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If you like Jonathan and Melissa Helser then you probably know the extended versions of their songs are incredible. They typically go into the studio and invite God then see what happens. You can hear the experiences and journeys they’ve been through in these songs. Jonathan and Melissa are rooted in community that is in love with God in a major way. Their community is pouring their lives out to God and their worship recordings are fruit that has had a major impact on my life.

Here is an excerpt from their website.

Endless Ocean, Bottomless Sea

As musicians we love writing songs, but as worshipers our hearts ache for more. Our favorite part of writing songs is the way a song can become like a diving board to take us into the deeper waters. In the studio, we love the risk of leaving the record light on just a little longer and walking off the map of the written song and into the eternal moments.

In the fall of 2010, we went into “Threshing Floor Studio” with our great friend Elijah Mosely, as our producer and a group of amazing friends as our band. In the studio, we had two goals. The first was to create an album of twelve beautifully crafted songs. The second was to step off the edge of the written songs and capture a double-disc album of spontaneous moments. We titled the album of twelve songs “On the Shores,” because those songs were like standing on the edge of what happened in the studio. We titled the double disc album, “Endless Ocean, Bottomless Sea” because they are the moments that happened when we stepped off the shores and into the much more.

The songs of “On the Shores” truly became like a diving board to take us into the deep waters of “Endless Ocean, Bottomless Sea.” As you listen, may you be taken beyond the music and experience the One whose love truly is an endless ocean and a bottomless sea.

Jonathan Helser