Using Video- Incorporating Scripture in New Ways

Isaiah 60:1-6 from russell martin on Vimeo
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Our contemporary worship service as well as our traditional service follow the lectionary. The lectionary usually provides four different scriptures for each Sunday that follow a theme. In the traditional service we have typically used one for the main scripture the sermon is based on, and then [...]

This Makes Me Laugh Everytime

We were sitting in our living room watching the Polar Express on tv. The part came up where one of the characters was having his beard pulled and he sounded like a Caribou. 3 of our dogs could care less.. but one dog was at least a little curious.

Curious Dog from russell martin on Vimeo.
This [...]

Sunday Setlist- 11/30/08

Worship went well at Williams this week. We did miss having our regular keyboard player with us which meant I rotated over to keys and we didn’t have much acoustic guitar. It sounded pretty good though. Apparently I did not give our screens operator the specific scripture, we have four per week because we use [...]

Playing Outside of Worship Services

Last night we held our Xperience Night of Worship. We wanted a chance to play out of the usual Sunday Morning setting so we worked up all original tunes written by both myself and Kerri Crocker. We hope in the future to invite other artists, and or take our group and visit other churches. Included [...]

Getting Along

Cat and Dog from russell martin on Vimeo.
I was going to put this video up as an example of how even though we are different we can still put aside our differences and get along. My wife told me that I shouldn’t do that because they are fighting with each other and that’s not an [...]

Sunday Setlist – 11/09/08

This week at worship we talked about making choices. The scripture was Joshua 24:1-3, 14-25.
Here are the songs:
Every Move I Make//David Ruis
Matchless//Aaron Shust
Blessed Be Your Name//Matt Redman
Fork In The Road//Russell Martin
Only You//David Crowder
To see other worship service recaps and setlists, visit “Sunday Setlists” at FredMcKinnon.Com

Never pray for patience

Right now I am waiting on some tires to be put on my car. When I pulled into the shop I was the only one here. Somehow there is a car in front of me now and my car I still waiting. It is at times like this that I wonder what I should do. [...]

About Me

Russell Martin is a worship leader and songwriter living in Texarkana, Texas. He enjoys writing and leading worship for his home church of Williams Memorial UMC where he also works with the youth praise team and some communications. Russell spends time outside of the church leading worship at events such as Church Camps, Retreats and [...]

Free Stuff: Song-Breathe Your Love In Me

The other night our youth director Russ Bowlin, led a discussion based on the song “Instead of a Show” by Jon Foreman. He has promised me he is going to write a post on it for FITR so I will not share reflections on that right now. During the course of the discussion, the conversation [...]

Resource: Contemporary Songlists from the Lectionary

I know there are many churches that use a “sermon series” format for their worship services. This makes it real easy on the worship leader when choosing songs because they have a general theme to go off of for several weeks. This is how I had done things for several years before moving to my [...]