This blog examines, reviews and discusses how worship is being lived out in culture and in the church. We tackle everything from songwriting techniques in corporate worship, to interviewing worship leaders and pastors, to reviewing the last big rock concert.
Last week was a really rough set, so I really wanted to make sure things went smoothly this week. Fortunately we praise a God full of grace and this Sunday went incredibly well. As we were winding down the set playing None But Jesus, our pastor brought up one of our interns who led us in prayer for life and for the church’s fight against abortion. This woman’s prayer was especially powerful because she had an abortion and has publicly cried out for healing. After her prayer another one of our interns got up and led us in passionate prayer for a spirit of adoption in the church. See this young man was supposed to be aborted, but was saved by the grace of God and adopted by some loving Christian parents.
It was an incredibly moving time of prayer and passionate worship. I won’t forget it and it again emphasized what’s on the line this election year.
Solid Rock - Delirious (loop used, not yet published)
This is off the new Hillsong album This Is Our God, aka “the Healer album”. I only like a few off this album and this is definitely one of them. The phrasing of the chorus and the lyric “where we belong” just really sunk with me. Lyrically I think this is one of Hillsong’s stronger songs, a lot of powerful statements like “your grace beyond reason has paid for our freedom.” Powerful.
Remember the purpose of making these loops available is so that any worship leaders out there using loops can freely take and use. I make the Reason file available so you can make modifications if desired as well. If you don’t have Reason and have a simple request like muting a certain instrument then I can give that to you, just let me know.
This arrangement follows the cd version linked below.
I just finished working on the loop for this song. Where We Belong is one of my favorite songs of Hillsong’s new album This is Our God. Simple melodically but still very interesting and a great hook instrumentally. Looking forward to playing this one.
This has been a rough couple weeks for the church. First we have Todd Bentley stepping down due to marital problems and now his sexual sin being exposed. I have not posted anything on Todd Bentley, not because I don’t have strong feelings about it, but because I want to frame it in context to worship. I don’t want to write another piece on how messed up the whole Lakeland “outpouring” situation is, that’s been done. I’m working on a post so stay tuned on that front.
Now comes news that Michael Guglielmucci totally lied and made up his story of terminal illness. I don’t know where Hillsong goes from here, but I think they have to obviously take a long hard look at how the evaluate those whom they put on their biggest stage. A story of terminal illness can’t be that hard to checkout unless he had a team of doctor’s in on the lie.
I haven’t really gathered my thoughts on this yet, I’m just currently very disappointed, saddened and frustrated for the hurt this has caused. I hope you join me in praying for Michael and his family, Hillsong church and the thousands of those who have been impacted by this song. I’ve heard from several worship leaders who will continue to play this song in worship and I think that’s a wonderful thing. This song isn’t a story about Michael’s sickness or lack thereof, it’s a story and proclamation of God’s power. Perhaps this situation will make it even more evident in this song of our need for God’s healing power.
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This is off the new Hillsong album This Is Our God, aka “the Healer album”. I only like a few off this album and this is definitely one of them. The phrasing of the chorus and the lyric “where we belong” just really sunk with me. Lyrically I think this is one of Hillsong’s stronger songs, a lot of powerful statements like “your grace beyond reason has paid for our freedom.” Powerful.
This has been a rough couple weeks for the church. First we have 
Now comes news that