Tag Archives: On Fire by Switchfoot

The Crossover Connection Week 36: Where Pop Meets Soft Rock

Posted on October 7, 2023 by expressyourself4him

Today’s featured band typically ranks as one of the top ten Christian bands of all time. Thanks to songs Dare You to Move, Meant to Live, and On Fire, Switchfoot has made a big impact on the Christian community. Yet, thanks to films like the Ultimate Gift featuring a montage scene with On Fire playing in the background, Switchfoot has crossed over to influence secular audiences as well.

Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it. 14 But the gate is narrow (contracted [k]by pressure) and the way is straitened and compressed that leads away to life, and few are those who find it, Matthew 7:13-14.

The attached You Tube above mixes powerful words of On Fire with an emotional scene in the Ultimate Gift. One of the last Christmas gifts I received as a teacher at Red Lion was the Ultimate Gift DVD. In this scene, the character Jason Stevens played by Drew Fuller is forced to make an important decision in his life. May the attached songs inspire you like they have motivated me.

by Jay Mankus

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S.A.N.S. Episode 42: On Fire

Posted on March 17, 2022 by expressyourself4him

I was introduced to Switchfoot through a Christian movie entitled The Ultimate Gift. While teaching at Red Lion, parents would occasionally buy me Christmas presents. One of the last gifts I received was The Ultimate Gift. For some unknown reason, this DVD sat on a shelf, collecting dust for a number of years. Yet, when I finally opened this and watched the movie, I was overwhelmed by the story and touched by the music.

For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten ([d]unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him, John 3:16-17.

There are plenty of films where the money from a will changes an individual’s life. Yet, when James Garner leaves his grandson a series of tests that lead to an ultimate gift, I was intrigued to figure out how this was going to end for Jason Stevens played by Drew Filler. One of these tests involves leaving the country alone, without his new girl friend. This decision montage uses On Fire to highlight Jason’s final choice. While Switchfoot has plenty of great songs, I hope you enjoy On Fire.

by Jay Mankus

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