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09 Feb 2009
By jasondsears

Oh ME of little faith . . .

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I'm reading the Bible this year according to this Bible reading plan which is great - as it has a passage from the OT, a psalm, a gospel reading, and a reading from Acts - and progressing forward. Last year it was the Daily Bible - which was nice, but it goes in chronological order, and this different plan offers a bit of variety in the readings.Anyway - i was struck by a passage in Matthew the other day - Jesus was walking on water. Cool. The disciples were out on the boat, and the wind picked up, and they…
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30 Jan 2009
By jasondsears

A few new songs

new music
I'm going to try to start keeping a more comprehensive list of new tunes that we add to the repertoire at Oak Mountain.Check out "Amazing God" by Brenton Brown. We're going to introduce it in the next few weeks.Our choir is singing "Lord I Run to You" by Tommy Walker this week - it's off of one of his old albums. If you're reading this and looking for new stuff, Tommy has just recently signed with Integrity, thus reaping the benefits of their distribution network. His older stuff is awesome. Check it out. One of his best older albums is…
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28 Jan 2009
By jasondsears

Hillsong Kids

Friday Favorites, videos
We use some Hillsong Kids tunes for our Children's Worship program at church. They're very well done - engaging for the kids, and communicate worship truths. Needless to say, they get played quite a bit in the Sears home, and my oldest decided to do his own promo for them . . . I'm almost positive this was unsolicited!http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAABqQx1oQmSnIaATdhug8I962XbxEmedcyG6R_eLWYLt5_PvTvgbU_vyRv9bZRRt2jwxTIZ8wKHic0nRWnDx4vFqZ8CXhTyM8ndpmAA5B47yd5Hd_KgGAV-GneSV8n5tETz1d4FExEqkzJo8F1K8YP6rAf3gU9E8eS0xv3bzJhRNOhzw0DZVTSNO792tZmc0exC-_19bgOE88-OLXVvYFud9sVYip46vpBlnGITIOZOFC%26sigh%3DgbtE-HbMQpsh5W-u9CzJoY5LytE%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&nogvlm=1&thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Db78058adcbcd3b18%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3Duqb_MCmg6lZFXBkRKFFLWdr3SJw&messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den
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27 Jan 2009
By jasondsears

What if we did this for a worship service

Friday Favorites, videos
This guy Mark Johnson travelled around the globe and recorded different folks singing and playing the same tune - then edited it together for this film.What if we could do this realtime for a worship service - have a few different countries, all playing the same song, piped together on some fiber network, broadcast to the nations . . . hmm.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM&hl=en&fs=1]
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22 Jan 2009
By jasondsears

Amazing Grace

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We had a good moment in choir last night, as we're preparing for our Palm Sunday worship service. We were rehearsing the song "Amazing Grace/My Chains are gone." Great tune. We were rehearsing the unison section of the 1st first - I once was blind, but now I see . . . saved a wretch like me . . . Some of us grew up singing those same words, and it seems like every pop star and even American Idol has their own version of the song. And we often think about our salvation when we read or sing those…
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16 Jan 2009
By jasondsears

Completely Worthless post

Friday Favorites, personal
This is a worthless post, but I'm from Iowa, and it made me laugh out loud.60 above zero:Arizonians turn on the heat.People in Iowa plant gardens.50 above zero:Californians shiver uncontrollably.People in Cedar Rapids sunbathe.40 above zero:Italian & English cars won't start.People in Iowa drive with the windows down.32 above zero:Distilled water freezes.The water in Des Moines gets thicker.20 above zero:Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats.People in Iowa throw on a flannel shirt.15 above zero:New York landlords finally turn up the heat.People in Iowa have the last cookout before it gets cold.0People in Miami all die.Iowans close the windows.10…
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09 Jan 2009
By jasondsears

You know you've made it when . . .

new music
My friend Aaron Shust (and he really is my friend - not just one of those guys that I shook hands with one time. We used to work together) has a very popular song in the CCM world called My Savior, My God. It's based on the hymn "I Am Not Skilled to Understand." You can look it up in the hymnal - it really is there.Anyway, I get these CD's about 10 times a year, produced by a group called "Song Discovery" that have their best guess as to the latest and greatest worship songs. I opened up my…
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