Sunday Setlist / 9.26.10

Here's the setlist from the 9:00am service at Highland Community Church:


Heirs [G] (Muck/Eckberg)
       Welcome & Announcements
       Special Presentation - the Shoe Man
       Offering
Hallelujah to My King [E] (Baloche)
       Scripture Reading - Job 1:6-22
It Is Well With My Soul [A] (Spafford)
Song of the Redeemed [A] (Hall)
        Message - Habakkuk 3:16-18
You Never Let Go [A] (Redman)
        Dismiss


THE BAND:
Jonathan David Eckberg - guitar/vocals


NOTES:
After being out of town for work last week and spending Sunday morning at my dad's church in Erie, Illinois, it was great to be back with my church family!  Due to  schedules of the band I led solo this week.  Things were a little rough getting going this morning, it was cold and wet outside and it seemed like we all were dragging.  But once we got the morning rolling the congregation came around and it turned out to be a great day of worship and hearing GOD's word.  It never ceases to amaze me how on the days when I don't see how GOD's going to get anything done, He works in incredible ways.  Cool stuff.


THE SONGS:
Heirs - This is a song from the forthcoming Until We're Kings EP, "Heirs".  It's a fun tune that is taken from Romans.  I love using it as an opening song as a reminder that we don't come into the presence of GOD as a people defeated by the world and run ragged from the busyness of life, but we come before Him as co-heirs with Christ.  We stand before GOD as his children who will one day share in the riches of His kingdom and see His glory in full. 


Hallelujah to My King - After a presentation from the Shoe Man - he sells old shoes overseas by the pound and uses the money to dig wells in Kenya - I was glad that we were doing this song after hearing one of the ways that GOD is at work in the world both in our own neighborhood and around the world.  This Paul Baloche song is one of my favorite worship tunes at the moment.  It's so good theologically.  To sing of the greatness, sweetness, goodness and peace of Jesus Christ through our trials with the promise of seeing His face as the saints sing "Hallelujah, what a Savior / I owe everything to Him - Hallelujah, what a Savior / Hallelujah to my King!"  If you don't do this song I would encourage you to work it into your list, it's fantastic.


It is Well with My Soul - We did four verses of a straight forward version of this song.  Coming from hearing the Word in Job and knowing that we were moving into a message of "unprosperity" (the idea that GOD never promises us worldly comfort and riches - but only peace and blessing in Him), it worked well.


Song of the Redeemed - We used the ending tag from this song as a reminder that although live can be difficult we are taken care of by the GOD of the universe (from "It is Well with My Soul").  We are His and His alone.  All else in the world is worthless, so we have no concern if we lose all our worldly possessions.  The tag in the song simply says "We are Yours" over and over again.  It gave me chills to pull back from the mic and hear our people singing together - "We are Yours, We are Yours, We are Yours" - absolutely beautiful.


You Never Let Go - This seems to be one of our "go-to" songs.  It's another tune that is just so theologically sound and speaks volumes of the peace and blessings of Christ apart from health, wealth, and prosperity on this earth.  


To see what other congregations are singing visit theworshipcommunity.org and this weeks Sunday Setlists.