"Worship music" is a broad category: it isn't even confined to worship services. By comparison, liturgical songs serve very specific functions within a Christian worship services. Many carry centuries-old names like the "Agnus Dei", the "Gloria Patri", introit, etc. Songs of confession, settings of the Creeds or the Lord's Prayer, post-absolution songs of thanks, also fall into this category. Even as contemporary worship musicians continue to use updated interpretations of traditional Christian hymns, so in our day there is a rediscovery of how liturgy can give form, beauty and power to our worship. Pastoral musicians are rebooting, re-writing and reinventing these forms.

I've been writing liturgically useful songs for a long time, but just this year (2019), the church where I serve agreed to use musical liturgy instead of fixed, spoken responsive readings wherever possible in our contemporary services. As a result, we've become more intentional with using these songs, have written new material, and excerpted portions of popular worship songs that are particularly effective in liturgy. The best example I know of this latter use is Paul Baloche's "We Humble Ourselves", a confession whose lyrics would not be out of place in the front of any hymnbook.

So some of the songs that were lumped under "Praise Songs" are now re-sorted as liturgy. It's my plan to make sure all of these songs get resources (scores, text, sample tracks) and will consider compiling another Lulu publication for convenience.

I am making these songs available under terms that encourage free distribution and use. I'm only asking that copyright information is maintained; that lyrics remain unaltered; and that these songs are not distributed in published songbooks, collections, or sound recordings without my permission.