Spring Harvest have done a great cover of a song I wrote on John 11 with Graham Kendrick, God of Compassion. It’s for their Newsongs 2010 album, you can buy here.

I like what they’ve done with it, bit different to the CCK album version.

See Martha weeping at a tomb
How deep the anguish of her grieving
Her brother Lazarus is gone
And hope lies cold and buried with him
And then Jesus comes

See Mary stumbling through her tears
To meet the one who could have saved him
Why did it have to end this way?
Did he not care her heart was breaking?
And she falls facedown, in her deep despair
Pours out her pain, and His heart breaks.
Then His anger burns, in the face of death
Jesus weeps, Jesus weeps

God of compassion
God of compassion is here
God of all comfort
Is here with us, has come to us
God of compassion

There is no pain he does not know
No road of bitterness or sadness
No depths of sorrow we can go
He walks the valley there beside us
Let us lift our eyes, look in to the face
Of a God who knows, a God who weeps
And His voice cries out, in the darkest place
I am the Life, I am the Life

And now He lives, He is the life, He is the life
Alive in Him, we’ll never die, never die

Simon Brading & Graham Kendrick
Copyright (c) 2009 Thankyou Music & Make Way Music

We had our major vision team meeting for 2010-2012 on Tuesday evening.  It was an awesome time.
Here are some screen shots from the PowerPoint we used and video.

Download full PowerPoint

Easter is just around the corner and we’d love to resource you  for your Easter and Good Friday services.
For 2 weeks we’re giving away the sheet music to three great Easter songs!

A song on Good Friday:
Gethsemane by Stuart Townend | sheet music

A song on the Cross:
Pardoned by Mike Sandeman | sheet music | video

A song on the Resurrection:
The Third Day by Simon Brading | sheet music | video | MP3

Download all (.zip 10MB)

Pardoned:

The Third Day:

Our good friends The 29th Chapter have released a single mainstream – Invincible. It’s an absolute tune.

They very much feel God is calling them to move into the mainstream world right now and we wanna support them as much as possible. The single was released on Monday 22nd Feb and they basically need 15000 people to buy it in the next 2 weeks to make the top 40.

Please will you stand with our brothers and support them by buying the single?

1. Buy

There are three easy ways to buy it:
iTunes £0.79
Amazon £0.69
HMV £0.79

£0.69, easy peasy – that’s peanuts. Or even better why not buy it 3 times from all three places? £2.27 in total, that’s not even a pint (all three will count towards the total). The charts close 11:30pm Saturday night so be quick. Check out their website, or facebook page for more info.

2. Make some noise…

Please can you tweet, facebook, myspace, text, email this around to anyone and everyone and get people to buy! Here’s the direct URL to the track on iTunes http://bit.ly/brNNdr

For more info check out at www.29thchapter.com
Thanks for all your help.

A series of articles on prayer written by Joel Virgo are currently being featured on The Resurgence Blog, a resource based in America and run in partnership with Mars Hill Church Seattle and the Acts 29 network.

With over 20,000 subscribed followers, the blog is a significant resource and speaks into the lives of many.

The series looks to the book of Nehemiah for lessons in how to pray fervently and effectively. Please take a look at this helpful resource and be encouraged to share it with others.

Just been listening to Stuart Townend’s song Gethsemane from CCK live album. It’s actually the first time I’ve heard this song since the album was out. Dang it’s good song. There’s a very moving intro – Stuart reading the account of Gethsemane over some amazing music – check it out (lyrics below)…

To see the King of heaven fall
In anguish to His knees,
The Light and Hope of all the world
Now overwhelmed with grief.
What nameless horrors must He see,
To cry out in the garden:
“Oh, take this cup away from me –
Yet not my will but Yours,
Yet not my will but Yours.”

To know each friend will fall away,
And heaven’s voice be still,
For hell to have its vengeful day
Upon Golgotha’s hill.
No words describe the Saviour’s plight -
To be by God forsaken
Till wrath and love are satisfied
And every sin is paid
And every sin is paid

What took Him to this wretched place,
What kept Him on this road?
His love for Adam’s curséd race,
For every broken soul.
No sin too slight to overlook,
No crime too great to carry,
All mingled in this poisoned cup –
And yet He drank it all,
The Saviour drank it all,
The Saviour drank it all.

You can buy the song for £0.79 on iTunes here

C.J. Mahaney answers the question, “Why sing so many cross-centered songs in corporate worship?” at Bob Kauflin’s WorshipGod conference. Absolutely worth all 8 minutes 35 seconds. Phenomenal.

Lots of people have been asking for the music to some of the Newday songs we’ve done this year. Here is the music to two of the songs, My Soul Is Well and The Third Day

My Soul Is Well

The Third Day

They’re .zip files containing three pdf files. Both these songs will be on the new Newday album coming out soon…