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Sunday Setlists #119 – October 31, 2010

October 31, 2010 by 21 Comments

Thanks to ALL who shared their Sunday Setlists with us last week! The two winners of the Lincoln Brewster Real LIfe Songbook drawing were: Jonathan Riggs & Bill Horn. Thanks for sharing your experiences guys and we hope you enjoy your songbooks!

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of:

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Welcome to the 119th consecutive week of “Sunday Setlists”. The purpose of “Sunday Setlists” is to share a recap of your worship services. What songs did you use, what arrangements? What worked really well and what didn’t work as well as you’d like? What issues did you have preparing? What is the sermon series? How about creative elements used in the service? You don’t have to be the pastor or worship leader to participate. We would really love to get reviews from the perspective of those in our congregations each week.

Click here to receive an email reminder each week to participate.

Click here to view the archives of “Sunday Setlists” posts.

To participate:

1. Blog about your worship services this week. In that blog, mention that you are participating in “Sunday Setlists” at TheWorshipCommunity.Com and link back to this post.

(http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/sunday-setlists-119/)

2. If you don’t have a blog, leave your own recap right here by simply adding a comment to the discussion thread below.

3. Share your information (links, media, etc) and encourage others to do the same.

Oh … and whatever you do … don’t forget to leave a comment below! If you aren’t a member of TheWorshipCommunity.Com, you can register quickly, or just use the “Facebook Connect” login!

Share your Experience:

1. If you blogged about your worship recap, add the link in the “Mister Linky” below. Be sure that the link goes directly to the specific entry about this week’s “Sunday Setlists” post, and not to your blog’s homepage.

2. If you use Twitter, use the #sundaysetlists hashtag. Your “tweet” will show in the box below soon. You can even tag videos or images with the #sundaysetlists hashtag.

3. Regardless, don’t forget to leave a comment in the discussion area. Subscribe to the thread so you can come back and see what others are doing.

Links: (add a link to your “Sunday Setlists” blog post below)

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Sometimes God is Where We Least Expect

October 29, 2010 by 8 Comments

Sometimes God can be found in a cathedral, in a chapel, or in a church building.
Sometimes God can be found in the wilderness, beneath the stars, or beside the ocean.
Sometimes God can be found on a busy sidewalk, in a market, or in a cafe.
Sometimes God can be found in a smile, in a tear, or in a song.

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9 Ways Worship Leaders Can Show the Pastor Appreciation

October 27, 2010 by 6 Comments

Re-posted with permission from IAmAnOffering.com (the worship resource site of Ryan Egan)

With October being Pastor Appreciation Month I wanted to share what I think are nine great ideas that worship leaders and music ministers could use to show appreciation for their pastor(s):

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Worship Songs On Strike

October 25, 2010 by 15 Comments

by Tom Kraeuter

Nashville, TN (TR) Reacting to what they say is a lack of enthusiasm and passion for singing them, the Union of All Worship Songs (UAWS) today announced that they are officially on strike. In an unprecedented show of unanimity, songs written as recently as two months ago banded together with songs penned hundreds of years earlier as they walked out side by side.

A UAWS spokesperson said, “We’re tired of it. We were written by people who genuinely loved God and wanted to express that love through song. If you read our words you can sense the original fervor. There was a passion for the Creator/Redeemer that comes through so clearly through the words and even the music. But today so many people just mouth the words. They go through the motions while yawning or looking at their watch, wondering when the service is going to end. It’s really been demoralizing for us. We had such a great beginning… and now this.” [Read more...]

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Sunday Setlists #118 – October 24, 2010

October 24, 2010 by 26 Comments

Thank you so much for sharing your Sunday experiences with us!

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of:

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Welcome to the 118th consecutive week of “Sunday Setlists”. The purpose of “Sunday Setlists” is to share a recap of your worship services. What songs did you use, what arrangements? What worked really well and what didn’t work as well as you’d like? What issues did you have preparing? What is the sermon series? How about creative elements used in the service? You don’t have to be the pastor or worship leader to participate. We would really love to get reviews from the perspective of those in our congregations each week.

Click here to receive an email reminder each week to participate.

Click here to view the archives of “Sunday Setlists” posts.

To participate:

1. Blog about your worship services this week. In that blog, mention that you are participating in “Sunday Setlists” at TheWorshipCommunity.Com and link back to this post.

(http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/sunday-setlists-118/)

2. If you don’t have a blog, leave your own recap right here by simply adding a comment to the discussion thread below.

3. Share your information (links, media, etc) and encourage others to do the same.

Oh … and whatever you do … don’t forget to leave a comment below! If you aren’t a member of TheWorshipCommunity.Com, you can register quickly, or just use the “Facebook Connect” login!

Share your Experience:

1. If you blogged about your worship recap, add the link in the “Mister Linky” below. Be sure that the link goes directly to the specific entry about this week’s “Sunday Setlists” post, and not to your blog’s homepage.

2. If you use Twitter, use the #sundaysetlists hashtag. Your “tweet” will show in the box below soon. You can even tag videos or images with the #sundaysetlists hashtag.

3. Regardless, don’t forget to leave a comment in the discussion area. Subscribe to the thread so you can come back and see what others are doing.



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Review: Desert Rain by Paul Wilbur

October 20, 2010 by 7 Comments

Re-posted with permission from Mat Reames.

Desert Rain by Paul Wilbur is a live worship music concert in Israel with 5,000 in attendance from around the world who gathered to sing over the nation of Israel and pray for healing rain that would bring new life to dry hearts and desert lands. The location for this concert was En Gedi, the same desert where David hid from King Saul in Biblical times. This was a tremendous night of praise and worship and many testimonials of supernatural activity by attendees.

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6 Ways You Can Appreciate Your Worship & Music Pastor

October 18, 2010 by 16 Comments

Re-posted with permission from IAmAnOffering.com (the worship resource site of Ryan Egan).

While I’m not an official “pastor” myself I know that many people who lead and plan music teams in their churches are full-fledged, ordained pastors or are lay pastors within their congregations.  There was such great response to last week’s 9 Ways Worship and Music Ministers can Show Appreciation for their Pastor that I thought it would be fitting during pastor appreciation month to offer some ideas for pastors or church members to show appreciation their worship and/or music pastors:

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Sunday Setlists #117 – October 17, 2010

October 17, 2010 by 14 Comments

Thank you so much for sharing your Sunday experiences with us!

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of:

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Welcome to the 117th consecutive week of “Sunday Setlists”. The purpose of “Sunday Setlists” is to share a recap of your worship services. What songs did you use, what arrangements? What worked really well and what didn’t work as well as you’d like? What issues did you have preparing? What is the sermon series? How about creative elements used in the service? You don’t have to be the pastor or worship leader to participate. We would really love to get reviews from the perspective of those in our congregations each week.

Click here to receive an email reminder each week to participate.

Click here to view the archives of “Sunday Setlists” posts.

To participate:

1. Blog about your worship services this week. In that blog, mention that you are participating in “Sunday Setlists” at TheWorshipCommunity.Com and link back to this post.

(http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/sunday-setlists-117/)

2. If you don’t have a blog, leave your own recap right here by simply adding a comment to the discussion thread below.

3. Share your information (links, media, etc) and encourage others to do the same.

Oh … and whatever you do … don’t forget to leave a comment below! If you aren’t a member of TheWorshipCommunity.Com, you can register quickly, or just use the “Facebook Connect” login!

Share your Experience:

1. If you blogged about your worship recap, add the link in the “Mister Linky” below. Be sure that the link goes directly to the specific entry about this week’s “Sunday Setlists” post, and not to your blog’s homepage.

2. If you use Twitter, use the #sundaysetlists hashtag. Your “tweet” will show in the box below soon. You can even tag videos or images with the #sundaysetlists hashtag.

3. Regardless, don’t forget to leave a comment in the discussion area. Subscribe to the thread so you can come back and see what others are doing.

Links: (add a link to your “Sunday Setlists” blog post below)

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Review: Real Life [Lincoln Brewster]

October 16, 2010 by 10 Comments

Opening up in typical upbeat, energetic pop-rock fashion, Lincoln Brewster’s seventh solo recording Real Life features contributions from award-winning writers Paul Baloche, Jason Ingram and Mia Fieldes. From the first song, Best Days, to the closer Shout for Joy, there’s a certain familiar quality about this album that doesn’t disappoint. In some cases, we want the artist to push the envelope into new and unfamiliar territories, but in other cases we want our Lincoln Brewsters to be just that…Lincoln Brewster.

The guitar work is unmistakable. The tight vocal harmonies, which have an almost pop country feel to them on Best Days, stack up nicely. The trademark “whoa ohs” are just familiar enough to keep us grounded but not enough to be just normal. [Read more...]

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Thoughts On Church: The Maturing Church?

October 13, 2010 by 8 Comments

Originally posted at RussHutto.com.

My name is Russ and I’m a preacher’s kid.

So, I’ve pretty much been a “kid” of the church my whole life. Of course, I’m a grown up now and have been for the last 15 years, but I still feel like I’ve never known anything else.

I wasn’t one to go buck wild out of high school and make an idiot of myself and embarrass my family.

I wasn’t a prodigal son (in the “out of church” sense).

I wasn’t the crazy preacher’s kid who fell into the stereotype of preacher’s kids…hating the church and anything to do with it.

I feel like my journey has been a pretty good one. Not perfect, but pretty good. I thank God for His grace in my life, because like the next guy, I fall short of His righteousness and glory on my own. I’m not any better or worse than the person next to me in church, and I want it to be known that I struggle with pride, lust, greed, and every sin that anybody else does.

My name is Russ and I’m a preacher’s kid. [Read more...]

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