Featured on Tommy Walker's latest album The Pursuit of God, "Take Your Place" is a confessional prayer of surrendering to God in all areas of our lives.

With a Spanish guitar feel and a colorful orchestration, "Take Your Place" is enjoyable to sing and fun to play.

So, why do I run, why do I hide,
Why do I steal away the throne of my life?
Lord, help me say:

Take Your place in my life.
Take Your place, only You deserve the right.
Take Your place in my life.
Every stolen space,
I'm giving back the throne, Your place in my life.

From modern hymn writers Keith Getty and Stuart Townend, "The Perfect Wisdom of Our God" proclaims God's omniscience and His sovereignty over all creation.

Orchestra Parts and Audio Tracks are now available.

Watch a video of Keith talking about the song below:

I love 2 Timothy 1:16, "May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains." (HCSB)

In the last letter of Paul's life on earth, he was paying tribute to someone that "came along side" while Paul was serving Christ as His ambassador. Scholars speculate that Paul greeted the family of Onesiphorus because his friend may have already died.

This obscure greeting gives us reason to think about those who refresh us. You know who they are - they call at the right time to encourage - they stop by just at the right time to help. It sometimes seems like they can read your mind and know exactly what you are going through and are doing all they can to make it go better.

We thank God for those folks.

It is our desire at LifeWay Worship to be one of the "refreshers" for you. We spend our days thinking about you and your work - praying for you church and ministry and the communities where you live and serve.

The word "refresh" in the text actually is a word picture of a "cool breeze" blowing on a hot day. It is my prayer that the resources of LifeWay Worship will be just that for you - a cool breeze on a hot day serving the Lord of the harvest in His field.

You are that and more to us. And we thank God for you.

I love you all,

Mike Harland
Director of LifeWay Worship

Written by Jennie Lee Riddle (Revelation Song) and Jonathan Lee, "When the Stars Burn Down" describes the constant worship that will be given to Jesus when the earth has passed away.

Lead Sheets, Piano Charts, QuickCharts, Orchestra Parts and Audio Tracks are now available.

In an interview with NewReleaseTuesday and Kevin Davis, Phil Wickham talks about how he co-wrote the song "At Your Name" with Tim Hughes.

Please tell me the personal story behind co-writing this song with Tim Hughes.

We started writing the song together in London after a worship conference that he invited me over to be a part of. It was an amazing time of worship, and we led over 2,000 UK worship leaders--all gathered together singing. I was super blessed to be there. I loved getting to meet and hang out with my now really good friend Tim Hughes, who I've always looked up to as a songwriter and worship leader.

We had planned to get together and write a song a day after the conference was finished. We were so full of what had happened at the conference and so blessed by what God had done; we were excited to get out our guitars. We wrote one song, and we had time left to write one more song. Tim showed me this idea he had for a song about shouting the Lord's Name. I was excited and I said, "How about we just shout His Name? Yahweh Yahweh!" So the chorus came really quickly and then we ran out of time. Over the next couple of weeks, we e-mailed different ideas to each other back and forth about the verses. It was really cool how we used the web and technology to write the song from our own locations. He also put the song on his album Love Shine Through and I put the song on my album.

Please tell me about any Bible verses that connect to the message of the song.

Psalm 66:1-3: "Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! Sing out the honor of His name; Make His praise glorious. Say to God, 'How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power Your enemies shall submit themselves to You.'"

...and Psalm 81:1: "Sing aloud to God our strength; Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob."

What do you consider to be the take-away message for listeners?

It's such a blessing to shout out God's Name. We wanted to sing about Creation and how at the Name of God, mountains shake and oceans tumble at the power of God. That's what we wanted to sing about. It's one of those songs that is so written for the Church to sing as a congregation--it's not at all about me. It's cool to be a part of something like that. I've been part of just a few songs like that, like "You're Beautiful" and "Cannons," where they aren't Phil Wickham songs, but songs that we can sing together as the Body of Christ.

Starting with this batch of new releases, we've made significant changes to our orchestra parts and Finale files that we hope will speed up your week-to-week use of charts.

Shorter parts - Every instrument only has one stave instead of two. Less explanation, less space, fewer pages. Save time printing, passing out and explaining.

Lyric cues - Keep everyone together with snippets of verses and choruses peppered throughout the score. We still have measure numbers and section markers so you can make sure everyone's on the same page.

Finale Files that Extract - Before, our Finale files weren't set up to automatically split out into different parts. We've reworked the template so that now you can quickly create the individual pieces after you edit it.

Rhythm Charts - A more concise band chart that fits on less pages than a Lead Sheet.

Click here for full previews of the example above.

Let us know what you think!

"All the Poor and Powerless" is emerging as a congregational favorite. Co-written by David Leonard and Leslie Jordan and covered by Travis Cottrell on his latest album, When the Stars Burn Down, the song proclaims the promises of God's heavenly kingdom.

Starting small at the beginning, the song gradually builds to the end and culminates with the bridge and chorus being sung simultaneously.

Watch an acoustic version performed by the writers below:

LEXINGTON, Ky. (BP)

Harley Cannon, being blind, doesn't read music.

But that doesn't stop him from playing a crazy clavichord or a mean trumpet.

"That Harley is a piece of work, a talented musician," said Mike Hoover, minister of music at North View Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky. "Not only does he play keyboards and trumpet, but he sings too."

Hoover and Cannon have been the worship-leading team at North View for nearly five years -- in a match made in digital heaven.

Hoover uses the Worship Project on LifeWayWorship.com to coordinate all the music for the church. LifeWayWorship.com is a set of resources designed to provide the tools worship leaders need to create a rich and full worship experience for their churches. LifeWay Worship is a department of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Hoover, unlike most ministers of music, is quick to admit that he, too, doesn't read music.

"No, not at all," he said with a chuckle. "I've depended on technology to help me do worship planning since the days of the 'Celebrate Jesus' book with split tracks!"

Being bivocational, Hoover doesn't have a lot of time for planning. He spends his mornings and afternoons driving a school bus route, working at the school bus garage in between.

Hoover and Cannon learned to use LifeWayWorship.com to quickly and seamlessly create an order of worship that both of them can follow.

Hoover prepares the order of worship on Monday and Tuesday nights.

"What I love about having access to the resources on the Worship Project," he said, "is that I can find out from the pastor what the Scripture passage for the week will be and then go online and find music that will coordinate with it.

"I can download the order of worship and music and put it in a dropbox for Harley to download," Hoover said. "Once he gets it, he translates the order of service into Braille and listens to the music two or three times and he's ready to play. It's so easy!"

Cannon said he usually listens to the music while he's exercising.

"I walk on the treadmill for about 45 minutes every day," he said. "Having the music to listen to helps. By the time we get together, we've heard the same music and we're ready to go."

Hoover said LifeWayWorship.com has revolutionized the musical worship for North View.

"It just makes so many things possible for us," he said. "I can find the music I want, download it for Harley and send it to him. I can download the song from the digital hymnal portion of the Worship Project so my choir can listen to it. I can get printouts of the music for the choir. It works!"

Cannon agreed that the resource makes things simple, adding, "You don't have to be blind to appreciate the convenience of it. It'd work for anybody."

One Wednesday night, for example, Hoover had some cold and allergy issues and couldn't sing. He needed to introduce a new song to the choir for Sunday morning. So he played the MP3 and had them sing along while Cannon played the keyboard and added in a trumpet part.

"Without the technology that LifeWayWorship.com offers, I couldn't have made all that happen in the time we had," Hoover said.

Having had time to go over the music in his head for a couple of days, Cannon has the opportunity to experiment with some sound.

"Every once in a while, I'll throw in something Mike doesn't expect," Cannon said with a laugh. "I'll drop the keyboard and just let the choir sing a chorus or a verse or maybe improvise a variation on the melody, but they are good to just follow along wherever I take them. I just tell them to keep up!"

North View isn't a large church, running about 100 on Sunday mornings. Hoover said as helpful as LifeWayWorship.com is, he imagines it would seem almost like a miracle for smaller churches.

"My brother is the pastor of a tiny church in Viney Fork, Ky.," Hoover said. "He does everything -- preaching, teaching and music. He uses LifeWayWorship.com too. He doesn't have musicians. He may just have three or four people in the choir, but he'll have good music."

Mike Harland, director of LifeWay Worship, noted that many Southern Baptist churches struggle to find musicians. "LifeWayWorship.com could be so beneficial to these churches, giving them the means to provide a quality worship experience no matter how many worshippers they have," he said.

"It was our hope and prayer from the inception of LifeWayWorship.com that ministers of music, as well as the single staff member churches, would be able to have a quality worship experience for their members, no matter how many or how few," Harland said.

Polly House is a writer for LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention

For more information about the Worship Project, the digital hymnal and other worship resources, visit LifeWayWorship.com.