Starfield – Son of God

Canadian rock and Contemporary Christian band Starfield began in 2,000 when they made demos and independently distributed their music before signing with Sparrow Records. They released seven albums and one EP, including:

• Starfield (2001)
• Tumbling After (2003)
• Starfield (2004)
• Beauty in the Broken (2006)
• My Generation (EP, 2006)
• I Will Go (2008)
• The Saving One (2010)
• The Kingdom (2012)

They won several awards for their work, including 18 Covenant Awards (Canadian equivalent of GMA Dove), ten Shai, and one Western Canadian Music award.

Lyrics can be found at https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/starfield/sonofgod.html.

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1. What message does the song communicate?

This song is about Jesus, intermixing facts that include:

• Creator
• Endwells hearts (through the Holy Spirit)
• Ruler
• Beautiful (inside)
• The Father’s offering
• Crucified for us
• Lamb of God
• Forgiveness possible because of Jesus’ sacrifice
• Set apart
• Powerful
• Those in darkness hate Him
• Loving
• Kind
• Prophecied in the Old Testament
• Our only Rescuer
• Will come again
• Worthy of worship

In response, Starfield responds to Christ’s lovingkindness with singing, obedience, and praise.

Score: 10/10

2. How much of the lyrics line up with Scripture?

It perfectly lines up with Scripture.

This song does not contain a Verse/Chorus/Bridge structure.  Therefore, I assigned stanzas to each paragraph.

[Stanza 1]

Line 1: The rest of the song makes it clear that “Son of God” references Jesus, a title that signifies His deity (Matthew 11:27, Matthew 14:33, Matthew 16:15–17, Matthew 27:43, Matthew 27:54, Mark 1:11, Mark 3:11, Mark 9:7, Mark 15:39, Luke 1:35, Luke 4:41, Luke 22:29, John 1:14-18, John 1:34, John 3:16-18, John 11:27, John 19:7, John 20:31, and Acts 9:20).

Line 2: Jesus created the universe (John 1:1-3 and Colossians 1:15-16).

Lines 3 and 4: That is, through the Holy Spirit (Acts 6:5, Romans 8:9-11, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:16-19, Galatians 4:6, Ephesians 5:18, and 2 Timothy 1:14).

Line 5: References Christ’s aristocracy (Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 11:10, Micah 5:2, Matthew 2:1-6, John 12:15, John 18:37, 1 Timothy 6:13-16, Revelation 17:14, and Revelation 19:11-16).

Line 6: Proclaims Jesus’ inner beauty as revealed through His works and character.  It’s not referencing outer beauty because Isaiah 53:2 prophecied that Jesus wasn’t much to look at.

[Stanza 2]

Line 1: Repeats Stanza 1, line 1.

Line 2: The Father sent Jesus for us (Matthew 10:40, Mark 9:37, Luke 9:48, Luke 10:16, John 5:23-37, John 6:39, John 7:16-33, John 8:16-29, John 9:4, John 12:45-49, John 13:20, John 14:25, John 15:21, John 16:5).

Lines 3 and 4: This connects Jesus’ word during communion, that His body was broken for us (Matthew 26:26-28, Mark 14:22-24, Luke 22:19-20, and 1 Corinthians 11:23-26), that the cross was a sort of altar for His sacrifice (Hebrews 13:10-12), and that His love drove Him to do it (John 3:16, Romans 5:6-8, and 1 John 4:9-10).

Line 5: Jesus is the Lamb that was slain (Isaiah 53:7, John 1:29,  John 1:36, Acts 8:32, 1 Peter 1:19, Revelation 5:6-8, Revelation 5:12-13, Revelation 6:1, Revelation 7:9-17, Revelation 12:11, Revelation 13:8, Revelation 14:1-10, Revelation 15:3, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 19:7-9, and Revelation 21:9).

Line 6: As stated in Ephesians 1:7.

[Stanza 3]

Line 1: Jesus is holy (Mark 1:24, Luke 4:34, Acts 3:14, Acts 4:27-30, 1 John 2:20, Hebrews 7:26, and Revelation 4:8).

Line 2: Singing is how Starfield responds to Christ’s lovingkindness.

Line 3: Starfield receives God’s forgiveness through Jesus (Matthew 26:28, Act 2:38, Act 5:31, Act 10:43, Romans 4:7, Romans 5:6-8, Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:14, Colossians 2:13-14, James 5:15, James 5:19-20, 1 John 2:1-2, and 1 John 2:12).

Lines 4 and 5: Starfield repented because of God’s kindness (Romans 2:4).

[Stanza 4]

Line 1: Repeats Stanza 1, line 1.

Line 2: That is, Jesus is omnipotent (Genesis 1:1-31, Job 11:7-11, Psalm 33:6, Jeremiah 32:17, Romans 4:17, Hebrews 1:3, and Jude 1:24-25).

Lines 3 and 4: Those in darkness hate Christ’s light lest they become exposed (John 3:20).

Line 5: That is because God is love (1 John 4:8).

Line 6: See Stanza 3, lines 4 and 5.

[Stanza 5]

Line 1: Repeats Stanza 1, line 1.

Line 2: References the 300+ prophecies concerning Jesus in the Old Testament.

Lines 3 and 4: There is no other name than Jesus that can save Starfield (John 14:6 and Acts 4:12).

Lines 5 and 6: References the second coming of Christ (Matthew 24:43, Acts 1:9-11, 1 Corinthians 11:26, 1 Thessalonians 5:2-4, 2 Peter 3:10, and Revelation 16:15) as He raises Starfield up on the last day (John 6:44).

[Stanza 6]

Lines 1-3: Christ deserves praise and worship (1 Chronicles 16:25, 2 Samuel 22:4, Psalm 96:4-5, Psalm 145:3, and Revelation 4:11).

[Stanza 7]

Lines 1-3: Combines Stanza 1, line 6 with Stanza 7, lines 1-3.

Score: 10/10

3. How would an outsider interpret the song?

Despite its heavy reliance on Christianese language, I can’t think of a single line that unbelievers would misunderstand based on a rudimentary understanding of Christianity.  The word “Jesus” and the phrase “Son of God” contextualizes the entire song as Christian.

Score: 10/10

4. What does this song glorify?

It glorifies Jesus through His many attributes, wonders, and love for us shown on the cross.

Score: 10/10

Closing Comments

Starfield’s Son of God is awesome.  It lists a plethora of acts and properties of Jesus, including His lovingkindness shown on the cross to make forgiveness possible.  This glorifies God.  These Christian terminology-heavy lyrics should be understandable to unbelievers without much deeper study.

I highly recommend this song for corporate worship.

Final Score: 10/10

Artist Info

Track: Son of God (listen to the song)

Artist: Starfield

Album: Beauty In The Broken

Genre: Rock

Release Year: 2006

Duration: 4:23

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