The Ultimate Guide to where to find Free Christian Sheet Music and Christian Guitar Tab on the Internet. Q01OeTFicWuRpZzJVV3M.jpg' alt='Hillsongs Praise And Worship S' title='Hillsongs Praise And Worship S' />Chris Tomlins Worship Songs We Have Got to Do Better. Since I have been complaining about loud music in church, Ill stay in the groove and complain now about bad lyrics in church. And I have a particular songwriter in mind, probably the most popular one nowadays, to stand in for all the rest. Theres no doubt that Chris Tomlin can write hook y tunes. RECENT SONG LIST November 10, 2017 Testimony Go As recorded by Hillsong United Your Love Awakens Me As recorded by Phil Wickham. History. Hillsong Churchs popularity in Christian praise and worship music stems from the inauguration of the Hillsong Conference in the late 1980s and the first. But sometimes its those with the livinggrief that I weep for most. Those who live dayafterday with no end in sight to the suffering. But all hurting hearts have. Subscribe to Praise Worship Lyrics and Chords Its FREE Enter your email address and Click the Yahoo Button. Worship is the sound of Hillsong Church. Find out about tours, albums and more from our team. Many of them stay with you after church, even if you want them badly to go away. And why would you want them to go away Partly because some of them are musical clichs. Alas, I lack the technological ability to argue this case using musical samples via this blog. So Ill have to settle for what I can talk about here the frequently discomfiting lyrics. Has contemporary worship lost focus on the character of God What about the most popular hymns of old Lets explore the top 100 of both. Download Christian sheet music arrangements of popular praise and worship songs. We have chord charts, lead sheets, orchestrations and more. I dont know Chris Tomlin personally. I expect hes a nice man and a devoted Christian. So please be clear that Im not attacking his sincerity or his love of Jesus or anything else I cant possibly judge. What the evidence shows, however, is that he is a bad lyricist. The man either doesnt care about rhyming and settles for the merest assonance, or he lacks the skill or patience to actually craft rhymes. And rhyming is a pretty basic part of the pop genre in which he writes, not some exotic quality of songwriting I am unreasonably demanding of him. He also has no strong grasp of Scripture and particularly of the metaphors and allusions he uses. My suspicion, in fact, is that these songs come to him and he then records them with little or no alteration. Surely he cant be crafting them with the diligence of a serious poet. For if these are the best he can do after working and reworking them, he simply needs to get someone else to write the words. Theyre just that bad. Strong accusations You bet. Proof Lets pick one of his more recent songs, Praise the Father, Praise the Son O sovreign God, O matchless Kingthe saints adore, the angels singand fall before the throne of graceto you belongs the highest praise. Note Grace has a hard s while praise has a soft s. No big deal, you sayOkay, but how big a deal is it to find a rhyme for either grace or praise Lets go on. Next stanza These sufferings, this passing tideunder Your wings I will abide,and every enemy shall flee You are my hope and victory. We have rhymes this timehooray But now we have a metaphor malfunction. If sufferings are passing over us like a tide, its not going to do us much good to be under Someones wings, is it Well still drown. This is a common feature of Tomlins mix n match approach to imagery, a kaleidoscope of fragments that happen to occur to him and yet dont make any sense once theyre set down together. Then the refrain Praise the Father, Praise the Son. Praise the Spirit, Three in One. Clothed in power and in gracethe name above all other names. Here we go again still cant think of a rhyme for grace and now we have names instead. ShudderAnd what is the name above all other names That name would be Jesus, wouldnt it Phil. Or perhaps YHWH Ps. Next stanza To the valley, for my soul Thy great descent has made me whole Your word my heart has welcomed home now peace like water ever flows. Whats with the ThyIs that supposed to make the lyric more sacred because slightly archaic Or what Its weird, thats what it is, because the very next line has another second person possessive, but now its just Your. Next line Whos on first Is the sentence saying, Your word has welcomed home my heartOr is it saying, My heart has welcomed home your word Who knows Does it matterIs Tomlin concerned to provide us with a clear thought here, or just vague evocations of blessedness And the last line offers this rhyme for home flows. Say it with me, now Home, flows. Home, flows. Nope, no rhyme there. Not by a mile. Ill stop now, because I cant go on. This avoidance of simple lyrical craftsmanship shows up over and over and over again in Chris Tomlins songs. Program Protector 3.1 Full. So why am I pounding on him Because hes popular, very popular, and thus hes setting the pace for others. Please, aspiring songwriters, aim much, much higher Its not that hard and your music will sound better. And who knows Maybe having to reach for an actual rhyme will do for you what it does for other poets, namely, force you out of your comfort zone into new words and new ideas. Why else take Brother Tomlin to task Because those of us who want to praise God with our minds as well as our hearts, as our Lord taught us to do, cannot just ignore bad lyrics. None of us can just ignore repeated wrong notes sung or played by worship leaders, and these lousy lyrics go twang and clunk. They distract from the worship they are supposed to foster just as much as a lazy or untalented musician distracts us when his guitar isnt tuned or he keeps playing the wrong chords on the piano. So dont come back at me with Well, just ignore it and praise the Lord anyway and appreciate his heart and all that. Chris Tomlin is a professional songwriter. Hes not a sweet little kid doing his best in a Sunday School concert. Lets be clear, furthermore, that theres lots of blame to go around here. Brother Tomlins music producers are happy to keep churning this stuff out. Worship leaders keep programming it. And we keep singing it without protest. Well, enoughs enough. We are the most educated Christians in history, and yet our lyrics are considerably stupider than our much less educated Christian forebearsthe people who sang lyrics by Fanny Crosby or Charles Wesley or Isaac Watts. And please note that I didnt say our lyrics are simpler. Simple can be good. Simple can be beautiful. Im not arguing with simple. E Systems Sorrento 1 Drivers more. But what Brother Tomlin seems happy to keep sending our wayand what the rest of us are happily receivingisnt simple, its just bad. Shame on him, shame on the worship leaders who arent finding anything else to set before us, and shame on us for not objecting. This is serious business, friends, and I dont apologize for ranting. For we spend the days after weve gone to church humming and recalling the words from the songs weve sung a lot more often than we recall the words of the Scripture that was read, the liturgy that was recited, or the sermon that was preached. Lets do all we can, then, to make sure our heads and hearts are full of something good.