It was a good week. My evening accounting class on Thursday night was cancelled which meant worship team practice didn’t have to end at eight. That meant we didn’t have to skip the devotional time (read Bible study) we open practice with. We can easily spend over half an hour in the Word together, and Thursday night centering on the Word was just what we all needed. I have been working through the book of Psalms and we covered Psalm 106 (I’ve been at it for a few years!). We have found from practical experience that time in the Word and prayer sets the best tone for practice.
This morning we (Brad and Brian) worked through some technical glitches with the bass; after some frustrating troubleshooting it turned out to be the bass, so we switched Jody to another bass. After that warm-up proved uneventful. It was a nice touch to have Brad on the keyboard this morning to fatten up the sound; it has been awhile.
It was another exceptional service this morning. After last week; it seemed unlikely, but God was at work in our midst. Powerful singing, powerful preaching, and a sweet time in Communion.
This was the best we have done with Praise Him, Alleluia. I told everyone at practice that since we have six verses let’s build the song as we go, but did not give any specific instruction. We did one take and I told everyone to just do the same thing Sunday, and they did. The last verse was sung in triumph to our risen King.
Brad suggested we work on the abrupt ending of Restore Us, so we did. I had Pastor Mark follow the song with a prayer, and he did a great job with it. It really fit well with Communion. We sing a repentance song as the bread is passed, and a Communion song as the cup is passed to provide an appropriate focus. It has worked well for us.
We pulled Brian off the drums and put him on the mandolin for Amazing Grace. I played at capo 7, and Dennis straight up which made for a rich arrangement of a congregational favorite. Believe me I saw a sea of smiles when we began; we wrapped around for an acappela finish with the first verse.
Here are the rest of the songs:
1 All Things New Opener-Come to Worship
5518953 Carl Cartee, Ronnie Freeman, Jeromy Deibler, Jason Ingram ©2009 New Spring admin by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing
-1 Merciful God GITS-Father
1189871 Terry and Randy Butler ©1992 Mercy/Vineyard
0 Praise Him, Alleluia! GITS-Jesus
From Hymns of the Russian Church by Brownlie, John, 1920, lyric revisions and arrangement by Doug Thorsvik ©2007
SERMON: Doctrine is Important – Jude (Pastor Mark)
1 Let the Weight of Your Glory Fall Prayer-Holy Spirit
2790475 Steve Merkel ©1999 Integrity's Hosanna! Music
1 Restore Us Communion-Repentance/Conf
5613126 J.R. Taylor, Jerry Wise ©2008 Mossbank Publishing/BMI/Wisenheimer Music (Adm Fun Attic Music)ASCAP
1 Behold the Lamb (Communion Hymn) Communion
5003372 Keith & Kristyn Getty & Stuart Townend/arr. Albritton ALFRED PUBLISHING
-1 Amazing Grace Closer-Believe/Trust
John Newton, Public Domain
2 'We-I' Balance 
MLCC 3/6/2011 Leadsheet
Leader/Acoustic Guitar/Vocal – Doug
Acoustic Guitar – Dennis
Keyboard - Brad
Vocals – Susan & Ted
Bass – Jody
Drums/Mandolin - Brian
Sound tech – Chad
I hope you had a great Lord’s day today, too!
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