Songwriting Tele-Seminar with Darrell Evans to Benefit Human Trafficking Charity
Wisdom has let me in on something I want to share with you worship leaders and songwriters out there: (more…)
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Worship Recap & Set List: March 1, 2009 v 2.0-Video of “Black and Blue Is My Heart.”
Black and Blue is My Heart from Rich Kirkpatrick on Vimeo.
This is a continuation of this weeks post about Sunday’s worship at Sunridge. Here is a song I wrote that some asked to see on video, so here ya go. Its not perfect, but might give you a picture. We were singing this while people were taking communion.
New song: “This Sacred Place”
The song "This Sacred Place" is a new worship song I wrote and introduced to our church this past Sunday. I think it went over pretty well. We did not perfect the arrangement, but the simplicity is still there.
The idea is that we can go to God boldly because Jesus is the New and Living Way. Also, I think we all long for some of the symbols that let us know our faith is older than us–like steeples, cathedrals and thoughts that have stood the test of time. It is with this sense of awe and mystery that we come to worship. So, even though we have confidence to approach, we have to remind ourselves of that privilege given the history of our faith and the nature of God’s holiness. Really, our churches should be sacred places that retreat from the scattered thinking of the mundane rituals in life.
Let me know what you think.
I have also included a chord chart: Download ThisSacredPlace-C.pdf.
My Christmas greeting in song: Light of the World
Merry Christmas to my family, friends and blogging community out there. This is my first Christmas season in Temecula, California. As most of you know, we recently moved our family from Redding to SoCal and are adjusting as well as can be expected. The Christmas season is great for all the reasons our culture loves, but I have to pause and share what I think Christmas is really about. Just like Linus of Peanuts, I had the lights turned on and had my chance to speak some sense–if anything to myself. Christmas is powerful because of the power of the fact of Jesus coming as a baby with the intent of dying for you and I.
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