Wow – yesterday was such a beautiful day here in Washington – in the 70′s, bright, clear, sunny skies and just relaxing.  Today?  Well, its not raining… yet.  There is a nice breeze and it’s in the mid-60′s, but cloudy.  Overall it’s not bad though!

Today’s sermon was on Samson… on how God gives each of us gifts and on how he failed to use them to Gods glory.  Pastor Chris preached on Fatal Flaws.  In that vein, we approached our worship set through the lens of grace.

• We Will Worship You [D] (Whittaker/Ingram)
• Everlasting God [Ab] (Brown/Riley)
• Your Grace Is Enough [F] (Maher)
• Sweetly Broken [F] (Riddle)
• kids story on using our gifts to glorify God
• Everything To God [A] (Anderson)
• Message – Fatal Flaws
• Unashamed [D] (Neufeld/Neufeld/McKelvey)

We led Unashamed as special music, as we haven’t ever sung it @ FRF before, but I did see a few people singing along (which was great!)  It is my hope that everyone was able to really listen to the words and recognize once again the amazing gift that we have been given.

Hopefully we got a good recording of the sermon this week!  If so, I’ll get it linked when it’s uploaded.  If not, then it will be like the past few weeks, unfortunately.

How was your service this morning?

To see what songs were sung at churches all over the world, take a look at TheWorshipCommunity.com!

I was reading this article over at WorshipTheRock.com and it got me thinking…

Do we as a church have any of those songs?  I know that I personally have some songs that speak to me over and over and over, and I know that they will continue to speak to me in the future… that they will minister to me again and again when I need to have my spirits lifted.

But what about your church?  Are there any songs that fit that definition for your church body?

I know that for a while the song “Trading My Sorrows” fit that definition, but I’m not sure that it still does.

I’m asking for your input.  Are there songs that continually feed your spirit?  Are there songs that you feel would fit that description for your church body?

Please share…

That is a question that I will attempt to answer simply by using my iTunes acct… if I added in Eric’s also, well, it would just get too random, too weird.  Trust me on that one.  1 too many SXSW downloads hanging out over there + his ever-constant search for new music.  Yep, Eric’s iTunes is at least half again larger than mine… I think.

the meme…

Number of Songs = 1225
Number of Albums = 465
Most Recently Played Song = Nessun Dorma – Turandot – Puccini – Ben Heppner
Most Played Song = Desert Song – Hillsong United
Most Recently Added Album = Unseen- Lori Cunningham
First Song Alphabetically = “Abandoned” – Anchorage (artist) – Heavenly Voices part 2
Last Song Alphabetically =  “Zion” – Gretchen  – In The Mean Time
Smallest Song Numerically = “3 Libras” – A Perfect Circle
Largest Song Numerically = “2000 Miles” The Pretenders
Shortest Song = “The Mustard” – Buffy The Vampire Slayer – Once More, With Feeling
- well, technically “Bonus Track” by Quiet By Ten, but that’s an empty 0.04…
Longest Song = “Horizon” – Rachael Yamagata – Elephants… Teeth Sinking Into Heart
First Album Alphabetically = A_CROSS // The_EARTH: Tear Down the Walls
Last Album Alphabetically = Your Love Never Fails – Jesus Culture (although Zooropa by U2 is downstairs on CD)
Smallest Album Numerically = 7 Essential Songs Of Hillsong United (only have 1 song tho)
Largest Album Numerically = 100th Window – Massive Attack (again, only 1 song)
First 5 Songs That Come Up In Shuffle =
… Bug – Mandy Moore
… Lightforms – The Daysleepeers
… What If I – Kristy Thirsk
… Miseryland – Fisher
… Does Anybody Know – Jag Star

Funny that the first 5 songs to come up are songs that I barely even recognize! At least I know the artists.

Of course, this does leave out the 2 shelves worth of classical & opera music cd’s that are on our CD rack – which, coincidentally holds around 1000 cd’s.  Nope, I haven’t loaded too many of the cd’s onto the computer since the last crash in March.  iTunes is merely a sampling of what I’ve downloaded in the past 4 months since the most recent hard drive crash (well, plus what I was able to recover.)  iTunes, Amazon & Pandora Jam have done well over the past few months.  Sadly, my most played song has only been played only 40 times.  That doesn’t include the songs played on the iPod… I guarantee that has a different top played song (namely, “Where You Go I Go” by Kim Walker)

If I were to add in the cd’s, there would be substantially more U2, The Cure, and Projekt albums hanging out in here, along with some fun 4AD bands.  Oh, and some of the better fringe ’80′s stuff that we just can’t let go of yet (think Ultravox, Japan, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys and the like).

Random?  Yep, but I like it all!  Well, most of them anyway…

Now to get Eric to post HIS iTunes list… eclectic? much more than mine…  but fun to listen to.