Andy Biggs, Tom Kelleher
It's all to easy to despair if we star too long at the world's problems. This song is a prayer to ask God to renew his great deeds in our day - to remember mercy and bring revival.
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Based on Jesus and John the Baptist's first sermons - repent for the kingdom of God is near.
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2 months ago
David Cottrell, Matt Osgood and Worship Song Recording
Inspired by the words of John 10:10, this song explores aspects of the full life available to us through Jesus. Started at New Wine in 2008, it took several revisions at Resound events to arrive at the final version, performed at the first ‘Worship Songwriting Retreat WSR15’ at Wyedale Hall in June 2015.
Resound Worship, Mark Bradford
This song draws its origins from the time of the illness and death of my Dad. Singing and making music before the Lord became a particularly important expression of worship for me at a time when I was largely unable to process exactly how I was feeling. And yet there were very few songs that resounded with how I was feeling; often it wasn’t the lyrics that were the problem, but the tone or mood of the song that just didn’t resonate.
While sitting at the piano with these kinds of thoughts in mind one day, this song began to emerge. It sought to express a confidence in God, albeit a confidence expressed in brokenness rather than in triumph; yet a confidence determinedly holding on to the promises of God - not least the ultimate promise that, one day, God will make all things new.
The second, third and fourth verses were written first, and came together relatively straightforwardly - though with lots of tinkering on the way. The first verse was the struggle, and the writing of it encapsulated the move I had to make from seeing it as ‘my song’, coming out of my particular experience, to one that, hopefully, can be sung by others within their own contexts of brokenness - past, present or future.
6 years ago
This was written for a "Songs of Hope" Challenge as part of the 2022/23 12 Song Challenge.
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1 year ago
I'm often struck by New Year's resolutions and how we try hard in our own strength to improve ourselves but, all too often, end up failing. This song was written as a reminder that we have all we need in Christ who accomplished what we could not by conquering sin and death.
Andy Biggs, Alistair Collins, Catharine Revill, Tom Kelleher, Stevie Hill
A song reminding us to commit our ways to the Lord first, echoing the words of Psalm 127.
Written as part of the 2024 Resound Worship 12 Song Challenge.
This song was written in a time wherein I was so overwhelmed by grief that I couldn’t write songs anymore. Someone mentioned I could ask my pastor for a theme to write about. My pastor immediately knew: Romans 15:13. I studied Romans, read it in all translations I could find and then wrote this song. A song of hope when I felt no hope at all. But when I sang it to and in our church, I found I could sing it along very well. Now I hope this song will bring hope to others.
This was written for a "Songs of Solace" Challenge as part of the 2020 12 Song Challenge.
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1 year ago
A song of hope and challenge, exhorting the Body of Christ to press on despite discouragement, as we minister to a broken world. Based on “Pressing On in the Christian Race” - Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751; Phil 3:12-14