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)
This past Sunday we were baptizing people on stage during worship. I truly love and cherish these times. So awesome to see people proclaim their devotion to Jesus publicly. The testimonies given were powerful and a real encouragement to the body, they certainly were for me. And then something happened, I’m simply calling it, “the incident.”
On our last baptism we had a bit of a miscue and the person got dunked facing the reverse direction and instead of the water splash going over the intended side, a mini tidal wave came and washed over my pedal board. 3 thoughts rushed through my head:
- I wonder how bad this is going to hurt when I get electrocuted?
- Please Jesus spare my pedals, I don’t have the $ to replace.
- What am I singing and playing right now?
Apparently from the tweets that went out shortly after, I had a terrified look on my face, so I didn’t play it off well. I stumbled through the song we were playing trying to get my head together and just hope no fires started. One of our elders Mark thought quickly and tossed up a towel over the pedal board and started to dry as we sang. He’s an electrician so has no fear of getting shocked.
As far as I know the pedals are fine, few more tests. But it was a great Sunday and I’m so thankful for the work Jesus has done in those people’s lives.
- You Love Me Forever – Merchant Band (loop not yet available)
- Jesus’ Name – Ryan Delmore
- Gloria 34 – Taylor Sorensen (loop available)
- The Solid Rock – Edward Mote (loop available)
- True Love – Phil Wickham (loop available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
This was a weighty Sunday for me as I prepared a financial update from the church to share with the body. There wasn’t really any good news I could deliver except that we worship Jesus and he can change our hearts. I attempted to lovingly but firmly expose our sin of greed and money worship as a church. Not as an elder condemning with a pointed finger but as a member humbled and convicted of my own sin. I asked this question of the body:
If the only thing you received in return for your giving was a more full revelation of a life after Christ and the only blessing was more of Jesus in your life, would that be enough? I have no other prize to offer.
That’s really all I can say, I don’t have a sales pitch as to why we should give, I can just say if we love Jesus and each other our hearts will respond with overflowing generosity. If knowing more of Jesus, seeing more of Jesus, being filled with His spirit and loving Jesus more isn’t enough of a prize then it doesn’t matter how much you give because you’re missing the giver, Jesus. I pray for our church, I love our church and I desperately want to see God move in the hearts of our church in this area of great weakness, pride and immaturity. I pray that our church would know the kind of giving in 2 Corinthians 8:
“Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.”
Here’s how we worshipped in song…
- You Love Me Forever – Merchant Band (loop not yet available)
- Hosanna – Hillsong United (loop available)
- My Jesus I Love Thee
- Gloria 34 – Taylor Sorensen (loop available)
- With Everything – Hillsong (loop available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
This past Sunday I accomplished 2 things I’ve never done before. I broke 2 strings on 2 different guitars and one of the strings I broke was the D string…on an acoustic! That’s hard to do. I felt sick when I woke up that morning and I knew it was going to be a struggle, I prayed for it not to be, but I knew I was going to have to push through. In fact it reminded me of something one of my old pastors used to tell me.
95% of the Christian walk is digging and fighting in the trenches. Maybe 5% of it is mountain top experiences.
In this worship trench in the middle of “So Near” I snapped a string on my electric which had a 2 pronged effect. Screwing up the back half of So Near and causing me to think what song I was going to play next instead of what was planned. We were planning on doing an electrified remix of Kevin Prosch’s “So Come“, but that wasn’t going to work on my backup guitar which was an acoustic. (note to self, keep an electric backup) So I decided to do “Everlasting God” by New Life acoustically last.
That actually went well and I walked off stage feeling like we weathered the storm. Sure it wasn’t the smoothest of set, but we managed to get through it. At the end of the sermon my pastor asked me to play “How He Loves” by John Mark McMillan. Wouldn’t you know it, in the middle of that song I broke the D string(the D string!) on the acoustic. 2 strings, 2 guitars, 2 awkward recoveries.
I’ve become pretty good at ripping off the snapped string and carrying on, but when you are the only guitarist, there’s no hiding being out of tune once a string snaps. I rarely break strings, never broken 2 in one set and never a D string. I figure I should be good for a long time for string breakage.
- You Love Me Forever – Merchant Band (loop not yet available)
- Dress Us Up – John Mark McMillan
- Gloria 34 – Taylor Sorensen (loop available)
- So Near – Vineyard UK (loop available)
- Everlasting God – New Life (loop available)
- How He Loves – John Mark McMillan (end of service)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
We should rejoice over every single one of those that God has saved and reconciled to himself. And every single one that is faithful and obedient in getting baptized as an outward expression of what Jesus has done for them. I was proud of our church this week for rejoicing with the one person we baptized in service, and not canceling it because more didn’t sign up. If Jesus will leave the 99 to save the 1, surely we can leave and change our Planning Center service flow plan to baptize the one.
Musically things went well. Every weak I’m making adjustments tone wise on my amp rig and mic placement, and each week I think it’s improving. We only did 4 songs this week to make time for the baptism, we played the Our God Reigns refrain over the baptism. Here was our set:
- You Love Me Forever – Merchant Band (loop not yet available)
- Jesus’ Name – Ryan Delmore
- True Love – Phil Wickham (loop available)
- Our God Reigns – Delirious (loop available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
Early Sunday morning I got a text from my pastor saying he was up all night sick and that he wasn’t going to miss service but needed prayer. I got the sense at that point this might be one of those “challenging” days. Sure enough during rehearsal we had plenty of technical issues. Cords failing, shortage of cords, piano was sounding awful out of the house, the hits just kept coming. Then service started…
The set was going good, but I felt some disconnect in the worship and was battling in the middle of the set how to address it. We got to the last “ministry” song, Our God Reigns, and I snapped a string at a terrible moment. It was a good time as far as point in the set(last song) but not a good point in that song. Although I’m not sure what a good point to break a string would be. I haven’t broke a string in a looong time, I think Delmore infected me with his string snapping disease.
I did my best to recover and plow through, I finished the song on piano, but I wasn’t happy how that sounded either. Mostly because I’m a terrible piano player and I haven’t played in a few weeks, which showed. Through it all I think God showed his grace and he was glorified. We avoided a complete train wreck of a distraction. The message was awesome and people really responded. Amen!
- You Love Me Forever – Merchant Band (loop not yet available)
- Skeleton Bones – John Mark McMillan (loop not yet available)
- Lead Me to the Cross – Hillsong United (loop available)
- Come Thou Fount
- Our God Reigns – Delirious (loop available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
2 weeks ago the Cardinals were playing the Eagles on Sunday and many chose to worship the Cardinals instead of Jesus. I was looking forward to this Sunday’s rematch to see who would come out on top. Jesus is a jealous God and didn’t take that loss well. Jesus came back strong, really on his A game and this time although many still worshiped the Cardinals, they still came out losers for a few reasons:
- We baptized 9 people in service
- Had crazy breakthrough in people’s lives in our prayer time
- Ended our week long fast in celebration
- Cardinals lost
I don’t think any argument can be made other than Jesus won and anyone who wasn’t in service this Sunday lost. This was our second attempt at doing baptisms during worship on stage and this time I think we ironed out some kinks. I was excited to finish setting up our FireStudio Project which allows us to record live each channel as a track and will really help our video of these baptisms. Looking forward to working on that. Here was our set:
- You Love Me Forever – Merchant Band (loop not yet available)
- Sing (Or the Rocks Will Get To) – Taylor Sorensen
- Ready Now – Desperation Band (loop available)
- All I Need Is You – Hillsong United
- Broken Me Loose – Kyle Campos (original)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
This week was a very special service for us. We looked at the lives involved in the birth of Christ and did some video interviews with people in our church who’s testimony can relate in some way to those lives in scripture. As each character was examined we’d do a worship song to introduce and Pastor Aaron would do about a 5 minute sermonette on that character. Woven into that arrangement was some incredible spoken word by a friend of the church, Brandon “the Rep”, a local christian rap artist. So the entire service wove around music, video testimonies, sermonette and spoken word.
We weren’t sure how it would go over but it went over amazing. I think we proved the format can work and we’ll probably expand on it for other special services. I’ll make sure and post the videos as soon as they are done being edited.
- You Love Me Forever – Merchant Band (loop used, not yet available)
- Sing (Or the Rocks Will Get To) – Taylor Sorensen
- Everything – Tim Hughes (loop available)
- What Child Is This (Joseph video)
- Silent Night (Mary video)
- Where We Belong – Hillsong (loop available) (shepherd’s video)
- With Everything – Hillsong (loop available) (innkeeper video)
- Our God Reigns (Reprise) – Delirious (loop available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
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