John McDermott - How Deep The Father's Love - Live 2023

From his recent Mother's Day concert, John shares "How Deep The Father's Love" from the "Songs of Inspiration and Reflection" concert recorded May 13th 2023 at Yorkminster Baptist Park Church, Toronto. Written by Stuart Townend.
From Stuart:
Writing this song was an unusual experience for me. I’d already written quite a few songs for worship, but all in a more contemporary worship style, drawing from my own musical background. But I distinctly remember getting this feeling one day that I was going to write a hymn! Now, like most people, I am familiar with hymns - they form part of my church background, and I love the truth contained in many of them. But I don’t go home at the end of a busy day and put on a hymns album! So I don’t think of hymns as where I’m at musically at all!
Nevertheless, I’d been meditating on the cross, and in particular what it cost the Father to give up his beloved Son to a torturous death on a cross. And what was my part in it? Not only was it my sin that put him there, but if I’d lived at that time, it would probably have been me in that crowd, shouting with everyone else ‘crucify him’. It just makes his sacrifice all the more personal, all the more amazing, and all the more humbling.
As I was thinking through this, I just began to sing the melody, and it flowed in the sort of way that makes you think you’ve pinched it from somewhere! So the melody was pretty instant, but the words took quite a bit of time, reworking things, trying to make every line as strong as I could.
Now I’m finding it gets used all over the world, by all sorts of churches; it seems to be as accessible to a traditional church as it is to a house church, and I’m excited by that. But it has perhaps branded me as an old man before my time. It was fed back to me that at a conference a couple who loved the song were surprised to hear I was still alive…
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John McDermott is a platinum selling Scottish-Canadian tenor who has been featured on CBC and PBS television networks. John has toured extensively throughout the world, releasing more than 40 albums over a successful thirty-year career.

[@mariannegornyecz2416]

What a great rendition John, the most beautiful and hearttouching one can imagine. Your voice so full of thankfulness, that noone can't not be moved by its intensity, and it makes it really difficult to hold back tears. Thank you for this wonderful gift John 💝🎶🎶🎶

[@johnmcdermotttenor]

Thanks for listening☘️

[@oconnoon]

Wonderful, thank you John 💚

[@johnmcdermotttenor]

You're very welcome ☘️

[@SetFreeByTruth]

Beautiful!