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Here’s today’s set list of music at the Awakening Service at FCC. This will be linked to Fred McKinnon’s blog where other worship bloggers post their setlists.
Here’s what we did:
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Angels We Have Heard On High
Alive Again
God You Reign
Message: Sabbatical?!…Me?
Communion
Hungry (Falling on my knees)
Happy Day (closing)
So when do you integrate “christmas” music into your Sunday sets and how much do you do?
I have no problem being demonstrative in my worship. My audience is God. But I do struggle with teaching others to do the same. Because I know it’s uncomfortable at first. But it so freeing soon after.
We have to worship with more than our mind. It reflects our “whole worship” of living for God in all areas of our life. Raising my hands in particular is meaningful to me because that is how I say (while I’m singing or listening) with my body, “I need You Lord. I depend on You. Like a child is dependent on a parent, I long for Your care, Your provision.” It’s not to impress other people. Frankly I don’t want it to distract someone else so I probably do it less than I want to or feel like it. What do you think?
God has plenty of everything–except you. He doesn’t “need” us like we don’t “need” children. Worship is the time when you open yourself up and pour out on the One who loves you more than anyone else. God wants worship from YOU. No one else can give that to Him.
I am concerned whenever I hear someone say, “You ought to experience the worship at our church–it’s awesome!” I’m afraid when we say that we reveal that OUR worship is the point. It’s not about experiencing WORSHIP, it’s about experiencing GOD. If we do that, our worship will be the natural result.
Here’s today’s set list of music at the Awakening Service at FCC. This will be linked to Fred McKinnon’s blog where other worship bloggers post their setlists.
Here’s what we did:
Let Everything That Has Breathe (oldie but a goodie)
As Long as I have You
Giving it all to You
Message: Is God Bigger than My Sin?
Communion
Hallelujah Jesus
Amazing Grace (My chains are gone)
Overflow (closing)
Here’s today’s set list of music at the Awakening Service at FCC. This will be linked to Fred McKinnon’s blog where other worship bloggers post their setlists.
Today we were without Brandon, our drummer, and Ellen, our keyboard player. That always makes it difficult to pick music. But we were celebrating “Thanksgiving Sunday” so we kept it mellow. We also changed the order a bit to put communion earlier. Here’s what we did:
How He Loves
Thank You For Hearing Me (a new song for our congregation; this is the David Crowder remake of a Sinead O’Conner song that I just love)
Communion
Breathe
Once Again
No traditional “Sermon” today but we turned it over to the congregation to share one thing they were particularly thankful for this year.
God of this City (as we received our special Thanksgiving offering that goes 100% to families in need in our church of which we have several)
Thank You for hearing me (closing)
In the spirit of Thanksgiving this is a song that inspires me to just give thanks. The first time I heard it a few years back it moved me to simply praise God. Musically and lyrically it doesn’t get much simpler than this. Maybe that’s why I like it so much. Giving thanks and praise to God does not take a lot of thought or “instrumentation.” We’re going to try this at church sans keyboard and drums so it won’t sound anything like Crowder…but then again, God wants to hear our voices, not our imitation of another’s.
This is actually a cover of a Sinead O’Conner tune with some lyric tweaks so that it is God-centered.
Worship must start on the inside.
Of course, sometimes we don’t “feel like it.” Circumstances have us down! They control our emotions. And because we’re “down” we don’t “feel” like praising God.
That’s hard. But that’s where Satan seeks a foothold because it is when we worship despite our feelings that creates the most pain to Satan…and to our own pride.
Here’s today’s set list of music at the Awakening Service at FCC. This will be linked to Fred McKinnon’s blog where other worship bloggers post their setlists.
Here’s what we did:
Song of Hope
Forever
From the Inside Out
Jesus Messiah
Message: Seeing God in Difficult Times
Special Music: Debbie sang “He’s Been Faithful”
Communion in silence
Alive Again
There is no “best style” of worship, particularly when it comes to music. Both “old” (Jeremiah 6:16) and “new” (Psalm 96:1) are needed. And Revelation 4-5 certainly looks like a blended service AND THE VOLUME IS SET ON 11!
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