July 27, 200912:48 pm
This past week Jeremy (by the way you should be reading his blog, it is good stuff) asked me to play percussion on Saturday night since he could find an available drummer for the service. Obviously, I agreed (or I would not be writing this) and went to practice with the team Thursday night. Practice went well, had a few sound issues but it gave me the opportunity to familiarize myself with the songs and how we were going to play them. Since the team was playing with a drummer (who is pretty darn incredible) on Sunday, that was how they practiced I just sort of did my own thing. On Saturday we got together to practice without the drummer and I was a little nervous. The team had keys, bass, electric guitar, rhythm guitar, and three vocalists. That is a lot to carry with just a percussionist. After the practice I was feeling a little better. As the service began I decided to leave it in God’s hands, he could do with it as he pleased. As always that turned out to be the best decision I could have made. In my opinion the set was not lacking anything because there was not a drummer. God took care of some things. So here is the set:
Hosanna - Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown
At The Cross - Daniel Renstrom
I Am Free - Jon Egan
Our Great God - Fernando Ortega and Mac Powell
You Never Let Go - Beth Redman and Matt Redman
Wonderful Maker - Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin
July 20, 20099:07 am
Once again, I was on the worship team for
Bridgeway Christian Church. This weekend went really well. For whatever reason I felt like I played really well. Found my spots and didn’t interfere with the rest of the rhythm section. Oh, I guess I should mention that I was playing percussion. The set itself also seemed to be a good one. The worship team were talking about it at practice and we had several people mention they really enjoyed the set as well. So without further ado, here is the set.
- Sing to the King - Billy Foote and Charles Silvester Horne
- How Can I Keep From Singing - Ed Cash, Matt Redman, and Chris Tomlin
- Christ The Solid Rock - William Batchelder Bradbury and Edward Mote
- Sweetly Broken - Jeremy Riddle
- Only You - David Crowder, Mike Dodson, Mike Hogan, and Jason Solley
- Marvelous Light - Charlie Hall
And because it made me feel good about my playing, since sometimes I feel less then satisfactory about my playing, I had a couple people mention that they enjoy my playing. That will always make you feel good.
On a spiritual level we also had a person mention that God was clearly at work during worship, helping them through some issues. This part being more important than all of the others. God working through what you are doing is simply amazing. Like I said, it was a good weekend.
Tags: Bridgeway Church, Songs I Sang On Sunday
June 24, 20093:57 pm
Ok so this feels a little weird. I am typically not the type of person that preaches. In fact, I am usually a man of few words. (I am not sure how I got roped into this blogging thing). Plus most of these words and thoughts are not my own, but here we go anyway.
In Revelation 8:6 there are seven Angels with seven trumpets, each trumpet blast means bad things happen. Death and destruction are everywhere and then in verse 13, after the fourth trumpet, we take a brief pause. Seemingly out of nowhere, we find an eagle flying calling out “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!” In a moment of honesty our pastor admitted he had no idea what to do with this verse. Death and destruction everywhere and then a bird telling us it is only going to get worse. Awesome.
So we took a little journey over to Matthew 20 and the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. A landowner goes out early in the morning to hire men to work his field. He then goes out in the third, sixth, ninth, and eleventh hour to hire more workers. (There were twelve hours in a work day) We focused on the landowner because he does something a little odd. Typically in that day landowners would go out in the morning hire people and that was it. But this landowner is always going to out to find more workers.
Then we took a look at all of the prophets sent to Israel. They came with the message of “Woe to you!” Now this wasn’t a message of lookout destruction is coming and there is nothing that you can do about it. These were messages of look out destruction will come if you do not change your ways. Repents and return to the Lord.
So we added all these thing up and go back to Revelation and with all of this in mind, the eagle reads a little different. Woe to you, destruction is coming, but it doesn’t have to be for you. Repent and come to the Lord. He is here even in this eleventh hour searching for more people who want and need his salvation. Even in the midst of God’s righteous anger and judgement of the earth, he is still searching for people who want his love.
That is our God.
June 20, 20096:02 pm
So this is a little late. To be honest I forgot I was going to write this post. But I have decided to add to it and make it a little more interesting.
This last week I once again had the privilege of playing on the worship team at Bridgeway Christian Church. Musically, the weekend went very well. I was very relieved since I was unable to make practice on Thursday so Saturday afternoon right before the first service was my only practice. Normally, that wouldn’t concern me too much, but this time, there was no drummer. This left me, playing cajon, and another percussionist, someone I have never played with, on djembe, holding down the rhythm. Without a drummer there was nowhere for me to hide. Here are the songs that we played:
- In The Secret - Andy Park
- Rescue - Jared Anderson
- I Will Rise - Louie Giglio, Matt Maher, Jesse Reeves, and Chris Tomlin
- Lord Of All - Kristian Stanfill
*Message*
- Lift High - Steve Fee and Eddie Kirkland
- It Is Well With My Soul - Philip Paul Bliss and Horatio G. Spafford
- Sing To The King - Billy Foote and Charles Silvester Horne
So this week we changed up the order of things just a bit. You may notice that we ended the service with three songs this week. Typically, we play around 6 songs, leave for the message and then return for a closing song. This past week the pastors collectively decided that a time of response was in order. So we cut the first set short and came back at the end of the service and led the congregation in three songs. This lengthened closing set gave them the ability to truly react and respond to the message. Which leads me to my question.
How does your church (if you go) order their service? Do they leave time for a time of response? And, what do you feel about it, do you feel this time is necessary?
June 8, 200910:32 pm
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Silence in unexpected places is really awkward. The tension builds as everyone looks around wondering what in the world is going on. This past Sunday we had a little bit of that awkwardness in the middle of the sermon. In the middle of John’s trip to heaven (Revelation) heaven is silent for 30 minutes. (There are several ideas as to what is going on in that time, but nobody is really sure). To help us get the idea of silence, Justin Pritchard, just walked off stage and sat down for 1 minute. It was so weird, church isn’t supposed to be silent. There’s music, announcements, fellowship, and of course preaching, but silence? Like I said weird, and it was only 1 min. We didn’t go in depth on the study silence, but he did bring up one point. It is amazing what you can hear when you are silent. It makes you wonder what we miss when we are so busy talking and filling our lives with pointless noise.
And if I wasn’t tired more great thought would go here.
Cyclops buy P.s I love that fact that the youth pastor steps in and preaches when the lead pastor is gone for the weekend. His perspectives are always unique and refreshing. It truly brings to life the idea that we are all different parts of one body.
Chasing Amy dvdrip
June 4, 20094:41 pm Paycheck rip 
I am very excited to introduce the worship pastor for Bridgeway Church, Jeremy Gallegos
. He recently just earned his bachelors degree and has finally decided to engage in the world of blogging. He is sure to have some very interesting posts and hopefully some great conversations will follow. Knowing him personally, I am extremely eager to hear his thoughts and to be able to engage with him on a regular basis and pick his brain (I think he is smarter than me). So head over to his blog and say hello for me.
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P.s His first real post
is a good one.
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Black Widower trailer
May 31, 200911:12 pm
It is Sunday at 10:30 pm which means the weekend is just about over. It also means that in 1 1/2 hours Bella will officially have her insurance back, and we no longer have to feel like bad parents.
Class video The weekend was a good one filled with a birthday party for my nephew who turned five and my church’s annual picnic/baptism. During the baptism four of us played a little acoustic worship set. The set was unrehearsed and very impromptu. It was nice to be able to relax and just jam.
Today, we began moving into a larger room because our room now is just too small. It does involve lots of packing of stuff, but exciting non the less. We are hoping to be done within the week.
Today for the first time in my life, I successfully unassembled an item and repacked the entire item in the original box. It was amazing. I should mention Colette helped, but this is my blog so I am taking the credit.
And lastly here are a few random things I learned this weekend.
- Don’t clean out a lint trap with a damp or wet hand.
- Soda cans will explode in hot temperatures just like in a freezer. Fortunately, we returned to the car shortly before the explosion.
- I wish I had the money to buy a Klong Yaw.
Short Order movies Mini’s First Time That is all folks…
P.s. I am not sure who took this picture. It was not me, but I think it is great.
May 30, 20098:00 am
At church we are going through a seemingly endless series (that is a good thing) on the book of Revelation. Throughout this study I have got the impression that God is trying to teach me something. At least I have been struck with this thought most sermons. The thought is this:
The God that I/we serve is completely incomprehensible. Who he is goes beyond anything that the human brain can understand. It simply cannot be done. Don’t believe me? Try imagining something with no beginning or end. Yet through and because of his love, he reveals himself to us in a way that we can understand. We can look at creation and see a design. He draws us to him through life experiences and circumstances. Look into the face of a smiling baby and tell me there is no God, that all of this was just random chance.
I know this isn’t something deep. To me it is a reminder of God’s love. We all need those from time to time.
May 18, 200911:10 am
Goodfellas ipod
This past weekend was my weekend for the worship team for @bridgewaychurch. This weekend was the first of four weeks I will be playing with this team and things went really well. We gelled nicely together, and everybody is extremely nice and talented. The team consists of drums, bass, acoustic lead, acoustic rhythm, lead vocals, background vocals, and me on percussion. I hoping to throw in a little mandolin in future weeks, but this week I played cajon, djembe, a bit of cymbals, shaker and tambourine.
Happy Day (Ben Cantelon and Tim Hughes)
Amazing Grace/Grace Like Rain (Todd Agnew, Chris Collins, Edwin O. Excell, and John Newton)
How Can I Keep From Singing (Ed Cash, Matt Redman, and Chris Tomlin)
Be Thou My Vision (Mary Elizabeth Byrne and Eleanor Henrietta Hull)
Hooligans release
Image of You (Matt Larson)
Cop Land hd
download chasing amy free
He Is Exalted (Twila Paris)
On our second service we had a bit of trouble with Amazing Grace. The song was accidentally started in 3/4 instead of 4/4. Took a second, but we realized the problem, recovered and then put in a break before the chorus to take us back to 4/4. All in all it was a good weekend and I look forward to playing with these guys next month.
007 You Only Live Twice dvdrip
Tags: Bridgeway Church, Worship Team
May 12, 200911:18 pm
I don’t always participate in Positive Post Tuesday. Not because I don’t have anything positive to say, I usually just forget. Today I remembered. So in light of the fact that I will be playing on the worship team this weekend, I would like to talk about that team.
When I started attending Bridgeway Church I was a little timid about joining the worship team. It always seemed to be “where the cool people” hang out, and clearly you can all tell I am not one of those. After much convincing from my wife, I finally talked to the worship pastor Jeremy and set up the interviewing process. Throughout the whole process Jeremy made me feel completely comfortable and genuinely interested in the will of God for the situation. Needless to say, I joined the team.
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Joining the worship team has been the best decision I could have made. The group consists of 30+ people, plus all of the sound team. I don’t want to make it sound better then it is, we aren’t all best friends and go out every week, but I have made some great friends who are there for me when needed. The group has helped me get involved in church events, where typically I am shy and slightly introverted. The worship team has become to me a group of people joined by similar interests and talents with a common goal to worship God. From that connection we have all become friends.
I could not strongly recommend enough the need for becoming involved in your church one way or the other. We are truly meant for fellowship.
