Sunday's Worship Set

2008 June 23

by Tyler

Because this weekend (June 22nd) was Jay‘s weekend off, Jill led worship in our 9am service and I led in our 11am service. I’ll highlight our 11am service.

Opener:

Walk the World (key of A, by Charlie Hall)

Main Set:

God of this City (key of Db, by Blue Tree not Chris Tomlin)
Holy, Holy, Holy (key of Db, and yes we did do a hymn in the 11:))
Jesus Paid it All (key of B, as arranged by Kristian Stanfill)
Happy Day (key of B, by Tim Hughes)

Before the Message:

Beautiful Mystery (key of F, by Josh White of Telecast)

Message Response:

Lay it Down (key of Db, by Matt Maher and Brenton Brown)

Wow, first off. That was a lot of music. Very hard to memorize the words and chords to all of those. Secondly, I loved it.

Beautiful Mystery was a new one for us that I’ve liked for a long time. Really weird that the guy who wrote it lives 10 minutes away from me. I hope it sticks because it is a great song.

Lay it Down was totally a “God thing”. On Monday night I was thinking through how I would respond to Ron’s message on “Can I Be Good Enough?” and I heard this song for the first time on Worship Together’s New Song Cafe that night. I was in a bad spot, totally worn out from going for 2 weeks solid because of my Chicago trip. It hit me that I was trying really hard to be good enough for my own gain. God totally met me with the words of that song, “I lay it down, at your feet.”

It was weird to end the main set with a really upbeat, driving song (Happy Day). Typically we go from fast and upbeat towards something slower and reflective. I can’t totally guage if it “worked” but it at least broke us out of our norm.

Lastly, God of this City is a song that our congregation has totally grabbed a hold of. When I first heard it, I thought it was okay but nothing I would want to do in church as a worship song. I was wrong. We’ve been using the song as kind of a motivation and celebration for our “Serves Up” day which was this past Saturday. So today it was a celebration of having over 400 people out in our community doing lots of different volunteer jobs for a whole day. More on that tomorrow. I think the song captures that theme really well perfectly.

Is your church doing any of these songs?

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http://jimdrake.blogspot.com Jim Drake

We haven’t done GOD OF THIS CITY congregationally yet, but have used it as a theme for our outreach events.

LAY IT DOWN is one of my faves too. I met Matt in Nashville at Recreate and had dinner with him. We got the cd pre-release and I have loved every song on there. LAY IT DOWN is on our list for the fall. Glad that it spoke to you too–it has been a fave private devo song for me.
http://chrismartinsblog.com Chris Martin

We do some of those songs.
Here’s a new one for you to check out.
“Your Love Is Strong” – Jon Forman
It’s on his Spring EP.
I’m telling you, I love this song!
CHECK IT OUT.
http://www.vimeo.com/route59 Jay Ryan

Heh. We’re lucky if we do something not written by our pastor’s wife, but gotta support the local church
Yonas

God of this city is a great song. Prelude was nice…I liked the song…nice syncopation between drums and bass.

Happy Day- that was a hard song to sing (for me at least)..I’ve been out of practice

p.s. Key of Db??? Yeah we want to make sure no Db on August 3rd set!!!
http://manofdepravity.com Tyler

Jay- ha, that is awesome.

Yonas- I already know you have some modulating thing. You’ll just play in C.

Chris- Love some of Foreman’s stuff. I’ll check out that song. I think I just bought one song from each ep and didn’t end up getting that one.
Yonas

hey i can also play in d you know.
http://seth.heasley.net/blog Seth

I thought “Happy Day” was awesome, even though I hate learning new songs (as a pew-sitter…on the worship team I’m totally down with it). Sometimes worship becomes uber-somber, and a break from the norm was nice. “Hey, it’s okay to be happy about being a Christian!”
http://www.jenniclayville.com Jenni Clayville

Weird… my church does ALL these songs AND all on the same week you do.

Wait…
http://manofdepravity.com Tyler

yeah that is weird j clay. very weird.
http://www.sovannsblog.blogspot.com Sovann

“It was weird to end the main set with a really upbeat, driving song (Happy Day). Typically we go from fast and upbeat towards something slower and reflective. I can’t totally guage if it “worked” but it at least broke us out of our norm.”

Our pastor actually requested ending on an up song because he noticed that sometimes he’ll get up to preach and folks are reflective and inward and it seems like he has to draw them out (wake up!) as he transitions into the message.

Hope you can get some rest and renewal this week.