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You Never Let Go
Mighty to Save
Take My Life
I Could Run Away
All Who Are Thirsty
How Many Kings
Beautiful Scandalous Night
Oh man. This is such a fun song to sing. I think probably the fact that there’s such a driving rhythm for the whole thing is one factor of its fun-ness. The verses are wordy and tricky to sing because the phrases are longer than one might expect. But once you get the hang of it, it’s an awesome feeling to take a deep breath and sing about all the incredible things that have happened to us because of Jesus.
There are a bunch of worship songs that don’t really have much to them. They might be a line or two or might contain a few short sections. Songs like this could potentially work really well in the Taize style, where they’re just repeated over and over again, either the whole song or just one section of it. Prepare the Way is one example of a song that can be used in this fashion. The words of the song are “Prepare the way. Prepare the way. Prepare the way of the Lord.” And then there is a refrain that just repeats the name of Jesus several times. And that’s the song. It’s great for Advent with John the Baptist and it works well to just repeat those two parts a bunch of times, as per the Taize style.
This is something of an edgy song in the way it sounds. I don’t know that I would call the words edgy, but they are a pretty fantastic set of text. The pre chorus and chorus claim that “through the calm and through the storm” as well as “in ev’ry high and ev’ry low” God [...]
I think this song is particularly fitting for the season of Easter, but could be used just about any time of the church year. The text of verse 1 speaks of our need as humans for compassion, unfailing love, mercy, forgiveness, and hope and reminds us that Jesus provides us with all of those things [...]
This song is a fantastic re-envisioning of the well-loved hymn Take My Life and Let it Be, written by Frances Havergal in 1874. It uses the same text as Havergal’s hymn and includes a new refrain: “Here am I, all of me. Take my life, it’s all for thee”. I think that refrain sums up [...]
This is a really simple song and is constructed of four sections that are each only a line or two. There are not many words in I Could Run Away, but there is quite a bit of material packed into the few words there are. There’s the fact that God never leaves us, regardless of [...]
