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07.14.08Worship Confessional: July 13, 2008Pretty low day in attendance yesterday, typical for a sunny July weekend I suppose. I'm going to be a little more transparent than usual with this post so hold onto your hat. This is actually going to be a confessional. Over the last five years in my current place of service, we've been working on a slow shift towards a more "contemporary" offering in our services. During the last few months, I've grown more and more certain that the shift is not working, and is not likely to work in the future no matter how much time and energy are thrown ...
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05.19.08Worship Confessional: May 18, 2008Yesterday was our last day in our iLife series on the spiritual disciplines. As the discipline highlighted was "celebration," we spent the entire corporate gathering time in celebration of the blessings of God, and the milestones He's helped us achieve. We recognized and celebrated graduates from high school and college, we celebrated our volunteers from the previous year, and we celebrated the faithfulness of God and His people by burning the note of debt on our auditorium. All in all, a really good day. I decided to stick with familiar tunes for the day, to generate more participation. Say what you ...
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05.05.08Worship Confessional: May 4, 2008I'm so thankful for such a smooth week after an action-packed schedule the week before. I took some much needed time away from certain things (as stated in a previous post), and the relative simplicity of the weekend was glorious. We're on the final leg of our iLife series on the spiritual discipline. Yesterday we covered Confession, which as a corporate discipline is somewhat outside most folk's experience. Musically, planning for such a theme was pretty easy, even regarding the fact that we had a return of the "regular" Sunday PM service. Here's the set list's for both gathering times: 11 AM Psalm 139:23-24 ...
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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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03.10.08Worship Confessional: March 9, 2008We're one-third of the way through our iLife series, and what a good time it's been. We had a good time in worship yesterday, which included our second week in a row of baptisms. What a blessing to see new believers take their first steps of obedience. Yesterday's music was a good blend of musical styles that I think really helped the widest range of worship participation in our congregation that I've seen in a while. Some days it just "clicks." I'm keeping things short this week, as I need more time for study than usual. I'm preaching twice this week, and ...
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02.27.08Worship Leader Wednesday #8, part 2Welcome to Part 2 of Terry's interview at Consuming Worship. Terry Foester What I love: Good music, leading worship, expensive guitars made of nice wood, listening to my kids talk, talking to my wife, drinking coffee (especially with my wife). And I love to see people lifting up the name of God to the high places of their lives, in song and in relationship. What I’m good at: Shopping - I know lame for a guy, but I am the king of finding good deals. I’m especially good at getting free stuff and making travel arrangements. Like right now, I’m trying ...
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02.06.08Worship Leader Wednesday #7Ben Abu Saada Biographical Information Spouse's name: Addie Children: Sporty (8), Posh (4), Baby (2) (Names to protect them from you web stalkers) Years married: 12 years Years leading worship: 13 years Years at current church: 9 years Church name and location: Grace Church of Overland Park, KS Church website: www.VisitGraceChurch.com Denomination: Non Instruments you play: guitars Blog: Yes If so, where? http://babulife.blogs.com/ Is your role full time, bi-vocational, or volunteer? Full time What are you listening to right now? Jeremy Riddle (Full Attention), Mute Math, Hillsong United (All the Above), R.E.M. (Live), David Crowder Band (Remedy) What are you reading right now? Simple Church, All Marketers Are Liars (Seth Godin), Crucial Conversations (Kerry Patterson), Star ...
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01.30.08Worship Leader Wednesday #6, part 2Welcome back to part two of Mandy Thompson's interview at Consuming Worship. Mandy Thompson What's the greatest "worship risk" you've ever taken? Serving at the church I am a part of now. We are in the midst of a subtle “worship war” – and the church is experiencing growing pains. This puts intense strain on the pastor and worship team, as well as the elders and leadership of our church. I and the Pastor are constantly exposed to criticism and complaint. It is impossible for us to fully please the 80 yr olds and the 18 yr olds at ...
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