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Brian Doerksen “Come Now Is The Time To Worship” on WorshipTeam

Brian Doerksen has released “Come Now Is The Time To Worship” and the song is now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “Come Now Is The Time To Worship” is a recording of a great new song.

Brian Doerksen’s timeless anthem “Come Now Is The Time To Worship” has traveled around the world and this 25th anniversary edition with special guests celebrates that. The single has been newly recorded in collaboration with Canadian Grammy nominated and Dove award winning recording artist Matt Maher, South African YouTube drum sensation Cobus, and introduces the beautiful vocals of South Asian recording artist Sneha Reddy. This song has been translated into many languages and sung countless times, from remote rural villages to city churches of all denominations around the world, as well as being part of the Coronation Prom program at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Returning as long-time creative partners are Brian Thiessen on the electric guitars, Matt Weeks on the bass guitar from the UK, and multi-instrumentalist, Juno and Covenant award winning album producer Philip Janz (Today, Holy God). The newest musical addition is Mike Haughton from the UK who plays the Saxophone solo. The track is produced by Brian and Philip Janz with Luke Vandevert and Marika Siewert serving as co-producers.

This song is an exciting culmination of faith, friendship, community, and collaboration carrying with it a fresh sound, with the hope of encouraging generations to come . . . every nation, every tribe, everyone.

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The song is full featured with complete lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out this great new song, hear it in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

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Brian Doerksen album “Everlasting Arms” on WorshipTeam

Brian Doerksen has released “Everlasting Arms” through Shining Rose Songs and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “Everlasting Arms” is a recording of some great new songs.

“I started 2020 optimistically with 45 concerts and events booked to begin in late April. Last year had gone so well. I had released multiple recording projects; The Heart of Christmas, Faithful One & The SHIYR Poets Volume 3 and so I told myself, “It’s going to be quite some time until I’m back in the recording studio.” Joyce and I enjoyed our winter holiday late January into February – a circular road trip through Nevada and California. Shortly after returning home we started feeling the presence of the impending pandemic. By early March I knew we were entering a world-changing health crisis that was going to change the way the world worked and how we travel and interact with each other. The virus that infected one person began to ripple outwards within weeks, having a tidal wave like impact as entire industries have been forced to shut down and closures of cultural and social gatherings impact almost every population around the world. I have friends in the village of Podolinec in the Spis region of Slovakia – Bohumir and his family are going through the same thing with the same restrictions as we are in my hometown.

There are many ways to respond to this type of global challenge and the changes that come with it. Those who work in healthcare have responded by giving their best and risking themselves to help keep us as safe as possible. They have earned the raucous celebrations at 7 PM each evening around the world. We’re grateful for grocery store workers (like 2 of our daughters!) and the truckers that deliver food and medical supplies. We are thankful for the scientific community’s knowledge and skill in developing a vaccine. This whole season boldly underlines how deeply we need each other to do our part. My part is labeled non-essential, yet songs can play a vital part in our emotional and spiritual health and help us hold on to hope in times of trouble. A response started stirring in me.

For some time, I’ve been singing a new song, a co-write with Cindy Rethmeier called ‘In The Middle (Your Peace)’. This song was birthed in 2018 after listening to a ‘On Being’ podcast on
the story behind songs called ‘Spirituals’. These timeless songs were often written in the middle of suffering, injustice and trying circumstances. Filled with raw emotion and honesty, they were vulnerable and simple, yet were always marked with defiant hope. Cindy and I set out to write a ‘modern spiritual’ in our own musical and lyrical mother tongue drawing inspiration from the spirituals that came before us and from people around us who were suffering, specifically those who were doing whatever they could to suffer well.

Our lyrical aim was to name our struggles truthfully while still affirming the one thing that remains, the gift of God’s peace. All life and truth is a paradox, it’s both at the same time; struggle and comfort, fear and peace. When we began to write, we did not foresee Covid-19, but the closer it came the more convinced we were to keep singing. We recorded ‘In The Middle’ plus I decided to rework a few hidden songs that felt right for this season.

These include another co-write with Cindy from 20 years ago called ‘Ever So Gently.’ A new recording and version of ‘When You Shepherd Me’ – my setting of the 23rd Psalm that previously was only available on ‘Live In Europe’ from 15 years ago. An updated mix of ‘Your Faithfulness’ – the song I wrote in the middle of the birth of our second special needs son Isaiah. And an update of the title song ‘Everlasting Arms’ from the 2018 album Grateful. In the few years since I wrote this song it has become one of my personal favourites. I often close concerts with it as it’s the thing I want people to remember as they journey back into the challenges of their life’s circumstances and now, the words feel like they have more weight.

‘We don’t know when this storm is going to break’ or how many people will perish in it and how many businesses will be broken beyond repair and not reopen. We don’t know. We don’t know when or what the new normal will look and feel like. Yet in the middle of all this uncertainty we can still choose to trust and experience peace that is not dependent on our circumstances.

So here it is, the Everlasting Arms EP. The EP I wasn’t expecting to make in the middle of a pandemic we didn’t anticipate or want. It comes with much love from my heart and home to yours. May you know peace and the comfort of God’s everlasting arms underneath all things.”

Love,

Brian Doerksen
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

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The songs are full featured with complete lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

blessings
Cody Gentes

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Easter At The Shining Rose with Brian Doerksen & Friends.

WorshipTeam.com is excited to partner with Brian Doerksen (writer of ‘Come Now Is The Time To Worship’, ‘Light The Fire Again’) to bring you ‘Easter at the Shining Rose with Brian Doerksen & Friends.’ Easter is usually marked by people-packed churches remembering the death and celebrating the resurrection life of Jesus, followed by extended family gatherings and feasting around the table. 2021 is going to be different. Our longing to be together will be deferred a little longer as we continue to struggle with all the implications of the Covid 19 pandemic.

Although we can’t celebrate with our family and friends like pre-covid years, songs and story can still bring us together. To help us through this unprecedented season, Brian Doerksen & friends produced a creative and musical special that we can share. It features songs like ‘Scars On His Hands’, ‘On That Sunday Morning’, and re-introduces the classics ‘Light The Fire Again’ & ‘Come Now Is The Time To worship’ in their original style. You’ll also be treated to 3 hymns from his new album ‘Hymns For Life’ including current single ‘I Heard The Voice’ along with ‘It Is Well’ and ‘Morning Has Broken’ plus meet storytellers Jimmy Yi (star from the stage version of ‘Kim’s Convenience’), Joyce Rees & Marika Siewert

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/527508428

Link to register and watch:

https://boxoffice.mandolin.com/collections/brian-doerksen?oid=76&affid=109

The special premieres live on Palm Sunday March 28. Ticket holders can watch it throughout Passion week until the end of Easter Monday. There are 3 ticket price options based on what you want to pay plus a VIP All Access ticket.

Brian Doerksen album “Hymns For Life” on WorshipTeam

Brian Doerksen has released “Hymns For Life” through Shining Rose Songs and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “Hymns For Life” is a recording of some great new songs.

“Of the many vivid childhood memories from our home, hearing my father reviewing the Sunday hymns on Saturday evenings is one of the most special. In my youth I didn’t have enough life experience to realize what a formative gift it was to have a father like this. By the time I was 15 and rebellious, I foolishly vowed I was not going to be like my Dad. In my immature pride I thought the hymns my Dad loved represented dead religion. Thankfully when I was 16, I had a profound spiritual encounter and the course of my life changed. When I started recording my own albums in 2002, I made a decision to include a hymn on each project. It took a few years, but I went from loathing hymns to loving them.

In the spring of 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic was starting to lock us down, our son-in-law Luke directed a video of my father and I singing ‘It Is Well.’ This was the very first hymn I recorded on ‘You Shine’ and I had recently updated it for my 2019 album of legacy songs, ‘Faithful One’. It didn’t take long and more than 100,000 people watched and shared the video on social media. That resonance was one of the sparks for this project. When we go through suffering individually or collectively, hymns are anchors of hope in the storm. They resonate inside every cell of our being, just as I imagine the particles in every stone of majestic cathedrals tremble with the hymns of praise that have been sung in them through the ages.

Faith and music are inseparable for most of us. The songs that best express that bond endure. We call those songs ‘hymns’ after they have served for several lifetimes, tenderly accompanying us in every season of living and beautifully preparing us to cross the sacred threshold of dying. By taking up the song of previous generations, we affirm that those who have passed away are still with us and we’re joining them on their journey of faith. These abiding hymns declare to all generations that none of us are alone.

Deciding which hymns to arrange and record was not easy; there are so many of enduring significance and meaning that have brought comfort to millions. In the end, I chose hymns that were about the themes of the regenerative beauty of creation, the way God is our help and peace in the middle of life’s storms, and Jesus’ voice of love.

‘Hymns For Life’ marks a full circle moment for me; 40 years after I was 15, I’m grateful for another chance to recognize I’ve become like my Dad. I’m dedicating this project to him, Harry Doerksen, and all others like him who have kept these timeless songs alive for us. May they be hymns for your life as well.”

In the Father’s love,

Brian Doerksen
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

All songs are loaded and ready to use- just access your WorshipTeam.com system database.

The songs are full featured with complete lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

blessings
Cody Gentes

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Brian Doerksen album “Faithful One” on WorshipTeam

Brian Doerksen has released “Faithful One” through Shining Rose Songs and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “Faithful One” is a recording of some great new songs.

The release of Faithful One, the album marks 30 years of songwriting & recording for me. It’s been a journey filled with every emotion, from the ecstatic joy of creating and connecting with God to the dark days of disorientation when creative projects collapsed or when tragic news arrived uninvited. It some ways, this project and my public songwriting and recording life began on Sunday Oct 1, 1989. I was the 23-year-old worship pastor of the Vineyard congregation in Langley, B.C. Canada. We had decided to record a live ‘evening of worship’ featuring original songs written by Andy Park, Craig Musseau and myself backed by our church worship band. As we met to pray a few hours before the event I had a powerful encounter with the Holy Spirit. I collapsed on the floor because of the intensity of what felt like electricity coursing through my body. My initial thought was that God had come with the fire of judgment. After a few minutes, I realized that the fire and power I was experiencing was pure love. I eventually got off the floor and we proceeded singing through our prepared set list. The result was a Langley Vineyard live recorded album released on cassette called ‘Changed By Your Glory.’ (Anybody out there remember cassettes? How the tape would sometimes unspool and a pencil could wind it back in?) We planned on manufacturing about 500 cassettes for members of our church, but somehow a few copies found their way beyond our local area and the requests started coming in. We realized that we needed to re-release the album as a CD. ‘Changed By Your Glory’ eventually sold over 70,000 units (with no marketing, record label or social media) and was the primary way that people were introduced to my earliest songs like ‘I lift my eyes up’, ‘Refiner’s Fire’ and ‘Faithful One.’ Now 30 years later I’m still singing those songs and I’m so grateful to say after a few years hiatus I’m writing new songs again. In some ways, I’m a different person now. (Joyce affectionately calls me ‘husband # 5’ because of the various phases of life that we have passed through in our 35 years of marriage including raising our 6 precious children with the ongoing challenges and delights of supporting our 2 special needs sons who are now young adults.) Yet my heart is still the same. I want to sing emotionally honest songs that convey my love and lament to God, the joys and struggles of life, and to do so in a musical style that is mother tongue to me. I hope that this collection will bring back good memories and also communicate

something fresh. Philip Janz, my producer, and I have really enjoyed working on some renewed versions of several of my legacy songs. I also included a song recorded by the band I’m proud to be a part of; The SHIYR Poets. We have released 3 Volumes of new folk-rock settings of the Psalms. In the years where I lost my words and stopping writing original songs (2010 – 2015) the Poets were a lifeline to me. I came very close to including the Poet’s new setting of Psalm 24 (Carry A Blessing) on this album because I love it so much, but in the end decided that I needed to keep this album focused on some of my legacy songs. I really do hope, if you haven’t already done so, that you will take the time to listen to all the volumes in our ‘Songs For The Journey’ series. There really is nothing like singing the Psalms.

All songs are loaded and ready to use- just access your WorshipTeam.com system database.

The songs are full featured with complete lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

blessings
Cody Gentes

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Brian Doerksen/Shining Rose Songs album “Grateful” on WorshipTeam

Brian Doerksen has released “Grateful” through Shining Rose Songs and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “Grateful” is a recording of some great new songs.

“The last song I wrote before the darkness closed in and I lost my words was titled ‘Will You Love Me In The Winter?’ It was my finishing flash of inspiration for the Level Ground project in 2010 and then the songs stopped. Disorientation set in. Listening to that song later I realized that I knew what was coming, yet even so, I wasn’t ready. (Who signs up and is ready for a season of suffering?) Even though I didn’t feel ready, God, like a good shepherd was preparing the way ahead of me. That doesn’t mean I felt his presence because for the most part I didn’t, yet somehow, I made it. (My ‘Grateful List’ names the primary people who helped me make it.)

I’m on the other side of that long hard winter now but still, I don’t understand why this season happened and I don’t have any clarity why the winter had to be so long. I don’t have answers. But I do have one thing.

Gratitude.

I remember the day when I told my wife Joyce that I was even able to thank God for someone at the centre of the conflict that helped trigger this relational winter – because it was this pain that drove me to seek the ancient paths and to sing the ancient words from the Psalms including the Psalms of lament. Lament is one of the biblical doorways to joy and emotionally healthy spirituality. In the end, everything belongs – even the hard circumstances and the winters in our lives. This is how we become fruitful and how we grow in our ability to relate to others in their suffering.

Today I’m thankful for so many things. The wonder-filled world where we live and the millions of miracles that sustain us every minute. The people that love us and stick with us. The people that hurt us and help us grow in character. The gift of music and all the arts that help us see and feel. The ancient words that help us pray when we lose our words. I hope this album helps and encourages you on your journey through the springtimes of rebirth and the winters that will eventually follow.” – Gratefully, Brian Doerksen

All songs are loaded and ready to use- just access your WorshipTeam.com system database.

The songs are full featured with complete lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

blessings
Cody Gentes

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Christmas At Our House with Brian Doerksen & Friends “December 20th”

WorshipTeam.com is excited to partner with Brian Doerksen (writer of ‘Come Now Is The Time To Worship’, ‘Faithful One’) to bring you ‘Christmas At Our House with Brian Doerksen & Friends.’ This is a professionally produced 1 hour ‘TV Style’ Christmas special containing live acoustic performances of Brian’s JUNO nominated album ‘The Heart of Christmas’ with his band and special guests in front of the fireplace in his studio space. These songs and carols are woven together with scenes in his house, sharing the Christmas story with friends, the Siewert family, who’ve been in a small Covid bubble together since spring. In addition the special features Brian’s father Harry Doerksen sharing Christmas memories from his childhood and some of the shenanigans Brian and his brother pulled when they were just boys. It’s heartwarming, at times funny and full of peace and love. It’s just what we need this Christmas.

Songs included are ‘Just Before The Silent Night’, ‘Magical Lights’ & ‘Hope Of The Nations (Christmas Edition)’

Trailer https://youtu.be/E3BKgWSDmhk

Link to register and watch:

Brian Doerksen – Christmas At Our House

We believe that this special will be a real encouragement in a Christmas unlike any in living memory. We can’t gather together in public places or our churches to sing our Christmas songs together, however we still can share in the story and the songs of Christmas through ‘Christmas At Our House with Brian Doerksen & Friends.’

P.s. The special airs on Sunday Dec 20 starting at 12 Noon PST (3 PM EST) and all registered can watch the special for that full Christmas week through the evening of Sunday Dec 27. You can watch the special with your immediate household as many times as you like during that week.

Brian Doerksen/Shining Rose Songs album “The Heart Of Christmas” on WorshipTeam

Brian Doerksen has released “The Heart Of Christmas” through Shining Rose Songs and all songs are now loaded into WorshipTeam.com “The Heart Of Christmas” is a recording of some great new songs.

“What is the heart of Christmas? These songs are my reply; not complete nor conclusive but for now, I’m content with my response. In the mess and magic of our ordinary lives God is with all of us. I grew up in a family of faith hearing the Christmas story every year. In the house where I was a child, the same home where Joyce and I also raised our six, we retold the Christmas story every year. Perhaps a little implausible, impossible even, the Christmas story is also incredibly and astonishingly true. Whispers of grace make the mightiest empires give way. Love is real and that love keeps changing hearts and lives. This is why all over the world we keep on singing songs of adoration to the One who came, born in the dust and dirt of humble, human circumstances to show us what God is really like.

The Christmas season is what we in recent centuries have culturally made of this Christmas story. A time of year packed with experiences and expectations that are festive, fun and yet disorienting and difficult for people who are missing loved ones. The yearly traditions that help us remember the Christ and make Christmas meaningful can also make the season hard if the people who helped bring the holidays to life are gone. How do we carry on the celebrations in their absence? We do our best, but with each gathering of friends and family we realize that grief is the price we pay for love. This is part of Christmas too. That’s why I wrote and included ‘Saddest Season’ on this album. I dedicate this recording to all of you who struggle with the season. May this album be like a softly burning candle, an hour’s respite from the relentless rush of December.” – Peacefully Yours, Brian Doerksen

All songs are loaded and ready to use- just access your WorshipTeam.com system database.

The songs are full featured with complete lyrics, chord charts and full length audio. Check out these great new songs, hear them in the original key, or choose your own key and play it the way you like it.

blessings
Cody Gentes

p.s. if you have never tried out Worshipteam.com, try it FREE for one month by simply going here: http://www.worshipteam.com/try ! See you there.