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.
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Monday, April 9, 2012
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 6, 2012
Sunday Setlist / 2.5.12
What did Sunday morning look like at Community Gospel Church? Check it out...
THE SERVICE:
I Sing the Mighty Power of God (E) [Watts // arr. Jonathan Eckberg)
Welcome/Announcements/Prayer for Students at Kalahari
Offering
Great is the Lord (G) [Chris Brown]
Hallelujah To My King (E) [Paul Baloche//Brenton Brown]
You Never Let Go (G) [Matt Redman//Beth Redman]
The Church (C) [Chris Brown//Matt Brock]
Message - Del
Dismiss
THE TEAM:
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Beth Stemble - piano
Cyndi Leamon - vocals
Jessica Yoder - vocals
Alli Hutchens - vocals
Kevin Schmidt - audio
Vance Czesar - visual
NOTES:
With Pastor Jordan at the Kalahari conference with the Velocity crew we were fortunate enough to have a good friend of CGC bringing us the Word this week. Del Fehsenfeld, of Life Action Ministries, taught on a Jacobs statement from Genesis 28:16 where he states, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it." Just a great message of God's presence and work constantly surrounding us.
I Sing the Mighty Power of God - A few years ago I took the words to this Isaac Watts hymn and updated the melody for it and added a simple "chorus" section. I've recorded this song for a couple of albums, but it never seemed to fit the overall feel -- I'm still hoping to do a record at some point with this song on it. I love the words of this song and praise for the creator God who "formed the creatures with his word//and then pronounced them good". The third verse is a great reminder of how God makes himself known to the whole world through his creation (Rom. 1:20). This is excellent theology which is astounding when you consider that in 1715 Isaac Watts included this song in a hymnbook for children!
Great is the Lord - One of my favorite worship bands out right now is Elevation Worship. All of their stuff is very clean, theologically sound, singable, and purposive. They write for specific sermon series' and events in their church. It serves as a model, in those areas, that we are emulating with our approach at CGC. Part of our reasoning for slowly working toward a more "original music" approach is to have our people singing songs about OUR experiences with the Lord. To praise Him not only for what he does globally, but for what he is doing in our midst. I think this adds a great deal of depth to our times as a congregation. That's an aside that has nothing to do with this song! This is a song that serves as a general call to worship.
[album: Elevation Worship - God With Us]
Hallelujah To My King - Paul Baloche is one of the guys out there that writes a lot of really good theology. This is a tremendous song of the grace and forgiveness of God that is poured out on His children through the name of Jesus Christ. If you're looking for a really powerful song of gratitude for the love of our savior then you should check this song out.
[album: Paul Baloche - Our God Saves]
You Never Let Go - We added this song late in the week and it turned out to be a good choice as it flowed with the message nicely. One of the hardest things for me as a worship leader is to construct worship sets when I don't know the preacher and I don't know the topic. I like to flow from the start of the worship set to the end and have a seamless move into the message. So I feel very fortunate that today's set, and this song in particular, worked with Pastor Del's message.
[album: Matt Redman - Beautiful News]
The Church - This is another Elevation Worship tune. I've always loved it as a call to action. The bridge kicks my but every time: "Fill our hearts with Your compassion // Let our love be active here // Fill our hearts with Your compassion // Let our love be real". Love it.
[album: Elevation Worship - Kingdom Come]
That's it. See you next week!
THE SERVICE:
I Sing the Mighty Power of God (E) [Watts // arr. Jonathan Eckberg)
Welcome/Announcements/Prayer for Students at Kalahari
Offering
Great is the Lord (G) [Chris Brown]
Hallelujah To My King (E) [Paul Baloche//Brenton Brown]
You Never Let Go (G) [Matt Redman//Beth Redman]
The Church (C) [Chris Brown//Matt Brock]
Message - Del
Dismiss
THE TEAM:
Jonathan Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Beth Stemble - piano
Cyndi Leamon - vocals
Jessica Yoder - vocals
Alli Hutchens - vocals
Kevin Schmidt - audio
Vance Czesar - visual
NOTES:
With Pastor Jordan at the Kalahari conference with the Velocity crew we were fortunate enough to have a good friend of CGC bringing us the Word this week. Del Fehsenfeld, of Life Action Ministries, taught on a Jacobs statement from Genesis 28:16 where he states, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it." Just a great message of God's presence and work constantly surrounding us.
I Sing the Mighty Power of God - A few years ago I took the words to this Isaac Watts hymn and updated the melody for it and added a simple "chorus" section. I've recorded this song for a couple of albums, but it never seemed to fit the overall feel -- I'm still hoping to do a record at some point with this song on it. I love the words of this song and praise for the creator God who "formed the creatures with his word//and then pronounced them good". The third verse is a great reminder of how God makes himself known to the whole world through his creation (Rom. 1:20). This is excellent theology which is astounding when you consider that in 1715 Isaac Watts included this song in a hymnbook for children!
Great is the Lord - One of my favorite worship bands out right now is Elevation Worship. All of their stuff is very clean, theologically sound, singable, and purposive. They write for specific sermon series' and events in their church. It serves as a model, in those areas, that we are emulating with our approach at CGC. Part of our reasoning for slowly working toward a more "original music" approach is to have our people singing songs about OUR experiences with the Lord. To praise Him not only for what he does globally, but for what he is doing in our midst. I think this adds a great deal of depth to our times as a congregation. That's an aside that has nothing to do with this song! This is a song that serves as a general call to worship.
[album: Elevation Worship - God With Us]
Hallelujah To My King - Paul Baloche is one of the guys out there that writes a lot of really good theology. This is a tremendous song of the grace and forgiveness of God that is poured out on His children through the name of Jesus Christ. If you're looking for a really powerful song of gratitude for the love of our savior then you should check this song out.
[album: Paul Baloche - Our God Saves]
You Never Let Go - We added this song late in the week and it turned out to be a good choice as it flowed with the message nicely. One of the hardest things for me as a worship leader is to construct worship sets when I don't know the preacher and I don't know the topic. I like to flow from the start of the worship set to the end and have a seamless move into the message. So I feel very fortunate that today's set, and this song in particular, worked with Pastor Del's message.
[album: Matt Redman - Beautiful News]
The Church - This is another Elevation Worship tune. I've always loved it as a call to action. The bridge kicks my but every time: "Fill our hearts with Your compassion // Let our love be active here // Fill our hearts with Your compassion // Let our love be real". Love it.
[album: Elevation Worship - Kingdom Come]
That's it. See you next week!
Sunday, September 26, 2010
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.
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.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Sunday Setlist / 9.12.10
Check out the 9:00 am service at Highland Community Church in Highland, IL:
THE BAND:
Jonathan David Eckberg - Electric Guitar/Vocals
Ron Eckberg - Acoustic Guitar/Vocals
Tim McDaniel - Drums
Aaron McDaniel - Lead Guitar
Joe Szoke - Bass
The Continuation [B] (Hunt/Cates)
Welcome & Announcements
Offering
Scripture Reading – Psalm 92:1-8
How Great Thou Art [C] (Boberg)
Ron Eckberg – Special Presentation
Message
Let My Words Be Few [G] (Redman)
Dismiss
The Continuation [B] (Hunt/Cates)
THE BAND:
Jonathan David Eckberg - Electric Guitar/Vocals
Ron Eckberg - Acoustic Guitar/Vocals
Tim McDaniel - Drums
Aaron McDaniel - Lead Guitar
Joe Szoke - Bass
NOTES:
What a phenomenal Sunday! Today was "Homecoming" Sunday at HCC. The idea was to invite anyone we know who has ever been a part of the congregation to come back for one Sunday. We were not trying to "win" people back to HCC, we just wanted to have a time of fellowship with anyone who had a part in the history of the church and the people that have been associated with it. I thought it was an interesting concept. As part of this "homecoming celebration" the church leadership asked Ron Eckberg (my dad) to come and share during both services. As I was growing up my family had close ties with HCC (I learned today that my dad first visited HCC 30 years ago and came without my mom because she was approximately 8 months pregnant with me!), we used to come around several times each year and my dad would do concerts, teach, lead vacation bible schools, and do all kinds of stuff. We were even close to moving to Highland at one point. So it was a lot of fun for my dad to come back and share with HCC once again. The added bonus, for me anyway, was that he also sat in with the band for morning worship. It was a blast to have him playing guitar and sharing vocal duties with me.
SONGS:
The Continuation - This is a song by Dave Hunt (written with Chad Cates) If you don't know of Dave, do yourself a favor and check out some of his work (his latest album was called "Love Abounds" and The Continuation is on "Shattered"). When I lived in Nashville, TN I attended Rolling Hills Community Church where Dave was the worship leader for several years. He is a phenomenal worship leader and a great congregational-friendly song-writer. The guy is rock solid and very subtle in his approach to leading, he has a knack for getting out of the way and allowing you to follow him into worship. Spending those years watching him had a great influence on my own style of leading worship. The song itself is a cool, uptempo tune. I love it as an intro song, because it's all about coming into the corporate gathering not as something you do each week as another line of your to-do list, but as a celebration of what GOD has done for us and what he continues to do in our lives. This celebration is an ever-progressing process. Seriously, check his music out, it will be some of the most productive listening you do all week.
How Great Thou Art - After the scripture reading (Psalm 92:1-8) we HAD to do this song. There was simply no other choice. We do the Paul Baloche version that is an upbeat, rolling type song. It uses the traditional melody with an added tag at the end of the chorus. This keeps it contemporary, but you still feel grounded in some traditional Baptist roots (not sure I could really explain it, but most of you know what I mean)!
Special guest - Ron Eckberg - My dad then shared with the congregation for about 25 minutes with some songs and stories, and teaching. Good stuff. He even let me sit in on a couple songs.
Message - Pastor Larry Wise continued our series on Habakkuk. Today was Habakkuk 3:1, 2 He focused on the power of prayer and the general awe that we should hold of GOD and of the power He possesses allows us to share in. Very challenging message today.
Let My Words Be Few - I realized we did this song just a couple weeks ago, but for what Pastor asked we focus on today I felt like it was worth the repetition to focus on the songs we sing to our GOD and the awe and reverence that are accompanied with them. When we did this song a couple weeks ago it was when I lead solo, so it was nice to put this song together with the full band (plus my dad). I do love this song and the message that it carries.
That's what we did. To see what other congregations are doing in their services check out the Sunday Setlist at theworshipcommunity.com.
That's what we did. To see what other congregations are doing in their services check out the Sunday Setlist at theworshipcommunity.com.
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