Tim Hughes

Holding Nothing Back
How should we worship God, the One who exists in and for himself, unchanging, eternal, everywhere, and beyond our powers of description?
Tim Hughes finds answers in scritpure, in creation, and in the pains and struggles of humanity. The goal? A life of full-on worship, where joy makes space for lamentation, and anger keeps close to humility. God held nothing back for us - can we do less?
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Passion for Your Name
If you want to be more involved in leading worship in your church, or become a more effective member of the band, then this book is a great place to begin. Tim Hughes looks first at the reasons why we worship God, and why we need to get our hearts right with him, before moving on to the practicalities of choosing a song list, musical dynamics, small group worship and the art of songwriting.
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Links: http://www.worshipcentral.org/

Tim Hughes Bio
Tim Hughes is the Director of Worship at Holy Trinity Brompton, London. Born in High Wycombe, Tim spent his teenage years in Birmingham where he learnt to play the guitar and lead worship at his local Anglican church. He has been leading worship at the Soul Survivor festivals from the age of 19, since 1997.

In 1999 Survivor released Reward which featured songs from Tim and worship leader Martyn Layzell. Tim was later featured on the highly acclaimed ‘All Around the World’ project in early 2001. Tim's first solo project ‘Here I am to Worship’ which was produced by Dwayne Larring and Jason Halbert (co-founders of SONICFLOOd) was released in November 2001. Containing an outstanding collection of songs, featuring, ‘Jesus You Alone’, ‘Here I Am To Worship’, ‘If There's One Thing’ and ‘My Jesus, My Lifeline’.

In 2004 Tim released his eagerly awaited second studio album ‘When Silence Falls’, featuring ‘Beautiful One’, ‘Consuming Fire’ and ‘Whole World In His Hands’. Produced by Nathan Nockels (Facedown – Matt Redman), the album was recorded in Nashville and Prague.

Being the main worship leader at the Soul Survivor festivals, Tim’s songs have featured heavily on the live recordings to include, ‘Glimpses Of Glory’, ‘Anthem Of The Free’, ‘We Must Go’ and the 2006 live recording ‘Love Came Down’.

April 2007 sees the release of Tim’s brand new studio album ‘Holding Nothing Back’, an explosion of energy, expressing a life of full-on worship to God. With tracks produced by Matt Bronleewe (Michael W Smith, Rebecca St James & Leeland) and Nathan Nockels, the songs are epic and exciting. Tracks include ‘Happy Day’, ‘Everything’, Almighty God and many more. Tim is joined on guitar by Stu G of Delirious? and Lyle Workman (who plays with Sting), as well as Brooke Fraser (rising singer/songwriter from New Zealand) on guest vocals. Two of the songs on the album are co-written with Delirious’ Martin Smith. The CD includes a bonus biographical DVD which features teaching on songwriting, studio footage and video diaries.

Tim has led worship at Soul Survivor, Momentum, Worship Experience, Passion, Worship Together, Hillsongs and many other events throughout Australia, South Africa, the USA, Malaysia and Canada as well as the UK and Europe. The focus of his conference seminars have been on songwriting, the heart attitudes of a worship leader, worship and wonder. His key interest is to see other worship leaders trained, inspired and equipped, and to see young believers come into a fullness of relationship with God through worship.

Tim is now heading up Worship central with Al Gordon, a bi-monthly gathering to train and equip worship leaders and musicians. Worship Central’s website offers a number of on-line resources to include the pod cast, which recently topped the iTunes chart in the Christianity and Religion category.