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'Thank You for the Cross, Lord (Worthy is the Lamb)'
Not the easiest of songs for congregations, but they can be confident with the powerful chorus.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azYQqzoEjgU - A Hillsongs live recording.(27/10/2021)
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'Salvation belongs to our God'
A golden oldie which we still sing from time to time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZcG8cSxDiU - nicely done, with a special mention for the drummer.(26/10/2021)
'May the mind of Christ my Saviour'
There was a time when this was a regular closing hymn for us.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ghgaqT57lk - from Sun Valley, California. Good use of big percussion with the organ. (We do not have the 6th verse.)www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ZBhSxWots - solo voice and guitar, nicely done. Not the obvious instrument to choose, but I've been there, in the days before portable/electronic keyboards. (We do not have the 6th verse.)
(25/10/2021)
'Jesus is Lord! Creation's voice proclaims it'
A golden oldie that still comes up occasionally, either at funerals or services.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prEq8NOx3vs - multi-track recording: Gareth Moore sings and accompanies himself on the piano.(24/10/2021)
'Standing at the cross'
A great song from Pete James, which became regularly used in our church. I prefer to base it around acoustic guitar, and keep it simple.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRReWsctUA4 - from "Worship Anthems 2012" - the only recording I can find online!(23/10/2021)
'You're the Word of God the Father '
A lot of ground covered in this Stuart Townend song - can be useful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPXgfaQKZ0k - live recording.(22/10/2021)
'Father God I wonder'
An enduring all-age song, with plenty of potential for musical variation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EFJHUWujag - nice piano-led arrangement.(21/10/2021)
'Lord Jesus Christ (Living Lord)'
A 1960s song-hymn from Patrick Appleford, and one of the best-known from that period in our repertoire.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA_g98O42Q4 - a Songs of Praise recording, which uses organ accompaniment.(20/10/2021)
'Jesus, stand among us at the meeting of our lives'
I started playing this after hearing it once in the late 1970s, and I seem to have developed a slightly different harmonisation to everyone else! I prefer mine, naturally...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWt5z4G7F1A - an extended version(19/10/2021)
'O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder'
A very popular song with many people. I find it comes up often at funerals. Alas, Mission Praise printed a version with a devil's tritone in the melody, and not everyone corrects it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdE_NKyY_o0 - a Songs of Praise version from Winchester Cathedral.(18/10/2021)
'Lord, I come to You'
Well known and popular song from Geoff Bullock, with music which lends itself to worship in gloriously endless variations.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL1POv2eY04 - a Hillsongs arrangement.(17/10/2021)
'The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want'
Sung to Crimond. (Though the tune is much newer than the words: look in an older hymn book and you will probably find Wiltshire or St Fulbert set.) Some people love it, some people hate it. I suspect it has to do with the associations: I've not played it for some years, except at funerals.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJFsLZmO8o - from the choir of York Minster.(16/10/2021)
'From Heaven You Came (The Servant King)'
One of Mr Kendrick's best known. Essential repertoire.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCAdWs-ZyEk - album recording from Graham Kendrick(15/10/2021)
'Brother let me be your Servant'
Now more often known as 'Brother, sister, let me serve you'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL3vStmoMDw - here's the man who wrote it (Richard Gillard), singing and accompanying himself on the guitar.(14/10/2021)
'Lord, the Light of your Love'
A great anthem of the late 1980s and 90s, still used occasionally. I've always played a slight variation on the original.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rce9UHYZwl4 - album recording, with orchestra and band. I found that there are also quite a few pipe organ recordings of it on Youtube, but none on the banjo, as far as I'm aware.(13/10/2021)
'Jesus Christ is waiting'
Song of discipleship from John Bell and Graham Maule, set to Noel Nouvelet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai-OydgMLSs - Adrian Snell version - extracted from a BBC TV programme.www.youtube.com/watch?v=zblM-JG3nWg - a lively choral version with drum and fife.
(12/10/2021)
'Such Love, pure as the whitest snow'
A Graham Kendrick song, well written as ever, and one which I prefer to take quietly and gently.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XODaTctCjvQ - album recording with the obligatory modulation up a tone for the final verse.(11/10/2021)
'To You O Lord our hearts we raise'
I have a soft spot for this Victorian harvest hymn. Dix is a good writer, and setting it to an Arthur Sullivan tune does it no harm at all!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW-TC7hWoQ4 - Marlborough College Chapel Choir.(10/10/2021)
'We walk His way (Ewe Thina)'
Lively and fun: even with a small congregation, you can get them singing the lower parts and then sing the melody over them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LHCN6-UrL4 - the album recording.(09/10/2021)
'The Lord's my Shepherd (Townend)'
Stuart Townend's popular song based on Psalm 23.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN4tPkX0MG0 - Stuart Townend leading worship.(08/10/2021)
'Here is bread, here is wine'
Lovely Communion song by Graham Kendrick. I avoid using the written introduction though, preferring to give the congregation a more obvious cue.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgHxVHUO_PU - Graham Kendrick album recording, complete with obligatory modulation.(07/10/2021)
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