end of the holiday season with you in one big 'ol Christmas confessional.DecemberMark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-76266579796287081702008-12-29T08:51:00.004-06:002008-12-29T08:58:55.791-06:00celebrate the new year with me and Mandisa!Hey all, just a quick invite to anyone who hasn't already heard... this Wednesday (New Year's Eve) I'll be opening for Mandisa (of American Idol fame) at a brand-new nightspot in Wentzville, MO called Exodus.Tickets include the entertainment, food, party favors (not sure what that means, but hey) and a non-alcoholic champagne toast to ring in the new year! Hope to see you all there!Ticket pricesMark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-28387560511416903552008-12-12T00:42:00.002-06:002008-12-12T01:19:31.752-06:00worship confessional (12.07.08)second weekend of the advent season... I'm probably as excited about the worship sets this Christmas season as I've been in the 9+ years (this is actually the 10th Christmas) I've been leading worship here at MSC. It's kinda funny 'cause I have this odd reputation of hating Christmas music, which couldn't be further from the truth. The thing is, I feel like my job is to help facilitate an Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597418759378869111.post-28273123683903173242008-12-09T00:47:00.011-06:002008-12-09T01:38:50.991-06:00the perfect treeyeah... this year was very cool 'cause, while we always go pick out a real tree at a Christmas tree lot, this year we got to pick out a tree at the new Christmas tree lot at our own church! And at the tree lot we're treated to roasted chesnuts, cookies, cocoa and coffee... very cool. so here are the time-lapse photos, from yesterday's arrival into our home to the final touches today... come on,Mark Roachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600894810887570243noreply@blogger.com4