Big day today! I took a day off from the stage! Woohoo!!! Needed a rest and enjoyed seeing Preston Morris lead worship. Check out the video below as I recap the service with Preston. Don't forget, you can purchase the songs in iTunes by clicking the titles. Visit Fred's site for more worship recaps here.
Week 3 of our current series con Walking with God. This week Tim brought a message to us on how to Listen to God. At times we need to be reminded to shut our pie holes and simply sit quietly listening for the voice of God to speak into our lives. Great reminder.
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Here's the worship set list:
Enjoy the video! I cut it in half and you also get a chance to hear from my daughters.
Great day today! Kicked off a new series, had a small technical glitch and we played Enough...one of my old faves. Check out Fred's list of other recaps here. Here's the setlist. Don't forget to click the title for a link on iTunes. Enjoy the video below.
Brought to you once again by the Flip Mino HD quality video! Amazing weekend at Grace Church. We had a record attendance of 1885 people crossing the doors to the church and 100 people professing to have received Christ. HUGE answers to prayer.
This weekend we were without Gary on keyboards. Our team was saddened to learn Saturday afternoon that he and his wife Melissa would be taking their daughter in for emergency surgery. It's been a rough week for their family filled with ups and downs, promises of recovery and then ultimately learning emergency surgery was necessary. Gary worked hard at learning the new Tomlin tune, "I Will Rise", so I'm sure he was a little disappointed...but in the scheme of things....when your baby needs you...you have no choice. Please continue to pray for their family. Kudos to the band for rolling with it and filling in the gaps.
The Grace Weekend Service Team knocked it out of the park this weekend. Everything from lights, to video, to audio, to stage, to set design and direction....GREAT JOB TEAM!!! God used each of you to share the glory of Jesus Christ.
More recaps on Fred's site here. Here's the setlist:
Check out the message on the resurrection here. Here's the video recap:
I know I know...it's been a few weeks. As I wrote previously, I've been thinking about what to do with this here little blog. And as you may have noticed (unless you're strictly a feed reader) I've changed the digs here on BabuLife. After receiving a few notes from folks via Facebook, email &Twitter, it would appear some of you actually do read these recaps. So...here's this week's worship setlist for you folks who like to go and purchase the tunes we sing.
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As a side note. You have GOT to listen to Tim's message from Sunday. It's week 1 of our three week series leading into Easter. Each week we are exploring the Gospel (death, burial and ressurrection). Check it out here.
This week Tim wrapped up our Love & Sex series with questions from our attenders at Grace. Check out his additional notes here. It was a tough week. Many great questions were received and many heart wrenching stories as well. Thank you to all who took the courage to ask some seriously tough questions. Check out the audio here.
Did that Just happen?
So...the music. First off, huge thanks to Brad (Soakie as he's known here on BabuLife) for stepping in for Sam. He did great leading worship. Second...huge thanks to Scott Stanley and the band for the support behind the story I'm about to tell. Here goes.....
First service went off wonderfully without a hitch. Second service...not so much. During the first song I realized my guitar suddenly was dead in the mix. I instantly figured it was the 9volt in the Fishman (for those not familiar...this is what provides power from the guitar to the audio system). During the song, Scott, our fearless audio lead, ran to the stage with a fresh battery. While singing, someone handed me the fresh battery and took the old. While trying to sing, I inserted the battery in the guitar. Still no sound. I decided it was a much larger issue with the guitar.
After the first tune, our stage crew ran to my office to get my other Breedlove (that's a guitar). While this was happening, I went through some announcements...planned ones, ones that I made up on the fly...as one of our team members noted, I think I pretty much told the congregation everything except the fire exits. I was out of stuff to make up. I decided to go ahead and pray. Instantly I felt someone taking my guitar off my back and attempting to replace it with the second. Problem solved! Not so fast....
We went right into the next tune. Nothing. So now I'm thinking it's the Guitar Bug (my wireless dealio). I reached down to unplug it and it came apart in two pieces in my hand. The tip needed to be screwed back on. While singing "Not to Us", I was attempting to assemble the guitar bug. At the end of the song I decided to let the congregation go ahead and greet each other....again. Scott put the bug back together and then we moved to the next song. So the problem was supposedly solved. Next song up...King! My first strum was out of tune. Not gonna work for the rest of worship. I ran backstage to tell them that the problem was the Guitar Bug and if they put it together I could use the original guitar (the one out of tune). Once it was fixed and put in the original guitar...it turned out it still wouldn't work. Longer story made just a tad shorter.....turns out I put the fresh battery in the guitar upside down while singing. Positive on negative doesn't work. Yeah...it was a mess. But the good news is that the band held it all together while I ran around trying to solve the problem.
Thanks to Jason our Worship Director and Scott our audio lead who scrambled to help.
So...on to the music list:
Thanks second service for being patient. Hope we were able to redirect your focus to the Lord...cuz it was a crazy morning!
-Ben
Week three of the Love & Sex series brought us an incredible message (From Fizzle to Sizzle) and a seven week challenge for everyone in the church. Spend time daily with God, pray daily for your marriage and have sex with your spouse every day for seven days. We're looking forward to seeing how this promise impacts the people of Grace Church. Check out some of Tim's links to books and other resources he mentioned this morning here. You can listen to the message online here.
Susan Claridge and Chris Jones did an AMAZING job with the skit today. I have to give a special nod to Susan for writing the script and making it happen. Awesome way to kick off the message!
Music
We rolled out a newbie to Grace this week by Tim Hughes called "Happy Day". Great song with powerful lyrics and a high energy. Sam lent me his old Les Paul for this tune. I'm of the belief that any time you throw on a Les Paul guitar, your cool factor multiplies by at least 20...unless you're me. During first service it turned out the guitar went out of tune. Not helpful. This completely threw me off during Happy Day because I found that many of my vocals were feeding from my chord changes during the song. This lack of playing ability caused me to skip a line of lyric leading into the second verse. While the lyric I missed sat waiting for me on the screens...I couldn't sing it because the band already made it to the chord progression for the second verse. This caused me to encourage our video guys to move on to the verse (because I don't have lyrics memorized) by saying "All right...let's sing the second verse" and "Here we go...next verse" along with "Let's sing out together that second verse". Unfortunately my little mistake completely threw off the video guys. Sorry fellas! Kudos to the band for keeping the tune rolling and to the video team for catching up. That was the worst...and that really wasn't that bad!
Here's the worship set list. Click to purchase on iTunes:
Don't forget to check out other worship recaps on Fred's site here. And here's the video from Sunday:
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