Sunday Setlist - March 15, 2009

This is part of the Sunday Setlist blog carnival.

We had a nice crowd at First Christian Church yesterday and worship went very well with several older praise songs and a great arrangement of a hymn. We looked at the "shield of faith" as we continued our series called "Armed and Dangerous" from Ephesians 6:10-20.

Songs:

Come, Now is the Time to Worship - Doerksen
Open the Eyes of My Heart - Baloche
There Is Power In the Blood - HymnCharts arrangement by Don Chapman
How Great Is Our God - Tomlinson

Communion song: This Is the Gift of God - Cartee. This song seems to be well received by the congregation. I love it!

Thanks to Living Spring Christian Fellowship for the video we used to introduce the sermon:

Sunday Setlist

Yesterday worship went well. We began a new series called Armed and Dangerous on the armor of God in Ephesians 6:10-20. The title of the sermon was "Boots: Mobilize Your Mission".

Here's what we played:

Your Grace Is Enough - Tomlin
Enough - Tomlin
Here I Am to Worship - Hughes
Jesus Messiah - Tomlin
Just As I Am - HymnCharts arrangement by Don Chapman.

We also used a great video for an intro to the sermon:


Overall a good worship service. What did you think?

Sunday night reflections

I sure enjoyed worship this morning. I love the Lincoln Brewster song Love the Lord that we started worship with. Raise up the Crown is also a great song. But beyond how much you and I enjoy worship, the question truly is, was God pleased with our worship? I sure hope so!

Marnie and I are really excited about our cruise next week! We are so blessed to serve you all and have this opportunity. I look forward to a week of renewal and coming back refreshed and ready to bring it in the pulpit. I'll be spending time over the next week preparing for our Just Walk Across the Room preaching series. This will be a great series based on Bill Hybel's book on personal evangelism.

Finally some random thoughts on the day:

• It was awesome to see Mark in church after his scary hit on Friday night!
  
• I hope my Sunday School class on reading the Bible is helpful
• Let's all take our Bible reading seriously and work hard to do it well
• If after the message on baptism this morning you are ready to get wet, let me know
  
• I am so glad Wray has a Subway!
• I love the Subway Club
• The Broncos got crushed by the Chargers 41 to 3! Ouch!
• My kids discovered Audio Adrenaline this weekend and their videos Big House and AKA Public School
• Marnie goes to Denver tomorrow to begin planning with the team for their trip to India in February (turns out the meeting wasn't last week!)

Sunday night reflections

Another Sunday, another Broncos loss! Bummer! And even worse the Raiders won. Yet in spite of that we had a great day. Here's some rambling thoughts about today:

• We had a great crowd at church this morning
• I loved the worship music today!
• It was awesome to have Tessa play this morning (thanks Tessa!)
  
• We finished up our series on the Essentials: I am really looking forward to Jesus coming back!
• I found this funny movie about Jesus this morning (I laughed out loud!)
  
• We continue to have a great response to the Reading the Bible for All It's Worth class
• The Rockies forced a one game playoff against the Padres for a playoff spot!
• Luke Hochevar started his first major league game today against the Cleveland Indians!
• Marnie goes to Denver tomorrow to begin planning with the team for their trip to India in February
• Bayleigh needs to get some sleep after sleeping over at a friend's house last night!
• For the first time in 3 weeks I don't have a funeral scheduled for this week!
• Bayleigh beat me in Yahtzee

Good night Wray

Sunday Night Reflections

I'm watching the Cowboys vs. Bears game and reflecting on the day. Hopefully you all had a great Sunday!

Several thoughts about church today:

• Keep Norma Jean in your prayers. I here she's okay after her scare at church
• Marnie had a great time at Women of Faith this year! Sounds like it was an awesome event for all the gals that went
  
• I'm so excited about our Sunday school! We had 33 kids in 252Basics today and 28 adults in my class!
• Thank you to our great Sunday School teachers! You are all doing a great job!
• Thank you to everyone who gives so faithfully to our church! I knew this church was ready to step up and have it's own pastor again!
  
• I've enjoyed the sermon series on the Essentials
• In 2 or 3 weeks we will be starting our next sermon series Just Walk. This will be a great sermon series and I am being greatly challenged as I read Bill Hybel's book and prepare for this series.
• Marnie and I are preparing for a cruise to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary! We are both so excited and will be gone October 13-23!
• I was bummed watching the Broncos game...
• I'll be doing a funeral at the Methodist Church on Wednesday as Pastor Stott is out of town this week...glad I can help but a little anxious doing a funeral for someone I don't know

Good night Wray