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Growing pains!  Some new songs for some of us today.  Here’s the list:

• Father (Original chart by guitarist Dave Floria)
• You Do All Things Well (Chris Tomlin)
• Grace Like Rain (Todd Agnew/Chris Collins, reggae style on the verses, straight up on the chorus.  Can you say regatta de blanc?)
• Desire (Jessica Ketola)
• Glory in the Highest (Tomlin, Carson, Redman, Reeves & Cash)
• Change Me on the Inside (Brian Doerkson)
• You Draw Me Closer (Somebody help me out on this one…)

It’s fun getting to know this team on both a musical and personal basis, but man, sometimes something just comes out of left field.  Stylistically, we were having a tough time with the intro on the Doerkson tune, but we faked it well enough to get into the first verse ok.  The rest of the set went pretty nicely, though.  I love the crescendo on Glory In the Highest.  I referred to Grace Like Rain as reggae style, but if we would have added a couple of horns, it would have been just this side of ska.  Different, but it worked great.  I laid out on the piano on the verses, but came in with some phat Bruce Hornsby-like chords on the choruses.  Father is a great rocker that was written by one of our guitarists.  If I can get permission, I’ll try to throw the lead sheet up some time.  We finished up the set with You Draw Me Closer with just me and an acoustic guitar playing along at the end of communion. 

How was your worship weekend?