brent(inWorship)

This weekend we continued our series in James. I loved that we were challenged to “live” the life of faith. To evaluate whether we are consumers or servants. James, gets right to it and I lvoe that we have that challenge.

Prep for this weekend was crazy. Thursday afternoon I got a call from our FOH engineer. He was called into work for sunday. Right now we have 3 engineers and one of them is on vacation. I am the 3rd engineer, and our other worship leader was out of town, so I had to lead and was not able to help at FOH. This put me in a bind. I gave a call to a friend that has helped in our tech department before and has some sound experience. He willingly filled in. To ease his stress, I stripped the team down to just myself leading from piano and our acoustic player. Made for a simple sound check and technical weekend. Needless to say, we had a great time, I chose to run with some wedges instead of in-ears this weekend. It was a great opportunity to lose all the volume and production and just hear everyone sing. Beautiful!

The setlist this weekend was chosen for a band, but I decided to go with it and it worked just fine.

Amazing by Matt Redman
Come Thou Fount Come Thou King by Robert Robinson, Thomas Miller (Gateway Version)
Clean Hands by Charlie Hall
Friend Of God by Michael Gungor, Israel Houghton
(Communion)Grace Has Called My name by Kathryn Scott

This post is a part of Sunday Setlists at good Ol’ Fred’s blog

I’m always amazed how one can have all sorts of strength when they are focused on God. I grew up watching my Dad, a Pastor, fall deathly ill on Sunday AM, go on to preach 4 services with no issues, and then go home and crash.

This happened this AM for a couple of our vocalists. One of our leaders today was having such bad kidney pain, she was physically ill and we were wondering if she was going to need medical attention. But, she was as strong as ever on stage. My wife sings with us and she has been dealing with illness all week and was great through the services but hasn’t left bed since we’ve been home. I am grateful they both made it through. We needed them up there.

Last night, stepping off stage, I felt like I was in a haze. Almost like I wasn’t a part of what we just did. It was strange. No physical issues. I wasn’t sick or dizzy or anything. I just left the stage and thought, what just happened? It was odd. I have been tired, but I think my mind just totally relaxed last night. It was interesting.

In the midst of all that, we started a new series on the Book of James. James is often considered the Proverbs of the New Testament. A very good, practical book of living. James had a way of leaving all political correctness aside. He would just get to the point. I love that.

One thought in the midst of the message was dealing with the word “Consider”. James 1:2 says to “consider it all joy when you face trials”. Some translations say “count”. But the word consider holds so much more meaning. To consider is to look ahead. To plan. This took me to the word “Considerate”. I began thinking about what it means to be considerate. Then the two put together take on a whole meaning for me. To be a considerate person, I need to plan ahead. In other words, I need to know compassion and grace, before I can even extend it. Anyway, just a side note.

So, we mellowed out the setlist a bit today. Started with something low key and then had a chance to mix it up a bit. One of our guitarists today, noticed that we were very Tomlin heavy today. not by choice, but it worked out just fine

Here is the setlist…

Glory In The Highest by Ed Cash, Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves, Daniel Carson, Matt Redman
Made To Worship by Christ Tomlin, Ed Cash, Stephan Sharp
All Creature of Our God and King by St. Francis of Assisi (David Crowder Version)
Your Grace Is Enough by Matt Maher
In Your Presence by Tracy Frech, Billy Smiley
I Surrender All (Communion) by Judson Wheeler Van DeVenter, Winfield Scott Weeden

This post is a part of Sunday Setlists at good Ol’ Fred’s blog

It’s School time! Crazy. The Summer flew by for me. Our kids are excited for Tuesday and the first day of school. Kota is starting Middle School and Kass is starting High School. That’s a bit weird.

We talked about families today at church. We talked about all the changes that come this time of year and the opportunity to consider it a new year and start fresh. We had fun bringing football into it. I really appreciated the thoughts on not becoming complacent. Things can sneak up on us and we should be aware of the life around us that God has given us to live. Keep our eyes set on Jesus and keep moving. Another reminder (especially with all my thoughts lately) to not get comfortable.

The band did a great job and as always, I am honored to play and lead with this group.

The highlight this AM during the music time was definitely Jesus Paid It All. We went into this song after coming out of communion. It meant so much more to me as I sang this right after taking communion. We did the Kristian Stanfill version and if you are looking for a great version, grab that one.

Here was the music today…

All Because Of Jesus by Steve Fee
You Never Let Go by Matt & Beth Redman
Mighty To Save by Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan
My Jesus I Love Thee (Communion) by Adoniram Gordon and William Featherstone
Jesus Paid It All by Elvina Hall and John Grape (Kristian Stanfill Version)
Everlasting God by Brenton Brown and Ken Riley

This is a part of Sunday Setlist over at Fred mcKinnon’s blog

So I am jumping in and joining up with a bunch of other worship leaders.

“Sunday Setlist” is an opportunity to share with you a quick recap of our worship experience from the weekend. I will highlight the focus of our gathering and also list out the music used in our time together.

This weekend’s setlist…

I Will Boast - Paul Baloche
All - Joel Houston
Hallelujah(Your Love Is Amazing) - Brenton Brown, Brian Doerkson
You’re Worthy Of My Praise - David Ruis
Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King - Robert Robinson, Thomas Miller
The Solid Rock - Edward Mote, John Bacchus Dykes

This weekend was the final weekend in a series called “Flawed”. This weekend focused on the life of Solomon. Solomon was King considered to be the greates of all, but he lost sight. He took his eyes of of what God saw him to be and began focusing on himself. Something that stood out to me was that Solomon compromised. His character changed. He focused on sexual sin and ended up totally sold out to his own pleasure. We were challenged to reset our priorities and recommit to what we know is Godly and good. We closed the message time with Gateway Churches version of the hymn, “Come Thou Fount”. I have always loved this hymn. The words in the final verse spoke perfectly to Solomon’s plight and in turn spoke to us.

“Prone to wonder, lord I feel it.
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here’s my heart Lord, take and seal it.
Seal it for Thy courts above.”

We also had an all church BBQ this weekend, so their was an awesome time of just hanging out and eating together. What a blast. Great way to end the Summer.

If you’d like to listen to the message from this weekend, you can check it out at the Table Rock Website, or you can subscribe through iTunes to recieve the messages each week.