Music and baptisms

What is the soundtrack to your memories?

When it comes to music, I'm deffinately someone who puts songs over bands. I don't have a favourite band, I have favourite songs. These are often based on memories I have that go with them. For example, I am currently listening to my favourite piece of music. It's a 6-8 minute guitar/drum solo called 'The Prophet' by Gary Moore. Its not one of his most well-known songs, which is a real shame because it drips with raw emotion. The song has a simple riff, in a 3 beat (hark at me the guy who plays a conga and a melodica!), and it evokes deep emotional meaning for me. It remides me of the first time I heard it, sat in the passenger seat of a vauxhall vectra estate, driving through some trees on the side of Windermere in the Lake district. The sun is going down, and I'm with very treasured friends.
The song was introduced to me by a good friend called Phil Rixon, who will serve as one of my ushers when the wedding actually happens, and it always reminds me of good times with him and friends up having fun in the Lake District.
There is just one example of a song that evokes great memories for me, it would be on a soundtrack of my life if I ever made one. Of course, there is plenty more, like the songs 'You are My Sunshine' and 'Holding Hands', which remind me of Jo, and the amazing times we have had together these past few years.
I'm quite geeky like this, but I'm a big fan of film/tv soundtracks as well, like Doctor Who, James Bond etc. I like listening to them as I walk down a street, especially if I'm bored, makes the walk more exciting anyway.
You won't often see me without my ipod really, I hate being alone with just my own thoughts for too long, it's so boring I find. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
Here's a question, if you had to make a CD soundtrack to your life, it can be no more than 20 tracks and no less than 10, what would you put on it?

Here's mine for the moment:

1. It is Finished-Charles Wesley
2. There is a Hope-Stuart Townend
3. Be Thou My Vision
4. And Can It Be
5. We Trust in You Our Shield and Our Defender
6. Before the Throne of God Above
7. The Prophet-Gary Moore
8. You Are My Sunshine
9. Holding Hands
10. 500 Miles
11. James Bond theme
12. Doomsday-Murray Gold
13. Walking in the Air-Aled Jones
14.You Know My Name-Chris Cornell
15.Gravity-Embrace
16.Everytime-Britney Spears
17.Supreme-Robbie Williams
18. You Raise Me Up
19.Blessed Be Your Name
20. You Are Holy

Typical me will think of loads more as soon as I've finished, and this is nowhere near a clear concise list.

To explain a few, 'It is Finished' is a song written by Charles Wesley, which talks about the great truths and accomplishments of the gospel, the death of Jesus on the cross for us. Here are the lyrics:

It is finished!”the Messiah dies,
cut off for sins,
but not his own;
completed is the sacrifice,
the great redeeming work is done.

Yes, finished! All the debt is paid,
justice divine is satisfied,
the grand and full atonement made;
God for a guilty world has died!

The temple curtain is torn down,
the living way to heaven is seen;
through Christ the middle wall has gone,
and all who will may enter in.

The ancient shadows are fulfilled,
the Scripture prophecies prove true,
the sinless Lamb of God is killed,
the promised covenant made new!

The reign of sin and death is done,
and all may live, from sin set free;
Satan and his pretended throne
are swallowed up in victory.

Saved from the curse of God I am;
my saviour hangs upon a tree!
See there the meek and silent Lamb;
his final breath he breathes for me.

In Christ accepted and brought near
and clothed in righteousness divine,
I see the path to life made clear,
and all your merits, Lord, are mine.

Death, hell and sin are now subdued,
all grace is now to sinners given,
and so I plead the atoning blood
and claim the title deeds of heaven.


The first time I remember singing this was the day I was baptised. Baptism in the Bible is one's public declaration of Christ as one's Lord and Saviour, He having died for us on the cross. It is the admittance that we are sinful rebels that can do nothing to save ourselves, and it is the public declaration by God-given faith and consent for us and others watching that we will follow Christ with God's help, as we are immersed in water. The baptism itself bestows nothing miraculous, but it is a public demonstration of God's saving grace.
I was baptised at the end of my first year, at my church, Moorlands Evangelical church, along with three other church members, one of whom had first explained the gospel to me. It was a rainy day, and as the church met at Lancaster Boy's Grammer School at the time, we had no facilities to hold a baptism inside, so we were baptised in a very large paddling pool, in the school's car park. It was raining softly, and after we had all been immersed, and I stood there in a dripping wet Superman t-shirt (quite unorthodox but hey-the red towel added a moment of comedy gold), we as a church stood in the car park, and sang this song together. It was an amazing moment, God has saved me in Christ, and that's awesome to sing about!

What music do you put to events?