Sep 25, 2026 · 9 min · 4 segments
New Attitude conferences, CJ Mahaney, and writing as a band. The story behind the song the Wonders of Jesus Crucified. Help us create more music infused with Christ exalting timeless truth and…
And he was talking about taking your time, looking at the cross, meditating on the cross, and kind of the different – I think he went through some of the different things that Jesus said at the cross.
I remember discussing like, is it the wonder of Jesus crucified or the wonders? And I wanted to do wonders cause it was, it was more like, you know, look, look at all these
different, look at all these facets of the cross.
Um, and then, and then, yeah, the kind of the lift, Oh, I'm stuck in this place of wondering at your love.
Um, and then the chorus trying to bring in, you know, some of the things we're wondering about, right? So, so yeah, that was kind of the, the lyrical inspiration for that song.
And I love the, I'm pretty sure it was part of the sermon at least, or close to something that CJ had said at the time, which is that first line of the chorus, the glory of your grace,
And maybe that was the phrase was like, this is where we can see God's grace and kindness towards us most clearly.
His glory most on display is in the work of the cross.
And then I think I do remember us.
very intentionally making it a fast song and an upbeat song.
Yeah.
Cause it was like songs about the cross, plenty of them, tons of songs that are like nice and slow and, and, and, uh, you know, the ballads abound.
So I was like, all right, let's do a rocking song.
Let's do something upbeat and exciting, you know, that just extols the grace of
Yeah, I had a very fast chord progression on acoustic that we were writing it with.
And then I think, like you said, we were just having a lot of band practices at that point.
I remember getting, I don't know if Sean already had a distortion pedal, our bass player, or if we got him one or what, but we were like...
And he was talking about taking your time, looking at the cross, meditating on the cross, and kind of the different – I think he went through some of the different things that Jesus said at the cross.
I remember discussing like, is it the wonder of Jesus crucified or the wonders? And I wanted to do wonders cause it was, it was more like, you know, look, look at all these
different, look at all these facets of the cross.
Um, and then, and then, yeah, the kind of the lift, Oh, I'm stuck in this place of wondering at your love.
Um, and then the chorus trying to bring in, you know, some of the things we're wondering about, right? So, so yeah, that was kind of the, the lyrical inspiration for that song.
And I love the, I'm pretty sure it was part of the sermon at least, or close to something that CJ had said at the time, which is that first line of the chorus, the glory of your grace,
And maybe that was the phrase was like, this is where we can see God's grace and kindness towards us most clearly.
His glory most on display is in the work of the cross.
And then I think I do remember us.
very intentionally making it a fast song and an upbeat song.
Yeah.
Cause it was like songs about the cross, plenty of them, tons of songs that are like nice and slow and, and, and, uh, you know, the ballads abound.
So I was like, all right, let's do a rocking song.
Let's do something upbeat and exciting, you know, that just extols the grace of
Yeah, I had a very fast chord progression on acoustic that we were writing it with.
And then I think, like you said, we were just having a lot of band practices at that point.
I remember getting, I don't know if Sean already had a distortion pedal, our bass player, or if we got him one or what, but we were like...
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