Dare To Believe

Childhood stories of faith start the song. "I was just a kid when I heard about the stories of the prophets, teachers, priests, kings and queens, of water turned to wine, how You brought the dead to life," Colton Dixon sings, and he says they "were truth to me." The water changed to wine is the story in John 2:9.

The second part admits what happens next. "We get older, life gets harder, we grow farther away and lose the faith we fought so hard to keep." The chorus is the answer, "I will dare to believe that You are the Savior living in me... the God of the impossible, the God of every miracle, here for the world to see," which brings in Luke 1:37 and Mark 9:23 on what is possible for the one who believes.

The second verse argues from history: "if You were just some carpenter from nowhere, an ordinary man with ordinary news, then we would not be here still claiming You all these years. We believe the stories because they're true." The bridge names the claim, "You are the Son of God, You lived and died for us, You're here and You are still alive," in the spirit of John 20:29.