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Worship is so much more than the songs I sing. Instead, worship is in the heart that lifts the song. If you think about it, worship began when I woke up this morning. My life purpose is to give God glory through everything I do. If my life does not worship Him, my songs don't either.

Matthew 15:8-9 / Matthew 23:25-28 / Galatians 2:20 / Colossians 3:17

Lifesong
words and music by Mark Hall

Empty hands held high
Such small sacrifice
If not joined with my life
I sing in vain tonight

May the words I say
And the things I do
Make my lifesong sing
Bring a smile to You

Let my lifesong sing to You
Let my lifesong sing to You
I want to sign Your name to the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true
Let my lifesong sing to You

Lord, I give my life
A living sacrifice
To reach a world in need
To be Your hands and feet

So may the words I say
And the things I do
Make my lifesong sing
Bring a smile to You

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Let my lifesong sing to You

© 2005 Club Zoo Music (BMI) / SWECS Music (BMI)
(adm. by EMI CMG Publishing).

They are all around us. To become numb to their pain is to become numb to the very heart of God and the suffering of His only Son.

Romans 10:14 / Acts 5:20 / Matthew 28:19-20 / 1 Peter 3:15 / 2 Corinthians 5:20

Does Anybody Hear Her
words and music by Mark Hall

She is running
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
So she sets out on another misadventure just to find
She’s another two years older
And she’s three more steps behind

Does anybody hear her?
Can anybody see?
Or does anybody even know she’s going down today
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
Does anybody hear her?
Can anybody see?

She is yearning
For shelter and affection
That she never found at home
She is searching
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 judgment looms under every steeple
If lofty glances from lofty people
Can’t see past her scarlet letter
And we never even met her

© 2005 Club Zoo Music (BMI) / SWECS Music
(BMI) (adm. by EMI CMG Publishing).

This song is a sequel – an answer to the questions posed in Here I Go Again. When I fear what to say, I’ve taken my eyes off Jesus. He will restore. He will rebuild. He will answer the questions. My place is just being there, loving them, and pointing them to the Father.

Matthew 11:28-29 / I Corinthians 3:7 / Isaiah 55:10-11 / Philippians 2 / 2 Corinthians 4:7-18 / 2 Corinthians 12:9 / 1 Thessalonians 4:13, 16-18 / Hebrews 4:14-16 / Matthew 11:28

Love Them Like Jesus
words by Mark Hall / music by Mark Hall and Bernie Herms

The love of her life is drifting away
They’re losing the fight for another day
The life that she’s known is falling apart
A fatherless home, a child’s broken heart
You’re holding her hand, you’re straining for words
You trying to make - sense of it all
She’s desperate for hope, darkness clouding her view
She’s looking to you

Just love her like Jesus, carry her to Him
His yoke is easy, His burden is light
You don’t need the answers to all of life’s questions
Just know that He loves her and stay by her side
Love her like Jesus
Love her like Jesus

The gifts lie in wait, in a room painted blue
Little blessing from Heaven would be there soon
Hope fades in the night, blue skies turn to gray
As the little one slips away

You’re holding their hand, you’re straining for words
You trying to make sense of it all
They’re desperate for hope, darkness clouding their view
They’re looking to you

Just love them like Jesus, carry them to Him
His yoke is easy, His burden is light
You don’t need the answers to all of life’s questions
Just know that He loves them and stay by their side
Love them like Jesus

The Lord of all creation holds our lives in His hands
The God of all the nations holds our lives in His hands
The Rock of our salvation holds our lives in His hands
He cares for them just as He cares for you

So love them like Jesus, love them like Jesus
You don’t need the answers to all of life’s questions
Just know that He loves them and stay by their side
Love them like Jesus
Love them like Jesus

© 2005 Club Zoo Music (BMI) / SWECS Music (BMI)
(adm. by EMI CMG Publishing) / Word Music, LLC (ASCAP) /
Banahama Tunes (ASCAP) (adm. by Word Music, LLC).

I set out to set the classic hymn “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem” to new music and, in the process, rediscovered the song and its message. They slept through it. Bethlehem missed the birth of the Savior of the world. Jerusalem did the same with Jesus’ ministry among them. Seems crazy – ‘til we as a nation look in the mirror.

Matthew 25:5 – read the story / 1 Thessalonians 5:4-8 / Romans 13:11 / Luke 13:34-35 / Matthew 25:13; 26:41 / Ephesians 5:8-14 / 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 / Isaiah 53:6-7

While You Were Sleeping
words and music by Mark Hall

Oh little town of Bethlehem
Looks like another silent night
Above your deep and dreamless sleep
A giant star lights up the sky
And while you’re lying in the dark
There shines an everlasting light
For the King has left His throne
And is sleeping in a manger tonight

Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
For God became a man
And stepped into your world today
Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

Oh little town of Jerusalem
Looks like another silent night
The Father gave His only Son
The Way, the Truth, the Life had come
But there was no room for Him in the world He came to save
Jerusalem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
The Savior of the world is dying on your cross today
Jerusalem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we’re sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the children
And while we’re lying in the dark
There’s a shout heard ‘cross the eastern sky
For the Bridegroom has returned
And has carried His bride away in the night

America, what will we miss while we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for its King
Will we be sleeping
Will we be sleeping

© 2005 Club Zoo Music (BMI) / SWECS Music (BMI)
(adm. by EMI CMG Publishing).

God does not need us. He wants us. To fear is to take our eyes off Jesus.

1 Corinthians 1:24-28 / 2 Corinthians 12:9 / 1 Corinthians 4:20 / 2 Timothy 1:7

In Me
God does not need us. He wants us. To fear is to take our eyes off Jesus.
1 Corinthians 1:24-28 / 2 Corinthians 12:9 / 1 Corinthians 4:20 / 2 Timothy 1:7

In Me
words and music by Mark Hall

If You ask me to leap
Out of my boat on the crashing waves
If You ask me to go
Preach to a lost world that Jesus saves

I’ll go, but I cannot go alone
‘Cause I know I’m nothing on my own
But the power of Christ in me makes me strong
Makes me strong

‘Cause when I’m weak, You make me strong
When I’m blind, You shine Your light on me
‘Cause I’ll never get by living on my own ability
How refreshing to know You don’t need me
How amazing to find that You want me
So I’ll stand on Your truth, and I’ll fight with Your strength
Until You bring the victory, by the power of Christ in me

If You ask me to run
And carry Your light into foreign land
If You ask me to fight
Deliver Your people from satan’s hand

To reach out with Your hands
To learn through Your eyes
To love with the love of a savior
To feel with Your heart
And to think with Your mind
I’d give my last breath for Your glory

© 2005 Club Zoo Music (BMI) /
SWECS Music (BMI) (adm. by EMI CMG Publishing).

When God’s hand of grace extends to us – the unearned and undeserved hand of grace – all we have left to do is worship. Not as a debtors who could ever begin to repay our Father, but as children who merely respond to Him with our lives. Our new and everlasting lives.

Galatians 2:20 / Colossians 3:3-4 / Luke 15:32 / Romans:5:1-11 / Ephesians 2:1-10

And Now My Lifesong Sings
words and music by Mark Hall

I once was lost, but now I’m found
I once was lost, but now I’m found
So far away, but I’m home now
I once was lost, but now I’m found
And now my lifesong sings

I once was blind, but now I see
I once was blind, but now I see
I don’t know how, but when He touched me
I once was blind, but now I see
And now my lifesong sings
And now my lifesong sings
And now my lifesong sings

I once was dead, but now I live
I once was dead, but now I live
Now my life to You I give
Now my life to You I give
Now my life to You I give

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Let my lifesong sing to You

© 2005 Club Zoo Music (BMI) /
SWECS Music (BMI) (adm. by EMI CMG Publishing).