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Hillsong: "Yahweh" Worship and Praise Song featuring David Ware (HQ)
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  • Duration: 7:06
  • Published: 12 Aug 2009
  • Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
  • Author: tamim0007
"Yahweh" worship and praise song from Hillsong featuring David Ware, worship leader. This song is featured on "Faith Hope Love" DVD/CD 2009 release. Hillsong Church (formerly Hills Christian Life Centre) is a Pentecostal Christian church affiliated with Australian Christian Churches, the Australian branch of the Assemblies of God denomination. The church is located in Sydney, Australia, headquartered at its "Hills" campus in Baulkham Hills' Norwest Business Park in the Hills District. It also has a congregation designated the "City" campus which is located in Waterloo, near Sydney's central business district. The church's senior pastors are Brian and Bobbie Houston, who started the church in Baulkham Hills in 1983, later to merge with a church in the city to form Hillsong Church. Apart from the two main campuses, Hillsong Church currently has 14 extension services across Sydney. These extension services are based on either location or culture and rely on Hillsong Church for support and leadership. Hillsong Church's international offshoots include Hillsong Church London, in the United Kingdom, Hillsong Church Kiev in Ukraine, Hillsong Church Cape Town in South Africa. These churches also have services in Paris, Berlin and Moscow. Hillsong Music has topped Australian charts, with albums achieving gold and platinum sales status. Hillsong has made its mark internationally with many travelling to Sydney for the annual Hillsong Conference, which attracts over 26000 people, as <b>...</b>
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Mali Music- Yahweh
Mali Music- Yahweh
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  • Duration: 6:48
  • Published: 03 Apr 2010
  • Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
  • Author: lilmiztweety
*I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG*
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U2
U2 "Yahweh"
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  • Duration: 2:52
  • Published: 31 Jan 2006
  • Uploaded: 31 Dec 2011
  • Author: sixtoe
Video for the U2 song "Yahweh" from the band's album "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb"
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Hillsong Live - Yahweh
Hillsong Live - Yahweh
Hillsong Live Faith + Hope + Love Yahweh Buy the CD/DVD at www.hillsongmusic.com VERSE 1: Our God He lives forever He reigns in power and love Let earth bow down before Him For he is exalted PRECHORUS 1: We look to Yahweh Yahweh Forever Yahweh VERSE 2: Our hope is God Almighty His love is greater than all Lift high the God of heaven Give all the honour PRECHROUS 2: We look to Yahweh Yahweh Our hope is Yahweh CHORUS: He shall reign forever He shall reign forever He shall reign forever and ever Our God PRECHORUS 3: We look to Yahweh Yahweh Forever Yahweh Yahweh We look to Yahweh Yahweh Our hope is Yahweh Yahweh (c) 2009 Hillsong Church, Hillsong Music Australia
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He Is Yahweh
He Is Yahweh
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  • Duration: 5:34
  • Published: 13 May 2007
  • Uploaded: 31 Dec 2011
  • Author: Laurelhouse
video montage worship
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U2 Yahweh Live From Chicago
U2 Yahweh Live From Chicago
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  • Duration: 3:33
  • Published: 01 Jun 2007
  • Uploaded: 01 Jan 2012
  • Author: Fuzz97
U2's Yahweh Live From Chicago
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Yahweh - U2
Yahweh - U2
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  • Duration: 4:31
  • Published: 20 Sep 2006
  • Uploaded: 29 Dec 2011
  • Author: ylbob
Fear and Love. Life is complex. A look at it all in the context of scripture...
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U2 - Yahweh
U2 - Yahweh
Yahweh video
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Hillsong LIVE - Yahweh (Chapel)
Hillsong LIVE - Yahweh (Chapel)
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  • Duration: 4:51
  • Published: 12 Jan 2011
  • Uploaded: 01 Jan 2012
  • Author: hillsonglive
'Yahweh' from the Hillsong CHAPEL album 'Yahweh'. live.hillsong.com | http | twitter.com
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Conversation with Yahweh
Conversation with Yahweh
A non-believer comes face to face with the God of the Bible. Actually - I was half finished this video when I saw Edward Current's one - I tip my hat to him (his is way bettter, but I'd spent hours on this so I wasn't going to not put it up!)
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"Exalted" (Yahweh) Chris Tomlin
Music & Lyrics to Chris Tomlin's "Exalted" (Yahweh)
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Hillsong LIVE // Yahweh // Hillsong Chapel
Hillsong LIVE // Yahweh // Hillsong Chapel
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  • Duration: 4:47
  • Published: 26 Oct 2010
  • Uploaded: 31 Dec 2011
  • Author: peaceboi99
New from Hillsong Church, Hillsong Chapel is a series of intimate and devotional arrangements of popular songs led by Hillsong UNITED and Hillsong LIVE worship leaders. Recorded live in the church's chapel, Yahweh, the first installment in the series, contains organic and contemplative versions of such top Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) songs as "Hosanna," "From The Inside Out" and the No. 1 CCLI song sung by an estimated 40 million people every week in church services around the world, "Mighty To Save." Thirteen songs in all, including the title track "Yahweh," the project draws from a catalog of albums that have sold over 11 million copies. Although having never recorded an "unplugged" version of their songs, Ben Fielding, Annie Garratt, Jad Gillies, Joel Houston, Jill McCloghry, Reuben Morgan and other Hillsong team members crafted the brand new arrangements in response to churches around the world asking for acoustic versions of their popular anthems. "It is our role as worship leaders and musicians to help create the most inspiring and inviting atmosphere for worship within our churches," says Ben Fielding. " I like how our senior pastor, Bobbie [Houston], describes this as 'setting the table.' A full 10-piece band in a room with 30 people is likely to be setting the wrong table... and while most of us would see the error in that scenario, the reality is that we are all faced with re-thinking how we arrange our songs and how we can better <b>...</b>
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Hillsong - Yahweh - With Subtitles/Lyrics - HD Version
Hillsong - Yahweh - With Subtitles/Lyrics - HD Version
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  • Duration: 7:06
  • Published: 02 Jan 2010
  • Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
  • Author: WimNL
Hillsong - Yahweh - With Subtitles/Lyrics - Faith Hope Love - HD Version You like Hillsong Music? You can buy a CD or DVD at www.hillsongmusic.com
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Yahweh, You Are Near MV
Yahweh, You Are Near MV
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  • Duration: 4:52
  • Published: 23 Jan 2008
  • Uploaded: 30 Dec 2011
  • Author: mhcaillesrn
My Lord, my God.. I know You are always near, thanks for all Your blessings and inspiration.. It's been a year since I started posting videos for Your glory. As I always pray not me creating those videos but let it be You in those videos. God always be bless! God bless all my friends, subscribers and viewers!
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Prophet Yahweh Summon UFO
Prophet Yahweh Summon UFO
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  • Duration: 6:25
  • Published: 05 Apr 2006
  • Uploaded: 01 Jan 2012
  • Author: strecken
Prophet Yahweh has been blessed to resurrect the lost, ancient art of summoning UFOs and actual spaceships on command.
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The Hoppers - Yahweh
The Hoppers - Yahweh
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  • Duration: 4:30
  • Published: 06 Nov 2008
  • Uploaded: 01 Jan 2012
  • Author: TheNelonsFan
The Hoppers Yahweh with Kim Hopper, Dean Hopper, Claude Hopper, Connie Hopper, and Mike Hopper off the Ride
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Hillsong United - Yahweh (Faith + Hope + Love) HQ
Hillsong United - Yahweh (Faith + Hope + Love) HQ
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  • Duration: 10:00
  • Published: 19 Aug 2009
  • Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
  • Author: earnyourlife
The 'Yahweh' song written & sung by Reuben Morgan from the New Hillsong LIVE album -- FAITH HOPE LOVE. There is a missing part in the beggining of the clip that i had to cut out because of the 10 minutes upload limit. I have written what he was saying next: " We are just about to sing a song in which we declare our worship, our prayse to Yahweh. I want you to engage with understanding. I want you to understand what Yahweh means to us, here, tonight. There are at least 217 names for God in the Bible. He is so glorious, so enormous, and every one of His names reveals some facets about His live and His character. Yahweh is used when God made humanity. It is used when Abraham climbed mount Moriah, as he set up the mountain to worship God, the first time "worship" is used. And there, God provides the sacrifice and reveals Himself as Yahweh. We often think of it as Jehova, That is the latin name for Yahweh. But the revelation reaches its calmanation in Exodus 3, when God reveals Himself to His people. And he says: "I am that I am". He is the ethernal self-existing one. "I will be what I will be". He was declaring His covenant and His reality to His people." Copyrights belong to: (c) 2009 Hillsong Church, Hillsong Music Australia
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Yahweh (You've Always Been There) Lyrics!
Yahweh (You've Always Been There) Lyrics!
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  • Duration: 9:18
  • Published: 23 May 2009
  • Uploaded: 12 Dec 2011
  • Author: jthomson1
This is a Worship song to the one true God, who sent his son down to die for all of our sins, He took our punishment for us so that not only can we spend eternity in Heaven, But we can know God! I Pray that you feel the presence and closeness of God like i do when i sing this song in church and at home!
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Yahweh - Worship video with lyrics by New Life Worship, Ross Parsley
Yahweh - Worship video with lyrics by New Life Worship, Ross Parsley
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  • Duration: 5:55
  • Published: 16 Aug 2009
  • Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
  • Author: usmc7356
Hill Country Bible - Round Rock, TX Reaching people with the life-changing reality of Jesus Christ New song by New Life Worship with Ross Parsley I hope this video blesses everyone as much as it does us. It is perfect for a small group/bible study setting.
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Yahweh's Amazing Miracle
Yahweh's Amazing Miracle
Yahweh: He's either miraculous or 'mysterious'. It's a pity -- if the rest of us were as 'mysterious' as Yahweh we'd deserve to be in prison for crimes of omission. Inspiration for this one came from a Fox News story that c0ct0pusPrime did a video on -- www.youtube.com a guy and his family was in a light aircraft whose pilot DIED in the chair, and credited the fact that everybody else on board didn't die to JESUS having been looking out for them in their hour of need -- Jesus was his co-pilot. Just amazing tunnel vision -- Yahweh/Jesus is responsible for all the good, but absolutely NONE of the bad -- and there was a hell of a lot of bad in that guy's story; the pilot actually DIED, and they very nearly all met their doom. The guy who landed the plane was an experienced pilot too - (MIRACLE!) and the air traffic control helped out - but it was FAITH that got them through! With a dead frigging pilot in the plane! THAT, of course, had nothing to do with Jesus. It's hard for me to remember when I had such a ridiculous world view, but I know I did once! This video provided me with an opportunity to discuss the whole thing about the lack of thought that is SO EVIDENT in theists who think that if there is a god, (which they view as a necessity for there being anything in existence), then it must automatically be THEIR god. Or even that it must be a god that has rules and ethical standards (let alone standards of what to make your clothes out of or whether to keep your foreskin <b>...</b>
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08. Yahweh - Hillsong 2009 w/z Lyrics and Chords
08. Yahweh - Hillsong 2009 w/z Lyrics and Chords
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  • Duration: 7:06
  • Published: 20 Oct 2009
  • Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
  • Author: stephb280784
q = 125 E / / / | / / F# / | G#m / / / | / / B / | VERSE 1: EF# G#m Our God He lives forever EBC#m7 He reigns in power and love EF# G#m Let earth bow down before Him C#m7 B/D# EF# For He is exalted PRE CHORUS 1: G#m E We look to Yahweh BC#m7 Yahweh G#m E Forever Yahweh F# Yahweh VERSE 2: Our hope is God Almighty His love is greater than all Lift high the God of heaven Give all the honour PRE CHORUS 2: We look to Yahweh Yahweh Our hope is Yahweh Yahweh CHORUS: B He shall reign forever F# He shall reign forever C#m7 G#m EF# He shall reign forever and ever E | / / G#m / | F# | / / B/D# / | Our God PRE CHORUS 3: We look to Yahweh Yahweh Forever Yahweh Yahweh We look to Yahweh Yahweh Our hope is Yahweh Yahweh
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He is Yahweh by Cory Asbury
He is Yahweh by Cory Asbury
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  • Published: 12 Oct 2010
  • Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
  • Author: clouds283
Our God, He Is Yahweh, the Creator of universes, Almighty One!
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needtobreathe - "Signature of Divine (Yahweh)"
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  • Duration: 4:08
  • Published: 20 Oct 2008
  • Uploaded: 28 Dec 2011
  • Author: chip51
Atlantic recording artists needtobreathe in Tampa, Florida at Riverbank Studios. Nominated for the 2008 Emmy award for excellence in lighting. Director/Editor: Chip Hansen DP: Ben Eytalis Camera/Grip: Rob Rose Audio Engineer: Andrew Perry
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"Yahweh" worship and praise song from Hillsong featuring David Ware, worship leader. This song is featured on "Faith Hope Love" DVD/CD 2009 release. Hillsong Church (formerly Hills Christian Life Centre) is a Pentecostal...
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  • The Examiner New from Hillsong Church, Hillsong Chapel is a series of intimate and devotional arrangements of popular songs led by Hillsong UNITED and Hillsong LIVE worship leaders. Recorded live in the church’s chapel, Yahweh releases today and is the first installment in this already acclaimed series that...
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    Yahweh ( or ; ) is the name of the biblical god. Aside from the mention in Moabite on King Mesha's stele referring to Israel's God, "Yahweh" occurs once either as a place name or a deity in a 15th century BCE Egyptian record of the land of the Shasu. Friedrich Delitzsch (1903) proposed that the name was related to the name ending -yahu found in some Ugaritic personal names, though no further evidence has been found.

    The word Yahweh is a modern scholarly convention for the Hebrew , transcribed into Roman letters as YHWH and known as the Tetragrammaton, for which the actual pronunciation is disputed. The most likely meaning of the name may be “He Brings Into Existence Whatever Exists", but there are many theories and none is regarded as conclusive.

    The Bible describes Yahweh as the god who delivered Israel from Egypt and gave the Ten Commandments and says that Yahweh revealed himself to Israel as a god who would not permit his people to make idols or worship other gods "I am Yahweh, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, or My praise to idols."

    The history of the emergence of Israelite monotheism and Yahweh worship has been the subject of scholarly study since at least the 19th century and Julius Wellhausen'’s ''Prolegomena to the History of Israel''; in the 20th century a formative work was William F. Albright's ''Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan – An Historical Analysis of Two Contrasting Faiths'' (1968), which insisted on the essential otherness of Yahweh from the Canaanite gods from the very beginning of Israel's history. However, scholars of the Ancient Near East have since seen Yahweh worship as emerging from a West Semitic and Canaanite background. Theophoric names, names of local gods similar to Yahweh, and archaeological evidence are used along with the Biblical source texts to describe pre-Israel origins of Yahweh worship, the relationship of Yahweh with local gods, and the manner in which Yahweh worship evolved into Jewish monotheism.

    Worship of Yahweh alone is a central idea of historical Judaism. Much of Christianity views Jesus as the human incarnation of Yahweh. The importance of the divine name and the character of the “one true god” revealed as Yahweh are often contrasted with the significantly different character of rival deities known by different names in the traditional polytheistic religions. Some scholars, including William G. Dever, have asserted that the Asherah was worshipped as a consort of Yahweh, until the 6th century BCE, when strict monolatry of Yahweh became prevalent in the wake of the destruction of the temple. However, the consort hypothesis has been subject to debate with numerous scholars publishing disagreement.

    Name

    The archaeological evidence suggests that the greater part of the population of Israel was of Canaanite origin; given this, one would expect the Israelites to worship a Canaanite god, but in the West Semitic world Yahweh was not worshiped outside Israel. (West Semitic is the family of languages to which Hebrew belongs, along with Phoenician, Edomite, Moabite and a few others; they were similar enough to be mutually intelligible).

    Vocalisation

    Biblical Hebrew was written with consonants only, meaning that the name of God is written YHWH. The original pronunciation of this word was lost many centuries ago, but in the 19th century the eminent Hebrew scholar Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842) suggested "Yahweh" as the most probable vocalization, based on his study of early Greek transcriptions, theophoric names, and the reported pronunciation of the name in the Samaritan tradition. This has become the conventional usage in Biblical scholarship.

    Etymology

    Most scholars accept that YHWH is made up of Y, meaning "he", plus a form of HWY, the root of a group of words connected with "being" and "becoming". Frank Moore Cross has advanced the hypothesis that the name Yahweh is an abbreviation, in which the theophoric element ''el'' has been dropped, thus giving ''yhwh-'l'' or "El-Yahweh", which would parallel "El-Shaddai" and "El-Elyon". El was the chief god of the Canaanite pantheon, and El-YHWH is still attested as an epithet, 'El, who shows himself' in a few places in the Old Testament (in psalm 50:1, for example). It would have originated as a description of El's appearance and blessing: "El who shows himself". The author of gives a similar explanation: God, asked by Moses for his name, provides three names: "I Am That I Am", followed by "I Am," and finally "YHWH": : אהיה אשר אהיה ויאמר כה תאמר לבני ישראל אהיה שלחני אליכם׃ : "I AM THAT I AM [...] Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you [...] YHWH God of your fathers, [...] this is my name for ever"

    As the origins of Yahweh seem to lie to the southeast of Israel, in Edom and Midian or even further south, an alternative explanation looks for its etymology in South Semitic languages like Arabic rather than in Hebrew, which is West Semitic. One of the meanings of HWY in Arabic is connected with falling or causing to fall, leading to an interpretation of Yahweh as a storm god whose name means "He who causes to fall" (meaning rain, lightning, and his enemies) or "He blows". This also helps explain Yahweh's attributes as a storm god (he comes to rescue Israel surrounded by darkness and thick clouds, and the earth trembles, the clouds drop water, and the mountains quake at his appearance), and the way he appropriates attributes from the rival storm god Baal.

    Divine names, however, are often much older than the religions using them, and ideas about gods change over time; despite Exodus 14 it is fairly improbable that the authors of the bible were aware of the meaning of the name Yahweh, and even an accurate knowledge of the origins of the name will not help understand the significance Yahweh held for them.

    Yahweh in the Hebrew bible

    The overwhelming majority of our knowledge of the god Yahweh comes from the Hebrew Bible (more or less identical with the Christian Old Testament). This consists of 24 books ranging in subject matter from history to poetry to philosophical meditation, and in time from perhaps the 10th century to the 2nd century BCE. Almost every book of the bible mentions Yahweh. Other names for God are also used, notably Elohim, but in every case these are simply alternatives for Yahweh.

    History of Yahweh-worship

    Origin of Yahweh and the Kenite hypothesis

    "Israel" is a term with many meanings, but in this section it means the ethnic group who emerged in the Palestinian hill country in the Iron Age I period (1200-1000 BCE). The bible tells a story in which Israel escaped from Egypt, met Yahweh on a mountain-top in the wilderness, agreed to become his chosen people, and conquered Canaan with his help. The view of modern scholarship is quite different: overwhelmingly, the archaeological evidence points to an Israelite community arising peacefully and internally in the highlands of Canaan.

    Given, as seems probable, that Yahweh was not a Canaanite god, this raises the question of where he originated and how he became the national god of Israel and Judah in Iron Age II (1000-586). The first probable record of his name is in two Egyptian inscriptions from the 14th and 13th centuries, as a place-name in the region of Edom associated with Shoshu-Bedouins". According to a widely accepted theory (the "Kenite hypothesis"), this god could have been brought north to the Palestinian hill country and the early Israelites by migratory Edomite desert tribes, of whom the Kenites were one.

    Yahweh as national god of Israel

    According to a theory advanced by Karel van der Toorn, the creation of a unified kingdom early in Iron Age II was the crucial act that led to Yahweh becoming the god of Israel. In Iron Age I the religious life of ordinary Israelites, like that of other peoples throughout the Ancient Near East, was organised around the family-based cult of the ancestors and devotion to a local god, the "god of the fathers." According to the bible the first king, Saul, was a Gibeonite, a tribe with its roots in Edom, and in order to unify the new kingdom and cement his own authority Saul promoted his own god, Yahweh, as god of the kingdom; previously, each extended family or clan was the "people" of a particular god, but now the entire Israelite community became the "people of Yahweh."

    Yahweh was the State god of the northern kingdom of Israel by at least the early 9th century, and this is confirmed by an inscription from Kuntillet Ajrud which refers to Yahweh of Samaria, probably meaning the kingdom rather than the city.

    More than forty inscriptions mentioning Yahweh, Yahu or Yah have been discovered, all tending to reinforce the centrality of Yahweh to Israelite religion. The inscriptions include blessings, oaths, salutations, votive offerings, seals and prayers. No other gods or goddesses are unambiguously recorded except for contentious references to Asherah, who might be a goddess and Yahweh's consort, or possibly some kind of cult object. A fragment from Kuntillet Ajrud (9th/8th centuries) mentions Baal in association with Yahweh, but in this case the word might simply mean "Lord" (the literal meaning of "baal").

    A 10th century cult stand from Taanach (a town in Northern Israel, near Megiddo) shows, among other images, two winged sphinxes with an empty space between them, possibly meant to represent Yahweh between the cherubim. A horse or bull figure on the same stand, topped by a solar disk, may represent either Yahweh or Baal, and a stylised tree and female figures are testimony to the presence of goddesses (possibly Asherah) in the pantheon.

    History of Yahwism

    Archaeologists and historical scholars use a variety of ways to organize and interpret the available iconographic and textual information. William G. Dever contrasts "official religion/state religion/book religion" of the elite with “folk religion” of the masses. Rainer Albertz contrasts "official religion" with "family religion", "personal piety", and "internal religious pluralism". Jacques Berlinerblau analyzes the evidence in terms of "official religion" and "popular religion" in ancient Israel.

    Tension between monotheism and polytheism among the Israelites

    Tension between monotheism and polytheism among the Israelites is documented as early as the account of Exodus. Aaron's statement "These are your gods," in the plural, when only one golden calf was molded, looks forward to the two golden calves of Jereboam.

    Both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical texts document tensions between groups comfortable with the worship of Yahweh alongside local deities such as Asherah and Baal and those insistent on worship of Yahweh alone during the monarchal period (1 Kings 18, Jeremiah 2) The Deuteronomistic source gives evidence of a strong monotheistic party during the reign of king Josiah during the late 7th century BCE, but the strength and prevalence of earlier monotheistic worship of Yahweh is widely debated based on interpretations of how much of the Deuteronomistic history is accurately based on earlier sources, and how much has been re-worked by Deuteronomistic redactors to bolster their theological views. The archaeological record documents widespread polytheism in and around Israel during the period of the monarchy.

    Patrick D. Miller's schema: orthodox, heterodox and syncretistic Yahwism

    Patrick D. Miller has distinguished three broad categories of Yahwism, orthodox, heterodox, and syncretistic. Orthodox Yahwism demanded the exclusive worship of Yahweh (although without denying the existence of other gods). The powers of blessing (health, wealth, continuity, fertility) and salvation (forgiveness, victory, deliverance from oppression and threat) resided fully in Yahweh, and his will was communicated via oracle and prophetic vision or audition. Divination, soothsaying, and necromancy were prohibited. The individual or community could cry out to Yahweh and would receive a divine response, mediated by priestly or prophetic figures.

    Sanctuaries were erected in various places and were used to express devotion to Yahweh by means of sacrifice, festival meals and celebrations, prayer, and praise. Toward the end of the seventh century (BCE) in Judah, worship of Yahweh was restricted to the temple in Jerusalem, while the major sanctuaries in the northern kingdom were at Bethel (near the southern border) and Dan (in the north). Certain times were set for the gathering of the people to celebrate the gifts of Yahweh and the deity’s acts of deliverance and redemption.

    Everything in the moral realm was understood as a part of relation to Yahweh as a manifestation of holiness. Family relationships and the welfare of the weaker members of society were protected by divine law, and purity of conduct, dress, food, etc. were regulated. Religious leadership resided in priests who were associated with sanctuaries, and also in prophets, who were bearers of divine oracles. In the political sphere the king was understood as the appointee and agent of Yahweh.

    Heterodox Yahwism is described by Miller as a mixture of elements of orthodox Yahwism with particular practices that conflicted with orthodox Yahwism or were not customarily a part of it. For example, heterodox Yahwism included the presence of cult objects rejected in by orthodox expressions, such as the asherah, figurines of various sorts (females, horses and riders, animals and birds, and the calves or bulls of the Northern Kingdom. The "high places" as centers of worship seems to have moved from an acceptable place within Yahwism to an increasingly condemned status in official and orthodox circles. Efforts to know the future or the will of the deity could also be understood as heterodox if they went outside the boundaries of orthodox Yahwism, and even commonly accepted revelatory mechanism such as dreams could be condemned if the resulting message was perceived as false. Consulting mediums, wizards, and diviners was often employed by heterodox Yahwists.

    Syncretism covers the worship of Baal, the heavenly bodies (sun, moon, and stars), the "Queen of Heaven" and other deities as well as practices such as child sacrifice: "Other gods were invoked and serviced in time of need or blessing and provision for life when the worship of Yahweh seemed inadequate for those purposes."

    Ancient Israel and Judah

    It has traditionally been believed that monotheism was part of Israel's original covenant with Yahweh on Mount Sinai, and the idolatry criticized by the prophets was due to Israel's backsliding. But during the 20th century it became increasingly recognised that the Bible's presentation raises a number of questions: Why do the Ten Commandments declare that there should be no other gods "before Me" (Yahweh), if there are no other gods at all? Why do the Israelites sing at the crossing of the Red Sea that "there is no god like you, O Yahweh", implying that other gods exist? These observations eventually overthrew the belief that Israel had always worshipped no other god but Yahweh.

    Possible evidence of Israelite worship of Canaanite gods appears both in the Bible and the archaeological record. Respectful references to the goddess Asherah or her symbol, for example, as part of the worship of Yahweh, are found in the eighth century inscriptions from Kuntillet 'Ajrud and Khirbet el-Qom, and references to the Canaanite gods Resheph and Deber appear without criticism in the original Jewish text of . While traditionally these words have been understood to be either Jewish words whose meaning has been derived from characteristics of these Canaanite deities or references to demons, some interpret these as evidence of Israelite recognition of these gods as part of the military retinue of Yahweh. The "host of heaven" is also mentioned without criticism in and . Though the "host of heaven" has traditionally been interpreted as either the stars/heavenly bodies or the host of angels/heavenly spirits depending on the context, some again have interpreted this term to refer to a pantheon of Israelite gods. The god El is also continually identified with Yahweh.

    Israel inherited polytheism from late first-millennium Canaan, and Canaanite religion in turn had its roots in the religion of second-millennium Ugarit. In the 2nd millennium, polytheism was expressed through the concepts of the divine council and the divine family, a single entity with four levels: the chief god and his wife (El and Asherah); the seventy divine children or "stars of El" (including Baal, Astarte, Anat, probably Resheph, as well as the sun-goddess Shapshu and the moon-god Yerak); the head helper of the divine household, Kothar wa-Hasis; and the servants of the divine household, including the messenger-gods who would later appear as the "angels" of the Hebrew bible.

    In the earliest stage Yahweh was one of the seventy children of El, each of whom was the patron deity of one of the seventy nations. This is illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint texts of Deuteronomy 32:8–9, in which El, as the head of the divine assembly, gives each member of the divine family a nation of his own, "according to the number of the divine sons": Israel is the portion of Yahweh. The later Masoretic text, evidently uncomfortable with the polytheism expressed by the phrase, altered it to "according to the number of the children of Israel"

    Between the eighth to the sixth centuries El became identified with Yahweh, Yahweh-El became the husband of the goddess Asherah, and the other gods and the divine messengers gradually became mere expressions of Yahweh's power. Yahweh is cast in the role of the Divine King ruling over all the other deities, as in Psalm 29:2, where the "sons of God" are called upon to worship Yahweh; and as Ezekiel 8-10 suggests, the Temple itself became Yahweh's palace, populated by those in his retinue.

    It is in this period that the earliest clear monotheistic statements appear in the Bible, for example in the apparently seventh-century Deuteronomy 4:35, 39, 1 Samuel 2:2, 2 Samuel 7:22, 2 Kings 19:15, 19 (= Isaiah 37:16, 20), and Jeremiah 16:19, 20 and the sixth-century portion of Isaiah 43:10–11, 44:6, 8, 45:5–7, 14, 18, 21, and 46:9. Because many of the passages involved appear in works associated with either Deuteronomy, the Deuteronomistic History (Joshua through Kings) or in Jeremiah, most recent scholarly treatments have suggested that a Deuteronomistic movement of this period developed the idea of monotheism as a response to the religious issues of the time.

    The first factor behind this development involves changes in Israel's social structure. At Ugarit, social identity was strongest at the level of the family: legal documents, for example, were often made between the sons of one family and the sons of another. Ugarit's religion, with its divine family headed by El and Asherah, mirrored this human reality. The same was true in ancient Israel through most of the monarchy – for example, the story of Achan in Joshua 8 suggests an extended family as the major social unit. However, the family lineages went through traumatic changes beginning in the eighth century due to major social stratification, followed by Assyrian incursions. In the seventh and sixth centuries, we begin to see expressions of individual identity (Deuteronomy 26:16; Jeremiah 31:29–30; Ezekiel 18). A culture with a diminished lineage system, deteriorating over a long period from the ninth or eighth century onward, less embedded in traditional family patrimonies, might be more predisposed both to hold the individual accountable for his behavior, and to see an individual deity accountable for the cosmos. In short, the rise of the individual as the basic social unit led to the rise of a single god replacing a divine family.

    The second major factor was the rise of the neo-Assyrian and neo-Babylonian empires. As long as Israel was, from its own perspective, part of a community of similar small nations, it made sense to see the Israelite pantheon on par with the other nations, each one with its own patron god – the picture described with Deuteronomy 32:8–9. The assumption behind this worldview was that each nation was as powerful as its patron god. However, the neo-Assyrian conquest of the northern kingdom in ca. 722 challenged this, for if the neo-Assyrian empire were so powerful, so must be its god; and conversely, if Israel could be conquered (and later Judah, c. 586), it implied that Yahweh in turn was a minor divinity. The crisis was met by separating the heavenly power and earthly kingdoms. Even though Assyria and Babylon were so powerful, the new monotheistic thinking in Israel reasoned, this did not mean that the god of Israel and Judah was weak. Assyria had not succeeded because of the power of its god Marduk; it was Yahweh who was using Assyria to punish and purify the one nation which Yahweh had chosen.

    By the post-Exilic period, full monotheism had emerged: Yahweh was the sole God, not just of Israel, but of the whole world. If the nations were tools of Yahweh, then the new king who would come to redeem Israel might not be a Judean as taught in older literature (e.g. Psalm 2). Now, even a foreigner such as Cyrus the Persian could serve as the Lord's anointed (Isaiah 44:28, 45:1). One god stood behind all the world's history.

    Use of "Yahweh" in contemporary religion

    Modern Judaism

    In modern Judaism, the Tetragrammaton is conventionally substituted by Adonai ("my Lord") when reading the text of the Bible. Jews ceased to pronounce the name in the intertestamental period, replacing it with the common noun Elohim, “god”, to demonstrate the universal sovereignty of Israel's God over all others. At the same time, the divine name was increasingly regarded as too sacred to be uttered, and was replaced in spoken ritual by the word Adonai (“My Lord”), or with haShem (“the Name”) in everyday speech, see Names of God in Judaism for details.

    Roman Catholic church

    Traditionally in both Latin and vernacular worship "Lord" was used, following the Greek New Testament and and Septuagint. Although the rendering of the Tetragrammaton as "Yahweh" is found in the Old Testament of versions such as the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible, and New Jerusalem Bible (1985), the liturgical use of ''Yahweh'' in English-speaking worship was suspended by the Vatican in 2008. The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments direction that the word "Lord" be used instead of Yahweh in English-language worship, was based on the understanding that Jews at the time of Christ and also early Christians substituted other words rather than pronounce the name.

    Protestantism

    When transcribing the Tetragrammaton, the vocalization Jehovah has been popular in particular in Protestantism from the time of the Reformation.

    Bible scholar and author Charles Ryrie, author of the ''Ryrie Study Bible,'' says the name “Yahweh” appears 6,823 times in the Old Testament, and also many times in the New Testament when it directly quotes or paraphrases passages from the Old Testament containing God’s name. He writes that the name "Yahweh" is particularly associated with God's holiness, his hatred of sin and his provision of redemption. It may be that the contemporary translations of the Bible do not use "Yahweh" out of respect for the traditional Jewish reverence for this name.

    The King James Bible, the New American Standard Bible, and the New International Version substitute the titles “LORD” and “GOD” with all the letters capitalized where the Name “Yahweh” actually belongs. The name "Yahweh" does not appear in the text of most popular English Bible translations on the market today. Jewish Bible scholars introduced this tradition in the mid-2nd century B.C., and it has continued since that time. In 1611, the inaugural edition of the King James Bible editors did not include the name ”Yahweh,” not being aware of the rendering, though ''Jehovah'' does appear several times.

    There are some contemporary instances where the spelling ''Yahweh'' has come into religious use. The Sacred Name Movement is a small Christian movement, active since the 1930s, which propagates the use of the name ''Yahweh'' in Bible translations and in liturgy. "Sacred Name Bibles" are Bibles which render the Tetragrammaton by transliteration (or iconographically by inserting Hebrew script in the translation). An early such Bible was Rotherham's Emphasized Bible of 1902.

    See also

  • Ancient Semitic religion
  • Canaanite religion
  • Names of God in Judaism
  • Tetragrammaton
  • References

    Bibliography

    External links

  • "Yahweh." Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
  • Category:Ancient Semitic religions Category:Creator gods Category:Deities in the Hebrew Bible Category:Judeo-Christian topics Category:Names of God Category:Sky and weather gods Category:Tetragrammaton Category:Yahwism Category:War gods

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    nameDavid S. Ware
    backgroundnon_vocal_instrumentalist
    birth nameDavid Spencer Ware
    bornNovember 07, 1949Plainfield, New JerseyUnited States
    instrumentSaxophone
    genreJazz, Free jazz
    occupationMusician, Bandleader
    labelSilkheart, DIW, Homestead, AUM Fidelity, Columbia, Thirsty Ear
    associated actsCecil Taylor, Andrew Cyrille
    websitedavidsware.com
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    David Spencer Ware (born November 7, 1949 in Plainfield, New Jersey), is an American jazz saxophonist.

    Ware grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and graduated from Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. He attended the Berklee College of Music and worked in New York City as a cab driver for 14 years, later returning to Scotch Plains to live. Suffering from kidney disease at the age of 60, ware was able to undergo a successful kidney transplantation, after receiving a kidney donated in response to an email message sent out to nearly 1,000 of Ware's fans.

    He has recorded with Andrew Cyrille and Cecil Taylor, and has led his own quartet since the early 1990s. Pianist Matthew Shipp and double bassist William Parker have been in Ware's quartet steadily; drummers have changed: following Marc Edwards, Whit Dickey, and Susie Ibarra, Guillermo E. Brown is now the drummer of the David S. Ware Quartet.

    Ware first appeared on a privately-produced LP recorded in Boston in 1971 by Abdul Hannah, an alto saxophonist from Boston.

    Discography

    As leader

  • ''Third World Awareness'' (Abdul Hannah, 1971)
  • ''Passage to Music'' (Silkheart, 1988)
  • ''Great Bliss, vol. 1'' (Silkheart, 1990)
  • ''Great Bliss, vol. 2'' (Silkheart, 1990)
  • ''Flight of I'' (DIW, 1991)
  • ''Third Ear Recitation'' (DIW, 1993)
  • ''Earthquation'' (DIW, 1994)
  • ''Cryptology'' (Homestead, 1994)
  • ''Oblations and Blessings'' (Silkheart, 1995)
  • ''Dao'' (Homestead, 1995)
  • ''Godspelized'' (DIW, 1996)
  • ''Wisdom of Uncertainty'' (AUM Fidelity, 1996)
  • ''Live in the Netherlands'' (Splasc(H), 1997)
  • ''Go See the World'' (Columbia, 1997)
  • ''Surrendered'' (Columbia, 1999)
  • ''Corridors & Parallels'' (AUM Fidelity, 2001)
  • ''Freedom Suite'' (AUM Fidelity, 2002)
  • ''The David S Ware Quartet Live in the World'' (Thirsty Ear, 1998/2003)
  • ''Threads'' (CD Thirsty Ear, 2003)
  • ''BalladWare'' (CD Thirsty Ear, 2005)
  • ''Renunciation'' (AUM Fidelity, 2007)
  • ''Shakti'' (Aum Fidelity, 2008) with Joe Morris g, William Parker b, Warren Smith dr
  • ''David S Ware Quartet Live in Vilnius (2 LP, NO BUSINESS 2008)
  • ''Saturnian (solo saxophones volume 1)'' (Aum Fidelity, 2009)
  • ''Onecept'' (Aum Fidelity, 2010) with William Parker b, Warren Smith dr
  • As sideman

    With Andrew Cyrille
  • ''Metamusicians' Stomp'' (Black Saint, 1978)
  • ''Special People'' (Soul Note, 1980)
  • References

    External links

  • David S. Ware official site
  • David S. Ware Sessionography
  • Category:Jazz saxophonists Category:Avant-garde jazz musicians Category:Berklee College of Music alumni Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:African American musicians Category:Columbia Records artists Category:DIW Records artists Category:People from Plainfield, New Jersey Category:People from Scotch Plains, New Jersey

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    nameChris Tomlin
    backgroundsolo_singer
    birth nameChristopher Dwayne Tomlin
    bornMay 04, 1972
    originGrand Saline, Texas U.S.
    instrumentPiano Guitar
    genreCCMContemporary worship music
    occupationSinger, songwriter, instrumentalist worship leader
    years active1998–present
    labelsixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records
    websitewww.christomlin.com
    notable instruments}}
    Christopher Dwayne "Chris" Tomlin (born May 4, 1972) is an American Christian Contemporary Music artist, worship leader, and songwriter from Grand Saline, Texas, United States. He is a former staff member at Austin Stone Community Church and is signed to EMI's sixstepsrecords. Tomlin also leads worship at many Passion events. Some of his most well-known songs are "How Great Is Our God", "Jesus Messiah", "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)", and the recent song "Our God" which he co-wrote with Matt Redman, Jesse Reeves and Jonas Myrin. He is currently a lead worshipper at Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia with Louie Giglio and Christy Nockels.

    He was awarded Male Vocalist of the Year at the 2006, 2007, and 2008 GMA Dove Awards. He was also named Artist of the Year in 2007. Tomlin released his seventh studio album, ''And If Our God Is for Us...'', on November 16, 2010. He is one of the members of Compassionart, a charity founded by Martin Smith (and Smith's wife, Anna) of the band Delirious?.

    Early life

    Tomlin was born in Grand Saline, Texas in 1972 to Connie and Donna Tomlin. He has two younger brothers, Ryan and Cory. Tomlin received his first guitar from his father at the age of eleven after contracting a case of mono. Chris Tomlin first learned how to play the guitar by playing along side Willie Nelson records.

    Tomlin wrote his first worship song at age fourteen. He entered college planning to study physical therapy, but ended up not pursuing that career, as he has stated that he felt God's calling to something else.

    In the mid-1990s Tomlin was a worship leader at the Dawson McAllister Youth Conferences, as well as at various church camps in Texas.

    After attending Tyler Junior College and Texas A&M; University, Tomlin continued to play and write songs, and in 1997, youth speaker Louie Giglio asked if he would be interested in working with the Passion Conferences. Tomlin has played a key role in the movement ever since.

    Musical career

    His first nationally released solo project, titled ''The Noise We Make'', was released in 2001, featuring the songs "Forever," "Be Glorified", and "Kindness", all of which made the top 200 in the CCLI 2005 top 500 worship songs. He also released the live EP ''545'' in 2002, and the studio album ''Not to Us'' (2002). His 2004 album ''Arriving'' is considered his breakout album as it produced the #1 hits "Indescribable" (written by Laura Story), "Holy Is the Lord", "How Great Is Our God", and "The Way I Was Made". Two other tracks from the album–"On Our Side" and "Mighty is the Power of the Cross", written with Shawn Craig of Phillips, Craig, and Dean–landed in the 2005 top 500 worship songs according to Christian Copyright Licensing International. ''Arriving'' was certified platinum by the RIAA in 2008. A year after ''Arriving'', Tomlin released his first solo live album, titled ''Live From Austin Music Hall'', and in 2006, his fourth studio album, ''See the Morning'', which was nominated for two Grammy Awards, been certified Gold by the RIAA, and has helped him win 6 Dove Awards in 2007, including a second consecutive "Artist of the Year" win. The three singles off this album have all been top #5 songs on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs Chart, and have all reached the number one position on the R&R;' Christian AC Chart.

    Although he is a solo artist, Tomlin travels around with a consistent band lineup. He also writes many of his songs with the members of his band. His band, in which he performs vocals, acoustic guitar, and piano, consists of Daniel Carson (electric guitar, backup vocals), Jesse Reeves (bass guitar, backup vocals), Travis Nunn (drums), and Matt Gilder (piano, keys). Tomlin and the band developed while working with the Harvest Ministry at The Woodlands United Methodist Church in The Woodlands, Texas in the late 1990s.

    According to Christian Copyright Licensing International's list of the top 25 worship songs in the US in August 2007, Tomlin held 5 spots with songs he has either written or co-written with other songwriters: "How Great Is Our God" (#1), "Forever" (#5), "Holy Is the Lord" (#7), "We Fall Down" (#12), and "Indescribable" (#22). In 2008, Tomlin held 6 spots on ''20 The Countdown Magazine'''s top 20 praise and worship songs: "We Fall Down" (#14), "Forever" (#10), "Holy is the Lord" (#8), "Indescribable" (#6), "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)" (#3), and "How Great is our God" (#1).

    Tomlin has toured with several prominent contemporary Christian music artists, such as opening for Delirious? during his first ever tour, and as a supporting act of Steven Curtis Chapman during his ''All Things New'' Tour. Tomlin has also headlined several tours, such as headlining the Chris Tomlin Indescribable Tour, which featured world renowned worship artist Matt Redman, and speaker Louie Giglio, and headlining the ''See the Morning'' Tour. From April to October 2007, Tomlin toured with Louie Giglio and Matt Redman on his "How Great Is Our God" tour. In 2008, Tomlin toured with Passion Conferences on its world tour. In early 2009, he headlined the ''Hello Love'' tour with Israel Houghton and New Breed. In summer of 2010, he co-headlined the "Hello Tonight" tour with TobyMac.

    Tomlin has also been featured at many conferences and music festivals. Among these, he has played at Grand Saline's annual Salt Festival. Hillsong's 2007 conference, and the 2008 Compassionart International Songwriting retreat, which was dedicated to writing songs whose revenue would support charities serving the poorest of the world's poor. Other prominent songwriters included were Matt Redman, Martin Smith, Stuart Garrard, and Steven Curtis Chapman. In 2009, Tomlin played at the Harvest Crusade at Anaheim Angels Stadium.

    At the end of 2006, Tomlin launched an online music website resource called Frequency which Tomlin described as "a place to serve God and his people in worship." In 2007, he partnered with Larry Tardy to create a new site under a similar name, Frequency Worship. The original site featured chord charts for some of Chris' songs, some instructional videos for those songs, and a message board meant for worship leaders. Since the updated launch in August 2008, Frequency has included chord charts for many popular worship songs, instructional videos, planning software for worship leaders, articles written by other artists, and more, branching out into all of worship music.

    On June 14, 2007, Tomlin's version of the song "Indescribable" was used as the official wake-up call for Mission Specialist Patrick Forrester on Space Shuttle mission STS-117.

    In May 2008, it was announced that Tomlin and his band would move from The Austin Stone Community Church, the church he helped plant with senior pastor Matt Carter in Austin, Texas to start a new church with Louie Giglio in Atlanta, Georgia.

    In 2009, Tomlin released a Christmas album, ''Glory in the Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship''. It includes three original Christmas songs and features duets with Matt Redman, Christy Nockels, and Audrey Assad. The album peaked at #9 on the Billboard 200 list and at #1 for Holiday albums.

    In March 2010, Tomlin and his band announced through their Twitter accounts the recording of a new studio album slated for a November 2010 release. On August 30, Tomlin announced on his Twitter that the title would be ''And If Our God Is for Us...'' The first single "I Will Follow" was released to radio on August 23.

    Personal life

    Tomlin married his girlfriend of two years, Lauren Bricken, on November 9, 2010.

    In May 2011, Tomlin announced to his hometown that he and Lauren are expecting their first child.

    Discography

  • 1995: ''Inside Your Love''
  • 1998: ''Authentic''
  • 1998: ''Too Much Free Time'' with Ross King.
  • 2001: ''The Noise We Make''
  • 2002: ''Not to Us''
  • 2004: ''Arriving''
  • 2006: ''See the Morning''
  • 2008: ''Hello Love''
  • 2009: ''Glory in the Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship''
  • 2010: ''And If Our God Is for Us...''
  • ;Passion event albums

  • ''Live Worship From The 268 Generation'' (1998)
  • ''Better Is One Day'' (1999)
  • ''The Road To One Day'' (2000)
  • ''One Day: Live'' (2000)
  • ''The Noise We Make'' (2001)
  • ''Our Love is Loud'' (2002)
  • ''Sacred Revolution: Songs From OneDay 03'' (2003)
  • ''Hymns: Ancient and Modern'' (2004)
  • ''How Great Is Our God'' (2005)
  • ''Everything Glorious'' (2006)
  • ''The Best of Passion (So Far)'' (2006)
  • ''Live From Passion 07 Pts. 1 & 3'' (2007)
  • ''God of This City'' (2008)
  • ''Awakening'' (2010)
  • ''Here for You'' (March 8, 2011)

    ;Non-album songs

  • "Whisper My Name" [Forefront] - ''Eterne: Never Be the Same'' (2000)
  • "Salvation" - ''Pour Over Me - Worship Together Live 2001'' (2001)
  • "Give Us Clean Hands" - ''Pour Over Me - Worship Together Live 2001'' (2001)
  • "Satisfied" [Forefront] - ''Secrets Of The Vine: Music... A Worship Experience'' (2002)
  • "Lord, I'm Gonna Love You" [Sparrow] - ''Your Love Broke Through'' (2002)
  • "Expressions of Your Love" (duet w/ Rebecca St. James) [Sparrow] - ''It Takes Two: 15 Collaborations & Duets'' (2003)
  • "Where the Streets Have No Name" [Sparrow/EMI CMG] - ''In the Name of Love: Artists United for Africa'' (2004)
  • "You're The One" [Disney/EMI CMG] - ''Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'' (2005)
  • "Angels We Have Heard On High" [Word] - ''WOW Christmas: Green'' (2005)
  • "Mighty to Save" [Integrity] - ''Bonus disc included with Fruitcake and Ice Cream DVD'' (2008)
  • Charts

    Albums - Billboard (North America)
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    Singles - Billboard (North America)

    Year Title Peak Chart Positions Album
    Top Heatseekers>US Heat ! Hot Christian Songs
    2004 2
    2
    style="text-align:left" 14 1
    2006 1
    2
    2
    2008 2
    50 2
    6
    style="text-align:left" 28
    9 1
    14 2
    11

    1 Currently active on the charts

    Music videos

  • "Expressions of Your Love" (With Rebecca St. James) (2004)
  • "Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)" (2007)
  • "I Lift My Hands" (2011)
  • Awards

    GMA Dove Awards

    Throughout his career, Chris Tomlin has been nominated to 32 Dove Awards (6 of them, collaborative efforts) and won 17 of them.

    Year ! Award ! Result
    !rowspan="1" Praise & Worship Album of the Year (''Arriving'')
    !rowspan="10" Artist of the Year
    Male Vocalist of the Year
    Song of the Year ("Holy Is the Lord")
    Worship Song of the Year ("Holy Is the Lord")
    Worship Song of the Year ("How Great Is Our God")
    Worship Song of the Year ("Indescribable")1
    Special Event Album of the Year ("WOW Christmas: Green")*
    !rowspan="9" Artist of the Year
    Male Vocalist of the Year
    Song of the Year ("Made to Worship")
    Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year ("Made to Worship")
    Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year (''See The Morning'')
    Worship Song of the Year ("Holy Is the Lord")
    Worship Song of the Year ("Made to Worship")
    Praise & Worship Album of the Year (''See The Morning'')
    !rowspan="6" Artist of the Year
    Male Vocalist of the Year
    Song of the Year ("Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)")
    Worship Song of the Year ("Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)")
    Worship Song of the Year ("How Great Is Our God")
    Special Event Album of the Year ("Music Inspired By the Motion Picture Amazing Grace")*
    !rowspan="7" Artist of the Year
    Male Vocalist of the Year
    Song of the Year ("Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)")
    Worship Song of the Year ("Jesus Messiah")
    Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year ("How Great Is Our God")2
    !rowspan="4" Song of the Year ("I Will Rise")
    Worship Song of the Year ("I Will Rise")
    Christmas Album of the Year (''Glory in the Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship'')
    !rowspan="5" Artist of the Year
    Male Vocalist of the Year
    Song of the Year ("Our God")
    Worship Song of the Year ("Our God")
    Special Event Album of the Year (''Passion: Awakening'')*

  • *Denotes a collaborative effort or a song contribution to a "Various artists" album.
  • 1 The song was performed by Tomlin, but written and produced by Laura Story.
  • 2 The song was performed by LaRue Howard, but written by Tomlin.
  • Others

    Tomlin was nominated for two 2009 Visionary Award: Male Entertainer of the Year and Song of the Year for "Jesus Messiah".

    Bibliography

  • Chris Tomlin, ''The Way I Was Made: Words and Music for an Unusual Life'', Multnomah, 2004. ISBN 978-1590523278
  • References

    External links

  • Official site
  • Austin Stone Community Church
  • Article in Time Magazine
  • One Million Can
  • Category:Living people Category:1972 births Category:American male singers Category:American singer-songwriters Category:American Christians Category:Christian hymnwriters Category:Christian religion-related songwriters Category:People from Austin, Texas Category:Texas A&M; University alumni Category:American performers of Christian music Category:Musicians from Texas Category:Contemporary worship music Category:Tyler Junior College alumni

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    Ross Parsley is the Lead Pastor of ONEchapel, a new church plant in Austin, Texas.

    A graduate of Oral Roberts University, Ross has been leading worship for over 20 years in local Colorado churches and has led several outreach teams to other countries. He is the worship leader on Integrity Music's "Lord of the Harvest", "Around Your Throne", "I Am Free", "My Savior Lives", and most recently, "Counting on God",as well as co-producer for the Desperation Band. His wife, Aimee, ministers with him and they have five children.

    Prior to ONEchapel, Ross was the Worship Pastor of New Life Church, a megachurch in Colorado Springs, Colorado where he was responsible for all the weekend services and oversaw all the worship ministries within the church. Ross served as the Interim Senior Pastor at New Life Church before Pastor Brady Boyd was selected as the new Senior Pastor of New Life Church after the dismissal of former Senior Pastor Ted Haggard. He continued to serve as an Executive Pastor & Elder of the church.

    Both of Ross's brothers are in ministry as well. Brad has served since 1996 at NewLifeWorship, currently the Worship Pastor. Brent, formerly the Student Ministries Pastor at New Life, now serves at ONEchapel as the Executive Pastor.

    References

    External links

  • ONEchapel website
  • Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:American Christian clergy Category:Oral Roberts University alumni Category:Contemporary worship music

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