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Worship Setlist – April 18th, 2010
Posted on: April 18, 2010
This post is part of a weekly worship blog carnival, so do stop by the worship community for more setlists and sermon recaps from around the world…
Morning
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went to youth this morning and we watchied a dvd of Nick Vujicic called “no arms, no legs, no worries”…that guy is ah-mazing. That’s the kind of person I aspire to be…stop looking at what I don’t have and start counting my blessings, and realizing what I have in Joshua Davidson. love!!!
Evening
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Jesus, all for Jesus (Robin Mark/Jennifer Atkinson)
Open the eyes (Paul Baloche)
Your love Oh Lord (Third Day)
Here I am to worship (Darlene Zschech)
Better is one day (Matt Redman)
Kev led worship tonight – just him on guitar and vocals and Madeleine on keyboards and vocals…awesomtastic! Very cool acoustic vibe that really opened the place up to worship instead of focusing on the music. I thought it was great. And yay for some time off.
Tonight’s preach was about being known for what we stand for or who we are about – LOVE – as opposed to being known for what we stand against. For instance, Christians tend to be known for being anti-homosexuality, or anti-abortion, or anti-this-and-that…so for being against stuff and not what we really are about, which is loving God and loving people. love!!!
verses: Colossians 3:17, 23; Hebrews 12: 1 – 2; John 13: 34 – 35; Mathew 5: 13, 43 – 45; 2 Corinthians 2: 14 – 15.
Being good
Posted on: March 9, 2010
so there’s an old guy with two sons and one of the sons pretty much says “hey dad i wish you would die so that i can get some of your money and live my life the way i want to” so the father gives him half of what he owns and the son goes and spends it wrecklessly. the second son stays home and he is a good son; works for dad, does what he’s asked without complaining, takes care of his fathers home, etc. after wasting all his money, the bad son realises that he still needs his daddy to take care of him so he goes back home. dad is so happy to have him home that he throws a welcome home party. the elder son is furious…he’s the one who’s been working hard, who’s given up his life to serve his dad…he’s the one who deserves the party, dagnabit!
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed”- einstein
i think that’s the way we tend to see christianity. yes, mentally we know that it is by grace alone, though faith, that we are saved…but then subconsciencely (sp?) we still believe that we need to be good to earn that grace. we need show God that we are deserving of the grace he’s given us.
“…all our righteous acts are like filthy rags” (Isaiah 64: 6)
there’s absolutely NOTHING we can do that will make us good enough for that grace. from the moment sin enters our lives we lose all rights to heaven…all rights to the presence of the Almighty and Holy One. It’s a gift. It’s free. And all we can do is say thank you. and that’s why we live good lives – to say thank you.
“And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him…Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.” (Colossians 3; 17, 1 Peter 2: 12)
so we should “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can” (John Wesley) not to earn anything or to escape hell, but to say thanks for what He did on the cross 2000 years ago, and to say thanks for what He continues to do everyday single day.
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This post is part of the One Word at a time blog carnival where we are working our way though the fruit of the Spirit. Check out more posts on the theme of “Goodness” here.
