Sunday Setlists - May 3rd, 2009

Probably last one into Fred's Sunday Setlists for this week. ;)

Walk-in: Jesus, Messiah

For who You are - *offering*

Announcements & Prayer

Challenge - don't sing the words if you are not ready to say them. We're singing a lot of things tonight:

'Lord, You have my heart and I will search for Yours'
'Let me be to You a sacrifice'
'I will worship You with all of my heart, mind and strength. '
'I want more love, power, faith and passion – more of You'
'I pour out my life'
'What can I do but offer my heart completely to You'
'I give my life to declare Your promise'
'I’ll stand with my arms high and my heart abandoned, my soul surrendered to You.'
'All I am is Yours.'

The Stand

Prayer

Once Again

Lord, You have my heart

Open prayer – for who YOU are

More love, more power
Coffee

Sermon – John Harding – Gift of Tongues

Sunday Setlist - April 26th, 2009

Worship leaders all over the world share as part of Fred McKinnon's Sunday Setlists. Check it out!

AM

Walk-in: I have a Maker (a reprise from the family service with CD backing)
Blessed be Your Name *offering*
Announcements
Reading
God will make a way
Be still and know – prayer ministry
The Lord’s my Shepherd
Sermon – Donovan Holmes

PM

Walk-in: God of this City – praying it over our church and JBay
Desert SongAnnouncements & Prayer
Poem – Even when my heart is torn
Blessed be Your Name - *offering*
Testimony time
Welcome in this Place – ministry time
Mighty to Save
Coffee – play ‘Even when my heart is torn…’
Sermon - Brad Jones

Apologies for the lack of comments this time. I'm snowed...

Sunday Setlist - March 29th, 2009

This entry is sharing with worship leaders all over the world as part of Fred McKinnon's Sunday Setlists. Do yourself a favour...

Morning Service

Announcements

Testimony

Praise my soul the King of Heaven (first and last read as a poem)

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (one, two and six - I picked up the pace on this one but confused some of the folks a bit...in retrospect I will consider slowing it again for the next time I use this wonderful hymn)

Jesus, Messiah

Jesus, Name Above All Names

Let your living water (starting with chorus Jesus...)

More love, More power (starting with I will worship You after instrumental More love...)

As we lift up our hands (read as a prayer from As we to Only you.)

Sermon - Cries from the Cross (My God, my God, why have You abandoned me?)

As the person doing the announcements was late for the service, I had to do some quick reshuffling - I know you've been-there-done-that - and I did the first poem and the first song before the testimony and then we moved on to announcements. The downside of that was that I felt I'd lost the congregation completely until Jesus, Name above all names. There was a disconnect and I just couldn't breach it. I slowed the songs from Jesus, Name above all names as I sensed them connecting and just went back to choruses where possible. I long for the nuts and bolts of corporate worship NOT to be a distraction from the presence of the living God. This continues to be the cry of my heart.

Family service setlist - March 22nd AM

For the Sunday Setlist Carnival over at FredMcKinnon.com. I have used many of their ideas in different situations and have been inspired to other ideas through reading their creative thoughts and their passion for their churches and for worship that keeps God at the centre.

Our church is still being introduced to this level of cross-generational worship. The previous time that I led it, I made sure that I used relevant hymns. Our congregation, like most, responds well to wooing and very badly to revolution. This time I used fairly well known choruses and I asked the Sunday School to minister to the congregation by singing to them and through two teens who gave testimonies.

We used CD's for all the songs.

Come, Now is the Time to Worship

Item - He Knows my Name - Sunday School children
Jesus loves me - a capella

Testimonies - Teen Sunday School class

Children's Talk - The Perfect Fit for Running the Race - Pastor Donovan Holmes

Psalm 8 - I read this from a powerpoint where I had highlighted verse 2 for the congregation to read with me. It is the Sunday School verse for the year.

You have taught children and infants to tell of
your strength, silencing your enemies and all who oppose you.

I could sing of Your love Forever (Over the Mountains)
Holy is the Lord (It's Rising Up All Around)

Read from Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty

We Fall Down - offering

Sermon - What kind of family are we? - Pastor Donovan Holmes

It was a great service, filled with freedom and joy and stuff that just makes sense. Praise be to our heavenly Father!

Next time - flags and/or ribbons!

Sunday Setlist - Java 22nd February 2009

This post is participating in the Sunday Setlist carnival at FredMckinnon.com. Click and GO

http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/02/22/sunday-setlists-31/

Find me in the River

Desert Song - led by Jana Bougas (it's nice to have a bit of continuity from one week to the next. Last week this was a new song and I wanted the congregation to have a chance to get their teeth into it. We did it a lot slower this week and I think they're getting it. Great song. Will become a favourite, I'm sure)

Consuming Fire (was also a new song two weeks back although I did not realise that they didn't know it. As we're going to be staying with the Holy Spirit theme for the next 21 weeks or so, it fitted and I did a reprise.)

Turn your eyes upon Jesus (I wanted a space for them to just close their eyes and sing well known, simple words and just focus on God, to still and quiet their souls before Him)

Let your living water (Jimmy Swaggart) / Hungry / chorus for LYLW Jesus...Jesus / So I'll wait for You (from Hungry)

For me, it was a disasterous evening. You know those times when it all plays perfectly in your head, you know where God's going with it and then, on the night, you don't put yourself across well or you're not concentrating or WHATEVER and it just falls into an undignified heap. I hate those times.

Pastor Don preached on intimacy with God, and broken intimacy. It was a great sermon, gentle and pointed at the same time. Pitch-perfect. He's particularly gifted for this type of preaching. God seems to have given him the ability to put his words right into the wound and gently push - Here? Is this where it hurts? Let God heal it. Here. Now.

He worked from the story of Jesus with the woman at the well and used examples of different kinds of hugs to get us into the intimacy thinking. His crossover was perfect - timing and wording went right to the heart of the matter with a loving delicacy that revealed his deep love and concern for his congregation. The woman at the well needed a hug. The deep kind. That heals.

Java Setlist 15th February

This is our Sunday Setlist at Fred McKinnon's for our Java service, led this week by Jana Bougas:

Blessed be Your Name
Desert Song
Hosanna

Jana used a clip of an interview with one of Hillsong's leaders about worship and justice. Good stuff!

Loved Desert Song, a new one for me. Totally stuck in my head.

Morning service setlist 15 February

This is a Sunday Setlist over at Fred's. This is a wonderful community of creative worship leaders. Check it out here.

Walk-in: Jesus Messiah (new for this service)

Announcements

Jesus Messiah *offering*
Exodus 34:5-7a
Medley:
The Splendour of the King (How Great is our God) - How Great Thou Art - Jesus Messiah - Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)

Ch - How great is our God, sing with me x 2

Ch - Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

V1 - O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder

Ch - Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee

V3 - And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing

Ch - Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

Ch - How great is our God, sing with me

V1 - The splendour of a King, clothed in majesty

Ch - How great is our God, sing with me

V2 - Age to age He stands, and time is in His hands,

Ch - How great is our God, sing with me,

Ch - Jesus Messiah
V1 - He became sin
Pre-Ch - Love so amazing
V1 - Amazing grace
V2 - 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fearCh - My chains are goneV3 - The Lord has promised good to me

Reading
Be still for the presence of the Lord (last verse a capella)
Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh
Sermon

JBay Java Setlist 2009-02-08

There is nothing quite like a hothouse of creative worship leaders like the one at Fred Mckinnon's. This Sunday Setlist is, like many others, a result of spending some time thinking over what they are thinking and doing in their own services. Yes. You want to get over there right now.
Life in abundance - full colour version
So...to put you in the picture, Java leadership have decided that it is time to do some good solid teaching on the Holy Spirit.

Walk-in: Revival (As sure as gold is precious and the honey sweet)

Announcements

I wanted to kick off the testimony time to follow Always by telling a story of my own to break the ice. I used this stuff.
Always

Testimony time - This was just great. I LOVE stories about folks and God. Just love this stuff.

The Stand *offering*
Powerpoint ‘black and white’ *band play Consuming Fire*
I put together a powerpoint of some of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's work. In the first shots, I had taken out the colour, so you just had beautiful form and texture but not the real thing. I followed this with exactly the same shots in colour. I wanted to use the juxtaposition of this with the "There must be more than this" of the song. Unfortunately, my guitarist forgot to play the song whilst the powerpoint was up and it lost a little something. The change from black and white to colour in these shots was breathtaking. I spoke about how in so many ways God has given us full colour and we settle for black and white.

Consuming Fire (There must be more than this)
This was my main song for the evening but we had a couple of hitches with it. Firstly, I had no idea that this was a new one for this church. One of the drawbacks to morving churches is that you have no idea which ones knew what. Secondly, there was a little communication breakdown with the PC operator and when I loaded the songs onto EasyWorship I was in a hurry and picked the wrong song. Also has the name Consuming Fire...sheesh. I chose to sing it anyway, but made several mental "Note to self"s.

Breathe
We have not given a lot of space for folks just to sing or pray or say our praise to God during the middle of a worship song but we tried this tonight. I'm not sure how it went, really, as I believe very strongly that the congregation are going to struggle to worship if the worship leader is not worshipping.

Be still for the presence of the Lord

Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh (a capella)

1 minute silence

Now, at this point, we would start playing something from a CD and we would all hit the coffee hatch. Tonight, Pastor Donovan stepped up and said that he felt that there were more stories and to forget about the sermon. A bunch of people told us about stuff God had done and is doing. It was great. Then Don asked the team to play and asked for anyone who wanted prayer to come forward whilst we were singing. Phenomenal stuff. You must understand that this is new stuff for lots of the folks in our church. Not a lot of this goes on. But more is coming.

God rocked up. And how!

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation. O my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation.

Java setlist 2009/01/18

Oh yes - over at Fred's again. Where else would I be? It's the very best thing I can do with a Monday.

DO vs BE

Walk-in: I used the Show me your Hope powerpoint from last week and used God of this City behind it.
Gifted for Leadership (a community of women leaders) - I used an extract from their 14-day Reflections for Leaders - Day 2:

"It’s so easy as leaders to go, go, go and do, do, do. But God is calling us to
be, be, be. To-do lists, bullet points, and checkmarks have their place, but
when it comes to your spiritual life, you need to toss an “achievement” mindset
into the garbage and spend some time in God’s presence simply being the real
you."

Luke 10:38-42 Jesus on Martha DO vs Mary BE

Putting aside all the busy-ness, hurry and scurry that usually describes the beginning of the year - including the school year – I wanted us all to concentrate on & be with the God that makes it all possible.

John 15: 4 [Jesus says] “Remain in me, and I will remain in you.” What does remaining in Jesus mean to you?

Prayer:

Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.

Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and Thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm.
Majesty

We Declare Your Majesty

Awesome God

Heart of Worship - starting on I'll bring you more than a song (Offering - Read an extract from Aaron by Francine Rivers; a piece from when they were all bringing things to help with the building of the temple. Beautiful. Just beautiful. Where is my heart? Am I excited about what God might use my sacrifice or my gift for within His kingdom? Am I giving back to Him everything He gave me?)

This went well until we tried to give them a little space just to sing by messing around with 'I'll bring you more than a song' and 'It's all about You'. They're a traditional bunch and I think this blew them out of the water a bit, which didn't help the contemplation one bit. Note to self: Give them more of this during 'funky' worship before trying it during the quieter stuff.

Prayer:
You are God in our living; there in our breathing; God in our waking and in our sleeping.You are God in our resting; there in our working; God in our thinking and in our speaking.
Be our everything.
You are God in our hoping; there in our dreaming; God in our watching and in our waiting.You are God in our laughing; there in our weeping; God in our hurting and in our healing.
Jesus Christ, You are in us the hope of glory. You are everything. Be our everything
Coffee - always the good stuff

Sermon by Pastor Don on the parable of the talents. Don reminded us that each one of us have spiritual gifts and talents along with everything else that He has given us to use for the kingdom and for our church. He reminded us of what Jesus gave - one life. All of it. And what fruit that bore!

**Communion** - How deep the Father's love for us (two verses sung by team whilst others taking communion and then third verse together)

Amazing Grace - first verse only (My Chains tune)

My Jesus, My Saviour - definitely need to give this one a rest now for at least 6 months. We completely oversing this...
How was your Sunday?

"the church is the body of Christ"

But if we are the Body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the Body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way

There is a way

~ Casting Crowns

This blog post

http://www.futurechurch.co.za/regeneration

picked up this interesting blog post - please read it:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece

I read it. And felt I had to comment even if only for myself:

Hope. "It offers something to hold on to..."

This is where the tangible love 'takki' hits the tar. Jesus with skin on.

This is not my area and I don't speak this lingo but I thought I'd like to comment anyway.
I find it challenging that I've stumbled upon this post directly after 1) the following email enters my inbox from a missionary to orphans in Malawi and 2) I read the blog post below from a missionary in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

-unedited-
"...between death threats (truth) and a directed horrible attack on our credibility etc miraculously God has helped us provide for our children and the many others he has us assist here the average twenty to thirty thousand Rand spent a month somehow always is there even when it cannot be explained and somehow when ever we see a nice shirt of treat to make one little boy or girl feel special when we go into our wallets it's there. The proud moments when one who only knew the way of a thief to survive steals something and even though his act wasn't noticed mere minutes later i get a knock on our door "Uncle i'm sorry but i stole this" as he produces the item. or the child who stains every muscle to help us carry a heavy load. The 4 year old showing his older 'brothers' not to leave their clothes on the floor as he folds his and places them in his cupboured. These are the miracles we have the pleasure in witnessing no more no less than anyone who is mom or dad teacher or friend to another. Nothing special yet every bit special in Him." I asked him when they would get leave to go 'home' and spend time with their families... "I'm not sure when we'll be able to get away as were pretty much alone here so can't leave our children but perhaps one day God will make the way."

http://kristiapplesauce.typepad.com/kristi/2009/01/the-shock-this-is-a-pretty-discriptive-postread-with-care.html...

At the global leadership summit this year we were asked to consider "What is church?".

Jeffreys Bay Baptist- Hope 2009 - THIS IS CHURCH:

For there is no-one like our God

Greater things have yet to come
Greater things are still to be done in this city
Greater things have yet to come
And greater things have still to be done here

~ Christ Tomlin

We must go,
Live to feed the hungry, stand beside the broken.
We must go.
Stepping forward
Keep us from just singing
Move us into action.
We must go.

~ Tim Hughes

Java JBay Service – 2008-12-07

Hi folks

Once again I'm participating in Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon. Check it out - some fabulous creativity going on.

HOLINESS – REVERENCE – RESPONSE

(I wanted us to focus on the God behind the 'fear and trembling' bit of Philippians 2.12)

Open the eyes of my heart, Lord

Welcome and Announcements

Isaiah 6 1-8

We fall down, We lay our crowns (offering taken up during song)

King of Kings, Majesty

You are beautiful beyond description

I worship You, Almighty God

Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down (started with the chorus and didn't do the horribly overdone beautiful first verse 'Light of the world')

Immortal, invisible (first two verses read as a poem)

It's all about You, Jesus (again started with the chorus for Jesus, lover of my soul)

Brad Jones did a great job of challenging us from Philippians 2.12 'Working it out'.