Matt Merker, Laura Story, and Jordan Kauflin have adapted lyrics from “Come Ye Disconsolate” by Thomas Moore and Thomas Hastings. It goes okay. I’m a bit devastated that the lines “Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; earth has no sorrows that heaven cannot heal.” have not made the cut in the new …

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Getty Music with Laura Story have released I Know That My Redeemer Lives. The song has a number of composers (and a few borrowed lines). The three verses move in ways that develop the themes of Christ’s redemptive power, daily presence, and future provision. The lines from the chorus “On heaven’s throne, and in my …

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Come To Jesus (Rest In Him) from Getty Music. Getty are bringing some familiar names together in interesting ways. I’ve known songs by Matt Merker and Jordan Kauflin before, but haven’t seen these two work in partnership. The lyrics: 1. Are you weary, heavy laden? Come and lay your burdens down Jesus calls you, Jesus …

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Christ Our Hope In Life And Death takes inspiration from the first question and answer of the Heidelberg Catechism, and is a new Easter song from Getty Music. The writing team of Keith Getty, Matt Boswell, Jordan Kauflin, Matt Merker, and Matt Papa have worked together before and represent a very unified stylistic voice in …

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