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.
My band has been enjoying a few months of really problem free playing. We’ve been playing well which is great, but we’ve also had no major and very few minor mishaps. The streak was broken 2 weeks ago when I showed up to find my in ear monitors were gone. Then this last Sunday my drummer’s snare broke a few moments before the set started. The string that holds the snare strainer to the bottom of the snare snapped. Unfortunately with no spare snare in the house it was a mad dash to jimmy rig something up.
I stalled as long as I could, then we prayed and just agreed as a congregation that we’d worship God with everything we had with no instruments if that’s what it took. So I was prepared, at least mentally, at the end of that prayer to just go acoustic and scrap the set. In fact I was almost looking forward to it, but my man Jon Utter has some crazy McGyver skills and got it together just in time.
It really inspired me though to get an all acoustic set thrown in the rotation here soon. I think it would really be beneficial from multiple angles. First it would be refreshing from a creativity stand point, make sure our ears aren’t tired of the same stuff. Second it would be a great demonstration of something we preach that we believe and that’s it doesn’t matter what style of music we play, God get’s glory and worship through it all. Third, it’s a great challenge to the body having them coming to expect one thing and get another, great opportunity for us to grow. So stay tuned…it will happen.
- Jesus’ Name – Ryan Delmore
- How I Live – Kyle Campos (loop available)
- Come Thou Fount – Robert Robinson
- Death In His Grave – John Mark McMillan (loop available)
- True Love – Phil Wickham (loop available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
Recently I became heavily convicted about my lack of prayer and focus on preparation. I was almost entirely reliant upon practical decision making, strategy and some sort of prideful and religious sense of continuous prayer in spirit that really meant no real expressed time of prayer. Let me be clear though, there’s nothing wrong with preparation and strategy, but when it takes the places of prayer, communion with God and reliance upon the Holy Spirit, then it’s sin. I needed to repent and make sure my preparation and strategy was an overflow of prayer and led by the Holy Spirit.
I was excited when my pastor made the decision to use our 1hr time of prayer prior to service as a time for the elders to pray for people. It was a blessing for me to be able to minister to those in the body and pray for them. It’s so encouraging to see humble people come forward out of a love and passion for God and to hear their heart and be able to battle with them in prayer. It was the best preparation/warm-up for leading worship that I can remember.
I believe that time led directly to us having one of the best services I can remember. Worship was incredible, people were passionately praising Jesus, corporate engagement was off the charts, it was powerful. I pray that next week we’re able to come with the same humility and passion.
- We Cry Out – Kim Walker (loop available)
- Skeleton Bones – John Mark McMillan (loop not yet available)
- Live or No Longer Live – Kyle Campos
- Messiah – Phil Wickham
- True Love – Phil Wickham (loop available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
In December of last year Mark and Kendra Rohl told their story of their struggle to have children in their “God In Our Worst Times” post, which I encourage you to read. They spoke of their frustration, sadness, but ultimately their hope in Jesus and that he is faithful.
In yesterday’s service they took the stage with their newly adopted baby, Tobias Aaron Rohl, and told the story of how in the blink of an eye God rained down a deluge of blessing. They were minding their own business when they got the call…a mom in labor chose them as parents for her baby boy. Just an incredible story, and one I look forward to writing about this week, the conclusion of one chapter and the beginning of another. It was such an answer to prayer for the entire congregation, and as a church body it was so wonderful to celebrate together. There weren’t many dry eyes yesterday as we sung to Jesus and thanked him for His goodness, which truly is beyond measure.
Worship went really well. We did communion at the end of service which I thought went great and we sung God of This City which people really entered into. It was great to see the body unite like that. BTW I finished and released the loop for God of This City, hope you enjoy.
- Jesus’ Name – Ryan Delmore
- God of This City – Bluetree (loop available)
- True Love – Phil Wickham (loop available)
- Come Thou Fount
- Where You Go I’ll Go – Brian and Jenn Johnson (loop available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
This week was a special service, we had Pastor Chris Daukas and his core team at Grace Church join us in worship. Chris preached along side our pastor and it was incredible being able to unite with them, worship and fellowship with them. I wish we could do it more often.
The worship set went well, it wouldn’t be complete without at least one hurdle. In the middle of the first set my strap lock snapped off, the guitar stayed on my shoulder, but I had to be very still so the strap wouldn’t completely come off. The transition from song 1 and 2 was long while I switched straps with my backup guitar. But hey, compared to last week’s 2 string snapping extravaganza this was nothing.
I tried to do a relatively simple set since we had some visitors and I wanted them to be able to enter in as much as possible. We did a new arrangement of Come Thou Fount which I thought went really well, I’ll be mixing that this week and see if I can’t release the live recording on the site.
- Jesus’ Name – Ryan Delmore
- Everything – Tim Hughes (loop available)
- True Love – Phil Wickham (loop available)
- Come Thou Fount
- Our God Reigns – Delirious (loop available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
I was hoping to have had at least one of the new loops I’ve been working on completed for this Sunday, but it wasn’t meant to be. I did remix an existing loop for How I Live though and was much happier with how it sounded. We kind of had to start over with he mixes in our headsets and FOH because we had another church use our sound system. Times like these I wish we had a digital board. But I actually think we got things sounding better than previously after working with it.
Worship went great, people really entered in, there was a reverent, passionate spirit in the building and it was a joy to see our body unite in worship the way they did. Really awesome. We started off One Prayer with an amazing sermon by Francis Chan speaking on God Is Strong. I was curious to see how our sanctuary operated as a “video venue” and it worked great. I was really encouraged by how much people entered in. People were engaged and attentive to the sermon and I think our body was blessed. So thank you Francis Chan!
- Skeleton Bones – John Mark McMillan (loop not yet available)
- Hosanna – Hillsong United (loop available)
- How I Live – Kyle Campos (loop available)
- Messiah – Phil Wickham
- Where You Go I’ll Go – Brian and Jenn Johnson (loop available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
This week we started One Prayer and Pastor Aaron Dailey brought an incredible message entitled God is Enough. He asked me for songs around that theme and there are a fair amount of songs around that, just not many good ones. I settled on None But Jesus, as it’s in our semi-regular rotation and sufficiently addresses the topic. We played this song as our final song in the set and then again in ministry time and thought it fit really well with what the Holy Spirit was doing.
Musically the set went really well I thought. I feel like as a band we’ve hit a pretty good pocket. There’s a level of comfort, familiarity and enjoyment that we’ve hit together as a band that is translating to much better sounding music. There’s certainly many areas of improvement left, I think we’ve hit a solid floor to build off though, which feels great. Couldn’t come at a better time as we have a handful of new songs to introduce both originals and covers. Looking forward to getting a little refresh in the rotation and dropping a few stale tunes.
- Rain Down – Delirious (loop not yet available)
- The World Can’t Take It Away – Ryan Delmore
- True Love – Phil Wickham (loop available)
- With Everything – Hillsong (loop available)
- None But Jesus – Hillsong (loop not yet available)
By they way, when I write “loop not yet available” that means I have and use a loop for that but have not posted it on the site for various reasons. If you would like to hear the loop for possible use you can contact me and I’ll send it to you. It may be posted for general consumption in the future though.
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
The genesis of our arrangements goes a little something like this. I get in the shower and think about the song and work it out in my head for about 30 minutes. Yeah I take long showers, definitely not the “green” way of working arrangements, but it’s what works for me. If I think it’s an arrangement we can nail in pre-service practice we’ll give it a shot. This week I wanted to do Phil Wickham’s Messiah, but we were throwing in a 3rd part, sort of instrumental break with a vocal melody coming over top. We were playing it and it just wasn’t coming together, nobody was comfortable. We took our break for prayer and I decided to play it on acoustic and try the arrangement less “electrified”. Nearly identical arrangement, just different instrumentation and all of a sudden it felt good.
Moral of the story is this, you have to know when things aren’t working and then have the guts to make a change. I’m so lucky to have a team of skilled, humble people that don’t get offended if I tell them their part just ain’t working. Who cares if it’s what you had planned all week, who cares if the drummer was really excited about his part, nobody cares about forethought if the final product sucks and we’re not here to please musicians who love their cool new part. Thank you to my band for being flexible, knowing who we serve and laying their pride at the foot of the cross.
- We Cry Out – Kim Walker (loop available)
- Dress Us Up – John Mark McMillan
- Lead Me to the Cross – Hillsong United (loop available)
- Messiah - Phil Wickham
- How He Loves – John Mark McMillan
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
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