Our song of the week this week is ‘Come and Listen’ written by David Crowder. I didn’t realise that the David CrowdBand sang this, as I only had a copy of it on a tape that friends from Denver left with us when they were over visiting our church in about 2001. It was my favourite song on that tape and the song popped into my mind last week, so I typed the title into Google expecting to somehow find a copy of our Denver friends singing it, but hey-ho all of this other info popped up. The things you learn!

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. It’s one to just sit back, close your eyes and listen.

Come and listen, come to the water’s edge, all you who know and fear the Lord.
Come and listen, come to the water’s edge all you who are thirsty, come.

Let me tell you what He has done for me.
Let me tell you what He has done for me,
He has done for you,
He has done for us.

Come and listen, come and listen to what He’s done.
Come and listen, come and listen to what He’s done.

Praise our God for He is good.
Praise our God for He is good.
Praise our God for He is good.
Praise our God for He is good.

He has done for me,
He has done for you,
He has done for us.

Come and listen, come and listen to what He’s done.
Come and listen, come and listen to what He’s done.

Our song of the week this week is ‘Come people of the risen King’ by Keith and Kristyn Getty and Stuart Townend. A great, rousing call to worship and reminder about God’s love for us.

Come, people of the Risen King,
Who delight to bring Him praise;
Come all and tune your hearts to sing
To the Morning Star of grace.
From the shifting shadows of the earth
We will lift our eyes to Him,
Where steady arms of mercy reach
To gather children in.

REFRAIN
Rejoice, Rejoice! Let every tongue rejoice!
One heart, one voice; O Church of Christ, rejoice!

Come, those whose joy is morning sun,
And those weeping through the night;
Come, those who tell of battles won,
And those struggling in the fight.
For His perfect love will never change,
And His mercies never cease,
But follow us through all our days
With the certain hope of peace.

Come, young and old from every land –
Men and women of the faith;
Come, those with full or empty hands –
Find the riches of His grace.
Over all the world, His people sing –
Shore to shore we hear them call
The Truth that cries through every age:
“Our God is all in all”!

Our song of the week this week is ‘Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah’ (also ‘Redeemer’) and was recommended by Chris from our congregation. The hymn was written in Welsh by William Williams in 1745 and translated in to English by Peter Williams in 1771. The tune was written by John Hughes in 1907, the famous ‘Cwm Rhondda’.

“I really like this song as it emphasises that even at the times when we find life at its most difficult, our powerful God is here to guide and support us. It’s a powerful song that in my view is best sang by those big Welsh male choirs!

I was introduced to the song ‘Power in the Blood’ about 13 years ago by Raymond, one of the members of our congregation. It’s grown and grown on me ever since then and I love hearing it. It’s one of those songs I’m sure I’ll remember when I’ve forgotten everything else!  After each line you just want to shout yes!

We sang Power in the Blood on Easter Sunday and I know that a lot of people left that day after a wonderful service feeling uplifted by what they’d heard all throughout the service.

There are hundreds of versions of this song as you can perform it in so many ways. I thought you’d like to hear a couple, starting with my favourite just now by Lari White.

This version by Fernando Ortega

Our song of the week post this week is written by Pedro, from our congregation at Newhaven Church. Thanks for sharing this Pedro.