Question for amerians?

[zaire]

Do you guys sing praise and worship songs by british/irish writers?

Or do you's have your own american writers?

Ive never heard a song written by an american. They are all written by brits and irish, and a few new zealands.



Im not saying that we are better writters than you guys and im juts interested.

 

[Hawkster318]

See the post further down about Mark Condon.

Why would anyone want to sing a song written by a brit?

 

[Nathan8906]

Do you guys sing praise and worship songs by british/irish writers?

Or do you's have your own american writers?

Ive never heard a song written by an american. They are all written by brits and irish, and a few new zealands.



Im not saying that we are better writters than you guys and im juts interested.

I've heard some songs by British writers. Tim Hughes, Matt Redman (At least I think they're from Britain) There's also some songs by Australians (mostly Hillsong) But the majority of the songs that I listen to are written by Americans.
I'm sure the reason that you don't hear many songs by Americans is because, well, you're not in America.

EDIT: Wow, I really need to change my signature. I guess that's what you get for being gone for months.

 

[psalms 91]

don moen,and quite afew others. there are many worship songs by americans. jaci vascaluez, sandy patti, steven curtis chapman, so many

 

[HolyPlace]

I've never heard a pw song by a british/irsh writer, not that i don't want to i think it would be cool.

 

[anett]

There's also some songs by Australians (mostly Hillsong) QUOTE]

SOME???!?!? I think most praise and worship songs played around the world in churches are from Hillsongs. And not only in English speaking places, cause in many places they translate them.

 

[Stairway]

See the post further down about Mark Condon.

Why would anyone want to sing a song written by a brit?

Because British people are according to recent history the best musicians in the world.

The Beatles
The Who
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
Cream
Queen
etc

 

[Hawkster318]

The Beatles
The Who
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
Cream
Queen

Are you supporting with this list? Which sources are you referencing?

Opinion verses fact?

 

[jbgordon]

Anyways, back to topic. I have heard (and play) a lot of songs written by brits, mainly Tim Hughes and Matt Redman. There are also plenty of american writters such as Chris Tomlin, David Crowder, and Charlie Hall.

 

[Stairway]

Are you supporting with this list? Which sources are you referencing?

Opinion verses fact?

I am referencing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

It is spelled versus.

 

[MissSarah8884]

So, I guess I really don't pay attention to where people are from, but Chris Tomlin has some amazing Praise and Worship stuff, and I assume that he is from here (US). However, I'm not sure.

 

[zaire]

I guess you Americans dont sing any of the songs we sing and we Brits/Irish dont sing any of your songs. Never heard of any of the song below by Brit/Irish writers below? (I highlighted about four songs your bound to have heard of)

Disc 1:
01 Come Now Is The Time
02 Let Everything That Has Breath
03 In Christ Alone
04 Here I Am To Worship
05 Breathe
06 All For Jesus
07 All Hail The Lamb
08 Shout To The North
09 All Heaven Declares
10 Above All
11 The Voice Of Hope
12 Shine Jesus Shine
13 Lord I Lift Your Name On High
14 Who Is There Like You
15 Be Still
16 The Heart Of Worship

Disc 2:
01 Take Us To The River
02 Lord Let Your Glory Fall
03 Beautiful Saviour
04 Lord Reign In Me
05 Shout To The Lord
06 My Help
07 Better Is One Day
08 There Is A Higher Throne
09 How Deep The Father's Love
10 Father God I Wonder
11 All I Once Held Dear
12 Jesus Be The Centre
13 Colours Of Day
14 I Will Offer Up My Life
15 To Be In Your Presence
16 Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble
17 See What A Morning

Disc 3:
01 I Could Sing Of Your Love
02 Jesus You Alone
03 Hungry
04 Open The Eyes Of My Heart
05 Blessed Be Your Name
06 What A Faithful God
07 Lord You Have My Heart
08 The Power Of Your Love
09 All Who Are Thirsty
10 We Wanna See Jesus
11 Forever
12 Once Again
13 The Servant King
14 We Bow Down
15 Days Of Elijah
16 You Laid Aside Your Majesty
17 Jesus Lover Of My Soul


All these songs are from a CD i have: http://www.eden.co.uk/christianbooks/detail.php?product_id=54973 and are supposed to be the 'best' ever worship songs.
I dont know them all and have never heard some of them song before.

 

[MissSarah8884]

I've heard of just about all those songs on those lists, we probably sing a lot of the same music, especially since we both speak English. A good sing is a good song no matter where you are from.

 

[ScarletRubies]

bytheway - we sing about half those songs in our church (Australia).

What resources are most of you using in your churches? We primarily use Resource (Noelene Prince); The Source (Graham Kendrick); and Hillsong. We also use the New Church Hymnal/Resource Hymns, Scripture In Song (pre-1990 stuff!) and miscellaneous stuff from other sources (like songs which can be downloaded for free). Interesting discussion...

Cheers,
Ruby

 

[Wakeup2god]

I'm sure we all sing more songs from around the world than we know. At our church we'll sing anything that gives glory to God from old hymns written in the old King James language to 'Bayeti Incosi' which I believe is Swahili (spellcheck) for King of Kings. Martin Smith (Delirious, England), Robin Mark (Northern Ireland), Third Day (USA), Hillsongs (Australia).

Praise and Worship is an international language. It's good to write songs that reflect where you're from though. We sing a lot of songs by a chap called Godfrey Birtill who encourages people to sing the 'lament', crying out for the city's and town's in which we live. Probably best known for 'Outrageous Grace'. Suppose that's going into intercesion though.

Intersting story about Mr Birtill, he was invited over to the USA by a community of native Navajo Indians who wanted him to teach them some of his songs. He went and encouraged them to write their own songs regarding their own struggles, and of course their own style of praise. Since then they have released two CD's made up of thier own songs.

Rick

 

[gig]

I moved to France last year, and we sing songs I've never heard of before, usually in French. A few of them are translations of songs I've sung before in English (Lord, I Lift Your Name On High to name one), but the majority are new to me. Whoever mentioned language as a factor has a good point. I'm familiar with most of the songs listed on the above CDs; many of those were popular in the churches I attended in the US. Some American-written songs include:

Forever--Chris Tomlin
Awesome God--Rich Mullins
Famous One--Chris Tomlin/Jesse Reeves
We Fall Down--Chris Tomlin
Be Glorified--Chris Tomlin, Louie Giglio, Jesse Reeves
King of Glory--Mac Powell
Salvation--Charlie Hall

There are many others ofcourse. As an American, I'm very grateful for our U.K. believers and their contribution to worship music. I may have more pw CDs from that side of the pond ( ... now I'm that side of the pond). Actually, I'm just grateful for English-language music!!!