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Worship Set List – March 30, ’08: Djembe, New original song, Simplify

March 30, 2008 at 1:09 pm, by Rich Kirkpatrick

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This week was another awesome worship Sunday at Sunridge Community Church.  Our new sermon series entitled “Simplify” began today.  What a great concept:  Greg Sidders uses the six statements that Jesus made about discipleship to help unclutter your walk with Christ.  This is going to be a memorable six weeks for our church.

We did part of our service “unplugged” using a djembe for the first time since I came to SoCal.  Kyle, our screaming drummer, actually plays it quite well.  The idea was to “simplify” our sound right after Greg gave a synopsis of the series in front of the service.

We debuted an original worship song of mine, “This Sacred Place” and I think it was successful.  I wrote this just a few weeks ago, and got good feedback about it from some worship publishing execs and friends at EMI’s www.worshiptogether.com while at a special songwriting session back in February’s re:create conference. (I hope to get a demo made soon.) **I added the video and chord chart in this post here.

Here was the music we did today:

How was your worship weekend?

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  • http://www.skiescolliiide777.blogspot.com Sean Pritzkau

    a demo would be awesome! I haven’t heard any of your original stuff.

    I think someone plays everyday.. everyday.

  • http://babulife.blogs.com/ Ben

    Yo Rich! We had a good worship time this morning. Looking forward to a day when I get the guts to roll out an original! Would love to hear the tune sometime. Here’s the link to our worship time: http://babulife.blogs.com/weblog/2008/03/worship-confe-4.html

    Later!

  • http://www.mattolds.org Matt

    stud

  • http://www.CriesOfTheHeart.com Paul J.

    Unplugged can work SO well. Please post a demo soon…

  • http://manofdepravity.com Tyler

    Just wrote about it. Went really well I think. Nothing but positive feedback so far.

    I like Shust’s song for a congregational song. Nice pick.

  • http://www.cynthiacullen.com Cynthia Cullen

    I would LOVE to hear the song…I love your original stuff, man. I used a cello, flute, one other singer, and some loops yesterday – I thought it was one of the most musical services we have done in a long time…I love simple.

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