Lord, I lift your name on high

Lord, I lift your name on high. Rick Founds* (1954– ).  CCLI’s Top 25 Songs listed ‘Lord, I lift’ (1989) as the number one song sung in American churches between 1995 and 2002. It is the only song with the distinction of holding this position for seven and a half years. Worship Leader columnist Phil Christensen and novelist Shari MacDonald give ‘Lord, I lift’ high praise:  The song is as effective in a small, intimate group as a public praise outreach. Methodist junior-high kids settle into the song as sweetly as Baptist senior citizens . . . Rick Founds’s little four-chord flock-rocker has become known and loved internationally. It hurdles denominational barriers effortlessly and is sung...