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Worship Confessional-January 1, 2012

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Sunday Set Lists
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)

Embracing The God of Tomorrow

January 1st, 2012 2 Comments

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).
Walking

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.

Valuable Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs

October 5th, 2011 2 Comments

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.

Worship Confessional-September 25, 2011

September 25th, 2011 Comments Off

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

Worship Confessional-Sept. 18

September 18th, 2011 Comments Off

This post is part of Sunday Set Lists over on The Worship Community Blog. It’s where worship leaders from all over come to post their Sunday experiences. Check it out.

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

Faster, Cheaper, Better

September 15th, 2011 Comments Off

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.

5 Best Cloud Storage Solutions

10 Ways To Share or Collaborate With An Artist

September 14th, 2011 1 Comment

These are 10 ways that I have come up to collaborate with an artist. Collaborate? What? Aren’t all artist the center of their own world and self-sufficient and self-absorbed, etc.?

One of the biggest misconceptions about artists is that they are a closed group of people who won’t listen, won’t take input, won’t share and basically are deaf to others ideas. I say that’s a bunch of bunk!

Today is the age of collaboration. Do you see it? Music artists collaborate to create new experiences. Painters and sculptors created great artistic pieces together. Writers collaborate together to write a novel or a story.

Here’s how you can share or collaborate with an artist.

I Feel The Earth Move Under My My Feet….

September 13th, 2011 Comments Off

I felt like singing this song yesterday. Snyder has been rocked by a series of earthquakes since Sunday. Most of them are centered north of town, in an oil field area where they are doing a type of drilling where they are forcing water into the wells to extract oil from the rock.

You can see by the graphic here that since this type of drilling has begun in our area that earthquakes have increased.

In the last year I’ve been around for two of these. Both of them were about 3.5-3.8 on the richter scale. It sounded like someone had hit the building both times with a car. We weren’t around Sunday for the big one (4.4) and there was “rumor” yesterday that we were going to get a “6″ last night. It didn’t happen.

So how do you prepare for an earthquake?

Worship Confessional- September 11

September 11th, 2011 Comments Off

This post is part of Sunday Setlists over on The Worship Community Blog. Check it out here as worship leaders share their Sunday experiences.

Today I was guest worship leader at Oakwood Baptist Church in Lubbock. It was my privilege to lead this great church on this historic day.

Set Lists

Announcements/Prayer

Video-Psalm 95 (New Worship Media Group)

Brethren We Have Met To Worship (G3 Worship Music)

Let The Worshipers Arise (G3 Worship Music)

Greetings

Children’s Time

Video–Why We Remember (Steelhouse Media Group)

Choral–
Bow The Knee
We Will Remember (Tommy Walker)

Great Is Thy Faithfulness (Praise Charts Hymn Arr.)

Morning Message–Dr. Marcus Murphy

Communion

Remembrance (Maher)

You Gave Your Life Away (Baloche)

Offering/Offertory

Closing—Let The Worshipers Arise.

O Worship The King

Welcome/Greeting

Sing To The King (Foote)

How Can I Keep From Singing (Tomlin)

He Keeps Me Singing

Message in Song- Me

Evening Message–Dr. Murphy

Response

How was your Sunday?

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We Will Remember

September 11th, 2011 3 Comments

Ten years. Ten years have past since that fateful day in September. Ten years of life have gone by and yet we still remember where we were, what we were doing and what happened in those days after 9/11.

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