December 2008
20 posts
Last year at this time I told you about the top 10 songs that I had added to my music library in 2007. Here is the list of the top 10 new songs of 2008 - the most-played songs added to my library this year.
Shadowfeet - Brooke Fraser
God of this City - Chris Tomlin
Albertine - Brooke Fraser
I Will Rise - Chris Tomlin
How He Loves - Eddie Kirkland
Great Things - Matt Maher
Deciphering Me -...
Top 10 NEW songs of 2008 →
Happy New Year! →
Whether your 2008 was awful or epic, my hope and prayer is that 2009 is better.
“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” -Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians.
Normally I do my best to give you some thoughts related to Sunday morning and a bit of a confessional of how things went. This week I want to do something a little different. I know that there are lots of you who are looking for very specific ideas at certain times of year - Christmas Eve, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, etc - so I thought that I would give you a breakdown of our Christmas Eve service...
Christmas Eve - service breakdown →
Top 10 Songs →
Here are the ten songs we did the most on Sunday morning at OBC in 2008 -
Everlasting God - Brenton Brown
Mighty To Save - Hillsong United
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - Chris Tomlin
Hosanna - Paul Baloche
How Awesome Is Our God - Chris Vacher & Craig Douglas
Your Name - Paul Baloche
Because Of Your Love - Paul Baloche
Holy Is The Lord - Chris Tomlin
I Have A Hope - Tommy...
Worship Confessional - December 14, 2008 →
This past Sunday was the second week of a three-week series that we’re calling “Great Expectations” - looking at the Old Testament passages mentioned in the first part of Matthew. Last week was the Isaiah 7 prophecy and this week was the Micah 5 passage, focused on Bethlehem as the birthplace of the Messiah.
Overall the morning was a bit of a challenge to construct - we had four main sections to...
Hope Has Answered →
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“Immanuel; Hope Has Answered” and supporting materials was written and directed for The Work of the People by Samm Hodges of Mothlight Creative....
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!
Click over to their blog here and check it out or just download the PDF here.
Christmas carol songbook →
Gloria Patri - creeds in worship →
One of the things that I didn’t include in my worship confessional this week is that we did something a little different on Sunday and used a creed as part of our worship service. We have used creeds in the past but this time it was a little unique.
I wanted to lead the congregation to take some time to spend some time praising God for who He is and for what He’s done - it fit with the theme of...
Yes, I know I haven’t posted much. But..
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Back from breakfast with one of our musicians - good times!...
It’s been quiet around here! →
Yesterday we kicked off our Advent series that we’re calling “Great Expectations” - Earl is walking through the first couple chapters of the book of Matthew and going back to the Old Testament passages referred there.
The first passage Matthew quotes is from Isaiah 7 and in the context of the birth of Jesus the verse makes total sense but there is also another context in which Isaiah is writing....
Worship Confessional - Sunday, December 7, 2008 →