Louder Than The Music

Northern Ireland's popular worship band Bluetree explain the story behind their hit song 'God of This City' in a new book co-written by lead singer Aaron Boyd and British writer Craig Borlase. 'God of This City - Greater Things Have Yet to Come' is published by Regal Books and is available in the US in March and in the UK on 1st May 2010.

Bluetree wrote the song 'God of This City' while they were on a mission trip to Thailand. The song was quickly picked up by US worship leader Chris Tomlin and has since become popular in churches throughout the world. The book includes a foreword by Chris Tomlin, and Matt Redman is quoted on the back cover saying, "Now and again a song bursts through into the worshipping Church and spreads around the globe quickly. 'God of This City' is such a song".

While Bluetree were performing a gig in a bar beneath a brothel in one of the world’s sex-trade capitals, Aaron Boyd began to sing to the city that "greater things have yet to come / greater things are still to be done in this city." Within a few days, the full lyrics had emerged; within a few months, the song was ringing in Bluetree’s hometown of Belfast, where the promise of "greater things" is starting to bear fruit. "God of This City" eventually became the anthem of the Passion international worship conferences, but there is more to the song than an inspiring melody and unusual history. In God of This City, the book, Aaron Boyd unpacks the lyrics of the song, and along the way shares his thoughts on the state of the Church, the persistent injustice in the world and the biblical mandate to right the wrongs done to our global neighbors. Many local churches and ministries have taken "God of This City" as a rallying cry for their own communities, and the book is a further challenge for the Body of Christ to be an agent of His change - living lives of worship marked by actions of justice in a world longing for greater things.