Be Lifted High Everywhere we look there's something that is trying to steal our devotion and attention. Whether good or bad there's so many things that if we aren't careful, can rob us of our hunger and passion to know the Lord. Everything in this world will…
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…
Offering A lot of our inspiration for songs comes from Scripture. The Book of Psalms is a great source for musicians and writers, and it always seems like there are at least one or two Psalm-songs on our records. "Offering" was one of those. It was written…
Author: Jeff Deyo
These Hands Most of my life I thought worship was something we did at church. It was the singing we did just before the sermon. It seemed to me like it was one of the most boring parts of the whole service even though I loved music. All we did was sing a song…
Worship as Radical Amazement For the past several weeks I have been working as a pastor alongside a close friend and fellow worship leader Chris Tomlin. They are presently recording their next worship project. Like any other songwriter or lead worshipper, Chris wants songs that…
Great Big God As parents of small children, we are wisely instructed to "child proof" our houses. In other words, make them safe and child-friendly. The best way to do this is to get down on two knees and crawl around the house looking at the world from a childıs…
The Everlasting God When the words of Isaiah 40 were first written, Israel was in exile, punished for abandoning her first love, and scattered across the lands of the middle east. Her temple destroyed, Her people conquered in warfare and then enslaved or forced to live…
Hosanna Hosanna is one of my favourite worship words. It started out it's life meaning 'save us God'. But by the time we see it used in Matthew 21 it has come to mean 'praise you God'. Paul and I tried to get those two meanings into the chorus... 'you are…
The Heart of Servanthood There are several major issues of the heart that need to be settled for one to be a faithful servant for the Lord. The life of a servant should display the characteristics of humility, compassion, teachability and faithfulness. The spirit of…
The Power Of The Cross Why? So many of the ancient traditions of the church allowed us time to meditate on the cross - through silence, repentance and pardon in liturgy, laments.
Miracle Maker During the recording sessions for The Mission Bell, Martin said, " I'd love to write a song called Miracle Maker". We started playing around with a chord sequence, that we'd worked on in a sound check, and ended up having a real "holy moment". The…
Sing A Song A few years ago, we wanted to write a simple song about the joy we have because of our relationships with God. When you realize all God is for us, you can't help but sing!
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