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Top 10 reasons NOT to write songs for your church http://ning.it/9m5Qcy
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What can we learn from The Beatles on songwriting? Mark Altrogge @ Beatles' Songwriting Academy http://bit.ly/d3hCNh
May 24
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Mark Altrogge is one of the best and most prolific worship songwriters alive today. Since writing songs like I Stand In Awe (You Are Beautiful, Beyond Description), I'm Forever Grateful, Faithful God and How High And How Wide in the 80's he's wri…
May 24
Thanks for sharing these MAtt - i'm gonna take a listen (listening to Send Me now - good stuff!). I also really like a lot 29th Chapter's stuff.
May 18
Never mind all that - did you see they're using TWO macbooks live on stage? I mean, really. ;-)
May 17
Yeah not corporate music, but interestingly I've found these guys have a lots more theology in their music than almost all worship music and just in my own personal space i've found more God in it than just listening to the latest conference CD...
May 16

Profile Information

Home Town:
Nottingham
Home Church:
Grace Church Nottingham (Newfrontiers) www.gracechurchnottingham.org
Musical Gift(s):
Songwriter, Guitarist, Worship Leader
About Me:
I've been playing guitar for 26 years (after brief false starts on Drums and...erm...Tuba), & have been recording and gigging for 22 years with all sorts of bands from Heavy Metal, Jazz orchestras, Contemporary Gospel & Iranian Bagpipe bands. My music teaching career coincided with my conversion to Christianity (“God convicted me that I should get a job”) and I joined the team that planted Grace Church Nottingham in 2002. I'm responsible for developing worship teams & lead worship with Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! I am married with 4 children.
Favourite Music
Paul Baloche, Brenton Brown, Stuart Townend, Bob Kauflin, Mark Altrogge, Brian Doerksen, Take 6, Fred Hammond, Keith Green, Sara Groves, Out Of The Grey, Evan Rogers, Simon Brading
Favourite Bible Verses / Passages
Judges 3:22 (ESV)
Website
http://www.youngglory.blogspot.com

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Mark Altrogge On The Beatles







Mark Altrogge is one of the best a
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Posted on May 24, 2010 at 5:32pm —

Matt Blick

New Song: The Weight Of Glory



The Weight Of Glory was inspired by various sermons I’ve heard through the years on 2 Corinthians 4:17.

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

Verse 1 contrasts Momentary/Eternal,
Verse 2, Light/Weight
Verse 3 holds up Christ as o… Continue

Posted on July 8, 2009 at 12:49pm —

Matt Blick

Band On The Run

At a recent worship leaders gathering I was at a number of people mentioned wanting to grow in their bands ability to 'self-arrange'. Bob Kauflin from Sovereign Grace has done some of the best teaching I've heard on this subject. Why not get break out the chips & dips and get your team together to watch this?

If you prefer you can download the audio mp3 along with every other seminar from the WorshipG… Continue

Posted on November 30, 2008 at 9:16pm —

Matt Blick

Son of God/God the Son: Lyrics

Son of God, God the Son,
Eternal Uncreated One
You became what you were not
When you became a man.
Purest light, no stain of sin,
Glory cloaked in human skin
Flesh & bone your offering,
You lived & died a man.

And so all we long to do
Is grow more in love with you
Jesus Christ, with all our hearts
We worship you
To you be the loudest praise
Your name far above all names
Jesus Christ, Risen One
Son of God, God the Son
We worship you.

Emmanuel you dwell with us,
A diamond in th
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Posted on August 22, 2008 at 10:55pm —

Matt Blick

Son of God/God the Son – Song Story

The phrase "Son of God and God the Son" leapt out listening to a sermon on John ch.1 by one our elders. I felt it was a great way to sum up the mystery of the incarnation, which C.S. Lewis called "the grand miracle". The verses flowed easily, but the chorus took a long time. Eventually I settled on this -

This is the miracle of God made flesh -
The life that bridged the great divide.
This is the miracle of God made flesh -
The blameless cursed & crucified.
This is the miracle,
The miracle o… Continue

Posted on August 22, 2008 at 10:30pm —

Matt Blick

More Than I Could Say – Song Story

This song took 10 years to write from 1st inspiration to completion. It started with the idea that Jesus calling his servants friends in John 15:15 is in part an example of God being "able to do far more abundantly than we ask or think" (Eph. 3:20). I started to write a tune and more lyrics, filling out that thought with other examples but ended up shelving it. I finally picked it up again 7 years later, finishing the song on a piano whilst on holiday, in a house that poet Walter De La Mare had… Continue

Posted on July 19, 2008 at 8:00pm —

Matt Blick

The Eglon Song:Song Story

The Eglon Song

I was reading the ESV translation of the Bible in the garden one day when I came to Judges 3 and laughed at the explicitness of their translation of King Eglon's demise. When my children asked me why I was laughing at the Bible I told them the story. Wide-eyed they asked me if that “was really in the Bible!” As we talked about it, I started singing the refrain to a “here we go around the mulberry bush” type tune and improvising verses.

And that would have be… Continue

Posted on June 29, 2008 at 10:30pm —

Matt Blick

More Than I Could Say:Lyrics

More than I could say

You have called me your friend when I was happy to be your servant forever,
Set a crown on my head when all I wanted to be was loosed from my chains.
You have made me your child when all I wanted to do was follow your Son.
You poured out your love when it was enough that you held back your anger.

More than I could say, more than I could ask
More than I could dream, everything you made me
More than I could hope, more than I could know
More than I could
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Posted on June 29, 2008 at 9:49pm — 1 Comment

Matt Blick

The Eglon Song: Lyrics

The Eglon Song

Back in the day when the Bible was thin
Israel was conquered by a heavyweight King
So they prayed for a saviour who was able to fight
Big-bellied Eglon the Moabite.
Well, Ehud was the man God chose
He made a little sword & hid it in his clothes
Said “King I got a message to whisper to you”
Then in went the sword & out came the poo because he…

Stabbed him in the belly & his poo came out
Stabbed him in the belly & his poo came out
Stabbed him in the be
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Posted on June 29, 2008 at 9:30pm —

Matt Blick

Song Of The Redeemed: Lyrics

Song Of The Redeemed

There is a song that even the angels cannot sing
One that belongs to those who were once the slaves of sin
A song of those who fought the light
Who chose the chains that bound them tight
Each one an enemy adopted as your child.

Jesus we sing to you the song of the redeemed
We are the ones that you bought back from our slavery.
From the depth of our sin to the height of your throne
How great is the range of your salvation song
Jesus we sing to you the s
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Posted on June 29, 2008 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

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At 8:52pm on September 22, 2009, Phil Williams said…
Hi Matt,

Thanks for the heads up - i've banned the spammer now! We've had a bit of a flood of spammers recently...hopefully it should calm down again soon...

Hope you're well.

Thanks,

Phil
At 10:25am on November 29, 2008, Phil Williams said…
Hi Matt,

I think at the moment the only way is if your other blog has an rss feed. You can then use the rss module here on on your profile page to input the rss link from your blog.

Let me know if that helps?

Thanks,

Phil
At 9:31pm on November 28, 2008, Mark Kendal said…
Hi
:-) I know what you mean about NewFrontiers - I don't think we do geography in the same way as the maps do! Which is great!

OK about the evening meeting - exciting news. We're just coming to the end of our first season and are definitely going for another season in Februaray/March. We're going to work harder on advertising and getting folks in so lot's of work to do but ...exciting times!!!
Mark
At 3:53pm on September 6, 2008, Daniel Read said…
Hi Matt

Wondered if you have any helpful thoughts on this discussion of one of my songs?

Thanks!
At 8:37am on August 29, 2008, Daniel Read said…
Hi Matt

Feeling better: not completely, yet. My head is still screwed up.... going back to the doctor's this morning.

But, I'm honoured you should choose me as one of the two to receive a personal invitation to listen in! I really like the song..... it does have a kind of seventies feel to it (as Alex says, "in a good way") though I can't be more precise than that (as in exactly which band it sounds like) - I think it's all those descending and ascending basslines. Good tune, good words. How does it go down in church?
At 8:42am on August 25, 2008, Alex Ball said…
Hey Matt,

Thanks for buying the album. Hope you worship to/enjoy it. As I shamelessly said before, I have sheet music for all the songs (in CD key and congregation keys) if you ever need them. We do 'Shout for Joy', 'Fill the House', 'Everlasting Love', 'You are my rock' and 'I crown You lord' at church at the moment. I'm going to introduce 'Your love' at some point too.

Son of God/God the son- Great basis for a song. The lyrics are really great. I like it musically as well. The chords with the descending bass line in the verse reminds me of DC talk in a good way. Chorus has got a great push to it.

Your voice double-tracked, sonically reminds me of Ian Anderson on the 70s Jethro Tull recordings. Sounds cool.

As you said, its a demo, but a bunch of vocal harmonies in the chorus would be the next move I'd make. But yeah, I like it both lyrically and musically :)

I'm still cracking up listening to 'The Eglon Song'. Squishy squashy- give your hands a washy- genius.
At 1:28pm on August 10, 2008, Alex Ball said…
Hi Matt,

Yes, brilliant, you certainly can!

Email andrew@highdownchurch.org.uk and he will tell you where to send cheque etc. Cheques made out to 'Highdown Church' and the CD is £11 including postage within the UK.

Many thanks!
At 4:22pm on July 21, 2008, Alex Ball said…
Thanks for the clip. The harmony is like nothing else on earth! And totally accapella too!

Bulgaria is at a point where East meets West, and its been invaded and ruled by so many different people that they have a massive pallet of influences and styles.

We once looked at a Bulgarian choral piece at uni and we had sheet music for it. I wish I could still find it so I could figure out the harmonies. It's all really close harmony, dissonant and yet beautiful at the same time. Not to mention its in all kinds of odd meters!
At 2:38pm on July 21, 2008, Daniel Read said…
Hi Matt, glad to see you're back..... was the conference good??
I put the following in my blog, in response to your provocation:

I'm trying, I'm trying. There are hints of it in "Our hope is in the Lord", especially the last verse, but the whole song is essentially an appeal to christian unity rooted in our Christian hope, not least in resurrection theology. I wrote it whilst reading Tom Wright's big green "The Ressurection of the Son of God". Also "All the world is changed" is a resurrection song. The last verse of "By your word" is sort of getting there, though I'm not sure about the "when you call us home" line - I wrote this a few years back, before I'd gone through my big reading phase..... also, take a look at the song I submitted to the Song Feedback group.
.....
I would add that the song "This is not my place", which is the other one with discords I pointed you towards, is one that could be misinterpreted in this area..... Julia gave me the words, and I pushed it in the direction of New Creation as far as it would go!!
At 10:37pm on July 20, 2008, Alex Ball said…
Hey,

Small world! Yes Rachel's great. It was her sister, Ruth's, wedding yesterday, we drove all the way up to Chorley and back from Brighton way. Was a great day- but a long drive!

I'll check out 'More than I can say'. Major/minor shifts are a good idea. I quite like shifts from tonic minor to tonic major as well as relative minor to relative major as Dm to F is.

I'm part of a small non-denominational church in Worthing just outside Brighton. We're called Highdown Church. I've been involved in loads of churches in my life, and this is the smallest, but yet the most passionate and most dynamic in worship. Weird that! I'm one of the worship leaders, and my wife runs the kids group.

We don't have an evening service, so sometimes go to CCK in Brighton- that's one of yours right?

We're just selling the album ourselves. It's on sale in Wesley Owen in Worthing and Brighton under their local artist scheme. It's £10. Let me know if you want one.

I've got the sheet music in the same keys as the recording, and then in a suggested congregation key. You might find some of them are a bit high on the CD.

Oh btw- I love 'Le Mystere De Voix Bulgares' too, and also drive people mad playing my CD of Bulgarian folk music in weird and wonderful time signatures. That's one of my biggest influences- Bulgarian folk music!
 
 
 

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