Blended Worship 9:30am
"Take Up Your Cross"
This song of commitment was written by Steve Millikan, Jane Johannson and Ray Boltz. Ray Boltz was born in 1953 in Muncie, IN. Ray has sold more than one million albums, the result of songs and albums which charted repeatedly throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His inspirational songs have been sung by a number of his colleagues, and Boltz in turn has contributed to popular compilations by multiple artists. In the late 1990s, he assembled a rock-flavored band, thus expanding his inspirational repertoire. Boltz has successfully distinguished himself for his sincerity and integrity in the commercially hyped music culture. In his religious zeal, he undertook a regular battery of public concert tours even as he embraced traditional missionary travels beyond the realm of his musical ministry. In his devotion to the Christian ideal, he embarked on a series of expeditions that sent him to Africa and Asia. While on tour, he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars for food to feed starving people in Calcutta, India.
Boltz attended Indiana's Ball State University where he studied a business curriculum and graduated with a degree in business and marketing. Even as a teenager in the early 1970s, Boltz embraced a commitment to Christian ministry. He employed his musical talents to bring a Christian message to shut-ins including prisoners, hospital patients, and convalescent home residents. Likewise, he performed concerts for Christian youth groups. A dozen years passed, and by the mid 1980s Boltz's commitment to a musical gospel ministry was firmly entrenched as the basis of his career. When he released his first album, Watch the Lamb in 1986, the message of Christian commitment was clearly evident. Thank You and The Altar followed by the end of the decade, in 1988 and 1989 respectively.
For more information on Ray check out his website:
http://www.rayboltz.com/
Take up your cross and follow Jesus
Take up your cross every day
Don't be ashamed to say that you know Him
Count the cost then take up your cross and follow Him
Click here to worship along with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir:
www.rhapsody.com/thebrooklyntabernaclechoir/livewecomerejoicing/takeupyourcross
"The Wonderful Cross"
Click here to hear Chris Tomlin tell about how the song came about.
www.theheartofworship.com/stories/Story-306-TheWonderfulCross-Tomlin.mp3
If you haven't watched this moving video from one of the Passion meetings check out part one and part two.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNGMO35-64&mode=related&search=
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5eBvz1tLfA&mode=related&search=
Click here to worship along with some incredible photos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=skxiHGj6lIU
"Grace Flows Down"
With a tie to the familiar hymn, “Amazing Grace,” this song from the Passion movement is a plaintive, reverent, and expresses our appreciation for His grace that “covers me.” It is especially effective for a time of personal ministry.
Amazing Grace How sweet the sound
Amazing Love Now flowing down
From hands and feet that were nailed to the tree
As Grace flows down and covers me
Chorus
It covers me It covers me It covers me And covers me
Click here to worship with the song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlNE0pHwrng
Click here for another arrangement of the song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzat9dx6v8k
"I'll Tell the World that I'm a Christian"
This song was written by Rev. Baynard L. Fox, (deceased 10-9-82, age 50). Baynard served as a former minister of music in churches in KY, AL, and GA. He composed many Christian songs, among them “I'll Tell the World That I'm A Christian”—included in the 1991 edition of The Baptist Hymnal and also in many other hymnals. The song was written in 1958.
I’ll tell the world, that I’m a christian,I’m not ashamed, His name to bear;
I’ll tell the world, that I’m a christian,I’ll take Him with me anywhere.
I’ll tell the world, how Jesus saved me,and how He gave me a life brand new;
And I know that if you trust Him,that all He gave me, He’ll give to you.
CONTEMPORARY 11:00am
"O Praise Him"
David Crowder wrote this song on a plane ride from Waco, Texas to Atlanta, Georgia. He said as he was resting on the plane the phrase "All this For a King" began to ring in his head. After meditating on the phrase he began writing the following:
Turn your ear to heaven and hear
The noise inside the sound of angels awe
The sound of angels songs and all this for a King
We could join and sing all for Christ our King!'
How constant how divine this song of ours will rise
Oh, how constant How divine this love of ours will rise Will rise...
Ohh praise Him! Ohh praise Him! He is Holy! He is Holy!
Click here to learn more about how David Crowder wrote the song "O Praise Him"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2fbX4dRLO0
Click here to worship along with David Crowder:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2qfCynlTVg
"Forever"
This worship song is based upon the passage in Psalm 136 “His love endures forever”. It took four years for Chris to finally finish the song after working on the song off and on.
Click here to listen to Chris tell about how he wrote the song:
www.theheartofworship.org/stories/Story-263-Forever-Tomlin.mp3
Click here to learn more about Chris Tomlin:
www.christomlin.com/index2.html
Click here to worship along with Chris Tomlin:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOZVFHqKg1k
"Wonderful Maker"
Click here to play Jeremy Camps arrangement:
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Click here to listen to the song:
www.imeem.com/crusadeband/music/g9jM3rtb/chris_tomlin_wonderful_maker/
Click here to worship with Chris Tomlin:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoYWDCwxExs
Click here to learn more about Jeremy Camp:
http://www.jeremycamp.com/
You spread out the skies over empty space
Said "let there be light" into a dark and formless world
Your light was born You spread out Your arms over empty hearts
Said "let there be light"Into a dark and hopeless world Your Son was born
You made the world and saw that it was good You sent Your only Son for You are good
What a wonderful Maker What a wonderful Savior How majestic Your whispers
And how humble Your love With a strength like no other
And the heart of a FatherHow majestic Your whispers
What a wonderful God No eye has fully seen, how beautiful the cross
And we have only heard The faintest whispers of how great You are
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