Sunday Setlist 4/27/09
Apr 26, 2009 Worship Planning
I had a thought today during worship that has seemed to haunt me all day long. I wonder what difference it all made. The songs were rehearsed, sermon prepared, and video cued. 200+ people came in, had a “great” service, and 200+ people left. From all the technical aspects it went fine.
I am sure there were lives changed that I will never know about. I do have faith that God spoke to someone today in a profound way. My prayer is that the people who walked in and out the door, myself definitley included, have been changed in some way that is evident in our lives this week.
Ok.. that was my thought.. here is our list.
People Get Ready- Not exactly our version.
Victory in Jesus
God of Wonders
Meet with Me
Video- Evangelism Linebacker
Liturgical Dance Song-Silent Night 911(Youtube Video)
So.. how did things go with your service?
Let us know and read others services on Fred McKinnon’s Sunday Setlists
Tags: Difference, Sunday Setlist, Worship
What’s Different Now?
Apr 26, 2009 Uncategorized
This morning many of you went to a worship service somewhere. My question is what will be different about you tomorrow because of something you heard, sung, saw, or did in worship?
The Fourth Screen- Can Social Media Bring us Back Together?
Apr 22, 2009 Uncategorized
When I found this clip about the 4th screen I had just heard about this guest post called “Is Twitter the New Town Square?” written by Gavin Richardson for the blog Life Without Pants. In his post he suggests that social media, like twitter, facebook, blogs etc can be the new town square.
In our world of intense individualism social networking may be a place where we can come together and share stories of faith, testimonies, exchange ideas, find comfort and support from other believers that we may never see or know about without social media.
I think this commercial reflects the same thing except the computer has done the same thing that the printing press did. That as technology has advanced we have in fact become more individualized. We need to find ways that technology can help us be more connected to each other, and engaged in the real world, rather than continuing to allow ourselves to live in increased isolation.
What do you think?
Oh.. for more you can always follow me on twitter @rgmmusic or on facebook
Tags: application, iphone, printing press, technology, video
Will twitter Replace Email
Apr 21, 2009 Uncategorized
Tonight I was watching the weather channel and when the asked for feedback they did not give an email address to send a response to or a number to send a text to. Instead they asked viewers to twitter their responses in. So that got me to thinking. Would twitter replace email? What about text messages?
Free Song- Piano Peace
Apr 21, 2009 Free Stuff
Since I was taking piano lessons at an early age, I have never really liked being told what to play by a piece of sheet music. I always tended to just sit down and play the melodies that came from my head. In college, as an effort to try and develop my improvising I began an exercise of having someone select 5-8 random notes and I would then compose a piano piece using those notes in that order.
I enjoyed this so much that when I began doing concerts I tried the same thing. I had the opportunity to do this at my last concert in Friendswood. I had the congregation call out some notes and this song was the result. Enjoy.
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My goal for the Summer is to take all the recordings from this concert and put them on a CD but I thought I’d share the tracks with my facebook fans and blog followers first.
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A Great Trip Indeed
Apr 18, 2009 Uncategorized
Had the opportunity to visit family in Pearland this weekend. Rained a lot but other than that…. I visited with family, ate Gringo’s Fajitas, spent time with my Grandparents, Went to an Astros game, got a free stadium blanket, caught a batting practice ball, Astros won, and will wake up in the morning and get some warm Shipley’s donuts.
Except for seeing a few friends I haven’t seen in a while, and eating real seafood I would say it was pretty much a home run.
Tags: Astros, Baseball, Family, Gringo's, Pearland, Shipley's
Memorial Services for a Friend
Apr 14, 2009 Uncategorized
For the past few days this site has been hit by people typing in keywords looking for information about Rusty Watkins. I assume you are searching for information about the memorial service. First of all a personal note, I cannot remember being in youth, or being a youth director without Rusty. Though we were not as close as many of you were, I learned a lot about youth ministry from him. His passing was a shock to me and he will be missed greatly.
Here is the service information (from the facebook page)
Memorial services for Rev Rusty Watkins, son of Billy & Peggy Watkins, will be held at Lakewood United Methodist Church on Friday April 17 at 3:00pm.
Please pass on to anyone else that you think would want to know. Billy & Peggy have both been working Emmaus walks for many years so please pass this info on.
I talked with Billy & Peggy this afternoon and they are doing well, just busy with plans, visitors and phone calls. They are asking in lieu of flowers to donate to your favorite charity.
Here is the facebook group- In Memory of Rusty Watkins
I just wanted to get the info out since I had visitors coming to my site. Please leave your comments on the Facebook Group if possible.
Squirrel Proof?
Apr 14, 2009 Uncategorized
We have a problem. We recently purchased three different bird feeders, filled them with seed and set them out. And wouldn’t you know it.. in no time we had a huge number of .. squirrels. We intended to attract beautiful songbirds and instead we got gray, bushy tailed critters. I have been wondering what to do. Maybe we could create a feeder just for the squirrels and separate them so that they would go there and the birds would go to the good feeders. Maybe we could get a squirrel proof feeder like this one.
So what do we end up doing? Buy more bird seed. Instead of spending a ton of money on new feeders, squirrel proof poles and other gadgets that probably won’t work in the long run we just buy enough seed for all of them. And the birds eat, the squirrels eat and everyone is happy.
Maybe there is a point to this? Maybe I just liked the clip of the squirrel spinning on the feeder? What do you think?
Sunday Setlist 4/12/09
Apr 13, 2009 Worship Planning
It was Easter Sunday this week and we were ready for anything. Well not the dark cloudy skies, incessant rain and tornado warning. Other than that we were ready. The rain probably kept some people from coming to church but we still had a great crowd.
We did something a little different, at least for us, in that we had communion on Easter Sunday. I really liked it, and a few people I talked to did also. I’d love to get some other peoples thoughts on that.
Well.. here is the list for this week
Tell the World- Hillsong
Everlasting God- Lincoln Brewster
All the Earth Will Sing Your Praises- Lincoln Brewster
Jesus Messiah-Chris Tomlin
How Great is Our God-Chris Tomlin
My Savior Lives-New Life Worship
I have begun putting our songlist up for our congregation and including itunes links.
Now that you know what we sang this week make sure and check out what other worship services did on Fred McKinnon’s Sunday Setlist.
Tags: Sunday Setlist
Learning Patience from Bread and Flowers
Apr 11, 2009 Uncategorized
I have been told never to pray for patience. So I didn’t. However it seems that I chose two projects today that are conspiring to teach it to me whether I prayed for it or not.
First of all our church had it’s plant sale today. The United Methodist Womens group holds an annual plant sale to benefit several local mission projects. The easy thing to do would be to go buy a blooming potted plant, hang it up and be done. What did I do? I bought a flat of petunias and a flat of coleus. So instead of a ready made showpiece I spent 3 hours digging, planting, weeding, placing, watering and praying. And right now the poor plants spread apart in a flowerbed look kind of pathetic. Supposedly they will grow, spread out and be beautiful.
The second project I took on was to make bread from scratch. I have never done this before and I am not sure what I have gotten myself into. All I know is that I have already mixed everything and waited 90 minutes for the bread to rise… the first time. Now I am in the middle of waiting another 75 minutes for the second rise.. and we’re not even to baking yet.
With both of these projects I have been looking for the fast forward button. You know like in simcity or one of those games, where you can set things, then fast forward to get to the good part, when things start happening? Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way.
I’d like to tell you that the bread will taste wonderful and be well worth the wait. I’d love to let you know that the flowers all grew strong and beautiful. The truth is I have no idea. I will know later but now I sit in the time of the unknown. I hope and pray but have no control over what happens.
6Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Phillipians 4:6-7
You know that verse tells me that it’s ok not to know. It says that I’ll have peace if I give it to God. I usually have peace when I know it’s all going to be ok. But that’s not what this verse says. It says the peace comes when you give your requests to God.
So I’ll let you know. Tomorrow I can let you know how the bread turned out, and in a few weeks I can see if the flowers are ok. But for now I’ll just rest in God’s peace.
