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Monday morning recap for Sunday – June 14

We celebrated the Lord's Supper yesterday, and had a power outage - always fun. Welcomed a couple of new team members to the group yesterday - new acoustic guitarist and 2 new praise teams members. If you're reading this and attend Oak Mountain, and would like to get involved, it really is as easy as getting in touch with me.We opened yesterday with Awake My Soul, which is a setting to some Isaac Watts text that I did a few years ago.After our call to worship, we sang Forever, Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone), and Your Name.For our offering…
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – June 7

We were back to "normal" on Sunday - after taking about 6 weeks and doing every combination of worship leading element known to Oak Mountain. We had choirs, youth choir, kids, trios, fiddles, acoustic sets, youth group . . . Last Sunday was our "typical" worship team.We opened with All Because of Jesus.After our call to worship we sang Hosanna, Our God Saves, Agnus Dei, and Holy Holy Holy. For our offering song, we sang Face to the Ground - by Ronnie Freeman. It's on iTunes. Check it out.
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Brilliant . . .

I don't watch SNL anymore for various reasons - mostly because I'm old enough to want to be sleeping by that time on Saturday nights, but I stumbled across this on the web this weekend. Looks like it was a couple years ago . . .http://www.hulu.com/embed/J4vJO8oTo5zAO0QrO_sbLQ
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – May 31

Yesterday was acoustic day at OMPC. We had piano, acoustic git, fiddle, and one other vocalist. We opened with Cambridge's arrangement of Come Ye Sinners.After our Call to Worship, we sang Amazing God, The Solid Rock, You Alone, Blessed Be Your Name, and It Is Well.For our offering song, we sang an arrangement of Jesus I Come, written by a friend out in California - Craig Anderton. You can get a recording of it here.Choir resumes two weeks from Wednesday - to prepare to lead in worship on the 28th.
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – May 24, (on Tuesday)

On Tuesday - but come on! Yesterday was a holiday.Patrick Bush and the Youth Worship Team led worship on Sunday, and did a terrific job. It's easy to leave town when you know that things will be SO well done while you're out.They opened with Let God Arise, by Tomlin.After the Call to Worship they sangAmazing God (Brenton Brown), Reign in Us (Starfield), Our God Saves (P. Baloche), Jesus Paid it All (with the Crowder Tag), and Lead me to the Cross (Hillsong United).For our offering, they sang From the Inside Out (Hillsong United).
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This weekend . . .

This weekend Mandy and Drake and I are up in the mountains with the singles' group from Oak Mountain. We've been leading worship, and I taught a little bit last night. Great group of folks.Yesterday, Mandy and Drake and I loaded up in the truck and drove to this place in the middle of nowhere with a weird banjo player, and rented some tubes to go tubing down this river. Easy trip. Very relaxing. Much fun. Mandy and I stayed close through the 2 mile journey down the river, most of the time having our tubes locked via my feet.…
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – May 17

Yesterday's sermon focus was on the 2nd -3rd of our new mission statement "To Exalt Christ by equipping every member to seek grace from God, share grace in community, and show grace to all."Our Youth Choir opened the service with Lifesong. Let me say this - There's too many kids that want to be musicians that aren't participating in the things that make you into a musician. When I was 16, I wanted to be just like Elton John or Billy Joel . . . but I was marching in the band, singing in the choir, playing bass in the…
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RE – Monday morning recap for last Sunday May

So I've been told that my recap of yesterday's time of worship wasn't fluffy enough . . . Yesterday's worship service was a 1st for me at Oak Mountain, in that it was just me at the piano, without a band or vocal team. Interesting - and as big of a contrast from last week's Super-Colossal as we can get.We opened with Come Ye Sinners, by Cambridge. I played it in the key of E, and probably started with an E2 in the RH, with an E octave in the LH.After our call to worship, we sang Forever and Indescribable…
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