Sunday Recap – January 22, 2012

Contemporary Services

• “Matchless” (Aaron Shust)
• “At Your Name” (Tim Hughes and Phil Wickham)
• “More Than Amazing” (Lincoln Brewster and Mia Fieldes)
• “Divine Romance” (Phil Wickham) – Special Music
• “I Will Follow” (Chris Tomlin)

We started with two great songs about the name of Jesus with “Matchless” and “At Your Name”.  We used the click track from Praise Charts for “More Than Amazing”, which added a lot of great sounds and helped to fill it out and keep us from rushing.  There were a few cymbal crashes on the loop, though, that Christine didn’t play on the drums, which was a bit strange.

I had asked Zack to play an offertory on the guitar this week, and as the week went on, it evolved into him doing the song “Divine Romance” by Phil Wickham, which turned out great!! Zack played acoustic, with drums, bass guitar and accordion (on my keyboard).  He did a super job!

Closing out the service after the message, we used “I Will Follow” by Chris Tomlin. The 9:30 service went great, but at the 11:00, I forgot to change the keyboard from accordion back to piano, so needless to say, we had a very interesting start to “I Will Follow” in that service! I tried to casually joke about it, and we re-started the song, and all was well.  Some of the team, though, thought I should have kept it!

You can see the Planning Center details and the video for this service. I’ve included the video of Zack Burtness singing “Divine Romance” below.

Cafe Connection Service

• “Matchless” (Aaron Shust)
• “At Your Name” (Tim Hughes and Phil Wickham)
• “More Than Amazing” (Lincoln Brewster and Mia Fieldes)
• “I Will Follow” (Chris Tomlin)

I had the privilege of leading in the Cafe this morning, and I always enjoy when I get the chance.  We had a smaller team today with just me on the keyboard, 1 singer and acoustic guitar.  You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

• “The Solid Rock”
• “My Faith Has Found A Resting Place”
• “O Master Let Me Walk With Thee”
• “O Jesus, I Have Promised”
• “Little is Much When God Is In It”
• “I’ll Go Where You Want Me To Go”

Rick led the team in the Traditional Service today, and from what I heard, things went well. Pastor Tim gave a message about serving today, and really did a great job of challenging people to get in the game and serve in a ministry. He highlighted each ministry, including the worship ministry, and by the end of the day, I had 5 new volunteers for the worship ministry!! You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.

This post is part of the Sunday Setlists blog, at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share their setlists and service recaps from this weekend’s services. I hope your services went well today!!

“I Have A Dream” – An Appropriate Song for Today

With today being Martin Luther King Day, I thought this would be an appropriate song to promote! It’s by The City Harmonic, recently named “New Artist of the Year” by GMA Canada, and source of other great songs like “Manifesto” and “I Am”.  This song was partially inspired by Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech! Quite interestingly, there were two other sources that provided inspiration for this powerful song. Can you guess? To find out, you should check out the interview with The City Harmonic on the latest All About Worship podcast, a great resource for worship leaders!!  Enjoy!

Sunday Recap – January 15, 2012

Contemporary Services

• “Today Is The Day” (Lincoln Brewster and Paul Baloche)
  • We used the Paul Baloche version, along with a the click track from Praise Charts.  I like the Baloche version better than the original by Brewster! They’re both great, but this seems to be a bit more congregationally friendly.  I used Psalm 55:22 to introduce the song.
• “Our God” (Jonas Myrin, Matt Redman, Jesse Reeves, Chris Tomlin)
  • All of our arrangements this week were from Praise Charts, and we used the click track for all the songs.  Our team has really settled in nicely with using click tracks! All four songs today just felt so comfortable and tight with the clicks!  We changed up the harmonies a bit on this song today, since we had the full worship choir.
• “Holy” (Jason Ingram, Jonas Myrin, Matt Redman)
  • If you’re not familiar with this one, check it out! It’s on Matt Redman’s latest CD, 10,000 Reasons, and is such a powerful anthem! I love the progression of the lyrics in each verse, from “what eyes” to “our eyes” to “all eyes”. We introduced this song last week, and already people seemed to know it well and sang out.
• “Forever Reign” (Jason Ingram and Reuben Morgan)

What a great morning of worship! We had a huge turnout in our worship choir today, even two of our pastors sang with today! We actually had more guys that we had ladies today, for the first time! It’s so cool to see that ministry growing and new people added! Pastor Tim continued his series on revisiting our vision statement at the start of a new year. We talked about “Grow”, the second part of our discipleship process – “Connect, Grow, Serve, Go”. You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.

 

Cafe Connection Service

• “Today Is The Day” (Lincoln Brewster and Paul Baloche)
• “As It Is In Heaven” (Matt Maher and Ed Cash)
• “Victory” (Cody Carnes)
• “Forever Reign” (Jason Ingram and Reuben Morgan)

Zack led the team in the Cafe this morning, and picked out some great songs.  Janet sang for the first time, and it’s great to have her part of this team! You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

 

Traditional Service

• “We Come, O Christ, To You”
• “O To Be Like Thee”
• “I Am Thine, O Lord”
• “Have Thine Own Way, Lord”
• “Higher Ground”

You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.

This post is part of the Sunday Setlists blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share their setlists and recaps from today’s services.  Thanks for reading, and I hope your services went great today!

Sunday Recap – January 8th, 2012

Contemporary Worship Services

• “God Is With Us Now” (Walker Beach)
• “Holy” (Matt Redman, Jonas Myrin, Jason Ingram)
• “In Christ Alone” (Keith Getty, Stuart Townend)
• “Lead Me To The Cross” (Brooke Fraser)
• “Nothing But the Blood” (Matt Redman)

Well, I’ve taken a break for the last few weeks from writing these Sunday Recaps, so it’s good to get back into the routine!  As much as I love Christmas music, I’m always happy to get back into the regular worship songs and get some new stuff going in January.  I was gone last week on vacation, so things felt normal today for the first time in a long while!  We started with “God Is With Us Now”, a nice up-beat opener from Gateway Worship that works well as a call to worship.  Our theme today was focused around worship, so our senior pastor asked me if I would share a few of my thoughts on worship in the service. I’ve never preached a full sermon before, and this was only a 5 minute talk, but there sure was a lot of extra stress for me today knowing I had to both lead the songs and speak!  I think it went fine, but I told the Sr. Pastor that if I had to speak this week, he had to sing a solo next week and preach! (He didn’t go for it…)

I followed up my talk on worship with introducing a new song – “Holy” by Matt Redman; it’s definitely one that I can see becoming a favorite anthem of our church! What a great song! Interesting piano part at the start – kind of tricky to sing and play, though! After the message before Communion we sang “In Christ Alone”, and during communion we used “Lead Me To The Cross” and “Nothing But The Blood”. You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection Service

• “In Christ Alone” (Keith Getty, Stuart Townend)
• “You Are Good” (Kari Jobe)
• “Lead Me To The Cross” (Brooke Fraser)
• “Nothing But The Blood” (Matt Redman)

Marv led the team in the Cafe service today, along a full team! Denise did a great job on the flute part today for “In Christ Alone”! I didn’t hear much of this service since I was leading in the Traditional, but thanks to the whole team for a great job! You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

• “O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing”
• “Majesty”
• “Our Great Savior”
• “Alleluia”
• “Before the Throne of God Above” (Charitie Lee Bancroft, Vicki Cook)
• “Nothing But The Blood”

I know it’s not a new song, but this was the first time we’ve used “Before the Throne of God Above” in a service here. It worked well for Communion, one I’m sure we’ll use again.  You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

This post is part of the Sunday Setlists blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share ideas, setlists and recaps from this weekend’s services.

Sunday Recap – December 18, 2011

Contemporary Services

• “Hallelujah” (Darlene Zschech)
• “Joy To The World (Unspeakable Joy)” (Chris Tomlin version)
• “Angels We Have Heard on High” (Chris Tomlin version)
• “My Soul Magnifies the Lord” (Chris Tomlin)
• “He Has Come For Us (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)” (Meredith Andrews and Jason Ingram)
• “Glory In The Highest” (Chris Tomlin)

Yes, it was a Chris Tomlin Christmas celebration! I’ve just found that the arrangements on his “Glory in the Highest” CD are some of the best contemporary arrangements of familiar Christmas carols for congregational use.  We had the Worship Choir singing this morning as well as the worship team, and Pastor Tim asked if we could prepare a couple of extra songs for this week. I said – sure! So, we started with Darlene Zschech’s “Hallelujah”, and older song, but still one of my favorites. We had just the choir/team sing this one more as a special, and it worked great for  a little slower, more reflective call to worship. Then we kicked it into high gear with Tomlin’s “Joy To The World (Unspeakable Joy)” and “Angels We Have Heard On High”.  One of my favorite new Christmas songs is “My Soul Magnifies the Lord”, also from Tomlin.  We used a click track from Praise Charts for that song, and also added the congregation this year as well. Then, during the offering, the choir/teams sang one more special – a brand new one for us this year  by Meredith Andrews called “He Has Come For Us (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen), a terrific song that worked well with solo and choir.  After a message from Pastor Tim that touched on not missing Christmas because we’re too busy with Christmas, we ended with “Glory In The Highest”, a worship song of the angels.

It was a wonderful morning of praise, and I so appreciated everyone’s involvement this morning – they all did a super job!! You can see the Planning Center details and also watch the video of the service.

 

Cafe Connection Service

• “Joy To The World (Unspeakable Joy)” (Chris Tomlin version)
• “Angels We Have Heard on High” (Chris Tomlin version)
• “My Soul Magnifies the Lord” (Chris Tomlin)
• “Glory In The Highest” (Chris Tomlin)

Zack led the team in the Cafe this morning, and the songs were the same as the Contemporary, minus the two specials.  The Cafe crew had a break last week with the Children’s Christmas musical taking the morning services.  It was nice to see it back in action today! You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

• “Angels from the Realms of Glory”
• “O Little Town of Bethlehem”
• “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”
• “Angels We Have Heard on High”
• “O Holy Night” (Special Music)
• “Joy To The World”

This is the service where we sing all of our Christmas carols the “old-fashioned” way  - right from the hymnal with piano and organ. Nothing fancy, or new arrangements, but it’s great! Just singing out the carols as I learned them as a kid. Rick did a great job on “O Holy Night” to complete the service. You can watch the video of the service, and also see the Planning Center details.

This post is part of the Sunday Setlists blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share setlists and recaps from this weekend’s services. Hope you had a great morning yesterday, and have a very Merry Christmas!!

Sunday Recap – December 4th, 2011

Contemporary Services

• “O Come, All Ye Faithful” (Mac Powell) (Third Day verison)
• “Born Tonight” (Denver Bierman)
• “Jesus Messiah” (Chris Tomlin, Ed Cash, Jesse Reeves)
• “Stronger” (Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan)
• “Amazed” (Jared Anderson)

Christmas is underway at Bethel! We kicked things off with Third Day’s version of “O Come All Ye Faithful”, which is a very singable, upbeat arrangement of the classic carol.  One of the guys in our church, Barry (not this Barry), sang a song by Denver and the Mile High Orchestra during the offering – “Born Tonight”.  It gave our band a nice challenge to play, and Barry did great on the solo. Celebrating communion along with Christmas is always a challenge, but “Jesus Messiah” worked well as a nice bridge between the two themes – praising him for being both our Messiah and Immanuel along with our Redeemer and Savior, and several communion references.  During communion we used “Stronger” and “Amazed”.  I actually wrote a new verse that we used with “Amazed” – same chorus, new verse relating to the cross.  You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.

 

Cafe Connection Service

• “Taste and See” (Tommy Walker)
• “Offering (Christmas Version)” (Paul Baloche)  
• “Amazed” (Jared Anderson)
• “Jesus Messiah” (Chris Tomlin and others)

Marv led a very full team in the Cafe this morning, and it sounded great!  You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

 

Traditional Service

• “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”
• “O Come All Ye Faithful”
• “Go Tell it On the Mountain”
• “A Communion Hymn for Christmas” (Margaret Clarkson and Tom Fettke)
• “Tell Me The Story of Jesus”

This service at Christmastime is where we do all of our traditional Christmas carols, so it was nice to start the morning off with familiar songs to help us ring in the Christmas season.  With Communion also today, I pulled out “A Communion Hymn for Christmas”, which is a nice text contrasting the manger and the cross.  You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.

This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share setlists and recaps from this weekend’s worship services.  Thanks for reading!

Sunday Recap – November 27, 2011

Contemporary Services

• “Because Of Your Love” (Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown)
• “Only A God Like You” (Tommy Walker)
• “Worthy Is The Lamb” (Darlene Zschech)
• “I Give Thanks” (Tommy Walker)
• “For All You’ve Done” (Reuben Morgan)

We celebrated Thanksgiving one more time this week, even though some may have started the Christmas season this week.  Most of the songs we used this morning were a bit older, and well-known. I added one new song this morning, so I wanted to be sure the other songs were familiar, as well as focused on our theme of Thanksgiving this morning. We had a Baloche/Hillsong/Tommy Walker morning! It’s been a while since we’ve pulled out “Worthy Is the Lamb”, but what a powerful song, and it tied in so well with our Thanksgiving focus.  The new song was one from Tommy Walker’s Overflow CD, called “I Give Thanks”.  If you’re not familiar with it, check it out; it’s a great song for Thanksgiving with an easy to learn chorus and that familiar Tommy Walker sound. You can watch the video of this service and also see the Planning Center details for this service.

Here is the new song we introduced this morning – “I Give Thanks”

 

Cafe Connection Service

• “How Great Is The Love” (Paul Baloche, Meredith Andrews)
• “Only A God Like You” (Tommy Walker)
• “Because of Your Love” (Paul Baloche, Brenton Brown)
• “What Can I Do?” (Paul Baloche, Graham Kendrick)

Zack led the team this morning in the Cafe, and following along the Thanksgiving theme, chose some great songs!  We had a little glitch with the Picture in Picture on our video feed today. I’ll have to take a look at that this week! You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

 

Traditional Service

• “We Gather Together”
• “Come Ye Thankful People Come”
• “Rejoice, Ye Pure In Heart”
• “Give Thanks”
• “For The Beauty of the Earth”
• “Count Your Blessings”

I led in here this morning, and it was great to pull out some of the hymns we sing just once a year for Thanksgiving.  We also had a drama sketch in all of our services this morning called “Thanksgiving Nic-Nacs”.  You can see the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.

This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog over at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share setlists and recaps from this weekend’s worship services. Happy Thanksgiving!

Sunday Recap – November 20, 2011

Contemporary Services

• “Rising” (Paul Baloche and Matt Redman)
• “Glory To God Forever” (Steve Fee and Vicky Beeching)
• “Revelation Song” (Jennie Lee Riddle)
• “Awesome Is The Lord Most High”  (Chris Tomlin, Jon Abel)

Another great morning of worship today! Pastor Tim was gone, so we had one of the missionaries that we support, Paul Hill, missionary to Argentina, speak this morning.  The songs went well this morning, with the team doing a great job on their parts.  We started with “Rising”, a favorite tune from Paul Baloche, and a great way to open the service.  Today was the first day using a click/loop on “Revelation Song”, and it really helped to hold things together, keep a reign on the tempo, and add in some extra sounds.  We bumped it up to 64, instead of the original tempo of 60.  That’s one thing I love about using Ableton Live! If the tempo feels too slow, you can just speed it up and the loop maintains the tuning, even at a faster speed.

We had an unfortunate incident occur in one of our services today. A woman had a medical issue, passed out, and an ambulance had to be called. They brought in a stretcher and took her away in the ambulance. Please pray for Sharon, we haven’t heard any updates yet today.  But, it was a question of what to do during the service. It happened as our guest speaker was delivering the message. He stopped and we took time to pray for her as it became clear what was going on. But then, as we were waiting for the ambulance to come, and as the stretcher took her out, he continued to preach.  People were distracted as the nurse and people around her were helping her out, but he remained calm and focused.  We did end up skipping the last song, which was an upbeat praise song, and ended with a time of prayer for her.  Have you had anything like that happen in a service before? How did you handle it? How would you have handled this?

You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection Service

• “Rising” (Paul Baloche and Matt Redman)
• “Glory To God Forever” (Steve Fee and Vicky Beeching)
• “Taste And See” (Tommy Walker)
• “Awesome Is The Lord Most High”  (Chris Tomlin, Jon Abel)

I always enjoy the opportunity to lead worship in the Cafe.  I usually use many of the same songs as in the Contemporary, but today I did change out one.  Marv introduced a new song last week in here, and I repeated it this week.  ”Taste and See” is a nice tune by Tommy Walker that he taught us last summer at a worship conference.  You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

• Come, Thou Almighty King
• Heaven Came Down
• Redeemed
• Jesus Saves
• We’ve A Story To Tell To The Nations

Randy led the team in the Traditional Service today. They did a great job. You can watch the video of the service or see the Planning Center details.

Pie and Praise Service

• “Bless The Lord” (Jared Anderson)
• “What Can I Do” (Paul Baloche and Graham Kendrick)
• “We Will Remember” (Tommy Walker)
• “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” 
• “Never Once” (Matt Redman, Jason Ingram)
• “You, You Are God” (Walker Beach)

This evening we had our annual Pie and Praise Service, where we gather together to give thanks and praise for all God has done in our lives. It’s always a wonderful time of testimonies, music, and of course pie!  We had three people planned ahead to give their testimonies, and then two times for open mic, where anyone could share with the church what they are thankful for.  I also used a video from Shift Worship, called “The Thanksgiving Chair”, a simple yet powerful reminder to give thanks in all circumstances. It was a really great service!  You can watch the video of this service, or see the Planning Center details.

This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share recaps and setlists from this past Sunday. Hope your services went great, as well! Happy Thanksgiving!

Sunday Recap – November 13, 2011

Contemporary Services

• “Here For You” (Matt Redman, Matt Maher, others)
• “All My Fountains” (Chris Tomlin, Christy Nockels, others)
• “Great I Am” (Jared Anderson)
• “Your Great Name” (Michael Neale, Krissy Nordhoff)
• “Follow You” (Leeland)

We used a couple of tunes from the last Passion CD with “Here For You” and “All My Fountains”.  We did “Here For You” in Bb and “All My Fountains” in B.  The loop from Praise Charts on “All My Fountains” really helped to hold things together.  ”Great I Am” is just such a powerful song! The worship choir, worship team singers, band and congregation all joined together in this powerful song of worship! We did The People’s Church version of “Your Great Name”, not Natalie Grant’s version.  The harmonies add so much to the song!  Zack did a super job on the lead for “Follow You” today by Leeland.  You can watch the video for this service as well as see the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection Service

• “Waiting Here For You” (Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves, Martin Smith)
• “At Your Name” (Tim Hughes and Phil Wickham)
• “Your Great Name” (Michael Neale and Krissy Nordhoff)
• “Taste and See” (Tommy Walker)

Marv led the team in the Cafe, and I loved the new songs he introduced! “Waiting Here For You” is also from the latest Passion project, with a nice solo (Christy Nockels on the recording). It’s makes for a great call to worship.  The other new one was “Taste and See” from Tommy Walker’s latest project.  This song works great in this acoustic setting in the Cafe – guitar, percussion and vocals are all you need for this song. You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

• “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
• “Glorify Thy Name”
• “At Calvary”
• “Freely, Freely”
• “I Gave My Life For Thee”
• “Make Me A Blessing”

Pastor Tim finished his series on generosity today, with a challenge from 2 Corinthians, and the team did a great job on the hymns. We used a clip from a Beverly Hillbillies episode that tied in perfectly with the theme.  You can see the video from this service and see the Planning Center details.

This post is part of the the Sunday Setlist blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share setlists and recaps from worship services this weekend. Thanks for reading, and hope your services went great today!

Sunday Recap – November 6, 2011

Contemporary Services

• “Bless The Lord” (Jared Anderson, Heather Land)
• “This Is How We Know” (Matt Redman and Beth Redman)
• “O The Blood” (Thomas Miller and Mary Elizabeth Miller)
• “How Deep The Father’s Love For Us” (Stuart Townend)
• “You Gave Your Life Away” (Paul Baloche and Kathryn Scott)

What a powerful morning of worship we had today! God is so good! That’s really all there is to say! I would feel strange talking about how good our team was, or how well things flowed, because that would seem to take away from what God did at our services.  But, I just have to say thank you for a job so well done to our team! It’s been a while since we’ve used “O, The Blood”, but wow, what an amazing song of worship! It led our congregation into a time of taking communion together, as we focused on the cross with “How Deep….” and “You Gave Your Life Away”.  If you haven’t heard “Bless The Lord” yet, by Jared Anderson, check it out! It’s a great service opener, and a fun song of praise to sing/play!  You can watch the video of this service and also see the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection Service

• “Lift High” (Steve Fee and Eddie Kirkland)
• “All The Earth Will Sing Your Praises” (Paul Baloche)
• “At The Cross” (Darlene Zschech and Reuben Morgan)
• “10,000 Reasons” (Matt Redman)

Zack led the team in the Cafe, and they sounded great!  I loved the songs that Zack chose this week, and he even found an additional second verse to “All The Earth”  that I had never heard before. I guess Paul added another verse when he released it on The Writers Collection CD.  Very cool!  You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

• “Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens Adore Him”
• “One Day”
• “Bless His Holy Name”
• “O Sacred Head Now Wounded”
• “Worthy Is The Lamb”

We had a great service in the Traditional this morning as well.  Familiar hymns with one of the very old praise choruses thrown in. “O Sacred Head” was challenging to sing, but we did the third verse a capella, and the team did a great job on the tricky harmonies!  Pastor Tim began a series on generosity this morning as well.  You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.

This post is part of the Sunday Setlists blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share recaps and setlists from this week’s services.