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Monday morning recap for Sunday – March 15, 2009

This week we had the privilege of hearing from Jerram Barrs. He even preached two different sermons . . . We opened our service with last week's rendition of Come Ye Sinners . . . with a full band this time.After our call to worship, we sang Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, Amazing God by Brenton Brown, Your Love is Amazing, How Firm a Foundation (go and read the text of this hymn), You Are My King, and Immortal Invisible.Our offering song was a Tommy Walker tune called I Have a Hope.
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – March 8, 2009 (on Wednesday)

This past week was a communion week, and Phil preached . . . We opened with Our God Saves by Paul Baloche.After our call to worship, we sang All Because of Jesus by Steve Fee, Shelter by Sonic Flood, Great is Thy Faithfulness, and You Alone.Our offering song was an acoustic, stripped-down version of Lead Me to the Cross by Hillsong, and for communion I sang Come Ye Sinners - a version that offers a very appropriate melody to accompany the text. You can find this version sung by the Robbie Seay Band, or by a group called Cambridge, both…
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Come Ye Sinners . . .

I'm working on an arrangement of a hymn that I may sing for communion on Sunday. maybe.I'm destroyed by the third verse - Come ye weary and heavy laden. Lost and ruined, by the fall.IF YOU TARRY UNTIL YOU'RE BETTER, YOU WILL NEVER COME AT ALL . . . Wow
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Watch this . . .

Hang in there - it's only 3:00 long. At 2:00 something incredible happens. If it doesn't ring your bell, there's something wrong with your clapper.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLVMHDup2vs&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0]
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – March 1, 2009 (on Wednesday)

What an interesting service last Sunday was . . . the treacherous Alabama Winter Storm 2009 kept quite a few folks away, including about half of the choir, but we pressed on, and had a great worship service.We opened with Amazing God again - by Brenton Brown.After our call to worship, we sang Jesus Shall Reign, Sing to the King, Come Thou Fount, Never Let Go (Redman), and Revelation Song (Gateway Worship).For offering, we sang God of this city by Bluetree.
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Video . . .

Will [My Tech Dir] is working on some lighting and positioning for a new video that we're shooting. I went to check on his setup, and we did a demo . . . http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAABqQx1oQmSnIaATdhug8I95F2w7ksGEUPZL6UGTbqlmQuX3LMoLbLBpe9cy0nAdrUsbE-uNTBCHTvxWwvftK4N0lNfeFiQSQSKx30ZHF3aMDV4mkRu_tSmAn1TCraKn7Pmriw-frk0AP5hR4udC_xL8r29aB7VNAY2Zoq1CHXyILlCEXTYhsM2G07Ig7agYE-b7eaaSimT_BU94rHMbh5oSLOMcyjg0kNj_jeBip3glF%26sigh%3DAx-4XK5QC5_2iOBbaLBdZbSxaI8%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&nogvlm=1&thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dbcf3e1386e4b30ab%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3Ds0YYtzzk7JAQdZRtIp1DW7EuGeA&messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den
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Dear Finale . . .

you're so hard to love. Just when your users get over the ridiculous, unlinked changes you make in Finale 2007, you go and completely reinvent the software, making menus ever MORE difficult to navigate. You move functions around, and actually DELETE major functions . . .
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God of This City

Here is the story that I mentioned this morning regarding the song: God of This City.Nov 2006, Bluetree are heading out to Pattaya Thailand to participate in an event arranged by Belfast missionaries living in Pattaya, Thailand called Pattaya Praise. We’ve no expectation of the event; we were just looking for an opportunity to serve somehow.We didn’t know much about it before we left, but Pattaya is a dark place. It’s a small seaside town notorious for it’s sex trade. Throughout our time there we heard countless stories of girls who are bought from their parents for a price, sold…
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