Remedy Music Open Auditions
Remedy Music is holding open auditions to begin the process of building a second band. We as a church are blessed to have so many gifted servants who desire to use their gifts to bless the rest of the body of believers. So, in order to keep this ministry active and vital, we look forward to meeting with those that want to use their musical abilities to worship God and lead the church in worship. If you are interested in auditioning, here is the low-down:
1. Auditions will be held on Saturday, April 24th, 2010 at 5pm at the Rock Hill Fine Arts Center (where Remedy meets each Sunday).
2. You Must be a member of Remedy or in the membership process to be considered for the team.
3. Let us know what musical instrument you’ll be auditioning with or if you are a vocalist (or both). If you are a multi-instrumentalist, please come ready to play the instrument with which you are most proficient. Please bring your own instruments if you can. Email cameron@remedychurch.org with that information before auditions so we will know what to expect.
4. You will be expected to know these songs and to be ready to sing/play them:
Come Thou Fount, How Deep the Father’s Love for Us, We Have Not Known Thee, and Consume Us
The music is attached by clicking on each song name. Feel free to print these sheets and bring them for the day of auditions don’t feel the weight of having to memorize everything!
5. If you have any issues, questions or concerns – please email me at cameron@remedychurch.org.
Thanks,
Cameron
A New Song
At least seven times the Bible mentions singing a new song to the Lord:
Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts. -Psalm 33:3
Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! -Psalm 96:1
Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. -Psalm 98:1
I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you… -Psalm 144:9
Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly! -Psalm 149:1
Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants. -Isaiah 42:10
…and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. -Revelation 14:3
As you can see, new songs are a huge part of our worship to God. But why?
Here are a few reasons:
1. Our God is infinite in worth. No song we could ever sing would fully describe him or come close to grasping the weight of his glory.
2. God is a creative being and we are made in his likeness. Therefore we will worship him always in creative and in new ways.
3. God is always doing a new thing. He is at work in new ways, redeeming all of creation unto himself. We can’t HELP but sing new praises to him! How could we contain the joy of his salvation in the same words and melodies as we have sung before? It can’t be done! A new song MUST arise in our hearts as we grow in our knowledge and understanding of who God is and what he is doing. We MUST worship him anew always with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
These new songs take a few different forms:
1. A newly written original. Totally new lyrics applied to totally new melodies.
2. Updating and changing songs that have been sung in the past. These songs could be hundreds of years old or three years old. You can alter a melody, chord progression, or change lyrics to make the song fit the context in which you sing.
3. In intimate times of worship, privately and corporately, a new song may arise in you spontaneously by the Holy Spirit’s leading. Follow his leading. Sing new words of praise to Jesus. Sing a new song! They don’t need to be planned nor rehearsed. Just worship Jesus in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:23).
At Remedy we try our best to be writing new songs as often as we can. We want to make a practice of singing songs that are totally new as a church so as to be biblical in our worship. We have received quite a few requests from various people for the words and chords to some of our originals. I am attaching the music below for “Our Redemption” and “Consume Us.” As new songs are written, I will do my best to post the music for them on this blog. Enjoy!
Advent Songs
Christmas time is here and with it come Christmas tunes. I just thought I would give everyone a heads up on some good albums I am listening to this season.
Sojourn, a fellow Acts 29 church released an album entitled Advent Songs a couple of years ago. You can get this album for free by following the instructions here. If you feel like paying, you can also pick it up on iTunes.
Another Acts 29 church, Mars Hill Church, has released a Christmas album entitled Silent Night. You can pick up a single off that album for free along with purchasing the entire album here. I have especially enjoyed the free single off this album. It would be a good idea for you to check back with this website as often as you can. They will be releasing new music as frequently as they can record and it would be worth your time to get these albums. (You can also pick up a free copy of another Mars Hill album at Noise Trade, the same website where the Sojourn album is found. The Mars Hill album is entitled Rain City Hymnal.)
A third album is by Bifrost Arts. I recently found them and have grown to really appreciate what they are doing. This website explains the intention behind what they do. So far, they have released a debut album and a Christmas album in a period of six months or less. The debut was on repeat for some time on my iPod and the Christmas album has been a pleasure to listen to this season. You can pick the album up on iTunes. The Christmas album is entitled Salvation Is Created and the debut is entitled Come O Spirit!. Both are worthy listens.
These would be great albums to grab and listen to, especially as we begin to introduce many of these Advent songs into our set lists at Remedy in the coming month.
November Worship Night
It was great to see everyone at the most recent Remedy worship night. For those of you who don’t know, we are gathering once a month this fall semester to bring together the somewhere around five small groups in existence. Hopefully this gives the people involved or wanting to be involved with Remedy an idea of what the church will be and a sense of belonging to a church body bigger than they can see right now.
I will be posting set lists on here in the future to give an idea of what songs we sing and why. I want to try to provide some insight into those sets and give an overview of the reasoning behind them. Here’s the set from Saturday, November 15th:
Heart of Worship- Tim Hughes
Found- Hillsong United
Center- Charlie Hall
Til I See You- Hillsong United
Everything- Tim Hughes
Hosanna- Hillsong United
I thank God for the night of worship we had and the things done in our hearts. I am currently praying for God to provide band members. I trust this will happen in His time and according to His plan and I want to be able to discern what will be best for the church. My hope is to build off of what we do not have from within the church, no matter how long that may take. I would appreciate prayers for faith and discernment throughout this process for sure. I am thankful for the provision of Ben, a longtime friend of mine and excellent musician. God has gifted him and I am blessed to start off playing with him. I am expectant of the things to come. God is faithful!
Lamentations 3:22-23
Stay tuned for the December worship night!