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The kids led in worship yesterday. I love having the kids - there's something genuine about their presence on the stage, leading, singing, dancing, jumping - or in the case of my 4 year old, sitting down and sulking. We asked him about it when we got home. His response: "I didn't sing praises to God this morning." Mandy: "Why not?" Drew: "I was upset that I only got to sing one song. I wanted to sing two songs to God."Hmm.Anyway - Some of the music was new yesterday. All of the arrangements were different. We opened with Standing on…

Greetings blog world, interwebs, facebookedness and twitterdome. I got back from leading worship at a conference in Baltimore on Saturday night around 7:30. It's always nice to come back to the home church after being gone.Yesterday's worship service was the Oak Mountain unplugged version - except that everything was plugged in, including the piano. We opened the service with All Who Are Thirsty.After our call to worship, we sang Amazing God (B. Brown), Indescribable, Blessed Be Your Name, It is Well, and You Alone (Crowder).For our offering song, we sang a song i wrote several years ago - a rewrite…

Labor Day weekend. We still had church. We opened with You Are Good. I added the bridge part - which proclaims "you are good, all the time, all the time, you are good." I thought it was a little edgier than normal, but apparently Bob thought it wasn't that edgy - and exhorted us with something even edgier from the psalms . . . which was cool. After our call to worship we sang Because of Your Love (Baloche), Search Me (Ronnie Freeman), Your Name (Baloche), Before the Throne of God Above, and Agnus Dei. I said this as we…

Yesterday was a full day at Oak Mountain. Bob's birthday, the launch of video announcements, and a guest artist.We opened worship with Awake My Soul - a tune I wrote a while ago set to some Isaac Watts words.After our call to worship, we sang Let God Arise (Tomlin), Our God Saves (Baloche), How Deep the Father's Love for Us, and Never Let Go (Redman)We then launched into our new video announcements.After baptisms, we had our time of offering, and were thrilled and honored to have Aaron Shust, Bethany Olds, and Shawn Lewis, all three out on tour with Glory…

Choir Sundays. I LOVE choir Sundays. This morning we opened with Tehillah (which means to sing a new song). After our call to worship, we sang Hosanna, Immortal Invisible, Come Thou Fount, Hear Us From Heaven, and Revelation Song. Our offering song was I Will Rise - a newer Tomlin tune, which was fun to arrange for choir. The next two weeks in choir we're going to be previewing our Christmas music, and preparing to lead in worship on September 27. Come join us. Bring a friend.

Great time of worship yesterday morning. The sermon topic - Women's Roles in the church - well done by @bobflayhart.We opened with All the Earth Will Sing Your Praises (Paul Baloche).After our call to worship we sang Prince of Peace, Open the Eyes of My Heart, Hungry (K. Scott), and Jesus Paid it All, with the Kristian Stanfill (Thanks Patrick) tag.For our offering song, Carlee Means led us in Christy Nockel's By Our Love, which is a song that I got to hear Christy sing, just a few weeks ago.During communion, Shannon Walden led us in Lead Me to the…

Bob was back in town this past Sunday, and gave us a recap on the Gospel Pipeline.If you still haven't set your iTunes to automatically download Oak Mountain Sermons . . . do so by clicking here.This past Sunday, we opened with You Are Good, by Lincoln Brewster. After our call to worship, we sang Sing to the King, O 4 a 1000 Tongues, Everlasting God (with a new interlude, and a little quicker), and Center (Charlie Hall).For offering, we sang Everything (Hughes).This coming week is a communion Sunday.I was going through old photos, as I recently lost most information…