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“Lift High the Cross of Christ”
Our prayer this morning is that we continue to “be Your Church, O Lord”. We humbly submit to Your will and your plan, standing for truth and righteousness. Together, we will sing songs of commitment to the Gospel of Christ. Songs include: “Jesus Lifted High”, “Stand”, “Rise Up O Church of God” and “Light of the World”. continue reading »
We continue in our current teaching series, “Joy”. We began our worship with the hymn “Joyful Joyful” (accompanied by our string trio), which uses the famous melody from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Beethoven’s know for being “rough around the edges”, but history also describes him as a man of great faith.
No better way to start off the morning than a little ukulele and trombone! Bruce Bergdall (trombone) and myself (uke) opened the service with a vaudvillian version of the song “Such Joy” (an old Integrity worship song) & Spirit of the Living God.
Romans 5:5 – And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
We responded to the scripture with songs “Holy Spirit” (Among Thorns), “Arise” (Paul Baloche), “Come Reveal” (John Stockdale) and Matt Redman’s “Light of the World”.
We concluded the service with “Benedicton” (Getty).
Breaking out the “K” man for this Sunday. We started our worship with the song “For the Lord is Good”, a song we used to do years ago. It was so refreshing to play a worship song that has more than 4 chords (not that that’s a bad thing). And also to be able to play an “Eb13(#11). continue reading »
We start a new teaching series tomorrow morning. “Joy” will be centered around the book of Philippians. This service will make you smile.
To prepare for tomorrow’s worship, take a moment and read Psalm 100. Our worship songs include “Joy” (Tree 63), “Salt & Light” (Jami Smith), “Beautiful One” (various), “Fairest Lord Jesus”, “I Stand Amazed” and “Blessed Be Your Name”.
Looking forward to being with God’s church tomorrow!
There’s a line on Ben Folds/Nick Hornby’s “Lonely Avenue” album that say’s “some guy on the net thinks I suck, and he should know, he’s got his own blog”. In light of that, it really doesn’t matter what I think are the best albums of the year, but I’ve enjoyed thinking about it and reading other lists (Rolling Stone, NPR-All Things Considered,..). Below (in no particular order) are my 10 favorites from 2011. continue reading »
It’s that time to do the top ten lists (which reminds me of the movie “High Fidelity”, one of my favorites). I thought it might be fun to look at what I think were probably the top ten new worship songs we sang at River Oaks in 2011. You can let me know if you agree. continue reading »
Nothing has ever been the same since heaven came to earth. The birth of Christ “changed everything”! That was the theme of our Christmas celebration this year. continue reading »
Our kids from “Kid’s World” will be singing this morning. Parents, grandparents,…bring your camera.
During our worship time, together we will sing “How Great is Our God”, “O Come All Ye Faithful”, “God With Us”, “What Child is This” and “In Christ Alone”.
