I have had multiple people ask me about some songs that we have been doing lately. November is our month that we lead people to give and go to missions. This year we have used a couple songs off of Billy and Cindy Foote’s Album “Go to Everyone.” You can get it on iTunes.
The Songs we have uses are “Go to Everyone” and “There’s More Room.” I also love “Die the Death.”It is not a great corporate song, but it is a great personal medidation song.
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Last year I wrote a song based on 2 Corinthians 5:16-21. We did it a couple of weeks ago at NorthWood and thought you might like to have it. The crux of the song is that Jesus gave us new life, but he also gave us ministry of reconciliation as well.
Here is the Mp3 straight from the board (it is not perfect) and a chord chart. This is a recording from one of the first times we did it. We now have shortened the bridge, and do not do the pre-chous after the bridge. Those changes are notated on the chart.
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For those of you that do not know, my wife is 20 weeks pregnant with our 3rd child. Today we went and got the 20 week sonogram and found out we are going to have a….. (watch the video)
In my opinion we have excellent worship services at NorthWood (exhibit a). Clearly, this is important to me since I am the Worship Pastor, but lots of churches have great worship service. I don’t know of another church who focuses on impacting the world as much as NorthWood.
Here is a short about how we started working around the world.
My wife is a serious trooper. She can deal with a lot of stuff before she is overwhelmed. But today she met her match. She was stricken by a evil spawn of satan that manifested itself with copious amounts of fluids exiting her body from polar ends of each other… trust me it was not pretty. Today is the first time she has ever asked me to come home and watch the girls when she has been sick. I gladly came home.
After feeding the girls lunch and getting them down for nap, I went on a Wal-Mart run to stock up for my sick wife. After checking out I realized I had not got any coffee. This is a problem since I am a border-line addict and we ran out this morning. So after taking my cart full of groceries to the car, I go back in to get some coffee beans, clearly annoyed. I get whole beans and usually get them from the hopper and then pay by the weight when I check out. Our particular Wal-Mart has two brands to choose from. I am a coffee snob so I went for the most expensive.
When I was walking up to the self check out, I thought… “I could just give the sku# for the cheaper beans and nobody would know.” I stopped myself knowing that was completely wrong. When I got up to the counter I realized that I had grabbed the cheap brand bag and it was the only sku# I had. Because I did not have the other sku#, I put the number in and put the coffee in the sack and was almost ready to pay out.
Over the next couple of seconds this is the conversation that went on in my head. “It is not that big of deal. You don’t have the other sku#, just pay and go on……. This is wrong and I am going to feel guilty….. You have spent thousands of dollars at this store, a few cents is not that big of a deal, it has been a long day, just pay and leave…… NO, this is not right.”
I am thankful to the Lord, that in that moment I grabbed the coffee out of the bag, canceled the item, which made the self checkout attendent have to come to my station and authorize the cancel, and then had to look up the correct sku#. In the end, I would have stolen $1 from Wal-Mart and had to have walked away from the store knowing that I had chosen my ways over God’s.
Thank you Lord for my wife. Bring healing to her body.
Thank you Holy Spirit for guiding me. Bring healing to my life.
I simply cannot afford to buy all the music I would like to listen to. So I use Rhapsody.
Reasons I use Rhapsody:
Discover New Music - There are hundreds of new albums realeased every week. Most of them are not worth buying, but with Rhapsody, I can still listen through the album to see if it is good or not. Also, this is the way we look for music for specials for our worship serivices.
Worth a Listen But Not Worth Buying - There is a lot of music that is worth listening to, but not worth buying. I hate to admit it, but being from Oklahoma, sometimes I just need a good ol’ country song, or I remember a band I loved in high school and want to listen to their album. With Rhapsody, I can listen to it all, but never have to spend the money to buy it.
Extensive Catalog - I have yet to find a major label band or song that is not on Rhapsody.
Save Serious Money - To access Rhapsody, you pay a monthly subscription fee. For $12.99 a month, a little less than the price of a CD, you get to listen to over 2 million songs, at CD quality levels, as much as you want. There is no limit.
If you are a worship pastor, you will save your church serious money by using Rhapsody.
If you are a music lover, you will love the the amount of music you can listen to.
Every other Tuesday night is date night for me and Kari. Tonight we did not go. Avery has a fever (101.1), but has no symptoms like a stufy nose, upset tummy, ear ache, etc. Not sure what is going on, but I am sure that we will find out tomorrow.
So tonight, no date, we will sit home and watch election coverage. Boo.
This past weekend was our mass choir weekend. We do this at least twice a year. It is always a blast, and we use it as a recruitment tool as well. This time we did Lincoln Brewster’s “Give Him Praise” (iTunes or Amazon). This is not our typical style but it was refreshing to cut loose with this bluesy gospel sound. Check it out. (Make sure you watch the guitar solos at 1:50 and 2:50)
Mass Choir/Bridge Team: It was a blast leading worship with you. You brought a lot of energy to the congregation. Rudy: Great job. I am glad we finally utilized that booming voice of yours. Mark C: It simply is not fair how much talent God has given you. You shred on the guitar, but you are also the brightest theologian that I know.
). This is not our typical style but it was refreshing to cut loose with this bluesy gospel sound. Check it out. (Make sure you watch the guitar solos at 1:50 and 2:50)
