Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for July, 2009

Redemption Church, Sunday Set List, 26 July 2009

Posted in Worship Confessional, tagged , on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Stevenage (am) This week was “family service” week in Stevenage.  We come together as a whole family to worship – instead of our childrens church holding their own, age-specific service.  What that means practically is usually a shorter time of worship with perhaps a performance oriented song, or dance included and a shortened “preach” – [...]

Read Full Post »

Redemption Church, Sunday Set List, 19 July 2009 – Exeter

Posted in Worship Confessional, tagged , , on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Here’s Ali’s account of what happened at Exeter this weekend: We played ‘More than words’ which was well received and then went into a bit of free time at the end. Ali declared that there was freedom and joy in the house and people started dancing and enjoying themselves. Whilst the music was still going, [...]

Read Full Post »

Redemption Church, Sunday Set List, 19 July 2009 – Stevenage

Posted in Worship Confessional, tagged , on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This weekend, Ali chose the lists for both congregations.  He normally chooses the songs for Stevenage, but he was also travelling to Exeter & leading worship there this weekend (I’m staying home to look after the children while Heidi is away). I’ll post a review of the Exeter service when I receive it from Ali.  [...]

Read Full Post »

Discussion: What Makes a Successful Worship Service?

Posted in How We Worship, Where We Worship, Why We Worship, tagged , , , on July 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Writing a Sunday Set List post has got me thinking about the criteria I use for gauging the “success” (or not) of a particular worship service.  Of course, any evaluation is going to be subjective; but, why is it that on one occassion, I can say, “That was good, we met with God today” and [...]

Read Full Post »

Redemption Church, Sunday Set List, 12 July 2009

Posted in Worship Confessional, tagged , on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ali was recovering from illness & injury this week, so I chose the songs for both Stevenage & Exeter congregations.  I kept the list the same for both.  Here it is (though we didn’t actually get to sing all the songs from the list in either congregation): Lord You Are Good (Israel Houghton) For Who [...]

Read Full Post »

Reality & Truth

Posted in How We Worship, Who We Worship, tagged , , on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Being “real” has always been a desire in my life.  What I mean by that is having integrity in the sense of being open and honest; not pretending or putting up a front, or wearing a mask.  I love the innocence of youth; the beauty of being unashamed and unafraid to say what you think [...]

Read Full Post »