i am an offering

Another great day at Living Word!

Songs:

• Forever (Tomlin)
• Sing to the King (Foote)
• Where You Lead Me (DeShetler)
• He Leadeth Me (Traditional Hymn) - we sang the last verse accapella and it was beautiful.
• Savior, Like a Shepherd, Lead Us (Traditional Hymn)

Highlights of the day:

• An older gentleman sang “Child of the King” for special music and boy what a treat that was!  He was a little reminiscent of Glen Payne to me! (for those of you familiar with the legendary Southern Gospel quartet - The Cathedrals - also, don’t always trust wikipedia, but you have to laugh out loud when it says this above the article “Please help improve this article by removing excessive trivia and irrelevant praise, criticism, lists and collections of links.(February 2008)”)
• Stay in the Shepherd’s back pocket.  Wade urged us to stay as close to the shepherd as we can, and no harm will befall us.  Good stuff.
• Not from the service, but thanks to some regulars at a local Mexican restaurant, we got free dessert after lunch!  Sweetness!
• Truth Project took a look at History and what a great look it was.  My mind was challenged and transformed.

We had a great Sunday at Living Word. A great Sunday. We’re in the midst of slightly redesigning the worship service, which is exciting, but in the meantime, this is how yesterday looked:

• Blessed be Your Name (Redman)
• Hosanna (Baloche/Brown)
• Hosanna, Loud Hosanna (Traditional Hymn arranged in a modern style)
• All Glory Laud and Honor (Traditional Hymn)
• Offering (Baloche)
• Closed with Sovereign Grace’s arrangement of Come Christians Join to Sing.

Some highlights of the music were when the children walked through the congregation with palm branches during “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” and had a wonderful moment of teaching from one of our awesome Sunday school volunteers. Another highlight was that my mother-in-law was playing from chord sheets from the first time after years and years of being a classical piano player (nice work!!). The only glitch was that the words for “Come Christians Join to Sing” weren’t the right words, so we had to look off the screen. But it still worked great.

The best part of the day, for me though, was Pastor Wade’s teaching on worship. Wow. What a great sermon. You really should take a listen. And I’ll give you a hint, it had little to do with music.

We also had the privilege of hanging out at Pizza Ranch and watching the movie “Amazing Grace.” Great food, great movie, great fellowship. Great time.