Enhanced Chord Charts: FREE DOWNLOAD Planning a worship service is hard work and takes a lot of time. You need a lot of information to make those choices so these new chord charts were designed to put helpful information at your fingertips.
Blessed Be Your Name I recently wrote a little book on worship, "The Unquenchable Worshipper". The title chapter looks at a kind of worship that endures through every situation. A praise that overcomes the storms of life, and cries out ...
Sing to the King In the summer of 2001, I was sitting in my office, in Evergreen, CO, reading through a Baptist Hymnal when I came across an old hymn called Sing We the King, written by Charles Silvester Horne. As I read the first verse I was amazed by the lyrics.…
A Pattern of Worship Psalm 95 is probably one of the best known of the Psalms amongst lead worshippers. For one thing, quite a few of the worship songs we sing today borrow some lines from this ancient song. It doesn't make clear in the Psalm itself who wrote it, yet in…
Here I Am To Worship (Light Of The World) 'Light of the World, You stepped down into darkness. Opened my eyes let me see. Beauty that made this heart adore You. Hope of a life spent with You.' Whenever we worship it always comes out of a response.
Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs There are all kinds of songs: love songs, patriotic songs, nursery songs, battle songs, campfire songs, songs that tell a story, songs that call people to rally for a cause, songs that teach, songs that express complaint. Singing a song is a way to…
The Heart Of Worship The story behind Matt Redman's new album, The Heart of Worship. Read about the insight and inspiration which led to the creation of the songs from Matt's new recording.
Beautiful Savior As I look at the wonderful outpouring of worship songs in recent years, I've noticed that many of them describe our feelings and experiences of God in worship; rather less turn our attention completely away from ourselves to look at God. We need to…
Beautiful One: The Story Behind The Song I wrote Beautiful One while I was on holiday. We had been ministering in Australia and had a few days off at the Great Barrier Reef. I read that passage in Isaiah that talks about the Messiah as having no beauty that would attract us to Him; nothing…
Better Is One Day The text of this song is taken primarily from Psalm 84. Spend some time reading and meditating on Psalm 84. Charles Spurgeon calls this psalm "one of the choicest of the collection" of psalms. It is definitely one of the most beautiful and sweet…
Lord, Let Your Glory Fall The song "Lord, let your glory fall" is taken from the book of 2 Chronicles, chapters 5 to 7. I think this must be one of the most powerful and inspiring examples of congregational worship in the Bible. The work for the temple had all been done, and…