MUSIC MOVES THE SOUL.

“Sing God a brand new song! Earth and everyone in it sing! Sing to God!” (Psalm 96:1 MSG) Music is found throughout the Christian Scriptures to express joy, grief, and thanksgiving.

In our world today, we continue to embrace music as a way to communicate and connect with others, ourselves, and the Holy Creator. Whether you’re listening as you take a walk, drive in your car, or prepare dinner for the family, enjoy the rhythm and sounds of Mystic Mercy, featuring Talip and Cristal Peshkepia.

You are invited to use this music as an opportunity to reflect and engage with the spiritual dimensions of your life. Consider journaling after the experience to see what emotions, thoughts, and reflections surface.

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Breathe

Today we get an Advent gift with new music from Mystic Mercy. This Advent song invites us to review our ideas of hope. How can we exist in this current beautiful moment without all the holiday anxiety?…

You are My Rock

This new song is called "You are My Rock. Talip wrote this song during Lent this past year. It comes on the heels of "In the Stillness"…

In the Stillness

It’s never a bad reminder to encourage others to try and find some solitude and seek out God’s peace and great love….

Storytelling with Mystic Mercy

In this episode, Talip shares his new song titled “It’s Just the Pouring Rain.” It’s inspired by how it rains on the just and the unjust. Or put another way, a response to seeing bad things…

Storytelling with Mystic Mercy

Talip is joined by his wife Cristal for a song titled Be on My Mind. Inspired by Psalm 8, Talip wrote this song as he was awestruck by the bigness of the universe. Also inspired by the prayer The Empty Vessel by…

Storytelling with Mystic Mercy

The latest from Mystic Mercy, There Was a Tree was birthed out of the COVID-19 pandemic. For Talip, it was an “ode to comfort, an ode to simple joy.” A moment for him to reset, as the world was crashing…

Episode 8: Earth Day

I wrote this song, Don’t Destroy, Create!, for Earth Day 2020 and also for my son. Last year was a rough one for Ezra and myself, considering all the normal duties and pressures of a parent child relationship but then also adding the extra stress from the unknown of the pandemic…

Episode 7: Easter Music

This song was written as a hope to come. It is actually about preparing to change. The truth is in the verse. It’s a desire to be transformed. Looking at the stuff that has been accumulating in my life, my grave, and realizing it’s time to empty the tomb…

Episode 6: Holy Week Music

As lent nears its end, I have really been focused on gratitude and its relationship to humility…

Episode 5: Music

This week’s song is about finding hope and strength in the times of wilderness. As we are in the Lenten season, we are in a constant state of selflessness and wandering and we are even confronting death and the limited time we have on this earth…