Elevate Night of Worship: Set List

January 25, 2012 in Set Lists, Worship with 1 Comment

I am excited about another Crossing Church night of worship! (Jan 29th @ 6:00pm) The inspiration for this night came from G.K. Chesterton and Brennan Manning as they described the idea of God’s love and longing for us as furious.  Chesterton’s was one of quick mention while manning expounded into definition.  Furious is, rightfully so, associated with anger and rage.  However it is synonymous with ferocity and fierceness.  And as Manning expounds, a growing intensity and emotion.  While this is most definitely not a systematic theology that exhaustively explores the vastness of God’s love and longing for His creation it is one aspect on which we can meditate upon and within find solace.  For ours is not a story of man searching for God rather a story of God searching for His creation that has gone astray.

I like the correlation we find in a God whose longing for union with His creation is compared with the swelling intensity of a raging storm; one that compares with the same passion and ferocity – a Furious Love.

We will be meeting in our gym rather than the comfortable surroundings of our sanctuary.  The thought of hundreds of voices bouncing off the hard surfaces, resonating around the room like the gathering heaviness of clouds about to burst with rain, gives me chills.  It will be a much different night than those in the past as we drive with a very low key set up and acoustic arrangements to let our fierce passion shine.

Sunday January 29th @ 6:pm at The Crossing Church

Furious – Jeremy Riddle
Came To My Rescue – Davies, Joel | Sampson, Marty | Thomas, Dylan
Hallelujah What A Savior – Philip Paul Bliss and Tommy Walker
Take The World But Give Me Jesus – Fanny Jane Crosby and John Robson Sweney
Always – Jason Ingram and Kristian Stanfill
You Never Let Go – Redman, Beth | Redman, Matt
Lead Me To The Cross – Fraser, Brooke
How He Loves – John Mark McMillan
With Everything – Joel Houston

Inspiration: Christopher Walken and Where the Wild Things Are

January 19, 2012 in Inspiration with 0 Comments

One of my favorite stories being read by none other than Christopher Walken. This ties my “celebrities reading things list” with a version of the Screwtape Letters being read by John Cleese.

Advent Video Series 2011

December 29, 2011 in Church Work, Media, Uncategorized with 0 Comments

This year for Advent we created a series of videos to help guide us through each week. As the video played we lit the candle (well turned on the candle as you can see here). We kept the same music and theme to each so that as the weeks went by a coherent theme emerged. The scripts were written by a member of our creative team and I think it all turned out great!

The Top 10 Reasons I’m Not Making An End of The Year Top 10 List

December 22, 2011 in Random Thoughts with 4 Comments

It’s that time of year again when every blogger new and old floods the interwebs with top ten lists of their favorite this or that.  Lists of the top 10 ways to do this or overcome that or get better this and become a more that.  I’ve done it too. But this year I am rebelling and not giving into the easy way out of blogging my 10 favorite moments from last year or top 10 things I did or any end of the year top 10 lists.

And here is why.

10. Everybody does it.  It’s really just an easy blog post that every blogger in the world does so why follow suit.
9. There are probably way too many great albums that I purchased last year to leave in one list of 10.  Maybe if I broke it up by genre I could do it but one list means too many hard choices.
8. I don’t know if I even saw 10 movies last year.
7. If I wrote 10 blog posts last year that were popular enough to list again then they probably are still getting views and there’s really no need to repost them. (however this one was extremely popular – you should check it out and share it)
6.  10 books really? That’s like asking me to pick my 10 favorite children.
5. It would cause me to re-live the last year and I worked really hard to forget certain things.
4. It seems self indulgent
3. I always forget some seminal work that is so clearly pointed out by the first person to comment.
2. If I was a more committed blogger I probably would cause all the experts on blogging say you should make lists – people like lists.
1.  Too many times I can’t actually think of 10 items in my list and have to have a top 9 or just one item there as filler.
-1. Sometimes I have too many items. Ours goes to 11…

I Am Humbled and Blessed

December 21, 2011 in Music, Worship with 0 Comments

This past weekend was our Worship Choir presentation of We Have Our Savior (the least Christmasy Christmas project I could find ha ha)  What a tremendous weekend we had 60 choir members singing their hearts out celebrating the God made flesh born to rescue a lost people.  It was a phenomenal weekend and I can’t say enough about how well they did and how great they sounded!  It is truly a blessing to be part of such a great church and a great worship arts department!  And to my surprise they took the time to put together a great poem of thanks and gratitude for me and used it to make fun of me in front of everyone ha ha; it was epic.  I am blessed.  See poem below.

Crossing Church Set List Dec 3/4

December 5, 2011 in Set Lists with 1 Comment

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We wanted to start the day off a little differently so we went Sing Off Style with an a cappella arrangement of Hark the Herald Angels Sing by the Blenders but we had a little fun with it and added a beat box!  whoop whoop! Oh yeah we were beat boxing in church ha ha.  It was really fun to see the smiles as well as the deer in headlights looks of “what’s going on?”  Overall it felt like a really good day and had some fun with the creativity of it all.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing – The Blenders
Joy to the World (Unspeakable Joy)* – Chris Tomlin
Forever Reign* – by Jason Ingram and Reuben Morgan
Come Thou Found, Come Thou King* – by Miller, Thomas | Robinson, Robert
O Come All Ye Faithful - Chris Tomlin

Check out what other churches are doing at “Sunday Setlists” or TheWorshipCommunity.com.

 

* Denotes songs where loops were employed.

 

 

Advent Candles 2011

December 1, 2011 in Church Work, Media, Worship with 3 Comments

This year we wanted to represent the advent wreath in a new and different way.  Inspired by all of the coroplast (corrugated plastic) columns that churches used throughout the ChurchStageDesignIdeas website we decided to construct our advent wreath in a similar fashion.  We found a great place with translucent coroplast sheets we could purchase, Piedmont Plastics - they are nation wide for the most part so if you are in the market check them out.

We welded a frame together after figuring out the dimensions and with some recessed can lighting from the big box home improvement stores we were set to build our candles.  To color each vertical column representing the candles we just used lighting gels. The middle candle measure 4 foot tall and each outside candle is about 3 feet – they are quite large. Each week we turn on another “candle.”  This year there won’t be a fear of our joy burning faster than the others, catching our wreath on fire and causing a commotion only rivaled by the Mississippi squirrel revival.

Check out the photos below.

Bent Coloplast

First Candle

Welded Apparatus

Can Light

Lighting Gel

Advent Wreath

Advent Wreath

Inspiration: Improv Everywhere Ted Talk

November 23, 2011 in Inspiration with 0 Comments

We just tend to spend our free time in a more absurd way.

Crossing Church Set List Nov 25-26

November 23, 2011 in Set Lists with 0 Comments

I think it’s a great way to kick off the advent season singing Salvation is Here. And to follow up with a set just proclaiming the Glory of God seemed apropos. I am very excited about the Modern Christmas Medley (I can’t link to it till after the set, I don’t want to ruin the surprise but let me say you won’t want to miss it!!!)

Salvation is Here* – by Joel Houston
All Over The World – Matt Redman and Martin Smith
Glory To God Forever* – Vicky Beeching and Steve Fee
Blessed Be Your Name – Beth and Matt Redman
A Modern Christmas Medley* – Buckhead Church (at least where I got the idea from)

*UPDATE*
We pulled of the Modern Christmas Medley as linked above however we only did “Do You Hear What I Hear” and  ”Angels We Have Heard on High” which turned out incredible. We had the strings programmed though our loop system and the band pulled it off great! It was a lot of fun and was received extremely well.  Take a watch – wish I had recorded our team doing it but nonetheless you get a great idea of what we did from the Buckhead video above.

*denotes songs where loops were employed

Crossing Church Set List November 19-20

November 17, 2011 in Set Lists with 2 Comments

Yes God is Able is on the schedule twice – on purpose.  We are going to teach it to start service and come back to it at the end of service.  It’s kinda the big theme of the day so I thought having a moment to teach it and then a moment to really worship through it would be great.  And I just can’t get enough of One Thing Remains I love that song!  The other cool thing is the transition from Awesome is the Lord to Holy is the Lord.  We’ll never resolve from the 4 chord but hit it the move to 2 dominant 7 back to 4 and repeat that before we sing verse one.  It give it a cool Coldplay Yellow type of feel to the intro and make a nice smooth transition (but i mean how smooth is transitioning from A to A ha ha)

God is Able (version 2 no lyrics – but awesome) – by Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan
Awesome is the Lord Most High – by Jon Abel, Cary Pierce, Jesse Reeves, and Chris Tomlin
Holy is the Lord – by Louie Giglio and Chris Tomlin
One Thing Remains - by Brian Johnson
God is Able – by Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan
The Solid Rock (Chorus Only) –  by William Batchelder Bradbury and Edward Mote

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