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Aaron Shust

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Shust grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied music theory at Toccoa Falls College in Georgia. While there he studied Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach. He also became influenced by U2 and Bob Marley.  He began performing at churches and coffeehouses while at college.

Shust began leading worship at Perimeter Church, Duluth, Georgia in 2000 and recorded his album, Anything Worth Saying in 2004 with producer Dan Hannon who delivered the album along with a stack of others along to Brash Music for consideration. Brash Music signed Shust shortly thereafter.

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My Hope Is In You - Single
Anything Worth Saying
This Is What We Believe
This Is What We Believe
To God Alone
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New Orchestration From Aaron Shust

Aaron Shust | January 31, 2012 | Categories: News

Download, print and play the new orchestration for To God Alone from Aaron Shust.  You can see the music video here. More

New Orchestration From Aaron Shust

Aaron Shust | September 29, 2011 | Categories: News

Download, print and play the orchestration for My Hope Is In You, the new single from Aaron Shust.  See the official music video here in the PraiseCharts community. More

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Aaron Shust Risen Today Song Story Video

Aaron Shust | June 18, 2012 | Categories: Videos | Tags:

Aaron Shust Risen Today Song Tutorial Video

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Hearing Test Result

The result of Michael's hearing test came back.  Our son Michael who was clinically profoundly and severely deaf now has clinically perfect hearing in both ears!  Previous audio testing showed flat lines in both ears.  Now both have mountain peaks in the normal hearing range...and that was before they were able to clear the fluid and wax out of his ears, which indicates that his hearing is even stronger than the tests indicated.
He was intensely prayed over on Friday and began to show immediate indication that he could hear: turning toward Sarah when she would call him (never happened before), babbling along with worship on Sunday morning as we sang and a few more indicators.  We were strongly encouraged to continue praying for confirmed healing.  We just happened to have this test lined up today! :)  Divine healing still happens!!!
PRAISE THE LORD GOD WHO HEALS!!!

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Prayer request from Sarah

Do you believe that what the Bible says is true? Do you believe that Jesus came, He healed, He died and He rose? Do you believe that we, as believers, possess the authority and power that Jesus did when he healed the deaf? I do.
In John 14:12 Jesus says, “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father."
With everything in me I believe these words. If you are a believer, then take hold of your inheritance and pray big! Pray with the authority and the power that Jesus did. And watch God move. Watch God heal. Watch God blow your mind.
Michael is undergoing a hearing test today that will determine which type of hearing aid he will need. The tests run in the recent past have shown severe to profound loss. Doctors say we need to move forward with aiding his hearing so his speech isn't too effected in the future. I agree. We need to do something. I believe God can heal him and I believe that power of that healing is in us. Will he? I don't know, but I will pray with the expectation that He will. Devastation happens everyday and people plead with God, beg God for a different outcome, a healing, a redo in life, and the result isn't always what we desire, but we have to lean into what Isaiah 55:9 says about His ways being higher than ours. We may not always understand, but we need to trust that our God is good, He is who He says He is, He is Love and we can trust him.
It's important to me that our little boy can hear and I will do whatever is necessary for him to attain that, but first, I will pray with the authority that has been bestowed upon me by the God of the Universe. Please pray with me. It is very important to me that you go into prayer on our behalf with the confidence that this is possible, so I'd encourage you to first bind, or ask God to take away, any doubt that this is possible and then loose, or ask God to fill you with, an unyielding faith that what the doctors claim to be impossible, IS possible. This is not just thinking on the bright side or being positive… This is declaring that the miraculous Can happen and you believe it.
Please pray with us today. Go before the Father with the boldness and confidence that He created you to walk in.
-Sarah

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3 Promises from Proverbs 3

I'm sitting outside on a sunny, cool Pennsylvania Saturday morning, the Rudy soundtrack and welcome-home birds filling the crisp air, reading Proverbs 9 when a breeze blew my page back to Proverbs 3.  The subtitle of that chapter is "Wisdom Bestows Well-Being".  What a great chapter, with the famous verses 5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight."  I love that promise.  I try to make those kind of passages my prayers.  "Lord, may I trust You with all my heart and not lean on my own understanding, may I submit to You in all my ways, believing that You will make my paths straight! I can bank on that."

Verse 7 also has a promise. "Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones."  When we harbor sin in our lives, refusing to address it, ignoring the Spirit that lovingly, yet insistently, calls out to our spirit for holiness, it can physically affect us!  It's not a punishment (that was taken care of at the cross!) but it's a byproduct, a side effect, a consequence!  Few people deny the effect the mind can hold over the body (We see something gross and it can turn our stomachs!) It is the same when we know we are not living as we are called to and we try to carry that weight ourselves.  Bank on it.

The third promise I read is in the next verse. "Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing; and your vats will brim over with new wine." Giving to God, of our time, our talents and our treasure makes sense! (Randy Alcorn has written multiple books on this subject.)  Pastors may be hesitant to talk about tithing because it could come across as their desiring selfish gain, but not only is giving to God of our wealth (the firstfruits of our wealth) beneficial to the furthering of God's Kingdom here on earth, but it's in our own best interest!  I have no intention to preach a prosperity gospel here!  God forgive me if I am.  But I do believe that God will provide our needs just as Jesus promises in Luke 12:27 when He reminds us God clothes the flowers of the field with more splendor than Solomon ever displayed, so how much more will He clothe us, His children?

Give freely to God's work, give generously, give joyously! Honor the Lord with the firstfruits of your wealth and bank on the promise attached.  

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Strange Graces

King Josiah remorsefulI woke up in my Comfort Inn bed this morning on my own, feeling quite rested, a nice change after 5 days of a head cold and restless nights.  My voice has been shot for the last two days, which happened to be over my trip to Nashville to have my photo shoot for the next album (July 17).  I have some time before my meeting with Centricity this morning so I threw open the curtains, turned the AC to Heat and crawled back in bed with my Bible.  I opened up to 2 Kings 21 and very studiously thought, "ok, sure."
I read of King Manasseh, who did what the Lord said was wrong.  Everything God told His children to do, Manasseh did horrible things on the opposite end of the spectrum for 55 years.  Then he died, and his son Amon became king at age 22 and did the same things his father did.  He did what the Lord said was wrong, then he was killed by his own officers.  His son Josiah became king at age 8.
Josiah did what the Lord said was right.
At age 18 he discovered the Book of the Law in the Temple, and when it was read to him, he tore his clothes to show how upset he was.  He sought out the advice of God's prophetess Huldah who delivered the message from God,  "I will bring trouble to this place and to the people living here... they have made me angry by all they have done, my anger burns against this place like fire and it will not be put out."  
Then God lets Josiah know that He saw his remorse.
"When you heard my words...you became sorry for what you had done and humbled yourself before Me...You tore your clothes to show how upset you were and you cried in My presence.  This is why I have heard you." 
Then God extends a strange grace.
"So I will let you die and you will be buried in peace.  You won't see all the trouble I will bring to this place."

God was going to let him DIE!? This struck me so hard.  Death, that we often see only as tragic calamity or a trial to be endured, was administered as a grace from God in this instance.  He remained true to His word, but administered grace and allowed Josiah to rule for 23 more years.

God's ways are always higher than our ways!






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Communication Breakdown

Just had a pretty ordinary event teach me a pretty cool lesson. 
DirecTV just came by to check something on our TV service that involved our internet.  I warned the 2 men who braved the 6 degree weather with wind chills of -20ºF that our internet was temperamental: sometime it's blazing fast, then it decides to take a nap and not work at all.  I'll reset the router and unplug it for 30 seconds (like all my tech savvy friends tell me to do) and eventually it works again.  It's a nuisance and frankly I haven't called [our service provider] to have them come troubleshoot, because you know as soon as they come it will work fine.  
It was obvious to my DirecTV friends why.  The wrong cables were installed.  Where there should be RD6 cables, standard evidently, [service provider] installed RD59s which is why our internet keeps dropping out.  So I need to call [awesome service provider] and have them wire my house properly, then we can get the TV working as it should.  
So now after all the fumbling and jumbling with the connections, our internet won't turn back on, our Home Security System somehow is telling us there's trouble and is beeping randomly and this can evidently affect our phone line too!  I'm posting this blog by grabbing wifi from one of my neighbors.  I don't know which one.  The one without the password.  Thanks, neighbor. 
Lightbulb moment: When my primary lifeline of spiritual food is cut off, or spotty at best, my interactions with all other areas of life are going to be dramatically affected.  
When I'm not hearing clearly from God and His Word, my work, my wife, my kids, my friends & my family suffer and I'm unable to handle the curveballs that life hurls at me.  I need to find out what it is in my life that I can identify as "the wrong cable", yank that sucker out, replace it with something that's going to allow me to receive clear messages from my Provider!  I know that will affect all other areas of my life: communication with those within my home, friends outside my home and my security in Him.
"Remain in Me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in Me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in Me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be My disciples."-Jesus (John 15:4-8)

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Simple Prayer

I started reading a book by Richard J Foster called Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home and I'm finding it one of the more easy books to read.  The first chapter is called Simple Prayer and I've found it incredibly freeing as I desire to be known among the forces of darkness as a man who prays.  That concept first struck me when I was in high school and reading Frank Peritti's This Present Darkness.  The young Pastor of a small country church was known simply by menacing demons as "the man who prays." 
Foster addresses the notion "that we have to have everything 'just right' in order to pray. That before we can really pray, our lives need to some fine tuning, or we need to know more about how to pray, or we need to study the philosophical questions surrounding prayer, or we need to have a better grasp of the great traditions of prayer.  And on it goes." 
We've all heard the eloquent (and truly sincere and beautiful) prayers of others and think that when it's our turn to pray out loud we'll probably be perceived as grade-schoolers for our simplicity.  But is that not what Jesus said is required to enter the Kingdom?  To change and become like little children?  Foster describes the simple prayer:
In simple prayer we bring ourselves before God just as we are, warts and all.  Like children before a loving father, we open our hearts and make our requests.  We do not try to sort things out, the good from the bad.  We simply and unpretentiously share our concerns and make our petitions.  We tell God, for example, how frustrated we are with the co-worker at the office or the neighbor down the street.  We ask for food, favorable weather, and good health. 
Foster goes on to state that Simple Prayer is the most common form of prayer in the Bible! 
Don't be afraid to pray simply and know that in doing so, you are in good company!

--------------------------------------------------More quotes from Chapter 1 for the curious: Simple Prayer involves ordinary people bringing ordinary concerns to a loving and compassionate Father.  -Foster
We never outgrow this kind of prayer, because we never outgrow the needs which give rise to it. -John Dalrymple
To believe that God can reach us and bless us in the ordinary junctures of daily life is the stuff of prayer. -Foster
We should feel perfectly free to complain to God, or argue with God or yell at God...God is perfectly capable of handling our anger and frustration and disappointment. - Foster
Lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us. - C.S. Lewis

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Rest

Life got so busy.  Even in the moments where I don't have to be doing something, like now, I feel the tension and the pull to do what I should.  Like blog, or read, or have a devoted time of prayer.  I want to do all those things, but with one eye on the clock (almost 10pm) knowing that I probably could use the sleep, there is little peace in feeling like those good healthy things are a part of a checklist.  "Hurry up and read and pray then blog about that and go to sleep" That's just stressful and not the point. 
It makes me think of one of Jason Gray's Christmas songs called Rest (The Song of the Innkeeper).  One of my favorites, if that's possible, on that album.  The Innkeeper tells of his encounter with a poor couple in need of lodging, he doesn't have time to help them but at least they won't be wandering about if they stay in his stable, he needs to get back to work and wishes for rest.  He goes on to tell of the songs he heard as a boy about a coming King, but keeping books and changing beds became a louder melody, a deafening melody and again he cries out for rest.  My favorite line and the one that makes me fight back the tears because I realize this could be me is this:

Tonight I can’t get any sleepWith those shepherds shouting in the streets
A star is shining much too bright
Somewhere I hear a baby cry
And all I want is a little peace

He missed it.  He completely missed it.  He's the Innkeeper for crying out loud.  He has a character in the Fisher Price Little People Nativity Set.  But he completely missed it in the busyness.  In the busyness of providing lodging (poor lodging) for the Savior, he missed God's coming to his very own home.  
God, in my singing to You, in my telling others of Your love, in my leading Your children in worshiping You, in my studying of Your Word, in my journaling and praying and interceding and my tweeting and sharing and advocating...may I not miss You.  
In Matthew 11:28 Jesus says, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest."

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Michael's First Birthday!

Michael and Daniel making Pizza at The Oven in WexfordHad a fantastic time celebrating Michael's life so far last night.  We pulled out all the stops we could and if the fire code would have allowed we would have loved to have so many more people squeeze into that place.  So many of you have been praying for us and praying for Michael as he's fought his way through his life with grace.  So many have cared for Daniel and Nicky.  So many have brought us meals.  So many have brought us milk and eggs and weird stuff that we like when we didn't even ask!  
One year ago today I wrote a blog explaining the fear and trepidation regarding how to proceed in raising a child with DS.  I can now say that by the grace of God, we know how to raise a child with DS for his first year of life.  And we'd have to admit we have no clue how to raise him from here on out! :)  But by the grace of God we will.  And he is so easy to love. ;) 
Wish you all could have joined us as we killed the fatted calf last night!  Thank you for your support!a

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Reveal the Father

Today is the end of my one-week Social Media fast.  I abstained from Twitter, Facebook, Instragram and this blog because every once in a while it's good for me to step away from some things that I do, to remind myself why I do them.  My last tweet was "I need Jesus more than Social Media. (and more than anything) But [I'm] taking a break from Social Media this week..." So this decision was not so much my replacing the time that I would have spent on Social Media with time at the feet of Jesus, because I don't have a set hour, for example, that I tweet.  Those times are too sporadic.  I needed to reevaluate my approach.  But oh the time that was freed up! :)  
I realized that the moments I wanted to tweet the most were not when I felt a silly obligation to let people know what I happened to be looking at but when a Spiritual truth would floor me, inspire me and change me and I wanted to share it.  I don't think that everything I say will be full of Spiritual revelations, I'm sure I'll still post pictures of my kids, sunsets and clouds from airplanes, but I know what is important to me.  
I also learned that I need to stop wondering how many Likes or Retweets I'd get!  If I feel prompted to share a thought or a picture, that should be enough.  I like that. 
So yesterday morning I was reading in Luke 10 where Jesus says, "No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”  My spirit felt like a grade school kid raising his hand saying "Oo! Oo! Pick me! Pick me!" I want to know the Father, like really know the Father.  So I simply asked Jesus to reveal the Father to me, and I feel like that's a pretty bankable prayer to pray.  Not a safe prayer necessarily, but bankable.  
I want that more than I want safety: that's so easy to pray for, isn't it?  "God give us a good day, a good night's sleep, keep us safe..."  Honestly, I'm never going to pray for danger, I'm not going to pray for trial, I not going to stop praying for the health of my family.  But if those things that I wish for aren't part of what God wants us to experience, I pray that the Father would be revealed to us.  Because that is life altering.  And Life giving!
What would you be willing to set aside for a time, if you knew there were a possibility the Father would be more clearly revealed? 

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Drain the Bathwater

It's a sunny day in Pittsburgh which means that even though it's 27ºF (it was 6ºF this morning!) with a snow covered landscape, I can sit in our unheated sunroom where it's actually warmer than in the rest of the well-heated house.  On a cloudy day, it would be 27ºF in this room.  It's rocking about 80º right now. Love it. #myofficeisasauna 

The New Year brings an insatiable thirst for me to be inspired.  I watch a lot of concert footage of my favorite artists, behind the scenes stuff too, but more than anything it's the 4 days of Passion that feeds me.  To be led in worship by friends, acquaintances and strangers; and taught Truth by the same is food for my soul. 

There is this fascinating Twitter feed on the sidebar of the Live Link page which I often have to ignore because, like subtitles, I find myself forced to read them because they're there.  I was initially shocked and angry when I read the first comment from someone who was not in agreement with what was going on at Passion.  Calling it names, demeaning its purpose and demeaning the people (the people?!) who are involved.  Incriminating the organization because of certain people or organizations with which it associates.  I was saddened as I read those words and dealt with the emotions in my gut, especially because while I was reading those words, I'm hearing in my headphones the name of Jesus being appropriately glorified in a theologically accurate manner by the people accused of being anti-Christ!  I was incredulous.   
Granted, my opinion and my bias as to what is "appropriate" or "theologically accurate" must be considered and I am irrevocably on record that I know "I am not skilled to understand" all things about God.  
The truth is: none of us are.  
Since it's so easy for me to identify the specks that are in my brothers' and sisters' eyes as they bash people who love Jesus and preach and sing His praise, I want to make sure that the next time I'm prone to throw rocks at (or simply dismiss) a person or group of people because they don't believe, preach or live the way I think they should...that I look for the Truth.  Jesus is the Truth.  I will make decisions that you do not agree with, and I very well may be wrong in what I do.  But when I speak the Truth about God, you can still say "Amen" with me!  
And please, drain the bathwater. 

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