🎙️ Upper Room Faith & Music Podcast — Season 3, Episode 7

Step into a moment of peace, reflection, and spiritual connection in this episode of the Upper Room Faith & Music Podcast. 🌿✨ As the conversation centers on the sacred season of Lent, listeners are invited into a deeper journey of slowing down, letting go, and making intentional space for God.

This episode beautifully explores how Lent isn’t just about sacrifice—it’s about transformation. 🙏 It’s a time to quiet the noise of everyday life, reflect on the example of Jesus in the wilderness, and open your heart to renewal, humility, and grace.

🎶 The episode then flows into a powerful Up-and-Coming Artist Showcase, highlighting a fresh voice in faith-based music. With a sound rooted in authenticity and worship, the featured artist captures the essence of surrender and the quiet, behind-the-scenes work God does within us.

Listeners are encouraged not just to hear the music, but to truly experience it—allowing it to minister, heal, and meet them exactly where they are. 💫

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🎙️ The Upper Room Faith Music Podcast

Season 3 — Episode 6
Host: Mike G

Mike G welcomes listeners back with a powerful reminder: you made it through February. 🙌 For many, it was a heavy month filled with exhaustion, isolation, mental health struggles, and spiritual dryness. But this episode centers on one life-changing truth — transformation. 🌅

🐍 From Darkness Into Light
Mike dives into the beauty of spiritual growth, comparing it to a snake shedding its skin and a butterfly emerging from a cocoon. Hidden seasons may feel still, quiet, or even lifeless — but God does His deepest work there. What felt like burnout, grief, fear, or identity struggles may actually be preparation for something new. You can’t fly with old skin. You can’t step into purpose holding onto past wounds. Spring reminds us that resurrection always follows winter. 🌼✨

🎤 Artist of the Day: Sandi Patty
This episode spotlights 80s Christian music powerhouse Sandi Patty, whose bold, emotional, and worship-filled voice helped shape modern Christian music. Her songs of hope and redemption carried believers through hard seasons and elevated excellence within the genre. Her music remains timeless and rooted in deep conviction. 🎶

📅 This Week in Christian Music History
The first week of March marks significant moments in faith music history — from Christian albums breaking into mainstream charts in the late 80s and early 90s, to the launch of major spring revival tours. March also helped usher in a shift from performance-based Christian music toward congregational worship, laying the foundation for today’s modern worship movement. 🎵🔥

📖 Verse of the Day
2 Corinthians 5:17 — If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.

🙏 Closing Prayer
A heartfelt prayer asks God to help listeners release old skin, heal from heaviness, and step boldly into a new season as renewed creations in Christ.

🎧 As always, Mike G encourages listeners to share the episode with someone who needs light right now. Keep the faith, keep the music playing, and we’ll see you in the Upper Room. ✨

🚨🎙️ NEW EPISODE ALERT —

Upper Room Faith Music Podcast 🎶🔥

Season Three • Episode Five Is Here 🌅

A brand-new episode of the Upper Room Faith Music Podcast has arrived, and this one is filled with powerful conversation, spiritual insight, and music that speaks directly to the heart 🙌🏽✨.

In Season Three Episode Five, we step into a global moment of faith as we explore how sacred seasons, worship music, and rising artists are bringing people closer to God across cultures and generations 🌎🎧.

New Episode Alert 🎙️✨

Upper Room Faith Music Podcast is back with Season 3, Episode 3, airing Thursday, February 6, 2026 🙌 In this powerful episode, we explore the current Christian and Jewish calendars and how believers around the world are preparing their hearts in this season of joy, reflection, and renewed faith 🕊️📖

You’ll hear inspiring music from a brand-new featured artist, Lydia Grace, plus our This Week in Christian Music roundup 🎶🔥 We also spotlight an exciting up-and-coming worship band from Australia, By His Stripes, and their moving new single In His Perfect Time 🌍🎧

The episode closes with a timely and encouraging sermon from Terry Keith, followed by a Bible reading from Psalm 27 and a heartfelt prayer to carry you through the week 🙏❤️

Tune in, be encouraged, and be reminded that God’s timing is always perfect ⏳✨

Season 3 Episode 3 of The Upper Room Faith Music Podcast is live 🎙️🔥

This episode is all about longing for connection and learning how to walk close with God daily 🙏💭 Ever wonder why God can feel so close one moment and distant the next? We talk about those powerful moments of peace, why they fade, and the truth that God never actually leaves us ❤️‍🔥 The drift usually happens in the noise, the busyness, and chasing the feeling instead of the Source 🌊📱⏳

We dive into simple, real-life rhythms that help keep your heart anchored 🔑📖 micro-prayers throughout the day, one verse each morning, gratitude in the middle of ordinary life, and remembering that nearness to God is a relationship, not a switch ✨ If you feel far from God right now, that longing itself is proof He’s already close 🤍

Plus 🎶 a throwback spotlight on 1970s Christian folk revival with The Continental Harmonies 🎸🔥 a look at major moments in Christian music history 📀⏳

Scripture of the day hits deep: Draw near to God and He will draw near to you 📖💫

Tap in, slow down, and walk closer than breath this week 🚶‍♂️🔥🙏

Podcast Summary — SE3 EP2 “The Jubilee Year: Freedom, Restoration, and the Song of Redemption”

In this episode of The Upper Room Faith Music Podcast, we step into the ancient yet profoundly relevant biblical concept of the Jubilee Year. Drawing from Leviticus 25, the hosts explore how God instituted rhythms of rest, restoration, and freedom — a time when land returned to its owners, debts were erased, and captives were set free. The show reflects on how Jubilee began with a trumpet blast, reminding listeners that God often announces change through sound, song, and worship.

The discussion continues into the New Testament, revealing how Jesus fulfilled and expanded the Jubilee in Luke 4, declaring freedom not just economically, but spiritually — releasing shame, regret, and generational burdens. Jubilee is no longer bound to calendars; it remains available through Christ today.

The episode’s Artist of the Day spotlights Michael W. Smith, honoring his impact on 1980s Christian music and his role in shaping modern worship.
In This Week in Christian Music History, Eleanor revisits 1984, when contemporary Christian music began breaking into mainstream culture.

A short devotional reminds listeners that God restores what’s broken — hearts, identities, purpose — and nothing is beyond redemption. The episode closes with Isaiah 61:3, a scripture declaring beauty for ashes, joy for mourning, and praise in the place of despair.

Listeners are invited to step into their own Jubilee — a personal season of release, renewal, and returning to what God intended all along.