Category: Sunday Setlists

Sunday Recap – 12/5/2010

It’s hard to believe it, but it’s time to bring out the Christmas carols!! Pastor Tim started his Christmas series today, with “Did God Really Put Skin On?’, which was a great reminder of how the Word became flesh, based on John 1:14.

 

Contemporary Services

It was a Tomlin morning, I guess, with several from his newest Christmas CD and others.  It also was Communion today, and “Jesus Messiah” worked so well today as  a bridge between the Christmas message and the communion table! You can watch the video for this service, and see the Planning Center details.

 

Cafe Connection Service

I didn’t lead in either the Cafe or the Traditional this morning, so I was able to be the Producer today during this hour.  It was great to see Zack lead here in the Cafe and Randy in the Traditional.  The team did a great job today! I loved hearing them do “Carried To The Table”. Zack did an awesome job on the acoustic guitar on that one!

 

Traditional Service

  • O Come, O Come Emmanuel
  • Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
  • Joy to The World
  • Break Thou The Bread of Life
  • There Is a Redeemer

You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details for this service.

This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog carnival at The Worship Community, where you can read recaps from other worship services.

Sunday Setlist – October 24, 2010

Another busy morning at Bethel today! But, this afternoon starts my week of vacation, so I’m feeling that start of  vacation excitement as to what can all be accomplished! Just wish we had the means to carry out some of our list… Oh well… on to the setlist…

Contemporary Services

“Rising” (Paul Baloche and Matt Redman)
– I actually JUST noticed for the first time this am that Matt Redman was one of the co-writers of this one. I guess I didn’t realize that! Did he ever record it? This is a great opener, right from the Psalms!

“God Is Great” (Marty Sampson)
–  This one has a tempo of 152, in other words – fast! But, in our 9:30 service we must have been at least at 160! We were flying along! 11:00 was better. Another great song – one of our congregation’s favorites!

“Our God” (Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman)
– Again, our tempo on this one was a bit too fast in the 9:30, better in the 11:00.  This is the first time we’ve done this song since reading Aaron Niequist’s blog post about it (http://www.aaronniequist.com/blog/worship/did-we-just-sing-that/). I tried not to let that post change my opinion of the song. Have you read it? What are your thoughts? Honestly, I had not thought anything along the lines of what he was saying before reading it, and I’m really surprised it got so much attention! But, I think it’s a great song, and our congregation loves it!

“Your Love Never Fails” (Chris McClarney)
– This is one of my favorites right now! The band sounded great on it today, especially in the 11:00!

“Stronger” (Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan)
– I love when a a song takes on a different meaning each time you sing it! Today, that was the case with this one. We’ve used this great song before in relation to the cross and Easter, but today’s message was on facing temptation, and this song fit perfectly in that setting as well. “You are stronger. Sin is broken, you have saved me!” God really used this song today as we used it as a response to the message and there was a great response!

You can watch the video of this service, and also see the details of the service order.

 

Cafe Connection Service

“Rising” (Matt Redman, Paul Baloche)

“Beautiful One” (Tim Hughes)

“You Alone Can Save” (Matt Redman)

“Stronger” (Ben Fielding, Reuben Morgan)

I led in the Cafe this morning, with a full team – percussion (cajon/congas), guitar, keyboard, vocals. It was the biggest team we’ve had yet for the Cafe. I was amazed, again, at what a great team we have that help to pull off this service each week with the setup, food prep, tech team, music team, take-down. What great volunteers!

 

Traditional Service

“God, Our Father, We Adore Thee”
“How Great Thou Art”
“Blessed Assurance”
“I Will Praise Him”
“What A Friend We Have In Jesus”

You can watch the video of this service, and also see the details of the service order.

This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog carnival at The Worship Community, where you can read recaps from worship services around the country.

 

Worship Recap – October 17, 2010

I hope you all had a wonderful morning of worship! Here’s our worship recap from this morning’s services at Bethel. This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog carnival at The Worship Community.

Contemporary Services

“Hosanna” (Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown)
– It’s been a while since we’ve used this song, so I thought it was time! It’s amazing what taking a little break from a song will do. People seemed very excited to sing it, and they really sang out! Zack did a awesome job on the guitar solo today.

“Today Is The Day” (Lincoln Brewster and Paul Baloche)
– We’ve done the Lincoln Brewster version of this song since it came out, but I’ve always wanted to try Paul Baloche’s version.  We did take away the ‘Oh, Oh, Oh’s today, which made it feel much tighter. Once again, Zack nailed the solo on this one!

“Cannons” (Phil Wickham)
– This was the second week we’ve used this song, and people are already catching on to this great song. We started soft with just Shanna sang the first verse, then we all joined in the  chorus. The band then came in and off we went. I love this song! “I’m so unworthy, but still You love me.”

“How He Loves” (John Mark McMillan)
– Today’s message was about God’s grace and love, so this was a perfect way to end our service! I think some of the words in the verses finally sunk in today after pastor’s message. People seemed to respond much more to the song today.

You can watch this service online and also see the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection Service

Adam led the team today in the Cafe, and from what I’ve heard, did a great job along with the team – Georgine on vocals and Zack on percussion.

“Hosanna” (Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown)

“Everlasting God” (Brenton Brown)

“You Never Let Go” (Matt Redman)

“We Fall Down” (Chris Tomlin)

Traditional Service

“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
“Redeemed”
“Without Him”
“Wonderful Grace of  Jesus”

You can watch this service online, or see the Planning Center details.

Worship Recap – October 3rd, 2010

October? Is that possible? Well, I guess it is, and the temperature when I left home at 5:45 a.m. this morning felt like it!  Fall is one of my favorite seasons, so I’m actually happy about flipping the calendar page! This morning was Communion Sunday. How often do you have Communion in your services? We have it on the first Sunday of each month. Thanks to all those who served this morning in our four services. You guys did a great job! This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog at The Worship Community; check it out to read other recaps from worship leaders around the country.

Contemporary Services

We had some really neat moments this morning during our service. One of them was our special for today – “Open Hands” by Matt Papa. I love this song, and one of our worship leaders, Zack, led this song from his electric guitar, and I sang harmony from the keyboard along with the rest of the band.  Zack did a great job – very proud of that guy! The other moment I remember was during “In Christ Alone”. It was right before Communion, and you know when sometimes a song that you’ve sung many times before just hits you in a new way? Well, today as the congregation was responding in worship during the third verse, I was just overwhelmed with the sacrifice of Christ on the cross all over again – what a gift! We were short one singer today who called in sick, so Bekah agreed to fill in on her solo on “At The Cross”, and she did a fabulous job! Want to see more? You can watch the video of this service or look at the Planning Center details. Here are the songs:

“Salvation Is Here” (Joel Houston)

“Open Hands” (Matt Papa and James Thiele)

“In Christ Alone” (Keith Getty and Stuart Townend)

“At The Cross” (Darlene Zschech and Reuben Morgan)

“You Are My King” (Billy Foote)
– This has always been one of my favorite songs, but after listening to the interview with Billy on the latest All About Worship Podcast, my appreciation for Billy and his music skyrocketed! Because of a condition that he has, Billy is physically unable to sing! He can speak, but when he tries to sing, his vocal cords just don’t allow him to sing. He said that he hears the melody in his head, then asks his wife Cindy to sing it for him to see if it sounds good. Amazing!

Cafe Connections

I wasn’t able to  be in this service today since I was leading in the Traditional, but they sounded great at rehearsal! Adam picked out these songs, and I was really hoping to hear how Leeland’s “Carried To The Table” went – in the original key, even! You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

“Lord Over All” (Gary Sadler)

“In the Secret” (Andy Park)

“Carried To The Table” (Leeland Mooring, Marc Byrd, Steve Hindalong)

“How Great Is Our God” (Ed Cash, Jesse Reeves, Chris Tomlin)

Traditional Service

You can watch the video of this service as well as see the Planning Center details.

“One Day”
“The Church’s One Foundation”
“Lead On O King Eternal”
“O Sacred Head Now Wounded”
“Hallelujah What A Savior”

Sunday Recap – September 26, 2010

We had a busy, but different morning at Bethel today. I led worship in the Cafe with the keyboard, then in the Contemporary services. Our youth group was at a retreat this weekend, so we were missing several from the team. If you watch the video, you’ll see we had a pretty small team today. But, they did a great job! This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog over at The Worship Community where you can read recaps from churches around the country. Thanks for reading!

Contemporary Services

The band today was just 2 keyboards, drums, and guitar with 2 singers. We introduced “Cannons” today by Phil Wickham, which was one of the highlights for me.  You can see the Planning Center details as well as the video of this service. Here are the songs:

“Our God Saves” (Paul Baloche, Brenton Brown)

“Holy Is The Lord” (Chris Tomlin)

“From the Inside Out” (Joel Houston)

“Cannons” (Phil Wickham)

“Your Grace Is Enough” (Matt Maher)

Cafe Connections Service

Another small team with just 1 singer plus I led from the keyboard. We rely on our Youth quite a bit, and it was evident today! View the Planning Center details.

“Our God Saves” (Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown)

“Matchless” (Aaron Shust)

“Cannons” (Phil Wickham)

“Surrender” (Marc James)

Traditional Service

Since I was leading in the Cafe today, Rick led the Traditional Team. They had 3 singers, piano and organ.  Dee did a beautiful job on the Offertory! View the Planning Center details and the video for this service.

I Sing The Mighty Power of God
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
Savior, Like A Shepherd Lead Us
He Leadeth Me
All The Way My Savior Leads Me

Sunday Recap – September 19, 2010

We had a great morning of worship at Bethel today! After our outdoor service last week, this was kind of our fall kickoff Sunday, with the new Growth Groups and a new message series on Genesis all taking place today. We also had our Worship Choir sing along with the worship team in the Contemporary Services, which is always a special treat! In addition, we had an amazing group of teenagers sing the Barlow Girls song “Never Alone”. They did an awesome job!!

This entry is part of the Sunday Setlist blog carnival over at The Worship Community where you can read worship recaps from around the country. You can watch the video of our service from today here!

Contemporary Services

Glorified (Jared Anderson) – Walk-in Song

– This was a new concept and a new song for us today. We don’t normally do a walk-in song, but with the girls doing their special as the closing song, and the choir today, I wanted to give the choir a chance to sing as well.  So, 5 minutes before the service start time, we did this song, with the words on the screen.  Some sang along, and some just watched, both of which are fine. Do any of you include a song like this before the service? This was a great new song,  and both the band and choir really enjoyed doing it!

Blessed (Reuben Morgan and Darlene Zschech)
– This is one of our worship choir’s favorite songs to do, and a great way to start the service!

You Are Good (Israel Houghton)
– It’s been a while since we’ve pulled this one out, but what a great, high-energy song of praise!

Forever Reign (Jason Ingram and Reuben Morgan)
– This is the second time we’ve done this one, and what a great song it is!! People really were responding to the truth that we can run to His arms, and that He is on the throne.

Never Alone (Barlow Girls)
– What a cool way to end our service! This song was done by three high school girls on vocals and one high school girls playing piano.  They really sounded great on the tight harmonies, and they performed it very well! They actually just sang it at our high school talent show the night before. You should check out the LiveStream video just for this song!

Cafe Connection Service

Adam led the team this week, and it was a full  house again! I’m so glad to see this service taking off. We had a new singer join our team this week, as well as a new Easy Worship operator.

Songs
Glorious One (Steve Fee and Vicky Beeching)
Here I Am To Worship (Tim Hughes)
Give Us Clean Hands (Charlie Hall)
What Can I Do (Graham Kendrick and Paul Baloche)

Traditional Service

Come Thou Almighty King
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee
My Hope Is In the Lord
I’d Rather Have Jesus

Sunday Recap – July 4th, 2010

I don’t remember the last time the 4th of July has been on a Sunday. I guess I’d have to do some research to find that out… But, it was a day to celebrate our freedom – in our country, but more importantly the freedom we have in Christ.  To celebrate the 4th, we used the 4th of July countdown from Flickering Mind Media, followed by a mini-movie, “Finding Freedom” by Centerline New Media.

This post is part of the Sunday Setlists blog. You can also see the video of our service from today here.

Contemporary Worship Service
“Where the Spirit of the Lord Is” (Christy Nockels, Chris Tomlin, Nathan Nockels)
– I thought this would be a good fit with our freedom theme this morning. This was the 3rd time we’ve done this song, and people finally started to respond with this one today.
“Glorious One” (Steve Fee)
“Follow You” (Leeland)
– This is one of my favorite songs right now, and it fit our theme of living a life fully committed to Him.  One of our younger worship leaders, Zack Burtness, led vocally on this song, and he did a great job!
“The Wonderful Cross” (Tomlin)
“Beautiful the Blood” (Steve Fee and Louie Giglio)
– This was a new one for us today. What a great song for communion! The words fit so well as we took the cup together.

Cafe Connection Video Cafe service
This was the 4th week of our new video cafe service, and it’s going great! I wasn’t in there at all this morning since I was leading in the other service at that time. We had a few technical glitches this morning, which was too bad, considering we had our biggest crowd since we’ve started.  Once we got those resolved, things went great. Nathan Nymeyer, our interim youth pastor was the worship leader this morning, and he did a great job! Here’s the songs he chose:

“Hosanna” (Paul Baloche)
“Your Grace Is Enough” (Matt Maher)
“Mighty Is the Power of the Cross” (Chris Tomlin)
“The Wonderful Cross” (Tomlin)

Traditional Worship Service
“The Star-Spangled Banner” – We sang both verses of this song today at the start of our service. I had actually never heard the words to the second verse, but they were very appropriate for our service:
“America The Beautiful”
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
“O How He Loves You and Me”
“The Old Rugged Cross”

“Star-Spangled Banner” – Verse 3

Oh thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes
And the war’s desolation
Blest with vict’ry and peace
May the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made
And preserved us a nation
Then conquer we must when our cause it is just
And this be our motto in God is our trust
And the star-spangled banner
In triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave

Sunday Recap – June 27, 2010

By God’s grace, things went very well this morning at Bethel, and our teams did a great job!!

Cafe Connection
This was the third week of our new coffeehouse-style cafe video venue service. Today was the first day that I led worship in the service and I really leading in there.  There’s been a great response to this new service! We have a smaller, acoustic worship team lead worship, and then the message is sent to our Cafe from the sanctuary live via video feed. Our cafe includes bagels with cream cheese, coffee and juice.

Songs
“Meet With Me” (Lamont Hiebert)
– I pulled this one out of the drawer after a long time of not using it, but it’s a great song! We did the version by Ten Shekel Shirt.
“Glory To God Forever” (Steve Fee and Vicky Beeching)
– Since the Cafe is more of an acoustic setting, I would say our version was more in line with Vicky Beeching’s version on her new CD than Fee’s version. It was a nice change of pace for this song. Great both ways!

“Everlasting God” (Brenton Brown)
“God of Wonders” (Marc Byrd and Steve Hindalong)
– Today was also a first for one of our young worship leaders, Zack.  I asked him to lead this song, and eventually by the end of the summer he’ll be leading a whole service in the Cafe. Way to go, Zack!

“Blessed Be Your Name” (Matt and Beth Redman)

Contemporary Services
It was kind of a tight squeeze to make it to this service after leading in the Cafe this morning, since I had to haul my keyboard from one room to another and get it set up, but we made it! The congregation was very responsive today in worship, which always is nice to see! With our new camera system installed now, we are also streaming our services live online. You can actually watch this service here. I have to apologize for the audio on the LiveStream. We’re still  working out the details on some of this stuff, and the mix is not the greatest on the video. It wasn’t that way in the house. Sorry…

Songs
“Meet With Me” (Lamont Hiebert)

“Everlasting God” (Brenton Brown)
“You Alone Can Rescue” (Matt Redman and Jonas Myrin)

“Your Love Never Fails” (Chris McClarney and Anthony Skinner)
– We introduced this song for the first time today during the offering. We did it in F, which is quite a bit lower than the original on the Jesus Culture CD, but it works well for congregational singing. What a great song!

“I Have A Hope” (Tommy Walker)
– Tommy Walker is one of my favorite song-writers, and this song was a great way to end the service.

Traditional Service
At the same time as our Cafe service at 8:00 am, we also have a Traditional Service in the sanctuary with hymns, organ and piano.  I usually lead this service, but now since the Cafe has started, I haven’t been in there the past few weeks, but we’ve had some great leaders step up and take the lead in this service, both up front and on the piano. You can watch this service here.

Songs
“Rejoice the Lord Is King”
“Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty”
“Redeemed”
“He Hideth My Soul”
“Open My Eyes That I May See”
“What A Friend We Have In Jesus”

This recap is part of the Sunday Setlist site, where each week, worship leaders from around the country share their setlists and service details.  Check it out! Thanks!

Sunday Recap – June 20, 2010

Well, this Sunday recap will be different than my usual post, because this is where we were yesterday…

Water slide fun

Yes, I’ve been on vacation all this past week. Yesterday we were at Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park in Wisconsin Dells, WI.  We had a great time!  But, back at the church I had three great worship leaders leading each of our 3 venues.

Cafe Connection
Last week was our first ever Cafe Connection video venue service.  I felt bad being gone only the second week of this new service, but it went so well last week, that I was confident our teams would do a great job – and they did!  This week, our team did:

This Is How We Know – Matt and Beth Redman
Enough – Chris Tomlin
Amazed – Jared Anderson

Contemporary Service
This service is actually available online to view at our Livestream site. This is the second week of using our new camera system, which so far has worked great!! The songs we did here were:

Our God Saves – Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown
God Is Great – Marty Sampson
Hosanna – Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown
Your Grace Is Enough – Matt Maher

Traditional Service
Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens Adore Him
O Worship the King
Glory To His Name
Redeemed
To God Be the Glory

This post is part of the Sunday Setlists area at The Worship Community, where worship leaders from around the country share the setlists each week.

Sunday Recap – 8/23/09

Another Sunday morning is done, so it’s time to join the “Sunday Setlists” blog carnival at FredMcKinnon.Com and give our Sunday morning recap. You can read this and other recaps from worship leaders around the country at http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/08/23/sunday-setlists-57/

I’m not sure if this link will work or not – first time I’ve tried it, but here’s a link to the service detail from yesterday via Planning Center Online – http://www.planningcenteronline.com/plans/479447.

We began yesterday with “It Is You” (Peter Furler), an oldie, but one that I use quite often just to get our hearts focused on God and remind everyone (the team included) that it’s not about us, our talents, but all about God and His greatness.

Then the obligatory announcements, meet/greet. What do you guys do with announcements?!?

Our next set included:
“Let the Praise Ring” (Lincoln Brewster)
– I had heard our electric guitar player do the solo for this one last Sunday after church at a youth gathering, and he did a great job at it!! So, after the singers left rehearsal Thursday night, we bumped it up to E, (we had practiced it in D with the singers), added the guitar solo in the middle, and went with it! It came off great! Except for the fact that the singers had to really reach to get some of those notes.

Also, before we started this set, I read Psalm 150, and just reminded everyone our command to Praise the Lord not just with our voices, but with stringed instruments (guitars…), cymbals, etc… I just wanted to remind them that as we play our instruments (solos included) that we are not just showing off, but I’m just giving them a chance to praise the Lord with all their heart via their instrument.

“Holy Is the Lord” (Chris Tomlin)
“Great Is Your Glory” (Vicky Beeching)
– One of my favorites by Vicky B. I heard it for the first time when our choir did the “East to West” musical. We had a soloist do the first verse/chorus, then all joined in. Great chance for the band to use some different instrumentation, and build up a song.

“Be At Peace With One Another” was the message title today, so to intro that we showed a funny clip from the Beverly Hillbillies during the offering about a spat between Gramma and another character that showed how NOT to resolve conflict.

Our children’s pastor came up and did a really neat little visual story with the kids, involving the congregation creating a thunderstorm with paper as he read the story how Jesus said “Peace, be still” and the storm was quite. Really cool! The senior pastor then gave his message.

After the message, we ended with “Break Through” (Tommy Walker). It was a challenging message about conflicts between people, and how true peace can only be found through God, and His power. I love the words to that song, and God really seemed to be at work during it.

A little rest in the afternoon, then a huge group from our worship team and church went down to Rockford, IL last night for a concert with Lincoln Brewster! That was great! Only $5 concert through Summerwood. Norm Stockton was on bass, which was an added surprise – always fun to hear him play!