Come as you are

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Charlie Hall is without a doubt one of my all-time favorite musical artists. His music captures theology in song and he paints incredibly broad pictures of God's love and majesty.

His latest album is called "The Bright Sadness" and on it he records a song called "Hookers and Robbers." With a title like that you can almost be sure that it won't wind up on the regular playlist of your family-friendly Christian radio station, but it should. As you listen to the song, focus on the lyrics. In them Charlie describes just who it is that can come to Christ - anyone. You don't have to be clean or even good. Just come as you are.

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