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BLENDED SERVICE - 9:30am“You Are My King”
Billy and his wife Cindy live in San Antonio. Billy started leading worship in 1990, right out of college. Back then Christiandom didn't demand bands. They were satisfied with simplicity. Billy played his guitar and led worship by himself until several years later. He added a drummer (Joe McArthur) first and then a bass player (Shawn Skeen) and then Cindy joined in with vocals in 2001. Sometime around the year 2000 Billy began having vocal trouble which turned out to be a neurological condition called hyper-disphonia. There's really no cure for this condition. So Cindy began singing more of the lead vocals over time. Though Cindy sings most of the songs, Billy is still the person giving direction to the worship time and, of course, he writes most of the songs the band plays. Billy began song writing in the late 1990's. He's written several well known songs including:"Break Our Hearts", "Goodness and Mercy", "You Are My King (Amazing Love)", "Sing to the King", "I Have a River", "Die the Death", "You Are God Alone (not a god)", "You Are Welcome Here" and "Welcome to the Cross".
Learn more about Billy's ministry on his myspace website & ministry website:
www.myspace.com/billyfooteband
Learn more about Billy's ministry here:
www.billyfoote.com/
Click here to worship along with the song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBZXzN0tLU
Click here for another arrangement of the song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUO0NhsaGKc
"In my Life Lord, Be Glorified"
"This a gift to be simple," says the old Quaker hymn. While that's true, few of us would expect a song with only five notes and seven words to span the planet. Yet, Bob Kilpatrick's simple "(In My Life) Lord, Be Glorified" is printed in nearly every hymnal and songbook. It's in the overhead bins and slide trays at hundreds of thousands of churches.
After nearly 20 years, it continues to emerge as one of the top 25 most-sung worship songs. It has circled the globe and been translated into more languages than the author can track.
Kilpatrick compares those five notes to the five loaves a little boy brought the Lord. "When placed in the hands of Jesus," he points out, "they fed multiplied thousands."
The example is an apt one. Just as that single lunch was meant to feed one, "Lord Be Glorified" was intended as a personal prayer of consecration. "It has spread throughout the Church worldwide," says the author, "because He blessed it, broke it and gave it away to His people."
In 1977, Kilpatrick and his wife Cindy had just begun their full-time music ministry. He remembers sitting alone in his mother-in-law's living room, while the rest of the extended family watched TV elsewhere in the home.
With a guitar in his hands and an open Bible on his knees, he asked God to help him write a song. In this song, he and his wife would dedicate themselves to the ministry to which they were being called. It was a tender, personal statement to the Father.
"I think, in retrospect," Kilpatrick says, "that this lent a certain purity to the song. I was relaxed. I wasn't trying to impress anybody. I was free to write the simplest of melodies coupled with an equally simple prayer."
Here are those lyrics, along with the seldom-heard verses:
In my life, Lord, be glorified, be glorified In my life, Lord, be glorified today By my words, Lord...
You are the reason that I'm singing all day long Everyday is the season to glorify You with a song (And so I'm singing)
In this song, Lord be glorified...
I can think of no other way I'd rather spend a day Than with my sisters and brothers all rejoicing in Your ways (And so we're singing) In Your church, Lord, be glorified...
When the song was completed, both Bob and Cindy realized the little song was a treasure. "It was pretty obvious," Kilpatrick recalls, "that it would help people express this basic prayer to the Lord. My wife encouraged me to sing it. I think she saw its potential before I did."
Kilpatrick performed it privately for his friend Karen Lafferty, author of "Seek Ye First," and for Jim Stipech, then worship leader at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California. Lafferty taught the song broadly in Europe while Stipech included it regularly in his praise services for two years. The song was eventually included on the Praise Three album from Maranatha! Music in 1978.
"Since then," Kilpatrick says, "I have sung the song behind the Iron Curtain, in the bustees of Calcutta and the slums of Central America. It has been recorded hundreds, perhaps thousands of times and appeared in print on many millions of pages around the world."
"It is still most fulfilling," he concludes, "when Cindy and I sing it as our prayer of consecration to the Lord."
Click here to listen to the song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6--aVwK5fw
Click here to listen to the song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz-xtWWUs3c
“Open Our Eyes, Lord”
Robert Cull (born 1949), a pastor with a traveling music ministry, wrote this text and tune in Hawaii during the summer of 1975, in order to reach some “close-hearted people.” After a half hour in prayer, he says, the song “fell into my head.” It has been translated and recorded in dozens of languages.
Click here to listen to the song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJu0mnn_b4
Click here to an instrumental arrangement:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mudAEAPuLk&feature=related
CONTEMPORARY SERVICE 11:00am
“Everyday”
Joel Timothy Houston (born September 19, 1979) is a song writer and worship leader at the Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia. He is employed as the producer of Hillsong's youth band, Hillsong United. He is the oldest son of Hillsong Church's pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston and grandson of Frank Houston. He has two siblings, a brother Benjamin and a sister, Laura. Houston's first debut with the Hillsong United was in 2002. As part of Hillsong United music team, Houston has helped lead worship conferences in North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. He has also contributed to the main Hillsong album recordings as well, which are led by worship pastor Darlene Zschech. Many of the songs he has written or co-written are sung in churches worldwide and have been translated into 32 languages, including Korean and German. His music has been featured on Hillsong albums that have quickly risen on both the Australian and American Christian music charts. In March 2007, Hillsong United's eighth album All of the Above debuted at #6 on the ARIA charts His song, "Everyday", is ranked number 49 on the CCLI top 100 songs.
Click here to worship along with the Hillsongs worship team:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RiDQmlC9uY
“You never let Go"
This powerful new song by Matt Redman has been described as follows from Christianity Today:"You Never Let Go" begins with a quiet piano and moody atmospherics that mirror far-from-ebullient lyrics based on Psalm 23: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death/You're perfect love is casting out fear/And even when I'm caught in the middle of the storms of this life/I won't turn back, I know you are near…The chorus is a loud, exultant proclamation that God will never let go of us and in it Redman uses the minor-key construction to subtly (and maturely) declare that God's love is still valid, even in the midst of pain.
Click here to listen watch the video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIAdgLR1ZGw
Click here to read more about Matt Redman on his myspace - you can play the song directly from his stand-alone player and can buy the song from his website
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=120781688
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
Your perfect love is casting out fear
And even when I’m caught in the middle of the storms of this life
I won’t turn back I know You are nearAnd I will fear no evil
For my God is with me And if my God is with me Whom then shall I fear?
Whom then shall I fear? Oh no, You never let go
Through the calm and through the storm
Oh no, You never let go In every high and every low
Oh no, You never let go Lord, You never let go of me
"Mighty To Save"
This is another song from the Hillsong music ministry in Sydney Australia. This song is by Reuben Morgan & Ben Fielding. This song has a great re-occuring text. "OUR GOD IS MIGHT TO SAVE". This is taken from the passage in Zephaniah 3:1717 The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."
Click here to read more about Reuben Morgan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Morgan
Click here to worship along with the song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCAhKDZRlo
Click here to worship along with the song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR8rlTIU8_Y
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