Carder's Song by Song exploits

Strange and Wonderful:

In my beginning I was created in the image of my Maker,
The Creator of all heavens and earth.
He knitted me in my mother's womb,
And He knew me, yes it's true, before birth.

And it's stra-ya-ya-yange and wonderful
How He has made me.
And it's stra-ya-ya-yange and wonderful
How He has given me life.

As I've grown to be a man I have wandered through this garden,
Taking things that don't belong to me.
Though I vowed to follow Him,
I have tasted fruit forbidden,
Not unpunished, yet He has forgiven me.

And it's stra-ya-ya-yange and wonderful
How He forgave me.
And it's stra-ya-ya-yange and wonderful
How He has given me life.

In the beginning was The Word, the Word was with God,
The Word was God.
I know it's hard to understand, but I believe it.
Though He never did anything wrong,
Still He shed his blood for me and He wants to give me life,
I receive it.

And it's stra-ya-ya-yange and wonderful
How He has saved me
And it's stra-ya-ya-yange and wonderful
How He has given me life.

© 1996 Too Much Records. Music by Mac Powell.
Words by Mac Powell and Chris Carder.


Basically, this song was penned by Mac Powell of Third Day. The band was just getting going. I heard them at a friend's high school graduation party. I loved the vocals and passion of Powell even then. Brad Avery, who is one of the guitarists in Third Day, was at the time playing for me. We were all going to the same church in Austell, GA...Orange Hill Baptist. I had decided to attend The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. I had a meeting with Mac and soon afterwards Brad was the glue that hoisted Third Day into a national scene.

Back to the song...(sorry to ramble)...One day I went to Mac's house to collaborate on some songs. When we got together, he told me he had written a song for me the day before. I asked him, "whadya mean?" He said, " I just prayed and asked God to give me a song for you and this is it." I changed a few words to the lyrics and the key of the song and it became history.

I loved the song then and recorded it in 1996 on my 'Strange and Wonderful' CD....then last year I covered it again with a little updating at Mac's studio. Brad got to play on it and this time Mac sang some background vocals on it. The song has an amazing anointing on it. I feel God's pleasure when I am singing it.

t00-m0ch,
Chris

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