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📜⚠️ NEW SONG: “James Should Come With a Warning Sticker…”

A snarky Scripture bombshell revealing just how dangerously Catholic the Epistle of James really is.

📝 Why This Song Exists

For centuries, people have tried to make James play nicely with “faith alone,”

but James… just… won’t.

This letter strolls into the New Testament grinning like it knows something inconvenient —

and then starts tossing theological grenades straight into the Reformation:

“Not by faith alone.”

“Confess your sins to one another.”

“Call the presbyters to anoint you.”

“Save a brother’s soul from death.”

“Religion that is pure and undefiled…”

“Faith without works is dead.”

It’s almost like he didn’t read the pamphlets.

James isn’t subtle.

James isn’t playing.

James is the apostle who refuses to stay in the Protestant buddy-comedy reboot of the first century.

And yes — Luther really did wish this book would disappear into the stove.

(He could smell the Catholicism.)

🔥 What the Song Delivers

Fast-paced talk-sing snark.

Dry humor.

Punchy theological jabs.

A full detonation of every sacramental thread James weaves into the text.

Because if any book deserves a neon sticker slapped across the front that says:

⚠️ WARNING: Contains Active Catholic Grenades

…it’s this one.

🎶 “James Should Come With a Warning Sticker…”

— a track for converts, cradle Catholics, former Protestants, Bible nerds, theology enjoyers, and anyone who’s ever noticed that James does NOT behave like a modern evangelical.

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🔥🎸 NEW SONG: THE GRIDIRON — The Western Ballad of St. Lawrence

What happens when you take the legendary storytelling of Marty Robbins, mix it with the grit of a frontier showdown, and drop one of the boldest martyrs in Christian history right into the middle of an Old West silhouette?

You get “The Gridiron.”

This song tells the story of St. Lawrence, the deacon who held the Church’s treasure — not gold or silver, but the poor, the widows, the sick, and the forgotten. When the Roman prefect demanded he turn over the wealth of the Church, Lawrence told him he’d need three days.

…Three days to gather the “treasure.”

And when the moment came, he brought not coins…

but souls.

The people Christ loved.

The ones Rome ignored.

The prefect was furious.

And Lawrence was sentenced to die on the very instrument that would immortalize him:

🔥 the gridiron.

But St. Lawrence — patron saint of comedians, cooks, and anyone who faces fire with faith — met the flames with a line that will echo forever:

“Turn me over, boys… I’m done on this side.”

A martyr with courage.

A saint with a punchline.

A legend with backbone.

“The Gridiron” tells his story like a Western showdown at sundown — deep ruddy reds, halo-fire glow, a lone silhouette standing against an empire.

This one burns in the best way.

And it rides.

🎵 Now streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.

🔥 Performed by Peter’s Barque.

🌵 From the upcoming collection Gunslinger Saints — where the martyrs meet the Western mythic.

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📜✨ NEW SONG: “The Economy of Prayer” — Why God Asks Us to Intercede When He Already Knows Everything

Most people never think about how strange prayer really is.

If God already knows what we need…

if His will is perfect…

if nothing surprises Him…

then why pray at all?

And even more —

why pray for each other?

Why does Paul begin 1 Timothy 2 not with a meditation on Christ the one Mediator,

but with a command:

“I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions,

and thanksgivings be made for all people.”

Before he ever speaks of Christ as the one Mediator,

Paul tells the Church to be mediators.

Not rivals to Christ.

Not replacements.

But participants in the way God loves to work —

a divine economy where grace flows through human cooperation.

Because that’s the mystery:

God doesn’t need us…

but He chooses to involve us.

Just like He chose human authors for Scripture…

human preachers for the Gospel…

human ministers for the sacraments…

He chooses human voices to carry prayers

into the heart of His providence.

Intercession isn’t a glitch in the system.

It is the system.

And that’s the whole misunderstanding with praying to the saints.

People jump straight to,

“Why ask them to pray for you?”

without ever noticing the first question:

Why does God ask anyone to pray for anyone?

Because love multiplies.

Because grace grows when shared.

Because you matter.

And because the Body of Christ is one —

on earth and in heaven.

This song explores that supernatural logic:

how God weaves our prayers into His will

without diminishing His sovereignty

or our freedom

or Christ’s unique mediation.

🎶 “The Economy of Prayer”

— a track for the theology nerds, the confused evangelicals, the Catholics who love the saints, and anyone who’s ever wondered why God built a universe where your prayers actually change things.

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🔥 NEW SONG: The Immaculate Conception: Fitting Not Forced

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Peter’s Barque

Two ways to save someone from a pit.

That’s it.

That’s the whole doctrine people tie themselves in knots avoiding.

You can save someone after they fall —

that’s us.

Every sinner Christ drags back to life with grace.

Or you can save someone by preventing the fall entirely —

that’s what He does for His mother.

Same Savior. Same grace. Different application. Perfect symmetry.

The New Eve doesn’t start broken.

The New Ark doesn’t carry the Word with spiritual rot.

Genesis 3:15 says “enmity,” which means total separation, not “Satan gets partial custody.”

Revelation 12 calls her the mother of all who keep God’s commandments.

Gabriel greets her not with a name, but with a title meaning “graced completely.”

And none of this dents monotheism —

the people who died defending the One God didn’t suddenly forget theology in the first century.

This track hits.

The visuals hit harder.

And the next ones are coming fast.

Peter’s Barque is picking up speed.

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🔥 “READ YOUR CATECHISM” — UPDATED VIDEO NOW LIVE

So… a quick note about the video.

Yes, I use AI to create the artwork — it’s one of the only ways I can produce these videos at the pace I’ve been releasing them. And in the original upload, one of the generated frames included what some viewers would consider a PG-13-ish image.

It was extremely brief.

Covered by text.

Over a thousand people didn’t even notice it.

But some did — and several asked if they could share the song with youth groups, confirmation classes, RCIA/OCIA, etc.

And that meant I needed to make sure the video was 100% VIRTUS-appropriate.

So we cleaned it up.

Removed the questionable frame.

Re-rendered the whole thing.

And the UPDATED version is now live and ready to share anywhere — parishes, schools, youth ministry, your grandma’s Bible study, whoever needs to hear “read your catechism.”

Thank you to everyone who caught it, flagged it kindly, and helped make the video better.

And thank you to everyone sharing these songs to help spread truth with beauty, clarity, and (let’s be honest) a little snark.

I'm here to build the kingdom, and I can only do it with YOUR help!

Updated video is live now. Enjoy — and as always, read your catechism.

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🔥 NEW SONG: “The Lamb Said What He Said” — OUT NOW ✝️🕊️

Every generation tries to “fix” Jesus.

Correct Him.

Explain what He really meant.

Sand off the edges.

Rewrite the words He spoke with the authority of God Himself.

But here’s the thing:

He never asked for an editor.

The Lamb still says,

“This is My Body.”

And twenty centuries of Christians — Ignatius, Irenaeus, Chrysostom, Augustine, Ambrose — never treated that as a metaphor.

So the new track is a deadpan, talk-sing roast of the “Actually, in the Greek…” crowd.

The folks who think Jesus needed an asterisk.

The ones who swipe their theological white-out across the words of the Word.

As always, it’s blunt, biblical, snarky, and unmistakably Catholic.

And the visuals?

Flat-icon silhouettes, golden halos, the Lamb slain and crowned — all in the signature Peter’s Barque minimalist style.

Listen, watch, and share if you’re tired of people erasing the things Jesus said plainly.

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🔥 NEW TRACK DROP: “READ YOUR CATECHISM” — and yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like

Look…

If I had a dollar for every strawman argument thrown at the Church,

I could fund my own ecumenical council.

And if I had another dollar for every Catholic who’s never opened the Catechism…

well, let’s just say we’d have gold-plated kneelers.

So I wrote a song.

A Cake-style, talk-sung, dry-as-the-Nevada-desert anthem

aimed at BOTH sides:

👉 Non-Catholics arguing with a version of Catholicism that doesn’t actually exist

👉 Catholics who couldn’t explain their own faith if the Apostles showed up with flashcards

The refrain?

“Read your catechism.”

Or when I’m addressing non-Catholics:

“Read the catechism.”

Because someone has to.

It’s snarky.

It’s catechetical.

It’s self-deprecating (yes, I admit I don’t always follow my own advice — it’s the nearsighted leading the blind out here).

It walks through all four parts of the Catechism in under four minutes.

And it throws a well-earned shout-out to Father Mike Schmitz for reading the whole thing in a year while the rest of us get stuck at paragraph 27.

👉 https://app.ascensionpress.com/podcasts/catechism

If you’re Catholic, this track is for you.

If you’re not Catholic, this track is also for you.

If you’re online arguing about the Church…

this track is especially for you.

🎧 Listen, laugh, roll your eyes, feel convicted, get curious — and for the love of everything apostolic… read your catechism.

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🔥 NEW SONG DROP — “Throwing Out the Baby with the Baptismal Water” 🔥

A brand-new apologetics track just landed — and this one dives straight into one of the funniest and strangest theological implosions of the last 500 years.

The moment the “Bible-only” experiment had to answer a question Scripture was never written to answer… everything broke.

Not over predestination.

Not over communion.

Not over justification.

But over babies.

Tiny, nonverbal, utterly uninvolved babies.

This track walks you through the whole collapse — the instant wobbling of the Reformation, the loss of the guardrails of Tradition, the real early-church debate about waiting eight days like circumcision, and the moment someone literally and doctrinally threw out the baby with the baptismal water.

If you’ve ever wondered what the earliest Christians believed, how household baptisms actually worked, or why the “age-of-reason” argument collapses under Scripture itself, this one pulls no punches.

It’s snark.

It’s catechesis.

It’s history.

It’s Peter’s Barque.

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🎤 ABOUT THE SONG

“Throwing Out the Baby with the Baptismal Water” is a talk-sing apologetics piece about the first cracks in the Sola Scriptura project.

The early Church didn’t debate whether to baptize infants.

They debated when — because they understood exactly what Paul taught:

that baptism is the new circumcision, not made with hands (Col. 2:11–12).

But once Tradition was rejected, Scripture was forced to carry a burden it was never designed to carry.

And the result?

Competing pastors, collapsing unity, contradictory doctrines, and five centuries of chaos built around a question that the earliest Christians already answered with total clarity.

This one’s for the people who want the Bible, the Fathers, the snark, and the receipts — all in one track.

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🔥 NEW SINGLE: “Science Isn’t the Church’s Enemy — It’s One of Her Children.”

Most people have heard the myth:

“Faith and science are enemies.”

As if they had a messy breakup in college

and still avoid eye contact whenever the universe expands.

But the real history says otherwise.

Science didn’t rebel against the Church —

it grew up in her house.

A rational Creator.

An ordered universe.

Laws of nature because there is a Lawgiver.

Matter that can be studied because it isn’t divine.

The first universities? Catholic.

Genetics? Gregor Mendel.

The Big Bang? Fr. Georges Lemaître.

Pasteur? A devout Catholic.

Seismology, astronomy, spectroscopy, atomic theory, microbiology —

so many fields were built or advanced by clerics, monks, and Catholic institutions.

The Church didn’t fear science.

She mothered it.

This new Cake-style talk-sing walks through that forgotten family tree —

with lazy bass lines, dry delivery, and a full roll call of Catholic scientists.

And yes, Galileo shows up.

And Copernicus too.

Because truth doesn’t need PR. It just needs telling.

🎧 Listen to it wherever you stream.

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