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i thought i would finish up this “top five” discussion on music at north point with one more list.
i’ve spent over 36 years of my life with a guitar, leading kids in worship. sometimes with a band, but most of those years it was just me. that was the way we rolled back in the day.
in the past year or two, since my guitar has been sitting on a stand and collecting dust, i don’t talk much about how much i miss teaching kids how to sing as part of their worship experience. yeah, i miss it a lot. but that’s for another post on another day…
i really believe that if the day were to ever come when my friends at north point had to tell me to go find a new day job, i think i’ve got a plan. i’ve told logan’s dad (he’s a famous preacher in memphis) that he might have to hire me to be his kid’s worship song leader…since that job is already secured at np by pastor mitch!
anyway, all this thinking has caused me to reminisce about some cool fun songs we have sung with kids through the years. i love to have fun going to ball games and going out to eat with friends and bowling and playing kickball in the auditorium and i think there is room in god’s economy for having fun when we sing (as long as it is full of truth and the fun never turns to disrespect of the holiness of god…a fine line with kids, sometimes!).
here are some of my favorite fun songs that we have done through the years:
Big House
Undignified
So Good To Me
King Jesus
Mercy is Falling
Celebrate Jesus
His Banner Over Me
Where Do I Go?
but here is my top five…
5. The Happy Song – by Martin Smith and Delirious (crazy fun song…i really miss doing this song!)
4. Shut De Do – by Randy Stonehill (island song that’s been around about thrity years…)
3. Your Everlasting Love – by Brian Sites (highest “high energy” song we ever did with the youth group…pushed the limit of respect, tho.)
2. No One Like You – by Crowder (my absolute favorite crowder song to lead…and sing…with kids)
1. When I Think About You – by Jeff Moody (for all the joking we have done at his expense through the years, this song was not only a homerun, it was a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth! this was the signature song of our youth ministry in the early years…the first fun song of real substance that layed the foundation for what music at np has become today!)
how about you? do you have any memories of fun songs we have done…or currently do?
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