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Worship Confessional: November 15, 2009
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Today was the last day of our Missions Celebration, and it was a great finale! I am so proud of all of the people that were involved in making everything happen over the last several weeks! It is such a blessing to work with such creative and talented people! We had a lot of elements involved in the service again this week, including a dance by some of our kids as the grand finale! I will try and post a video if the dance later. Here is the set list and order for the week:
- Glory To God Forever – Beeching/Fee
- Mighty To Save – Fielding/Morgan
Choir – End of the Beginning
- A New Hallelujah – Smith/Smith/Baloche
Video intro for speaker
Speaker: Jerry Thorpe (former pastor of Crossroads Fellowship in Odessa – Jerry preached a terrific evangelistic message. We had several raise their hands to give their lives to Christ. That NEVER gets old!)
Offering
Drama finale – Won by One (Written by some of our own people)
I want to says thanks again to all of our people that were involved over the last several weeks to make our missions celebration such a success. It took all of you using the gifts you have to make it all work! You are awesome!
I am looking forward to wrapping up the Missions Celebration next week! This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.
Worship Confessional: November 8th, 2009
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Week three of our Missions Celebrations was absolutely a wonderful day! The energy and excitement that we had last week carried over to today and was just contagious. Everyone that was involved did such a good job! Way to go Glenville peeps! Here was our service schedule for today:
Choir – Pass It On (Tommy Walker tune)
Testimony about giving to missions
Video intro and drama – written and directed by some of our own people! (Way to go team, and thanks Ludwigs for heading this up, you are doing an awesome job!)
Special Music – By Our Love (Christy Nockles) (Great job Randi! It was beautiful!)
- God Of This City – Bleakley/Aaron/Comfort/Jordan/Kernaghan/McCann
Bi-lingual special (since we focused on a Hispanic field this week, out Hispanic pastor and worship leader did this for us)
- Your Name – Baloche/Packiam
Message – Jim Smith from BBFI missions office/Missionary to Ecuador
Time of response
Offering
Video promo for Guest Services team
Glory To God Forever – Fee/Beeching
I am looking forward to wrapping up the Missions Celebration next week! This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.
Worship Confessional: November 1, 2009
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Today was the second Sunday in our Missions Celebration. We were honored to have missionaries Jeremy & Charissa Jones with us. Jeremy spoke for us today, and did a fantastic job! A couple of quotes that stuck out to me were these: “Missions exists because worship does not; ” and “Missions will end, but worship will never end.” Those are not statements that belittle or make missions less important. in fact, I think that those statements actually make missions even more important. After all, the goal of missions is to make worshipers of God. I was very impressed with Jeremy and Charissa, they have a great heart for God and people. I pray God uses them in a great way in their field.
As far as our setlist goes, we had a wide variety of elements involved in the service. It all flowed really well!
- All Because of Jesus – Fee
- Let Everything That – Redman
Choir – Our God Saves (Baloche)
- Glory To God Forever – Fee/Beeching
Video intro to drama
Won by One Missions Drama (Written by a couple in our church. This will be a reoccurring drama for three weeks. Great job by everyone! Thanks Fred and Patti!)
Special to end the Drama – Yours (Steven Curtis Chapman – Ashley, you did great!)
Message – Jeremy Jones
Offering and announcements
Baby Dedication (seem to be doing a lot of these lately! That is always a good thing!
What a great day today! It was nice having everyone in the auditorium together in one service! That always brings extra energy and excitement! This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.
Catalyst Take-Aways #5
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Take-away #5 from Chuck Swindoll
“You will have people that worship you and those that criticize you. Neither deserve much of your time.”
- The first thing I thought of was a statement I heard in my first ministry; “Praise is like perfume, it smells nice, but you don’t want to drink it!”
- Praise from people is something we all like to hear, but none of us like to admit. It is good to get a pat on the back once and a while. We all need that, and as a leader, I should make sure that I do that regularly. But, the end results of the day are not how many atta-boys we get, but how many lives are changed. That is all that matters. How well we did or did not do is of no consequence.
- That does not excuse proper preparation. We need to prepare as if it is the last message we will ever speak or sing. But the results are up to God, not us.
- The praise of man can be dangerous, almost intoxicating. But it means nothing if we are not speaking what God tells us to speak. We should never prepare a message for the atta-boys! We should prepare it for life change in people.
- In the same way, criticism can not the strength out of you. It can take away any motivation that you have to serve people and make you think that you are making no difference or very little impact for the Kingdom.
- The difference in critiquing and criticism is this: criticism is based on a preference that someone has and a motivation to make you what that person wants; critiquing is a desire to see someone succeed and become what God wants you to be. Getting advice and counsel from people is wise. The wisest man to ever live wrote a lot about getting counsel.
- We must be careful that we do not base ministry direction on the criticism of people. We must do what God calls us to do. It is HIS church, not the critics. (That does not discount wise counsel, but wise counsel does NOT come from someone who constantly criticizes, no matter how much they may give or how much influence they may have.)
- At the end of the day, we have to answer for our obedience to God’s plan for our life, not the critics plan and not the plan of the person who constantly praises us.
Worship Confessional: October 18th, 2009
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What a great day to be in God’s House! We have a TON of people that are sick, but we still had a pretty good attendance in both services today. I am hoping that people get better this week and we can get over all the sickness that has been going around. Everyone did a great job today! It is an honor to serve with the team at out church! Here is the setlist for this week:
Special music – Strong Tower (By Kutlass – Our band did this)
Baptisms – This never gets old! Love to see people take their first step of obedience!
- You Never Let Go – Redman/Redman
- From The Inside Out - Houston
- Your Name – Baloche/Packiam
Video Intro to message
Message – “The Storm Before The Calm”
Time of response
Offering
Dismiss
(First service we did Your Name and ‘Tis So Sweet and the special was sung by our pastor’s wife – great job Leslie!)
This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.
