I don’t know if they understand what we are trying to tell…but…it is still our responsibility as the worship planning team and leaders to know and follow our core values and goals.
It seems there are always people wanting us to introduce the latest song they have heard on the recently released worship CD. Then there are others who want us to bring back a song or hymn from days past.
The best way I know to respond to any request is to Continue Reading…
The first step to meeting God in worship is asking His forgiveness. David the writer of Psalm 51 says:
“You are not pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.”
It is easy to gather in a place of worship and go through the motions: sing, clap, listen… but… God states that going through the motions is unacceptable. Continue Reading…
There are Skeptics everywhere, in this age there is an increasing number of Skeptics of the Gospel. These are some of the hardest people to reach for Christ and they ask tough questions like: If God is loving why does He send people to Hell? In our current sermon series our pastor tackles questions like this and four others. The object of this sermon series is to give our church solid information that they can use to answer the tough questions. We are posting audio, video and notes of each of these sermons at this link.
Even before you can answer the tough questions you have to know exactly what you believe so in this week’s service we dedicated a whole section to stating the facts of our beliefs. You can find how we did that by looking at the setlist below, the beliefs section follows the welcome. Continue Reading…
“If friends were not waiting I would not be up this early to run.”
That was my tweet early last Thursday. Wednesday had been a long day and Thursday was a morning I could have slept in, but I didn’t because I knew a group, my friends, would be waiting for me…and anyway it was only going to be five miles.
A few hours after the run and the tweet posted I got this reply tweet from @burkedaniel
“Great analogy to the power of fellowship & accountability…”
It wasn’t the short run that motivated me nor was it the thought of how great I would feel after accomplishing the run. No, it was because the group was waiting.
This reminded me of how much better I am when I have communicated my intentions to a group. Its this communication that helps me formalize my thoughts, goals and holds me accountable to them.
On the road: Continue Reading…
I am increasingly convicted about the content of the worship services we plan and lead and in doing so we continue to strive to
When planning the service our team always keeps these thoughts in mind. Looking back on what we planned and encouraged the congregation to participate in this week I noticed we led through a set of questions:
Here is what our set looked like: Continue Reading…
