Sean Lea - Lead Vocals / Guitar
Dale Burnett - Lead Guitar
Kyle Kicker - Drums
Influences
Jimmy Eat World, Coldplay, Switchfoot, Copeland, Foo Fighters, Death Cab For Cutie, Mae, As Cities Burn, Anathallo, Nada Surf, Interpol, Duvall, and the original Star Wars trilogy.
Hi friends. Thanks for checking out Time of Favor. My name is Sean. I sing and play guitar in a rock-and-roll band with some of my best friends in the world: Kyle Kicker (drums),and Dale Burnett (Lead guitar/ vocals). We are all born and bread in MO.
The band started almost eight years ago with a phone call to my best friend Mike Gordon. I was a freshman in high school that spent a lot of quality time with my guitar, a pen, and paper. Partially because I had a passion to become a songwriter, but mostly because I wasn’t good at anything else, especially the social scene.
Not much has changed since those days. But now we travel the country playing our songs for anyone with a willing ear. Our passion is not fueled by fame and our motivation is far from financial. Instead we are out to change things. Life is short, how will you be remembered? We must understand that if you are human, then… well… welcome to the club. Friends, we’re all in this together.
Our amps are loud, our lights are bright, but our hearts are big. We communicate through the all-favorite pastime of Rock and Roll. I’ve often been asked to classify TOF into a genre. But I have trouble getting very specific, and that’s how I like it. Probably because we don’t follow fads, and we don’t “try” to sound like anything. We don’t write music for the scene. We just write music from the bottom of our hearts.
In a society screaming to sell your soul to commercialism, sell your passion for financial stability, and to trade your bodies for happiness, Time of Favor is screaming a different message. “You are you are perfect just the way you are. There are much bigger matters at hand.”
We’ve played uncountable shows in some of the nastiest places in the universe for no more than five people. We’ve played shows for five thousand people in giant arenas. We slept on the top floor of the Sheraton and slept in alleyways in down town Chattanooga. We’ve discussed business with multi platinum record producers but, we prefer to discuss passionate ideas and our favorite food with teenagers.
Unlike some bands, I’m not willing to dance around the issue. We are Christians. Don’t be offended. I’m not offended if you’re not a Christian. So lets just put that behind us. If we didn’t say it, we’d be liars and fakes. So no matter your stance I hope you can respect us for that. We’re not preaching at anyone. Please hear me, faith doesn’t make us better than anyone. And contrary to what many modern day “Christians” have portrayed, It’s not about excluding or alienating. That’s clearly not what Jesus was about. Rather, for us, it’s about Love. Love for every one no matter your stance. It’s about a God of second chances that adores you and me and wants to extend his grace and hope. You’re more than welcome to ask us about it.
Time of Favor is not about becoming a victim of your circumstance or a product of your environment. It’s about picking fights with giants. Time of favor is not about the easy way out, it’s about the right way forward. Take nothing for granted, instead seek wisdom around every corner.
I’ve found that I most often discover truth when I’m forced from the place between who I was and who I want to be. Sometimes taking a step outside of our self to look at the world through unadulterated eyes, can add a perspective that transcends our petty differences. It’s a ray of truth that melts away our man-made walls of division. Walls built with bricks of race, religion, pride, and socioeconomic status. Cast in the mortar of our obsession with image, wealth, and tradition. Hardened by greed and preserved by indifference. In this case, Time of Favor is a wrecking ball, I hope.
Keep listening, and keep changing the world one day at a time.
-SEAN LEA-
So at house church thursday paul said "i want to see sean lea" and i didn't know if that was the name of a group but i said "what is a sean lea" it was really funny, but they didn't answer me until after house church ended.
hey, thanks for the add! check out my blogs for the best printing prices around....i know you guys are gonna need some new merch, i don't see any on your page :) get in touch anytime, i love comments. take care!! kelly
You guys neeeeeed to come to Springfield Mo to Second Baptist Church and Rock in the Summit! The new paster, Ken Goodman needs to here the best singers in the world! lol :D
guys long time no talk. sean i'm taking your advice and getting the tele. and also and just wanted to say i met carter of sounding the silence and hung out with him much of june at camp. cool guy, great guitarist.
Hey guys its shane i just wanted to tell you i have mad respect for you guys your lyrics are still christ centered not dumbed down and not to mention amazing. Its refreshing to know you guys havent lost focus on why you do what you do. I am thankful everyday that i got to know sean and mike back in the day theyve both taght me a lot in the praise band at ridgecrest keep it up and im not embaressed to say picking fights with giants actually made me tear up thanks and GOD BLESS you all. Shane
hey way u guyzz up to???anywayzzz u guyzzz gotta cum bak 2 orlando we miss ya and hop 2 c u soon and us izzz da church anywayzzz wit much luc-meeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GOD BLESSSSSS =-)
