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News
Introduction
Copyright
Feedback
Downloads

News

7th Mar 2007
This month's theme at church is Faith, and after hearing two different talks about it on Sunday I got inspired.

Step Out In Faith has been added to the downloads.

30th Jan 2007
I finished another song today. This Troubled Life. It's a slower one than my others so it'll be interesting to see how it goes with the band.

Also, last night we played Inside Of Me for Sam's farewell service and it was pointed out to me that there were some typo's in the powerpoint slides. One of the typos had.
His advice will help me through, Help me find the patch
instead of
His advice will help me through, Help me find the path
I liked patch, so I've changed it in the sheet music aswell.

7th Jan 2007
It's taken a lot longer than expected to mix the songs we recorded back in July but I finally managed to spend some time on it and I've done Inside Of Me and added a download link for it.
I've also added the sheet music for two new songs named Creation and Called.

12th July 2006
We had another recording session yesterday to record some more new songs. I'm tired now, but it's worth it. The recording process is so much fun.
The songs we recorded were Inside Of Me, Do What We Can, and A Better Way.
Not sure if I'll get time to mix them in the near future since I'm getting married next month. YAY!

8th July 2006
Created this page.

I'm adding the sheet music for most of the songs I've written so far.

Of the mp3's I have I'm only adding Through Your Eyes, Our Guide and Our Flame, Know The Truth, All You Want Me To Be, and Shine Our Light.

I have mp3s for As We Gather, In Honour Of You, and Filled With Your Love but I want to remix them before releasing them to the wild. Who's knows when I'll get time to do that though. If someone is interested in them before they're redone they can always email me and ask me for them.

The story behind the songs


In Mid-2005 I was getting a little more involved in choosing songs for worship for the Sunday evening service at our church (Wesley Deep Creek Uniting). It was in doing this that I discovered that choosing songs to go with a particular theme or message for the evening was quite difficult at times. The songs we were choosing from seemed to mostly come from a limited gene pool of themes. There are plenty of generic praise and worship songs, and don't get me wrong, a lot of these are great songs, but I was looking for more of a message in the songs.

I began to look for some new songs in the hope of finding some with more challenging lyrics. I payed a visit to the christian book store and had a browse through some of the music books available there. I was very dissapointed for two reasons. Firstly, the lack of lyrical diversity. I love God too, but I want to sing about more than just that. I want something to get people thinking. Secondly, most of the songs consisted of one verse and one chorus. If you didn't want to do a lot of repeating then the songs would be very short.

Realising that I wasn't getting far with the "popular" christian worship music I decided to change tack. I started going through the songs on freepraiseandworship.org, but it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. I spent many hours going through lyrics to songs on there and didn't come up with anything I liked. Having gone through hundreds of songs I eventually got to the point where I decided It would be quicker and easier just to write new songs myself. And that's how it started. I took a topic from the previous week's service and a few days later I had Through Your Eyes written.

We are very lucky in our church. We are blessed with a great bunch of talented musicians making it a pleasure to turn up each week to play our part in worshiping God with song. Introducing my new music to them has been a lot of fun, and a great learning experience, and I thank everyone who has encouraged and supported me.

Given the popularity of my songs, and suggestions for other people, we have decided to share our gifts so that other churches can benefit from what we have achieved. This page has been put together to list the songs I have written that we are making available for download.

Copyright

Feedback

Please email me if you use any of these songs.

If you use any of these songs in your church please email me to let me know so that I can keep track of where and how they are being used. Information like this will be valuable for me in writing new songs in the future. If you ask I might also be able to keep you updated whenever new songs are released or if there are any changes to existing songs.

Please feel free to let me know what you think of the songs. Let me know what bits you like, what bits you don't like, perhaps ask questions about the meaning of any lyrics you're not sure about. Any other comments and suggestions are also welcome.

I don't want crawlers getting my email address, so I won't put it here, but my email address in on the sheet music.

Downloads

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To download right click on the link and choose Save Target As... (in IE) or Save Link As... (in FireFox)

Song Title Sheet Music Recording
Through Your Eyes Through Your Eyes.pdf (289kb) Through Your Eyes.mp3 (2.5Mb)
Our Guide and Our Flame Our Guide and Our Flame.pdf (239kb) Our Guide and Our Flame.mp3 (3.6Mb)
Know The Truth Know The Truth.pdf (186 kb) Know The Truth.mp3 (3.5 Mb)
As We Gather As We Gather.pdf (307 kb)
All You Want Me To Be All You Want Me To Be.pdf (307 kb) All You Want Me To Be.mp3 (3.5 Mb)
In Honour Of You In Honour Of You.pdf (307 kb)
Filled With Your Love Filled With Your Love.pdf (307 kb)
Shine Our Light Shine Our Light.pdf (244 kb) Shine Our Light.mp3 (4.7 Mb)
Inside Of Me Inside Of Me.pdf (307 kb) Inside Of Me.mp3 (3.3 Mb)
Do What We Can Do What We Can.pdf (307 kb)
A Better Way A Better Way.pdf (307 kb)
Creation Creation.pdf (287 kb)
Called Called.pdf (271 kb)
This Troubled Life This Troubled Life.pdf (245 kb)
Step Out In Faith Step Out In Faith.pdf (262 kb)

Songs are listed in the order I wrote them. The newest one's are at the bottom.

Missing mp3's will be added once I get a chance to record and mix them. If you would like a sample before then, please email me and I'll see if I can send you something.