Sunday, 29th August, in the afternoon
Worship Setlist - Aug 29, 2010
Sunday morning at Kings
- Holy, holy, holy - Reginald Heber, John Bacchus Dykes
- We stand and lift up our hands - Chris Tomlin
- I will worship - David Ruis
- All my days - Stuart Townend
- Yesterday, today and forever - Vicki Beeching
- Great is your faithfulness - Chris Tomlin
- I lift my hands - Andre Kempen
- I'm gonna trust in God - Steve Earl
The end of our series on Numbers, which has turned out to have had an overwhelming theme of trusting God.
It's been a crazy couple of weeks for me since I last led worship (Bible Summary, say no more!) so it was important to reconnect with the business of leading at Kings this week.
My sense remains that we need to open up our times of worship: to leave space for Scripture, for prayers and other contributions, and to hear God. It's hard to encourage new things in August, which is always a sleepy month, but I think it's essential.
The sermon today was partly about not getting stuck doing things the way we've always done them just because they were good once, and the worship life of a church is definitely not outside of that challenge.
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Tuesday, 10th August, in the morning
Bible Summary
I've just started a new project: Bible Summary.
I'm summarising the Bible on Twitter, one tweet per chapter, one chapter per day. It's going to take over three years!
I've built a website for the project which is closely integrated with Twitter. I post directly to Twitter from the website itself and there's the option for visitors to sign in using their Twitter account to post comments. You can even have your comments appear on your own Twitter account.
I'm pretty pleased with the techy side of things, and even more excited about the project itself, which is already forcing me to really read Scripture rather than just skipping through.
Do stop by and see what's going on...
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Sunday, 8th August, in the afternoon
Worship Setlist - Aug 8, 2010
Sunday morning at Kings
- Our God saves - Paul Baloche, Brenton Brown
- Blessing and honour - Gary Sadler
- Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven - Henry Lyte
- Bless the Lord, O my soul - Godfrey Birtill
- Beautiful one - Tim Hughes
- Surrender - Marc James
- In the secret - Andy Park
- Be thou my vision - tr. Eleanor Hull
Just back from two weeks away. I've been at the Ichthus Revive week so I'm feeling the usual mix of spiritual refreshment and physical exhuastion after a week of camping and the long drive home.
This is normally the low ebb in terms of numbers at Kings over the summer but there were still well over 100 people at the meeting this morning!
It's always slightly strange adjusting from the emphasis of a week like Revive to normal church life, but this year I feel that there's a lot that can pollenate over from Revive to our Sunday worship.
Some loyal readers will be astonished to see a Godfrey Birtill song among the list above. His style is quite distinctive and I've not really found an opportnity to use any of his songs at Kings before (despite strong opinions in all directions among various members of the congregation) but we sang 'Bless the Lord' several times at Revive and it seemed a very useful addition to our repertoire.
I think it's time for a little more space in our worship for hearing from God, so I didn't just charge through the songs at the end. There's the pressure to finish on time, but we need to strike the balance between that and leaving enough space to genuinely engage with God as we worship.
Interesting times...
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