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Centerpoint Church 5/17/09
Opening Set
-You, You Are God - C to D - (Walker Beach)
-Your Name - A - (Paul Baloche, Glenn Packiam)
-Here I Am To Worship - E - (Tim Hughes)
Offering Song
-Hope Now - Bm - (Ryan Gregg)
Closing Song
-Came To My Rescue - Bb - (Marty Sampson, Joel Davies, Dylan Thomas)
Speaking from a strictly personal perspective, I thought this morning's service rocked. There were a couple of issues, which I'll hit in a second, but I have to say that I was very relaxed and really felt the Spirit moving this morning. My parents and brother were in town this weekend, too, which was cool.
The band absolutely brought their A game this morning. We tackled "Hope Now" by Addison Road as a special this morning, and it took up a lot more rehearsal time than I was expecting. Absolutely worth the extra time - the song sounded great by service time, but it brought us down to the wire a little bit on our other tunes. Fortunately, everyone knew their stuff and it went well. We had a couple minor issues with entrances in "Your Name" come service time... nothing perceptible from the congregation, as far as I could tell.
We used a very different video clip this morning - a short film called "Boundin'" which originally screened before "The Incredibles". Totally different from what we normally do, but it was a fun clip, led into the message really well, and it was fun to watch Heather (our sign language interpreter) signing words like "Jackalope" and "Heliotrope".
We're starting to wrap up our current series ("Dare I Hope") on 1 Peter. This was week 6 of 8, and Dave's message was called "Dare I Hope For Happiness In This World?" Personally, I got a lot out of this one. Really good, no nonsense, Biblical instruction on life, and it came at a time when I needed to hear it. Great stuff.
We had a couple of timing issues this morning from a tech perspective. The sequence of special music-video clip-message didn't run smoothly at all... we ended up with an awkward pause before the video and the band "stranded" on stage after the song in full lights. Other than that, things ran pretty smoothly. Our overall volume might have been a little low this week... good stuff to keep in mind for the future.
All in all, we had a smooth morning and a great service. God was glorified! Looking forward to our Creative Worship Team meeting tomorrow and the ideas that always flow at it!
