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09 Mar 2015
By jasondsears

Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – March 8, 2015

setlists
We continued with our Lenten season worship yesterday.  It's so good to at least consider the idea of slowing down and reflecting on the cross, spending time in repentance....One of our tunes from yesterday had the line "the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day; and there may I, though vile as he, wash all my sins away."  It's so important that we realize, as we come to the cross through humility and repentance that we are JUST as vile as the thief on the cross.  Not worse off, nor any better - but just as vile.…
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05 Mar 2015
By jasondsears

Where else are you worshipping?

Friday Favorites, magazine articles
I’ve got a good friend who, when he preaches, usually includes a prayer that asks for us to have service of worship as opposed to worship services. It sounds like semantics, but there’s a unique beauty in the distinction. It’s so easy for us to think of worship as something we go “do” on Sunday morning. But as we look for the new Heaven on Earth, our reality can become more and more that LIFE is worship, and that we are serving as an act of worship. I’m often asked what my favorite part of being a worship leader is. Sunday…
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02 Mar 2015
By jasondsears

Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – March 1, 2015

setlists
What a great morning of worship!  Our kids choir led us in "What's Up, Zak?"  - the story of both Zaccheus and Bartimaeus and how their lives were changed forever by meeting Jesus.I'm always so excited about the church getting to share in what the kids are working on.  Children's choirs play such an integral role, not only in teaching biblical truths to our kids, but helping to shape musical foundations that will stay with them, to some degree, for the rest of their lives.  If your kids aren't involved in kids choir - they need to be!  Join us…
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24 Feb 2015
By jasondsears

New Tune Tuesday – February 24, 2015

Tuesday Tunes
Check out I Am from Crowder.  I'm not a huge crowder fan - but this tune really grabs me.  I like the easy reversal of us holding onto I AM, or - at the end of the chorus, remembering the I AM that holds onto us...[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH_LLGiE0f0?rel=0]
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23 Feb 2015
By jasondsears

Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – February 22, 2015

setlists
Well - yesterday was one of only two sundays that I can remember where I had absolutely no voice.  Doesn't matter - worship team did a killer job, and it was a great morning.We opened with Come Ye Sinners.After our call to worship we sang Let Us Return, Your Grace Finds Me, Nothing But the Blood, and We Will Run.Our offering song was No Other Name - a tune we introduced last week.Join us next Sunday morning for our kids musical - What's Up Zak? at both morning services - 8:15 and 10:45
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18 Feb 2015
By jasondsears

My thoughts on Lent

Friday Favorites
Lent starts today (Ash Wednesday).  Lent - in the traditional church is 40 days and nights before Easter, not including Sundays.  It's a time for reflection, sacrifice, and lament over Christ's death.  It doesn't include Sundays, because of the reality that Christ HAS risen, and HAS redeemed us from our punishment of eternal separation from God.Being raised Catholic - it was tradition to "give up" something for lent.  It was something done out of a sense of legalism - you do this, because this is what you do for lent....When i left the Catholic church - i abandoned "giving something…
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