Category — Sunday Setlist

Ever have one of those Sundays where the rehearsal was amazing (fun, got through a lot, just all around good…) and then Sunday came.

Yep, our rehearsal was so great!  Then there were a couple of late nights/early mornings in the middle, and this morning we woke up to have an ambient temperature of 54*F in the house.  Yep, it was chilly.  Then it started snowing, and I had to scrape the frost off of the truck so I could see.  By the time I got there, I was a teensy bit grouchy.  Then I got some news that moved me just a tad beyond grouchy. Yeah- it was one of those days for me.

I know, I’m whining.

But we serve an amazing God.  A God that looks down upon me in the midst of a major grump-fest, and decides to remind me that it’s not about me (what?!?!?)

It’s about Him.  All of it.

And the song list we had today certainly helped too – I don’t know how anyone could stay grumpy while singing Salvation Day!

So, here is our set list:

• Marvelous Light (Christy Nockles version)
• Salvation Day (Beeching/MacIntosh)
• Holy is the Lord (Tomlin/Giglio)
• Revelation Day (Jennie Lee Riddle)
• kids story – Art shared it today
• Glorious (Tomlin/Reeves)
• announcements
• message – “Make Mine a Double”
• Deliverer (Beeching/MacIntosh)
• Communion message
• Salvation Day – bridge & chorus

Other than a couple of snafu’s, it went pretty well.  We led two new songs today – Holy is the Lord and Deliverer – and both were well received.  Of course, Holy is the Lord is pretty well known already, and we sang Deliverer at the women’s retreat in September.  Even so, I’m hoping that both go better next time we do them.

We are losing our one and only guy singer after this week though – something that bummed most of us out quite a bit.  Art had a schedule change at work and now has to work Sunday mornings.  It will definitely be a different sound with all female voices!  Hopefully we will have another guy joining us soon.

That was our service today – what happened at yours?

As always, this is part of the Sunday Setlist blog carnival over at TheWorshipCommunity.com – stop by and join in the fun!

We are spending this past Sunday and this coming Sunday revisiting some of our roots musically.  Yep, we have dusted off some of those songs that we haven’t sung in a while, or that we used to sing years ago.  It’s been kind of fun to o back and revisit some of these.

• You’re Worthy of My Praise (Ruis)
• You Never Let Go (Redman)
• Enough (Tomlin/Giglio)
• Desert Song (Fraser)
• kids story
• Rain It Down (Whittaker/Ingram/LaRue)
• message – The Zarephath Express
• Great Is Thy Faithfulness

It was great to have Pastor Chris back from his vacation this week.  He had a great message to bring to us this week – if you would like to hear it, just click on the title above.

This coming week we are studying my favorite passage in the Old Testament – 1 Kings 18:16-40 – where Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal. I can’t wait to see what Pastor Chris brings out from that story!  It’s also Communion Sunday, so I’m expecting a great time of corporate worship!

We will be singing these songs:

• Come, Now is the Time to Worship (Doerksen)
• We Will Worship You (Whittaker/Ingram)
• O Worship the King (Haydn/Grant/Tomlin)
• Blessed Be Your Name (Redman/Redman)
• kids story
• Top of Our Lungs (Bradford/Neufeld/Neufeld)
• message
• Agnus Dei (Smith)
• communion

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It would be so easy each week to say something like “we came, we set up, we sang songs, we were taught, we tore down, we left”

After all, isn’t what we do week in and week out?  We show up, we do our thing, we leave… or is it something more than that?

Is church something that is more than just a place that we show up once a week to get our weekly feeding and feel good about ourselves because we “go to church”

Uh, yeah!

Church isn’t a place.  Church isn’t a weekly fill up.  It’s not just something we “do” week after week after week.

Church is who we are.

But some weeks, it feels like a place we go to do our thing.

For me, Sunday was one of “those” days… or at least it started out that way.

But God…

I so love those words!  But God.  What would my life be if not for all the times that life was going along, but God interveined?  Things were looking down, but God turned them around?

But God stepped in and answered the prayer of my heart on Sunday.  He reached down to this insignifigant child of His and touched a heart that was stony and softened it.  He reminded me that church isn’t a job.  It isn’t “what I do” – it’s who I am and who I minister to and who I am called to love – and be loved by.

So, with that in mind, here’s what we “showed up and did” – ha!

• Glory To God Forever
• Salvation Day
• Your Mercy
• Here is Love
• kids storytime
• Every Move I Make
• announcements
• message
• The Wonderful Cross
• communion

It’s pretty hard to keep a stony heart in your chest when you are singing about the glory and majesty and mercy and love and sacrifice of the wonderful, amazing God that we serve!

After all, where would any of us be if it were not for the “but God’s” in our lives?

Wow – what a great morning of worship!  It was one of those days (for me) that you just can’t help but praise God.  I like those days.

Admittedly I wasn’t feeling it when I got to church this morning.  I had overslept (accidentaly turned the alarm OFF instead of snoozing) and was running late.  I was preparing for an extra long day with the Back to School Rally coming up after church, and I was having a really hard time waking up.  But by the time we were on the chorus of the second song I was ready to dance!

God is good!

Anywho, here’s the list:

• Salvation Day (Beeching)
• Happy Day (Jesus Culture-style)
• We Will Worship You (Whittaker)
• Here Is Love (Cook/Rees)
• kids message
• I Am Free (Egan)
• announcements
• message
• Reign In Us (Starfield)
• communion

I mean, how can you NOT be happy with Salvation Day and Happy Day back to back?  Seriously?

It was a great time of worship, and Pastor Chris followed it up with a great message on how to love your enemies a la David.

After church we headed over to President’s Elementary School for the Back to School Rally, and gave away around 500 or so backpacks filled with school supplies.  Lots of local churches and businesses joined forces to fill them and give them away – along with lots of other fun goodies at the rally.  The hot dog line at our church booth was mighty long.  I think they cooked & handed out around 400 hot dogs this afternoon!

It turned out to be a fabulous day… and now I’m tired.  It’s a good tired though, a very good tired. 

How was your weekend?