Sunday Setlists 4-26-09

Part of Fred’s carnival.  See what other worship leaders are doing too @ Fred’s blog.

This morning was fun!  There were lots of people out sick, traveling or enjoying the sun (who knows) but there were also a few new faces.  We started a little more low-key than normal, and I was thrilled to see that many people were lifting their hands and fully entering into worship by the chorus of the first song – yay!

I was going to upload a vlog here, but I can’t get it to load (and I’m tired of messing with it) so you just get a normal blog today.  Sorry!

Da list:

• Reign In Us [F] Starfield
• Lifesong [G] Casting Crowns
• Praise Adonai [Am] Baloche
• Sweetly Broken [F] Riddle
• kids message
• Everything To God [F] Anderson
• announcements
• message – Patience
• Reign In Us [F] – short version

Again, it was so great to see people really entering into worship way early in the first song.  It was the third week we had done Reign In Us, and between us leading it and it starting to be played on the radio, I think people are starting to know it pretty well.  And the bad did is flawlessly   the transitions were perfect!

We followed that up with Lifesong, which we haven’t done in about a year.  When we used to sing it we had an amazing tenor who led it (and he nailed it every single time – it was fabulous!)  Unfortunately, we no longer have Ernie… we have me (NOT a tenor) and Art (an amazing baritone) so we made do.  I was pushing for doing it in A, but everyone else thought the chorus would be too high (boo!) so we dropped it to G (too low on the verses for me) and Art led the verses while I led the chorus. I think it worked out well, but I’d love to hear back from someone else who was there!

Then we moved to Praise Adonai (another one we haven’t done in months) and Warren went to town on the drums.  He was making all kinds of cool sounds back there using his 8″ tom and the plastic ends of his hott sticks.  It was kewl.

Confessional time:  Sweetly Broken is a song I love to hat, or hate to love, or something like that.  I love the chorus, the lyrics are great… I just can’t ever remember how the dumb thing starts!  Oy!  I think it goes back to the first time I tried to lead it (ever) and TOTALLY BOMBED!!!!  No, really.  Complete blank on how it started, how it went, etc.  It was bad.  So, now that memory haunts me every time I lead it.  It brings it’s bad ju-ju with it.  BUT, I love the song, and keep getting requests to lead it, so I guess it’s working out now!

Mrs. J came up after that for the kids message and used dandelions to share about patience.  You can check out that message here, if you’re interested.

This is where we kicked up the morning (it had been pretty laid-back up to this point).  We introduced Everything To God (from New Life Worship) for the kids song.  Oh, and we slowed it down just a little bit.  Made it easier to play and gave opportunity to grab an extra breath here and there.  Oy.  I think it went over pretty well for the first time – especiall as we were teaching everything – including motions.

Pastor Chris taught on patience this morning, as we continued out voyage through the life of King David.  We started out in 1 Samusl 26, following the story of when David was being chased by Saul, and David walked into the sleeping camp and took Saul’s spear and water jug – but not his life.  David had many opportunities to take matters into his own hands, but he chose instead to wait on God’s timing.  That must have been hard, as he was anointed king 15 years before he was crowned (and then it was only over Judah).  It was a great message – if you are interested it will be available for listening later today over here.

We ended the service with the 2nd bridge and chorus of Reign In Us, which fit really well with the message – I just love it when God does that, don’t you?

That was our morning… now onto the evening service.

Once a month we have an evening communion service – a time of worship, prayer and communion as a body.  Those that attend it say that it’s a service that they really enjoy, and that they like the chance to just gather together and spend time with God as a body.  Unfortunately not too many people make it.  Last night there was an equal number of people leading and sitting in the pews (actually, 2 of the men in the pews were helping lead) so I’m somewhat discouraged.  BUT – I have had people thank me for taking the time to lead this service even though it’s not well attended yet because it was something that they really needed.  It’s my favorite service too

The list of music:

• Agnus Dei
• How Marvelous/I Stand Amazed (Tomlin’s version)
• intro to communion
• Lest I Forget (Rebecca St. James)
• Jesus Blood (Martin Smith)
• Once Again
• All I Have
• time of corporate prayer
• Hungry (Kathryn Scott)
• Only You (Andy Park)

Yeah, it was a pretty Vineyard-heavy night, but it worked really well.  I usually try to incorporate a few scripture readings into the bridges of songs, but I only found one for last night (I think I was a little distracted by a kitchen remodel last week or something).  This used to be a candlelight service… but it’s at 6pm, and the sun isn’t going down until around 7:30-8:00 these days, so we skipped all of the candles.  Makes it easier to see the music though!

There isn’t too much to say about this service, except that it was nice to just spend the time in worship of our amazing God.  Much less “Am I doing this right?” stress and just praising God with the benefit of a band to play along.  Oh, and I got to sing a little more harmony which is ALWAYS a good think in my book!

Well, that was our weekend!  I’m heading around to read about some others, but I’d love to hear how yours went too!