Proud of my kids. They’ve worked hard and had a great concert yesterday at a local Harley Dealership. This is some video I took with my iPhone, broadcast via Qik to the internet, so quality isnt very good, but you get the idea.
If your not familiar with my kids. Kassidi is 15 and the lead vocalists and Dakota is 12 and the drummer 
Enjoy!
I am probably one of the few (at least from what I’ve been hearing) Worship leaders that actually enjoy music this time of year. I love traditional Christmas tunes, but I do need variety, so we change things up at Table Rock. For the first 3 weeks of December, we have had a lot of variety in our music selection. Christmas eve, is always the more traditional service, as it pertains to music style. But the rest of the month, we spice it up.
Songs we’ve done this season are…
Tell It On The Mountain by Duvall
Joy To The World by Bebo Norman
Gloria by Mercy me
I Heard The Bells by Mercy Me
King Of Angels by Krystal Meyers
Love Came Down At Christmas by Jars Of Clay
All Creation Sings (Joy To The World) by Steve Fee
Little Drummer Boy by Lifechurch.tv
A Baby Changes Everything by Faith Hill
Plus some other, non-Christmas songs that work well with the season. One of which is a great song by Mercy Me called “God With Us”. We hear the word Emmanuel a lot at Christmas. It literally means that God is with us now. God has come to this earth. It is a powerful song and one that our church has really enjoyed. Here are the lyrics.
Who are we that You would be mindful of us
What do You see that’s worth looking our way we are
We are free in ways that we never should be
Sweet release from the grip of these chains
Lord You know our hearts don’t deserve Your glory
Still You show a love we cannot afford
Like hinges straining from the weight
My heart no longer can keep from singing
All that is within me cries
You alone be glorified
Emmanuel God with us
My heart sings a brand new song
The debt is paid these chains are gone
Emmanuel God with us.
Powerful song. amazing promise.
Here is a live version of it from our services yesterday. I just setup the new little Flip Mino HD to capture a stage shot. It’s not a very good angle and I’m not happy with the way this camera recorded sound, but I love that you can hear the people singing. Melts my heart.
“God With Us” – tablerockfellowship.org from Brent Hodge on Vimeo.
If you’d like to listen to the messages from this season at Table Rock, you can recieve via our podcast, or head to our website and listen to them there. We’ve gone through a great series called “The Grinches Who Stole Christmas”. We talked about Greed, Loneliness, Stress and Guilt. It has been powerful.
Tonight at 5PM Pacific time, Inprogress(tam), My kids(inCahoots) and myself are hosting a live video chat.
We have some great blog friends in town and we wanted to take a chance for you to get to know them and also catch up with all of you.
So, at 5PM Pacific time, Click on the Live Tab at the top of my page, sign in your name and join in the chat. We will be live on video and you will join us via chat.
We will have a limited time, so show up early if you can.
We’d love to see you there!!!
Join us tomorrow night(Tuesday) for a live video chat with the “in” family @ 8PM/5PM Pacific. Right here at the blog.
Click on the “Live” link at the top of the page, sign in a nickname and join us!
We have the honor of sharing some camera time with blog friends that are staying with us right now. We’d love to hang out with you guys, so stop on by!
See you tomorrow night.
Just a reminder that Tam and I will be live tonight, right here!
Join us at 8 Eastern/ 5 Pacific. Click on the “Live” link at the top of this page, write in your nickname and join in the chat. We will be on video.
Also for many of you that cannot make it tonight, we are also going to be chatting early next week, so watch for that announcement as well.
See you tonight!!
Tomorrow night Tam and I will be going live again. Last time we had a blast with all of you that showed up. It was crazy and fun and we are looking forward to it again.
Just show up here, at my blog, tomorrow at 5PM West Coast time and click the “Live” link at the top of my page. There you will be able to sign in a nickname and join in the conversation. I will post a reminder tomorrow as well.
Hope you can make it!!!
