Name This Post/Series (Weekend Recap/Sunday Setlist)
If you haven’t read this post yet, you need to. It will make you aware of my new blog schedule. My beautiful wife Tam helped me put a schedule together that will encourage me to write more and stay consistent with it.
So, first and foremost, I need a name for my Monday post. Each Monday, I will recap the weekend at church. I will speak to each aspect of it. The theme, music, tech and anything else I can think of. I am going to attach these to Fred’s great series of posts called Sunday Setlists. So, help me out with a name! Now to the good stuff…
If you are newer to the blog, I am the Worship and Media Pastor for Table Rock Fellowship in a smaller community in Southern Oregon. My weekly responsibilities include everything from service planning to tech team direction, worship leading to IT management. It can get busy, but I love what I get to do.
This weekend was the final week in a series called “Holy Fire”. We are going through the book of 1 Peter. Chapter 1 focused on hope. And this week dealt with finding hope beyond hypocrisy. Hypocrisy, is to believe one way and to live another. To play the part. This is what the life of religion is. Pastor Tom spoke to 3 ways of being freed from a life of hypocrisy or in this case religion.
#1 You hear God’s Word
#2 You experience a new birth
#3 You respond by changing the way you live
My favorite quote of the weekend was “Evidence of new birth, is your desire to change.” And my favorite verses from the weekend were [youversion]Hebrews 12:1-2[/youversion]
Next week we dig into 1 Peter 2 and discuss our Identity in Christ.
The setlist for this weekend was…
(opening Set)
Happy Day by Tim Hughes
All Creatures Of Our God and King – David Crowder version
Beautiful The Blood by Steve Fee
(Offering)
Praise Awaits You by Matt Redman
(Communion)
Never Lose The Wonder by Tim Hughes
(Theme Song)
Holy Fire by Jon Shirley
We closed the service with a simple version of Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
Two songs we did this week, we haven’t done for quite a while. Praise Awaits You and Never Lose The Wonder. I really enjoyed both of them, but I did notice that with the growth our church has seen over the last couple of years, both were pretty new songs to the congregation. I didn’t take that into consideration. I guess that’s a good problem. Holy Fire, by Jon Shirley was a song I found when looking for a them song for this series. When I first heard the song, I was sold. Loved it! Worshipful, powerfully dynamic and had a great lyric that really places at the heart, that we want the Spirit to come and change us. We want to be made new. Changed!
Technically, things went fine this weekend. The band missed a couple of cues on Saturday night, but we ironed things out through the Sunday services. I haven’t sung for 2 weeks and have been fighting a cold, so after Saturday’s rehearsal and service, I was fried. Thankfully, I warmed up Sunday AM and was able to make it through just fine. No issues with sound or video. I did notice however, that during our first service today, half the lighting on the vocalists had died. we may have blown a fuse in the dimmer pack. I wasn’t too concerned however, because we don’t have a light show and tend to keep the room fairly dark during music. The light still worked on me, so I left it alone to worry about on Monday.
We have begun streaming our services live. I am really excited about this, because we are asked for this, all the time. We aren’t an internet campus like something you’d see with Newspring or Lifechurch. Many people are sick or traveling and they want to participate in the weekend services. This will allows for that. We haven’t advertised to the church body in general yet, because we are still kind of testing it out. I am using Mogulus right now, but I am finding that Mogulus needs a pretty stable service at about 1.5mbps to work properly for the people watching the service. Our feed to you is fed with a 40mbps service, so we transmit it fine, but it seems to be very glitchy and stutters a lot for those on the other end. I want to find something stable, but also realize that I can’t make it perfect for everyone. Over the next couple of weeks I may try Ustream and see what happens. You, the end user is the one that needs to win in this. So we will make it right. Another aspect of this is that we will be setting up an audio feed soon. Right now it is just the mic off the camera. I am going to rig one of our Aviom units to push audio to the feed. We’ve been running audio for video it this way for any video venues we do on campus and I really like it. If you have any suggestions regarding streaming, let me know.
A final note. As I write out my thoughts from the weekend, I also want to hear from you. What would you like to know. What are you interested in hearing here. Also, I would love to hear about your weekend. You can leave that in the comment or give us a link t your blog if you’ve written about it!
i watched movies, sports, and cleaned this weekend…
borat
knocked up
juno
haunting in connecticut
and two tigers games
we misjudged cooking time for our dinner last night so didn’t make it to church, so i can’t tell you anything about that.
yep. we were heathens this weekend.
was that what you were looking for?
Perfect
Setting a blog schedule….what a fantastic idea! I’ll make some room for the feed…
donnytop5´s last blog post…I am a Reader.
Thanks!
Voice issues. I had some in the early service. Just left out one song, as it was simply too high for 8:30 am allergy/yucky rainy weather throat stoppage.
windbag´s last blog post…May 3, 2009
Glad you made it through!
Um, I don’t have a good name for your worship posts Brent. If I had one, I’d use it myself…
I’ve been doing Fred’s setlist thing for a while and always enjoy getting through as many of them as I can to see what God’s up to around the world (OK, mainly the US…)
It was v.cool to watch some of your 8am service on Mogulus…but it does jump around a bit at times. Will be interested to see what your experiments turn up.
Mine’s up as per the Commentluv down there
David´s last blog post…Worship…and some other stuff : 3 May 2009
Ya. I hope we can figure out the inconsistent video. It’s driving me nuts!
Hey, I’m new to the blog!
Great series- I bet it’s awesome.
The videos you guys do are hilarious- very creative.
Great set list- Love Happy day- we did it today.
Justin K´s last blog post…The Last Note: Sunday SetList- May 3rd
Nice ot have you by Justin!
Well, I’m kind of partial to MAD Monday, and if ya think about it, it kinda fits here. But I’m guessin ya want something original…
Miraculous Monday
Monday Muse-ic
Manic Monday (get that song stuck in your head)
Monday Morning Memories
Ok, I’m done! As for our weekend:
Pastor was in the states for a funeral so the youth pastor preached on The Widow’s Mite–Mark 12 38:44–And brought down the house!! Awesome message!
We sang Here I am To Worship, Blessed Be Your Name, Lord I Give You My Heart and Take My Life.
THEN:
Son’s baseball game–He got his first hit of the season.
A few Cubs games—They’re on a roll!!
AND
Felt like making fun of the swine flu caught up with me yesterday as I felt pretty bad, but the pig has left the building cuz I feel fine today!!
Have a GREAT Monday!!
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I love Take My Life. We’ve always done Christ Tomlin’s version. Do you guys do the original melody?
MAD Monday is cool
Yes, the original…A good rule of thumb for our church is that if there is an older version, that’s the one we’re singing
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On side note, if you could add that little “notify me of further comments” checkbox, that would be awesome. Otherwise I have to remember to come back here and depending on me to think is not a smart move….just sayin
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Toby´s last blog post…iPhones In Church
COol.
Sorry about the comment notification. It has always been there, but looks like it got shut off when I upgraded Wordpress. Should be good to go now
Maybe “At the Table” or something…
Anyway, I watched your Saturday night service. I had no video issues at all – it came through fine. The audio was a tad muffled, but that’s probably because of the mic on the camcorder. You seem to have a good-sized sanctuary. I think a better camera would serve you well, when you can do it.
I’m watching with interest how you go about it, though. My pastor has been asking me for awhile if we can stream the services live. I have to findout what our upload speed is at the church. Probably not enough. Are you using the free or the pro mogulus account?
Mike Mahoney´s last blog post…Sunday Setlist – May 3
Mike, we are using an older Canon GL1. Our first upgrade for our video system is a camera. hopefully we will be upgrading it soon. I will be using an Aviom box for our audio this weekend, so hopefully that will help out the audio a lot!
Opps…sorry.
We are using the free account. The pro is actually kind of spendy and we want to keep this cheap.
That’s great! We’re miles away from a camera that nice, but God is able. Do you know what kind of internet connection you have? We have a DSL at the church, and I’m not sure the upload speeds are sufficient.
In the words of Tam, kthx!
Mike Mahoney´s last blog post…525600
A post by Brent? Who knew you had a blog? … OK I digress….
My suggestion.
“My Weekend in Worship”
Just a thought… Peace and love brother.
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Ha!
My Weekend In Worship is good. Might be a winner.
We did Beautiful the Blood this week too. Great song!
Steffanie Oltmans´s last blog post…Sunday Recap 5-3-2009
Yay for Beautiful the Blood! Love that song. Great sets, Brent!