Posted in April 2010

can i see your toes please???

sooo, i have been thinking a lot in the last week or two about something…this time every year “church people” start talking about easter…there is a push to invite people to come to our weekend services…churches will go all out on decorations…on music…on drama…on special effects…

because this is one of two services all year that many will come to…really???

the thought that i have been kicking around…do these individuals only come because we’ve put all this extra time, energy, thought, prayer, fasting, sweat, and finances into these services…HAVE WE CREATED THIS???

why don’t we go all out every weekend??? why don’t we put the same amount of time, energy, thought, prayer, fasting, sweat, and finances into every weekend??? because let’s be honest here…WE DON’T!!!

at this point, i am not solidly standing on either side of this question…but i have to say i felt God asking me…

can i see your toes please???

there was a little pain to this idea…or to this thought…my toes were being stepped on here…and not just a little…A LOT!!!

sooo, my question is…in reading this…do you in any way hear God asking you…

can i see your toes please???

sunday setlist…2010…take six…

sooo, this is another post submitted as a part of the craziness which is now being hosted over at the worship community…it’s a weekly hot spot for worship leaders to blog about what all happened in their weekend services…GO CHECK IT OUT!!!

this past weekend was our PALM SUNDAY weekend…i was  in the LIVE services at lima community church…and God is continuing to work in the lives of people!!!

i kicked things off by reading psalm 66:1-2…it was a challenge that God had given me to praise Him for WHO He is…not just for all of the things that He does…and i asked the congregation to greet others and share WHO God was to them this week…

1. here is our King…by david crowder band

2. marvelous light…by charlie hall

then our host for the services came up and intro’d the video announcements and set up the offering time…

3. everlasting God…by lincoln brewster

4. sweetly broken…by jeremy riddle

5. arms open wide…by hillsong united

there was a roll-in video to the message given by our discipleship pastor, mike huckins…

6. arms open wide…a shortened reprise

then we had a time of prayer and announcement for our new off-site video venue…the first service for that venue will be on EASTER sunday…

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this past weekend was pretty CRAZY…limacc hosted a community wide palm sunday service, on sunday evening…this meant having a very large set of risers on stage…sound equipment was being used to the max and had to be reconfigured for what we would need during our services…but it was all worth the extra work in the end!!!

the band was prepared and things really seemed to flow well during the services…i have to say that i never cease to be amazed at how God works out the setlists in advance…and then pulls them together with the message, even when i have NO CLUE what it’s going to be like…and this was just one of those weekends!!!

i challenged the musicians on sunday morning with psalm 66:1-2…the challenge was to take 5 minutes and simply right out WHO God is…nothing to do with what He does for us, simply WHO He is…it was awesome to hear the pens writing away and to see how fast the 5 minutes went by…then i tried to incorporate that at the beginning of the services…i just couldn’t really take the time to do it justice in the services…

then as we did the songs…it was great to see all kinds of things pop in my head about WHO God is…sooo many lyrics that just played right into the idea…it was cool to go back and talk about what everyone had written and even to hear how God was revealing more and more things to each of us…

if you want to view any of the weekend services of limacc, go check out our livestream page

sooo there you have it…

sunday setlists…2010…take six…

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