Shattered

     As some of you may know, +David Williams & I had the fantastic opportunity of singing together this past summer at both our church, Immanuel Baptist of Rice Lake, and the Barron County Fair. We can but give God the praise for His using such weak vessels  to bring Him glory! Shortly before our first performance, we were challenged by a friend to come up with a title for ourselves (instead of "David & Corrie Hockaday" which had unfortunately been printed in the local newspaper!). A great deal of thought and prayer went into that daunting task until we finally settled on the name "Shattered." At first the ideas behind the name were slightly ambiguous and all over the map, but we stuck with it anyways. By the day of our performance, we had clarified its meaning and narrowed down the Biblical truths we wished to proclaim through it. A month later performing for the last time in Rice Lake before God moved us on, we provided fliers with his statement on it:

"Shattered" performing at the Barron County Fair 

Our Story

Our philosophy of worship, the reason we of Shattered sing, is two-fold: to be broken before God and to be broken before people.

In Psalms 51, King David declares that God accepts a broken spirit and a contrite heart as a perfect offering of worship. And in Mark 14, the author records an incident when a woman came to Jesus and broke her vessel of costly ointment – pouring its entire contents on Christ as an offering of worship. Her sacrifice is declared “beautiful” by the Savior. Likewise, our desire is to keep nothing back, but to pour out our hearts in worship to our Almighty God: to be shattered at the feet of Jesus.

“Let your light so shine before men that they might see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” Before Jesus gives that command, he likens his followers to a city set on a hill – which cannot be hidden – and a lamp which obviously does no good when it’s under a basket. Much like Gideon’s 300 men in the book of Judges who received the victory over the enemies when they smashed their jars which had covered their torches and blew their trumpets, our desire is to shatter anything that prevents us from being a light in the darkness. Our desire is for people to glorify our Father because of His light that shines through our brokenness.

Shattered singing "Unashamed"