This Christian artist is a hero to me and many others. He is one of the many pioneers of the “new christian music” or Contemporary Christian music genre. He has written many songs proclaiming Jesus Christ is alive and waiting to save. One song that I recently heard is singing something along the lines of “No matter what you’ve done, or where your bed has been made, if you’d simply turn to me, I would forgive you.” I believe that is what Jesus is saying to all of us. “If you’d only turn around and run to me, I would be quick to save you. In fact, he is urging us to turn from all our desperately wicked ways and come to him with our whole hearts, souls and minds and strength, he would not remember our sins any longer. Yes, it sounds like a pop song, but the message speaks into the heart so much to it draws me to tears.
If you want an artist that catches the heart with just an acoustic guitar, some minor orchestration, if you want songs with true meaning in the words, this is for you! If you want to be convicted of sins and told of Christ’s love for all of you, Don Francisco can do the job justice in his songs—the retelling of the story of Jesus at our fingertips and in our ears! There is another song that is called “Too Small A Price,” that hints in great and sort of graphic detail the prisoner and Jesus on two crosses. It highlights the sins and the magnitude of the sins that Christ died for. It makes and moves one in the direction of repentance which is the ultimate goal. The goal is in stirring the soul to greater awareness of why we are all alive. We all have various callings which God called us to do. Don Francisco turns the heart to repentance more than many of the other Contemporary Christian artists today do. In fact, much of the CCM climate today is very vague. So, kudos to Francisco!
