Our time of worship through singing this past Sunday was amazing. Feeling challenged to bring a raw and sincere passionate response to God was heavily on my heart last week. Here’s what I think contributed to what happened on Sunday morning; first, as I explained last week, in this column, I was really moved and stirred by the small group worship time I had last Sunday night. So just by having that experience so fresh in my soul, it really gave me a target for this Sunday. Secondly, after the election, I had an overwhelming sense to sing about the true hope and peace that is only found in Jesus. And I think many people in the church came ready to worship with that same thing on there heart. So here was the set.

Brightest & Best – Jordan Emmans
Calm My Heart – Damian Horne
You Never Let Go – Matt Redman
Tis So Sweet to Trust In Jesus – Hymn
Send Revival, Start With Me – Matt Redman
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus – ??? (Charlie Hall tagged it live on a Passion CD)
God of this City – Chris Tomlin
My Hope Is You – Third Day

So lately we’ve been starting our church services about 5 min. early with a song just to get people out of the lobby. I’ll usually do more performance type songs here. Jordan just moved back in the area, and is playing guitar once a month with me so I thought it would be fun to have him play one of his songs here from his new CD. “Calm My Heart” is the first worship tune I wrote back in 2000, it’s on my first solo CD, Elemental Worship, and I hadn’t played it in a long time, but I thought it was a perfect lyrical fit to the theme of the morning. Usually my sets hinge around one key song, that I’ll plan around. “You Never Let Go” is a song that we had sang a week ago Sunday night that I really wanted to do Sunday morning with the band. “Tis So Sweet” was a nice tag to the previous song, while also fulfilling my hymnal quota for the weekend. Started the second set after the sermon with, “Send Revival, Start With Me”. This song pretty much moves me to tears almost every time I sing it. So convicting. I almost have to not think about the lyrics near the end, or I swear I’m just going to sit down on stage and start balling. Invited people to pray for one another at this point, or seek out a pastor for prayer, didn’t see much of a response, but I felt like I needed to verbalize what I was feeling. And is something I just need to keep leading the way in. Smoothed into one pass of the old, “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus”. Started to curve the mood to hope here with Chris Tomlin’s latest anthem,”God of this City”. And then the finally of the morning was the Third Day song, “My Hope Is You”. This was the chorus I had stuck in my head since Tuesday night. I’d never played this song before, but I remember them playing it on the Conspiracy No.5 Tour that I opened for with Silage ten years ago. I wasn’t able to have the giant American Flag behind me but we still sung the heck out of the chorus. A very uplifting service.

So which song do you sing that almost moves you to to tears every time?