Monday morning recap for Sunday – May 24, (on Tuesday)

On Tuesday - but come on! Yesterday was a holiday.Patrick Bush and the Youth Worship Team led worship on Sunday, and did a terrific job. It's easy to leave town when you know that things will be SO well done while you're out.They opened with Let God Arise, by Tomlin.After the Call to Worship they sangAmazing God (Brenton Brown), Reign in Us (Starfield), Our God Saves (P. Baloche), Jesus Paid it All (with the Crowder Tag), and Lead me to the Cross (Hillsong United).For our offering, they sang From the Inside Out (Hillsong United).
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – May 17

Yesterday's sermon focus was on the 2nd -3rd of our new mission statement "To Exalt Christ by equipping every member to seek grace from God, share grace in community, and show grace to all."Our Youth Choir opened the service with Lifesong. Let me say this - There's too many kids that want to be musicians that aren't participating in the things that make you into a musician. When I was 16, I wanted to be just like Elton John or Billy Joel . . . but I was marching in the band, singing in the choir, playing bass in the…
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – May 3rd

Yesterday was our 20th Anniversary Celebration. Great morning of worship. We had Rev. Barker in attendance and he offered up our pastoral prayer. Also showed a 13 minute video highlighting the founding of the church as well as the impact of the church through some testimonies. We will post it as soon as we "can."We opened with Awesome is the Lord Most HighAfter our call to worship, we sang Sing to the King, Not to Us, and the Solid Rock. We followed that with Immortal Invisible, Everlasting God (the Brenton Brown version, NOT the harder-to-sing Lincoln Brewster version), and I…
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – April 26, 2009 (on Tuesday)

What a great Sunday morning of worship . . . We opened with Cambridge's arrangement of Come Ye Sinners . . . A very appropriate musical tune for the text.After our call to worship, we sang Filled With Your Glory (Starfield), O Worship the King (with the Tomlin chorus), Hear Us From Heaven, I Stand Amazed, and When All is Said and Done (T. Walker).For our offering song, we introduced Face to the Ground, by Ronnie Freeman - get it on iTunes. Very congregational - i love the posture that's emphasized in the text.Next Sunday is our 20th Anniversary Celebration.…
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – April 19, 2009

Hello 4 people . . . Last Sunday we opened with Famous One by Chris Tomlin/Jesse Reeves.After our call to worship, we sang Amazing God, which I just love, by Brenton Brown. We followed that with Beautiful One, Search Me, and When I Survey/Wonderful Cross. If you're looking for a new song - check out Search Me by Ronnie Freeman. Great song writer. The tune may be hard to find, via a recording. I know it's on the JH Ranch Praise, disc 2.For our offering song, we introduced Center by Charlie Hall.
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Easter Sunday Recap for Oak Mountain

We had a great Sunday at Oak Mountain. The thought that I've had preceding yesterday was this: What if we had the same fervor and zeal about Christ's resurrection the other 51 Sundays of the year! Facebook and Twitter were inundated with "Christ is risen!" messages, which are great - and He is - but He has been for close to 2000 years - our message shouldn't dramatically increase with Easter Sunday - it should be that exciting, that life-changing every Sunday, or thursday afternoon, or Tuesday at 9:15PM . . . And scene.Yesterday we opened with Let God Arise…
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – March 29, 2009 (on Wednesday)

I'm late posting this, as we have our Palm Sunday worship service this coming Sunday, and we've been busy in preparing.This past weekend we opened up with Chris Tomlin's Let God Arise.After our call to worship we sang Your Grace is Enough, Crown Him with Many Crowns, Here i am to Worship, Jesus Paid it all, and You Gave Your Life Away, by Paul Baloche.If you were in the 9:00 service, you heard Hillsong's Hosanna for the offering song, as well as a new rendition of There's Room At the Cross for You.
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – March 22. 2009

We [Oak Mountain] were back from spring break this weekend. we opened our service with Awake My Soul, which is a tune I wrote set to a hymn text by Isaac Watts.After our call to worship, we sang Hosanna (Baloche), God of Grace and Glory, Break Through (T. Walker), and Draw Me Nearer. We then saw a testimony video from one of our members who has been out of work since November. We went from the end of the video in to Never Let Go (Redman).For our offering song, we brought back a tune that we did in last year's…
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Monday morning recap for Sunday – March 15, 2009

This week we had the privilege of hearing from Jerram Barrs. He even preached two different sermons . . . We opened our service with last week's rendition of Come Ye Sinners . . . with a full band this time.After our call to worship, we sang Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, Amazing God by Brenton Brown, Your Love is Amazing, How Firm a Foundation (go and read the text of this hymn), You Are My King, and Immortal Invisible.Our offering song was a Tommy Walker tune called I Have a Hope.
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