We kicked off our new series "Outlaw" this Sunday.
And looking at are worship set this week I could have called it "Todd Fields" Sunday.
Who is Todd Fields? He's one of the worship leaders (and song writers) from North Point Church, they've got such an amazing worship team down there, I highly recommend both of their albums (North Point Live, via itunes, and louder than creation, via the Northpoint music website).
You Are (By Todd Fields)We've been doing this one for a fair piece of time now and it's still one of our favorites, especially as a high-energy opening song tot he worship set.
Salvation's Chorus (By Todd Fields) I love this song! Sing for joy all people of God indeed!
Let me Sing (By, you guessed it Todd Fields) From the first time we've heard this song I think everyone on staff/volunteer staff has loved this worship song. And it's such a true song, you know? I don't want the rocks who don't have saving grace to be singing praises louder than myself.
Performance Song: Man of constant sorrow, (From the motion picture O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and by various other artists) I must admit that prior to practice on Thursday I was very nervous about this song, but after practice I was couldn't wait. I got to play washboard (Of course our percussionist is on vacation this week!) and I got to sing! (long ramble removed to time constraints). It was so much fun to do, about the only thing missing was the bales of hay and the bib overalls.
Band: Ronnie (Playing both electric and rhythm acoustic for PS) Justin (electric and lead acoustic for PS) Bill (Bass and vocals) Tammie and Leigh (Vocals) Jeremy (Worship lead and acoustic) Dave (Keys and PS vocals) Me (Drums and PS vocals).
Monday, June 30, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Set List 06/22/05
Well hopefully by the end of the week someone who WAS at the service on Sunday will post here, but for now he's the set list from this past week.
Glorious One - Steve Fee
Everlasting God - Tomlin/Fields
Famous one - Tomlin
Performance Song - My Hero - Foo Fighters, (which from what I've heard went over really well).
Glorious One - Steve Fee
Everlasting God - Tomlin/Fields
Famous one - Tomlin
Performance Song - My Hero - Foo Fighters, (which from what I've heard went over really well).
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Set list 06/15/08
Today was both fun and amazing worship... though it was kind of odd.
Now this week Dave our TD fixed the mix going to my in-ears and I had a very good mix, and worship sounded amazing, more so made by my amazing group this week.
Our performance song was All Star by Smashmouth, a fun song that took me back to my high-school days (dating myself now), but it was fun and it connected well. Justin (one of our awesome guitarists) filled in the vinyl scratch sound by scratching on his guitar strings, and Elizabeth (Our Percussionist) added flair to the instrumental with bells, that timed perfectly to Ronnie's (Another one of our amazing guitarists) guitar solo.
So in programming we were debating over the whole do you stand people up for a fun bopping head song, or do you reserve that for worship? Anyone have some thoughts on the matter?
Worship set this week was Not to Us/Here is our King, By Tomlin/Crowder, however we did the North Point Arrangement from the North Point Live album. (Do you have this album yet? you should!)
We then did Let me Sing by Todd Fields (North Point again, surprise! this time it's off the Louder than Creation cd, [think North Point Live Volume 2] which is not [at least last time I checked] available via itunes yet, but if you don't ) This is an amazing worship song... (would someone buy me a thesaurus, I need new words!) And at one point when the band get's quiet I could hear people singing, Our production director Kristen, and Tech Director David said it was incredible.
We finished up our worship set with Famous One (see last weeks post) I'm not sure if it was inspired from let me sing, but it was just powerful worship especially with Famous One.
Well I'm out next week, but i'll post the notes I can gather plus what I can tell from the mixdown.
See Pick, it't not butterfly kisses, but we could have followed suit...
Worship team this week was
Jeremy, Bill, Ronnie, Justin, Anne, Elizabeth, Me
*So what inspires you to worship this week?
Now this week Dave our TD fixed the mix going to my in-ears and I had a very good mix, and worship sounded amazing, more so made by my amazing group this week.
Our performance song was All Star by Smashmouth, a fun song that took me back to my high-school days (dating myself now), but it was fun and it connected well. Justin (one of our awesome guitarists) filled in the vinyl scratch sound by scratching on his guitar strings, and Elizabeth (Our Percussionist) added flair to the instrumental with bells, that timed perfectly to Ronnie's (Another one of our amazing guitarists) guitar solo.
So in programming we were debating over the whole do you stand people up for a fun bopping head song, or do you reserve that for worship? Anyone have some thoughts on the matter?
Worship set this week was Not to Us/Here is our King, By Tomlin/Crowder, however we did the North Point Arrangement from the North Point Live album. (Do you have this album yet? you should!)
We then did Let me Sing by Todd Fields (North Point again, surprise! this time it's off the Louder than Creation cd, [think North Point Live Volume 2] which is not [at least last time I checked] available via itunes yet, but if you don't ) This is an amazing worship song... (would someone buy me a thesaurus, I need new words!) And at one point when the band get's quiet I could hear people singing, Our production director Kristen, and Tech Director David said it was incredible.
We finished up our worship set with Famous One (see last weeks post) I'm not sure if it was inspired from let me sing, but it was just powerful worship especially with Famous One.
Well I'm out next week, but i'll post the notes I can gather plus what I can tell from the mixdown.
See Pick, it't not butterfly kisses, but we could have followed suit...
Worship team this week was
Jeremy, Bill, Ronnie, Justin, Anne, Elizabeth, Me
*So what inspires you to worship this week?
Monday, June 9, 2008
Set List 06/08/08
Well today was an eventful day, a day that'll go down in history, a day that was err... ummm a day!
Okay so two days have past since I started this post and I decided to leave my post worship high/pre-energy drain crash rambling thoughts at the beginning of the post.
Boomin - Something that we've been working on doing is switching around when we do our performance song (that is, if we do a performance song) and this week (and most likely for the rest of the series) we kicked off the morning with the performance song. It's a Toby-Mac song and it's high energy, Josh our Campus Pastor for downtown did the rapping parts of it. AND we finally got those blasted canons to fire off!
We Cry Out - One of the newer songs that we've gotten from the Jesus Culture CD, like their other worship is phenomenal, it's a fast paced rock/worship song with awesome lyrics, "Oh God we cry out for your mercy, oh God we cry out for Your Grace..." Ironically I got this worship album for the song "How he Loves" and just found the entire cd to be amazing worship. If you ahve itunes try this.
Salvation is Here - a Hillsong song that we’ve done, it’s a fun song with an awesome bass part. I wish I could say more about this song, but by the time I finally sat down to write this my mind is on this morning’s worship set rather then last weeks. (that’s right this post sat unfinished for an entire week, bad, music director, no biscuit!)
Famous one - Our "theme" worship song for the series it’s one that we pulled out of the “archive” ironic because at the old “traditional” church I went to (cough cough) years ago it would have been considered ultra contemporary. And I don’t want to take away from the worship value of the song because it’s a great praise song, it’s just a bit of perspective for me as a musician. It is of course by Chris Tomlin and we’re doing the live passion version of the song.
Band was Jeremy, Ronnie, BIll, Dave, Elizabeth, Me. Vocals were Tammie, Mia (And Josh for boomin).
Okay so two days have past since I started this post and I decided to leave my post worship high/pre-energy drain crash rambling thoughts at the beginning of the post.
Boomin - Something that we've been working on doing is switching around when we do our performance song (that is, if we do a performance song) and this week (and most likely for the rest of the series) we kicked off the morning with the performance song. It's a Toby-Mac song and it's high energy, Josh our Campus Pastor for downtown did the rapping parts of it. AND we finally got those blasted canons to fire off!
We Cry Out - One of the newer songs that we've gotten from the Jesus Culture CD, like their other worship is phenomenal, it's a fast paced rock/worship song with awesome lyrics, "Oh God we cry out for your mercy, oh God we cry out for Your Grace..." Ironically I got this worship album for the song "How he Loves" and just found the entire cd to be amazing worship. If you ahve itunes try this.
Salvation is Here - a Hillsong song that we’ve done, it’s a fun song with an awesome bass part. I wish I could say more about this song, but by the time I finally sat down to write this my mind is on this morning’s worship set rather then last weeks. (that’s right this post sat unfinished for an entire week, bad, music director, no biscuit!)
Famous one - Our "theme" worship song for the series it’s one that we pulled out of the “archive” ironic because at the old “traditional” church I went to (cough cough) years ago it would have been considered ultra contemporary. And I don’t want to take away from the worship value of the song because it’s a great praise song, it’s just a bit of perspective for me as a musician. It is of course by Chris Tomlin and we’re doing the live passion version of the song.
Band was Jeremy, Ronnie, BIll, Dave, Elizabeth, Me. Vocals were Tammie, Mia (And Josh for boomin).
Monday, June 2, 2008
Set List 06/01/08
Did I miss a week? whoops, with all the excitement of memorial day weekend (read, I slept in on Monday and lazed about the whole day) I forgot to post last week's set list. Sorry.
(Side Note: I do understand that Memorial Day is a day set aside to honor our nation's fallen heroes. And trust me that is not something I take lightly... I still can't read through any volume of the CMOH awards without choking up, however the fact remains that I slept in).
So moving right along to this past week.
Wow, Our last week at Parkside Elementary (until perhaps we go multi-site, but that's a whole new pack o'picks) we wanted to go out with a bang so we (the creative team) had Pastor agree (by the way, for the official record I have no idea who would do this to his office) to put the worship set at the end.
Why you may ask?
So we could end with worship, Steve Fee's "We Shine" to be exact. We wanted to end in a huge celebratory feeling. We rented 2 confetti cannons and set up several hundred balloons to fall... (side note: I assume that's where the balloons used in this came from... I would also like to point out that I was there tearing down until the very end and I drive a compact car that would not have even remotely held that kind of number of balloons).
Well apparently Northpoint wasn't the only ones going through issues this week (see Reid's post here). As I was having in-ear issues. Perhaps Murphy reared his head, or perhaps God wanted to remind us to focus on him and not on the celebration of a building, or perhaps He does indeed have a sense of humor... I'm not sure, (personally though I think the focus, at least for us on stage was worship... the fact that I played my heart and and was ready to collapse at the end attests to that fact) but we never did get the blasted cannons to work during the service... they worked AFTER the service when we tested them, just not DURING the service. (Yes, we do know what went wrong, I take responsibility because I'm the one who knew how to connect them and didn't do it). Neither did the balloon drop work first service.
The balloons did fall for second service and the effect was awesome!
Set list:
Salvation's Chorus (Todd Fields, from the new Northpoint Live Album "Louder Than Creation")
Let Me Sing (See Above)... Technically we didn't perform this song, we played it behind a video, but I want to bring it into worship rotation soon (it's AMAZING worship!) so this was a great way to introduce it.
Salvation's Chorus (We did it Again, at this point I think people had learned it and joined in more on it). This song has quickly become one of my favorite fast (tempo) worship songs. The second chorus which is the one that gets echoed is almost a cheer, but I love these lyrics, "Weary ones join in the song, Amazing Grace has found us here, Son of God King Jesus Reigns, Praise his Name, Shout and sing, Holy One, King of Kings, By His Grace, we are free, no more shame, praise His name" And we'll be seeing a lot more of it, trust me...
Mighty to Save (Hillsong, "Mighty to Save") Mighty to save is just a powerful worship anthem, it's one of our worship songs that we consider a heavy hitter, want people to feel worship? pull out Mighty to Save, (gee that sounds kind of cheesy). It has long been nearly everyone on staff's favorite worship song, and was just awesome to do. (Side note, expect a few new worship songs that I feel will have the same effect coming out in the not to distant future... if you have the Louder Then Creation album tracks 3, 4, 5, but especially number 11), No I'm not getting rid of Mighty to Save, I'm just saying that these new songs are POWERFUL worship.
Finally We Shine (Fee, "Fee" also "Northpoint Live Volume 1").
We (Meaning Jeremy and myself, Bill too I think) Have been wanting to do this song for nearly 2 years. It's a hard hitting fast past declaration that's more shouted then sung (at least for the chorus). Josh made an amazing video to go with it instead of the normal mouse clicking done in pro-presenter so it synced perfectly (used a click track). I've seen them (Northpoint/Fee) do this song live and they play it with eigths, on the CD it's 16ths... guess which one I chose to copy? Yeah... my arms felt like rubber afterwards. So worth it though, people came up to me afterwards saying how amazing it felt to shout out "We Are the Redeemed" and were asking when we've be doing the song again... though I think next time I may wuss out and play it like his band does live... Probably not, I'm insane like that.
Worship Team this week had Elizabeth, Bill, Ronnie, Jeremy, Anne and Myself, we were also joined by most of our vocal team, for We Shine.
I really think Salvation's Chorus connected, but I'm also super glad we did Mighty to Save, I don't think I've mentioned this to our worship team but at Drive I had an epiphany... (First of all I'm not sure if I spelled that right, and second of all I'm not sure if I'm using it in the right context) but while there I experienced worship so powerful that I felt it, I had tears running down the sides of my face and just felt God's presence in the worship, and right there I decided that I want other people to experience worship like that, it's an amazing feeling and one that I pray that people who worship with us at Lifepoint would feel. Mighty to Save is one of the Songs I think that does that so well, (As I almost didn't want to put it in the service).
... right there was more I wanted to say, but It's 1:30 in the AM and I wanted to go into work early tomorrow.
Remember to have fun while you're out there slogging through life (last week was a tough one) after all, isn't God the Author of Joy?
(Side Note: I do understand that Memorial Day is a day set aside to honor our nation's fallen heroes. And trust me that is not something I take lightly... I still can't read through any volume of the CMOH awards without choking up, however the fact remains that I slept in).
So moving right along to this past week.
Wow, Our last week at Parkside Elementary (until perhaps we go multi-site, but that's a whole new pack o'picks) we wanted to go out with a bang so we (the creative team) had Pastor agree (by the way, for the official record I have no idea who would do this to his office) to put the worship set at the end.
Why you may ask?
So we could end with worship, Steve Fee's "We Shine" to be exact. We wanted to end in a huge celebratory feeling. We rented 2 confetti cannons and set up several hundred balloons to fall... (side note: I assume that's where the balloons used in this came from... I would also like to point out that I was there tearing down until the very end and I drive a compact car that would not have even remotely held that kind of number of balloons).
Well apparently Northpoint wasn't the only ones going through issues this week (see Reid's post here). As I was having in-ear issues. Perhaps Murphy reared his head, or perhaps God wanted to remind us to focus on him and not on the celebration of a building, or perhaps He does indeed have a sense of humor... I'm not sure, (personally though I think the focus, at least for us on stage was worship... the fact that I played my heart and and was ready to collapse at the end attests to that fact) but we never did get the blasted cannons to work during the service... they worked AFTER the service when we tested them, just not DURING the service. (Yes, we do know what went wrong, I take responsibility because I'm the one who knew how to connect them and didn't do it). Neither did the balloon drop work first service.
The balloons did fall for second service and the effect was awesome!
Set list:
Salvation's Chorus (Todd Fields, from the new Northpoint Live Album "Louder Than Creation")
Let Me Sing (See Above)... Technically we didn't perform this song, we played it behind a video, but I want to bring it into worship rotation soon (it's AMAZING worship!) so this was a great way to introduce it.
Salvation's Chorus (We did it Again, at this point I think people had learned it and joined in more on it). This song has quickly become one of my favorite fast (tempo) worship songs. The second chorus which is the one that gets echoed is almost a cheer, but I love these lyrics, "Weary ones join in the song, Amazing Grace has found us here, Son of God King Jesus Reigns, Praise his Name, Shout and sing, Holy One, King of Kings, By His Grace, we are free, no more shame, praise His name" And we'll be seeing a lot more of it, trust me...
Mighty to Save (Hillsong, "Mighty to Save") Mighty to save is just a powerful worship anthem, it's one of our worship songs that we consider a heavy hitter, want people to feel worship? pull out Mighty to Save, (gee that sounds kind of cheesy). It has long been nearly everyone on staff's favorite worship song, and was just awesome to do. (Side note, expect a few new worship songs that I feel will have the same effect coming out in the not to distant future... if you have the Louder Then Creation album tracks 3, 4, 5, but especially number 11), No I'm not getting rid of Mighty to Save, I'm just saying that these new songs are POWERFUL worship.
Finally We Shine (Fee, "Fee" also "Northpoint Live Volume 1").
We (Meaning Jeremy and myself, Bill too I think) Have been wanting to do this song for nearly 2 years. It's a hard hitting fast past declaration that's more shouted then sung (at least for the chorus). Josh made an amazing video to go with it instead of the normal mouse clicking done in pro-presenter so it synced perfectly (used a click track). I've seen them (Northpoint/Fee) do this song live and they play it with eigths, on the CD it's 16ths... guess which one I chose to copy? Yeah... my arms felt like rubber afterwards. So worth it though, people came up to me afterwards saying how amazing it felt to shout out "We Are the Redeemed" and were asking when we've be doing the song again... though I think next time I may wuss out and play it like his band does live... Probably not, I'm insane like that.
Worship Team this week had Elizabeth, Bill, Ronnie, Jeremy, Anne and Myself, we were also joined by most of our vocal team, for We Shine.
I really think Salvation's Chorus connected, but I'm also super glad we did Mighty to Save, I don't think I've mentioned this to our worship team but at Drive I had an epiphany... (First of all I'm not sure if I spelled that right, and second of all I'm not sure if I'm using it in the right context) but while there I experienced worship so powerful that I felt it, I had tears running down the sides of my face and just felt God's presence in the worship, and right there I decided that I want other people to experience worship like that, it's an amazing feeling and one that I pray that people who worship with us at Lifepoint would feel. Mighty to Save is one of the Songs I think that does that so well, (As I almost didn't want to put it in the service).
... right there was more I wanted to say, but It's 1:30 in the AM and I wanted to go into work early tomorrow.
Remember to have fun while you're out there slogging through life (last week was a tough one) after all, isn't God the Author of Joy?
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