Glorify Thy Name / Awesome God

Don Moen pairs two of contemporary worship's oldest standards — Donna Adkins's 1976 "Glorify Thy Name" and Rich Mullins's 1988 "Awesome God" — treating both as variations on the same request. "Glorify Thy name in all the earth" echoes Jesus's own prayer in John 17:1, asking the Father to "glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you" — glory as something given and returned rather than claimed.

"Our God is an awesome God, He reigns from heaven above, with wisdom, power, and love" compresses Psalm 147:5's declaration that "great is our Lord, and mighty in power; his understanding is infinite" into four short lines built for repetition rather than explanation. Both halves of the medley are structurally simple by design — neither song is trying to argue a case, just repeating a claim until the repetition itself becomes the point.