At Chicago-based Harvest Bible Chapel, the word “vertical” implies more tha… Read Full Bio ↴At Chicago-based Harvest Bible Chapel, the word “vertical” implies more than a direction, it represents a movement that encompasses book, film and music projects that are spurring people to forge a closer bond with God. Pulsing throughout Harvest Bible Chapel’s 70 plus locations across the nation is the Vertical Church concept, which is accented by the compelling music created by its worship team, Vertical Church Band. Live Worship From Vertical Church, its debut release, is a vibrant collection of worship anthems that capture the sound and message of the movement, led by some of today’s most gifted worship leaders in the Harvest Bible Chapel community.
“Vertical Church Band is framed around the idea that church isn't about us. It is about God,” states Luke MacDonald, Creative Director of the Vertical Church Band, and son of senior pastor James MacDonald. “The best songs we can sing aren't about our experience with God or our love for God or hopes for our relationship with God, but when we sing to God about God.”
That God-centered focus anchors each song on the 13-track CD that features Vertical Church Band worship leaders Andi Rozier, Meredith Andrews, Lindsay McCaul, Jacob Sooter, Seth McConkey, Kyle Fredricks and Heather Headley. Recorded at Harvest Bible Chapel's historic downtown Chicago campus, the project was produced by Paul Mabury (one sonic society, Hillsong United) and Jason Ingram (Tenth Avenue North, one sonic society, Chris Tomlin). James MacDonald served as executive producer.
Pastor MacDonald’s new book “Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs For” (David C. Cook, August 2012), will be issued the same day as Live Worship From Vertical Church. “Our church is been going for almost 25 years and has planted 80 churches or so around the world,” says Luke. “This book really is the encapsulation of everything that we’ve learned and everything that we’re trying to be about.”
Live Worship From Vertical Church captures the passion for worshipping God and for spreading the gospel that has made Harvest one of the fastest growing churches in the country. Luke has fond memories of the snowy night the album was recorded in the historic location. “It’s an old cathedral in downtown Chicago, two blocks off Michigan Avenue, and it’s one of only a few buildings that survived the great Chicago fire in 1871,” he shares. “We gathered all of our worship leaders and all of our bands from several campuses together, 700 or 800 of the most fired up worshippers in our church. We just blew the place out for four hours singing these songs and I just remember everybody coming away from that feeling like---even if the album never amounted to much---having this night together to worship God was enough. It was worth it, just for that.”
“It was a really, really powerful time,” says Andi Rozier, who was recruited from the U.K. 11 years ago to serve as Harvest’s senior worship leader. “We were in this building that withstood the Chicago fire and we filled it full of people and the sound was just huge. We were just lifting up the name of the Lord in worship and it was a really, really powerful moment. It really was less about an album recording and more about our church getting together to worship God in a building that God had given us for the advancement of his kingdom.”
The presence of the Holy Spirit can be felt throughout every song, including the powerful lead single “All Glory,” led by Tony Award winning vocalist Heather Headley. “I absolutely love it. Andi wrote such a great song,” says Headley, whose soaring vocals lead the congregation on the passionate worship anthem.
“My favorite lyric is in the end when it’s like ‘All glory, all honor/All wisdom, strength and power/All glory, all honor/Are yours alone forever.’ When the church sings it, it’s an amazing thing. It gets me all teary.”
Headley, an acclaimed gospel artist and Broadway star who won a Tony Award for her lead role in Aida, has been attending Harvest Bible Chapel with her husband for eight years. “She came in and actually auditioned to be a part of the worship team. I was like, ‘You probably could have just sent us a picture of you holding your Tony award and that would have been enough,’” Luke says with a laugh. “That’s the kind of person she is.”
The Vertical Church Band is filled with those kinds of people---extremely credentialed, talented individuals with servant hearts. The collection opens with the rousing new anthem “Open Up the Heavens,” led by Rozier and Andrews and written by Rozier, Andrews, Ingram, Stu G and James MacDonald. “I’m a worship leader myself and I can tell you that worship leaders are always at a loss trying to find new fresh up-tempo songs,” Luke says. “‘Open Up the Heavens’ is a really exciting, intense up-tempo song about asking God to bring his glory down. I’m getting tweets almost every single day now from people around the country that are starting to teach that song. I think it will find its way inside a lot of churches.”
“Word of God,” led by Rozier, is another soul-lifting up-tempo number that is fast becoming a favorite among worshippers. “That’s one of my favorites because I have an emotional attachment to the song,” says Rozier, who co-wrote the tune with Brenton Brown. “We started talking about things that we don’t have in our vocabulary of worship. One of things is we don’t sing about Jesus being the word of God because we don’t want to sing a song about the Bible. We don’t want to worship the Bible, but in scripture, Jesus tells us that He is the Word of God.”
“We started talking about things that we don’t have in our vocabulary of worship. One of the things is we don’t sing about Jesus being the word of God because we don’t want to sing a song about the Bible. We don’t want to worship the Bible, but in scripture Jesus tells us that He is the word of God. We wrote the verse to the song in about 45 minutes and then spent about 14 months working on the chorus and the bridge. We wrote six different choruses and it was a really fun experience because Brenton and I are both like to make sure our i’s are dotted and our t’s are crossed when it comes to songwriting.”
One of the most compelling moments on the album is “Not For a Moment,” led by Andrews and Sooter, who co-wrote the song with Mia Fieldes. “Her passion and her intensity for the Lord is just so evident,” Luke says of Andrews. “She’s not just a great leader and not just a great singer, but she’s also a really great writer. She had a hand in most of the songs on the album. Every song she writes comes out of her authentic intense relationship with the Lord.”
Live Worship From Vertical Church is filled with memorable worship songs. “The Greatness of Our God,” led by Kyle Fredericks and Lindsay McCaul is a soaring, emotional anthem that celebrates the majesty of God. “I Believe in You,” penned by Matt McCoy and Chris Moeller, is an infectious song driven by a catchy melody and penetrating lyric. Seth McConkey leads as the congregation jubilantly sings “Jesus, the One, the One who saved me You are the King, forever reigning.” Written by Ingram and McCaul, “Who Will Rise Up” is a poignant ballad underscored by McCaul’s beautiful lead vocals.
“This is about us wanting to open up a window to what God is doing in our church,” Rozier says of the album. “It’s not about Harvest Bible Chapel and it’s not about Vertical Church Band. It’s about Jesus Christ and it’s a huge honor for our worship ministry to be given this opportunity to do this. If you come to our church, you’ll hear on stage exactly what you hear on the record.”
Luke agrees. “These weren't songs crafted for an album,” he says. “They are the songs we sing week to week. We are trying to talk authentically about what our church is really like. The book and music both support that. This is who we are. We are hoping it draws people toward their own vertical experience with God.”
In their time with Essential Records, Vertical Church band has released ''Live Worship from Vertical Church'' on July 31, 2012'' Vertical EP'', on May 7, 2013 through Essential Records, the album ''The Rock Won't Move'' on October 29, 2013 and ''Church Songs'', on January 20, 2015.
“Vertical Church Band is framed around the idea that church isn't about us. It is about God,” states Luke MacDonald, Creative Director of the Vertical Church Band, and son of senior pastor James MacDonald. “The best songs we can sing aren't about our experience with God or our love for God or hopes for our relationship with God, but when we sing to God about God.”
That God-centered focus anchors each song on the 13-track CD that features Vertical Church Band worship leaders Andi Rozier, Meredith Andrews, Lindsay McCaul, Jacob Sooter, Seth McConkey, Kyle Fredricks and Heather Headley. Recorded at Harvest Bible Chapel's historic downtown Chicago campus, the project was produced by Paul Mabury (one sonic society, Hillsong United) and Jason Ingram (Tenth Avenue North, one sonic society, Chris Tomlin). James MacDonald served as executive producer.
Pastor MacDonald’s new book “Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs For” (David C. Cook, August 2012), will be issued the same day as Live Worship From Vertical Church. “Our church is been going for almost 25 years and has planted 80 churches or so around the world,” says Luke. “This book really is the encapsulation of everything that we’ve learned and everything that we’re trying to be about.”
Live Worship From Vertical Church captures the passion for worshipping God and for spreading the gospel that has made Harvest one of the fastest growing churches in the country. Luke has fond memories of the snowy night the album was recorded in the historic location. “It’s an old cathedral in downtown Chicago, two blocks off Michigan Avenue, and it’s one of only a few buildings that survived the great Chicago fire in 1871,” he shares. “We gathered all of our worship leaders and all of our bands from several campuses together, 700 or 800 of the most fired up worshippers in our church. We just blew the place out for four hours singing these songs and I just remember everybody coming away from that feeling like---even if the album never amounted to much---having this night together to worship God was enough. It was worth it, just for that.”
“It was a really, really powerful time,” says Andi Rozier, who was recruited from the U.K. 11 years ago to serve as Harvest’s senior worship leader. “We were in this building that withstood the Chicago fire and we filled it full of people and the sound was just huge. We were just lifting up the name of the Lord in worship and it was a really, really powerful moment. It really was less about an album recording and more about our church getting together to worship God in a building that God had given us for the advancement of his kingdom.”
The presence of the Holy Spirit can be felt throughout every song, including the powerful lead single “All Glory,” led by Tony Award winning vocalist Heather Headley. “I absolutely love it. Andi wrote such a great song,” says Headley, whose soaring vocals lead the congregation on the passionate worship anthem.
“My favorite lyric is in the end when it’s like ‘All glory, all honor/All wisdom, strength and power/All glory, all honor/Are yours alone forever.’ When the church sings it, it’s an amazing thing. It gets me all teary.”
Headley, an acclaimed gospel artist and Broadway star who won a Tony Award for her lead role in Aida, has been attending Harvest Bible Chapel with her husband for eight years. “She came in and actually auditioned to be a part of the worship team. I was like, ‘You probably could have just sent us a picture of you holding your Tony award and that would have been enough,’” Luke says with a laugh. “That’s the kind of person she is.”
The Vertical Church Band is filled with those kinds of people---extremely credentialed, talented individuals with servant hearts. The collection opens with the rousing new anthem “Open Up the Heavens,” led by Rozier and Andrews and written by Rozier, Andrews, Ingram, Stu G and James MacDonald. “I’m a worship leader myself and I can tell you that worship leaders are always at a loss trying to find new fresh up-tempo songs,” Luke says. “‘Open Up the Heavens’ is a really exciting, intense up-tempo song about asking God to bring his glory down. I’m getting tweets almost every single day now from people around the country that are starting to teach that song. I think it will find its way inside a lot of churches.”
“Word of God,” led by Rozier, is another soul-lifting up-tempo number that is fast becoming a favorite among worshippers. “That’s one of my favorites because I have an emotional attachment to the song,” says Rozier, who co-wrote the tune with Brenton Brown. “We started talking about things that we don’t have in our vocabulary of worship. One of things is we don’t sing about Jesus being the word of God because we don’t want to sing a song about the Bible. We don’t want to worship the Bible, but in scripture, Jesus tells us that He is the Word of God.”
“We started talking about things that we don’t have in our vocabulary of worship. One of the things is we don’t sing about Jesus being the word of God because we don’t want to sing a song about the Bible. We don’t want to worship the Bible, but in scripture Jesus tells us that He is the word of God. We wrote the verse to the song in about 45 minutes and then spent about 14 months working on the chorus and the bridge. We wrote six different choruses and it was a really fun experience because Brenton and I are both like to make sure our i’s are dotted and our t’s are crossed when it comes to songwriting.”
One of the most compelling moments on the album is “Not For a Moment,” led by Andrews and Sooter, who co-wrote the song with Mia Fieldes. “Her passion and her intensity for the Lord is just so evident,” Luke says of Andrews. “She’s not just a great leader and not just a great singer, but she’s also a really great writer. She had a hand in most of the songs on the album. Every song she writes comes out of her authentic intense relationship with the Lord.”
Live Worship From Vertical Church is filled with memorable worship songs. “The Greatness of Our God,” led by Kyle Fredericks and Lindsay McCaul is a soaring, emotional anthem that celebrates the majesty of God. “I Believe in You,” penned by Matt McCoy and Chris Moeller, is an infectious song driven by a catchy melody and penetrating lyric. Seth McConkey leads as the congregation jubilantly sings “Jesus, the One, the One who saved me You are the King, forever reigning.” Written by Ingram and McCaul, “Who Will Rise Up” is a poignant ballad underscored by McCaul’s beautiful lead vocals.
“This is about us wanting to open up a window to what God is doing in our church,” Rozier says of the album. “It’s not about Harvest Bible Chapel and it’s not about Vertical Church Band. It’s about Jesus Christ and it’s a huge honor for our worship ministry to be given this opportunity to do this. If you come to our church, you’ll hear on stage exactly what you hear on the record.”
Luke agrees. “These weren't songs crafted for an album,” he says. “They are the songs we sing week to week. We are trying to talk authentically about what our church is really like. The book and music both support that. This is who we are. We are hoping it draws people toward their own vertical experience with God.”
In their time with Essential Records, Vertical Church band has released ''Live Worship from Vertical Church'' on July 31, 2012'' Vertical EP'', on May 7, 2013 through Essential Records, the album ''The Rock Won't Move'' on October 29, 2013 and ''Church Songs'', on January 20, 2015.
None Like You
Vertical Church Band Lyrics
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Aaron Hall Been around the world (Been around the world, baby) Seen all…
Aaron Shust The One who calms the raging storm The One who walks…
BJU Singers and Orchestra Even though it's been so long, my love for you…
Bob Jones University Singers & Orchestra Even though it's been so long, my love for you…
Dr Tumi Angels bow before your throne in adoration Heaven and earth …
Excelsior None Like You Lyrics By Excelsior Lord you're worthy of all…
Janine Price Here I stand in total amazement lord Humbly I bow before…
Javen Glory hallelujah to the risen king I'm singing hallelujah to…
John G. Elliott I kinda don't like you a little bit I kinda don't…
Kevin Davidson & The Voices You're my little love gun You are my beehive stinger I'll be…
Kingsley & Jordan One step forward Two steps back I feel like I'm learning But…
M.K.J. How you like me now? Heavy rotation in your barrio 聴きなこの ste…
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All Glory Holy, Holy, You are God Almighty And You reign victorious ov…
Call on the Name Call On The Name Worship Leader: Seth McConkey (Jason Ingram…
Found in You Worship Leader: Andi Rozier (Jason Ingram, Andi Rozier, Paul…
I Will Follow When the sea is calm and all is right When I…
I'm Going Free Go on and speak against My borrowed innocence The judge is m…
I'm Going Free (Jailbreak) Go on and speak against My borrowed innocence The judge is m…
I’m Going Free (Jailbreak) Go on and speak against My borrowed innocence The judge is m…
Not For A Moment You were reaching through the storm Walking on the water Eve…
Only Jesus Can Can He breathe in to the dust? Can He make sons…
Open Up The Heavens Lost are saved, find their way, at the sound of…
Psalm 96 Sing to the Lord a new song Sing to the Lord…
Strong God Father to the fatherless Defender of the weak Freedom for th…
Strong to Save Oh God who set us free From our captivity Your hand is…
The Greatness Of Our God Give me eyes to see More of who You are May what…
The Rock Won't Move When the ground beneath my feet gives way And I hear…
The Rock Won’t Move The Rock Won't Move Worship Leader: Kyle Fredricks (Tyler Mi…
Worthy, Worthy Worthy, Worthy Worship Leader: Meredith Andrews (Jacob Soote…
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excelbase
Who wore the heavens as royal robes
Fashioned the morning and the heavenly hosts
Who gave the word when all things were new
Oh God it's You, it's You
Who fixed His heart firm upon man
Knowing the cost before He began
Who gave himself to make all Things were new
Oh God it's You, it's You
You are Holy, Holy Lord Almighty
God of Glory there is none like You
Holy, Holy Lord Almighty
God of Glory there is none like You
Who wore our sorrows as royal robes
And fashioned our victory by dying alone
Who gave himself to make all things new
Oh God it's You, it's You
Jesus, crucified, raised to life
Jesus, lift Him high, lift Him high
Sam Fisher
Isn't prayer a form of worship?
The book of Psalms has songs, but it mostly has Laments??? so why do you not as Christians do that as well??? (or is it cherry-picking from Old Testament for you?)
But it's OK, I'll bite:
King David danced, but NOT naked, if you read carefully, you have to understand the context of the situation to realize that he revealed himself as in (became dressed like commoners and not like a King) , nothing mentioned about being naked, so no idea where you got that from.
Also, King David was dancing because he was triumphant in bringing the Ark back to Jerusalem, he was not dancing as a form or prayer or worship, so your point is moot.
Miriam and the women sung a song and danced indeed, but it's nowhere mentioned that it was a form of prayer nor a form of worship, it was simply an expression of joy and a celebration of triumphant people, saved by God from Pharaoh.
Now, can you tell us what are the ways to worship God according to Jesus? because if I were a true Christian, I would certainly would follow Jesus' example of prayer and worship, again I quote:
Jesus prayed in a posture and with an attitude of reverent submission -
“Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, ‘My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will’” (Matthew 26:39).
Wandissima-USA
Eu amo esse louvor!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy God you are and none like You!
excelbase
Who wore the heavens as royal robes
Fashioned the morning and the heavenly hosts
Who gave the word when all things were new
Oh God it's You, it's You
Who fixed His heart firm upon man
Knowing the cost before He began
Who gave himself to make all Things were new
Oh God it's You, it's You
You are Holy, Holy Lord Almighty
God of Glory there is none like You
Holy, Holy Lord Almighty
God of Glory there is none like You
Who wore our sorrows as royal robes
And fashioned our victory by dying alone
Who gave himself to make all things new
Oh God it's You, it's You
Jesus, crucified, raised to life
Jesus, lift Him high, lift Him high
Wandissima-USA
Thank you!
soundmayhem
Deserves more views. Another timeless anthem to be added into the Holy Holy Holy anthology. God Bless these guys !
Siyabonga Mandla Mavuso
Amen
Wandissima-USA
Maravilhoso Deus, louvado seja por todo sempre o Teu Santo Nome!
Jonathan Onggayan
This song is one of my favorite in vertical worship band! 5years ago until now it echos in my ears.. God bless and more songs to come!! 🥰🥰
kier kier castillo
the impact of this song to me is very emotional .
especially when the woman sing her part. it's so touchy . . God bless us all.
Rosemary Lutcavage
Christianity is NOT NOT NOT a religion.,, it is PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THE FATHER WHICH WAS BROKEN BC HE KNEW man had disobeyed with Him. BUT GOT, ( LOVE IT ), HAD AN UNSHAKABLE PLAN ALREADY AVAILABLE, JUST Had to go through the process.
PRAISE GOD for HIS UNFAILING LOVE & staying forever true to His PROMISES!!! GOD BLESS YOU & MARANATHA
Sam Fisher
EXACTLY! Emotional! Just like Christianity , a religion based on emotions