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Glory
Jon Cairns
This song is a declaration of the otherness of God. It speaks of his awesomeness, using the last two verses of Jude. It also talks about our standing before Him, how he has forgiven us and brought us into adoption, and how he has given us a future hope. I often use it as one of the first couple of songs when leading a congregation in worship because it helps us to fix our eyes on God and put Him in His rightful, authoritative, place.
book Jude 1:24-25 lightbulb Adoption lightbulb Glory lightbulb Majesty lightbulb Power lightbulb Victory category Contemporary music_note Rock language English category Congregational lightbulb Authority lightbulb Beauty lightbulb Blood lightbulb Children lightbulb Family lightbulb Holiness lightbulb Jesus
article library_music note 3 years ago
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God of Love
Jon Cairns
I'm part of a worship songwriting group, the Resound 12 Song Challenge, which encourages writers to create a worship song each month. This song came out of a challenge from June of 2023, whose theme was to write a song around the theme of "refugees". It starts as a kind of lament, acknowledging the terrible situation that many refugees and asylum seekers have come from and are going through, but progresses to fix our eyes on God as the one who protects, delivers and loves us.
lightbulb Compassion lightbulb Father lightbulb Justice lightbulb Refuge category Contemporary language English category Personal category Reflectional lightbulb Confusion lightbulb Despair lightbulb Intercession lightbulb Prayer lightbulb Refugee lightbulb Sadness lightbulb Warfare lightbulb Creation lightbulb Family lightbulb Home lightbulb Hope lightbulb Love lightbulb Peace lightbulb Suffering
article library_music 2 years ago
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My heart leapt for joy
David Casswell
Rejoicing in God's goodness.
book Mark 1:20 music_note Rock lightbulb Joy lightbulb Praise lightbulb Singing lightbulb Shame lightbulb Calling lightbulb Family lightbulb Grace lightbulb Presence lightbulb Teaching lightbulb Trust category Celebrational
article 3 months ago
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It's Good to be Home
Jonathan Lake
This song is about the prodigal son and how the fathers arms is our home. I wrote this when wrestling with the idea of home as I left London where I felt so at home and been wrestling with the idea of what home looks like for me. Reading the passage in Luke 15:11-32, I realised my home isn't in a building, an area or a person, it's in the Fathers arms.
book Luke 15:1-32 language English music_note Folk lightbulb Prodigal lightbulb Adoption lightbulb Home lightbulb Family lightbulb Salvation lightbulb Acceptance lightbulb God's Love lightbulb Grace lightbulb Comfort lightbulb Cross lightbulb Love lightbulb Mercy lightbulb Goodness lightbulb Sin lightbulb Forgiveness lightbulb Bride lightbulb Likeness lightbulb Rest category Personal category Meditational category Response category Encounter category Reflectional category Invitational
article library_music 1 year ago
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We’ve got a story to tell
Lesley Kennedy
A song to encourage us to share our faith stories - something we can all do so this is a song for everyone!
book Psalms 107:2 book Romans 10:14 language English music_note Blues lightbulb Children lightbulb Family lightbulb Friendship lightbulb Goodness lightbulb Great Commission lightbulb Witness category Family/All ages category Congregational
article library_music note 2 years ago
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God Who Makes Us Family
Resound Worship, Chris Juby
This song is a call to worship which reminds us that though we come from diverse circumstances, we join together to worship as the family of God. The song is designed to make room for us to name our individual circumstances in extemporary prayer, and then call on God together with the refrain. Sing the refrain to start. The leader then invites people to pray extemporary prayers that begin "Lord, I come…" to name their circumstances. The whole group joins to repeat the refrain after each set of prayers.
lightbulb Community lightbulb Family lightbulb Praise category Congregational
article library_music 9 months ago
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Kids' Creed
John Grummitt, Sue Crossman
Resound Worship’s 12 Song Challenge this month was to take inspiration from the great creeds of the church. I was at the annual Resound Worship Songwriters’ Retreat at Wydale Hall in Yorkshire, UK so had plenty of time to reflection, and I took inspiration from the Nicene Creed. Pairing up with the very talented Sue Crossman of Hopestream Worship, we came up with this. Each verse focusses on expanding, in language simple enough for children, each person of the Trinity. Since writing it, we’ve used it regularly in our Sunday School and family services and it’s a hit with young and old alike.
book John 14:16 book John 15:15 book Luke 11:2 book Psalms 91 lightbulb Children lightbulb Comfort lightbulb Declaration lightbulb Faith lightbulb Faithfulness lightbulb Family lightbulb Father lightbulb Holy Spirit lightbulb Strength lightbulb Trinity category Contemporary language English category Congregational
article 3 years ago
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What We Can Do
Andy Biggs, Catharine Revill, Tom Kelleher
We are rightly taught that it is only by grace that we are saved. But it can be easy to get into wrong thinking about what we can do, and feel inadequate because of what we don’t do, or don’t have the ability to so. This is a song to sing together as a congregation or in personal worship, to remind ourselves that whatever our abilities or frailties are, we can come accepted and worship Him, knowing that his grace will supply what we need as part of the body of Christ. We are all “fearfully and wonderfully made”, often with “weirdly hewn” characteristics that God designed for His glory!
book Psalms 139:14 book Romans 8:3 book Romans 12:4-6 language English music_note Pop music_note Rock lightbulb Christ lightbulb Glory lightbulb Family lightbulb Grace lightbulb Life lightbulb Purpose lightbulb Praise lightbulb Power lightbulb Strength lightbulb Doubt category Congregational category Celebrational category Contemporary
article library_music 9 months ago
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As for me and my house
David Brackenbury
This was written for a "Family Worship" Challenge as part of the 2020 12 Song Challenge. This is the only recording I could find, taken from an end of year concert held over livestream. I will be recording an updated version.
language English music_note Singer/Songwriter lightbulb Community lightbulb Family lightbulb Praise lightbulb Worship category Family/All ages category Celebrational category Contemporary
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Come Gather Together
Andy Biggs, Alistair Collins, Catharine Revill, Tom Kelleher, Stevie Hill
A song to gather a diverse congregation into worshipping together. Written as part of the 2024 Resound Worship 12 Song Challenge.
language English music_note Rock lightbulb Family lightbulb Jesus lightbulb King lightbulb Singing lightbulb Christ lightbulb Praise lightbulb Worship lightbulb Help lightbulb Love category Congregational category Contemporary category Family/All ages
article library_music 9 months ago