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2011. Wowzer. It goes by faster and faster every year.We only had one service yesterday - and i love the packed house. It's great to see all the faces at once, and hear all the singing...We opened with Come Ye Sinners - which is ending up being one of my favorite hymn re-writes.After our call to worship we sang Because of Your Love, Our God Saves, O Worship the King, and How Deep the Father's Love for Us. Our offering song was Tommy Walker's I Have a Hope.We kick things back into half-gear this week. Worship choir resumes on Wednesday…

Two recaps today - one for our Christmas Eve service - and one for yesterday - Sunday the 26th.Our Christmas Eve service has developed into quite the tradition. This was my 8th Christmas at Oak Mountain, and I've tried to instill some sort of "traditional" songs for oak mountain, during Christmas Eve. Having said that, much of our programming is the same, with just a few variations. We have, since i've been here, had two services. The first is always full band, and the 2nd is a stripped down acoustic set. Both services have the same programming.The Means family (Roger,…

We didn't have a Monday Morning Recap for last week - as last Sunday was the Christmas service, and I don't do a recap of those - but stay tuned for videos, etc ... Yesterday was the 4th Sunday of Advent. We opened with Love is Here. After our call to worship we sang Angels We Have Heard on High, Amazing God, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Holy is the Lord, and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. Our offering song was a fantastic rendition of Michael McDonald's Peace - by Carlee Means. For Communion, Mandy Sears sang Perfect Peace,…

Yesterday marked the 1st Sunday of Advent. In the liturgical calendar - it's the Prophet Candle - "the anticipation of christ." The songs was sang yesterday all pointed us to the expectation of Christ's coming/Christ's return. We opened with Let God Arise. After our call to worship we sang Hosanna, Your Grace is Enough, Our God Saves, Come Thou Long Expected Jesus, and Never Let Go. Our offering song was a killer tune called Light of the World.

We celebrated Christ the King Sunday yesterday - traditionally part of the liturgical calendar, and recognized as the Sunday prior to Advent starting. Generally a celebration of Christ's 2nd Advent - the waiting on Him to come again . . . We opened yesterday with a tune I wrote with Billy Ivey called I Will Sing.After our call to worship we sang Sing to the King, Not to Us, Center, Recoice the Lord is King, Before the Throne of God Above, and Agnus Dei. Our offering song was God You Reign - a terrific tune from Lincoln Brewster.Three more weeks…

Choir led in worship last weekend. That wraps our final "regular" service led by the choir for the year. The choir is continuing to prepare for "Rescue" - our Christmas worship service which will be Sunday December 12, 2010 at both services.We opened last week with All Who Are Thirsty.After our call to worship we sang Jesus Shall Reign, Awesome is the Lord Most High, God of This City, and When All is Said and Done.Our offering song was Do It Lord.

Better late than never. We wrapped up our stewardship series this past sunday. For those of you uncomfortable talking about money - we're done now . . . We opened last Sunday with Famous One.After our call to worship we sang All Because of Jesus, Forever, Enough, Heart of Worship, and Be Thou My Vision. Our offering song was Tomlin's version of Take My Life.Our pledge offering song was Lay it Down, by Dave Lubben.Choir sings this coming Sunday. Christmas will be here before you know it!

Bob is continuing his series on Stewardship. I'd encourage you to get the podcast if you haven't already - or perhaps you've missed a week and would like to catch up.We also showed a video highlighting some stories of families in our church. I'll post the video here tomorrow . . . We opened yesterday with a new tune called Let Us Return, based on Hosea . . . After our call to worship we sang Because of Your Love, O 4 a 1000 Tongues (with the Crowder chorus), Search Me, Break Through, and Your Name.Our offering song was Lift…

Bob continues his stewardship series next week . . . if you missed yesterday - be sure and download the podcast here.Choir sang yesterday. Choir Sundays are my favorite Sundays. Our next choir Sunday is November 14. Just around the corner. We also are continuing to prepare for our Christmas Spectacular Spectacular - December 12.We opened yesterday with a new tune called Praise the Lord.After our call to worship we sang Arise, Immortal Invisible, Holy is the Lord, Praise to the Lord (the Almighty), and Hear Us From Heaven.Our offering song was Glorious - by Paul Baloche; a song i…

Yesterday was home missions sunday. We got to hear from our domestic missionaries in our Sunday School classes - and celebrated having planted a church last year. We also got to hear quite a bit from Tom Patton - our new missions pastor.We opened with Let God AriseAfter our call to worship (from one Tom Patton), we sang Hosanna (Baloche), What a Savior, Come Ye Sinners, Surrender, and Amazing Grace (Chains are Gone).Our offering song was Christy Nockels' By Our Love - sung by Carlee Means.We're continuing to rehearse Christmas music in choir - still not too late to join…