Leslie's Music

Music has always been like journaling for me – it allows me to express the deepest emotions, prayers, and ponderings of my inner life. I feel closer to Christ when singing and worshiping than almost any other spiritual activity that I can do.

A little background: When I was young, my ambition was to be a professional singer and songwriter. I took voice and piano lessons for most of my life, and at the age of fifteen had a Christian producer who recorded a demo of my music to send to record labels in Nashville. But then God radically altered my life. I realized that my music, though done under a “Christian” banner, was actually for my own glory. I was following after an industry that promised fame, money and prestige – not a life radically poured out as a servant of Jesus Christ. He made himself of no reputation, and took on the form of a servant…

So that’s when I laid down the pursuit of a “music career”. I allowed God to overtake my singing and songwriting, and for the next several years, most of my music was simply a private extension of my own quiet times with Christ, not shared with anyone else – I began to understand what it meant to use this gift for the glory of my King alone.

When Eric came into my life, I found that he had gone through a similar journey with his own music. One of the things that brought us together was our like-minded heart for music – not music that pushed us into the spotlight, but music that led others into the presence of the King – us getting out of the way so that Christ would be seen.

When we started traveling around the country, sharing the hope of Christ with our generation, we had the privilege of using the God had given us to help facilitate the working of His Spirit within the hearts and minds of our listeners. I don’t enjoy “performing” music, but I love creating an atmosphere of worship to help usher people into the presence of God. Eric and I love to sing together; and I still continue to write music and sing on my own as well. We still have the first piano that we used to worship together on – after 15 years.

God has blessed us with an in-home recording studio, and an amazingly talented music producer in my brother John. John and I are working on an album of intimate worship songs, which will be released later this year. In the meantime, I hope you will enjoy these free downloads of two of my favorite songs! To buy the entire album, please visit our “store.”

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