Archive - November, 2009

Worship Confessional: November 29th, 2009

November 29, 2009 in Service schedules, Worship, Worship Confessional with 0 Comments

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Today just capped off a wonderful week of celebrating Thanksgiving! I love getting to spend the extra time with my family… and then being with and hearing from church family in services today was just the icing on the cake!  Our services today were unique and very personal as we heard from several families today.  Our Pastor had 8 different families share thoughts on giving thanks from different aspects and different life situations.  It was very touching, and put everything on a very personal level.  Here is the set list:

  • Sing, Sing, Sing- Carson, Gilder, Nunn, Reeves, Tomlin
  • Today Is The Day – Baloche/Brewster

Thanksgiving Video – “ThanksLiving”

Special music: (Great job Justin and Cassie)

First half of message: “ThanksLiving”

  • Blessed Be Your Name – Redman/Redman

Offering

  • Majesty – Garrard/Smith

Second half of message

Time of response

Video advertisement for our Christmas post office

Dismiss!

Happy Holidays everyone! This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.

ThanksLiving

November 26, 2009 in family, gratitude, holiday, thanksgiving with 1 Comment

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I enjoy this time of year more than any other time.  I love the holidays, and really enjoy the extra time I get to spend with my family. Thanksgiving is a day that really should be a reminder of how we are to live each and every day of our life. With thanks! We take so many things for granted on a daily basis. Sometimes there are reminders that we do this: We lose our job, a family member dies, a close friend moves away, the money runs out and we buy food according to necessity and not by preference of taste and desire.  When these things happen to us or someone we are close to, we all of a sudden are reminded that we are one of the lucky ones… better yet, we are one of the blessed ones.

Here is a quick 5 things that I am blessed with and thankful for this day:

  1. A God that desires a relationship on a day by day, moment by moment basis. His love and forgiveness drives me to love others even when it is hard to do.
  2. A family that loves me (or at least they say they do!) even though I make mistakes (a lot). The older I get, the more I love and appreciate them.
  3. A wife that I adore! I know, she is family and belongs in #2, but she deserves a special mention all to herself.  She is the most important thing in my life (outside of God Himself).  Marrying her was certainly a good move on my part!
  4. A church to serve in. I cannot imagine doing anything else but serving in a local church. Seeing people takes steps towards Christ is rewarding in and of itself!
  5. Food and football!  How can I not say that on Thanksgiving day!

Make Thanksgiving a way of living!  Make it ThanksLiving!  We are so blessed!

The Right Structure

November 25, 2009 in funny, leadership with 0 Comments

Saw this at Carlos Whittaker’s site… funniest thing I have seen in a long time, so I had to post it!

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This is not the right structure for a business OR a church…  Leaders are to take the poop… not those under them!  Thanks for the laughs Carlos!

Worship Confessional: November 22, 2009

November 22, 2009 in Service schedules, the church, Worship, Worship Confessional with 2 Comments

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Today we celebrated Communion together. I love to partake of the Lord’s Supper with my church family.  It is always  special time, and today was no different.  We purposefully set a more reflective atmosphere.  We started out with a slower, yet powerful choir song and we also only used an acoustic in our music today.  It was a nice change to make, and went with the atmosphere we were trying to create.  It was a very nice service and there was quite a buzz about the service afterwords. Now, on to the setlist!

Choir Special – Reveal (way to go choir!)

Baptism (It never get sold seeing people take steps towards Christ)

Drama -  A short skit on prayer (Everyone did a great job!)

  • The Wonderful Cross – Mason/Reeves/Tomlin/Walt/Watts
  • At The Cross – Hudson/Watts

Special Music – The Old Rugged Cross (Lesley did a fantastic job!)

Message – Part 1 (Our pastor spoke about the meaning of Communion today so that our new people knew what we were doing)

  • Nothing But The Blood – Lowry
  • Once Again – Redman

Special – Lead Me To The Cross (one of my favorites! Wonderful job Randi!)

Message – Part 2

Time of response and receiving the elements

Offering

  • How Great is Our God – Tomlin

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving this week!  We have more than we deserve not only in possessions, but as recipients of God’s love and mercy also!  This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.

Better With Age! Happy Birthday Jennifer!

November 16, 2009 in family, love, Uncategorized, wife with 0 Comments

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Today is my wife’s birthday… she is 35… again… (not really, but I am NOT going to say how old she is today… but it rhymes with 40!)  She is more beautiful than the day I married her.  She just gets better as the years go by!  I love you Jennifer! Cannot wait to post the same thing when we are 80!

Worship Confessional: November 15, 2009

November 15, 2009 in Service schedules, the church, Worship, Worship Confessional with 2 Comments

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Today was the last day of our Missions Celebration, and it was a great finale!  I am so proud of all of the people that were involved in making everything happen over the last several weeks!  It is such a blessing to work with such creative and talented people!  We had a lot of elements involved in the service again this week, including a dance by some of our kids as the grand finale!  I will try and post a video if the dance later.  Here is the set list and order for the week:

  • Glory To God Forever – Beeching/Fee
  • Mighty To Save – Fielding/Morgan

Choir – End of the Beginning

  • A New Hallelujah – Smith/Smith/Baloche

Video intro for speaker

Speaker: Jerry Thorpe (former pastor of Crossroads Fellowship in Odessa – Jerry preached a terrific evangelistic message.  We had several raise their hands to give their lives to Christ.  That NEVER gets old!)

Offering

Drama finale – Won by One (Written by some of our own people)

I want to says thanks again to all of our people that were involved over the last several weeks to make our missions celebration such a success.  It took all of you using the gifts you have to make it all work!  You are awesome!

I am looking forward to wrapping up the Missions Celebration next week!  This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.

Feel like this has happened?

November 9, 2009 in humor with 0 Comments

Saw this at Los’ site…

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Is this an exaggeration?

Worship Confessional: November 8th, 2009

November 8, 2009 in Service schedules, the church, Worship, Worship Confessional with 1 Comment

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Week three of our Missions Celebrations was absolutely a wonderful day! The energy and excitement that we had last week carried over to today and was just contagious. Everyone that was involved did such a good job! Way to go Glenville peeps!  Here was our service schedule for today:

Choir – Pass It On (Tommy Walker tune)

Testimony about giving to missions

Video intro and drama – written and directed by some of our own people!  (Way to go team, and thanks Ludwigs for heading this up, you are doing an awesome job!)

Special Music – By Our Love (Christy Nockles) (Great job Randi!  It was beautiful!)

  • God Of This City – Bleakley/Aaron/Comfort/Jordan/Kernaghan/McCann

Bi-lingual special (since we focused on a Hispanic field this week, out Hispanic pastor and worship leader did this for us)

  • Your Name – Baloche/Packiam

Message – Jim Smith from BBFI missions office/Missionary to Ecuador

Time of response

Offering

Video promo for Guest Services team

Glory To God Forever – Fee/Beeching

I am looking forward to wrapping up the Missions Celebration next week!  This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.

Worship Confessional: November 1, 2009

November 1, 2009 in Service schedules, the church, Worship, Worship Confessional with 2 Comments

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Today was the second Sunday in our Missions Celebration.  A couple of quotes that stuck out to me were these: “Missions exists because worship does not; ” and “Missions will end, but worship will never end.”  Those are not statements that belittle or make missions less important.  in fact, I think that those statements actually make missions even more important.  After all, the goal of missions is to make worshipers of God.

As far as our setlist goes, we had a wide variety of elements involved in the service.  It all flowed really well!

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  • All Because of Jesus – Fee
  • Let Everything That – Redman

Choir – Our God Saves (Baloche)

  • Glory To God Forever – Fee/Beeching

Video intro to drama

Won by One Missions Drama (Written  by a couple in our church.  This will be a reoccurring drama for three weeks. Great job by everyone!  Thanks Fred and Patti!)

Special to end the Drama – Yours (Steven Curtis Chapman – Ashley, you did great!)

Message – Jeremy Jones

Offering and announcements

Baby Dedication (seem to be doing a lot of these lately!  That is always a good thing!

What a great day today!  It was nice having everyone in the auditorium together in one service!  That always brings extra energy and excitement! This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.