Progressive Worship 04/05/09 Church at the Mall

This week, we had a little shorter time because of our special guest, Bailey Smith. We had a fantastic response to his message, and the Lord moved in a tremendous way. We had 88 people profess salvation, many rededications, and 23 get baptized this Sunday. It was awesome!

For the music part of the worship for this Palm Sunday, we started out with "Hosanna (Praise is Rising)" by Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown, and after the welcome, we opened back up with the pre-chorus of "Marvelous Light" by Charlie Hall, and then moved into "Salvation is Here" by Joel Houston. It was awesome moving from "Sin has lost its power/ Death has lost its sting/ From the grave You've risen/ Victoriously!" into "Salvation is Here." It had a lot of energy and was a powerful time. From that, we moved into "Jesus Paid It All" with the additional chorus by Alex Nifong. I don't think it's possible to go wrong with that song. When God's people get together and declare, "Oh praise the One who paid my debt/ and raised this life up from the dead!"

For the invitation time, we did one of my favorite hymns, "Just As I Am." It never gets old for me.

As usual, I wish we had more time, but we had to leave enough time for the response we believed would come as a result of Bailey Smith's preaching. God is faithful, and moved in a big way. I pray that God will use this week to to transform our church.

Be sure to check out my setlists along with the set lists of many other worship leaders at:

http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/04/05/sunday-setlists-37/

It's a fantastic resource!!

Peace and love,

Bill

Progressive Worship 03/29/09, Church at the Mall

This week was an exciting time of worship with our church. I started the service by talking about the concept of raising hands in worship, because we were starting with "Unchanging" by Chris Tomlin, which says in the chorus, "So we raise up holy hands/ to praise the Holy One/ Who was, and is, and is to come." While we sang the song, the hands went up all over the place, and I think it's just a matter of giving our people freedom to express themselves in worship.

We then had the welcome time, and moved into "Everlasting God" by Brenton Brown and Ken Riley in Bb, which is a standard for our congregation. We moved directly into "Lord of All" by Kristian Stanfill in Bb, which is another powerful praise tune. We finished the set with one of my originals, "Never Be the Same" in Bb. 

It was a good day. I wish we had more time during our worship times on Sundays. We're currently sandwiched between two other services, and we have different teams leading at those two services, so there is a buffer of time where we have to turn things around. It's frustrating, but it is what it is. We are looking at reformatting the service layout, which is exciting. I'll keep you posted.

Blessings!

Bill

Check out Fred McKinnon's "Worship Confessionals," where I and many other worship leaders and team members have discussed their set lists. It's an awesome resource!!!

http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/03/29/sunday-setlists-36-what-happened-at-your-church/