Music and song have always been employed to facilitate worship of God from the hearts and lips of His people, both individually and collectively. And it is a special blessing when the work of His Spirit in particular communities wells up and flows forth as original music unique to their setting. Such blessing at Grace Church is displayed and made available here to facilitate your personal and family worship—praise and petition, thanksgiving and confession, rejoicing and lament—to the praise of God's glory.
The recordings available in this archive are pulled directly from our Sunday morning streams and thus capture and reflect the real-time arrangements, instrumentation, and voicing of the Grace Church body in Lord’s Day corporate worship. Any recordings released under the “Worley Folk” moniker will not be available here but are still accessible on your preferred streaming platform.
Words/Music: Daryle Worley, III, 2024
First shared September 1, 2024, on the last Sunday of our Ephesians sermon series.
Words/Music: Daryle Worley, III, 2024
First shared during Prayers of the People on July 14, 2024.
Words/Music: Daryle Worley, III, 2024
Shared on April 21, 2024 in advance of preaching on Ezekiel 20:1–23:49.
Words: George Herbert, 1633, alt.; “The Sacrifice” (Stz. 33–42); Music: Daryle Worley, III, 2024
First shared on Good Friday 2024
Words/Music: Daryle Worley, III, 2024
First shared on Transfiguration Sunday, February 11, 2024
Words/Music: Daryle and Maggie Worley, 2022
Choruses were introduced on August 14 as a sung refrain to break up the reading of Psalm 80. That was last Sunday our brother, Dave DeJong, was on the drums. The full version with verses was introduced September 25th. We dearly miss this brother, we look and long for the resurrection of the dead and life in the world to come.
Words: Kim Hobbs, 2021; Music: ODE TO JOY, Ludwig Van Beethoven, 1824 (This recording uses the harmonization of Edward Hodges used in our pew hymnal: The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration, pub. by Word Music, Nashville, 1986)
First shared June 12, 2022 (Trinity Sunday)
Words by Daryle Worley, III, 2021; Music by Maggie Worley, 2021
First introduced December 5, 2021 (2nd Week in Advent). A prayer for GCD, seeking the Lord’s influence for each major movement of our corporate worship. We respond to God’s Word with praise, we open ourselves up to His work of conviction and healing, we anticipate His grace and blessing to meet us in our need, and we seek Him for strength to live lives of service.
Words: George Herbert, ca. 1626; Music: MARTYRDOM; Public Domain. Alt. lyrics and v.5 by Daryle Worley, III, 2021
Originally shared August 8th and 15th, 2021
Words attributed to Patrick of Ireland, ca. 433 AD; translated and paraphrased by Cecil F. Alexander, 1889; adapted by Daryle and Maggie Worley, III, 2022; Music by Daryle Worley, III, 2021
First introduced March 14, 2021 and later edited into its current form and rendering.