Songs We Sing (09.27.2009)

We occasionally get asked what this or that song was after services. So, I thought I'd provide a small service to CCJ'ers and the general lurkers out there. I'll list each song and give you the original artist and/or songwriter and a few details. If you'd like to purchase the original song, I suggest using iTunes or Amazon's MP3 Store.

For the services of September 27, 2009, we sang:

Your Grace Is Enough
Written by Matt Maher, 2003. This song was made most popular by Chris Tomlin on his "Arriving" album. "Your grace is enough/Heaven reaching down to us."

O, For A Thousand Tongues To Sing
Written by Charles Wesley, 1739. Music by Music: Carl Gläser, 1828. (Additional words by David Crowder, Jack Parker, 2007). "His blood can make the foulest clean/His blood availed for me. So come on and sing out/Let our anthem grow loud/There is one great love/Jesus!" This modern version is available on David Crowder Band's 2007 album "Remedy."

Here Is Love
Hymn written by Robert S. Lowry, William Edwards and William Rees, 1876. Arrangement by Ex Nihilo and Narrow Path. You guys know this one by now, hopefully. We'll give it a week off and then come back with it the second week of October.

Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
Written by Robert Robinson, 1758. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this song. Fantastic hymn.

Keep Me (Psalm 35)
Written by Daniel Ross, 2009. Written as a prayer of request from the words of Psalm 35. Often, though we know God is in control, we ask Him to free us from the oppression of our enemies. Like our lives, this song is both a prayer for understanding as well as a statement of our ultimate hope in God's deliverance.

Happy Day
Written by Ben Cantelon, Tim Hughes, 2006. "Oh happy day, happy day/You washed my sin away!" That needs several exclamation points. This song is found on Tim Hughes' 2006 album "Holding Nothing Back." (It has also been done recently by several other artists, such as Fee on their album "We Shine.")