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Hey everyone,
After a long winter hiatus, we’re going to be meeting tomorrow, Sunday, February 21, at 9:30pm in room D3 in the PAC.
Come spend time away from school work and the like, and use the opportunity to praise God!
The Time is Now by Phil Wickham
Lord Let Your Glory Fall by Matt Redman
The First and the Last by Hillsong
All Creatures of Our God and King traditional
Jesus I Come by Shelley Moore Band
From the Inside Out by Hillsong United
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Of late, I haven’t posted the songs from each week, so I’ll put up a larger list of songs we’ve done for those who are interested.
Also, next week (December 4th) will be the last echô of the year.
-km
Filed under: Worship Sets | Tags: colossians, echô, hillsong, phil wickham, tim hughes, worship
The passage we read tonight was from Colossians 3, verses 1-4 & 15-17:
1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
15Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
This challenges us to live in light of the fact that we have died to our old selves and should now live focused on “things above”, something that can be very hard to do with all of the distractions the world throws at us.
Song List
Come and Listen by David Crowder Band
A call to worship, helping us focus and think about all of the things Christ has done for us, and inviting us to share it with others.
You Said by Hillsong
The chorus of this song can be hard to sing, because it is such a convicting call:
You said, “Ask and I’ll give the nations to you”
Oh Lord, that’s the cry of my heart!
It should be our prayer that all the earth would know our God!
Tear Down the Walls by Hillsong United
You Hold Me Now by Hillsong
Before the Throne of God Above by Sojourn
When the Tears Fall by Tim Hughes
This song is a reminder that God is truly with us through the hard times, and our earthly circumstances don’t change the fact that He is our Savior.
How Deep the Father’s Love For Us by Stuart Townend
It Is Well traditional
Beautiful by Phil Wickham
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly
… as you sing psalms, hymns
and spiritual songs
with gratitude in your hearts to God.”
Colossians 3:16
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Song List
A Gathering Song by Eric Yeldell
For the Beauty of the Earth by Daniel Dabney
Center by Charlie Hall
This song is a response to God’s grace and mercy in our lives, we call out to Him, saying “Christ, be the center of our lives, be the place we fix our eyes“.
Lead Me to the Cross by Hillsong United
There is a Fountain traditional
Tear Down the Walls by Hillsong United
Soon by Hillsong United
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us by Stuart Townend
In Christ Alone by Keith Getty
“How great is the love
the Father has lavished on us,
that we should be called
children of God!
And that is what we are!”
1 John 3:1
The following is an excerpt from an article from www.DesiringGod.org – the full article can be found here.
The Bible contains over 400 references to singing and 50 direct commands to sing. We’re commanded twice in the New Testament to sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs (Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16).
Song List
Lord, Let Your Glory Fall by Matt Redman
Rain Down by Delirious?
For The Beauty of the Earth by Daniel Dabney
A great reminder of God’s presence in our lives:
Hallelujah, the presence of God is near!
Hallelujah, Your dwelling among us here!
Before the Throne of God Above by Sojourn
Messiah by Phil Wickham
Jesus Paid it All by Kristian Stanfill
See His Love by Tim Hughes
Break Free by Hillsong United
Solution by Hillsong United
Song List
You Hold Me Now by Hillsong
We sang a tag from the end of this song that just repeats part of the Lord’s Prayer, saying “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven”.
The Time is Now by Phil Wickham
From the Inside Out by Hillsong United
Stronger by Hillsong
‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus traditional
Nothing But the Blood traditional
Jesus’ Blood by Delirious?
This song simply states the Jesus’ Blood completely covers our sin, and will never fail us as it cleanses us and brings us into a relationship with God.
The First and the Last by Hillsong
I Will Exalt You by Hillsong
I Have Decided To Follow Jesus traditional
Savior, I Will Follow Thee by Daniel Dabney
Extol by Daniel Dabney
Living For Your Glory by Tim Hughes
Before the Throne of God Above by Shane & Shane
“Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
Lift up a song for Him who rides through the deserts,
Whose name is the LORD, and exult before Him.
A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.”
Psalm 68:4-5
Filed under: Song of the Week | Tags: alpha and omega, colossians, hillsong, the first and the last
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
-Revelation 22:13
The First and the Last is a proclamation of God’s greatness. The title and theme of the song focuses on Christ’s nature; how He is our Hope and our Salvation, and how He encompasses all things. What does it mean that He is the “First and the Last”? In a oft-quoted passage in Revelation, Jesus says that He is the “Beginning and the End”. Colossians 1:15-17 also covers some of this: “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” John talks about how the Word (referring to Jesus) was (or existed) in the beginning, and we see in Revelation that He will be until the end of time and beyond.
One of the great things about this song is its praise-response form. It recognizes God as our salvation and then it praises Him and gives Him glory for it, while prompting us to ask for His guidance in our lives. He is completely “worthy of all the praise” we can give Him.
The song is from Hillsong’s new worship CD, “Faith + Hope + Love“.
The First and the Last
You are the First and the Last
Beginning and the End
The promise of One who’s to come
The future is in Your hands
Calling the light with all the Earth we will sing
You are the Author of love
Our freedom is in Your name
Embracing the cross there for us
Brought us to life again
Calling the love with all we are let us sing
God our Hope and our Salvation
Worthy of all the praise
Be our light everlasting
Great is Your name
Jesus the First and the Last
Show us the way of Your love
Lead us towards the truth
Stir up the fire in us
To live out this life for you
Calling Your name Jesus forever we’ll sing
Every heart every nation will hear the sound
As the light breaks through the darkness and Your name rings loud
Every distant horizon will meet as one
Singing holy is Your name We sing holy is Your name.
You are the First and the Last. You are
You’re the Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the End
Our salvation, You bring freedom, God Your grace it knows no end
You’re the name above all names, the Lamb that was Slain You are.
The First and the Last.
Filed under: Worship Sets | Tags: center, first and the last, hillsong, rescue, worship
Song List
A Gathering Song by Eric Yeldell
The First and the Last by Hillsong
All Creatures of Our God and King traditional
This is one of my favorite hymns because it is a simple call for Creation to praise the Creator. David Crowder has a great arrangement of this song.
In Christ Alone by Keith Getty
Revelation Song by Gateway Worship
Jesus Paid It All by Kristian Stanfill
We can never praise God enough for His unfailing love for us. “O Praise the One who paid my debt, and raised this life up from the dead!” is so powerful when we realize every time we sin just how enormous of a debt that we owe.
Came to My Rescue by Hillsong United
None But Jesus by Hillsong United
God of Justice by Tim Hughes
The challenge of this song is piercing:
We must go,
live to feed the hungry
stand beside the broken;
we must go!
God calls us all to live as “missionaries” in the sense that our lives should always be redirecting the attention from us to Him. Furthermore, we need to develop a desire to be filled with passion for those who do not know Him. The tag of this song is our prayer:
Fill us up, send us out,
Fill us up, send us out Lord.
Center by Charlie Hall
“I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.”
Psalm 63:4
