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Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs – STAND 2011 set list

William Chong — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:04:54 +0000

(Here’s a recap of the service and the songs we chose over the past weekends at Howick Baptist Church. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week at theworshipcommunity.com. You can also read through previous HBC service recaps here.)

I’ve spent the past weekend being involved in leading the music [...]

Lessons from leading worship after an earthquake

William Chong — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:00:54 +0000

This past Sunday I got the opportunity to discover first hand leading worship in light of a 6.1 magnitude earthquake. While the earthquake occurred in a different city to us, with New Zealand being the small country it is, many people in our church had indirect or direct links to those affected. It was definitely [...]

Song recommendation: Andrew Peterson, “Dancing in the Minefields”

William Chong — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:00:02 +0000

It’s our 1st wedding anniversary today! So here’s a song that we both enjoyed this year. We’re not as young as the guys Andrew Peterson sings about when we got married – but these words speak of the same struggles, the same joys, the same realisation of utter dependence on God’s grace to hold us [...]

Behold the Lamb of God: By Andrew Peterson

William Chong — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:38:02 +0000

This is a fantastic idea – a concept album that tells the entire story of the Bible. Singer-songwriter Andrew Peterson has been touring and performing these songs for 10 years now. The album is made up of about a dozen songs, most brand new compositions, some rearrangements of older hymns, but all of [...]

Beautiful Baby Boy

William Chong — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:12:21 +0000

Merry Christmas everyone! Here’s a beautiful singer-songwriter style number from worship leader Jamie Brown.

It celebrates and marvels at the baby Jesus. But it doesn’t just stop there:

he was more than a beautiful baby. He was the perfect Lamb of God who, one day, would be offered as a sacrifice in our place, securing our eternal [...]

Sanctus Real – “Lead Me”

William Chong — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:00:31 +0000

This is a nice song. The lead singer of Sanctus Real, Matt Hammitt tells the story:

“My wife, Sarah, and I once heard that the gap between reality and expectations is disappointment. There was a time when we were living in disappointment with our marriage. Now, we can see that our conflict was the result of [...]

HBC-EFC Combined Service Redux: 12 December 2010

William Chong — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:01:23 +0000

Here’s the weekly recap of the Sunday service at my home church. This week we joined in worship with brothers and sisters from the Evangelical Formosan Church NZ (a Mandarin-speaking congregation) – naturally there was quite a different, yet immensely exciting feel to the day! I led the service, which was ably translated by Paul [...]

HBC Service Redux: 31 October 2010

William Chong — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:02:01 +0000

Last week’s Sunday service was definitely something different, for a number of reasons:

It was a wonderful baptism service where five people gave testimonies of how God’s turned them from darkness to new life in Jesus Christ. We celebrated Reformation Day, the day when fallible people read the bible for themselves and recovered the gospel that we [...]

HBC service redux: 24 October 2010

William Chong — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:30:48 +0000

Just thought it might be helpful to share in a post, a bit of the thinking that goes in the background when planning a Sunday service. Throughout the week, there’s a fair bit of prayer, communication with the preacher, bible reader and the rest of the music team to do our best in leading the [...]

Spring is coming

William Chong — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:22:00 +0000

The song “Spring is Coming”, by Steven Curtis Chapman, has been reverberating in my head, and it so happens to be the first day of spring (in the Southern Hemisphere). In this song, Chapman, who lost his adopted 5-year-old daughter in a tragic accident, sings about hope for those who’ve put their faith in the [...]