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Sunday Setlist 01/16/11

Russell Martin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:18:19 +0000

This Sunday had to be one of the most powerful communion services I have been a part of. When it started though I wasn’t sure if it would work at all. We celebrate communion on the third Sunday of every month. This week we had a retired pastor who was leading the communion part of the service. He had been a pastor for many years in the Methodist Church, and really liked using one of the old Services of Word and Table. We like to do different things, so that wasn’t the problem. The problem was that the words I had thought he would be using, for the screens, were not quite the same as the book he was to be following. So 15 minutes before the service I was editing, typing, and changing. Then I wasn’t able to find it.

Lucky I have an awesome tech team and they were able to find the words, make the corrections and have everything ready to go by the time that Communion rolled around. Something tells me they did not hear much of the sermon. (Hey guys it will be online Tuesday).

Our first song was “Everywhere I Go” by Lincoln Brewster. Being a little hyped up from the word mix up just a few minutes earlier, my heart was racing, and so was the tempo. If you know the song, you know that it’s doing all you can to get the words spit out at the correct tempo. Knock it up a few beats per minute, and it’s nearly impossible.

During our announcements I was able to take a breath before we started “All the Earth Will Sing Your Praises”. I started the guitar as normal, band came in, vocals sounded good and we were off. But I settled in, and relaxed when I could hear voices inside my head. Yeah, some of you may think that’s normal, but these were the voices of the congregation singing such that I heard it through my headphones.

Then was our sermon “God Names us Before We Were Born” from Isaiah 49:1-7. Our Pastor talked about the importance of names, how God has a name for us, and how we are to be a light to the nations.

I am amazed but now not surprised now how things work out. I had moved our next song to the offertory from another slot to help with timing issues. The song “Salt and Light” fit right into what Danny had talked about in the message.

Usually after the offering we will sing a song to move us into communion, and “Here I Am to Worship” worked great. By this time I am playing with only one earbud in because I love listening to the congregations voices. Since Kerri Crocker was leading this one I could just play piano and listen. Almost forgot to play piano a few times.

Then came communion. We do communion a few different ways, at different times. Sometimes we will use the formal liturgy in our current hymnal. Sometimes the pastors will use a more informal communion liturgy, without the congregational responses etc. This time we used the order that I grew up with going to church as a child. It is written in more formal english, using some words that we no longer use, especially in a contemporary worship service.

We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: (Prayer of Humble Access 1662 Revision)

One might think that a 500 year old prayer would not fit well between songs written 5 or 10 years ago. And maybe for some it did not work. I can only speak for myself when I say that It was beautiful and powerful. It could have worked for many reasons. I think, though, that it worked well because it was different. The responses were not what the congregation was used to, so you had to pay attention, read the words, hear them again for the first time.

We sang “All I Need is You” and “We Fall Down” during the communion time. After an invitation we closed with a fast version of “Father of Lights”

Well, that’s how our Sunday went. Check out what other churches did on The Worship Community Sunday Setlists.

Sunday Setlist 8/29/10

Russell Martin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:10:35 +0000

This Sunday was the first one back after school had begun. It was great to see everyone in worship. We had a full band, with the awaited return of our guitar player. It was also good to have Kerri back singing with us.

It was also one of our better Sundays figuring out our new sound system. Last week the left speaker was cutting out, a loose wire fixed that. We also played with the gate on some of the vocals and did some more EQ on some of the instruments.

Our songs included:

It’s My Joy

Today is the Day

Father Spirit Jesus

Only You

Sing Sing Sing

Awaken our Hearts

Our message was about ”Living Water” from Jeremiah 2:4-13.

So what happened in your worship service? Share it, and read what others are doing on the Worship Community Sunday Setlists

2009 Favorite Songs

Russell Martin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:42:58 +0000

I pulled our song information from Planning Center Online and was evaluating the songs we used for 2009

The number of times used is first and then the title.

After reading this below then let me know in the comments: What new songs should we do in 2010? What songs should we do more? I’d love your input!

7 Days Of Elijah

7 How Great Is Our God

7 Today Is The Day

6 Everlasting God

6 Jesus Messiah

6 Revive Us Again

5 Ancient Of Days

5 Awaken our Hearts

5 Famous One

5 Meet With Me

5 Mighty to Save

5 Tell The World

5 You Never Let Go

4 All The Earth Will Sing Your Praises

4 Be Glorified

4 Every Move I Make

4 Forever

4 God Of Wonders

4 be the centre

3 Blessed Be Your Name

3 Brand New – chord chart

3 Everyday

3 Everywhere I Go

3 Friend Of God

3 He Reigns

3 I Will Not Forget You

3 Jesus Paid It All

3 Matchless

3 My Savior Lives

3 My Savior My God

3 Open The Eyes Of My Heart

3 Power Of Your love

3 Sing A Song

2 Alleluia

2 Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)

2 Breathe

2 Child Of God

2 Communion

2 Everybody Praise The Lord

2 Father Of Lights

2 Gloria

2 Hallelujah

2 I Am Who I Am

2 I Stand Amazed

2 I WIll Sing

2 I Will Rise

2 It’s My Joy

2 My Hope Is You

2 One Way

2 Our Great God

2 People Get Ready

2 Revelation Song

2 So Good

2 The Power Of Your Name

2 Trading My Sorrows

2 We Fall Down

2 Wonder of Your Love

2 You Are Good

1 All Creatures Of Our God And King

1 Anyone ButYOu

1 Away In A Manger

1 Bread Of Life

1 Breath Of Heaven

1 Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

1 Come Ye Sinners

1 Cover Us

1 Flower In The Field

1 Goodness and Mercy

1 Grace Like Rain

1 Happy Song

1 Here I Am Lord

1 Here I Am To Worship

1 Holy Is The Lord

1 How Great Thou Art

1 Hungry

1 I Just Want to Celebrate

1 I Pray On Christmas

1 If We Are The Body

1 In Christ Alone

1 In The Secret

1 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

1 Like A Child

1 Lord I Lift Your Name On High

1 Mary Did You Know

1 My Redeemer Lives

1 Nothing But The Blood

1 O Come All Ye Faithful

1 Offering

1 Only You

1 Praise To The Lord The Almighty

1 Salt And Light

1 Savior Like A Shepherd Lead Us

1 Sing Sing Sing

1 Strange way to save the world

1 The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power

1 The Heart Of Worship

1 This is my Song

1 What I Want For Christmas

1 Word Of God Speak

1 You Are My All In All

1 silent night

Sunday Setlist- 06/07/09

Russell Martin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:21:46 +0000

This week was a sad yet joyous one for our church. Our associate pastor Frank Coats has been appointed to a new church in Houston. Today was his last Sunday with us. One thing Frank is known for is wearing bowties. So this week many members showed their love by wearing bowties of their own. We are sad to see him leave but wish him the best.

Here were are songs this week.

Everywhere I Go-
Today is the Day-
Come Ye Sinners
Child of God
Power of Your Name

Sunday Setlist 5/31/09

Russell Martin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:56:05 +0000

Pentecost Sunday was great at WMUMC. It was my first week back after being out for two at College UM ARMY and Annual Conference. It was nice to be playing and singing with the band again. Here are our songs from this week.
Tell the World
Days of Elijah-
Revive Us Again-
It’s My Joy
Awaken our Hearts
Pentecost Video

This is part of the Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon‘s blog.

Sunday Setlist 3/22/09

Russell Martin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:17:24 +0000

This was my first attemt at a video worship confessional. Check it out and let me know what you think.

To see what other worship services did this week make sure and check out Sunday Setlists on Fred McKinnon’s blog.

Sunday Setlist- 3/15/09

Russell Martin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:47:49 +0000

Yes I know I am almost a week late in posting this. Oh well.. maybe since I can’t be first, I’ll be last.

Last week we had special guests leading worship. It was our youth band. I am so honored to have the priviledge of working with this group of talented young musicians. They have worked hard all year to lead music during our youth program and for youth worship services. So when the opportunity arose for them to lead we let them have an opportunity to lead in our morning contemporary worship service. As I expected they did an awesome job.

Here were our songs:

One Way
Today is The Day
Counting on God
How Great is Our God
Blessed Be Your Name
You Never Let Go

We also took communion and had a new family join.

That’s what we sang. Check out what other churches did for their Sunday Setlists.

Sunday Setlist 3/8/09

Russell Martin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:24:12 +0000

This was a good week at our Xperience Service. We had a full service, a new family joining, great message. Here are our songs.

Today is the Day - This was our first song from the CD of the same name to introduce. We used it as our opening song and since it was new they really didn’t sing along, but it got nice applause so I think they liked it. It was also my first time to play electric guitar in the service. I have always played acoustic but didn’t feel right doing acoustic guitar on this song.
Every Move I Make- Ok… this one might be out of our list for a while. Kind of fit the sermon for today so wee used it but I think a break from it will allow us to do it later. The version I originally learned is the one I linked to from one of my favorite groups, Smith Band who led music at Metro Bible Study in Houston for several years.

So Good- This has been a favorite in the service since before I was here.

Awaken Our Hearts- One of my favorites that has become favorites for others too. This is actually my first entry on the “Online Songwriters Showcase” I’d love feedback.

I Stand Amazed- We introduced this one late last year and it has become one that the congregation latches into and sings strongly. I don’t know why but it works. We used this for our invitation.

That’s what we sang. Check out what other churches did for their Sunday Setlists.

Sunday Songlists- 3/1/09

Russell Martin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:05:23 +0000

This past Sunday was an interesting one. I thought that the band and vocals sounded great, were tight and was over all an awesome Sunday. Unfortunately there were many other events this weekend that hindered our Sunday morning attendance. I do have to give props to our ladies who do the stage decorations each week. When I arrived at the church 3 years ago all we had was the black curtain background. This Easter will mark one full year of using colors in different ways to decorate the stage. They don’t really use elaborate props but have come up with a quick and easy system to add some color and a different focus depending on the week. Hopefully Ill put a post up next week showing how we do our stage.

Songlist (Planning Center)

Everlasting God
My Hope is You
Your Love is Amazing (Halleluiah)
Here I Am to Worship
Praise to the Lord the Almighty (from the Wow Hymns)
In the Secret

This Sunday Setlist is posted as part of Fred McKinnon‘s Sunday Setlist #32. Come on and see what other churches are doing each week, and share your own Sunday experiences.

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Sunday Setlist 2-22-09

Russell Martin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:12:37 +0000

This week at Williams Xperience service we had a great time of worship. Kerri was out so it was me and one other leading. The band was all here though and they were on. We started our rehearsal at 8:00 and went over not only our songs for worship but also introduced them to “Everlasting God.” They liked it so much they were ready to do it this morning at worship. We will do it in two weeks. I am glad that our new rehearsal schedule is working out so well.

Our songs today were the following:

Sing A Song- It was great to sing this along with our drummer. He does a great job playing and singing and his voice is suited for some of these Third Day songs.

Never Let Go- Our congregation has really latched on to this song. The driving beat and simple melody help, but maybe with circumstances in our lives today the words give so much comfort. God is always here.

Alleluia- This is one from my “Unfailing Love” album that the congregation seems to like. Although it is in 6/8 and recently I have noticed the congregation swaying back and forth when we do these. Once it was pointed out to me I can’t help but notice, and try not to get seasick.

He Reigns- I originally had Meet With Me scheduled but I thought we had done it too much recently, so I substituted this standby. The congregation knows it and sings well, and the band can do it with their eyes. It is definately one of those older songs that resonate.

We usually do 5 songs but this week our Liturgical Dancers did a great job dancing to “Identity”

This is part of Fred McKinnons Sunday Setlist Worship Carnival. Come see what other churches are doing each week.