Music helps us to connect to life. Songs that show God’s beauty help us to connect to Him. Sometimes music can usher our thinking into the future when God promises all things will be made right. Other times music takes us back to a certain point in the past, flooding our minds with memories. Listed below are the songs that are interspersed throughout The Blessing Book.
Entry: January 9 Wherever He Leads I’ll Go by Baylus Benjamin McKinney, 1937.
Entry: February 20 It is Well with my Soul by Horatio Spafford, 1873.
Entry: April 24 I will Call Upon the Lord by Michael O’Shields, 1970’s
Entry: May 9 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) by Matt Redman, 2011
Entry: May 24 And Can it Be that I Should Gain by Charles Wesley, 1739
Entry: August 8 By the Rivers of Babylon by The Meldonians, 1970
Entry: December 29 Amazing Grace by John Newton, 1779
In a recent round of studying the Blessing Lessons with a group, I came up with one song per chapter (or event) for the biblical story to help us have yet another layer in which to help the narrative take root. Here is my Blessing Study Guide playlist from youtube, ready for your enjoyment. I also put it up on Spotify as a playlist of 8 called Blessing Book Study.
Eden Maker Of All Things – Tim Hughes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b17K-KBvYE
Election More – Matthew West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mITRKCDel44
Exit and Entrance Let my People Go Go– The Rainmakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTEIjM3BkLo
Empire 10,000 Reasons – Matt Redman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E
Exile and Return By the Rivers of Babylon – Boney M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYK9iCRb7S4
Emmanual Emmanual – Love and the Outcome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtIj3tgOmfs
Exhortation They will Know We Are Christians by our Love – Jars of Clay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugQwh-phnZY
Eternity Revelation Song – Philips, Craig, and Dean http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mwp4w
