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This Is How We Know

One of the challenges I love, as a worship songwriter, is to find fresh ways to sing about the cross. This song joins together the two famous '3:16' verses found in the books of John and 1 John in the Bible - ""God so loved the world that He gave His only Son"" and ""This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down for us."" In this sending and surrendering, we see the purest example of love there has ever been.

This song took over 6 months to complete. I was actually going round in circles day after day trying to figure out what the chorus should be. Then my fantastic song-finisher wife walked in and 45 minutes later we had a completed song!

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We Shall Not Be Shaken

The album's title track is a celebration of the steadfastness and faithfulness of God. In a world where everything seems to shift, change or even fail, He is solid, secure and steadfast. And that's not just a nice idea to think about, it's something that can change our lives when we have a deep conviction in our hearts and minds that He will not fail us or falter. The song actually mentions the economy. I felt like I wanted to be specific in that area as it's been headline news for many months. In worship it's important to be specific. Look at the Psalms - so many of them are very focused on a particular situation. The credit crunch, the unemployment figures and the home foreclosures have all reminded us that so much of what people put their trust in is not ultimately dependable. And I don't say that coldly or lightly - these are not just statistics - we're talking about real people and their struggle to make it through. So I hope this song injects some hope and stability into people's lives, whatever their circumstance.

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Through It All

One of the best encouragements you can have, as a worship songwriter, is when someone tells you a particular song helped ""see them through."" Whenever that happens, I know they're not referring to the tune or the chord structure of the song - what they're saying is that the truth contained in the song injected some kind of hope or reassurance into their hearts. I wrote this song with my good friend Jonas Myrin. A few months before, my newborn son Jackson had been in the special care unit for a few days, and Jonas himself had experienced a tough year. I think the song was born out of these situations - we had both seen the faithfulness of God at work in our lives, and the song is a response to that. I hope it will help others also voice their trust and praise to God.

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You Alone Can Rescue

This is a simple song of salvation, again co-written with Jonas Myrin. He's a very melodic writer and this song began backstage at a conference when he brought me the beginnings of the chorus tune. We wrote the chorus first and then spent several months pulling the rest of the song together. In the end we decided that verse one needed to ask the question the chorus then answers. So, "Who o Lord, could save themselves, their own soul could heal?" is answered by "You alone can rescue, You alone can save". I've had the privilege of leading this song in 18 different countries already, and I'm glad we've finally got round to recording it!

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The Glory Of Our King

This song was a co-write with Jonas Myrin and Jess Cates. I had nothing to do with the song at first. They brought me a great bass and guitar hook, around which a really interesting theme and tune was beginning to develop. It was a privilege to be invited into the writing process, as I loved the song idea from the first few moments I heard it. The song speaks of a generation who are rising up with their lives and voices to sing and demonstrate the glory and worth of Jesus.

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How Great Is Your Faithfulness

Jonas Myrin brought me the beginnings of a chorus idea and there were no lyrics at that point except, ""How great is Your faithfulness"", but that seemed like a great springboard to write from. This is one of the quickest songs I've ever had a part of writing. I had the verse thoughts immediately after hearing the chorus for the first time, and even the bridge of the song followed very easily and rapidly. Some songs you wrestle with day after day and others seem to arrive much more easily - I have no idea why. It's another song that celebrates the unchanging and unfailing nature of our amazing God.

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Remembrance

I wrote this song with Matt Maher. It was the first time we'd ever sat down to write some songs together and it was a great day of fellowship, worship, creativity and laughter. I've always wanted to write a song specifically for the moments when we celebrate communion, so I'm really grateful for how this song came together.

As well as being a great musician, Matt has a real depth as a lyric writer - you can almost hear his brain whirring away as his minds flicks through all the ancient creeds he seems to have memorised in there. That came into play really powerfully in the bridge when he remembered a liturgical piece we ended up using word for word: ""Dying, You destroyed our death. Rising You restored our life. Lord Jesus come in glory.

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The More We See

This song is about the endless circle of revelation and response we see at work when we worship God. We breathe in His wonders, and we can't help but breathe out a song of praise in response.

I love song writing with my friend Chris Tomlin. For one thing he brings a lot of ideas to the table, but also we're good enough friends to be brutally honest with each other. That's an important ingredient when it comes to co-writing. Whereas in the past writing together might involve a nine hour flight over the ocean, these days it's a bit simpler; we live 20 minutes from each other in the city of Atlanta, where we're both involved with planting Passion City Church.

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For Your Glory

Ben Cantelon wanted a new up-tempo celebration song for the Soul Survivor youth festivals in the UK. It was a joy to get invited into writing this song with him and I was excited by the energy the song seemed to have. (and that was just on 2 acoustic guitars, before we even got to hear this with a band!) The church needs her song of joy - songs of full-on celebration, and I hope this can be one.

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Gloria

For a long time, this song felt like a jigsaw puzzle with a missing piece. Jonas Myrin and I had written the verses a while back and tried several different chorus approaches, none of which seemed to quite fit. Then, quite independently, he had written a chorus for another song with a producer friend of his called Peter Kvint in Sweden. After hearing it, I begged them to let me use it for this song, as it seemed like the perfect fit for the verses. We changed a few lyrics, and the song felt complete.

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All That Really Matters

This song came right at the end of a song-writing week with my friend Jonas. He was about to leave for the airport when I played him one more song idea. It was really just the lyric, "All that really matters, all that really counts is found in You." We decided to start working on it right then and there. He left a little late for the airport, but we were encouraged to have another song up and running. In the bible Paul says, "To live is Christ." I want this song to affirm that - for ultimately He really is all that matters.

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My Hope

I've never before written a song in the way this one came together. I'd asked a good friend of mine, Tim Wanstall, to play some keyboards on the album. He said he'd love to and also (humbly and apologetically!) sent me a beautiful piece of piano music that he thought might make for a powerful worship song. At first I didn't want to touch it - it felt like a really complete piece of music, and I didn't want to ruin it by singing all over it! But one night in the studio I began to imagine the words of the old hymn, ""On Christ the solid rock"" working well with the music, and then wrote a brand new chorus idea to some other melodic ideas Tim had suggested. I'm really pleased with how it call came together, and hope it will again inject the theme of God's faithfulness deep into people's lives. It's a song for the storm.

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