Psalm 46 (Lord of Hosts) [The Worship Initiative Accompaniment]

Psalm 46 (Lord of Hosts) [Instrumental]

Campfire

Build Your Kingdom Here

Only a Holy God

This is a song about someone in a relationship at the end of their tether that resort to getting comfort in someone else's arms. Written by Andrew Schisas aka SKEEZAS 

Lost and Alone

[Verse 1]
Woke up this morning
Sweat and ashes in my hair
It’s a sign the storm’s still aborning 
And I ain’t yet there

[Chorus]
Godspeed—
Whispering I should slow down
It’s been too much hard work
But Godspeed—
Don’t let this be the takedown

[Verse 2]
Some days I feel I settled
But I’m still chasing somewhere
All my thoughts appear to be meddled
But there’s no time to get some air

[Chorus]
Godspeed—
Whispering I should slow down
It’s been too much hard work
But Godspeed—
Don’t let this be the takedown

[Verse 3]
Her eyes once held me steady
Now they’re shadows on the wall
I keep chasing something deadly
And I’m bound to lose it all

[Chorus]
Godspeed—
Whispering I should slow down
It’s been too much hard work
But Godspeed—
Don’t let this be the takedown

[Bridge]
There’s a dawn beyond the ashes
A light I’ve yet to see
If I can break these crashes
Maybe love will carry me

[Chorus]
Godspeed—
Whispering I should slow down
It’s been too much hard work
But Godspeed—
Don’t let this be the takedown

[Outro]
Godspeed—
Carry me through the night
If I can’t find the daylight
But Godspeed—
Don’t let this be goodbye

Godspeed

As Family We Go

Joy Of The Lord

My Lighthouse

RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG. (Deluxe Anniversary Edition)

O God Forgive Us (feat. KB)

Without Words: Genesis

Raise a Hallelujah

To understand what makes Rend Collective so unique and special among worship artists, you have to go back—way back. Some 1500 years ago, the Irish missionary St. Brendan sailed from the Irish coast without maps or any clue where he was headed. “The only thing he knew was that God had called him,” says bandleader and drummer Gareth Gilkeson. And so Brendan chose to “go”: a bold act of faith that not only echoes the album title As Family We Go, but also speaks volumes about the songs.

It also tells you a lot about Rend Collective, a Northern Irish band that has ventured from its native land at the beckoning of an invisible hand. And they’re doing it differently than most other artists before them, living and working—singing and sharing the laundry duties—as a tight-knit family. It’s just the foundation to foster faith and community through music, and forms the heart and strength behind their latest effort.

And my, how this musical family has grown. This young, freewheeling band has seen so much recent success: from opening for the likes of Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman and Kari Jobe, to landing Christian radio hits such as the revival hymn, “Build Your Kingdom Here.”

The next logical step, then, was to hunker down in their private studio and work at a brisk, breathtaking pace—cutting the eleven tracks on As Family We Go in two weeks. As Gilkeson puts it: “There wasn’t much time for sleep—just going for it.”

In this case, sleep deprivation yielded divine inspiration. Then again, how many bands brave a family pilgrimage the way Rend Collective does? Or proudly present themselves as examples of a self-styled genre, “celebration music”?

Though that describes the sound on the new disc—a joyful mélange of foot-stomping acoustic grooves and full-on pop pockets worthy of U2—it only hints at the spiritual thread that pulls everything together.

“We want to make music that is journey music,” says singer Chris Llewellyn. “We notice that sometimes music is seen as the end goal, that a worship encounter is having a music experience. But that’s not really it; it should be the soundtrack to mission: community living, the soundtrack to a meaningful worship experience.”