Casting Crowns Lifesong Study
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Casting Crowns Overview Lifesong Study 1 – Foundation for Worship • Week 1 – Lifesong • Week 2 – Praise You In This Storm A study on Life and Worship • Week 3 – Father, Spirit, Jesus 2006 2 – Missing the Point of Worship The words in these songs will never come • Week 4 – Stained Glass close to, and were never intended to come Masquerade along side, the Scripture, as if God's word needed any help. • Week 5 – Does Anybody Hear Her? • Week 6 – While You Were Sleeping 3 – Worship in Action • Week 7 – Love Them Like Jesus • Week 8 – Prodigal • Week 9 – Set Me Free 4 – Free to Worship • Week 10 – In Me The text of this study has been taken directly from the Casting Crowns CD, Lifesong. All • Week 11 – And Now My copyrights, implied and otherwise, belong to Lifesong Sings them. • Week 12 – The Reality of This study guide was compiled by Jim Walton Worship of www.churchtechmatters.com for the purpose of a small group study and is distributed for that purpose. www.churchtechmatters.com Foundation for Worship LIFESONG Week 1 Empty hands held high LIFESONG Such small sacrifice If not joined with my life I sing in vain tonight May the words I say Worship is so much more than the And the things I do Make my lifesong sing songs I sing. Instead, worship is in the Bring a smile to You heart that lifts the song. If you think Let my lifesong sing to You Let my lifesong sing to You I want to sign Your name to the end of this day about it, worship began when I woke Knowing that my heart was true Let my lifesong sing to You up this morning. My life purpose is to Lord I give my life give God glory through everything I do. A living sacrifice To reach a world in need If my life does not worship Him, my To be Your hands and feet So may the words I say songs don’t either. And the things I do Make my lifesong sing Bring a smile to You Hallelujah Matthew 15:8-9 Hallelujah Matthew 23:25-28 Let my lifesong sing to You Galatians 2:20 Colossians 3:17 www.churchtechmatters.com Foundation for Worship PRAISE YOU IN THIS STORM Week 2 I was sure by now That You would have reached down PRAISE YOU IN THIS And wiped our tears away STORM Stepped in and saved the day But once again, I say “Amen” and it’s still raining As the thunder rolls If there ever were a test of our faith – if I barely hear You whisper through the rain “I’m with you” there ever were a test of the motives of And as Your mercy falls I raise my hands and praise the God our worship – it is when a storm rolls Who gives and takes away Chorus: into our lives. We watched and prayed I’ll praise You in this storm And I will lift my hands for a precious little girl named Erin For you are who you are No matter where I am Edwards struggle with a deadly disease Every tear I’ve cried You hold in Your hand for several years. The courage, the You never left my side And though my heart is torn witness, and the worship of Erin’s I will praise you in this storm mother, Laurie inspired this song. I remember when I stumbled in the wind You heard my cry You raised me up again Sometimes God calms our storms. My strength is almost gone How can I carry on Sometimes He chooses to ride them If I can’t find You with us. Chorus I lift my eyes unto the hills Romans 8:28 Where does my help come from? 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 My help comes from the Lord Psalms 42:5 The Maker of Heaven and Earth Psalms 121:1-2 Repeat Job 1:20-21 Daniel 3:16-18 Chorus www.churchtechmatters.com Foundation for Worship FATHER, SPIRIT, JESUS Week 3 Lord, the worship we bring Is more than songs that we sing It’s a reflection of our ever-changing lives FATHER, SPIRIT, JESUS The best we have to offer We don’t just lift up our hands Lord, we lift up our lives He has rescued us from the dominion of For we know that You are worthy of our praise To You our lifesongs raise darkness and delivered us into the Rescued from darkness We are walking in marvelous light kingdom of the Son He loves. We sing a For we are children of the King! SING! song that the angels can’t sing – the You are worthy of our honor Glory, praise and power song of the redeemed. King of the nations You are holy God almighty Clothed in brilliant majesty Romans 4:7-8 Father, Spirit, Jesus www.churchtechmatters.com Missing the Point of Worship STAINED GLASS MASQUERADE Week 4 Is there anyone that fails Is there anyone that falls Am I the only one in church today feelin’ so small STAINED GLASS Cause when I take a look around MASQUERADE Everybody seems so strong I know they’ll soon discover That I don’t belong I don’t think it bothers the world that So I tuck it all away, like everything’s okay we sin. I think it bothers the world that If I make them all believe it, maybe I’ll believe it too So with a painted grin, I play the part again So everyone will see me the way that I see them we act like we don’t. There are times Chorus Are we happy plastic people that instead of being myself and Under shiny plastic steeples With walls around our weakness exposing my own weakness and hurt, I And smiles to hide our pain But if the invitation’s open portray a character of the person that I To every heart that has been broken Maybe then we close the curtain know I should be. But when I expose On our stained glass masquerade Is there anyone who’s been there myself as weak and frail at times, it Are there any hands to raise Am I the only one who’s traded frees the Body of Christ to restore me In the altar for a stage The performance is convincing as it should and invites others to And we know every line by heart Only when no one is watching unmask as well. Can we really fall apart But would it set me free Matthew 23:25-28 If I dared to let you see Matthew 7:1-6 The truth behind the person John 8:7-9 That you imagine me to be Galatians 6:1 Would your arms be open Or would you walk away 1 John 1:9 Would the love of Jesus 1 Corinthians 15:9 Be enough to make you stay 2 Corinthians 12:9 Chorus x2 Romans 14:1 Well if the invitation’s open To every heart that has been broken Maybe then we close the curtain On our stained glass masquerade Is there anyone that fails Is there anyone that falls Am I the only one in church today feelin’ so small www.churchtechmatters.com Missing The Point of Worship DOES ANYBODY HEAR Week 5 HER? DOES ANYBODY HEAR She is running HER? A hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction She is trying But the canyon’s ever widening In the depths of her cold heart They are all around us. To become So she sets out on another misadventure just to find She’s another two years older numb to their pain is to become numb And she’s three more steps behind Does anybody hear her? Can anybody see? to the very heart of God and the Or does anybody even knows she’s going down today suffering of His only Son. Under the shadow of our steeple With all the lost and lonely people Searching for the hope that’s tucked away in you and me Romans 10:14 Does anybody hear her? Can anybody see? Acts 5:20 She is yearning Matthew 28:19-20 For shelter and affection 1 Peter 3:15 That she never found at home She is searching 2 Corinthians 5:20 For a hero to ride in To ride in and save the day And in walks her prince charming And he knows just what to say Momentary lapse of reason And she gives herself away If judgement looms under every steeple If lofty glances from lofty people Can’t see past her scarlet letter And we never even met her www.churchtechmatters.com Missing the Point of Worship WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Week 6 Oh little town of Bethlehem Looks like another silent night Above your deep and dreamless sleep WHILE YOU WERE A giant star lights up the sky And while you’re lying in the dark SLEEPING There shines an everlasting light For the King has left His throne And is sleeping in a manger tonight, tonight I set out to set the classic hymn “Oh Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping Little Town of Behlehem” to new music For God became a man And stepped into your world today and , in the process, rediscovered the Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history As a city with no room for its King song and its message. They slept While you were sleeping While you were sleeping through it.