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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 [...]]]>

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.

It’s that time again, time to take a look back at what we did and how it went this Sunday in the Elevation Service here at Calvary Church Santa Ana. So to start off I’ll start by telling you all that we had Bob Vernon as a guest speaker this week (For those of you [...]]]>

It’s that time again, time to take a look back at what we did and how it went this Sunday in the Elevation Service here at Calvary Church Santa Ana. So to start off I’ll start by telling you all that we had Bob Vernon as a guest speaker this week (For those of you who don’t know who Bob Vernon is click here to find out). We had him come in to cap off our three week series on leadership (Lead, Follow, and Get Out Of The Way) and the topic this week was Lead. So with that said, here are the songs that I planned to do this week:

• Galaxy – Something Like Silas
• Everlasting God – Brenton Brown
• Take My Life – Chris Tomlin Arrangement
• Only You – David Crowder Band
• The Stand – Hillsong United

So, any time we have a guest speaker I always plan on them going over their time so that means that I always have to cut a song in our response set on the back end. And, well, Mr. Vernon lived up to the expectations and so we had to cut Only You… and even with that we went a big chunk over time. Oh well.

There where a couple of awesome things about this Sunday that I’d love to mention too. 1) My band and my vocalists were right on this week. We had a great sound and a cool flow through the songs which all tied back to the message. 2) People were worshiping the Lord and singing out and clapping and allowing the Holy Spirit to engage them. Especially in the last song, the Stand, our congregation sang out and sang out loud. It was cool.

So this Sunday was great for us as a band and as a congregation. I will say though that I was exhausted going into the morning and didn’t really know what to expect but the Holy Spirit totally took over and ushered us into God’s presence and he used me, a tired worship pastor to do it. What a privilege that is.

Oh and by the way, this post is part of a Sunday Setlist blog carnival that is being hosted by Mr. Fred McKinnon

So, ya know how a bunch of people (including me) do those worship? Well, this is mine only I’m changing the name of mine to THE NOISE just cause I feel like it. So there you go. Anyway, in worship confessional fashion I guess I’ll go through the songs that we played then let you [...]]]>

So, ya know how a bunch of people (including me) do those worship? Well, this is mine only I’m changing the name of mine to THE NOISE just cause I feel like it. So there you go. Anyway, in worship confessional fashion I guess I’ll go through the songs that we played then let you know what worked and how everything went for us this Sunday. Here goes….

This Sunday in Elevation at Calvary Church we played the following:

• The Time Has Come (w/ An Introduction) – Hillsong United
• From The Inside Out – Hillsong United
• Nothing But The Blood – Matt Redman
• How Great Is Our God w/ How Great Thou Art – Chris Tomlin

So thats what we sang this Sunday. And with that being said… SUNDAY MORNING WAS AMAZING!!! I can honestly say that I was super excited to lead worship this past Sunday morning. I’m not talking about just regular plain ol’ excited… oh, no my friend, I’m talking about COME ON EVERYONE LETS GET ON OUR FEET AND WORSHIP OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BECAUSE HE IS SO SO SO WORTHY OF OUR PRAISE excited… yeah, I know. I’m always excited to lead but for some reason this Sunday was special for me, nothing really about it was different just God gave me joy for it. Anyway, now you all at Calvary can correct me if I’m wrong but I think not only was I ready to worship but I really feel like people came ready to sing that morning. It was awesome! I loved hearing people singing… and thats not an easy thing to do in a room the size of ours (we have a auditorium that fits about 2500 people) with it only about half full and monitor blaring. It was so sweet. Anyway, all that to say that This Sunday blessed me as a worship leader and as a pastor at Calvary Church. Calvary peeps, it was awesome worshiping with you this past Sunday. I’m looking forward to this next week.

Anyway, enough about me… how was your Sunday and what did you play?

Ok, Seriously though. I’m wondering if and how you all do worship tryouts and if you don’t then why you dont. Just wanting to get a conversation started [...]]]> Wanna see how we run out Worship Team Auditions? Check out this informative video that we made about the process from last years group of hopefulls.

Ok, Seriously though. I’m wondering if and how you all do worship tryouts and if you don’t then why you dont. Just wanting to get a conversation started about it. So lets talk, How do you do it?

Who out there is still doin’ one of these?

For the mean time, I wanna hear how Sunday was [...]]]> I was all set to do my worship confessional for this week and I got on my macbook pro and realized that for some reason my Internet isnt working. Oh well, I’ll figure it out and I’ll post it when its up and running again.

For the mean time, I wanna hear how Sunday was for you. So, how was it?