I think one of the biggest problems today is a corpus of songs that says, “Oh God I want to worship you and praise you…” without ever declaring the “why”….you can never get enough cross and resurrection in songs in my opinion. Is the foundation for our praise.

a practice I would like to employ more often. I think of two songs… Parachute Band’s “All The Earth” and Redman’s “Lord, Let Your Glory Fall” that I hesitated with for over a year. I even tried them out in worship rehearsals. There was no initial “release” to use them. But they endured in my spirit and now that they are in the songlist, they are effective and deep when we use them. I am appreciative of how they (just 2 examples) were allowed to “accumulate” in me first.

Oftentimes, though, you cannot sense Accumulation early on. I long for a different mindset among both leaders and congregations than the “write it, record it, use it” immediacy that drives our worship plannning. Listening to and using songs privately for a very long time, before adding them to songsets is a practice I

I’ve not been to Hillsong’s services, but I have heard some tapes of Brian Houston, and certainly from those his teaching is much more God-focused in the context of the local church than you see in the conferences. And having heard Darlene Zschech’s teaching on worship, their basis is all in the right place.

I don’t know if you’ve listened to anything by Reuben Morgan? His lyrics are usually pretty top notch - especially “More Than Life” and “For All You’ve Done” (he was one of their worship leaders, I’m not sure if he still is or not). And his song “What the Lord Has Done in Me” is one of the best ‘accumulating’ songs I know - right up there with “In Christ Alone” and “To Live is Christ” by Parachute Band/Youth Alive.

I keep forgetting that there are people reading this blog on the other side of the world…

You bought Albertine for your sister, but do you have it? Just curious.

I’d agree that Hillsong writing in general is getting better. So often, though, there will be one or two lines in an otherwise great song that are unclear, man-focused, or more driven by emotion than biblical clarity. When you add the visual production to some of the songs it can be difficult to focus on the truth that’s being sung. But I’m usually seeing videos of conferences and not a Sunday meeting of the church.

Haven’t listened to Saviour King closely, but will do so in the near future. In fact, I’m listening right now. I’ll share some more thoughts in the near future. Thanks for reading the blog, Nick.