Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – November 15

Sunday was awesome. Apart from the worship set, and the testimony from Pavel (Bob's friend from St Petersburg), we had a moment where all adopting, or adopted families came up on stage. There were 100's on stage at once. Awesome moment. Very cool to see all those folks.We opened the service with All Who Are Thirsty.After the call to worship, we sang Prince of Peace, Blessed Assurance, When All is Said and Done (Tommy Walker), and You Never Let Go (Redman).For our offering song - we sang Do it Lord (Tommy Walker).During communion - we sang a new song I…
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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – November 8

Jeff Sauceda filled in for me this weekend at Oak Mountain. Another very talented musician who is a solid guy to step in when i'm out. Thanks Jeff.He and the team opened with Our God Saves.After the call to worship, they sang Amazing God, Because of Your Love, How Great is Our God, and Enough.For the offering - Jeff introduced a new Brewter song (new to Oak Mountain at least) called God You Reign. Great tune. I look forward to giving it more airtime.Choir sings this week. I love choir weekends.See you Sunday.
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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – November 1 (On Wednesday)

Greetings blog readers.Last weekend was a fun one. We opened up with Begin My Tongue - a tune I wrote a few years back. You can find an audio clip on the right side-bar of this blog.After our call to worship, we sang Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus and Awesome is the Lord Most High, and I discussed the 4 stages of Presbyterian Hand-raising. We then sang O Worship the King, Heart of Worship, and Breathe.For our offering song, we sang Lead Me to the Cross, and Alicia sang Child of God as we took up our 2010 stewardship pledge.Choir…
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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – October 25 (On Tuesday)

I'm going to need to start calling these the Tuesday morning recaps if I keep this up. We talked about money on Sunday. people LOVE it when we talk about money. Choir also sang this weekend. Choir has been singing once a month at Oak Mountain for a while now. I love choir Sundays. Oh - and I stood at a keyboard. Again. Choir leads again on November 15. We opened with Come Ye Sinners. (Cambridge) After our call to worship we sang Amazing God. Seriously, I think Amazing God may be one of my favorite songs. Brenton Brown. Please…
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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – October 18 (On Tuesday)

We had a good time last week with Dan Allender preaching. Always a treat to get to hear him. Check out his sermon online at our iTunes podcast.We opened with Indescribable. It was indescribable. After our call to worship, we sang Hosanna, Our God Saves (both Baloche tunes), Enough (Tomlin), How Great Thou Art, God of This City. I really like God of this city.For our offering song, we sang Everything (T Hughes). Great tune. If you haven't checked out his most recent album - Holding Nothing Back, get it today from iTunes.Choir is singing this week. See you all…
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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – October 11 (a week late)

My apologies.Patrick and the Youth Group led the church in worship while i was gone on vacation, two sundays ago. Patrick does an excellent job filling in - but does an even better job inspiring young musicians to get involved and use their talents to God's glory. The things they're doing over in the youth house are incredible. If you have a youth-age student and they're NOT plugged in, contact Patrick, or Mark, or Carol (the new female youth director) and get your kids involved.They opened up with Everything GloriousAfter the call to worship, they sang Let God Arise, Mighty…
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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – October 4

Greetings mom.I've been standing at a keyboard for the past few weeks. i kinda like it. I feel a tad more engaged with the congregation. is there anyone reading this blog that goes to oak mtn that would care to offer an opinion? I'd be interested in hearing it.Yesterday we opened with Fee's All Because of Jesus.After our call to worship, we sang Filled with Your Glory (Starfield), Forever (Tomlin), You Gave Your Life Away (Baloche), I Stand Amazed, and Holy is the Lord (Tomlin).For our offering song, we sang a hymn arrangement that came out of a group I…
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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – September 27 (on Tuesday)

Choir Sunday are my favorite Sundays. I love the energy of having so many voices . . . i love having SO many people getting to lead in worship at once. I look forward to the choir singing more at oak mountain.Sunday we opened with an oldie - Ancient of Days, by Gary Salder and Jamie Harvill - Jamie is the brother of Jon, who was also drumming on Sunday. Great drummer!After our call to worship we sang Jesus Shall Reign, which is a traditional hymn that I set to a latin funk groove (if that's even possible). I really…
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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – September 20

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…
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Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – September 13

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…
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