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| XIII Minutes at Kingdom Come Festival, June 20, 2025. Lead vocalist Jerrod Cunningham also does vocals and guitar for I Am The Pendragon. |
I am writing this on Sunday night, December 28th, for posting on Monday. Yes, that means 2025 is almost in the books, so it's time for me to give my year-ends posts. Year ends, because I'll not only be looking at my 20 favorite 2025 songs (posted on the 29th), favorite fiction and non-fiction (10 of each both posted on the 30th), and my look back at 2025 (31st), but also will give my thoughts on the new year (January 1st and 2nd).
This year, I debated on giving the list in alphabetic order plus revealing my number 1 (this refers both to songs and books), but decided to do something different, and give my favorites in order.
I'll start by looking back. My previous favorite songs were "Truth" by Divine Martyr ('22), "WarCry" by TheoTerran ('23), and "My Path To Walk by David Pataconi ('24). So you can say David, also being half of TheoTerran, has a two year streak going. Will he continue that streak?
Like last year, I'll mark new artists to me from this year (marked with an asterisk). On the other side, there are groups I've followed for at least 20 years each: Amy Shreve (I met her and her husband Gary Wixtrom at a Voice of the Martyrs Conference in 2003), Mad at the World, and some obscure band called Petra - anybody heard of them?
I'll include a link at the bottom for my Spotify list, in case you want to hear the songs on my list. I would recommend that... but I'm biased.
Ready? Here we go.
20. "Summer Storm" by Rosalie Hovencroft.*
19. "Pain" by Sending68.*
18. "King of Kings" by BibleWithLife*
17. "Deliver Us" by Petra.
16. "The Storm" by End Of I.
15. "Hope Found Hope" by Mad At The World.
14. "How the Story Ends" by Amy Shreve.
13. "All Things" by Sovereign Grace.
12. "Reign Forever" by Citizen Crown.*
11. "It Wasn't For Nothing" by The Band JAREN.*
10. "Laodicea (Unplugged)" by Tierra Vacia.
9. "Resistance" by Divine Martyr.
8. "Holy" by David Pataconi.
7. "A Better Country" by Amy Shreve (though Gary Wixtrom sings lead on this one).
6. "The Gospel" by Olivia Lane.*
5. "Atonement" by I Am The Pendragon.
4. "Enough" by TheoTerran.
3. "War Cry" by The Band JAREN.
2. "Dear Martyr" by Behold the Beloved.
And now, my I have the drum roll?
Any guess on who I put on top?
And my #1 song of 2025...
1. "Stay" by XIII Minutes!
Here is the promised link in case you want to hear these songs.
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