Monday morning Recap for Sunday – July 11, 2010

We opened this morning with Come Ye Sinners.After our call to worship we sang Amazing God, Our God Saves, Praise to the Lord (new version *to oak mountain), You Gave Your Life Away, and How Deep the Father's Love.Our offering song was The Stand - by Hillsong.Bullfrog Choir in just 2 weeks. So excited.
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Monday morning Recap for Sunday – July 4, 2010 (better late than never)

Patrick and the Youth Group led worship this past weekend. They always do a great job - Patrick is one of those guys who is multi-faceted in ministry, and has many talents . . . our youth love him - and he's a great friend. They opened last week with a Silar's Bald tune called My Heart Will Sing.After the call to worship they sang Let God Arise, You LIfted Me Out, No Not One, and In Christ Alone.The offering song was Christy Nockel's A Mighty Fortress (great tune).BULLFROG choir in just two more weeks - July 25th. SO looking…
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Monday morning Recap for Sunday – June 27, 2010

We had a great morning of worship at Oak Mtn - Mark Clement led for me. Mark has become a good friend over the last year - and did a tremendous job - i look forward to having him lead again in the future. They opened this weekend with P Baloche's Hosanna. After the call to worship they sang I am Free, Awesome is the Lord Most High, a new tune (to oak mountain) called You Are My Strength, and closed with How Great is our God. The offering song was Awakening. Remember - for next weekend - july 4,…
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Monday morning Recap for Sunday – June 20. 2010

Great time of worship yesterday morning. The choir was singing. It was Father's Day. Great, great morning.We opened yesterday with a rather slow, mellow ballad from Israel Houghton called Say So. :)After our call to worship we sang Because of Your Love, O Worship the King, Everlasting God, and Revelation Song.Our offering song was God You Reign - a Lincoln Brewster song that we first did during our Palm Sunday Spectacular.We did a different arrangement of Everlasting God - one that I heard Anthony Evans do last year at the National Worship Leader Conference - it's got a bit more…
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Monday morning Recap for Sunday – June 13. 2010

Being away from Oak Mtn - even for a couple days, always makes me fond of the people and the community when i return. Yesterday was no exception. We opened yesterday with Begin My Tongue, another tune i wrote as a part of a hymn-[re]writing group that I was a part of quite a few years ago.After our call to worship we sang Beautiful One, Holy is the Lord, Amazing Grace (Chains are Gone), and Hear Us From Heaven.Our offering song was Everything (Hughes).For Communion, Alicia sang Child of God (K. Scott). GREAT tune. Check out 7:22 Band's recording of…
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Monday morning Recap for Sunday – June 6, 2010

It's honestly hard to believe it's already June. Before you know it, we'll have the wreaths hung above the stage again . . . Anyway - Bob continues his series on revival. Let me encourage you to get the sermon downloads from iTunes. We opened last week with Awake My Soul, a tune I wrote when i was a part of a hymn rewriting group a few years ago. After our call to worship we sang Filled With Your Glory, What a Savior, Search Me (Ronnie Freeman), Surrender (Brewster), and Jesus Paid it All (Stanfill). Our offering song was another…
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Monday morning Recap for Sunday – May 30, 2010

Heath and Justin Hale led worship for us last weekend - did a tremendous job! I was down at Gulf Shores with our singles' group, leading worship for their retreat. We've got a great group of singles - and i think it's awesome that they would set aside time at the beach to spend in worship, prayer, and study.Back here - the Hale's opened with Amazing God.After the call to worship they sang Prince of Peace, Come Ye Sinners, Give Us Clean Hands, and I Stand Amazed.For the offering song - they sang How Deep the Father's Love.Our new summer…
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Monday morning Recap for Sunday – May 23, 2010

Greetings blog-readers . . . Yesterday was a choir Sunday. Choir takes a break now - but only for two weeks, and resumes rehearsals on June 9 as we prepare to lead in worship on June 20. we opened yesterday with You Lifted Me Out (Tomlin, and a bunch of other people). My opening encouragement yesterday was that as we sang the songs that we know well - to consider the text of the tunes, in light of Pentecost Sunday, and how they take on a whole new meaning, or bent, or angle. Pretty cool. After our call to worship…
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Monday morning Recap for Sunday – May 16, 2010

The Kids led in worship yesterday. As Bob put it - the kids have a way of leading us to more uninhibited worship - and we presbyterians could stand a bit more of that. I will say that i was astounded by how many fists I saw in the air during the chorus of "let the praises ring."For those interested - yesterday's team consisted of a full band (from my normal teams), a youth trio (made up of the youth that work with our kids on Sunday mornings), a 6-voice kids praise team, and 58 kids (78 during 2nd service)…
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Monday morning Recap for Sunday – May 9, 2010 (I'm pretty sure it's Thursday)

We're in the midst of a series on Revival - Bob is teaching through several revival passages over the summer. I expect big things for Oak Mountain.We opened last Sunday with Let Us Return, a song based on Hosea . . . After our call to worship, we sang Not to Us, All Hail the Pow'r of Jesus Name, No Other Name (Todd Fields), You Alone, and You Never Let Go (Redman). For our offering song - we sang a 3 1/2 minute version of Hillsong United's Fire Fall Down. I had an argument with one of my friends -…
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