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• Quite The Moment for Prayer

  It has been quite a week. My heart has been heavy with sadness, shock, grief, anger, confusion—and also with a resolve. Once again, tragedy has shaken our nation and reminded us of the brokenness in our culture. As Psalm 120 says, “In my distress I cried to the Lord, and He heard me… I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.”In moments like this, the temptation is to turn inward—to blame, to divide, to harden our hearts. But as followers of Jesus, our first response is to turn upward. This is a moment for prayer. It’s a time to seek God’s presence, to humble ourselves, and to remember that our help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth (Psalm 121:1–2).So how do we respond? We pray. We care for those around us. We stay tethered to a Kingdom that is above politics, culture, and rhetoric—a Kingdom that carries peace in the storm and hope for the future. We choose humility and boldness, and we let joy be our strength.Prayer Focus This Week:Pray for our nation and for God to pour out His Spirit.Pray for eyes, ears, and hearts to awaken to truth.Pray for comfort for those who mourn and grieve.Pray that despair will lift and hope will fill hearts.Pray for an awakening in the Church, full of the Spirit and boldness.Pray for God-given creativity and solutions to bring healing.Pray for this to be a true turning to God moment across our land.Let’s be a people who grieve without it turning into bitterness and hate, who hold hope and who believe that unity grows where pride and fear die.-Eric J.For more info, you can go to our website, check us out on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube. If you would like to support STUDIO financially, you can do so here.Have a great week!

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• Unity Grows where Pride Dies

  On Sunday we continued our study in the Songs of Ascent. Psalm 133 paints a stunning picture: “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!” Surprisingly, Unity isn’t the starting point—it’s the result of our journey of walking and doing life with people towards God. Culture often shouts for “unity” but what it really means is agreement, control, or sameness. Scripture shows us something different: unity that flows from God’s Spirit, like oil that consecrates and dew that refreshes.True unity is not uniformity—it’s diverse people, different backgrounds, one covenant, one God. It’s not forced from the top down; it comes as we humble ourselves, walk together, and let God pour out His blessing. The highest point of worship isn’t “me and God,” but us and God together. That’s the kind of unity that lasts, and the world is longing to see it. For more info, you can go to our website, check us out on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube. If you would like to support STUDIO financially, you can do so here.Have a great week!

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• The Choice is Yours

  This Sunday, we continued our journey through the Song of Ascents. We were reminded that in Psalm 124 that if the Lord had not been on our side, we would have been swallowed up by life’s storms. These ancient “Songs of Ascent” were survival songs—words sung by God’s people as they journeyed step by step toward His presence. They teach us something powerful: in every situation we face, we have a choice. We can descend into blame, pride, and entitlement—or we can ascend toward humility, gratitude, and faith. The songs we sing with our lives matter. Gratitude, thankfulness, and humility in the midst of suffering are what set followers of Jesus apart from the world.We live in a culture that when things get hard or difficult it is working to move you towards blame and victimhood, but God calls us to fight for a different algorithm—a way of living shaped by responsibility, gratitude, and dependence on Him. When we ascend, we discover God’s presence in the silence, His protection in the storm, and His power in our weakness. Let’s be a people who keep moving toward Him, singing songs of faith together as we go. As Psalm 124 closes, may this be our declaration: “Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”For more info, you can go to our website, check us out on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube. If you would like to support STUDIO financially, you can do so here.Have a great week!

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• A Playlist for Creating the Future

  For a second week, we continued in the Psalms of Ascent, which the children of Israel sang while on pilgrimage journeys to the Temple. Psalm 127 reminds us: “Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain. In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat—for He grants sleep to those He loves.”Rest is not achieved by escaping all sources of anxiety. Rest is stepping back from the need to control them. With our free will, we choose to partner with God and trust the outcome to him. The Psalms of Ascent (120–134) are not just historic songs; they are a playlist for the future. They train our hearts to wait. The paradox of waiting and suffering is designed to move you into the presence of God. If the tension drives us away, we’ve missed the point. But if it draws us near, we are living as we were designed.Here are the lessons from this playlist: God has delivered you before. We still need deliverance now.Our work depends on His blessing, not our striving. Our families, cities and future are a gift from God. So keep singing! The road is long, but God is building something greater than our hands could ever hold.For more info, you can go to our website, check us out on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube. If you would like to support STUDIO financially, you can do so here.Have a great week

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• The Journey of Becoming

  This week we turned to Psalm 126, a Song of Ascents:“The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad… Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.”These psalms were sung by worshippers on their way “up” to Jerusalem—pilgrim songs for people on the move with God. They remind us that following Him is both personal and communal, and it’s a journey marked by steps: leaving behind distress, walking together in trust, and drawing near to His presence.Psalm 126 captures the beautiful tension of the spiritual life: joy for what God has done and longing for what He has not yet done. It invites us to hold both thankfulness and expectation at the same time. Personally, this means carrying gratitude while still trusting God for future promises. As a community, it means learning to hold space for one another—rejoicing with those who rejoice, and weeping with those who weep—without judgment, jealousy, or comparison.For more info, you can go to our website, check us out on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube. If you would like to support STUDIO financially, you can do so here.Have a great week!

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