Recap: This week was the beginning of a new era for Sunridge Community Church. Britt Sipe, our Interim Pastor brought it home with a message about change: Change Happens. The room was electric and once again I heard our people sing out, shout out and participate. God is about to do something very special during this season of transition. We are so fortunate to have a leader like Britt take us through this time.

Today I had a friend and fellow worship leader from Orange, CA sit in with us and co-lead the worship music. Chad Markley for his day job owns a consulting business in the technology field. It was a treat to have a friend of mine come in and our church was blessed by his leadership. Thanks Chad!

Another element of interest this week was a bumper video for the sermon with a series of pictures of Mel Gram’s life from birth to today.

Set List: This week was about change and the hope was that our songs would reflect the words we needed to sing to God during this season.

• Everybody Praise the Lord – Lincoln Brewster
• Glory to God Forever – Fee Band
• You Never Let Go – Matt Redman
• Jesus Messiah – Chris Tomlin
• Everlasting God – Brenton Brown

Links:

• Chad Markley’s blog
• Planning Center worship production flow
• Fred’s list of blogs from all over
• Sunridge Facebook Page link about this
• SERMON VIDEO link

How was your worship weekend? Share your thoughts and feedback below.

Worship Recap: Cannot believe its a new month and new sermon series already. Today we began a new series about the Sermon on The Mount entitled: “Change.”  We are getting low in the drum area, so I am so grateful for friends in town with Craig of Venture Christian letting us borrow Tyler who did a great job with us today on drums. Talk about generosity and the churches working to help each other. Thanks to Craig and Tyler.

We partook communion today. I got to do the setup. I made two points about it. First, I said we need to find beauty in the act instead of just going through the motions. The sunset is a beautiful thing, but if we reduce it intellectually to something that simply reflects God’s beauty rather than enjoy the sunset, we miss the point. In the same way, communion is an act that reflects the beauty in the sacrifice of love from Jesus to us. We should feel some sort of awe beyond a simple thought of it as symbolic like from a text book. Second, I mentioned how we do this together. So, I encouraged people to talk to each other in confessional tones about how they came today, ready or not. And, I encouraged friends and family to take it together.

Set List: This week, we introduced “I Cling to the Cross” which ends with a traditional refrain from “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus.”

• I Will Boast – Paul Baloche
• Your Name is Holy – Brian Doerksen
• Invitation Fountain – Michael J. Pritzl
• Here I am to Worship – Tim Hughes
• I Cling to the Cross – Paul Baloche, Matt Redman

How was your worship weekend?

[for more church set lists from all over the place, go to Fred's blog ]

RECAP: Today we finished our sermon series entitled “Bounce”–I think many were encouraged by talking about how to bounce back. With our economy and society having negative numbers and attitudes, the church has so much to offer with relationships.

One fun thing today was to do the “God is good…ALL the time” chant with the crowd. I mixed it up a bit and randomly said things like “You stock portfolio might be down…but..(cue congregation” GOD IS GOOD.” This surely is appropriate given that we live by faith and not the stock market.

One funny quip was when I seated the church and said “You may have seated”–the chuckles were worth the mess up.

SET LIST: We did once more Mark Roach’s “As Long As I Have You” as the anchor song for our series.

• Today Is The Day – Lincoln Brewster
• As Long As I Have You – Mark Roach
• You Are Good – Israel Houton
• You Gave Your Life Away – Paul Baloche, Kathryn Scott
• Blessed Be Your Name – Matt Redman

How did you celebrate God being good in the midst of gloomy news lately?

[Go to my friend Fred's blog for set lists from all over the place]