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This was another good weekend. We had our piano driven group on this weekend, and it’s always fun to switch from doing all the usual suspects to doing songs that lend themselves to piano in some way.

So, we did some Tommy Walker songs which are great for piano, we did a song I wrote and since I’m a piano guy, it’s a piano song. We did a couple of other songs that are normal contemporary songs too.

Here was our set:

• Never Gonna Stop (Walker)
• No Greater Love (Walker)
• Scripture
• I am Crowned (Lindner)
• How Deep the Father’s Love for us.
• Message
• Amazing Love (I’ll never be the same – Hohnholtz)
• Awesome is the Lord (Tomlin)

We used a click on three of the songs this weekend. The click beat us on Saturday evening, but we played with it well this morning. We even got the transition from “Never Gonna Stop” which we were doing at 92 bpm into “No Greater Love” which we did at 107 bpm.

Do you know any good piano driven worship bands or songs? Indie groups would be great too. As much as I love the Tommy Walker stuff, I’d much rather be moving our piano sounding group more in the direction of a “Keane,” “The Fray” or “Coldplay” kind of a sound.

For more weekend reviews check out Sunday Setlists over at “The Worship Community.”

On another note, Kevin (the other guy behind Worship Ministry Catalyst) would appreciate your prayers this week as his wife is scheduled to deliver their baby on Monday or Tuesday.

Weekend Review »

This was a great weekend, with one exception, we were doing a lot of electric guitar driven songs, with two electric guitar plays and we had a sound guy who doesn’t like electric guitar. That makes for a really weird mix, and I heard a fair amount of feedback about that after the services. I tried to fix it between services, but I still got the same feedback after the second service. We also had a couple of musicians who were really disappointed, understandably so, because they spent a lot of time getting ready and then weren’t heard. I’d be discouraged too.

However, what they two guys were doing sounded really good in my monitors, so aside from that one thing, it was a great weekend.

Here was our set:

• Call to Worship: Read William Temple’s Definition of Worship. “Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose–all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.”
• How Can I Keep From Singing?
• Glorious (Baloche CD arr.)
• Beautiful One (By the Tree arr.)
• Just to be with You (Baloche CD arr.)
• Holy is the Lord.
• Sermon
• Tell the World (Hillsong)

Aside from our sound issues, it was a great weekend. What was your weekend like? Check out what other worship leaders did this weekend over on The Worship Community.

Weekend Review »

This weekend was kind of the weekend where we start settling back down into a routine that will carry us for the rest of the spring into the summer. Phil & Danielle – on of our volunteer couples who used to lead worship at another church – led this weekend. Which means I got to play keys this week only and nothing else. It’s always fun when I get to focus on playing an instrument and not having to think about everything.

Here was our set:

• Love the Lord (Brewster)
• You are Holy (Prince of Peace)
• Scripture Reading (Eph. 2:11-22)
• Here Am I (Mike Honholtz)
• Still (Hillsongs)
• Sermon
• Rest In Your Peace (Mine)

It was fun to do a couple of these songs from a few years ago. Isn’t it amazing how quickly songs seem old now? It used to be that songs would last for decades, now they last a year. The really good ones still last.

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