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Worship Recap - March 28, 2010

We've had a fun weekend at Life Church with the junior and senior high school students from Covenant Harvest Church school in Pittsburg, KS. They came in Friday in time for our school chapel, then had a Friday night worship meeting with our 6th-grade through college age group (and some old people like me).

Scott Squires, an elder from Covenant Harvest, and a graduate of our Bible college, came with the kids, and preached a powerful word to us this morning. More on that in a moment.

Paul Shipman led worship this morning, with myself on vocals and acoustic, Rebecca on vocals, Linda on vocals and keys, Jon on drums, D'Markus on bass, Bob on sax, and Lary on electric guitar. We do our arranging and rehearsing on Sunday mornings, starting at 7:45 for a 10:00 service. Today was one of those days that we needed all the time we had to pull it together, but Paul had chosen a great set, and did a good job of keeping on track. We got it all worked through and it went well in service. Here are the songs we did:

1. My Jesus I Love Thee  -  in D/E (W. Featherston/A Gordon, Public Domain, CCLI #27817). We started in D, with a fairly traditional flow, sang through the 1st and 2nd verses, and had Lary do an electric guitar solo verse, built up strong and modulated to E to come back to the 2nd verse again. Paul wanted to keep the lyrical flow going with that verse into the next song, which we picked up with a strong tom beat to kick into up-tempo.

2. For All You've Done  -  in E  (Reuben Morgan, Hillsong, CCLI #4254689). I always love this song. It's such a good song for helping us to express genuine praise to the Lord for what He's done for us.

3. My Savior Lives  -  in B  (J. Egan/G. Packiam, Vertical Worship Songs, CCLI #4882965). When we ended this one, we went to the bridge and slowed it down, worshiped freely with it for a moment, before crossing over very naturally to...

4. Nothing But The Blood  - in B  (Matt Redman, ThankYou Music, CCLI #4329411).

Scott preached a message entitled, "Hail, Favored One." He talked about how a wordly Christian culture sometimes tries to boil the favor of God down to a very self-centered idea, that God's favor brings us basically whatever we want. But the truth is that the favor of God is for the purpose of accomplishing His will. Scott did a masterful job of painting this picture, starting with a list of things that happened throughout the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, after the angel told her she had the favor of God - not all so good. In reality, the favor of God brings us into conflicts that are directly connected to advancing the Kingdom of God, and then gives us the power to uphold us through the conflict for the sake of seeing the will of God done.

We had an altar of consecrating ourselves to the favor of God, where we sang...

5. At The Cross  -  in E (R. Morgan/D. Zschech, Hillsong, CCLI #4591816), and...

6. Surrender  -  in G (Marc James, Vineyard UK, CCLI #3033179).

If you're from Life Church, leave a comment with your thoughts on today's service. If you're from elsewhere, please feel free to leave a comment as well, and I hope you had a great day with the Lord and His people. To see what happened in worship all over the place, take a look Fred McKinnon's Sunday Setlist blog at theworshipcommunity.com.

Worship Recap - March 22, 2010

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Veeve Holtz led worship today with our gospel group, and they did another fantastic job. I so appreciate these guys, some of whom are TSU college students who are becoming our good friends and part of our family. They bring a powerful anointing and a fresh way into the presence of God to us.

My friend Michael videoed the worship time for me, as I was helping to lead the meeting this morning. He did a great job, but I goofed when I set up my camera, and so the audio converted, but most of the video didn't, hence the slide/video ... montage. Yeah, that's what it is - I made a montage of our worship for you. Enjoy!

David Bost opened the meeting with a report via e-mail from our pastor, Tom Bedford, who's in England with his wife, Andrea. They had a great meeting with a group of around 90 prophetic guys. I followed David's report by encouraging us to bless the Lord for the good report from Europe, and then we read Psalm 103 together.

Here are the songs we did today:

1.  Trading My Sorrows  (Darrell Evans, Integrity, CCLI #2574653)

2.  Again I Say Rejoice  (Israel Houghton, Integrity, CCLI #4302823)

3. I Will Search  (Israel Houghton, Integrity, CCLI #5040146)

4. It All Belongs To You  (Deitrick Haddon)

Veeve did an awesome job of stopping to exhort us along the way, and really drew everyone in together. During the last song, there was an incredible sense of God sweeping over as we sang those words - "it all belongs to you". It seemed like He was there to take what we were offering Him - good, bad, and otherwise.

Doug Davenport continued the teaching series on the Book of Romans that Trey Allemang began two weeks ago. Doug is a great teacher/preacher, and we got a good dose of both this morning. He took us through Romans 1:8-32. He talked to us about how the central theme of the gospel is declared so clearly in Romans, starting with 1:16-17, that righteousness comes by faith, salvation comes to all who believe the gospel. Paul was under a mandate to preach the gospel, and was not ashamed of it, realizing that the very power of God to salvation is in the declaring of it, to all who believe.

We ended the meeting with Roger Moore inviting people to come to the altar to pray with Life group and other leaders, as the worship team sang "It All Belongs To You" - actually, that's the video clip in the middle of the montage (word of the day - use it 3 times, and it's yours).

If you were there today at Life Church, please leave a comment here with your experience and thoughts on the meeting today. If you're from elsewhere, I hope you also had a great day with the Lord and His people.

Read about what happened in worship all over the place on Fred McKinnon's Sunday Setlist blog at theworshipcommunity.com

Worship Recap - March 14, 2010

Well, even though it was kind of a gray, dreary day, it was warmer than it's been for three months, with no snow on the ground for the first time in two months. And even though we lost an hour with the time change, nearly everybody made it to worship team rehearsal on time this morning. So that was a good start to a good day!

Rebecca Charles led our worship team this morning at Life Church. She built her list around the hymn, On Christ The Solid Rock, which had been in her mind this week. It was a great theme song for us today, putting our hope in Christ alone.

Here are the songs we worshiped with this morning:

1. The Lord is Gracious & Compassionate  -  in F (Graham Ord, Vineyard, CCLI #640689). We did this mostly as a pre-service instrumental, singing the chorus after our pastor, Tom Bedford, led us in greeting the Lord with worship and a shout at the opening of the service.

2. King of Majesty  -  in F (Marty Sampson, Hillsong, CCLI #3324479). In practice, we were playing this one a little slower and more laid back than Rebecca wanted to do it. I was thinking about that in the service when I started it off on guitar while we were still cheering and shouting to the Lord. It was great, except that I started it off way too fast. I looked back at Jeff, our drummer, who just laughed at me and helped me slow it down a bit. Thanks man.

3. Enough  -  in F (C. Tomlin & L. Giglio, EMI Music Publishing, CCLI #3599479). It was really interesting to hear the congregation's enthusiasm and intensity build during this song about the sufficiency of God, knowing that we were coming to our 'theme' song next.

4. On Christ the Solid Rock  - in F (Edmund Simon Lorenz, Public Domain). We did this in pretty traditional fashion, adding a I-V-IV turnaround between chorus and verse or chorus repeat. We sang through all four verses, each with a chorus, then sang the first verse and chorus once more as we finished. It was very faith stirring.

5. I Worship You  -  in F (Sandra Corbett, Integrity, CCLI #20807). Ruth started this one out quietly on the keys, with Rebecca singing it solo the first time through. It was a great song to end our worship time with, and there was a real sense of dependence on, love for, and thankfulness to the Lord, as Roger Moore came up to make the transition to the offering.

Our great friend Doug Kreighbaum and his family were with us from Pittsburg, KS, this morning. Doug preached a great message about the importance of the Word of God. He talked about how every real revival of God's people is centered on, and initiated by the rediscovery of the Word of the Lord, like in Josiah's day in II Kings 22. We're getting ready to enter into a new season of being taught the Bible at several different levels in our church, so this was a very timely and meaningful word.

Doug gave us six marks of a Word-generated revival:

1. Decisions are made that God's Word will be the sole basis of our faith and practice. What we think and do must have its roots in the truth of the Bible and nothing else.

2. There must be fresh revelation from the Word. It doesn't matter how much you've had/known in the past.

3. People must become doers of the Word. Hearing it alone doesn't bring fresh life, it's in the doing.

4. There must be fellowship among believers that centers around the Word of God.

5. We must commit to let the Word become the standard that measures us.

6. We understand that the freedom God brings will only remain as we continue in God's Word - a one time altar experience or some hot meetings will not constitute a revived life.

We ended the meeting in prayer, recommitting ourselves to the Lord and His Word. We also prayed over Tom and Andrea, who will be leaving tomorrow for two weeks, visiting and ministering in England and Denmark.

Please feel free to leave a comment with questions, comments, requests, reproofs, etc. I hope you had a great day in the Lord as well. Take a look at Fred McKinnon's worship blog at theworshipcommunity.com to see what happened in worship all over the place today.

Worship Recap - March 7, 2010

Jonathan Shipman led worship again this morning at Life Church, and did a great job. I had the opportunity to be a participant in the congregation for the second week in a row, which is very refreshing.

We began today with our pastor, Tom Bedford, exhorting us from Ezekiel and John chapter 10 about the promise of God to be a shepherd to us, and to lead us into everything that has to do with real life. We confessed our need for Him to come and inspect us, draw us near, feed us, rub salve on our wounds, and lead us into His peace.

We took our time entering into an awareness of the Lord in this way, and Jon and the team did a great job of 'stirring the atmosphere' as we waited on God for 20 minutes or so before actually moving into the song set. Here are the songs used this morning:

1. The More I Seek You  (Zach Neese, Gateway, CCLI #  4447991). The band played this as an instrumental for pre-service / 'walk-in'.

2. Liberated (Matt Shipman, Life Church). Matt wrote this song a couple of years ago, and it always help us explode into the freedom purchased for us by the blood of Jesus.

3. I Worship You (Esther Filip, Maranatha Music, CCLI #5087594). I believe this is only the second we've done this beautiful worship song. It was very powerful today.

4. Revelation Song (Jennie Riddle, Gateway Music, CCLI #4447960). I love throneroom songs, and this is definitely in that category. You can't just pull this one at any moment, but we definitely were in the place where it was appropriate.

It's as though we started out seeking the Good Shepherd, and He came and led us gently and lovingly into the place of being able to see Him as He is - high and lifted up, seated on the throne, well able to care for our every need because He is the Great I AM, ruler of all worlds, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Trey Allemang began a teaching series on the book of Romans today. Trey is a fantastic teacher of the Word of God, and gave us an overview of the historic setting of Romans, and some key insights into Paul's life and experience, in order to help us understand his perspective as he wrote. We made it through verses 1-8 of chapter 1 - more to come!

If you're from Life Church, please leave a comment with your insights into the morning's events. If you're from elsewhere, I hope you had a great day in the presence of God, and feel free to leave a comment as well.

Take a look at Fred McKinnon's worship blog at theworshipcommunity.com, to see what happened in worship all over the place.