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God You Are My God
Matt Weeks, Keiko Ying
This is a song written with my wonderful friend Keiko Ying. It was an attempt to write one of those simple songs of worship in the vein of those Cutting Edge and early Matt Redman songs that so impacted many of us back then! I'm really pleased with how it turned out and the amazing job Keiko did getting the lyrics 'just right'. Thanks also to Reuben and Eve who drummed and sang on the recording and made it much nicer to listen to!
language English lightbulb Worship lightbulb Life lightbulb Saviour lightbulb Redeemer lightbulb King lightbulb Blood lightbulb Desire lightbulb Grace lightbulb Jesus lightbulb Surrender category Congregational category Personal category Response
article library_music 8 months 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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Passion for Your Name
Jon Cairns
I wrote this song while listening to a friend, Fusi Mokoena, preach to our church on the topic of "zeal". The first two lines of the song, along with the melody, dropped into my head and the rest of the song flowed from that point. I completed it with the help of the 12 Song Challenge community, as part of the April 2024 challenge.
language English music_note Singer/Songwriter lightbulb Faith lightbulb Faithfulness lightbulb Giving lightbulb Glory lightbulb Goodness lightbulb Grace lightbulb Help lightbulb Honour lightbulb King lightbulb Passion category Congregational category Response category Reflectional category Personal category Confessional
article library_music 1 year ago
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Refuge (Hide Me)
Jay Patel, Mike Sandeman
I often imagine David fleeing into the desert, being pursued by his enemies, being scared for his life. And yet in the midst of all that, he writes songs because his focus is what God has promised, what He is doing and what He is going to do. Psalm 63 says "On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your right hand upholds me." I wrote this song because, like David, that is what I want to focus my mind on. I want to sing in the shadow and shelter of His wings. To be nestled into him, to hear his heartbeat. My foes are different to David's but I need God's help to battle them. Psalm 17 v 6-8 says: "I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer. Show me the wonders of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes. Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings"
book Psalms 17:6-8 book Psalms 63:6-8 language English music_note Rock music_note Singer/Songwriter category Personal
article library_music 4 months ago
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There is a hunger (Holy Spirit come)
David Brackenbury
This song was for a new teaching series at my church in 2023. The recording doesn't capture the additional bridge ... so I am working on an updated recording.
language English music_note Singer/Songwriter lightbulb Devotion lightbulb Holy Spirit lightbulb Pentecost category Congregational category Personal category Reflectional category Contemporary
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My Life Is Built On You
Jay Patel
This is a song that I wrote to affirm my faith and just declare what Jesus means to me. This year will be 40 years since I became a follower and still "My future, my destiny, belongs to You"
language English music_note Singer/Songwriter music_note Rock lightbulb Life lightbulb Glory lightbulb Cornerstone lightbulb Beauty lightbulb Destiny lightbulb Faith lightbulb Hope lightbulb Rock lightbulb Trust lightbulb Truth category Contemporary category Personal category Reflectional
article library_music 9 months ago
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Come To The Water
Ineke Marsman-Polhuijs
We sang the song Oceans in church, a few months after our daughter was stillborn. I used to love that song. I always longed to walk in faith wherever God would lead me. But now I found myself not being able to sing it. What if going wherever He leads would mean I lose another child? I suddenly realized I didn’t trust God anymore. I was shocked. Some months later I went to a songwriters retreat. In a workshop the leader invited us to write down what bothers us and to give it over to God. After that we asked God what He wanted to show us. I ‘see’ a man on the water. The sea is calm and the sun breaks through, right above the man. We told each other what we received. Then we prayed again and I ‘heared’ a song line from the band Live: ‘Run to the water. I find you there’. I thought it was funny. I’ve always loved Live and God knows that of course. I didn’t know what to do with it, though. ‘Isn’t that man Jesus?’ someone said. I was startled and immediately thought of the song Oceans again. I realised Jesus was inviting me to walk on the water, in the light. I wrestled with what this means exactly. I listened to Oceans again and then the last line hits me: ‘in the presence of my Saviour’. That’s what someone said as well: ‘But Ineke, you don’t walk alone on that water. God is always there.’ It is true. If I honestly look back, I can’t recall a moment I was completely left alone. I was always in the presence of my Saviour. I kneeled down and told God that I don’t dare, but somewhere deep-down want to trust Him. I just didn’t know how. Then I described what I saw in this song. In the months following, I sang it again and again.
book Mark 6:49-50 book Matthew 14:28-29 book Isaiah 55:1-2 language English music_note Singer/Songwriter music_note Pop lightbulb Life lightbulb Trust lightbulb Calling lightbulb Listen lightbulb Invitation lightbulb Quietness lightbulb Wonder lightbulb Obedience lightbulb Longing lightbulb Doubt lightbulb Alienation lightbulb Assurance lightbulb Submission lightbulb Confusion lightbulb Grief lightbulb Intimacy lightbulb Meditation lightbulb Renewal lightbulb Vulnerability lightbulb Surrender lightbulb Faith category Meditational category Personal category Reflectional category Invitational
article library_music 8 months ago
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Comfort In The Tragedy
David Lyon, Yvonne Lyon
book Matthew 5:4 language English music_note Hymn music_note Singer/Songwriter lightbulb Comfort lightbulb Distress lightbulb Grief category Congregational category Personal category Reflectional category Traditional
article note 6 years ago
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You Love Me God
Josh Marlow
I wrote this song a few years ago when I was learning about my identity in Christ as well as at the time, really feeling like I was struggling to hear from Him. I wanted to convey a message of it doesn't matter what's happening around us, that God is for us and He loves us in and through our circumstances.
language English music_note Singer/Songwriter lightbulb Christian Life category Personal
article library_music 2 years ago
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A Time For Everything
Andy Biggs, Tom Kelleher, Catharine Revill
"A Time For Everything" was written in 2024 during the Resound Worship 12 Song Challenge Month where we were encouraged to write "a song for someone" - A song which someone in my church congregation could sing with real relevance, but where it could also be sung by everyone. At the time, we has a family whose teenage daughter was suffering from unexplained seizures and swelling on the brain. She was in the intensive care ward of the specialist hospital, with the doctors a bit baffled by the cause and the necessary treatments. Her parents testified about how they were hanging on to faith through the circumstances, despite there not being a clear end in sight. This song was written for them to sing. Thankfully she's on the mend now and back at school, after great medical care and a bit of a miraculous recovery. It's my hope that this is a song you can sing, either because you're going through troubled times, or because you're standing alongside someone who is.
book Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 book Mark 4:35-39 language English music_note Singer/Songwriter lightbulb Change lightbulb Christ lightbulb Doubt lightbulb Faith lightbulb Faithfulness lightbulb Love lightbulb Passion lightbulb Peace lightbulb Singing lightbulb Trouble category Congregational category Reflectional category Meditational category Personal
article library_music 1 year ago