Worship songs and hymns generally serve two different purposes. A worship chorus, with its more frequent repetition and built-in cries, has little room for more than one or two thoughts, and serves as a prolonged emotional expression of a moment’s devotion. The great hymns, with their four or more verses, each treating a different aspect of the theme, are full of richness, sublime thoughts and doctrine. A century or more ago it was common for a Christian to own a Bible and a hymnbook, which he used not only in church, but as private devotional reading. Many a Christian owed much of his knowledge of doctrine to the hymns, which hammered the great truths metrically into his memory. This practice is rare today, and congregations that are served only a steady diet of short choruses sung over and over are being malnourished and robbedof a rich part of their heritage. Matt Redman: The Big Picture In many of the hymn books there are songs on so many aspects of the nature and character of more

As we are filling in the "back catalog" with some of the new standards, I was very pleased for the opportunity to revisit the song, "We Fall Down", which has personal significance to me.  Back in 1998, I was driving in my car listening to the original Passion: Live Worship From the 268 Generation CD.  It was one of the freshest sounds I had heard in a long time, having spent a few years in music ministry at that point.  The Lord used this album, and the song, "We Fall Down",  in particular to rejuvenate my worship life in a real way.  Another album which had a similar impact on me was Hillsongs' new album (at the time), more