Jonathan Christopher Wretlind
Parables
This is my first MP3 album. The songs are parables that reflect the ups and downs of the Christian life. Some are from Bible sources, some not.
Release date: January 2007
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1
Unicycle
Sometimes we have to go to great lengths to feel loved...
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3:14
2
Signal
This is a kind of a modern country-blues styled song about trying to connect...
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3:22
3
The Plowman's Song
This song is a modernized parable about divine Plowman.
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3:47
4
Lucky Penny
I am a hospice/nursing home chaplain. This song is about the worth that God places on every person.
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4:22
5
Providence
This is a song based on a true story of two survivors of the 'Station Fire' in Providence, RI. It is ultimately a story of how God can make something good come out of something bad.
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4:39
6
Dust
Adam's Blues -- returning to the source.
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5:01
7
Wallflower
A love song. Sometimes we shrink away from the love that God offers and don't accept His invitation to dance. When we do, we can experience what it really means to bloom.
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4:33
8
Magdelena's Smile
In Christian tradition, Mary Magdelene was the woman who anointed Jesus' head and feet, the woman caught in adultery in John 8, and the first person Jesus appeared to after His resurrection.
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3:45
9
The Toymaker
This is a modern parable.
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3:53
10
Do You Want Now to Be Free?
Jesus asked the paralytic man at the pool of Bethesda a similar question: Did he want to be healed? Sometimes our sickness is more comfortable than the change needed to find freedom.
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3:51
11
Lament
A prayer for a beautiful bride who has strayed from the body of Christ -- from the heart.
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3:25
12
Abba Father Come
A gentle worship ballad derived from Jesus' parable of the prodigal son.
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4:19
13
I Call It Home
That space where it hurts sometimes, God calls home -- closer than you think.
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3:38
14
Astronaut
This is a song about leaving Boston and reaching for higher ideals. The song is a metaphor for reaching for a dream and being "heavenly minded."
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6:17
15
Pieta
Reflections on Michaelangelo's "Pieta" and the life and death of Jesus.
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3:28
16
Mystery
A song for Advent 2008.
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5:02
17
Path of Life
This song is based on Psalm 16. Words by King David and the Holy Spirit. Adaptation by Jonathan Christopher.
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3:55