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Tim Suel is a Worship Leader at Grace Bible Church in College Station, Texas.
“Come Like the Fall” is a CD produced by Bruce Alderson & Tim Suel and released in the spring of 2007. The CD features Tim singing several original songs, some covers, and a couple of hymns. Two tracks are live recordings from worship services at Grace, and the other eight tracks are studio recordings. While you’re here you can listen to some clips from the CD and read some of Tim’s thoughts about the songs. “Come Like the Fall” is available at Hastings and Scripture Haven in College Station or you can click on the “Paypal” link and order it right here. It’s also available in the tape room at Grace Bible Church on Sunday mornings.
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About some of the songs...
take me:
this is one of my favorite songs i’ve ever heard or sung. a friend of mine wrote it when he was 16 and that amazes me. i remember how jealous i was when i first heard it and wished that i had written it or could write something that beautiful. once i got over my jealously i began to worship, because the song drew me in. somehow it says things that my heart had been wanting to say. the depth of the love language used is something i think the church’s presentation of the gospel may be a bit shy on, and i feel we should constantly remind people that we are the bride of christ. even now when i hear it i am still moved to a deep place of worship and i should admit that i am still a little jealous that i didn’t write this song. thanks justin. you blessed us.
come like the fall:
i love the fall. it is my favorite time of year. football, big warm coats, halloween, leaves changing colors, thanksgiving... the joys are too numerous to mention. fall is not always near. in the hot summer, sometimes i find myself obsessing about the beautiful relief the fall brings. the metaphor seems fitting as i also long for christ. sometimes i am taken aback by the distance between a physical me and an unapproachable light dwelling father.
this song was written on the front porch of a house i used to live in. i think all songs should be written on front porches if at all possible. i wrote the verse and my friend jeff wrote the amazing chorus that seemed to fit perfectly with the rest of the song.
open up your skies:
one night a few years ago i found myself wide awake laying in bed. i couldn’t rest. i had been struggling with sin for a few months and wasn’t doing very good at resisting. because of this, i was feeling a lot of shame. i hadn’t prayed in a while and felt really embarrassed at even the thought of going before God knowing all that he knew about me. i knew the things that i was doing were wrong but i still did them anyway and that made me feel even more terrible. after a while i think i just stopped trying. i got out of bed and went to the living room and told God that i felt empty and broken and i told Him that i missed feeling close to Him and i was going to just sit and wait for Him. i sat there in my living room in the dark (i think i felt less exposed with the lights off) for a long time before the words of this song started forming in my mind. this song is about a prodigals path back to his home.
christ alone and safe in the arms of jesus:
the modern hymns. i don’t know if it is proper to simply say that these songs are hymns and it be so. there are probably music scholars that will read this and cringe at my presumptuous categorization of these two songs. the truth is, i don’t know what makes a hymn a hymn. these songs sound hymnish to me, so i call them hymns.
safe in the arms:
is a hymn that was written by fanny crosby way back when her music was new and offensive to the churches of the day. she wrote good hymns. to me her hymns never sounded highly churchy or stuffy like men in robes speaking in old english dialect. they sounded real and gritty like someone who worked hard all day tilling their fields for crops. i can easily imagine my grandparents singing the songs that she wrote and meaning every word. one day i was reading a website that had the words to all her hymns. i sat there reading and crying. it was not a very manly moment for me, but i was worshiping. i took one of her verses and i wrote a chorus then i put the two together with a new melody and music. when i hear it i’m reminded of how safe we are in christ. that we are not in danger of losing what he gives us, that we are married to christ and we have His name and His righteousness. it makes the pain of this life seem bearable knowing it will be over one day and we will wake up safe, in christ, at home. thanks for your real and gritty hymns, fanny.
Christ alone:
this song is a message and a response all in one. the verses are the message. they talk of our salvation and how beautiful and complete it is. the chorus was my response to the good things i heard in the verses. once again, i don’t know if i can technically call it a hymn but i did... it just sounded so hymnish that i couldn’t deny giving it the title.
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