Posts Tagged ‘Song Ideas’

Now Thank We All Our God   “Now Thank We All Our God” was written by a Lutheran Pastor named Martin Rinkart, in Eilenburg, Saxony in the early 17th century.  He lived during a time of great political strife.  During the Thirty Years War his city was under siege by Swedish and Austrian armies.  In [...]

Take my Life and Let it Be!   That’s not what I’d call a good title for a hymn.  However, the very next line puts everything into context:  “Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.”  Ahh… Now it makes sense.  In fact the entire song is about surrender, commitment & offering. [...]

During the song “Shout to the Lord” use your choir members to really bring the congregation into the story by discussing the last line of the chorus while the band continues to play the song softly in the background.  Here’s a script that we followed:     CHORUS: Shout to the Lord.  All the earth [...]