We had a really light band today (guitar, keyboard, percussion & one singer), but the people still got into it and really sang out. It wasn’t a ‘breakthrough’ week… but it went well.
Order of Service
- Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing) - B. Brown
- Announcements
- I Stand Amazed - C.H. Gabriel
- Made To Worship - C. Tomlin
- Almighty God - T. Hughes
- We Exalt Your Name - A. Park
- Sermon
- What The Lord Has Done In Me - R. Morgan
After announcements, we started off with a classic hymn, went into a couple of upbeat songs, then finished off with the anthemic “We Exalt Your Name” before the sermon …and I don’t even think anthemic is a word. But it never fails to lift the level of worship. Anthemic indeed.
All in all, I’d give us a ‘B’ for this week. Not bad… but not our A Game.
How was your Sunday?
My kid goes from completely euphoric to hate-filled in 4 seconds flat.
I think he gets it from his mom’s side of the family.
A woman presented herself to her pastor for counseling. She pointed out to the pastor that she was a highly educated and very intelligent woman. The pastor took that under advisement.
He asked her, in fact, what her I.Q. was and she responded that it was almost 170. The pastor was impressed, but pressed on to ask her what she thought the I.Q. of an idiot might be. She ventured a number in the low 40s or 50s.
“Ah,” said the pastor. “What do you think the I.Q. of God is?”
The woman was taken aback by the question and looked at him quizzically. “I, I don’t know,” the highly educated and very intelligent woman stammered.
“Would you be comfortable with giving God an I.Q.—just for the sake of argument, of course—of 1,000,000?” he asked.
“Well, sure!” she shot back.
“Good,” he said, “because I’m going to be talking to you about what the Bible says and it seems to me that your I.Q. is closer to an idiot’s than it is to God’s.”
With the necessary changes being made, I would suggest that all of us are in the place of the highly educated and very intelligent woman: closer to the idiot’s I.Q. than to the Lord’s.
Why then, do we insist on doing worship or doing church our way instead of His?
This post from Ron Gleason’s blog made me stop and examine myself and the way I lead worship…even the way I expect to be lead into worship by another leader.
How does GOD want to be worshiped?
[ht: Christianity: Doctrine & Ethics]
Today LifeChurch.tv announced the public beta release of YouVersion.
I’ve known it was coming for some time now, but I never got that excited over it. I thought it would end up being another BibleGateway.com. Well, let me be the first to say it:
…this thing rocks!
The site is, at its core, an online, digital Bible. But it’s way more than that! Users can create individual accounts for free, and can then select, tag and star passages that they want to remember. They can share their passages with other users and can even link video files, sermon outlines or blog posts to certain passages.
So, for example, when I looked up John 3:16, along with the verse were three sermons that I could watch via streaming video with themes that applied specifically to that verse!
The layout, and ease of use are top-notch. I am totally impressed with the work these guys did! And to think that it’s still in the beta phase! I’m anxiously awaiting the additional features to be released.
Now, go sign up for an account!
Several weeks ago, the Peoria Journal Star (local paper) ran an article in which they interviewed a couple of area pastors, my good friend Sam Daugherty (the communications guru at Riverside) and me for a piece about how churches are using technology.
I was shocked when I got a call for an interview. I mean, Twelve Oaks has never really been known for living on the bleeding edge of technology. I was even more shocked when they told me that they wanted to get a great big picture of yours truly to use as the face of the article!
Since it was published two days before my son was born, I pretty much forgot all about it. But the other day while perusing Flickr photostreams, I came across the the photographer that took the picture, David Zentz, and the now infamous photo that shot me into church-liason rock-star status:
Drink it in Peoria. It goes down smooth.
