So, thanks to J-Loft (who is my amazing guru on all things css and all that other junk) this site is back up and running. As you can probably tell if you actually came to the site, I had to reload my old wordpress theme because my new theme that I’ve been using isn’t playing nice with 2.7 yet… I cant get comments and a few other things… which is part of the whole reason that we all blog anyway, COMMUNITY!!! Anyway, if any of you out there have any suggestions for a new template let me know and I’ll take a look at it. Oh, and if you want to help me fix my other one let me know too. And if you don’t really want to do either then thats cool too. Welp, see ya later!
JB, I havent gotten a comment from you about me not posting for a while so I thought I’d check to see if you’re still out there. Click here to get a blog bro… oh and enjoy your pictures.
I just found this post over at Chris Vacher’s blog and thought it was a great resource for all of you out there who are looking for Christmas music. So instead of stealing the resource from the source I thought I’d let the source tell you about the resource… does that even make sense? Here’s Chris’ post.
Our friends over at PraiseCharts have been together a Christmas carol songbook for acoustic guitar. All your holiday favourites in one nice little PDF package!
Hey everyone, I’m sorry to all of you that got emails this morning. I turned on a auto-response plugin for comments and it went a little crazy and began to backlog all the people who have ever commented. So to those of you who got an email (or multiple) from me this morning, I’m sorry. The plugin is off now and the emails should stop.
Thanks for stopping by though and I really am glad to have you all as part of this community.
Hey everyone, since I’m on the blogging band-wagon again I thought an easy way to score myself another post would be to do one of my good old trusty Worship Confessionals again. So that’s what I’m gonna do whether you like it or not. So sit back, relax and take a minute to catch up on how last Sunday went in the Elevation service at Calvary Church Santa Ana.
Welp, let me start out by telling you that this week was totally different from most of my weeks. For those of you who are numbers people I’d say it was different than about 97.82% of my weeks. What made it so different you ask? Well, two things for me. 1) I played in our Celebration service which I hardly ever do simply because I’m always walking around and checking out the Student Ministries stuff and making sure things are going ok in those areas or because I’m just finishing up some final touches on the Elevation service. Either way, I’m usually doing something. 2) We didn’t get to have our normal rehearsal this week because we were doing a Christmas musical this week and they were using our stage where we normally are.
So, it was different. Different but good too. I actually loved playing in our Celebration service… I loved it because I wasn’t leading it and that is something I don’t get to do very often anymore. I loved just sitting back and just playing what someone else had for me and adding my own style to that. It was so sweet. I also loved that we didn’t have a full rehearsal on Tuesday. Don’t get me wrong, it was tough, but it was just a cool reminder that God is control of what we do and the Holy Spirit can work even if we (I) don’t feel as prepared as I should.
Another thing that was different about this week was that we started doing some of our Christmas songs and thats always fun.
One of the things though that stood out the most about this Sunday was just simply the fact that our people in Elevation were singing their hearts out… they were singing LOUD! As a worship leader I loved hearing that. I loved hearing the voices of the people in our congregation above my own and the others on stage. It’s was neat to see the Holy Spirit moving in our room too. I can honestly say that our people worshiped God with their whole hearts this Sunday. I love that. What an encouragement that is to me as their pastor.
Now finally we get down to the nitty-gritty… the songs we used this week and for simplicities sake I’m just gonna make a list down below and finish off this post. Feel free to ask questions about anything and I’d love to hear from you how your Sunday went. Or even better ,if you’re an Elevationite, I’d love to hear your thoughts on Sunday. Here are the songs…
Angels We Have Heard On High - Our Arrangement
Here I Am To Worship - Hughes
Till I See You - Hillsong United
The Stand - Hillsong United
Jesus Paid It All - Arr. Nifong
Only You - Crowder
This post is part of a group of Worship Leaders who post their Sunday Setlist. To check out what other Worship Leaders did today click here.
Well, as I said before I thought my blog template sucked so I’m doing something about it. I was looking for one of those cool animated gif’s like back in the old days (it’s retro now) but I couldn’t find one so you have the image above. Anyway, things are gonna be a little janked for a little while around here (because I have a little time to start but I don’t know when i’ll have time to finish it). Keep coming by though and if you see anything wrong let me know because this is one of those hand coding kind of deals… yay. Anyway, let me know what you think.
Hey all of you out there… if anyone is still out there reading this blog I’m sorry that it sucks so much. For some reason it’s just been tough to post anything for the past few months. It’s not that I haven’t had anything to post it’s more that I just haven’t felt like doing it. Add that into the fact that I think my template is lame and you have a recipe for non-blogging. Welp, we’ll see what happens from here on out. I don’t wanna make promises but I’ll try…. yeah, I’ll try. Thanks for reading… if you still are anyway.
Hey everyone, it’s been a long time since I’ve felt like posting anything here but today I was inspired to share some of the Christmas songs that we’ve done in the past few years with some songs and charts to go along with them. The recordings aren’t the best as they’re just unpolished board mixes but you’ll get the idea behind the songs. We’ve aranged these for use here at Calvary Church in the past few years but I’m happy to share… do me a favor thou and if you’re using them let me know just cause I think it’s cool. Anyway, thanks and feel free to ask me any questions about them.
Recordings: (RSS’ers, you’re gonna need to jump on over to check these out because it’s a flash player)
Angels We Have Heard On High -
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear -
Joy To The World -
Angels We Have Heard On High - Chart
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Chart
Joy To The World - Chart
O Come All Ye Faithful (No recording yet, sorry) - Chart
This morning I was listening to some worship on the radio and a certain song came on…. and judging from the title you probably already guessed what that song was. Anyway, I just thought I’d let you all hear the triumph and horror that is my relationship with Because He lives… enjoy
Oh and if you want to read the original post and find out all the little itty bitty details, you can find that here.
I’m gone at Hume this week… and I’m loving it. This morning I got to go out and have a quiet time here and then video chat with my fam over iChat right from this spot. I love it. See ya lates
Mushy dad and husband stuff Alert: (You’ve been warned)
oh and Kim, Matthew, Rachel and Emily… I miss you guys… I wish you were here. I can’t wait to see you when I get back. I love you guys
Last week I posted this video on my blog… this week it was taken to the next level. One of the reasons I love Crowder and his band is because they do stuff like this.
I’m excited for practice tonight… this week I’m having some of the High School guys play in Elevation so tonight we get to hang out and jam through the music. It’s gonna be a good time. I’m really looking forward to that.
So, thanks to J-Loft (who is my amazing guru on all things css and all that other junk) this site is back up and running. As you can probably tell if you actually came to the site, I had to reload my old wordpress theme because my new theme that I’ve been using isn’t playing nice with 2.7 yet… I cant get comments and a few other things… which is part of the whole reason that we all blog anyway, COMMUNITY!!! Anyway, if any of you out there have any suggestions for a new template let me know and I’ll take a look at it. Oh, and if you want to help me fix my other one let me know too. And if you don’t really want to do either then thats cool too. Welp, see ya later!
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