Sunday Set List

Today, as we continued through the season of Lent, we looked at the idea of the filters that we see Christiansity through. I found myself sitting through the service thinking about the idea of the filters and what we see in the church today. This idea of filters really exposes the ideas that are stemming throughout the church today (i.e. missional, mega, whatever the trend is at the time). At RCC, our ethos is shown through our actions and our mission. We didn’t do this because we go with the flow of the latest chruch movement, or we read a book and really like what it had to say. We did this, because our filter of the gospel showed us that our mission is to Love God and Love Neighbor. So that being said, here is the Sunday Set List for this week (all the links are YouTube clips of vids of the song some are serious, some are to help you see what the song sounds like, and some are goofy or funny):

Yahweh – This is a U2 song off of their “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb”. My favorite lyric is “take these lips, so quick to criticize. take these lips give them a kiss”.

Blessed Be Your Name - Everytime I pull this song I feel like it could be put to rest for a little bit. But then we play it and it feels like it speaks deeper and deeper to the congregation and they don’t really mind that we are singing this song again. Sometimes I sing the bridge (You give and take away) with the melody of U2’s “with or without you” (You give yourself away) so that it says: You give and take away/ and you give and take away/ and you give/ and you give/ and you give and take away. Usually leading into the hook of  “I can’t live/ with or without you” back into the Chorus of Blessed be…

Jesus, You’re the Light -  A new song that I introduced to the congregation. It’s a reflection tune that is a prayer for Jesus to shine light on us to reveal sin, not just to lead us to Him but instead to be closer to him.

Because of Your Love - One of my favorite Paul Baloche tunes. We took out the “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” part and put a bit of a Dave Matthews groove to it. This is a great song that helps to remind us what God has done for us and how we got here in our faith.

Trust and Obey – Love this hymn. A call for the church to be the church and trust God and obey the Holy Spirits leading.

Sunday Set List 1/25/09

Today at RCC, we had an interesting time of musical worship. The “D” string broke on my guitar and when you are playing songs in the key of G and D, this can be a bad thing. Luckily we started in the key of E…oh wait, that didn’t make a difference at all! Anyways, I welcomed the church into worship and as I hit the first chord, my D string broke, but I kept on with mostly bar chords on the E and A string.

What I have to keep in mind is that I am there to teach and lead people in worship. Even though it killed me to do it, I felt as though I don’t need to play my guitar to lead, so I led simply with two strings most of the time. It is funny though, because as a musician, it killed me at times to lead this way but hearing the voices of our congregation really helped me to continue on. As they worshipped, my worship increased – almost as though they were leading me.

Here was the setlist from today as follows:

Our Love is Loud – David Crowder 

Let Everything that has Breath – Passion

Be Glorified – Chris Tomlin

Jesus, All For Jesus – Robin Mark

Tis so Sweet to Trust in Jesus - Traditional

As we continue on in the epiphany series, it is sometimes easy to find songs that go with the theme of Christ in Culture. The tough part is trying not to repeat the songs, because they all go so well each time.

“Jesus all for Jesus” has to be my favorite song. I love the simplicity of the words and the power that they project as you realize the simplicity of our relationship of Jesus and how hard we really make it sometimes. Isn’t that our way sometimes though? We seem to take a gift and try to explain it in more and more complicated ways. This song I feel explains the beauty of our gift that Jesus gave us.