Worship text-fessional – Sunday, August 12, 2007
Sorry for the delay – trying to enjoy the last couple of weeks before summer (it’s already turned cool-ish up here!) and the blog received much love this week just not on the posting side.
So here we go -
Sunday, August 12, 2007 – “After God’s Own Heart”
Hosanna – Paul Baloche
Jesus, You Are Worthy – Brenton Brown
My Jesus I Love Thee – William Featherston
Announcements, etc
Communion
Jesus, Lamb of God – Dennis Jernigan
You Are – Mark Roach
Video – “Presence”
Centre – Charlie Hall, Matt Redman
Message
Centre – again
I’m loving this series. The message focused on two things – living a life after God’s own heart plays out when we believe in who God is and trust in His presence. I was going to actually link to the recording of the message from this week because it was so good but we had major meltdown in our CD recorder and lost everything. Boo.
One really nice thing we did to set the stage for the message was use a video called “Presence” (Highway Video should really change their site to allow direct linking to videos – go there and search for it. It’s based on Ps. 139:7) and we played “Centre” as the video was going. That’s not a song that we’ve done with our congregation before so we did something like a verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge thing with the band and that got the congregation to sing the chorus with us at the end.
After the message we came back and did “Centre” again BUT took the key from D to E, had everyone stand (they were sitting the first time) and did the whole song with the congregation. Very nice.
It wasn’t intentional but our song selection this week was VERY Jesus-focused. Yes, I know – we’re always supposed to be focused on Jesus. But just look at the songs. I didn’t go into my service planning mode with the idea that all of our songs would be directly about Christ but it worked out that way and I loved it. I was able to lead people through the themes built in the songs and the fact that they were all speaking directly about Christ was awesome.
