Emu Music is a worship band in Australia – and a bit of a hidden gem.
The first time I heard their music was at my old church in Christchurch about six or seven years ago. Not long after that, they came to New Zealand to run a worship conference and did an open worship session that I attended. I discovered that their music is full of theological and Biblical truths, which helps and encourages sung worship times and can easily be connected to the theme or passage covered in a service. As I continued attending church in Christchurch, more and more of Emu Music’s songs were being introduced in the service.
One song I discovered not long before I moved to Nelson was called Creation Awaits. I looked this song up on Spotify and discovered that there was a whole album by the same name. As I looked at the track list, I discovered that we already sang quite a few of these songs in church.
The backstory behind this song is particularly beautiful and sad, with a hopeful perspective. Liv Chapman, who wrote the song, had a brother called Sam. He was in a wheelchair and endured constant pain for twelve years. He told his sister that he was finding it hard to sing along to the worship at church, to which she responded by asking if it was too high. He told her that he couldn’t sing songs of praise and victory when all he was feeling and experiencing was pain and suffering. Liv wrote this song as a song of lament, dedicated to her brother Sam, who passed away in February 2020. The song was released a few months later as a single in May 2020.
This song is just one example of the songs that Emu Music writes and produces, which contain so much richness to aid in worship. If you or your parish are interested in incorporating some of Emu Music’s songs into your personal or congregational worship, their songs can be found on SongSelect or the album can be found on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube. As a worship leader at Victory Church, I’m hoping to introduce a few of their songs to our congregation in the near future.
I’ll leave you with an encouragement to take a moment to listen to one or all of the songs on this album and reflect on what stands out to you.
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Emu Music is a worship band in Australia – and a bit of a hidden gem.
The first time I heard their music was at my old church in Christchurch about six or seven years ago. Not long after that, they came to New Zealand to run a worship conference and did an open worship session that I attended. I discovered that their music is full of theological and Biblical truths, which helps and encourages sung worship times and can easily be connected to the theme or passage covered in a service. As I continued attending church in Christchurch, more and more of Emu Music’s songs were being introduced in the service.
One song I discovered not long before I moved to Nelson was called Creation Awaits. I looked this song up on Spotify and discovered that there was a whole album by the same name. As I looked at the track list, I discovered that we already sang quite a few of these songs in church.
The backstory behind this song is particularly beautiful and sad, with a hopeful perspective. Liv Chapman, who wrote the song, had a brother called Sam. He was in a wheelchair and endured constant pain for twelve years. He told his sister that he was finding it hard to sing along to the worship at church, to which she responded by asking if it was too high. He told her that he couldn’t sing songs of praise and victory when all he was feeling and experiencing was pain and suffering. Liv wrote this song as a song of lament, dedicated to her brother Sam, who passed away in February 2020. The song was released a few months later as a single in May 2020.
This song is just one example of the songs that Emu Music writes and produces, which contain so much richness to aid in worship. If you or your parish are interested in incorporating some of Emu Music’s songs into your personal or congregational worship, their songs can be found on SongSelect or the album can be found on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube. As a worship leader at Victory Church, I’m hoping to introduce a few of their songs to our congregation in the near future.
I’ll leave you with an encouragement to take a moment to listen to one or all of the songs on this album and reflect on what stands out to you.
Check out other articles in the
series below.
More articles in the
series are to come.
