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The Spike TV spots for their broadcast of the Star Wars saga in 2008.  Very funny.  Check them out below.

Worship Recap 12/28/08: Happy New Year!

With Christmas this week, the band had no rehearsal until this morning before the services.  Not how we like to roll...but we made it happen.  Being that this was our first third service Sunday without it being a holiday like last week... there was a sense of anticipation in the air.  There was also the factor of being thrown off with the new time changes along with feeling the "Christmas hangover" across the room.  Adding a third services brings a sort of anticipation as to what God will do over the coming months.  Exciting to see what God does.

Here's the worship setlist from today:

• Let God Arise (B) Chris Tomlin
• How Can I Keep From Singing (Bb) Chris Tomlin
• Son of God (G) Starfield
• Filled with Your Glory (G) Starfield
• True Love (C) Phil Wickham

In my attempt to pull out some of our oldies, thinking that they'd be old hat and easy to play, I neglected to think about the fact that we haven't played them in quite some time.  Like blowing dust off an old book and rereading it remembering vaguely the story, but not the details.  Thanks to the band for rolling this morning.

Check out other worship leader recaps here.

All About Worship Podcast - Kim Walker Interview

This week on the All About Worship Podcast, we interview Kim Walker who is a worship leader at Bethel Church in Redding, CA.  Wisdom and I talked to her about her experiences as a worship leader and songwriter along with answers to your questions submitted on the live Mogulus video when we recorded the interview. 

Here are this week's links discussed on the podcast:

• VerticalMusic.com - The tool in this week's Worship Leader Toolbox. Check out this resource for chord charts, articles and training.
• KimWalkerMusic.com - Kim's website.
• JesusCultureMusic.com - The ministry Kim's a part of in California.
• WisdomMoon.com - My Co-Host's blog.
• AllAboutWorship.com - The hub for the podcast.

Give a listen to the podcast online here. Or go subscribe here.

We'd love to hear your feedback by emailing [email protected] or give us a call at 206.984.2441

Check out Kim leading "All I Need is You".

Worship Recap 12/21/08: Merry Christmas!

Amazing day at Grace this Sunday.  Added a choir (which did awesome!) and also did a few Trans-Siberrean Orchestra tunes.  On top of all of that, we had several people raise their hands professing to have received Christ.  Seeing that makes all the effort, sweat and craziness of preparing for such a big day worth it all.

Several things to note about yesterday:

• Lighting - Kent Warden did a phenomenal job creating some great visual elements during the music.  He spent a lot of hours the day before up at the church.  Check out the video below to see a little bit of what he put together for the Christmas Eve Sarajevo song. Great job Kent!
• Choir - Brian King did awesome coordinating the choir leading up to this weekend. Thanks to all of the folks who sang.  Beautiful job on "Come Emmanuel". I loved the additional voices to the music.
• Trans-Siberrean Orchestra - Our band never ceases to amaze me. Fabulous job.
• Video - Wow. You guys rolled with the added element of streaming live on the web. Not only that, you pulled out the new camera before I was ready...and you made it happen! Problem with it is this...you've raised the bar and now we'll have to perform like this every week!
• Audio - Scott...nicely done my friend. With all the added elements, you made it happen. Thank you man.
• Stage Team - To Marie, Tami, Jeff...THANK YOU. You're the glue that made it all happen.
• Marie - Thank you for directing in Jason's place. You filled some HUGE shoes and did it! Thanks!

So here's this week's worship setlist:

• Jesus, Light of the World (D) by Third Day (Pre-Service Song)
• All Creation (Joy to the World) (D) by Fee
• O Come Emmanuel (Em) Choir special
• God with Us (B) by MercyMe
• Angels we Have Heard on High (Em) Chris Tomlin version
• Christmas Eve Sarajevo by Trans-Siberrean Orchestra
• O Come/O Holy Night by Trans-Siberrean Orchestra
• First Snow by Trans-Siberrean Orchestra (Post-Service Song)

Check out other worship leader recaps on Fred's site here.  Thanks to Brian Vincik for the video of the band's performance of "Christmas Eve Sarajevo".  Check it out below.

Grace Band - Christmas Eve Sarajevo & O Come All Ye Faithful from Brian on Vimeo.

Grace Services by Video Online

It's still a big work in project.  Due to the needs of some homebound Gracers, we've decided to pull the trigger on our streaming of the Grace services online.  The quality isn't great at this point, but at least people are able to be a part of the worship.  If you're sitting at home around 8:30, 10 or 11:30 a.m. (CST), check us out below.  If you're really adventurous, click here and you can even be a part of the chatroom:

thanks for watching. Check out the Grace Mogulus channel for future casts here.

Grace Microcast Notes: The Invitation

This is it Gracers!  The final three days before our big Christmas services at Grace Church on December 21.   This week Tim and I talk about the final days leading up to the close of "The Invitation" series along with an interview with two fellas from Grace.  One, Danny, recently invited his friend John to church and personally saw John's life changed by God.  If you're needing a final encouragement to build up that final courage to ask someone to come this Sunday...give this podcast a listen.

Listen
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Or give it a listen here.

Links
G3 - Learn about the initiative to get Gracers to "Serve", "Invite" and "Transform".

TimHowey.com - Visit Sr. Pastor Tim Howey's blog.

VisitGraceChurch.com - The Grace Church website.

Contact
Email the Grace Podcast at [email protected] or give us a call and leave a voicemail at 206.426.5394. We might even play it on the cast!  Feel free to leave us a comment here as well. We'd love some feedback and topic suggestions.

Worship Recap 12/14/08: Christmas Week 2

This week was week two of our series "The Invitation".  Leading up to our big Christmas celebration on December 21, Tim brought a message pumping us Gracers up to invite at least 7 people so that if we have at least 1 of the 7 invited come...we'll have about 2,000 folks come to hear the gospel.  So Gracers...have you made your invites?  I'm still working on mine.

This week the children's ministry brought the kids up for a couple of songs onstage.  Lots of kids and lots of family in the worship center this week.  With this in mind, we decided to give a little sneek peak at one of the songs we'll be doing for our big Christmas celebration on Dec 21.  We played "Christmas Eve Sarajevo" by the Trans-siberrean Orchestra...and the Grace band rocked.  These guys worked hard and they did a phenomenal job.  Way to go team!

Here's the worship setlist from Sunday.  Don't forget, you can purchase the song on iTunes by clicking the titles.

• Glorious One (C) by Fee
• O Come All Ye Faithful (G) by Third Day
• All Creation Sing (Joy to the World) (G) by Fee
• Christmas Eve Sarajevo (Em) by Trans-siberrean Orchestra
• God of Wonders (D) from Third Day and Caedmon's Call

And for your viewing pleasure...a nice little vid from my friend Jason McMahon of the kidlets onstage. Enjoy! Check out more worship leader recaps on Fred's site here.

All About Worship Podcast - Darrell Evans Interview

On this edition of the All About Worship podcast, we learn more from Darrell Evans about his new album along with answers to your questions.  Everything from Darrell's most embarrassing moment while leading worship, his advice to young worship leads putting together a new worship band along with some other fantastic advice.

Here are this week's links discussed on the show:

• TheWorshipCommunity.com - Our Worship Leader Toolbox this week is a great site where community with fellow worship team folks is key.  We speak with Fred McKinnon  whoe founded www.TheWorshipCommunity.com site.
• FredMcKinnon.com - Fred's personal blog.
• Nothing Less Then Everything - Darrel Evan's latest release on Digstation.com.
• WisdomMoon.com - My co-host's blog.
• AllAboutWorship.com - The hub for the podcast.

Give a listen to the podcast online here. Or go subscribe here.

To all you worship leaders out there, be sure and email us your tool ideas for the "Worship Leader Toolbox" segment of the show.  Anything from an inspiring book, a nifty music tool, a website or a song.  We're looking for you to be a part of this podcast created for you and your worship teams.  You can also call and leave a voicemail at (206)984-2441

Worship Recap 12/7/08: Christmas Time!

This week we kicked off a new series leading up to our bige Christmas celebration on December 21 called "The Invitation". Check out Tim's notes on the message here. Quite a challenge to all of us to invite someone in our world to church on the big day. 

We broke out the Christmas music this week with a rendition of "O Come all Ye Faithful" and "Angels We Have Heard on High".  But my fave was "True Love"...not a traditional Christmas tune...but one I've been itching to play for months. Here's the music list. Don't forget you can purchase on iTunes by clicking the title.

• O Come All Ye Faithful (G) by Third Day
• Angels We Have Heard on High (G) by Chris Tomlin
• True Love (C) by Phil Wickham
• The Invitation (D) by Steven Curtis Chapman

Check out other worship leader recaps on Fred's site here.

All About Worship Podcast Live

Tonight at 9pm CST, my friend Wisdom and I will be getting together to record some portions of the All About Worship Podcast.  We'll let the Mogulus Video roll live while we're recording together.  So if you're bored, need something to do, intrigued, need someone to make you feel better about the way you look...come see me! 

Tonight we'll be talking to Fred McKinnon about the TheWorshipCommunity.com website.  Come say howdy!Just click the link below at 9pm CST and we'll be live.

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