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Sunday Setlist - 9/27/2009

After spending the last part of the week in Pittsburg, KS, at a leadership conference, it was great to be home today (I'll be posting an update on the "Travelogue" page soon). Several of our leaders and others from our congregation were still in Pittsburg today, but the rest of us here had a great morning with each other in the presence of God.

Paul Shipman led us in worship this morning. I played acoustic, with Jon on drums, Bethany on keys, Buddy on bass, Bob on sax, Lary on electric, with backing vocalists Kathy, Jamie, Amy, and myself. Paul had and 8- or 9-song list for us to work with, to give us some options. We would up doing these 4 in the meeting:

1. Everything Glorious (David Crowder, sixsteps Music, CCLI# 4674173).

I don't believe we'd done this one before with the congregation, although we had a group play it on the town square at a Truman University student welcome thing a couple of weeks ago. It was a little tricky to introduce, as our overhead projector wasn't working, so Paul had to feed people the words a line ahead of singing them. We were missing an overhead operator all through rehearsal, but someone had sat in as we started the meeting, and it seemed to be working fine. Things happen. I had Paul's back, though - as we worked our way through this song (which went fine) I was making a quick list in my head of songs I knew the musicians could do without music, and the congregation could do without words - but the projector started working again, right at the end of this song. I was glad!

2. Happy Day (Ben Cantelon, Tim Hughes, ThankYou Music, CCLI# 4847027).

This is the third Sunday in a row we've done this one, which we normally wouldn't do, but it's just bringing life to us right now. Clay Talton and Michelle Allemang came and exhorted us during this one, and we shouted, sang, danced, and praised our brains out, with a genuine sense of rejoicing for the "happy day" of our salvation - not just that first day, but the 'day' of salvation He bought for us and has brought us into the life of.

3. Burn In Me (Jonathan and Jamie Fulk, Life Church of Kirksville).

This is a new song, just written this week by our own Jon and Jamie Fulk. Jamie (with Paul, who happens to be her dad) did a great job of teaching us this song, and leading us into the heart cry it provokes. Here are some of the words:

Verse: "As deep calls to deep, so your love calls to me. And it burns me forever, and it marks me with your seal..."

Chorus: "And I fall down on my knees, and Your fire burns through me. And the earth begins to quake, here in this holy place..."

Bridge: "Let Your fire burn right through me, let Your holy flame consume me..."     "King of glory take Your place, here among us with hands we raise".

Beautiful song, and it really brought us into a deep place of reverence and worship.

Roger Moore, with David Bost and Clay Talton, did a great job of leading the meeting this morning. Jerry Burbee preached a great message  - "What Is The Cross?" He really challenged us to encounter the cross of Christ in our lives again, yielding to the power of God released by the one unselfish act of Christ, then multiplied to the rest of the earth through unselfish lives we are to live for His glory by the power of the cross working in us.

4. The Deep of Your Grace (Mia Fieldes, Hillsong, CCLI# 4795100).

We finished at the altar with this one.

If you were there this morning at Life Church, what are some thoughts you came away with? Leave a comment and let us know.

If you're from elsewhere, hope you had a great day in the Lord, and feel free to leave a comment as well. Read about what happened in other places today, at Fred McKinnon's worship blog carnival.

Heart Of Worship 7 - Thankful Heart

Heart Of Worship - Thankful Heart from Harold Forbis on Vimeo.

Sunday Setlist - 9/20/09

Wow, hard to describe what all happened at Life Church today. We've had an apostolic team and other friends in this week, from all over - Dave and Chris Richards, and Richard and Caroline Wadsworth, from Basingstoke, U.K., Buck Hudson from Sweden, Frank Anker-Wiik and Eric and Liv, from Copenhagen, Denmark. Then from more 'locally', Doug and Denise Kreighbaum, from Pittsburg, KS, Paul Kidd, from Raliegh, NC, and Pat Forbes from Mankato, MN. We've had great meetings and great fellowship with these guys, and really looking forward to a leadership conference with them and other church leaders and friends next week in Pittsburg.

Today, we just had an absolute blow-out service. God came in incredible ways to release us as a church (really as one family in a ... well, family of families) into a season of fruitfulness that we've not only longed for for decades, but is actually already upon us. God is doing things by His grace that we've wanted to happen for a long time, including reaching the college campus here in our tiny town, as well as launching out in many directions with relational apostolic teams.

Our setlist got blown apart by the Spirit of God (did you ever have that happen?), but here are the songs we actually sang today:

1.  When I Think About the Lord (James Huey, CFN Music, CCLI# 2834496)

Instrumental only, as folks were coming in. We were intending to sing this one as a 'warm-up', but during an opening exhortation from our pastor, Tom Bedford, everyone got so warmed up to the presence of God that we were already past this one, so we continued on...

2. Happy Day (Ben Cantelon & Tim Hughes, ThankYou Music, CCLI# 4847027)

We introduced this one last week, and people took to it quickly. Today we sang it for 12-15 minutes, it's like we just couldn't quit. There was a great release of joy, and a number of prophetic words/exhortations about being released into a new season of fruitful Kingdom work. This is where we skipped over a song or two...

3. Have Your Way (Harold Forbis, OneVoiceWorship.Org/NDMP, CCLI# uh, oops, never registered that one).

This is a song of consecration I wrote a few years ago, that we sang in response to the prophetic words that were given. We had a time of free worship, more exhortations, prophetic words, prophetic songs, it was really a glorious time. Then, in needing to really look to Him to Whom we were consecrating ourselves again, we sang this one, which wasn't on our list...

4. To Him / Thousands of Angels (Harold Forbis, OneVoiceWorship/NDMP, CCLI#  2742849).

This is, well. a big song. You can listen to it here if you like. God opened the heavens to us, and we just flat had an awesome time in worship.

After this, several of the guests, in addition to Tom, briefly spoke to us, again encouraging us to go to work in the grace of God in this new season. Doug Kreighbaum talked about the small rock (which was Christ) that smashed the statue of the cultures of the world in the vision of Daniel, comparing it to the small stone that David used to kill Goliath, making the point that we can see ourselves as small and insignificant only until we put ourselves in the hands of God - a small stone flung by the Lord as He wills is deadly to the enemy, and causes the expansion of the Kingdom of God to become a reality.

At the end, there was an altar where there was a real sense of cross-cultural walls coming down within our family for the sake of seeing it happen in our community and beyond. A lot happened here that would be hard to describe, but it was significant. We sang "When I Think About the Lord" as we fellowshipped one last time with our visitors on the way out.

It was really just a great day, and if I'm bragging, I mean to be boasting in the Lord, as it was all Him, not us. He's a great God, isn't He?!!!!

Read what happened in other houses of worship today at Fred McKinnon's Sunday Setlist blog carnival.

Heart Of Worship 6 - Obedient Heart

Heart Of Worship - Obedient Heart from Harold Forbis on Vimeo.

Sunday Setlist - 9/13/09

God met us again at Life Church today.

A great deal of spiritual opposition has been evident in our midst, in a time when we believe God is really changing us and preparing to release us into new things very quickly. This morning, worship team rehearsal seemed clouded and, honestly, difficult. We encouraged each other to recognize where the opposition was coming from, and not to be discouraged, but to lead worship in faith that God would meet us. And He did!

I love it when He does that! It's not about us - we can't generate worship, and if our hearts are right, we really can't chase it away either. We just do our best, and leave the result to God, Who is worthy of all praise. We lift Him up, He draws everyone to Himself.

You could feel the presence of God as people began filling the room and fellowshipping with one another prior to the meeting. Our pastor introduced our friends Tom and Rita Hutchens, who have moved here from Wichita, after being gone for a few years. We rejoiced for the privilege of having this spiritual dad and mom among us again.

Paul Shipman did a great job of leading us in worship this morning, and we broke through the earlier foggy feeling with these songs that focused on the reality of what great things God has done:

1. Open the Eyes of My Heart (Paul Baloche, Integrity, CCLI# 2298355)

2. Happy Day (Tim Hughes, Ben Cantelon, ThankYou Music, CCLI# 4847027)

  This was a new one for us today, and it really took off. We felt a great release of joy for the forgiveness of our sins.

3. The Deep of Your Grace (Mia Fieldes, Hillsong, CCLI# 4795100)

  We've done this one two or three times before, and people really respond. It continued the focus on what only God can do, in washing away our sins, as we segued into the next one --

4. Nothing But the Blood (Matt Redman, ThankYou Music, CCLI# 4329411)

  We reached a place at the end of this song where we could have gone on in worship for the rest of the service, or opened up a prophetic flow (you know how you come to those points, where you're glad the leaders have to make the call?) Instead, we made way for the Word of God, and Tom talked to us from the book of Nehemiah.

We had an altar for people who really felt God calling them to deeper levels of finding their place among the families rebuilding the wall. We played a chord progression, but did not really have a song at the end. It took us about 3-1/2 hours to get to this point, felt like we'd done the will of God, went to lunch, came back to help the Hutchens unload their stuff.

See what went on in other places this morning at the Fred McKinnon Sunday Setlist blog carnival.

Heart of Worship 5 - A Giving Heart

Heart of Worship - Giving Heart from Harold Forbis on Vimeo.

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Sunday Setlists - 9/6/09

Well, we had another really great time in the presence of God at Life Church today, and again went home with the sense that we'd been transformed by the power of God, but that we are in need of more change that only God can bring.

We opened with a welcome and exhortation from our pastor, Tom Bedford, then began to worship with the following songs:

1. I-V-IV in E  (hold on the "I" for shout after exhortation. Hey, it counts!)

2. You Are Good (Israel Houghton, Integrity Music, CCLI# 3383788).

We really love this song, and it was fun to do today. I put the hurt on Twila, as I didn't decide to do it till we got to rehearsal, and had her lead it with no notice. We listened to an arrangement on YouTube, and determined our 'road map' during rehearsal. I should have settled on this song and how we were going to do it earlier, but...well, you know how it goes! Anyway, Twila and the rest of the team did a great job with it.

3. For Who You Are (Marty Sampson, Hillsong, CCLI# 4591799).

I knew the message was going to be about the foundations built in our lives, and I wanted to start focusing on the thought of coming to God His way, seeing Him as He really is, which the next song helped us do.

4. Lovely Lord (Bob Hartman, Petsong Music, no CCLI#).

This is one of my favorite songs of all time, it's so worshipful. I also had Twila lead this one (also with no notice), and she did great.

5. Lead Me To Brokenness (Harold Forbis, OneVoiceWorship.Org, CCLI# 4370006).

I wrote this one a few years ago, and recently lowered the key (from G to F), and rewrote some of the chords in the chorus (last night!). No major changes, but Dan White was helping me with this one the other day, and some minor tweaks really made it a more powerful song. The verses are from Isa. 57 and Ps. 51, with the heart cry of the title in the chorus.

I had this one on my mind after talking to my friend (and my life group leader) Clay Talton, who preached today on Foundations. As I listened to what was on his heart about this the other day, I really felt like God wanted us to come broken-hearted to hear this word.

Clay brought the Word of the Lord to us with excellent analogies of what it's like to pour a foundation, what happens when things grow up around it that don't belong there, and a really poignant thought about trying to build too much too soon on a foundation where the concrete's not cured yet, regarding thinking about our kids.

Tom helped cap this message at an altar where boys and young men came up who need their fathers to lead them and invest in them with grace and wisdom that can only come from The Father. There was an altar for the girls and ladies as well, as the Lord was drawing the whole family to Himself to adjust us and encourage us.

If you're from Life Church, do you have anything to add about the service today?

If you're from elsewhere, please feel free to leave a comment or ask a question as well. Also, please check out posts from other worship leaders on Fred McKinnon's Sunday Setlists site. See you next week!

Heart Of Worship 4 - Captured Heart

Heart Of Worship - Captured Heart from Harold Forbis on Vimeo.

CD Cover Photo Shoot

We had a great time this morning doing the photo shoot for the CD wallet cover for my recording project, "To Carry The Glory," set to release the last week of September. I will be getting another post up quickly to get some information out to you about the project, as many of you are asking about that - thanks for your interest!

Here are some pictures of the shoot - thanks to Jaymes Schrock of Scribbles & Scribes, Ink, who is producing the cover for me. It's going to look very cool! And thanks to Jeremy Pingel, Kristin Flannigan, Ginger Takamiya, D'Markus Thomas, Jeff Jachura, and Paul Shipman for their extreme modeling skills!