You can see them here:
The songs:
A1 Allelu!
A2 Alleluia, Sons Of God Arise
A3 The Angel Of The Lord
A4 Away They Went With Weeping
A5 Balm In Gilead
A6 Bless The Lord, O My Soul
A7 The Breath Of God
A8 Canticle Of The Gift
B1 Canticle Of The Three Young Men
B2 Come, Follow Me
B3 Come, Go With Me To That Land
B4 Come Holy Ghost
B5 The Dancing Heart
B6 Father, I Adore You
B7 The Foot Washing Song
The songs:
A1 Glory To God, Glory
A2 Hallelujah, I Want To Sing All About It
A3 Hallelujah, Jesus Is Lord
A4 He Is Lord
A5 Here Comes Jesus
A6 His Banner Over Me Is Love
A7 I Have Decided To Follow Jesus
A8 I Want To Walk As A Child Of The Light
B1 I Will Arise
B2 I Will Sing Of The Mercies Of The Lord
B3 In My Father’s House
B4 Israel, Rely On Yahweh
B5 It’s A Brand New Day
B6 Jesus In The Morning
B7 The King Of Glory
B8 Let All That Is Within Me
B9 The Love Round
The songs:
A1 O Come, Let Us Adore Him
A2 Praise My God With The Tambourine
A3 Psalm 145
A4 Rejoice Always
A5 Rejoice In The Lord Always
A6 Romans Eight
A7 Sing To God A Brand New Canticle
A8 Song Of Good News
B1 Song Of Moses
B2 The Spirit Is A-Movin’
B3 There Is None Like Him
B4 There’s A River Of Life
B5 They That Wait Upon The Lord
B6 This Is The Day
B7 When The Spirit Moves You
A couple of years ago I had a long discussion with an historian of praise and worship music. He stated that the Word of God (and presumably the People of Praise as well) was an important part of the development of the entire praise and worship movement, which came into full flower the following decade. But some explanation of how these albums came into being is necessary.
The Word of God had a songbook entitled Songs of Praise. Many of those songs appeared in the community’s albums which appear on this channel. The purpose of this and the other two that went with it was to record performances (I know they’d object to that characterisation, but this is an album, after all) so that prayer groups and communities alike could hear how they sounded. The purpose of this album was to disseminate the recordings of the songs that didn’t appear in their regular album sequence. So how does it come off? Let’s start by noting that this wasn’t their “A list” of songs. Both the songs and the way they were performed vary in quality.
On the other hand, many of these songs were in the core of the Charismatic Renewal and are precious, especially since the “Top 40” model praise and worship music has adopted tends to push the older songs aside. Many of these came from Pentecostal churches, which will come as a surprise to many of my Pentecostal visitors. This opened the WoG to criticism for “Protestant” influences, but also shows that conventional hymnody was being undermined in Evangelical and Evangelical-adjacent churches, something that has become very evident since. Note that quite a few of these songs appear elsewhere on the channel on non-Word of God albums if you want to hear them by their original artists or other performers.
My deep thanks to Dennis for this music.
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