Set List
Announcements
New Doxology (Miller/Gateway)
Everlasting God (Brown)
Welcome/Greeting
Children’s Time—The Priests
I Stand Amazed In The Presence (Hymn)
Choral Worship–Holy, Holy, Holy,-We Fall Down
Morning Message–Isaiah 61 (His Priests)
You Are My King (Foote)
Offertory Prayer
Music
Prayer
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Today was our fourth week in the book of Isaiah–Chapter 61. We are studying the 9 Prayers for the church out of this powerful section of scripture. Today was HIS PLAN. Pastor Marcus did a great job of explaining the plan God has for his church. The plan is sure and will come to pass; the only X factor is how we will participate in it.
SetLists
LORD ALMIGHTY (Stanfill) This song is in our upcoming Easter Worship Experience “YOUR GREAT NAME”. We used it for a call to worship and asked the congregation to join in.
Welcome/Greet
WE HAVE HEARD THE JOYFUL SOUND (Crosby) Did this timeless hymn in a 4/4 meter. So many good things in the lyrics and the rhythm set us up for LORD I LIFT YOUR NAME
LORD I LIFT YOUR NAME ON HIGH (Founds)
Children’s Time–Kay, our children’s minister, talked about the plans God has for his church. Her visual was the blue prints that were made for the new Sanctuary of OBC. We left that up as a visual for the Pastor’s sermon.
BRETHREN, WE HAVE MET TO WORSHIP (Lifeway Hymns). This is usually an opener song for us, but today because of it’s slower meter, we placed it here. Some different chords in this arrangement merit a look at it.
Scripture- Zephaniah 3:17
MIGHTY TO SAVE (Hillsong)
THE STAND (HOUSTON)- This song is also in our musical and we’re moving it in rotation for the congregation to learn it for April 1.
CHOIR–OUR GOD SAVES (Baloche)
Morning Message–Pastor Marcus
IF YOU SAY GO (Thiel) This is the third week for this song as our response. Every week it seems to fit; especially the statement “the plans that you have laid are good and true.” I think we’re learning this one.
Offertory/Prayer
Music–Be Still My Soul (Finlandia)–Ann Apple, our organist did a great job on this soul which really gave us a time of reflection before we went out.
Prayer/Dismiss.
How was your Sunday?
This post is part of Sunday Set Lists over on The Worship Community. It’s where worship leaders share their Sunday experiences.
For the last 4 years, I’ve spent the last week of January eagerly anticipating my annual jaunt and spiritual journey to Nashville to meet with a bunch of creatives at the conference, RECREATE. It’s a four day wonderment of meetings and talks combined with fellowship and experiences that are only found together in these days.
I won’t be traveling there this year. There’s been some changes in my life. I”m no longer full time ministry with the ability to spend a week in training for creativity and the arts. I’m kinda sad that I won’t be there this year. I won’t lie–I’m downright depressed about it.
These last four years at this conference have been for me the lifeblood of getting to do ministry another year. It seems every year I limped into the conference dry and weary from the battles of the previous year. I spent the first few days just soaking and then asking the Lord to lead me around one more time.
I’ve grown close to these folks called creatives and we continue to chat via social media and such; but its not the same. In fact, probably most of my depression has come from the lack of daily interaction with these community members and that instant connection once we are together. That won’t be happening this year.
This won’t keep me from watching the postings and tweets that will come out of this conference in the next week. In fact, I’ll be living vicariously through the people who are attending and experiencing this. That may be satisfactory for now; but it doesn’t beat being there and going through it all together.
Maybe one day I’ll return. Until then, RECREATORS I’m with you in spirit. Lead on as I watch from afar and learn from you. You are my tribe and your freedom to walk in creativity as the creator grants you is inspiring to me.
Another great day at OAKWOOD BAPTIST in Lubbock. Great worship, great Spirit, great Word from Pastor Marcus.
We’re in our third week of the 9 Prayer of Isaiah 61.
It’s just amazing to see God put the things of worship together. I’m 85 miles away and except for an occasional phone call or text, there is no significant and detailed planning about our worship. But God alwasy does something amazing.
Today, He tied together the opening Psalm given by a layman giving the announcement, the children’s time, the video/Creative moment, the Message and the closing song. None of this was coordinated! I got excited every time I saw the finger prints of God and his little clues that He is leaving.
He is stirring the hearts of people in and around Oakwood. I don’t know what’s coming.. but it’s something BIG!
Set List
Announcements
Opening Set— COME THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING ( LIFEWAY WORSHIP)–this is a great arrangement from their collection 20 Contemporary Hymns. Opens in the key of C–moves to D
COME NOW IS THE TIME TO WORSHIP
Welcome/Greeting
Children’s Time
Guided Moment… We used the story of Ben Breedlove, the Austin Texas teen who recorded a video 1 week before his death only using 4X6 index cards to tell his story of experiencing the peace of God’s presence as he related the times he had died and came back to life. We came out of this moment with everyone having a 3X5 card in their worship guide. I asked them to take a moment and to write something down on this card that would be “their story”. After a few moments of meditation…we sang
BLESSED ASSURANCE (Lifeway Worship) Another great arrangement. In 6/8 and has a great accoustic sound.
Scripture
Choral Worship–NO MORE NIGHT
Morning Message—Isaiah 61: 1-3 ( HIS PURPOSE)
IF YOU SAY GO (Thiel) This was an older song I thought of last week but couldn’t find the chart. When the pastor today used Heb 12: (let us fix our eyes) I knew this was the song that the Spirit had chosen for us to sing. The lyric says we will fix our eyes on you… Cool!
Offertory prayer/music
Dismiss
A great day!
How was you Sunday?
This post is part of Sunday Set Lists over on The Worship Community blog.
I’m still leading worship at Oakwood Baptist in Lubbock. We had a great Christmas season there and 2012 started in a marvelous way with the following service. God has his hand on this church and is preparing it for a great season to come.
Set Lists
Video Opener–New Year’s Journey (Worship House Media)
Your Grace Is Enough (Maher)
Amazing Graze (My Chains Are Gone) (Tomlin)
Welcome
Children’s Time
A Prayer For The New Year (Printed in our Bulletin)
Come Thou Almighty King
Lord Reign In Me (Brown)
Morning Message–Isaiah 61 (Nine Prayers)
I Surrender All
Offertory
Message in Song–Hannah Meadows (An original song that I’ll be talking about later)
Prayer (Sweet prayer by one of our member’s father–a retired pastor)
Just over a year ago on my birthday, I awoke to a message on my phone from a “creativity app” which gave me a thought for the day. That day, my 47th birthday, the message read “Embrace Chaos!” I took that meaning to heart as I knew that the coming year would be a year of changes for me and for my family. ( I ultimately left a career I’ve known for 25 years and started over on a new path).
However, I didn’t embrace chaos. I embraced the God who is in charge in the midst of chaos.
I will admit that prior to the start of the year I was anxious about what was to come in the new year, but somewhere around New Year’s Eve I began to wrap my mind around what it means to fully walk by faith and not by sight.
When I did that, I began to find adventure each day in what God was bringing me through.
Here are three things that I embraced this last year, and maybe they will help you in the coming year too:
1) Embrace the God of order
Even in the midst of chaos, we can choose to follow the God of the universe who brought order out of chaos. (Gen.1:1). We can trust that whatever we encounter in the coming year that seems to knock us out of our rhythm, God is there to restore order. I believe that sometimes chaos reigns for a period in order for us to cling more and more to Him. Whatever you encounter in 2012 will be a part of his plan for you.
2) Embrace the God of the future
I couldn’t see all of 2011, but I knew that God was already there working out the details. All I had to do was to trust, to seek and to act in obedient faith what God was saying. As my pastor, Pastor Marcus, says “you do the next thing that God reveals”. I can’t tell you the peace of knowing that God is in the future and the peace that comes (Jer. 29:11)
3) Embrace the God of forever
Finally, I found peace in knowing that God’s eternal character and his unfailing love would never be changed or withheld this year based on circumstances. I knew that his forever nature would always be the same and in troubled times we need this assurance. (Psalm 48:14). We can be sure that God will be there for his people-forever.
I kept repeating to myself over and over this last year that I should “Trust the Lord with all of my heart (Proverbs 3:5-6) and as I did this I found a great adventure with God.
I’m praying that for you this year that this will be the year that you discover a deeper, richer level of relationship with God—whatever may come your way. I can guarantee it will be a year that you will never forget.
This post has been sitting in my “draft” bin for quite a while. I guess that I knew that a day like this was coming–when Steve Jobs would no longer be with us and we’d be searching for words to describe his leadership style and his impact on culture.
I’d like to share three things, three Leadership Lessons that I think we can learn from Steve Jobs.
This post is part of Sunday Set lists over on The Worship Community Blog. It’s where worship leaders share their Sunday experiences together.
This was my third Sunday at Oakwood Baptist in Lubbock. It’s official–I’m the Interim Worship leader for the time being. They have been so welcoming and responsive in worship. We’re really having a great time together and I’m enjoying the rich teaching of Dr. Marcus Murphy. He’s always giving me a word picture from the scripture that makes me go ” hmm… I never saw it that way!” This week he have me two things to think about and that I’ll blog about later this week.
Set List
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For the second week I’m leading worship at Oakwood Baptist in Lubbock. It’s a great church with some great people. We are having a great time worshipping together.
Here’s our list from Today
Announcements/Prayer
At Calvary
The Wonderful CrossWelcome/Greeting
Children’s Time
Worship Is… (We had 4 readers read quotes from A.W. Tozer about worship)
Here I Am To Worship (with I Surrender All)
Made To Worship
Worship Is… (Had Piper’s quote on the screen “Missions exists because worship doesn’t”)
Choral Worship–Our Heart (Chisum/Searcy)
Morning Message- Dr. Marcus Murphy
Offering (Baloche)
Offertory
Made To Worship–Chorus to close
Evening:
Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
Scripture Reading–Isaiah 40
Everlasting God
Welcome/Greeting
Musical Offerng
I Must Tell Jesus
He Knows My Name
Evening Message
Only Trust Him
I’m sitting here at my home desktop copying over the files from my external drive. Boring! But I’m also sitting here amazed at how fast and how far technology has come in the last 5 years or so.
You see, this external drive cost me close to $300 almost 6 years ago. It’s only a 200 GB external. The drive I’m copying to…1TB for $98. You see–FASTER, CHEAPER and hopefully SMARTER.
And I’ll say this probably will be my last external hard drive before I move to cloud storage which I’m still investigating.
My wife remarked that the size of this new Western Digital drive could be lost very easily. It’s a little bigger than an Iphone and easily portable. Who would have thought 6 years ago that this much storage would be available so cheaply? And who would have thought that we would be confident enough in the internet to put our data up “in the cloud”?
Here are some of the best solutions for cloud storage. I participate in some way in three of these. I haven’t decided which one I like best–but I’ll soon decide and make my stake there to upload my data for secure storage.
And with the introduction of Apple’s ICloud (free with IOS5) I may not even have to choose. Most of my applications will have the information and share them between phone, computer and other devices. It’s all so integrated.
