{"id":1730,"date":"2023-09-15T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T23:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/15\/big-daddy-weaves-vocalist-discovers-source-of-hope-through-music-following-tragic-loss-of-brother\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T23:49:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T23:49:10","slug":"big-daddy-weaves-vocalist-discovers-source-of-hope-through-music-following-tragic-loss-of-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/15\/big-daddy-weaves-vocalist-discovers-source-of-hope-through-music-following-tragic-loss-of-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Daddy Weave&#8217;s Vocalist Discovers Source of Hope Through Music Following Tragic Loss of Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"article-byline has-tools\">\n<div class=\"article-tools\"><a href=\"#cp-talk\" class=\"has-number talk-cp-255554\" data-scrollto=\".viafoura\" aria-label=\"Go to comments\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/chat-rect.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><span class=\"number\"\/><\/a><a href=\"\" class=\"js-share\" aria-label=\"Share\" id=\"share-btn\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/share-outline.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"img-box align-center center\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><picture width=\"760\" height=\"444\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/03\/150331_w_760_444.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/03\/150331_w_760_444.png\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" width=\"760\" height=\"444\"\/><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"photo-des\">Lead singer Mike Weaver of the Christian Band \u201cBig Daddy Weave\u201d opens up about how writing the song &#8220;Heaven Changes Everything,&#8221; is helping him to cope with grief amid the 2022 death of his brother and bandmate, Jay Weaver, in a September 2023 interview with K-LOVE. <\/span> | <span class=\"credit\">Screengrab: YouTube\/K-LOVE <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mike Weaver, lead singer of the Christian Band \u201cBig Daddy Weave,\u201d opened up about how writing the song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sUG7Ub_fvWw?si=J7nuCYqmQzqIlqgR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heaven Changes Everything<\/a>,\u201d released earlier this year, has helped him cope with the grief he&#8217;s experienced since the death of his younger brother.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old Christian vocalist and guitarist told K-LOVE in an <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GF1xlktWX0s?si=IjywkqOqZyF_KN4u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> shared on YouTube Tuesday that his perspective on Heaven has changed for the better after the death of his brother, Jay Weaver, who was the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/christian-world-heartbroken-following-death-of-jay-weaver.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> bass player<\/a> in Big Daddy Weave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jay Weaver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/big-daddy-weaves-jay-weaver-dies-from-covid-19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died<\/a> on Jan. 2, 2022, at age 42. He battled chronic health conditions and endured multiple hospitalizations before succumbing to complications from COVID-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mike Weaver revealed that since his brother\u2019s death, he has relied on God for strength and has developed a stronger belief in the eternal hope of life after death that comes with faith in the Father by way of salvation through Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s about perspective. \u2026 It hurts when you lose somebody. We go through stuff that doesn&#8217;t make sense. Life is hard. But [we have the assurance] that this is not all that there is, this is not the end. The enemy wants to sell the lie that whatever the low part of your story is, is the end of your story. That&#8217;s not true for us,\u201d Weaver told K-LOVE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs believers, the greatest hope that we have is always ahead of us. \u2026 That changes how we see stuff today. It changes how I go through today. I don&#8217;t grieve like somebody who doesn&#8217;t have hope. That&#8217;s what the Bible says. That\u2019s what \u2018Heaven Changes Everything\u2019 to me is about; perspective.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mike Weaver from Big Daddy Weave on Heartbreak, Songwriting and Ministry | Interview with K-LOVE\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GF1xlktWX0s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Weaver said when he was going through a rough patch throughout his season of grief, the \u201cgreater songwriting community in Nashville really showed up for me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Christian musician and songwriter Matthew West and another songwriter, Jeff Pardo, sat with Weaver one day and they listened to him share his painful emotions.<\/p>\n<p>The things the three talked about gave them the idea for the song, \u201cHeaven Changes Everything.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSongwriting is a great way to process stuff that you go through. \u2026 These guys, they\u2019re just amazing songwriters. But at the moment, in the room, they&#8217;re just like, letting me say it. Just letting me get it out. And I\u2019m just sharing about the hurt,\u201d Weaver recounted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point, you know, I&#8217;m just like, \u2018I don&#8217;t know how people deal with this who don&#8217;t know Jesus. The hope of Heaven changes everything about everything.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Weaver said that his late brother was his \u201cbest friend,\u201d \u201cpartner in ministry\u201d and \u201cthe hub in the middle of the wheel in Big Daddy Weave,\u201d and without Jay Weaver, he said, there is now a \u201cbig void\u201d in the band.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The song \u201cHeaven Changes Everything\u201d is a representation of the heartache Weaver said he feels from missing his bandmate and brother.<\/p>\n<p>He said he wants to use his grief to spread hope to others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our mission: to go and share hope. We share hope by just being real about the stuff that we go through and sharing where we find Jesus in those places. And where I find Jesus in that, is looking forward. I know His presence is here to comfort me,\u201d Weaver said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then I also am looking forward to the fact that when my brother stepped out of this life, he&#8217;s seeing stuff I&#8217;m dreaming about. \u2026 That begins to change even the way that I feel today as I think about one day when I step through.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To buy tickets for the Big Daddy Weave concert dates, visit the Heaven Changes Everything <a href=\"https:\/\/bigdaddyweave.com\/pages\/tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tour site here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_credit\">\n<p><em>Nicole Alcindor is a reporter for The Christian Post.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"eoa_freedom_post\">\n<h2><span>Free<\/span> Religious Freedom Updates<\/h2>\n<p>Join thousands of others to get the <strong>FREEDOM POST<\/strong> newsletter for free, sent twice a week from The Christian Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/big-daddy-weave-singer-finds-hope-in-song-after-brothers-death.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead singer Mike Weaver of the Christian Band \u201cBig Daddy Weave\u201d opens up about how writing the song &#8220;Heaven Changes Everything,&#8221; is helping him to cope with grief amid the 2022 death of his brother and bandmate, Jay Weaver, in a September 2023 interview with K-LOVE. | Screengrab: YouTube\/K-LOVE Mike Weaver, lead singer of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}