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Named after his live album released in 2008, Gray serves as the host of this monthly writer’s-round radio show sponsored by Compassion LIVE and featuring performances from Christian artists recorded at The Well Coffeehouse in Nashville (Brentwood, TN). Listeners can also hear the singer-songwriter on SiriusXM The Message’s program Acoustic Storytime. Playing “Remind Me You’re Here,” the radio hit “ I’m Gonna Let It Go” featured on the five-song Order EP, and more fan favorites while on tour, Gray wrapped up a national tour with Citizen Way and The Young Escape and continues to tour, performing eight events in four states before Christmas.

Disorder and Reorder EP releases will be announced in the New Year. The cascading release of Order Disorder Reorder has been divided into three parts “to give time and space to reflect on one part of the journey before digging into the next,” Gray says. (From the “Remind Me You’re Here” chorus) Our questions burn away like fog at sunrise and in their place comes the deep sense that we are held.” Rather, to experience the presence of God in the midst of our suffering is very healing. “We think we want answers when the catastrophes of life hit, but the story of Job reminds us that an answer isn’t always what we need or even desire the most,” continues Gray. “Reminded of our vulnerability, we are broken down and opened up enough to meet with God in a profound way. “Disorder is when our plan falls apart when we find we weren’t as in control as we thought we were,” says Gray. 16 and explores topics “when things are more or less going the way you hope,” Gray’s Disorder is set to release early next year and wrestles with when hopes are dashed.

Where part one of his new album, Order, released amidst acclaim Aug. The song is available now at digital retail and streaming outlets globally through, and goes for adds at radio beginning Jan. 15) the first single, “Remind Me You’re Here,” from Disorder, the second volume of his three-part album, Order Disorder Reorder.

“Remind Me You’re Here” explores the wrestling, the questions, and the abandoning of my need for answers in favor of the assurance that, whether an answer comes or not, God is with me.Centricity Music recording artist Jason Gray releases today (Nov. The place where God meets with me is where healing happens.

I am tempted to put my hope in answers, but in and of themselves they don’t satisfy my deepest need the way the sense of God being intimately here with me does. God’s presence so often quiets our questions, which must mean that this is what we desire most-more than an answer, more than reasons, we want to know and feel that God is present with us. Instead, He offers Himself.Īt the end of the story, Job says, “my ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you…” And that seems to have been enough. When God shows up, he says plenty but never offers answers to their questions. I think of Job sitting in the wreckage of his life wrestling with his friends over the question of why it all happened, trying to make sense of it. The instinct to ask “why” runs deep and seems to have an energy all its own.īut tidy answers to life’s painful questions are few and far between, and even when we do get them they rarely bring the relief or healing we hoped they would. Maybe we hope that if we could only find the answer to “why” something happened we could restore order again by making sense out of the senseless disorder of our pain. When catastrophe strikes, we can’t help asking, “why did this happen?” The question keeps us awake at night and relentlessly follows us through our day. “Remind Me You’re Here”-the first song from “Order Disorder Reorder Part 2: Disorder” is out now.