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Christian singer and songwriter from Winnipeg, Steve Bell, has released a music video to accompany his song "Pentecost."
"I wrote it with a fellow named Malcolm Guite who's an English poet," says Steve Bell. "We were doing a Sunday morning in Seattle a couple years ago, and it turned out to be Pentecost. He was preaching, I was singing. He said to me, 'Do you have a Pentecost song?' I don't."
A while later, when Bell was at a cabin in Victoria, B.C. with Guite, the pair decided to put music to Guite's poem that was called 'Pentecost.'
"I started playing this typical, Steve Bell, ballady melody. He says to me, 'Steve. It's Pentecost. It should have some energy.' I don't write a whole lot of energy, so he forced me to think differently."
The song and music video for "Pentecost" includes four quadrants to represent Earth, wind, fire, and water.
"They're like four gospels; different ways of coming at a different thing. He [Guite] was looking at that Pentecost story and he quite quickly saw three of the elements. You've got the wind, you've got the fire, and you've got the water, like the wellspring welling up within you. He goes, 'Where's the earth?' Oh, Adam means dirt, of the Earth.' That comes out in the song, and these are the four elements."
In a few weeks, Bell will be headed to a Bonhoffer conference out in Berlin. He'll take the summer off and then get back into touring his music in the fall, including a concert in Winnipeg with Guite.