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Worship Song of the Year - your nominations
The Grammy awards are this weekend, and while there is a Gospel category, there isn't a category for Praise and Worship. So I thought it would be fun to invent one. Yes, the Dove Awards cover this, but they don't come around until April.
What songs, released in 2009, would you like to nominate for this award?
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Permalink Reply by Benjamin Luce on -
All Is Well - Robin Mark (written by his friend Johnny Parks)
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Permalink Reply by Guitarearl on -
This is a funny thing to gauge. The trouble is that there is always a lag between the release and the momentum towards becoming a Sunday morning song. For instance, as listed, "I Will Rise" was actually on Chris Tomlin's 2008 Hello Love album. I think we have trouble getting to all of the songs on our "to do" list, so that when a song like "I Will Rise" finally hits the worship set it's more than a year after release.
I'll create four categories for my nominations:
Top Praise Song that became active in 2009: Today Is The Day - Lincoln Brewster or Paul Baloche
Top Worship Song that became active in 2009: Lead Me To The Cross - Hillsong United or Chris + Conrad
Top Praise Song released in 2009: Alleluia, Sing - David Crowder Band
Top Worship Song released in 2009: You Hold Me Now - Hillsong United/Hillsong
We'll see if either of those make it in the future! Note that neither of those released songs have been played within my Praise Team as of date.
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Permalink Reply by Dave Hartwell on -
I'll second some of these:
A great first song to open service with:
target="_blank">Today is the Day - Paul Baloche
Today is the Day - Lincoln Brewster
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This is an exciting new worship tune:
Lead me to the Cross - Hillsongs
Lead me to the Cross - Chris and Conrad (K-Love live acoustic)
There are some very exciting other versions of this to listen to, for instance the Chris & Conrad studio version
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Permalink Reply by Matthew Edey on -
I'd have to say "How He Loves" for 2009. Even though it was originally written and released a while back, since David Crowder and Jesus Culture covered it, it's taken off.
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Permalink Reply by Mark St Clair on -
Agreed, I just started working on 'How He Loves", after buying the David Crowder version. I'd put "Revelation Song" in that same category, since Philips, Craig and Dean covered it in 2009 even though it's been around a few years.
For new songs, I like "Glory to God Forever" by Fee
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Permalink Reply by Guitarearl on
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This "How He Loves" phenomenon is strange in my book. The song is fine, but the "everyone else does it" momentum kinda covers the fact that there are many songs out there that are more congregational, Scriptural, and that do not use a relatively provocative metaphor.
The funny thing is that an elegy is getting sung in worship services.
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Permalink Reply by Mark St Clair on
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I hear ya. I've only heard the David Crowder version, which changes that line, but I know what line you are talking about. I like the song, and will probably do it as a solo, but I don't think my worship team will do it. We tried to teach the congregation Revelation Song, and they had trouble with that one.
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Permalink Reply by Priscilla B. Martinez on -
You know, our congregation had trouble with Revelation Song at first, too. And, I thought we were weird cause, everyone else's church does that song...lol...I mean, they finally got into it after the third service we'd played it in. It's nice to know we're not..."weird".
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Permalink Reply by Elman Authement on -
Amen to that. I loved the song "How He Loves" a couple of years ago when Jesus Culture did it but now that it's been burned over, my church decides to start singing it. Oh well, at least they did a decent job with it. By the way, our team sings 'heaven meets earth like a glorious kiss', something like that.My buddy has an ebow so he does the guitar parts well.
I can't pick a song of the year.
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Permalink Reply by Guitarearl on
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And I'm not trying to be critical of the song, in fact the original makes me choke up just about every time I hear that final verse. But a worship song? Might as well throw Normie Greenbaum and "Spirit In The Sky" in the worship set.
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Permalink Reply by Elman Authement on
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Wow, same here with the Revelation Song. I rememer my friend telling me to get Christ For The Nations new CD back with Kari Jobe sang it with them. I felt it was too wordy in the verses for me. Thank God that the chorus saved the song in my opinion. I guess when you're singing the Word of God like that, it works. We've sung it at our church and it does go over well with the people though.
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