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🌙👑✨ "NO TOMB FOR THE ARK (That's Quite The Assumption)" — If God Could Take Enoch, Elijah, and Raise the Saints, Why Is Mary's Assumption So Hard to Believe? Enoch "walked with God" and then he was gone. Elijah was carried away by fire. Moses dies, and somehow shows up talking with Jesus at the Transfiguration. When Christ rose, tombs were opened and saints once dead walked through Jerusalem. S...

⚔️📜🏰 **"THE CRUSADES: TELL THE WHOLE TALE"** — History Didn't Begin in 1095 🏰📜⚔️ The Crusades may be one of the most misunderstood events in history. For many people, the story begins in 1095 with European knights marching east. But history didn't start there. Long before the First Crusade, Christianity had flourished throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia Minor. Ancient Christian...

📱🙏 “There’s A Saint For That” — Before Silicon Valley, We Already Had The App Need directions? There’s an app for that. Need groceries? There’s an app for that. Need prayers for: lost objects, roof leaks, hopeless situations, storms at sea, burnout, snake bites, final exams, or internet arguments that should’ve ended six comments ago? Yeah. There’s a saint for that. One of the strangest accusati...

🎙️⛵ Peter's Barque Interview on Beyond The Hymnal on HOLY SPIRIT RADIO I recently had the privilege of joining Jennifer Breen on Beyond the Hymnal for a full-hour conversation about Peter’s Barque—where the project came from, why I’m turning Catholic theology and apologetics into music, and what it means to use new creative tools in service of an ancient Faith. And this wasn’t just an interview....

📖🕰️ “Canon Fodder” — Reading Modern Assumptions Into Ancient Christianity The modern image of Christianity often looks something like this: A guy alone with his leather study Bible… cross references… highlighters… chapter-and-verse debates… and “just reading the text plainly.” There’s just one problem: That image would have looked absolutely bizarre to most Christians for most of Christian histor...

📜👄 “Death In The Tongue” — A Song About Gossip “You shall not kill.” Most people hear that commandment and think: “Okay. I haven’t murdered anybody.” But Scripture spends an uncomfortable amount of time talking about another kind of destruction: the tongue. James says the tongue is a fire. Proverbs says death and life are in its power. Christ says we will answer for every careless word. And yet…...

📜🍎 “Inherited Damage (Not Your Fault, Still Your Problem) (A Song About Original Sin)” Original Sin is probably one of the most misunderstood doctrines in Christianity. Some people think it means babies are personally evil. Others think humanity is basically perfect and society ruins us later. And somewhere in the middle is the modern idea that “original sin” just means “the first dumb thing you...

🇺🇸📜 **"Created Equal" — America Didn't Invent the Idea. America Enshrined It.** Today marks the **250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.** For two and a half centuries, Americans have repeated these words: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." But here's the question: **Why?** Why are all people equal? History certainly didn't think so. Ancien...

🪨🔑 “Peter Means Rock” — The Pebble Argument Had A Nice Run Apparently Jesus changed Simon’s name to Rock, built something on “this rock,” gave him the keys, and then some folks said: “Could be unrelated.” Bold strategy. The old “Petros means little stone / Petra means big rock” argument sounds clever until you actually slow down and read the passage. Jesus was speaking Aramaic. The word is rock....

📜⚖️ “That’s Not Fair” — a song about objective morality, hypocrisy, and the weird little problem people run into when they insist morality is subjective… right before telling everyone what they should and shouldn’t do. This one started with a simple question: How do you get from “I don’t like that” to “you ought not do that” …without quietly borrowing a ladder from the building you just condemned...

📜 — If Sola Scriptura was THE plan from the beginning… why did most of the Apostles never write anything? That’s the joke. But also… kind of the question. This new Peter’s Barque track leans hard into the absurdity: 🎶 Andrew evangelized nations… but apparently forgot to leave notes. 🎶 Bartholomew got flayed alive for Christ… but didn’t “submit paperwork.” 🎶 Luke and Mark weren’t Apostles. 🎶 N...

A lot of people have asked how they can support Peter’s Barque. The best answer is still simple: Share the songs. Send them to friends. Use them in OCIA, youth ministry, Bible studies, classrooms, and comment sections when the same old anti-Catholic canards show up again. That helps more than you know. But I also wanted to share one other thing. Peter’s Barque is new for me — but digital marketing...

🍞🍷🩸 “Ancient Scandal (Transubstantiation)” — The Eucharist Was Always Scandalous Yesterday was the Feast of Corpus Christi — the celebration of the Body and Blood of Christ. Which makes this a fitting week to release a song about one of the strangest accusations ever leveled against Christians: Cannibalism. That sounds absurd to modern ears… until you realize why the accusation existed in the f...

🕯️⚖️☀️ "I WANT TO WANT" — When Your Heart Chooses the Lesser Light Saint Augustine didn’t deny the good. He knew it. He respected it. He just prayed: “Give me chastity… but not yet.” That’s not ancient history. That’s Tuesday. We don’t usually choose evil because it’s evil. We choose real goods—comfort, pleasure, distraction— just not in their proper place. The smaller light. The nearer thing. The...

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🔥✨ “We Didn’t Invent This” — Simple… and Somehow More Than One? Last week we talked about divine simplicity—God isn’t made of parts, not divided, not composed. This week we run into what *sounds* like a contradiction: One God… and yet Father, Son, and Spirit. If your idea of God fits neatly inside your own mind… that should raise a red flag. A lot of people reject the Trinity because it “doesn’t...

📜🔥 “BABEL UNDONE (PENTECOST)” NEW BONUS DROP! Most people know the story of the Tower of Babel. Humanity gathers together. One people. One language. One great project. “Let us make a name for ourselves.” And then suddenly: confusion. Division. Scattering. Languages splitting apart. But here’s the strange thing… When Pentecost arrives in Acts 2, the Bible suddenly starts obsessing over languages...

Title: 🧠✨ Simple (Not Basic) 🧠✨ "Simple (Not Basic)" — God isn’t built… and that changes everything What if God isn’t just the biggest thing… but not a “thing” at all? Most of us—without realizing it—picture God like a super-powered version of us. Smarter. Stronger. Eternal. But still… built. Still something that has attributes. Still something that could, at least in theory, be taken apart....

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📜✨ **"He Ascended, But His Body Remained" — The Ascension Didn’t End Christ’s Reign. It Revealed It.** **He didn’t leave. He reigns.** The Ascension is often treated like a departure scene. Jesus goes up… and the story shifts to the apostles figuring things out on their own. But that’s not what happened. Christ ascends as the **Son of Man**, fulfilling Book of Daniel — receiving dominion, glory,...

❤️🪨✨ "Not of Works" — Now Animated Same song. New experiment. This week I’m trying something different. I’ve taken “Not of Works” and turned it into a fully animated version—simple, visual, catechetical… something that shows the theology, not just says it. Because this topic matters. Abraham is called justified by faith. He’s also called justified by what he did. Same with Rahab. That’s not a co...

📜✨ "Not of Works" — The Verse Everyone Quotes… and the One They Skip Not of works. You’ve heard it. You’ve probably had it quoted at you. Like it settles everything. But Scripture doesn’t contradict itself—and it doesn’t stutter either. Paul says Abraham was justified by faith: 👉 “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” (Romans 4:3) The author of Hebrews says the same...

🧬⏳ “The Biology Doesn’t Change — You Were Always You” BONUS FRIDAY SONG The argument is often dressed up in complicated language. “Clump of cells.” “Potential life.” “Not a person yet.” “Just tissue.” But strip away the slogans, and the question gets much simpler: What exactly changed? Not your humanity. Not your life. Not your identity. Not the kind of being you were. You were smaller. You were...

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