Hope you enjoy "You Came (Lazarus)", from Bethel Worship's Jonathan and Melissa Helser. It's got a fresh tag from our resident poet-minister and hip-hop artist, YN2 Michael Johnson, aka A.R.C.H. Angel. 
The song was a quick cut, written in the moment, for God's glory and shared in U.S.S. Bunker Hill’s Sunday Chapel Worship on our WESTPAC 17 Deployment. Forgive the hum of the 100,000 Horsepower Gas Turbine Engines spinning the ship's shafts and propeller through the South Pacific waters. It's our background for worship from the deep. 
-LT K. Carlson, "Chaps"

The flow of A.R.C.H.’s ‘Barz’:

You saved, my prayer had became praise
Whenever my faith waned 
You guided my path straight andI 
Can't repay the price that you displayed 
By ditching that early grave 
You've broken those very chains so 
I Have no choice but to give you my whole life 
My heart yearns from morning until the night 
No doubt there's love within Your Name
I don't deserve the time you stayed 
But with tears I'm glad you came

Team Members include FCC Worstell, CTR1 Redd, Chaps, YN2 Johnson, ITSN Gilley and RP2 Hunt.

You Came (Lazarus) feat. A.R.C.H. Angel, Songs from 52 Deep

Holy Interruption, Mark 5, Chaplain Kristian Carlson, USS Bunker Hill, 29 OCT 2017

Here's a simple track recorded by two of us aboard USS Bunker Hill.  72 days into WestPac deployment 2017.  8000 miles from home.  Away from our wives and children. Will Reagan's song "Set A Fire" recorded with United Pursuit was the song that captured our hearts that night. Reminded us of Christ's Supremacy and comforted us in camraderie, jamming at 2300 hours. Hope it encourages you. 

"Set a fire down in my soul
That I can't contain, that I can't control
I want more of You God 
I want more of You God
 
No place I would rather be
No place I would rather be
No place I would rather be
Than here in Your love, here in Your love
No place I would rather be
No place I would rather be
No place I would rather be
Than here in Your love, here in Your love

I want more, I want more, I want more, 
I want more, I want more, I want more, 
won't You pour it out?"

Lyrics, Chords, and a Music Video with Background to Song are at the link below.

http://www.worshiptogether.com/songs/set-a-fire-united-pursuit/

Christ Community of Bunker Hill loves to worship. And to bring new out of the familiar in worship music.  These songs are quick cuts, recorded in the moment for God's glory. Forgive the hum of the nearly 100,000 Horsepower Gas Turbine Engines spinning this guided missile cruiser's shafts and propellers. It's our background for worship from the deep.  

Pictured: LT Carlson, "Chaps" & ITSN Austin Gilley

Set A Fire --  Songs from 52 Deep

"How He Loves" is a simple track recorded by two of us aboard USS Bunker Hill,  101 days into a 5th Fleet deployment overlapping 2017-2018.  8000 miles from home;  away from our wives and children; American Songwriter John Mark McMillan's ballad "How He Loves"  captured our hearts and gave us focus to worship the Lord Jesus Christ. What fathomless love we are coming to know.  Hope it encourages you friend!

He is jealous for me
Loves like a hurricane
I am a tree
Bending beneath
The weight of his wind and mercy
When all of a sudden
I am unaware of these
Afflictions eclipsed by glory
And I realize how beautiful you are
And how great your affections for me
Oh how he loves us so
Oh how he loves us
How he loves us so
Yea He loves us
Oh how He loves

We are his portion
And he is our prize
Drawn to redemption by the grace in his eyes
If grace is an ocean we're all sinking
So heaven meats earth like an unforeseen kiss
And my heart burns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets
When I think about the way
He loves us
Oh how he loves us so
Oh how he loves us
How he loves us so
Yea He loves us
Oh how he loves us

A Music Video from Live at the Knight with John Mark McMillan and Kim Walker Smith is featured at the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HGRyxAfhZU

Our church family aboard--Christ Community of Bunker Hill loves to worship. And to bring new out of the familiar in worship music.  These songs are quick cuts, recorded in the moment for God's glory. Forgive the hum of nearly 100,000 Horsepower Gas Turbine Engines spinning this guided missile cruiser's shafts and propellers. It's our background for worship from the deep.  

Pictured:  ITSN Austin Gilley and GSM3 Thomas Marvelle during our 2nd M.A.C.T.S. retreat held just after the New Year

How He Loves --Songs from 52 Deep

Listen and hear US Navy Sailor and Hip Hop artist YN2 Michael "A.R.C.H. Angel" Johnson minister the Word. He tells about his experience serving in the military, while standing firm to live for Jesus Christ. He walks through texts from the Book of Luke that have been pivotal in his journey to wear the uniform faithfully.

"All of us have two uniforms to wear. The FRVs (fire retardant coveralls) we put on every morning at ship's reveille (morning wake-up)and the Armor of God that we must ask to be put on continuously on a daily basis. Sometimes our mission of service can feel very hard, the pace and challenges almost "crazy." But let's remember just like when we signed up for the military, and when we raised our hands and said "God I need You", it was a choice. It was an allegiance we made. Following Him, we leave the comfortable, let go of the familiar, and in obedience walk out His path, not our own."

Luke 2:52: "Jesus grew in wisdom and stature  with God and Man."

Luke 4:42: "I must go (leave this place) and preach this Gospel in other towns."

Our church family aboard, Christ Community of USS Bunker Hill, loves to worship and hear the Word of God. These recordings are quick cuts, recorded in the moment for God's glory. Forgive the hum of nearly 100,000 Horsepower Gas Turbine Engines spinning the guided missile cruiser's shafts and propellers. It's our background for worship from the deep.

Obedience In Two Uniforms: Luke 4:42, YN2 Michael Johnson, USS Bunker Hill, 14 JAN 2018

We're 119 days into USS Bunker Hill's 5th Fleet Deployment 2017-2018. 8000 miles from home.

We jammed on this worship song, click link to hear it,  https://soundcloud.com/striderchaps/as-it-is-in-heaven

It's a Phil Wickham's song, "As It Is in Heaven." Felt like what the Spirit knew we needed to sing. Information Systems Technician Austin Gilley leads the vocals and rhythm on a Baby Taylor guitar. and I'm singin' harmony and doing rhythm in the background on a Cut-Away Taylor.  

In the middle of the many watches aboard ship, studyin' to earn quals and vigilance due to mission, we were encouraged to trust God in all things, even the challenge of goodbyes.  I'm soon having a Permanent Change of Station (PCS). As Ship's Chaplain, and pastor to the CG-52 Community, this was the final song the church onboard would sing together before saying farewell.

Let my heart be a temple
Let that temple have a throne
Let the one who sits upon it
Be You and You alone

I surrender my ambitions
I lay down all my pride
That I would be Your servant
And You would be my God

Let Your will be done in me
Let Your kingdom come in me
In my life Lord let it be
As it is in heaven

Like a battle weary soldier
I'm lifting up my hands
In absolute surrender
My life, my will, my plans

Yours will be the glory
The honor and the fame
And this will be my story
Lifting high Your name

Let Your will be done in me
Let Your kingdom come in me
In my life Lord let it be
As it is in heaven

I lift my hands and say that I need You
I lift my heart and say that I love You
I give my life, God I am forever Yours

I lift my hands and say that I need You
I lift my heart and say that I love You
I give my life, God I am forever Yours

Let Your will be done in me
Let Your kingdom come in me
In my life Lord let it be
As it is in heaven

Be enthroned upon our hearts
Take control of every part
Be the King of all we are
Oh God in heaven

I lift my hands and say that I need You
I lift my heart and say that I love You
I give my life, God I am forever Yours

...and say that I need You
I lift my heart and say that I love You
I give my life, God I am forever Yours

A Music Video of Phil Wickham leading the song is at link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7pEu793cmU

It's special seeing our Christ Community of Bunker Church bring familiar worship songs into the duty-laden, steel, & kinetically ready realm of the warship. It's where God has called us to live and serve at this time. 

These songs are quick cuts, recorded in the moment. Forgive the hum of the nearly 100,000 Horsepower Gas Turbine Engines spinning this guided missile cruiser's shafts and propellers. It's our background for worship from the deep.

As It Is In Heaven

We're 119 days into USS Bunker Hill's 5th Fleet Deployment 2017-2018. 8000 miles from home,  So what do we do?  We'll stop by the O-3 level just aft of mid-ships and the mast and catch a glimpse of wondrous moon as we cut quietly through the water. Then on  occasion we catch a spare moment and sing songs devoting ourselves  to God. And we jam a little longer and give up sleep for this kind music... it's easy too when Information Systems Technician Austin Gilley is there leading vocals and giving gentle rhythm on a Baby Taylor guitar and...cracking sly friendly jokes with the Chaplain... (singing harmony and doing back-up rhythm in this recording). 

During this simple love song to Jesus, we were preparing for a Farewell Worship service, as the Ship's Pastor, Chaplain Carlson was PCS'ing.  The song comes from Phil Wickham's album, "Children of God."  Playing it took hold of our attention and diminished the weight of duty as we  fixed our Eyes on One who died to save us. He keeps us through the watches of the night.

In the desert You’re the river
An ever flowing stream of life
In the battle You’re the victor
We raise Your banner high

In the darkness You’re the fire
A holy flame for all to see
In my heart You reign forever
My all, my everything

You are my life you are my love
You are my reason
You are my hope you are my joy
You are my passion
My all in all Jesus my all in all
My all in all Jesus my all in all

In the tempest You’re the shelter
And I will hide beneath Your wings
Hallelujah what a Savior!
My all, my everything

Your name be high and lifted up
Jesus Your name be high and lifted up
Jesus Your name be high and lifted up
In all the earth, in all the earth 

Find a Music Video to the song here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE7CtK5-ESs

Christ Community of Bunker Hill loves to bring worship music into the dutiful, steel, mechanical realm of our warship. It's where God has called us to live and serve during this unique time in our lives. 

The songs are quick cuts, recorded in the moment for God's glory. Forgive the hum, that makes the recordings harder to hear.  Its nearly 100,000 Horsepower Gas Turbine Engines and Generators spinning this guided missile cruiser's shafts and propellers for freedom. It's our background for worship from the deep.

My All In All - Songs from 52 Deep

God Keep You, 2 Timothy 4, LT Kristian Carlson, USS Bunker Hill, 04 FEB 2018

One night aboard USS Bunker Hill, Information Systems Technician Seaman Austin Gilley stopped by my office. He said, "Chaplain, if you get a minute sometime, I'd really like to play you a song I've been working on."

It was kind of late. But I'd never heard ITSN Austin play something he wrote himself, or sing.  And being reserved, he rarely spoke up this way. So the thought struck me right after he left, "There's no better time than the present."

We connected again later that evening, and he played this brief song for me. It's still being written.  I think you need to hear it.

It's from the heart. It's hungry for God. It's humble. It's real. I imagine, even like the warrior David calling out to Adonai--you'll be drawn in to trust the living God too, regardless of the circumstances.

Maybe in hearing it, like Austin and I, thousands of miles from home, from our wives--or for you, when away from what's familiar,-- you’ll be drawn to seek the Lord, desiring above all to know Him more.

If you know Austin, please tell him to keep on writing and singin'. He's got a gift that the world needs to hear.

Pictured here is Austin Gilley, jamming a song on the Baby Taylor in my office.  The background is a Bunker Hill Sunset from the 0-3 level aft of the mast, near the "smoke deck", taken while operating on mission.  “Incline Your Ear” was recorded 15 DEC, 2017, 70 days into USS Bunker Hill's 5th Fleet Deployment,  
The lyrics are below:

Incline Your ear to me Oh Lord my King
To You I call on and to You I will sing

Incline Your ear to me Oh Lord my God
Creator of all things Who will Be and Was 

***
Christ Community of Bunker Hill loves to bring worship music into the duty-filled, 24/7 watches of our warship. It's where God has called us to live and serve at this time in our lives. 

The songs are quick cuts, recorded in the moment for God's glory. Forgive the hum that makes the recordings harder to hear.  Its nearly 100,000 Horsepower Gas Turbine Engines and Generators spinning this guided missile cruiser's shafts and propellers for freedom. It's our background for worship from the deep.

Incline Your Ear - Austin Gilley

Here's a prayer for the new Chiefs!  From your friend Kristian--Chaps 

"Father, we come to you this awesome day that You have made, and from the start honor You, the One who makes all things possible.  We commit to you our Chiefs Select, and their families, who today join the rich and storied ranks of becoming United States Navy Chiefs.

As each one enters the Mess, may former capabilities be fused with supernaturally deepened reservoirs for advocacy, discipline and leadership now required of these men and women—backbone and linchpin to our Navy’s Success.

We rejoice at this accomplishment and milestone in their Naval Career. They stand today before the One, who is close as the mention of His name. Pour out new strength, bless their families and keep them. As they don the cover, and wear the Anchors, give them deep down knowledge of the One who can moor their soul and preserve their convictions in heaviest fire.  They have been prepared, tested and selected. And so may they persevere as they assume this mantle of guardianship to protect and guide Sailors.

Bless their incredible families! And may You go before them in the new roles they will take: Platoon Chiefs, Departmental Chiefs, Team Chiefs and other special assignments as Navy Chiefs. In Jesus' Name I pray, Amen."

***
Navy Chiefs have mentored and shaped me. They've also helped me accomplish tasks beyond number in the Fleet and ashore.

They are straight shooters, disciplinarians, humble, smart, dedicated and true subject matter experts.  They are excellent judges of character, have huge hearts, and rarely have time for many words. While there are many jobs they could do in life; they have chosen to be Navy Chiefs serving our Nation. They have all my respect.

Without their guidance, leadership and sacrifice, I don't know how the Navy would function. Thank you Chiefs! And congratulation to all of those newly pinned. May you wear the anchors well .

*Special thanks to Patricia Arnold, YNCS, USN(Yeoman Senior Chief) you were instrumental in corraling and ushering to life a group of young naval staff officers at King Hall in the Summer of 2008 in Newport, Rhode Island.  You stuck with us! Honored to have served with you. Privileged beyond words that you gave me my first salute.

Prayer for Navy Chiefs

United Through Reading - Storybook Ball 2018 Prayer

Military Chaplain. KristianCarlson.com. Love serving alongside Marines, Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen, & “Coasties.” Jamming & singing out praise together makes my heart glad.

https://thewarriorsjourney.org/podcast/episode-98/

A Podcast with Kristian and The Warrior’s Journey CEO, Kevin Weaver, about the opportunities and challenges of serving as a chaplain among America’s incredible men and women in uniform.

https://vimeo.com/408137481 A recording of Cory Asbury’s “Egypt”

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