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Worship Matters 1.2.2024

YOUR FAVORITE SONGS

Thank you so much to all who filled out the worship song survey. It will be very helpful for me as I continue to plan worship songs for Sunday mornings this year. If you didn’t get a chance to fill out the survey you can always send me an email with song suggestions 🙂 

I wanted to share some of the results of the survey with you all. Below are the top 10 of YOUR favorite songs that we sang in 2023 (in order of the most mentioned).

  1. He Will Hold Me Fast
  2. Behold Our God
  3. 10,000 Reasons
  4. Revelation Song
  5. Come Behold The Wondrous Mystery
  6. Christ Be Magnified
  7. Echo Holy
  8. In Christ Alone
  9. It Is Well With My Soul
  10. Blessed Assurance

I also asked you which songs we didn’t sing this year that you would love to sing in 2024. Here are some of the most mentioned songs you’d like to sing this year:

  1. How Great Thou Art
  2. In The Garden
  3. Amazing Grace
  4. The Old Rugged Cross

There were over 60 total songs that were suggested that we didn’t sing in 2023 and I’m so excited to listen to many I’ve never heard before and incorporate as many as possible into our Sunday mornings this year. Please continue to pray for me and the worship team as we plan services this year and do our best to lead you well in worship. 

SUNDAY SONGS

As usual you can listen to our Sunday worship songs ahead of time by following the Spotify or Youtube playlists below. You can listen to them in the car as you drive, as you exercise, with your family in the evenings, or as you work on your computer. The more you sing these songs, the more ready you’ll be to worship with everyone on Sunday! You can also click here to see the lyrics for these songs.

  1. All Creatures of Our God & King
  2. Come Behold The Wondrous Mystery
  3. He Will Hold Me Fast
  4. The Old Rugged Cross
  5. Amazing Grace

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THE OLD RUGGED CROSS

This hymn was written by a traveling evangelist named George Bennard. He wrote this song in 1912 in Albion, Michigan. After being mocked by some teenagers at a revival meeting, Bennard was troubled and began reflecting on Christ and the cross. He had a vision-like experience where he imagined Christ on the cross and the words and melody seemed to come easily to him. Over the course of a few months he finished the song and it quickly spread in popularity. It is now considered one of the most beloved Christian hymns in history. Below are the lyrics to this hymn.

Verse 1
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross
The emblem of suff’ring and shame
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.

Chorus
So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged cross
And exchange it someday for a crown.

Verse 2
Oh, that old rugged cross, so despised by the world
Has a wondrous attraction for me
For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary

Verse 3
In the old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine
Such a wonderful beauty I see
For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died
To pardon and sanctify me

Verse 4
To the old rugged cross I will ever be true
Its shame and reproach gladly bear
Then He’ll call me someday to my home far away
Where His glory forever I’ll share

The words in the third verse stand out to me. “In the old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, such a wonderful beauty I see.” It was the precious blood of Jesus that was poured out for us. The Holy Son of God crushed for our sin. And it was this sacrifice which pardoned and sanctified us. Because of His blood we are washed clean. Praise the Lord! 

Can’t wait for Sunday!