Check out the 10:10 service at Community Gospel Church in Bremen, IN:
SERVICE
I'll Fly Away [Albert Brumley]
Welcome & Announcements / Offering
We Are One [Dave Hunt / Julie Hunt]
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee [Henry J. van Dyke]
Agnus Dei [Michael W. Smith]
Our God Reigns [Martin Smith]
Agnus Dei (reprise)
Message
For the Honor [Steven Furtick / Mack Brock / Chris Brown / Wade Joye]
Dismiss
TEAM
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Larry Ingle - vocals
Jess Yoder - vocals
Allie Hutchens - vocals
Kevin Schmidt - sound
Jeff Hutchens - visual
NOTES
We gave our drummer this weekend off, so I decided to go a very different direction than our normal service. We went old-school - we simplified things and went with just a single guitar and vocals. Sometimes that change of pace is really refreshing. The theme of the day was the truth of the Gospel leading to fellowship with God and with other believers. Pastor Jordan Muck is beginning a study of 1 John and this week we looked at 1 John 1:1-4. If you're keeping up with the teaching at CGC, you can download all the sermons here.
SONGS
I'll Fly Away - I gotta be honest, this song had nothing to do with the flow of the message for the morning. With the line-up we had for worship it just seemed like we needed a good, old-fashioned, knee-slapping, jug-blowing tune to kick us off. Larry, Jess, and Allie did a phenomenal job and we had a lot of fun singing through this one.
We Are One - This is a great song that we haven't used in several months. It speaks to the idea that we are all members of one body and that we are dependent upon one another. I thought this went well with our theme of fellowship for the day. If you've read this blog more than once or twice, you've heard my praise of Dave Hunt. He's a fantastic worship leader and songwriter and, as always, I highly recommend you check him out.
[album - Shelter - Dave Hunt]
Agnus Dei - A major theme of John's throughout this epistle is the refuting of the false teachers of the day. In the opening verses of the letter he establishes that Jesus Christ is the real messiah and that he was a historical being. He points to the way he personally interacted with Jesus both before his death and after the resurrection. All of that proof goes to show the sovereignty of GOD and the fact that his truth endures throughout all time. Agnus Dei is a simple expression of GOD's holiness and sovereignty, that is his faithfulness.
[album - Worship - Michael W. Smith]
Our God Reigns - We us just the chorus of this song. It has a natural flow from Agnus Dei. Another very simple expression of the timelessness of GOD's truth and his reign. "Our God reigns / Our God reigns / Forever his kingdom reigns" We segued seamlessly from one to the other. After we had sung this chorus several times we went back and reprised Agnus Dei, singing through just the verse one more time.
[album - The Mission Bell - Delirious?]
For the Honor - Confession: we had no idea we were doing this song until, literally, 5 minutes before the service. I had another song picked out to close with and I just felt like it wasn't going to fit as well as I had initially thought. I mentioned it to Pastor Jordan and he said, "sing For the Honor". With no rehearsal or run through, we printed off the chord chart and walked into the service. I ended up doing the song by myself since the rest of the team didn't know it. By the time the message was finished and I played through the song it was obvious that that was the PERFECT song for the day. Definitely a "GOD-moment" where he brushes aside all your planning and the spirit guides you to a place that will connect with his people. Not the most comfortable move for me, but it pulled together nicely.
[album - For the Honor - Elevation Worship]
To see how brothers and sisters are worshipping in their home churches, check out the Sunday Setlist as www.theworshipcommunity.com.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
Easter Sunday Setlist / 4.8.12
The Easter celebration at Community Gospel Church in Bremen, IN, looked a little something like this...
SERVICE
Intro Music
Welcome & Announcements/Offering
Children's Choir
Video
Jesus Paid it All [Alex Nifong/Elvina M. Hall/John Thomas Grape]
Message
The Intercession [Jordan Muck/Jonathan Eckberg]
Happy Day [Tim Hughes/Ben Cantelon]
How Great Thou Art [Stuart K. Hine]
Dismiss
TEAM
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Beth Stemble - piano
Nick Hostetler - drums
Randy Hepler - bass
Jess Yoder - vocals
Kevin Schmidt - audio
Jeff Hutchens - visual
NOTES
What a crazy morning! We, as a staff and the church as a whole, have spent a lot of time an energy planning and praying over this week's service for the past few months. Pastor Jordan Muck was stoked to preach. Our Director of Ministry and Operations, Cyndi Leamon, had just come home from vacation and was excited about how things had come together for the service. Well... things don't always go as we plan. At about 9:00 on Saturday night Pastor Jordan took his wife to the hospital, as she was in labor. At that point my wife and I headed out to their house to stay with their two year old daughter. I woke up at 5:00am to a text that they had not had the child yet and that we was not likely to be in church. So I went to the church early to do some last minute sermon prep (I had prepped a good bit already because we knew that this was a possibility). After a little work I called Cyndi to update her on the situation and she had returned from vacation with the flu and despite her best efforts she couldn't even get out of bed. All of this was compounded by the fact that Both Pastor Jordan and Cyndi were on the worship team this week!
The outcome of all of the insanity was that we had our other bass player, Randy Hepler step up and fill in for us on, literally, no notice. Jess Yoder stepped up and filled a lot of vocal space all on her own. Nick and Beth were awesome, as always. And I had the honor and privilege of preaching the Word on Easter Sunday. As planned, we took a step out of our series on Isaiah 53 this week to look at John 6:28-35. The entire sermon revolved around the idea that we respond to Christ's call with one of three types of belief: inherited, intellectual, or intimate. To dowload the audio from today's message (along with past messages) click here.
The thing I was reminded of today was that GOD is going to do his work regardless of the situation. I think it is important for us to give our best efforts, to plan and prepare meticulously, and to be ready to move when GOD says, "Go." But at the end of the day, whether our plans succeed or fail, have very little impact on whether His plan will succeed. The only thing that matters is that we surrender to him and not get in the way of His work through the Spirit. We missed some of our church family today, but GOD is cool. He had everything the way HE planned it.
One more note: Congratulations to Pastor Jordan and Bethany Muck. Gianna Lynn Muck was born at 4:19pm on Sunday, April 8. She was 7 lbs 5 oz and 21.5 inches long. It was a rough couple of days for mom and dad but everyone is healthy and doing well!
SONGS
Jesus Paid it All - Another one of my favorite songs to play. We came out of a video that was a modern day representation of how Christ took on our iniquities and and the pain of death so that we might be reborn as sons and daughters of the kingdom. As the video ended we went straight into "Jesus Paid it All". Then as the third verse started up we cut to a video of all of the baptisms from our service several weeks ago. It was really cool. Cyndi Leamon put in a ton of time fitting the video together a couple weeks ago. Once we hit the loud build-up/tag of the song it started clipping through the people rising up out of the water. It worked out perfectly - it was an extremely emotional moment to sing, "O Praise the one who paid my debt // And raised this life up from the dead" and see the joy on people's faces as rise up out of the baptismal.
[album: Hello - Kristian Stanfill]
The Intercession - With the message revolving around true belief in Jesus Christ and in the message that he spoke, I liked the way this song worked those themes together with an attitude of celebration. The first line of both verses says, "The message has been recieved // and we have believed in you". A great fit to begin our celebration set.
Happy Day - We hadn't done this song in quite a while. I think when I got to the church it was one that had been overused a bit, so I layed off of it (even though I love singing it). It's another great rocking song about "the greatest day in history // death is beaten, you have rescued me".
[album: We Shine - Fee]
How Great Thou Art - We've done this one a lot lately, but was a great song to close out an awesome morning.
[album: Our God Saves - Paul Baloche]
To see how other churches around the country worshipped this week check out the Sunday Setlist. You can find it at www.theworshipcommunity.com.
SERVICE
Intro Music
Welcome & Announcements/Offering
Children's Choir
Video
Jesus Paid it All [Alex Nifong/Elvina M. Hall/John Thomas Grape]
Message
The Intercession [Jordan Muck/Jonathan Eckberg]
Happy Day [Tim Hughes/Ben Cantelon]
How Great Thou Art [Stuart K. Hine]
Dismiss
TEAM
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Beth Stemble - piano
Nick Hostetler - drums
Randy Hepler - bass
Jess Yoder - vocals
Kevin Schmidt - audio
Jeff Hutchens - visual
NOTES
What a crazy morning! We, as a staff and the church as a whole, have spent a lot of time an energy planning and praying over this week's service for the past few months. Pastor Jordan Muck was stoked to preach. Our Director of Ministry and Operations, Cyndi Leamon, had just come home from vacation and was excited about how things had come together for the service. Well... things don't always go as we plan. At about 9:00 on Saturday night Pastor Jordan took his wife to the hospital, as she was in labor. At that point my wife and I headed out to their house to stay with their two year old daughter. I woke up at 5:00am to a text that they had not had the child yet and that we was not likely to be in church. So I went to the church early to do some last minute sermon prep (I had prepped a good bit already because we knew that this was a possibility). After a little work I called Cyndi to update her on the situation and she had returned from vacation with the flu and despite her best efforts she couldn't even get out of bed. All of this was compounded by the fact that Both Pastor Jordan and Cyndi were on the worship team this week!
The outcome of all of the insanity was that we had our other bass player, Randy Hepler step up and fill in for us on, literally, no notice. Jess Yoder stepped up and filled a lot of vocal space all on her own. Nick and Beth were awesome, as always. And I had the honor and privilege of preaching the Word on Easter Sunday. As planned, we took a step out of our series on Isaiah 53 this week to look at John 6:28-35. The entire sermon revolved around the idea that we respond to Christ's call with one of three types of belief: inherited, intellectual, or intimate. To dowload the audio from today's message (along with past messages) click here.
The thing I was reminded of today was that GOD is going to do his work regardless of the situation. I think it is important for us to give our best efforts, to plan and prepare meticulously, and to be ready to move when GOD says, "Go." But at the end of the day, whether our plans succeed or fail, have very little impact on whether His plan will succeed. The only thing that matters is that we surrender to him and not get in the way of His work through the Spirit. We missed some of our church family today, but GOD is cool. He had everything the way HE planned it.
One more note: Congratulations to Pastor Jordan and Bethany Muck. Gianna Lynn Muck was born at 4:19pm on Sunday, April 8. She was 7 lbs 5 oz and 21.5 inches long. It was a rough couple of days for mom and dad but everyone is healthy and doing well!
SONGS
Jesus Paid it All - Another one of my favorite songs to play. We came out of a video that was a modern day representation of how Christ took on our iniquities and and the pain of death so that we might be reborn as sons and daughters of the kingdom. As the video ended we went straight into "Jesus Paid it All". Then as the third verse started up we cut to a video of all of the baptisms from our service several weeks ago. It was really cool. Cyndi Leamon put in a ton of time fitting the video together a couple weeks ago. Once we hit the loud build-up/tag of the song it started clipping through the people rising up out of the water. It worked out perfectly - it was an extremely emotional moment to sing, "O Praise the one who paid my debt // And raised this life up from the dead" and see the joy on people's faces as rise up out of the baptismal.
[album: Hello - Kristian Stanfill]
The Intercession - With the message revolving around true belief in Jesus Christ and in the message that he spoke, I liked the way this song worked those themes together with an attitude of celebration. The first line of both verses says, "The message has been recieved // and we have believed in you". A great fit to begin our celebration set.
Happy Day - We hadn't done this song in quite a while. I think when I got to the church it was one that had been overused a bit, so I layed off of it (even though I love singing it). It's another great rocking song about "the greatest day in history // death is beaten, you have rescued me".
[album: We Shine - Fee]
How Great Thou Art - We've done this one a lot lately, but was a great song to close out an awesome morning.
[album: Our God Saves - Paul Baloche]
To see how other churches around the country worshipped this week check out the Sunday Setlist. You can find it at www.theworshipcommunity.com.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Sunday Setlist / 4.1.12
Here's how we roll at Community Gospel Church in Bremen, IN:
SERVICE
The Intercession [Jordan Muck/Jonathan Eckberg]
Welcome & Announcements
Offering
Everlasting God [Brenton Brown/Ken Riley]
Holy is the Lord [Chris Tomlin/Louie Giglio]
Overcome [John Egan]
Message
The Intercession [Muck/Eckberg]
THE TEAM
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Nick Hostetler - drums
Beth Stemble - keys
Randy Hepler - bass
Tim Heckaman - vocals
Kevin Schmidt - audio
Vance Csaszar - visual
NOTES
This week was the second in our series "The 'I AM' in Isaiah", a study of Isaiah 53. In this series we are looking at the prophecies of the work and crucifixion of Jesus in the suffering servant of Isaiah. It's a great study as we lead toward Easter Sunday and the celebration of the redemptive work of our Savior. This week focused on the price Christ paid in taking on the weight of internal sin, external sin, and the fallen world around us. To hear this message along with last week's introduction to the series click here.
Our team was unique this week. It was Nick's first week on drums for us. It's been great to work with him and bring him into the fold of our ministry. He's a great drummer with an awesome heart for what's happening at CGC. It brings me great joy to have a beat back in our worship! We also had Tim step in and sing with us and he did an awesome job as well. All three of our vocalists were out this week (two on family vacations and one recovering from a surgery earlier in the week). While we definitely missed them and can't wait to have them back next week, it was a great opportunity for Tim to get involved in what we are doing on Sunday mornings.
SONGS
The Intercession - The song was written for this series and all the lyrics are based off the verses of Isaiah 53. Pastor Jordan actually put together a majority of this song as he was preparing the messages several weeks back. Then we spent a morning working through the material he had and rounding the song into shape. Finally I spent a couple weeks fine-tuning thing. It has turned out to be a really interesting song. There are a lot of intertwining parts that keep it together from start to finish. Pastor Jordan did a great job with the foundations of this one. We played this one twice today. We did it once as the opener - to give people a feel for the song and let them hear it. Then we used it as the response to the message. In the response time I started with the chorus so the congregation would know what was coming and then we kicked off the song.
Everlasting God - We used this one as the opener to our main worship set. I always enjoy this song. The theme of our God being one who is with us in all things and our defender in our hours of need made sense with today's message. The God who provides redemption for his sheep never leaves them to the dangers of the world.
[album: Everlasting GOD - Brenton Brown]
Holy is the Lord - Another "standard" worship song that fell in line with today's theme. As I studied the verse of Isaiah 53 I was struck by the fact that only in acknowledging the holiness - the perfect nature that is all together separate from the fallen world - of God can the true weight of Christ's taking on of my iniquities (Isa. 53:4) come into perspective.
[album: Arriving - Chris Tomlin]
Overcome - This song by the Desperation Band has become one of my favorites over the past few years. The bridge kicks my butt everytime (from Rev. 12:11), "And we will overcome // By the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony // Everyone overcome". A tremendous anthem of how, when we surrender ourselves to the Holy GOD, we will be victorious over sin and death and all of Satan's power. Victory won by the the blood of the lamb and we are strengthened to stand against the Accuser when we acknowledge who Christ is and the meaning of His sacrifice.
[album: Everyone Overcome - Desperation Band]
To see the songs used in worship by our brothers and sisters from all over the place, check out the Sunday Setlist at www.theworshipcommunity.com.
Everlasting God - We used this one as the opener to our main worship set. I always enjoy this song. The theme of our God being one who is with us in all things and our defender in our hours of need made sense with today's message. The God who provides redemption for his sheep never leaves them to the dangers of the world.
[album: Everlasting GOD - Brenton Brown]
Holy is the Lord - Another "standard" worship song that fell in line with today's theme. As I studied the verse of Isaiah 53 I was struck by the fact that only in acknowledging the holiness - the perfect nature that is all together separate from the fallen world - of God can the true weight of Christ's taking on of my iniquities (Isa. 53:4) come into perspective.
[album: Arriving - Chris Tomlin]
Overcome - This song by the Desperation Band has become one of my favorites over the past few years. The bridge kicks my butt everytime (from Rev. 12:11), "And we will overcome // By the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony // Everyone overcome". A tremendous anthem of how, when we surrender ourselves to the Holy GOD, we will be victorious over sin and death and all of Satan's power. Victory won by the the blood of the lamb and we are strengthened to stand against the Accuser when we acknowledge who Christ is and the meaning of His sacrifice.
[album: Everyone Overcome - Desperation Band]
To see the songs used in worship by our brothers and sisters from all over the place, check out the Sunday Setlist at www.theworshipcommunity.com.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Sunday Setlist / 3.18.12
Here is the rundown of the March 18th service at Community Gospel Church...
THE SERVICE
Everything Glorious [david crowder]
Welcome/Announcements/Offering
Beautiful One [tim hughes]
Come Thou Fount [robert robinson]
Better is One Day [matt redman]
Lord You Have My Heart [martin smith]
Message
Communion
Potluck Dinner
THE TEAM
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar vocals
Randy Hepler - bass
Bethany Muck - piano/vocals
Larry Ingle - vocals
Staci Smith - vocals
Kay Smith - vocals
NOTES
This week was a stand-alone message where Pastor Jordan Muck was looking at the Shema and the verses of its application - Deuteronomy 6:4-9. The overall principle builds on verse 4 and speaks to the fact that this verse must be applied to our hearts, in our homes and in our lives. We closed the service with two-fold communion. We opened the tables for people to take communion with their families and then we had a potluck dinner. During the potluck we had last week's service playing on the projector so that anyone who missed seeing 16 of our brothers and sisters baptized could see what they missed out on.
You can download this weeks message here.
SONGS
Everything Glorious - This is one of the songs I used to do a lot, but we just recently introduced it at CGC. It's a great opening song. Upbeat, lots of fun, easy to catch on to, and will even get some people clapping. I don't usually worry about the flow of service when selecting our opening songs. Our people have become accustomed to the opening song being the marker of the start of service. It's what calls a lot of people in from the foyer into the sanctuary. With that being the case, I usually just make the opener a fun energetic song. It's also a great place to introduce new material. Most of our congregation doesn't engage in the opening song, they'll sing along if they know it, but it seems to be very passive.
[album: Remedy - David Crowder Band]
Beautiful One - As I said, the message covered the Shema and following verses of Deuteronomy 6. The very beginning of the focus on loving the Lord with all our hearts, with all our souls, and with all our might is to recognize who he is. This is one of those songs that expresses this very simply and very succinctly.
[album: When Silence Falls - Tim Hughes]
Come Thou Fount - One of my favorite hymns. We do a very traditional arrangement of it. Robert Robinson was 23 years old when he wrote this hymn. Some years later, after a backslide into a life of sin and debauchery, a broken and dejected Robinson climbed into a carriage with a woman who noticed the pain he was dealing with. The woman offered Robinson a short poem and told him that this poem had helped her in many difficult times. After reading the words Robinson, with tears in his eyes, said to her, "Madam, I am the poor unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago, and I would give a thousand worlds, if I had them, to enjoy the feelings I had then." The fact is that Robinson had forgotten who GOD is and he had failed to instill that truth in his heart, in his home, and in his life. "Prone to wander, Lord I feel it / Prone to leave the God I love / Here's my heart, O take and seal it / Seal it for they courts above". We are prone to go the direction of Robinson's later years, but we also have been given the opportunity, through Christ, to offer our hearts to GOD and be granted the gift of adoption into His family.
Better is One Day - This song from Psalm 84 continued our message of the acknowledging the truth of who GOD is and what that truly means. Larry lead this one and did a great job with it.
[album: Blessed Be Your Name - Matt Redman]
Lord You Have My Heart - I've been using this song in worship for nearly 15 years and it's still one of my favorites. It's all about offering the entirety of who we are to the GOD we serve and submitting ourselves as a sacrifice of praise. If you don't know of this song, look back in the vault (1997) and pick it up. It's worth your time.
[album: Cutting Edge - Delirious?]
To see how others worshipped on Sunday go to the worship community and check out the Sunday Setlist.
THE SERVICE
Everything Glorious [david crowder]
Welcome/Announcements/Offering
Beautiful One [tim hughes]
Come Thou Fount [robert robinson]
Better is One Day [matt redman]
Lord You Have My Heart [martin smith]
Message
Communion
Potluck Dinner
THE TEAM
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar vocals
Randy Hepler - bass
Bethany Muck - piano/vocals
Larry Ingle - vocals
Staci Smith - vocals
Kay Smith - vocals
NOTES
This week was a stand-alone message where Pastor Jordan Muck was looking at the Shema and the verses of its application - Deuteronomy 6:4-9. The overall principle builds on verse 4 and speaks to the fact that this verse must be applied to our hearts, in our homes and in our lives. We closed the service with two-fold communion. We opened the tables for people to take communion with their families and then we had a potluck dinner. During the potluck we had last week's service playing on the projector so that anyone who missed seeing 16 of our brothers and sisters baptized could see what they missed out on.
You can download this weeks message here.
SONGS
Everything Glorious - This is one of the songs I used to do a lot, but we just recently introduced it at CGC. It's a great opening song. Upbeat, lots of fun, easy to catch on to, and will even get some people clapping. I don't usually worry about the flow of service when selecting our opening songs. Our people have become accustomed to the opening song being the marker of the start of service. It's what calls a lot of people in from the foyer into the sanctuary. With that being the case, I usually just make the opener a fun energetic song. It's also a great place to introduce new material. Most of our congregation doesn't engage in the opening song, they'll sing along if they know it, but it seems to be very passive.
[album: Remedy - David Crowder Band]
Beautiful One - As I said, the message covered the Shema and following verses of Deuteronomy 6. The very beginning of the focus on loving the Lord with all our hearts, with all our souls, and with all our might is to recognize who he is. This is one of those songs that expresses this very simply and very succinctly.
[album: When Silence Falls - Tim Hughes]
Come Thou Fount - One of my favorite hymns. We do a very traditional arrangement of it. Robert Robinson was 23 years old when he wrote this hymn. Some years later, after a backslide into a life of sin and debauchery, a broken and dejected Robinson climbed into a carriage with a woman who noticed the pain he was dealing with. The woman offered Robinson a short poem and told him that this poem had helped her in many difficult times. After reading the words Robinson, with tears in his eyes, said to her, "Madam, I am the poor unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago, and I would give a thousand worlds, if I had them, to enjoy the feelings I had then." The fact is that Robinson had forgotten who GOD is and he had failed to instill that truth in his heart, in his home, and in his life. "Prone to wander, Lord I feel it / Prone to leave the God I love / Here's my heart, O take and seal it / Seal it for they courts above". We are prone to go the direction of Robinson's later years, but we also have been given the opportunity, through Christ, to offer our hearts to GOD and be granted the gift of adoption into His family.
Better is One Day - This song from Psalm 84 continued our message of the acknowledging the truth of who GOD is and what that truly means. Larry lead this one and did a great job with it.
[album: Blessed Be Your Name - Matt Redman]
Lord You Have My Heart - I've been using this song in worship for nearly 15 years and it's still one of my favorites. It's all about offering the entirety of who we are to the GOD we serve and submitting ourselves as a sacrifice of praise. If you don't know of this song, look back in the vault (1997) and pick it up. It's worth your time.
[album: Cutting Edge - Delirious?]
To see how others worshipped on Sunday go to the worship community and check out the Sunday Setlist.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Sunday Setlist / 3.11.12
Here is what the morning service looked like at Community Gospel Church in Bremen, IN...
THE SERVICE
I Am New (Jonathan Eckberg)
Welcome, Announcements, and Offering
Welcome, Announcements, and Offering
Baptisms
EVERYTHING ELSE
This may have been the simplest service (in terms of schedule) I've ever been a part of, but it was INCREDIBLE! We had 16 people stand up in front of a packed house and make a public profession of their faith in Christ this morning. To hear the stories of surrender to GOD and the ways that the Spirit is moving in the lives of the people of CGC is phenomenal.
We opened the service by singing one song. Honestly, I wouldn't have minded passing on this but it seems that our congregation is conditioned to not come into the sanctuary until the opening song starts up. It's not a bad thing, that's just how we roll at CGC. So anyway, we opened with "I Am New" because it's one we've learned over the past few weeks and it just seemed fitting for the purpose of the day. From there we covered a few announcements and the offering before rolling right into the baptisms. We had borrowed a portable baptismal from our good friends at River Valley Church in Mishawaka so that we could conduct the service in the sanctuary (there is a baptismal in the churches "all purpose" room, but the setup in there is really awkward, so we really wanted to avoid using that one). We gave each person an opportunity to stand before the church and share their story with us and to explain their intentions in being baptized. Then we dunked them. The highlight of the day for me, without a doubt, was seeing fathers step up to baptize their children. I'm not a guy who cries that much, but when men of faith step up and be the spiritual leaders of their families in the way that GOD has called them to be and take responsibility for their children's spiritual growth... MAN! That got me. That's good stuff. Again, it was just such an awesome morning. GOD is moving in some cool ways at CGC right now and I'm so incredibly excited for how my brothers and sisters in the congregation are responding and will continue to respond over the course of the next few months and years.
SONG
I Am New - This song was written for this last series and it was a perfect fit for our week of baptisms. For more info on this song you can check out the Sunday Setlists from the past couple of weeks.
To see how many of our other brothers and sisters worshipped today you can go to Sunday Setlist at www.theworshipcommunity.com.
SONG
I Am New - This song was written for this last series and it was a perfect fit for our week of baptisms. For more info on this song you can check out the Sunday Setlists from the past couple of weeks.
To see how many of our other brothers and sisters worshipped today you can go to Sunday Setlist at www.theworshipcommunity.com.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Sunday Setlist / 3.4.12
Want to know how we roll at Community Gospel Church? Here you go...
THE SERVICE
How Great Thou Art [Stuart K. Hine]
Welcome & Announcements
Offering // Missions Update: Jim Boerckel
Unchanging [Chris Tomlin]
I Am New [Jonathan Eckberg]
Majesty (Here I Am) [Stuart Gerrard/Martin Smith]
Message
Dismiss
THE TEAM
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Beth Stemble - piano
Jess Yoder - vocals
Alli Hutchens - vocals
Cyndi Leamon - vocals
Mike Stemble - audio
Vance Ceaszar - video
NOTES
While the schedule looks light this week, it was actually a very busy morning. We used our announcement time as a prep for our "See the Need, Meet the Need" projects. This is a week of service that our church is doing. We're asking everyone in the church to help out with a number of projects both at the church and in the community. It included everything from digging ditches (not even kidding), doing some spring cleaning for a mission for the homeless to moving furniture for one of our "senior saints." Then during our offering time we had one of our missionaries, Jim Boerckel, share about his work in/around a muslim community market in Michigan. Finally, we were rolling in our worship time and Pastor Jordan Muck had us sing through Majesty for a while longer (more on this below). All of this took extra time than normal so we actually ended up cutting everything after the message.
This week we closed out our "Three" series. It's been an excellent series as Pastor Jordan has walked us through Colossians 3:1-17. You can download the entire sermon series here.
THE SONGS
How Great Thou Art - We tend to follow the Paul Baloche version of this hymn. However, we have been without a drummer for the past several weeks, which forced us to "settle" the song a little bit. It still had a nice push to it, but it missed just a little "umph." I think it has been good for our team and our congregation to function without a drummer for this period in time, but I also hope to have someone filling that role in the near future.
[album: Our God Saves - Paul Baloche]
Unchanging - Chris Tomlin has done a lot of good stuff, but this may be one of my favorites of his. It's such a simple profession of faith in a GOD who is faithful, true to his promises, loving and gracious and a call to respond not only in spirit but with physical action (the raising of hands).
[album: Not to Us - Chris Tomlin]
I Am New - This week was the third week in a row that we've done this song as it has been the "theme song" for this series. People have really seemed to catch on to it and it's always special to hear people singing songs that are a reflection of what they are going through and experiencing as a church family. As I've mentioned before, we are moving in the direction of doing more and more original music. While that can be difficult for some people to understand why we don't just do all the songs that are on the radio, there is something special that happens when we sing praises to our GOD from a personal experience rather than someone else's.
Majesty (Here I Am) - Our congregation eats this song up. It's one of those songs that when we do it you can look out and see people giving themselves over in worship of a majestic GOD. Personally, the last line of this chorus punches me in the face every time we sing it: "Your grace has found me just as I am // Empty handed but alive in Your hands." Absolutely phenomenal. We were rolling in this song, so I added a couple extra choruses to the end. THEN, as we were finishing up Pastor Jordan came up and asked to keep singing it, so we kept worshipping our GOD as a family and it was an incredible experience. We probably sang through the chorus 8 more times.
***As a side note, I think this illustrates why we are attempting to do more music that is original to our community. We started using this song last year during our 7-week series on the parable of the prodigal son. Our congregation made a connection from this song to the series (which impacted our church deeply). As a result there is an authenticity in our worship that pours forth when we sing this particular song together. As we are working on original music we pray that GOD creates these bonds between music and message. And, that we will create songs that our congregation can hear and think, "this reminds me of what GOD has called us to from [insert sermon point here]." Music has to be more than a catchy melody with some good words (even beyond sound theological lyrics). There must be a lasting purpose to the songs we sing, just as the teaching of the word should not be listened to and then forgotten. All that we do in a gathering of the saints should point to an eternal end. End of worship sermon. :)
[album: World Service - Delirious?]
The only thing that was unfortunate about our service today is that since a number of elements ran longer than normal, it forced us to dump the response song to the sermon. While this is not a huge deal, I was really looking forward to doing the song. Alli Hutchens was going to lead us through "From the Inside Out" with Jess Yoder backing her up. I love doing that song and it would have worked really well in conjunction with the sermon. But, when the spirit moves, you just have to let go and let some of your desires slide. I am constantly humbled at how incredible it is to see GOD move in ways that look very different from how I intend.
What a great morning!
To see what brothers and sisters in other churches were singing this week check out the Sunday Setlist at www.theworshipcommunity.com.
THE SERVICE
How Great Thou Art [Stuart K. Hine]
Welcome & Announcements
Offering // Missions Update: Jim Boerckel
Unchanging [Chris Tomlin]
I Am New [Jonathan Eckberg]
Majesty (Here I Am) [Stuart Gerrard/Martin Smith]
Message
Dismiss
THE TEAM
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Beth Stemble - piano
Jess Yoder - vocals
Alli Hutchens - vocals
Cyndi Leamon - vocals
Mike Stemble - audio
Vance Ceaszar - video
NOTES
While the schedule looks light this week, it was actually a very busy morning. We used our announcement time as a prep for our "See the Need, Meet the Need" projects. This is a week of service that our church is doing. We're asking everyone in the church to help out with a number of projects both at the church and in the community. It included everything from digging ditches (not even kidding), doing some spring cleaning for a mission for the homeless to moving furniture for one of our "senior saints." Then during our offering time we had one of our missionaries, Jim Boerckel, share about his work in/around a muslim community market in Michigan. Finally, we were rolling in our worship time and Pastor Jordan Muck had us sing through Majesty for a while longer (more on this below). All of this took extra time than normal so we actually ended up cutting everything after the message.
This week we closed out our "Three" series. It's been an excellent series as Pastor Jordan has walked us through Colossians 3:1-17. You can download the entire sermon series here.
THE SONGS
How Great Thou Art - We tend to follow the Paul Baloche version of this hymn. However, we have been without a drummer for the past several weeks, which forced us to "settle" the song a little bit. It still had a nice push to it, but it missed just a little "umph." I think it has been good for our team and our congregation to function without a drummer for this period in time, but I also hope to have someone filling that role in the near future.
[album: Our God Saves - Paul Baloche]
Unchanging - Chris Tomlin has done a lot of good stuff, but this may be one of my favorites of his. It's such a simple profession of faith in a GOD who is faithful, true to his promises, loving and gracious and a call to respond not only in spirit but with physical action (the raising of hands).
[album: Not to Us - Chris Tomlin]
I Am New - This week was the third week in a row that we've done this song as it has been the "theme song" for this series. People have really seemed to catch on to it and it's always special to hear people singing songs that are a reflection of what they are going through and experiencing as a church family. As I've mentioned before, we are moving in the direction of doing more and more original music. While that can be difficult for some people to understand why we don't just do all the songs that are on the radio, there is something special that happens when we sing praises to our GOD from a personal experience rather than someone else's.
Majesty (Here I Am) - Our congregation eats this song up. It's one of those songs that when we do it you can look out and see people giving themselves over in worship of a majestic GOD. Personally, the last line of this chorus punches me in the face every time we sing it: "Your grace has found me just as I am // Empty handed but alive in Your hands." Absolutely phenomenal. We were rolling in this song, so I added a couple extra choruses to the end. THEN, as we were finishing up Pastor Jordan came up and asked to keep singing it, so we kept worshipping our GOD as a family and it was an incredible experience. We probably sang through the chorus 8 more times.
***As a side note, I think this illustrates why we are attempting to do more music that is original to our community. We started using this song last year during our 7-week series on the parable of the prodigal son. Our congregation made a connection from this song to the series (which impacted our church deeply). As a result there is an authenticity in our worship that pours forth when we sing this particular song together. As we are working on original music we pray that GOD creates these bonds between music and message. And, that we will create songs that our congregation can hear and think, "this reminds me of what GOD has called us to from [insert sermon point here]." Music has to be more than a catchy melody with some good words (even beyond sound theological lyrics). There must be a lasting purpose to the songs we sing, just as the teaching of the word should not be listened to and then forgotten. All that we do in a gathering of the saints should point to an eternal end. End of worship sermon. :)
[album: World Service - Delirious?]
The only thing that was unfortunate about our service today is that since a number of elements ran longer than normal, it forced us to dump the response song to the sermon. While this is not a huge deal, I was really looking forward to doing the song. Alli Hutchens was going to lead us through "From the Inside Out" with Jess Yoder backing her up. I love doing that song and it would have worked really well in conjunction with the sermon. But, when the spirit moves, you just have to let go and let some of your desires slide. I am constantly humbled at how incredible it is to see GOD move in ways that look very different from how I intend.
What a great morning!
To see what brothers and sisters in other churches were singing this week check out the Sunday Setlist at www.theworshipcommunity.com.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Sunday Setlist / 2.26.12
Here's how we celebrated the day at Community Gospel Church...
THE SERVICE
Heirs [Jordan Muck/Jonathan Eckberg]
Welcome & Announcements
All Creatures of Our God and King [Francis of Assisi]
Holy Nation [Muck/Eckberg]
I Am New [Eckberg]
Message
Let Us Shine [Eckberg]
Mighty to Save [Ben Fielding/Reuben Morgan]
THE TEAM
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Larry Ingle - vocals
Alli Hutchens - vocals
Jess Yoder - vocals
Kevin Schmidt - audio
Perri Hepler - visual
NOTES
This week marked week number 3 of our current series, "Three". In this series Pastor Jordan Muck is preaching through Colossians 3:1-17. Todays message was the first of two weeks that focus on verses 13-17 - on our renewal and the things that God calls us to cloth ourselves with. This week we looked at compassion, kindness, humility and meekness.
THE SONGS
Heirs - Pastor Jordan and I wrote this song a couple years ago and released it on the Until We're Kings EP called by the same name.
[album - Heirs - Until We're Kings]
All Creatures of Our God and King - I love this hymn. We do an arrangement similar to the David Crowder Band version (and also use the "Alleluia" tag from that version). I like this version because it maintains the same structure as the traditional hymn but also gives it a fresh feel. Jess let this one on vocals and did a fantastic job. I love moments when I get to move into a supporting role and just worship alongside our congregation without being "on". It's a beautiful thing.
[album - Passion: Hymns Ancient and Modern - David Crowder Band]
Holy Nation - We used this song as the theme song to our previous series, "1P29C". The series talks about how we are called to be a royal priesthood, a chosen race, a people of God's own choosing and a holy nation. The song walks through the verse. I hope that this song points our people back to that series and back to that reminder of who God has called us to be, not only as individuals but as the Church. The function within the set was to move from an acknowledgment of who God is and of his sovereignty ("All Creatures...") into an acceptance of who we are made to be in him ("Holy Nation" into "I Am New").
I Am New - We introduced this last week as the theme to the current series, "Three". In the progression of Colossians 3:1-17 teaches us to set our hearts and our mind on the things above where Christ, who is our life and who is returning, is seated at the right hand of God. Then it gives us a list of the worldly traits and desires that we must deny. The rest of the verses tell us how we are to act as the holy nation, whom God has chosen, as those who have been raised with Christ, as those who are made new in him. This song draws our attention to that process and is, hopefully, a celebration of the fact that Christ has rescued us from who we once were - lost apart from him - to we can be through his love.
Let Us Shine - Another song that came out of the "1P29C" series. This is a call to let Christ's light shine through us. To be lighthouses that break through the darkness and present the glory of who God is to those around us.
Mighty to Save - One of our church's favorite songs. "Shine a light and let the whole world see // We're singing for the glory of the risen King Jesus" As we were rehearsing on Thursday night Alli summed it up well when she said, "You can't not worship in this song!" Amen, Alli. Amen.
[album - Mighty to Save - Hillsong Live]
To see what songs our brothers and sisters in worshipped to in their congregations please visit the Sunday Setlist at www.theworshipcommunity.com.
THE SERVICE
Heirs [Jordan Muck/Jonathan Eckberg]
Welcome & Announcements
All Creatures of Our God and King [Francis of Assisi]
Holy Nation [Muck/Eckberg]
I Am New [Eckberg]
Message
Let Us Shine [Eckberg]
Mighty to Save [Ben Fielding/Reuben Morgan]
THE TEAM
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Larry Ingle - vocals
Alli Hutchens - vocals
Jess Yoder - vocals
Kevin Schmidt - audio
Perri Hepler - visual
NOTES
This week marked week number 3 of our current series, "Three". In this series Pastor Jordan Muck is preaching through Colossians 3:1-17. Todays message was the first of two weeks that focus on verses 13-17 - on our renewal and the things that God calls us to cloth ourselves with. This week we looked at compassion, kindness, humility and meekness.
THE SONGS
Heirs - Pastor Jordan and I wrote this song a couple years ago and released it on the Until We're Kings EP called by the same name.
[album - Heirs - Until We're Kings]
All Creatures of Our God and King - I love this hymn. We do an arrangement similar to the David Crowder Band version (and also use the "Alleluia" tag from that version). I like this version because it maintains the same structure as the traditional hymn but also gives it a fresh feel. Jess let this one on vocals and did a fantastic job. I love moments when I get to move into a supporting role and just worship alongside our congregation without being "on". It's a beautiful thing.
[album - Passion: Hymns Ancient and Modern - David Crowder Band]
Holy Nation - We used this song as the theme song to our previous series, "1P29C". The series talks about how we are called to be a royal priesthood, a chosen race, a people of God's own choosing and a holy nation. The song walks through the verse. I hope that this song points our people back to that series and back to that reminder of who God has called us to be, not only as individuals but as the Church. The function within the set was to move from an acknowledgment of who God is and of his sovereignty ("All Creatures...") into an acceptance of who we are made to be in him ("Holy Nation" into "I Am New").
I Am New - We introduced this last week as the theme to the current series, "Three". In the progression of Colossians 3:1-17 teaches us to set our hearts and our mind on the things above where Christ, who is our life and who is returning, is seated at the right hand of God. Then it gives us a list of the worldly traits and desires that we must deny. The rest of the verses tell us how we are to act as the holy nation, whom God has chosen, as those who have been raised with Christ, as those who are made new in him. This song draws our attention to that process and is, hopefully, a celebration of the fact that Christ has rescued us from who we once were - lost apart from him - to we can be through his love.
Let Us Shine - Another song that came out of the "1P29C" series. This is a call to let Christ's light shine through us. To be lighthouses that break through the darkness and present the glory of who God is to those around us.
Mighty to Save - One of our church's favorite songs. "Shine a light and let the whole world see // We're singing for the glory of the risen King Jesus" As we were rehearsing on Thursday night Alli summed it up well when she said, "You can't not worship in this song!" Amen, Alli. Amen.
[album - Mighty to Save - Hillsong Live]
To see what songs our brothers and sisters in worshipped to in their congregations please visit the Sunday Setlist at www.theworshipcommunity.com.
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