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February 03 2010

Sunday Set List: “Rejoice in all things”

Tagged Under : Jesus Culture, John Mark McMillan, Kyle Campos, Merchant Band, Sunday Set List, worship

In our Sunday morning prayer, thankfulness was emphasized in a big way. Everyone went around and we just thanked God for everything he’s done in our lives. It was encouraging to hear, to be part of and to let our worship of Jesus being with a thankful heart. Too many times I come complaining, and if recent events in Haiti, or the battles with cancer in the church have shown me anything, it’s that I have nothing to complain about. And even if my trials were magnified, I still should rejoice and be thankful, thank you to Matt Chandler for continuing to be an incredible example of that.

I thought our worship set followed in that vein, especially “Live or No Longer Live” which declares, “rejoicing in all things we sing.” I thought the body was united in worship and entered in from the get go. I was really encouraged and though God was at work throughout the entire service. Band played great, seemed like a long time since we’ve all played together. My man Ish has lead a few weeks, my drummer was sick for a few weeks, I think my vocalist Kendra was out of town for a week. But we’re all back together now, one happy band family.

You Love Me Forever – Merchant Band (loop not yet available)
Skeleton Bones – John Mark McMillan (loop not yet available)
Live or No Longer Live – Kyle Campos (original)
Death In His Grave – John Mark McMillan (loop available)
Burning Ones – Jesus Culture (loop available)

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January 18 2010

What songs should we sing in light of Haiti?

Tagged Under : Albert Mohler, Haiti, Tim Hughes, worship

As I prepared for this past Sunday’s worship set I had a very heavy heart. The stories and images coming out of Haiti are truly heart breaking and challenging at many levels. This past week Dennis Miller was asking for Christians to call into his radio show and explain how God allows this to happen. I listened every day as people would call in and espouse 1 of 2 theories.

God had nothing to do with this, this was Satan. or…
This is direct punishment for Haitians sin.

It was frustrating and painful to hear people either run away from God’s sovereignty and appoint the power to call creation into action to Satan, or to run from grace and appoint judgment onto Haiti that all nations deserve and are under. It pains me to hear Christians disavowing the sovereign rule and reign of God over all creation, but it also pains me to hear Christians claiming they know why this happened. What a disgusting measure of pride in both circumstances. If you haven’t read Albert Mohler’s post on “Does God Hate Haiti?” I implore you to go read it.

So all of this is happening in my mind as I pray about what my responsibility is as a worship leader in light of what’s happening. It was a very similar feeling I felt after 9/11 and I remember the feeling that the church had no songs to sing after 9/11 because we tend to overlook worshipping in lament. Though the Psalms are full of worship in lament, our churches are usually void of them.

I felt it important for our church to not run from the gospel and hide in either of the extremes I mentioned above. That in light of what’s happening in Haiti we should respond corporately in a few ways:

1. We should grieve and mourn with those in Haiti

Romans 12:15 spells it out clearly, “Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.” Starting out the service with big smiles and happy clappy, dance in the aisles music seemed ill-fitting at best when viewed in the shadow of 50,000 dead with another 100,000 yet to be found. Paul says we should rejoice in our suffering, but doesn’t say we should rejoice in other’s suffering. In fact he says quite the opposite in 1 Corinthians 12:26 when discussing church unity:

“If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.” (ESV)

Before and during our worship set we had a lot of prayer, acknowledging the heartache and suffering. And we mourned with those in Haiti dealing with this devastation first hand.

2. Worship the all sovereign God

The church has to recognize God’s sovereignty in all things. That God’s ways are not our ways, his thoughts are not our thoughts and he has plans and purposes that we don’t see. I don’t see the number of earthquakes God has held back, the hurricanes he’s calmed or the tsunamis he’s diverted. Matt Chandler said,

“The entire universe is built around communicating to you that you’re tiny and you’re fragile and you control nothing.”

We are tiny and God is great, all powerful, all sovereign and all good. This earthquake as well as all creation should point us to God and illuminate his divine attributes (sovereignty being one of them). Romans 1:20:

“For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”

Our worship set was filled with these songs, every song had this at its core. Our God Reigns, The Solid Rock, Whole World In His Hands.

3. Worship the merciful, loving, good God

God loves Haiti, he loves the people of Haiti and his heart is grieved. At the cross we see God’s perfect justice meet his perfect mercy, grace and love. We live in the aftermath of that collision on the cross and our hearts should be eternally grateful. Ephesians 2:4-7

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ–by grace you have been saved– and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”

We opened with God of This City, a song I think does an amazing job of communicating God’s sovereign rule, but that things aren’t yet as they should be. That God is still at work.

4. Serve the broken and minister to the lost

If all you have is great context and point of view without your heart being impacted and propelled towards acts of kindness and mercy, then there’s a disconnect with the gospel. My heart is warmed by the tremendous outpouring from the Christian community towards Haiti. There are so many different avenues of service and help happening right now and they all are orchestrated under the mercy, grace and sovereignty of God.

I think it it incredibly important for our worship to not hide from any of these things in this time. Our view of the gospel in our worship needs to be enriched not diluted. We can’t hide from this and we shouldn’t try and cloak God or any of his divine attributes to make it more palatable to the world. I beg my fellow worship leaders to point their churches, their community to the gospel in this season. In devastation and loss their is great opportunity for God to be magnified, for the lost to be pointed to Christ and for the church to be mobilized to show Christ’s love.

One of the songs we did which I really felt God appointed for us in this time is a song by Tim Hughes called “Whole World In His Hands.” I’ll finish with the lyrics to that song.

Verse 1
When all around is fading
And nothing seems to last
When each day is filled with sorrow
Still I know with all my heart

Chorus
He’s got the whole world in His hands
He’s got the whole world in His hands
I fear no evil for You are with me
Strong to deliver, mighty to save
He’s got the whole world in His hands

Verse 2
When I walk through fire
I will not be burned
When the waves come crashing round me
Still I know with all my heart

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December 16 2009

2009 Worship Song Analytics

Tagged Under : 2009, analytics, songs, worship

Each year I like to look back and do some analytic reports on the songs we sung. Here are some of the interesting stats for my church’s song selection for 2009.

5 Most Played Songs

(13) Gloria 34 – Taylor Sorensen (loop available)
(11) With Everything – Hillsong (loop available)
2 way tie with 10 plays each
1. The World Can’t Take It Away – Ryan Delmore
2. True Love – Phil Wickham (loop available)
6 way tie with 9 plays each
1. Dress Us Up – John Mark McMillan
2. God of This City – Bluetree (loop available)
3. Hosanna – Hillsong United (loop available)
4. Jesus’ Name – Ryan Delmore
5. Lead Me to the Cross – Hillsong United (loop available)
6. Skeleton Bones – John Mark McMillan (loop not yet available)
6 way tie with 7 plays each
1. Come Thou Fount – Robert Robinson
2. Everlasting God – New Life (loop available)
3. My Soul Sings – Delirious (loop available)
4. Rain Down – Delirious (loop not yet available)
5. We Cry Out – Kim Walker (loop available)
6. You Love Me Forever – Merchant Band (loop not yet available)

New Songs Introduced in 2009

The World Can’t Take It Away – Ryan Delmore
True Love – Phil Wickham (loop available)
God of This City – Bluetree (loop available)
Jesus’ Name – Ryan Delmore
Skeleton Bones – John Mark McMillan (loop not yet available)
Messiah – Phil Wickham
Death In His Grave – John Mark McMillan (loop available)
Live or No Longer Live – Kyle Campos
Destructor – Red Letter
Burning Ones – Jesus Culture (loop available)
Lamb of God – Sarah Reeves
Found – Hillsong United

Largest Drop in Play Count from 2008 to 2009

* denotes song retired (0 plays in 2009)

3 way tie with 6 less plays
1. * Salvation Is Here – Hillsong United
2. Everything – Tim Hughes (loop available)
3. I Am A Temple – John Mark McMillan
6 way tie with 5 less plays
1. * Coming Back – Desperation Band
2. * How Great Is Our God – Chris Tomlin
3. * Joy of the Lord – Twila Paris
4. * Rescue – New Life
5. Solid Rock – Delirious (loop available)
6. Rain Down – Delirious (loop not yet available)

What did you play most in 2009?

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December 15 2009

Sunday Set List: “Help Portait, soul sangers and Christmas”

Tagged Under : Bluetree, help-portrait, Hillsong, New Life, Ryan Delmore, Sunday Set List, worship

sundaysetlist

This past Sunday was just an honor to be part of, the entire weekend actually. Saturday we took part in Help Portrait and it was incredible. It was awesome to see local families from right around our church neighborhood come in get their makeover, family pics, have fun and feel good. It was such a blessing to be able to serve our local, and I mean local, community in that way. We purposely targeted just a small neighborhood right across from us and have some plans to serve that same community next week. Incredibly convicting to hear that some of the families didn’t even know we were there. We are going to change that this coming year.

On Sunday our newly formed choir/vocal ensemble/soul sangers did an incredible performance of Kirk Franklin’s “Now Behold the Lamb“. The amount of soul on display was probably a surprise to all who are used to our white boy, dark, indie rock vibe. Now the secret is out, we have some folks who can saaaang! I for one am stoked the secret is out and can’t wait to get them up their more often.

We also did our arrangement of “What Child Is This“, my favorite Christmas song by a country mile. To me it’s one of the few Christmas songs that actually flows in a normal worship set. Most of the others you have a sort of mental adjustment to, like ok now we’re singing a Christmas song. I thought the congregation really entered into it as a worship song and it was just really powerful.

Jesus’ Name – Ryan Delmore
God of This City – Bluetree (loop available)
What Child is This
Everlasting God – New Life (loop available)
With Everything – Hillsong (loop available)

This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.

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December 08 2009

Sunday Set List: “The Holy Spirit as our remembrance”

Tagged Under : Delirious, Hillson, Jesus Culture, John Mark, Phil, Sunday Set List, worship

sundaysetlist

Last week was one of those uneven worship sets where you just feel like it never really flowed well. This week went much better musically and overall flow wise. Corporate engagement was great too as I could tell most everyone was really focused on Jesus and not what was happening on stage. The band was more comfortable this week as well and I thought we played pretty well.

We played Burning Ones again but this time I read out of Luke 24 prior to the song to give some context as to why we are singing that phrase, “we are your burning ones.” Luke tells the story of Jesus’ appearance post-resurrection to the disciples on the road in chapter 24. They didn’t recognize him at first, but Luke says Jesus talked to the disciples out of the scriptures. Verse 30 picks up with the disciples eating dinner with the yet to be recognized risen Messiah:

Luke 24:30-32

When he was at the table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight. They said to each other, Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?

I love that Holy Spirit working in their hearts was part of the remembrance and identification of Jesus they discussed with each other. It wasn’t, “did you get a look at that beard of his? I remember that beard!”, but it was the work, word and power of God in their hearts that identified the Messiah.

I pray that the Holy Spirit would operate in those depths in our hearts. That we’d forever be sensitive and aware of the work, word and power of Jesus in and around us. That our hearts would burn with us, as the disciples said, for the gospel.

I Am A Temple – John Mark McMillan
Hosanna – Hillsong United (loop available)
True Love – Phil Wickham (loop available)
Majesty – Delirious
Burning Ones – Jesus Culture (loop available)

This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.

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December 01 2009

Sunday Set List: “And then there were 5″

Tagged Under : Jesus Culture, John Mark McMillan, Kim Walker, Robert Robinson, Sunday Set List, Taylor Sorensen, worship

sundaysetlist

This Sunday we introduced the newest member of Our Rising Sound, Caleb Dailey. Caleb will be doing guitar work and hopefully become a utility guy. It was nice to have a second guitar player to take some of the responsibility off me. I’m very accustom to playing in 3 piece bands as the only guitarist and it’s shaped my playing style to a great extent. But I’m excited to have Caleb playing with us.

We also introduced a new song by Jesus Culture called “Burning Ones.” You may be asking yourself, didn’t Kyle write a post about how theologically unsound some of the lyrics from this song are? The answer is, why yes I did write a post about that, I also wrote a post about how much I dug the song as a whole and in order to fix the lyric problem I changed them. Simple yet effective solution.

Your love is our reward, that’s why we ask for more of You

became

You set our hearts desires, that all our lives bring glory to You

I thought we played it better in practice than we did live, I certainly sang it better in practice. We might do this 1 more week but then Christmas will be upon us so it probably won’t be heard again until next year. I’m late as usual on Christmas planning. Time to cram.

We Cry Out – Kim Walker (loop available)
Dress Us Up – John Mark McMillan
Come Thou Fount – Robert Robinson
Gloria 34 – Taylor Sorensen (loop available)
Burning Ones – Jesus Culture (loop available)

This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.

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November 30 2009

Loop available: “Burning Ones” by Jesus Culture

Tagged Under : audio, Burning Ones, Jesus Culture, loops

If you read this blog with any regularity you may be asking yourself, didn’t Kyle write a post about how theologically unsound some of the lyrics from this song are? The answer is, why yes I did write a post about that, I also wrote a post about how much I dug the song as a whole and in order to fix the lyric problem I changed them. Simple yet effective solution.

Your love is our reward, that’s why we ask for more of You

became

You set our hearts desires, that all our lives bring glory to You

Now onto the loop. This loop uses a bass sequence on the verses second the second chorus. It allows room for a live bass player to play underneath without muddying up the mix, but you can decide how you’d approach that or you can catch my bass player on twitter and ask him his thoughts. The arrangement follows the Jesus Culture arrangement as far as order of song sections.

A couple changes in how I release loops that I’ve done for my own purposes. You might have read about me being for hire for custom loops and a plan to move to some kind of paid model. I’m still working out the details on the paid model for the loops, so here’s what I’m doing for now.

I’m not releasing the Reason file for free publicly, if you want the file please contact me.
I’ve included a Donate link. I love helping others out with loops and whatever assistance I can provide I’m more than happy to do so. So if you download this loop or you’ve benefited in any way or are appreciative of the service, I’d so much appreciate any amount you’re willing and able to give. The amount (including $0) I leave up to you.

Song: Burning Ones by Jesus Culture, Album “Consumed”
Key: G
Bpm: 152 (4/4)

Section: Time (bar)

Verse 1: 0:56 (37)
Chorus 1: 1:47 (69)
Verse 2: 2:37 (101)
Chorus 2: 3:03 (117)
Bridge: 3:53 (149)
Solo: 4:44 (181)
Tag: 5:09 (197)
Bridge: 5:34 (213)
Tag: 6:25 (245)

Burning Ones by Jesus Culture (loop) [7:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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November 23 2009

Sunday Set List: “Black hole of Phoenix”

Tagged Under : Bluetree, Delirious, Desperation Band, Edward Mote, help-portrait, Ryan Delmore, Sunday Set List, worship

sundaysetlist

Our church is located in what is commonly referred to as the “Black Hole” of Phoenix. Less money is spent in the commercial area around our church than any other area in Phoenix. We have a lot of lower class and working poor around us that need to be reached. We announced to the church that we would be taking part in www.help-portrait.com and invited all to join us.

Our church is blessed with a lot of creative people, artists, photographers, musicians, etc… So on Dec 12th we’ll turn our sanctuary into a studio and bring in the surrounding homeless, poor and needy folks and take their pictures. We’ll share the gospel, we’ll get to know our neighbors better and hope to be a blessing to them. I’m excited to be part of it, should be awesome. If you haven’t heard of the idea then see the video below. (Set list below video)