In last Thursday night's worship team meeting, we gave ourselves to a time of prayer and intercession for God to move on us and on our church. I think we were living in that prayer this morning, starting with a passionate time of seeking the Lord in prayer before we began to rehearse.
Paul Shipman led our team superbly today, and we got through the following songs:
1. You Are God Alone - in G (Billy Foote, Integrity, CCLI #4243463) instrumental for pre-service.
2. Tis So Sweet - in F (L. Stead/W. Kirkpatrick, Public Domain, CCLI #22609). We did this one following an opening exhortation from Trey Allemang. Trey read from Rev. 1, encouraging us to think about who Jesus is before we entered into worship, remembering who we're worshiping and why we're worshiping him. It was really helpful, and people's 'worship engines' were revving as Trey finished. We began to just lift up praise and worship to the Lord before launching into Tis So Sweet. We started 'hymn-style', then kicked it up a little bit style-wise.
3. You, You Are God - in Bb (Walker Beach, Gateway, CCLI# 4389918). We modulated to C at the end of this high-energy praise song, which set us up to go into the next song. Jon keep the kick going as we finished this one, and went into...
4. Happy Day - in C (B. Cantelon, T. Hughes, ThankYou Music, CCLI #4847027). I just can't get enough of this song. We were missing our electric guitar player, who got snowed into his driveway, but it still went great.
5. Here In Your Presence - in C (Jon Egan, Vertical Worship, CCLI #4882707).
Danny Dunn shared a brief message (but a good one!). Tom Bedford talked to us last week about living lives set apart to God. This morning, Danny talked about being set apart by sonship. When we're saved, we become sons of God, and that's what sets us apart to Him, not our hard work, good intentions, etc. It was a good word, thanks Danny.
I hope you had a good day in the Lord where you are as well. You can read about what happened all over the place in worship at Fred McKinnon's Sunday Setlist worship blog at theworshipcommunity.com. Have a great week!
I agree; it was a great morning! From the crowd it really felt like people were engaged right from the start, and I thought 'Tis So Sweet was such a nice opener. I liked the kick transition between the two fast songs, too. Refreshing day of worship!
Posted by: Ruth | February 22, 2010 at 12:47 AM
Looks like you all had a great morning and wonderful time of worship. Hope to connect with you again once we get past our Missions Conference in March. Thanks for posting my friend!
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