Everyone Gets to Play
Before we recorded ‘Calling’ live, I did a quick rough version so everyone knew how the song went. This is the result. A simple acoustic version. I prefer the live version simply because I love being part of worshiping together with others and God being present. I normally do this in a dropped D tuning.… Continue reading Calling – Rough studio version
This is the live version of Calling. The song expresses the thought of Jesus calling us to Himself. The other thought expressed is one of falling into Jesus. When we let go of everything we hold onto, that we think makes us who we are, then we will find ourselves in the arms of Jesus… Continue reading Calling – live version
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 song written in Waihi, still expresses the greater part of why I live. To taste and see that He is good is what life is all about. Recorded at a Rumours session where no one but I knew that song. Mark on Bass, Dan the Man on drums, Ian on guitar and Andrew B… Continue reading More Of You
‘Now choose life’…. (Deut 30:19). Choosing life doesn’t meant we can choose everything about life to be the way we want. This songs about the most important choice we make every day, even when there are aspects of life that can’t be chosen we can ‘choose life itself’. Cheryl and I went to see someone… Continue reading Choose Life
So…. what does ‘you’re my everything mean’? Different things to different people for sure, this songs about ‘everything’ being ‘wholehearted’, its a live track in a camp setting with some tricky technical & equipment challenges, we went for it anyway in the spirit of wholeheartedness. The whole bands in on this one, Ian, Tanya, Carl,… Continue reading You’re My Everything
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 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
Well, this is the first song of Ian’s on the site…… they don’t let me out much. Sometimes I find a quiet moment and this song is the kind of thing that can happen. So, we were away in Auckland and I had our little mac and Garage band and my Godin and some time… Continue reading Scooping fun
