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CenterPoint Church 3/28/10

Walk-In
    -Hosanna - E - Brook Fraser

Opening Set
    -Not To Us - A - Chris Tomlin
    -Reckless Love - A - Eric Frisch, Mark Homkes, Tina Baker
    -How Great Is Our God - A - Chris Tomlin

Closing Song
    -You Are My King (Amazing Love) - E - Billy Foote

I never got a set list post up last week, but suffice it to say it was a rough week.  We had a lot of technical issues and it was just a frustrating morning.  That said, this week was MUCH smoother!  It was a pretty simple service, which helped, but the Spirit was definitely moving in worship this morning!

We had a smaller band this week - just drums, bass, keys and vocals.  Because of that, we had a pretty keyboard driven set... I thought the band still had a very full sound.  We used Hillsong United's "Hosanna" to open the service... that's such a great tune, and the team did a great job with it today!

Pastor Dave was out of town this weekend, so Jon taught in his absence.  He did a great job framing the Palm Sunday story in a modern light.  We also used a clip from the movie "Hancock" to set up the message, which worked well (once we found a clean clip!)

Overall, it was a great service to start Holy Week... looking forward to what we have coming up the rest of the week!

I'll have my Sunday Setlists post up later today, but right now I just want to share a quick thought that's been running through my mind since yesterday.

I'm not a very political person.  I've got my opinions, but as much as possible, I like to keep them to myself.  I'm fiercely moderate, and I'm sure that my more politically enthused readers would find plenty to disagree with me on, whether liberal or conservative.  For that reason, this blog VERY rarely gets into anything at all political, but today I'm going to break my rule.

I've been fascinated by this whole health care issue.  I've seen a lot of opinions expressed very strongly, and I've seen our leaders on both sides of the isle suffer vicious verbal attacks throughout the process.  Democrat or Republican, it really seems to have brought out the worst of who we are as a country... a level of politicism that would rather lash out at the "other side" over the tiniest detail rather than try to have a real discussion and solve some problems.  Here's the thought that's been on my mind lately:

Despite our best efforts, there is no single man or woman nor any group of any political or ideological persuasion that can bring the kind of peace and restoration that our nation is searching for.  There is only one who has ever been able to do that.  He is is the only one who can do it now, and He is the only one who ever will be able to!  Any and all of our human solutions are just temporary fixes awaiting Christ's return to restore His creation and His people.  Important to keep in mind when we put our trust in congressmen and presidents!

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CenterPoint Church 3/14/10

Opening Set
    -Everlasting God - A - Brenton Brown (Lincoln Brewster version)
    -Reckless Love - A - Eric Frisch, Mark Homkes, Tina Baker
    -Here I Am To Worship - E - Tim Hughes

Closing Song
    -Oh The Glory Of It All - A - David Crowder

Wow!  We had a great worship service yesterday morning!  The message was awesome, the band was great... all around an excellent service.  This is going to be a quick one (headed into a CRAZY week around here!)

We went with a slightly stripped down band yesterday; just drums, bass, 1 guitar, vocals and click tracks.  Despite the thinner setup, I thought the songs sounded great.  Very full.  The click tracks help a lot with that!  We played "Reckless Love" again this week.  That's the new original that we taught last Sunday.  The congregation has really been getting into it, which I think is awesome!  I love that we have that kind of creativity on our team!

Dave's message this week was called "The Solution" and focused on the "missing character" from the Prodigal story; that is that in that time, the older brother would have had a responsibility to go out and bring his brother back, something that clearly didn't happen.  This series has definitely helped a lot of folks (including myself) take a tough look at our "older brother" tendencies, and this week's message made it clear that ultimately, Jesus is the only one who can fill the role.  It was a very powerful message.

Looking forward to wrapping up this series next Sunday and then heading into Holy Week!

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CenterPoint Church 3/7/10

Opening Set
    -Meet With Me - A - Lamont Heibert
    -Song Of Hope (Heaven Come Down) - A - Robbie Seay Band
    -Amazed - D - Jared Anderson

Offering Song
    -Reckless Love - A - Eric Frisch, Mark Homkes, Tina Baker

Closing Song
    -Reckless Love - A - Eric Frisch, Mark Homkes, Tina Baker

This was a fun week at CenterPoint.  We introduced our songwriting project to the congregation and played the first complete tune, "Reckless Love".  The song is based in the story of the Prodigal son (which we've been studying now for about a month).  It was very cool to be able to do an original tune, and the congregation responded to it very well.  Hopefully this will be the first of many songs that come from this project.

Dave's message this week focused on the part of the story that often gets overlooked: the elder son.  He talked about parallels between the elder son character and the Pharisees that were listening in Jesus' time, and also related the idea to our modern day Christianity.  It was definitely an important message, and one that I think we all forget about far too often!   To help drive the point home, we opened the message with a clip from "The War".  I wasn't familiar with the film until we decided to use it, but the clip was right on point.

The band did a great job this week, especially with the new tune.  The rest of the set was pretty familiar, and we also repeated "Song Of Hope", which we taught last Sunday.  I thought the mix was excellent this Sunday, as well.

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CenterPoint Church 2/28/10

Opening Set
    -Marvelous Light - A - Charlie Hall
    -Song Of Hope (Heaven Come Down) - A - Robbie Seay Band
    -My Savior, My God - D - Aaron Shust

Special
    -When God Ran - C - Benny Hester

Closing Song
    -Fields Of Grace - D - Darrell Evans

Sorry for the delay in getting this up... The Worship Community has been having server issues this week and the blog carnival just got posted this morning.  In any case, here's what we were up to this Sunday at CenterPoint...

We're still in our series on the Prodigal son story.  This week's message focused on the characters we usually focus on in that story: the son who runs away from home and the father who takes him back.  This was probably the more "familiar" message of this series for folks, as the rest of the series focuses on aspects/people that we don't often dwell on.  We did an in-house drama this week about actors shooting a movie of the son's homecoming.  It was pretty funny, and it really drove the point home that many people would have a lot of trouble with the kind of love, forgiveness and acceptance that the father shows in this passage.

We also accented the message with the song "When God Ran".  I did it solo at the piano, and I think it went pretty well.  I had a great time getting it ready and putting my own spin on it a little bit.  Aside from that tune, our music was pretty upbeat and rocking this week.  The band did a great job and the mix in the house was fantastic.  We introduced "Song Of Hope" for the first time and got a good response to it.  We also used a loop with "Marvelous Light" that we haven't had before.  I thought it added a lot, and will definitely hold on to it for the future!

Great service as we continue in this series.  Looking forward to this week!