The Struggle - Tenth Avenue North

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ALBUM TITLE: The Struggle
RELEASE DATE: August 21, 2012
LABEL: Reunion Records
TRACK LISTING:

1. Shadows (4:30)
2. The Struggle (4:32)
3. Worn (4:08)
4. Losing (3:36)
5. Don’t Stop the Madness (4:55)
6. Where Life Will Never Die (3:49)
7. Strangers Here (3:37)
8. Grace (3:39)
9. All the Same (4:53)
10. Hostage of Peace (4:26)
11. You Do All Things Well (4:46)
12. Lamb of God (4:45)
13. A Kingdom Come (Pre-Order Bonus Track) (Time Unknown)

In a world that’s still trembling in the wake of the fall, our hearts are desperate for hope.
They’re hungry for freedom.
They’re longing for redemption.
And here’s the good news.
In Christ, we have all three.


We may not have answers to our questions, but we do have promises for our souls.
And the promises of God are twofold.
We are free to struggle, and we’re also not struggling to be free.
Our desire for our upcoming album, The Struggle, is that listeners will walk away with both of these truths still ringing in their ears and burning in their hearts.
We are free to fail because there’s an ocean of grace that we fall into.
But also, we have the promise of a power so strong that it raised Christ Himself, and so we know that, mystery of mysteries, we’re also not struggling to be free.
Imagine if we believed these things so strongly that we too gave grace to those tangled in their struggles while still calling them to the promise that they can be set free from them?
This artwork hopefully communicates this theme as well.
We’re in this thing together. Some fighting the waves, some breaking backs against the oars, some just trying to hold on. But one thing we know, we have each other, and most importantly, we have Christ.
And though it seems like He may have forsaken us, that He’s forgotten us, we need only look to the scars in His hands to remember He too entered the storm. He calmed the seas we could not calm. He broke the chains we could not break.
So wherever you are, whatever struggle you’re walking through, know that you’re not alone, and there’s grace, every step along the way.