Hey Guys,
I’ve kind of been slacking lately but my worship leading has been a little sparse and and inconsistent lately. It’ll start to get steady pretty soon. Anyways here’s a blog and some upcoming dates:

5/20/09 – Crossroads @7pm
5/24/09 – Calvary Chapel Auburn @8:30am & 10:30am
5/31/09 – Crossroads @8am,9:30am,&11:15am

SONGS I SANG ON SUNDAY:

Wow, almost been a month since my last blog, what can I say.

I’m reading Bob Kauflin’s book, “Worship Matters” right now and I highly recommend it. Reading a chapter on Saturday I was moved to take another look at the songs I had planned for the next day. Bob talked about always having at least one tune speak specifically of the Cross and I somehow missed that. I can find myself planning sets around Tempo, Keys, Familiarity, Hymns, New Songs, Style, & Sermon Themes and miss the most important point. Not that all songs have to cover this, or that other stuff isn’t important. I think because often I’m planning longer sets that just based on quantity a Cross specific song gets in there, but that wasn’t the case this Sunday. So even though we’d rehearsed the set Thursday, and had a guest accompanying us, I decided to swap out the last tune I had selected, Chris Tomlin’s “Made To Worship”, with Isaac Watts hymn, “The Wonderful Cross”. I learned a good lesson from it and I believe Christ was honored in our worship.

“Beautiful One” - Tim Hughes
“Holy Is The Lord” - Chris Tomlin & Louie Giglio
“Praise To The Lord The Almighty” - Hymn
“Forever You Are God” - Joe Tejeda*
(Sermon)
“The Wonderful Cross” - Isaac Watts

*Joe was our “Guest Artist”, who’s a 21-year old who has grown up in our church and just completed an impressive 5-song EP for corporate worship that I’ll be talking more about in the future. Good stuff!