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"You're Worthy of My Praise"
This song was written by David Ruis. David is a well-respected worship leader, songwriter and speaker. Together with his wife Anita, he is also known as a church planter and pastor having established churches in Canada and the US within the Association of Vineyard Churches. David has also been instrumental in seeing Christian communities developed in Nepal and India within the Vineyard movement. Much of his focus tends to be in indigenous settings working amongst the poor, as well as facilitating leadership development and the fostering of originality in song writing and the arts in various cultural settings.
David has several worship songs published that are standards in Church worship, most notably "You're Worthy of My Praise" and "Every Move I Make". He recently released his latest CD, “When Justice Shines” through ION Records (ionworship.org). David has also authored two books with Regal Publishing - "The Worship God Is Seeking" and more recently "The Justice God Is Seeking".
At this point David is giving significant focus to music and the creative aspects of his calling, which involve music production, writing, and composition. David continues to travel internationally both speaking and leading worship. A burning passion for the Ruis family is the discovery of the practical and theological integration of creative worship expression within community that is engaged in a lifestyle that interfaces with the issues of poverty and social injustice.
David, his wife Anita and their four children currently reside in the Los Angeles area.
Click here to listen to David share about how the song came about:
www.theheartofworship.org/stories/Story-164-YouAreWorthyofMyPraise-Ruis.mp3
Click here to worship along with the Vineyard worship team:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcWkt7rxrg
Click here to worship along with Jeremy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ33YN3lZWw
"I will Exalt Your Name"
This song was made popular by the Passion Band. The song was written by Jeffrey B. Scott.
About Jeffrey B Scott
"there's nothing wrong with acoustic worship music - it's beautiful! But sometimes you need to bring on the worship with the excitement and loudness of a football game! That's what we're about," says Jeffrey B. Scott. With a desire to be used by God, and a passion for God's glory above all else, Jeff and the band bring what they do best to the worship arena--and it rocks! "We want to fade into the background, and at the same time, lead people with passion into the throneroom of God." says Jeff. "If they're challenged to think outside the box of what we normally view as worship music then that's exactly where we want to be. We want to be a bump in the road along the journey to deeper worship, and a greater understanding of who God is, and what He has in store for us."
Jeff, his wife, Shannon, and their three children reside in Roseville, CA, where Jeffrey leads worship at Bayside Church of Granite Bay.
Click here to visit Jeffrey's myspace:
www.myspace.com/jeffreybscott
Click here to learn more about Jeffrey B. Scott:
www.jeffscottband.com/#
Click here to worship along with the Passion Band: www.last.fm/music/Passion/_/I+Will+Exalt+Your+Name
"At the Name of Jesus"
This anthem was written by Cindy Berry. Cindy Berry was born in Houston, Texas, and attended Houston Baptist University. She is a composer/arranger of sacred choral anthems for all voicings, for children’s anthems, and piano collections for several major publishers. She frequently serves as choral and keyboard clinician, and leads “composer weekends” and various workshops throughout the country. Her goal as a musician is to always present her music as an offering of worship to God, and to help lead others in worshipping and praising God too. She has been the recipient of ASCAP Special Awards for many years.
Cindy currently lives in Killeen, Texas, where husband Bruce is Minister of Music at First Baptist Church, and where she serves as a pianist and children’s choir director. Cindy and Bruce are the parents of three grown sons, and have recently become proud grandparents.
Cindy graciously shared the following information on how the song was written:
I will be glad to share a little bit about "At the Name of Jesus" with you. Of course this song goes "way back!" :-0 I had written some as a hobby, and had even written a couple of things for our youth choir back in the late 70's. But I never envisioned a "career" in composition. During our children's growing-up years, we attended Music Week at Glorieta every summer. We all loved the training, the fellowship, and the beautiful surroundings. But in the summer of 1983, I had a very special experience. Bruce asked me to come into a class with him; it was called "Philosophy of Worship," taught by Dr. Bruce Leafblad. It truthfully didn't sound like a class that I would be interested in at all, and at first I told Bruce that I would rather just go to my piano conferences. But when he asked me again and told me what a wonderful class it was, I agreed. We learned so much about worship, and I won't even try to go into that. But at the end of that week, I had a very definite word from the Lord. In my heart and mind, He said, "Cindy, I want you to go home and just start writing down your worship." OK, I could do that! That next week, I wrote "At the Name of Jesus." Bruce said, "This is good; we should send it to a publisher." I replied, "God told me to write down my worship; He didn't tell me to send it for publication. I really don't want anything to do with publishing companies." (This is really funny to me now!) I told him that if HE wanted to send it off, to feel free. TWO YEARS later, it was published. It was rejected by countless publishing companies, and finally published by Fourth Day Music, which went out of business a couple of years later, and the copyright came back to me. Then Word Music (who had originally rejected it) wanted to publish it. This experience was what I refer to as the time when God "called me to write." (as opposed to writing for a hobby)
I think one thing that has given "At the Name . ." such longevity is that it is totally Scripture. One thing that Dr. Leafblad said is: "I think God must love it when we sing His Words back to Him."
"I saw the Light"
"I Saw the Light" is a 1948 Gospel song written and first performed by Hank Williams.With poetic lyrics, such as "I wandered so aimless, life filled with sin/I wouldn't let my dear Savior in," the song was written about Williams' religious convictions. Though the song was not a commercial success upon its first release, it has become one of the songs most closely tied to Williams' career. Since its release, the song has been covered by numerous artists, including Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Acuff (1948), Bobby Bare (1966), Merle Haggard (1971), Etta James (2001), Bill Monroe (1958),Jerry Reed, Willie Nelson (1979), The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1972), Earl Scruggs (1972), Hank Williams, Jr. (1969), The The (1995), Johnny Cash (In a Columbo episode), and David Crowder Band (2005).
Click here to watch Roy Acuff & Hank Williams sing the song and visit the I saw the light webpage:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/pdcmusic/hank-williams-i-saw-the-light.html#History
Click here to listen to the song:
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i+saw+the+light&search_type=&aq=f
"Hosanna"
Paul Baloche wrote this with Brenton Brown to be sung on Palm Sunday. Contemplating that sense of expectancy led Paul to start with the phrase “Praise is rising”. Paul said there is that same sense of expectancy when God’s people gather to worship that was felt along the road in Jerusalem when the people crowded the streets to get a glimpse of Jesus.
Ever wonder what Hosanna really means? Hosanna is Hebrew for "Save now" from Psalm 118. It is an intensified imperative, a cry, addressed to God, particularly used in the Feast of Tabernacles, when prayers for rain were offered. In the New Testament the crowd shouted it when Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. It is used as an exclamation in Christian worship.
Click here to listen to Paul share how he wrote the song:
www.theheartofworship.org/stories.shtml
Click here to worship along with Paul Baloche
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TIg2QOzPpg
or here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BZoDH2H1Ls
"The Solid Rock"
The name of Edward Mote does not often rest on the lips of the church today in the saym fashion as Fanny J. Crosby, B.B. McKinney, Ira Sankey, or other greats in hymnody. However, the testimony of his life is one that should inspire all Christians. Mote was note brought up in a godly home and did not have the advantage of early exposure to Scripture. In fact, his parents managed a pub in London and often neglected young Edward, who spent most of his Sundays playing in the city streets. Of his theological upbringing, he said “So ignorant was I that did not know that there was a God.”
Eventually Mote became exposed to the Word of God, and was baptized at the age of 18. This event, however, did not send Mote immediately into the ministry. He was apprenticed to become a cabinetmaker, a career which he successfully conducted for another 37 years. Eventually, at the age of 55, he became pastor of a Baptist church in Horsham, Sussex, where he did not miss a Sunday in the pulpit for the next 21 years.3 He resigned from this pastorate in 1873 due to ill health, and died the following year at the age of 77.
It was with this background that Mote wrote the hymn we have today, "The Solid Rock." It was during his career as a cabinetmaker that the hymn came into being. One morning in 1834 as he was walking to work, it entered his mind to write a hymn. By the time he got to work, he had the chorus. He wrote four more verses over the course of that day and two additional verses before he was finished.
‘On Christ the solid Rock I stand,All other ground is sinking sand.’
In the day I had four first verses complete, and wrote them off. On the Sabbath following I met brother King as I came out of Lisle Street Meeting…who informed me that his wife was very ill, and asked me to call and see her. I had an early tea, and called afterwards. He said that it was his usual custom to sing a hymn, read a portion, and engage in prayer, before he went to meeting. He looked for his hymn-book but could find it no where. I said, ‘I have some verses in my pocket; if he liked, we would sing them.’ We did, and his wife enjoyed them so much, that after service he asked me, as a favour, to leave a copy of them for his wife. I went home, and by the fireside composed the last two verses, wrote the whole off, and took them to sister King…As these verses so met the dying woman’s case, my attention to them was the more arrested, and I had a thousand printed for distribution.
Click here to listen to an arrangement by the Cadet sisters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJnb3l9UuYU&feature=related
Here is a gospel arrangement by the:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGv-2Yb8a4&feature=related
Here is a more traditional arrangement of the song on organ:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGv-2Yb8a4&feature=related
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