Worship Confessional, 7-27-2008
I’ve missed a few of these lately, so I was determined to spend a few minutes ruminating on my role in worship team this morning at church. We actually missed an entire rehearsal this week, but we started all the earlier this morning and was able to give a good performance during the service. We were down a guitar again, but I actually like the scaled-back sound that that situation provides. My role as a pianist/keyboardist definitely changes when we only have one guitar. Here’s the set:
- Change Me On the Inside (Brian Doerksen)
- Holy (Robin Surber)
- Fall On Us Now (Dave Chumchal)
- Desire (Jessica Ketola)
- How Great Is Our God (Chris Tomlin)
- Let My Words Be Few (Matt Redman)
We didn’t do any songs that were unfamiliar to us because of our shortened rehearsal time this week. But, this was an effective set nonetheless. “Holy” is one of my favorite songs that we do, and it was written by a member of our own team. I continue to be impressed with the breadth of talent that exists in our relatively small church. I love working with these people! Our musicians today:
- Leader & acoustic guitar: Dave Florea
- Bass guitar: Andrew Douglass, a lad of 15 whose bass chops are growing by leaps and bounds this year. He’s doing quite well, and it’s fun to watch him develop as a musician and young man.
- Vocals: Robin Surber
- Drums: Brad Reynolds, dude lives to play
- Keys: Your mom
Elizabeth Ashbeck gave the message as our regular pastor was out of town, and she spoke on being still and waiting for God. These songs lent themselves to that theme. All in all, a great worship experience this morning. Now, I’m going to spend a quiet Sunday afternoon organizing my worship folder, something that I’ve put off for far too long now. Amazing the things I think of to do when we only have one kid in the house instead of four!
How was your worship experience this weekend?
Update: I’m including this post in Fred McKinnon’s Sunday Setlists series.
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I really haven’t played for several years, so it took some time to get some semblance of a swing back. I approached my newfound activity like I do many other things in life: Too much, too fast, too quick. I’ve definitely been too impatient with all of this. Hey, if driving a bucket of balls is fun, why not three in a row? As a result, my 41-year-old joints have been protesting rather loudly. I’ve come down with a case of what I originally thought was golf elbow, but I’ve found since then is actually more commonly referred to as tennis elbow. Where as golf elbow (technically medial epicondylitis) is on the inside of the lead arm, tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis, pictured) is on the outside of the back elbow. In my case, those tendons on the upper part of the right forearm, something I’ve had difficulties with in the past. If I’m getting tennis elbow where I should be getting golf elbow, that probably speaks volumes about my poor swing. It’s probably time for some tune-up lessons when I get healed up.
We’ve seen how Evernote can quickly and efficiently store and retrieve large amounts of information for you. It can even find text (typed or hand-written) within images. As good as it is–and I’m highly recommending it, by the way–it’s not without it’s flaws. Here are a few things I’d like to see improved:
