Great to have our string section section (& accordion) with us this morning! As we gather, we seek a true vision of the awesomeness of God,.. to hear His voice,.. a revelation.  We began our worship  with the hymn Read more →

If you’re scratching your head thinking, what was that song the band opened with, scratch no more.  It was the Average White Band’s classic “Pick Up the Pieces”, featuring our horn section.  Fun little “band jam”.

What a great morning. Around 40 children are being dedicated.  Read more →

Looking forward to a great weekend!  We’ll be singing two new worship songs that we introduced on Easter, “Jesus the Same” & “Jesus at the Center”.  Both songs are from Israel & New Breed.  I’m enjoying these songs musically because there not the same sound as most of the current worship stuff (which I like, too). Other songs we will be singing are “Sing to the King”, “My Glorious” and Phil Wickham’s “All I Am”.

It was great to be back with the River Oaks Community this morning after a couple of weeks of vacation.  This morning we made use of a 12 string electric that we recently purchased!  It’s not a Rickenbacker like Roger McQuins, but it sounds close!

During worship, we sang a new arrangement of Paul Baloche’s “Because of Your Love”, followed by “Hallelujah” by Seven Stories Up. We continued with “Awake My Soul (Chris Tomlin) and “All I Am” (Phil Wickham).  We closed the service with a new “bongo” arrangement of “Holy Spirit”, originally recorded by Among Thorns.

I’m enjoying my second week of vacation!  Rich Trowbridge will be the worship leader this week (thanks so much, Rich).  Songs include “All Because of Jesus”, “Because of Your Love”, “Our God Is Love” (new worship song from Hillsong), “Light of the World” and “How Deep the Father’s Love”.  The team is closing with a new Phil Wickham song, “All I Am”.

I’m on vacation this week.  I’m so thankful to have band leader Andrew Hauser and worship leaders Diana Monteil & Julie Bergdall take the reigns!  Worship songs for this Sunday were “Awakening”, “Awake My Soul” (a song we introduced on Easter), “I Will Follow”, “Center” and “Jesus Son of God”.  Julie and the band closed the service with “He Knows My Name”.

Hebrews 9:14:  How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

We had a powerful time of reflection, confession and celebration on this Palm Sunday.  Read more →

As the community of River Oaks, we celebrate this day, giving glory to the One who created it!

The first song we will sing together is “We Sing Glory” (Jimmy Fed), followed by “Come and Worship” (Word Music), the hymn “All Creatures of Our God and King” and “Taken By Love (Kutless).  Our worship time closes by declaring “God You Reign” (Lincoln Brewster).

We continue with our current series “Break Free”.  As we gather together, our two worship leaders, Diana Montiel and Brooke Miller, will lead us in the songs “How Can I Keep From Singing” (Chris Tomlin), “Alive In Us” (Hillsong), “God Is Able” (Hillsong) and “Jesus Son of God” (Chris Tomlin). Brooke and the band close our services with the song “All My Hope” (Hillsong).