Everyone Gets to Play
The sense of the night was of the need to be planted by the streams of living water so that we would be unmovable and unshakable. Below are the ideas that people put onto the whiteboard during the evening’s worship. The songs of the night were: Refuge in you, History maker, Revelation song, Wide, Salvation… Continue reading Rumours of Worship – 2 October 2010
The evening seemed to be about God’s faithfulness to us as well as the shaking that is going on in the land. We had sense of God’s justice and mercy. It seemed to be about the younger generation standing (several of our young people played significant roles in this session). Towards the end of our… Continue reading Rumours of Worship – 18 December 2010
I woke up early on Christmas morning, after helping Father Christmas fill stockings, with an idea for a story. I had asked the Lord to lead me over this time and to speak, and we had watched the movie, “inception” a few days before, so I took the idea as possible inspiration – from God…… Continue reading A Christmas story
This is a rewrite of a song that Simon wrote in Waihi some time back. It was recorded at our November 2010 Rumours of Worship. It was a hard time of worship – it felt like we were fighting for a breakthrough for the nation. We had Simon’s dad and his wife Jenny join us… Continue reading Amazing Love
This is the same song that Simon recorded “live” directly into the mac (playing with a loop), except that we played with the vocals and pitch-shifted it downwards! Quite fun. We found it was quite hard for him to hear the pitch, so I think in the end we recorded it without the pitch-shifting and… Continue reading Be still and know – the effected vocal version
This is from our “Rumours of worship” time in August 2010. It’s a song that Simon felt we should sing after “How great is our God” and before “Dwell” – both not original – so we are not putting them on the site (yet). The “Psalm” that Simon and Cheryl did was a bit later… Continue reading Praise Awaits
This is another version of Simon’s original song…. enjoy. Same loop, same backing, but using his “real” voice.
This bird has a more distinctive call than many others. One of the things we feel is that it speaks of the voice of God; distinctive from all others. We feel the need to quiet all the other “voices” so that we can hear the Father’s voice and be obedient to Him. We want to… Continue reading The call of the Tui
When I asked Andrew what he wanted to say about this song, he said “Wow, isn’t this amazing!”… and it is. You will have to ask him why it’s called “distressed”, but it may relate to his upcoming NCEA exams… or not…. This is a song that Andrew wrote in Auckland, with one guitar, several… Continue reading Distressed
This is a revision of the old hymn Onward Christian Soldiers. We were asked to lead worship at Kids Camp and the camp was about being in God’s army. Simon thought it would be great to use this song, but rework it so the kids could relate to it. It worked really well for the… Continue reading Onward Christian Soldiers
