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So SermonSpice.com is giving me $20 for posting this. I have no ads on my site, don’t post affiliate links, have no desire to make money off this thing. But $20 will basically get me a free download to use in my ministry so I’m going to go ahead and do it.
Here’s a list of videos I’ve purchased and used from Sermon Spice over the past couple of years. I would give you direct links to each of these videos to preview and buy but Sermon Spice doesn’t let me do that – bad choice. Instead these links take you to the results page after searching for these titles.
Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next
Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.
Sunday was good. We’re in a series called “Follow Me” looking at what it really means to be a disciple. The main idea of the whole thing is that “a disciple disciples.” So we learn and we teach. We mature and we model. We’re having lots of fun with this stuff right now.
Here’s our song list -
Your Name Is Holy – E – Brian Doerksen
Amazing Grace (My Chains) – E – Traditional & Chris Tomlin
Centre – E – Charlie Hall
Enough – G – Chris Tomlin
Hungry – C – Vineyard UK
Message – “Are You Coming?” Jesus Paid It All – Bb – Traditional & Kris Stanfill
Service flow was pretty good. We had one of our newer leaders lead the service on Sunday and he is growing alot in actually leading people in worship rather than just leading the songs. We’ve had lots of discussions about that around here lately and it’s now starting to translate into action which is always exciting to see.
It was the first time we’ve done “Jesus Paid It All” and although the verses and chorus were pretty low we had to do that so that people would sing that new chorus. And boy did they sing!! After the third verse and chorus we just hung on the Bb (rather than doing the I – IV – ii – IV progression) and did the new chorus (“Oh praise the One…”) twice through while just hanging on the Bb. If you listen to the Passion version it’s the same way they do it. We thought it would be a good way to introduce it so that we could build out of it, switch the progression and repeat the new chorus again. We stayed in that section (“Oh praise the One…”) for a while and then brought everything down and went back to a real acappella section and did the “Jesus paid it all…” chorus one more time. It killed!
I’m actually pleasantly surprised that our congregation has also responded really well to “Centre.” It’s the only Charlie Hall song that we do regularly because his stuff can sometimes be a little bit quirky and not always accessible for a congregation used to hymns and older praise stuff. Small steps :) This week when we did “Centre” the bridge was the real hilight – “We lift our eyes to heaven/We wrap our lives around Your life” – people sang it out and it really set up the rest of the service leading in to the message on Christ’s invitation to all of us to follow Him.
Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next
Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.
Last night I went to a great theatre in Kitchener with one of our drummers to see Tower Of Power in concert. I’ve been a fan of this band for about 15 years and this was the first chance I’d had to see them live. In a word – incredible!
To think that some of the guys in this band (Emilio on the far right, ‘Doc’ playing the baritone and David Garibaldi the drummer) have been together for 40 years is amazing. 40 YEARS!!
‘Iron Mike’ is the guy second fromt the left playing trumpet. They told us last night that his apartment burnt down in the California wildfires (and he also mentioned he was pretty upset about his motorcyle exploding in the fire!) and they asked people to pray for him. Not sure of the spiritual state of the guys in the band (although the new guitar player Mark Harper has had tons of involvement in the Christian music industry) but they asked for prayer for Mike and his family so I’ve been praying for them today.
Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next
Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.
So last year I went to this conference in Nashville called re:create which really was the catalyst for me to start blogging and I’ve met a bunch of folks thanks to being down there.
A little while ago Elevation Church posted about looking for ideas for the Christmas series. They just posted the results and they’ve decided to use a series suggested by a re:create attendee, Tonda Solomon, from Ridgeview Community Church in Franklin, TN. Very cool!
Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next
Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.
Billy posted about this last week and I thought I’d pass it along as well.
PWArchive.com has a list of the top songs that people have requested on their site each month. Read Billy’s post about why this is better than CCLI’s top 25 or top 100 lists.
Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next
Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.
David Crowder Band – Remedy – B+
Nice effort but nothing spectacular. The best tracks are ones we’ve already heard before.
Shane & Shane – Pages – A-
Good effort from these guys after taking some time off. “Burn Us Up” and “Before The Throne Of God Above” are hilights.
Soularize - InMotion – C
I know that you guys don’t like what’s happening in the current church worship culture but do you really think that a song called “Kiss Of His Mouth” is the way to go?
Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next
Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.
Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next
Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.
We put this video together and showed it to the kids and their parents, neighbours, friends, neighbours’ friends, friends’ parents, dog’s friends’ parents’ neighbours and everyone else that came to our Friday night Variety Show!
Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next
Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.
Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next
Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.
Chris Vacher Married to Sonya, dad to Avery, Emmy, Isabelle and Anderson. Director of Worship at Orangeville Baptist Church near Toronto. Founder of WorshipRises and doing my best to follow Jesus in the midst of it all.
