I had a different tune picked out for March’s Song of the Month. It was all ready to go, introduction and everything.
But it can wait.
This one—“The Rock Won’t Move” by the Vertical Church Band—is what I need to hear right now. Perhaps its message will touch your soul today, too, whether God seems near, or whether He seems far.
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