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Culled from the pages of Shane Barnard’s journal, duo Shane & Shane’s latest project, Pages, documents a personal season of change and re-evaluation. It also charts a subtle refinement and maturing of their acoustic worship style, ranging from the powerful “Vision Of You” and “In You” to the rousing “Burn Us Up,” the bluegrass-kissed “Beg,” and the worshipful pop anthem, “We Love You, Jesus.”
For most listeners, their first exposure to Pages will be “We Love You Jesus,” which Barnard wrote in a coffee shop. “I just heard it playing in the air. It’s still unbelievable to me,” says Barnard. “I went home and wrote it down, and we started singing it everyday. It’s a poppy song of hope, but also a song about death.
The first line in the chorus says ‘we love you for so many reasons—for death, for life.’ The second verse is about the passage in I Corinthians where it talks about taking the sting out of death. I flipped open my Bible to this random page, and it just fit. It felt like the song was written outside of me.” The page, and the song, ended up not being so random.
In March, Barnard’s father died unexpectedly. “One of the many helps for my family and me was that song, saying ‘I love You because You save. You take the sting out of death.’ My dad was a new believer. He saved him four years ago . . . I think that’s why I heard it that day in the coffee shop. It was a gift of comfort,” Barnard says.
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