http://www.thevillagechurch.net en-us © 2005-2007 The Village Church. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:45:53 CDT Michael Bleecker Worship music from The Village Church in Highland Village, Texas Worship music from The Village Church in Highland Village, Texas The Village Church exists to bring glory to God through lives changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ. We do this by (1) actively proclaiming the gospel in our community to those who do not believe, and by (2) actively pursuing the ongoing renovation of our own lives through the grace of Christ. This podcast includes worship music from Worship Pastor Michael Bleecker and the Village worship team. Click the ( i ) information icon in the iTunes description column for each song to read the story behind the music! Village Church Bleecker Chandler worship Bible Christian God Jesus Christ The Village Church podcast@thevillagechurch.net no Michael Bleecker Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:00:00 CDT 20070102AA01M_M 3:30 Michael Bleecker and The Village Church worship team perform "Before the Throne of God Above" " Recorded live at The Village Church on January 2, 2007. For more information, go to www.thevillagechurch.net. ------------------------------------- Audio program © 2007 The Village Church. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/." no Michael Bleecker Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:00:00 CDT 20051112AB01M_M 3:22 Michael Bleecker and The Village Church worship team perform "Before the Throne of God Above" " Recorded live at The Village Church on November 12, 2005. For more information, go to www.thevillagechurch.net. ------------------------------------- Audio program © 2005 The Village Church. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/." no Michael Bleecker Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:00:00 CDT 20070114DB01M01 8:20 Michael Bleecker and The Village Church worship team perform "I Surrender All" " Recorded live at The Village Church on January 14, 2007. For more information, go to www.thevillagechurch.net. ------------------------------------- Audio program © 2007 The Village Church. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/." no Michael Bleecker Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:00:00 CDT 20060527BB01M01 5:42 Michael Bleecker and The Village Church worship team perform "Wonderful Grace of Jesus" " Recorded live at The Village Church on May 27, 2006. For more information, go to www.thevillagechurch.net. ------------------------------------- Audio program © 2006 The Village Church. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/." no Michael Bleecker Tue, 2 Jan 2007 12:00:00 CDT 20070102AB01 4:11 Michael Bleecker and The Village Church worship team perform "Overwhelm Me" " Recorded live at The Village Church on January 2, 2007. For more information, go to www.thevillagechurch.net. ------------------------------------- Audio program © 2007 The Village Church. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/." no Michael Bleecker Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:00:00 CDT 20060702DB01b 5:31 Michael Bleecker and The Village Church worship team perform "One Day" " Michael Bleecker tells the story behind "Glorious Day": Easter was approaching and I had nothing to sing. As a worship pastor, that can be very disheartening. Easter is the time you pull out all the big guns with a life-sized papier-mache tomb and angels flying in from the ceiling on zip lines. I sat at my desk planning how I would be able to take off my harness, white robe and gold-encrusted pipe cleaner halo and go right into leading worship, but to no avail. If I couldn't do the zip line, no one could, so I did what any God-fearing worship pastor would do... I googled "Easter worship songs." I browsed Google trying to find the right song when my eye caught the word "hymnal." I walked over to my stack of hymnals and pulled out the 1939 copy of THE HYMNS OF PRAISE: NUMBERS ONE AND TWO COMBINED from a church in Kenosha, Wisconsin (I don't know how it got here). I flipped through the yellow pages of the hymnal and found "One Day." As I carefully pulled back page 172, I read: Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me; Buried, He carried my sins far away; Rising, He justified freely forever: One day He's coming: O glorious day! "This is it," I thought. "This is what I want our church to sing on Easter." I pulled out my guitar and as I read through it, the Lord gave me a melody, a few chords and the desire to get these words out to our people. Without the Presbyterian evangelist, Rev. John Wilbur Chapman (1859-1918), these words would never have been used to create a song that can now be found on this podcast. I'm so thankful that words from the late 1800s were combined with music from 2006, and can now be used to give God the glory that is due His name. ------------------------------------- Audio program © 2006 The Village Church. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/." no Michael Bleecker Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:00:00 CDT 20060702DB01 7:20 Michael Bleecker and The Village Church worship team perform "Who You Are" " Michael Bleecker tells the story behind "Who You Are": One of my favorite verses from the Bible is Psalm 51:12-13, which says, "Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will be converted to You." As I sat on my camp bed in Oklahoma on June 29, 2006, God began filling my head and my heart with the words of this song and I filled my journal with the same. I continued to read the words from Psalm 51 and realized that I will not have authority to teach sinners their ways and will not see the perishing rescued if I don't rest in the security and the joy of the salvation He provides and the peace He freely gives. When we experience this joy, Christ will be seen in our lives, He will be heard from what leaves our lips and we will understand that it is only through His blood, and nothing that we have done, that we have redemption (Ephesians 1:7). ------------------------------------- Audio program © 2006 The Village Church. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/." no Michael Bleecker Wed, 17 May 2006 12:00:00 CDT 20051030FB01 5:03 Michael Bleecker and The Village Church worship team perform "My King" " Michael Bleecker tells the story behind "My King": The first part of this song was written in Telluride, Colorado one early morning in March of 2005 with a cup of coffee in one hand, a pen in the other and the most beautiful mountain range in front of me. As I attempted to write the rest of the song that morning, I couldn't get Augustus M. Toplady's meditation on the cross out of my head: Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to the Cross I cling. Naked, I look to Thee for dress Helpless, I look to Thee for grace. Foul, I to the fountain fly Wash me, Savior, or I die. This ultimately became the bridge of the song as well as the inspiration for the rest of the song. We bring nothing to the table at salvation. We cling to the cross naked and helpless and Jesus says to us, "I found you face down in the mud. You no longer live. I now live in you." ------------------------------------- Audio program © 2005 The Village Church. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/." no