It was a innocent enough comment. Our “10 before” countdown video which warns people the service is about to start, to take your seats and get out of the cafe, was largely ignored. So as I welcomed everyone I noticed most were still milling about and said, jokingly, that they were rebellious. Blatantly ignoring the instruction to come into the sanctuary and that biblically their rebellion was as witchcraft. Well apparently that awoke a war in the heavens on a scale of which I would find out later at the most inconvenient time in the middle of our worship set.
In the middle of the set satan sent his XLR demons to strike down a critical cable running from the loop direct box to the snake. All of a sudden in the middle of singing, and playing an important loop, the XLR cable rebelled and worshiped satan instead of working as created and facilitating the praise of Jesus. That cable not only carries the Ableton loop signal it also carries the piano signal to the mains. So while I heard everything wonderfully in my headset the congregation thought I was playing air-piano and was probably wondering…”boy they sure are doing a lot of a cappella today.”
Luckily my pastor walked up on stage and drove out the XLR demon by stepping on the cable which allowed us to complete the last 2 songs as intended. As you can imagine I was in no mood to write this recap last night and I didn’t get much sleep in either. I can’t stand disasters like this. I feel like replacing every single cable on stage now. Anyway here was the set.
- You Love Me Forever - Merchant Band (loop used, not yet available)
- Dress Us Up - John Mark McMillan
- Come Thou Fount - own arrangement
- My Soul Sings - Delirious (listen to loop)
- Be Lifted High (tag of From the Inside Out) - Hillsong United
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This was my first Sunday after missing 2 on my vacation in Lake Tahoe. Had an absolutely incredible time, very restful and rejuvenating. This weekend was also our Encounter weekend. If you aren’t familiar with Encounters they are basically a weekend where people are taken through the reality of sin, need for repentance, forgiveness, breaking of generational sin, filling of the Holy Spirit…it’s a super intense weekend for all involved, attendees and leaders. God shows up in power and makes a mess of all of us each time.
This weekend was no exception, so there is always great anticipation for the Sunday that concludes an encounter weekend as drug addicts, prodigals, prostitutes testify to their new freedom in Christ. I’ll blog more about that later. Now for something much less powerful…the Sunday Set List. Those with an asterisk (*) had a loop.
- Solid Rock - Delirious arrangement*
- You Love Me Forever - Merchant Band*
- So Near - Vineyard UK* (link to loop used)
- How He Loves - John Mark McMillan
- Come Thou Fount - (use an arrangement similar to E-pop piano arrangement)
This week’s set was changed almost right up until service time. Things just weren’t falling into place. I spent a solid 4 hours searching for a particular sound I had in my head for Where You Go I Go (Brian & Jenn Johnson) song I was programming a sequence for and I just couldn’t find the right one. I wasn’t happy hearing the loop without that sound so I abandoned that and that kind of threw a monkey wrench into the set. But it ended up going really well and the band handled the last minute changes perfectly.
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We at LCC are smack dab in the middle of our series on Worship Culture and unlike many sermons on worship which target postures, we’ve spent zero time on that topic. But as the congregation is getting taught on redeemed worship and dealing with our idolatry the response and engagement in the music portion of worship has grown. This series is fundamental to our maturity as a church and I think to this point people are really grabbing onto it. We were packed out today with a quite a few families missing, so we really need to add another service quick.
I finally got the loop done to a point that was performable for “You Love Me Forever” by the Merchant Band. I’ve had this song in the queue for quite some time but just hadn’t had the time to finish it. Still a lot of room for improvement in the loop so I won’t post it yet, but we pulled it off and I thought it sounded great.
- We Cry Out - Kim Walker
- You Love Me Forever - Merchant Band
- Everything - Tim Hughes
- Our God Reigns - Delirious
- Prepare the Way - Charlie Hall (ended up getting cut)
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