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06.10.08Worship Confessional: June 8, 2008I completely forgot to to write up my confessional yesterday. We're full into music camp week, so my days are kind of packed. Here's the short and sweet of it, just the set list: Glory to His Name // Hoffman & Stockton Take My Life (Gloria) // Frances Havergal (lyrics); traditional French carol (music) [This was the lyrics of "Take My Life" set to the tune of "Angels We Have Heard on High" Glory in the Highest // Redman, Tomlin, Reeves, Carson & Cash Enough // Tomlin & Giglio Above All // LeBlanc & Baloche
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05.28.08last.fm Top 25Alright, I did something like this the other day when Bobby posted up his iTunes top 25, and so I thought I would do it for my last.fm top 25. Keep in mind when viewing this, these are the total plays for two separate iMacs (office and home), three separate iPods, and the MacBook we use on Sunday mornings for our pre-service mix. Still really scary though. I think I might be obsessed. What's your last.fm top 25 look like? Not a member of last.fm? Join.
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03.31.08Worship Confessional: March 30, 2008Well, after last week's near-death feeling while conducting the choir, I felt bright and springy yesterday. Attendance was a little low, but we had many of our visitors from Easter and the previous weeks return for another look. It looks like there's another influx as usually happens in the Spring. Some of the visitors I saw were definitely unashamed worshipers, and that made me put all that much more heart into the leading. We're firing our iLife series back up after Holy Week, and we studied the spiritual discipline of Simplicity, and so I put a little different spin ...
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02.13.08Worship Leader Wednesday #7, part 2Welcome back to Part 2 of Ben's interview at Consuming Worship. A special welcome to all the "Gracers" who've come to see Ben's interview. You made last Wednesday the highest traffic day I've ever had. Thanks so much for stopping by. Now on with the show. Ben Abu Saada How much have you seen your congregation shift musically during your tenure at Grace? In what ways? When my family arrived at Grace Church back in 1999, the church was a different body. As a matter of fact it was at that time called “Grace Baptist Church”. This name change was a ...
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02.04.08Worship Confessional: February 3, 2008Well, I made my public debut yesterday on the mandolin. It was an interesting experience. Do you ever have one of those days where everything is going fine, just the way you planned, but you still feel off? Yesterday was one of those days. During sound check, things were going just fine, but we discussed it at the end and came to the conclusion that we just were not gelling as a band. We sounded great as individual players, but something was keeping us from sounding like one instrument rather than a collection of instruments. We started playing 10 minutes early as ...
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01.28.08Worship Confessional: January 27, 2008Good day musically yesterday. The reconstituted band is cruising along, and I feel we are solidly on the road toward some really good sounds. Thursday's rehearsal went well, but we were down quite a few singers and my wife on keys because of various things, mainly some kind of stomach flu-type illness floating around. We got through rehearsal pretty well, our only problem seemed to be consistently getting the rhythm of Charlie Hall's arrangement of The Solid Rock. Come Sunday morning, our lead guitarist is late, but he's so awesome anyway. Why? Because he had that nasty aforementioned illness and showed ...
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