So all of the songs, I don’t know about every
single one, but most of them for sure have that
feeling where you are singing to the Lord.
[WM] The song, “In a Million Years”, is such
beautiful and heartfelt poetry!
“In a million years, it will all still be new
Songs of wonder will go on in praise to You
There will be no more tears in Your presence
Lord
An eternity in awe of You forevermore”
[Paul] Thank you so much. Praise God!
[WM] You’ve long been a developer of
worship resources for church musicians, and
your leadworship.com website has been
used by many thousands of worship leaders.
You obviously have a heart for instruction and
the next generation, and your influence has
extended on to your son, David. I really loved
that project that he did several years ago.
Labyrinth was so refreshing. I believe that you
executive-produced that project. Tell us about
Labyrinth and its intent, and your vision in
“passing the baton” to the next generation of
worshipers and worship leaders.
[Paul] The project came from a desire in my
and Rita’s heart. Twenty-five years ago with
Integrity Music they did a project called the
Scripture Memory series, and they did twenty-
six CDs of verbatim scripture set to modern
this song over Skype, we’ve actually never [WM] One of the attributes of Behold Him that music. That was in the early to mid-nineties
met face-to-face. We’ve never met in person, is really impactful is your usage of lyrics written when we started writing with Integrity, and we
I can’t wait to meet him, but we just went back in the second person. The words “You” and were part of those twenty-six CDs, and there
and forth on Skype and we shared ideas, he “Your”, are sung more often than “He”. That are scriptures that I will never forget because
had some verse ideas. A lot of times in a song simple attention can often make a song lyric they were linked to songs and those songs are
you’re just trying to tell the story one more more personal, more intimate. What are your imbedded in my spirit forever.
time in a different way, using slightly different thoughts on this?
So in the last few years we felt like we needed
language. Tell the Gospel story, if you will. So
I feel like the verses do this, they kind of start [Paul] My thoughts are very intentional, I love
with God from before there was life, He walked that you actually picked up on that. I think
across the pages of time, and then that He some of the best worship songs feel like you’re
was born into the earth, and then ultimately singing a prayer to the Lord, and often times
crucified, resurrected, and lives eternal. The when a song is taking shape, even when it
verses just kind of take you from the beginning starts in the third verse, I’m always thinking, is
to the present, and I love singing the chorus. there a way to personalize this and make it feel
more like a prayer that I am singing to the Lord?
February 2020
Labyrinth-He Hears My Voice
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