Journey of Worship

We concluded our “Be People of the Word” series this Sunday in Deut. 6:1-25. There were a number of threads that weaved through the morning as we focused on taking advantage of teachable moments, especially as parents, to help people see God as the giver of life in all situations. There was also a tie-in with Sanctity of Life.

Because we had some extra elements in the service (focus on Sanctity of Life, interview about the formation of a Crisis Pregnancy Center, special prayer time, and baby dedications), we had a little less singing. Even so, we took the time we had to help people focus on remembering the God who is always worthy of praise because of His faithfulness, power, daily blessing of physical life, and eternal blessing of spiritual life in Jesus. It seemed that people really connected and engaged with the themes and expressions that we did together this Sunday. Click through to watch a video and for more information.I’ve been experimenting with recording some of our services on the video camera. It’s nothing fancy, but check out the musical portion of the service from January 24.

Worship Music from 1/24/10 from Chris Gambill on Vimeo.

The call to worship came from Nehemiah 9:6, as I invited the people to ponder anew what God has done and is doing. We then sang Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Travis Cottrell arrangement), Everlasting God (Brown/Riley), had time for prayer and reflection, and then sang Unashamed Love (Hiebert). Unashamed Love is quickly becoming a favorite of ours.

We then moved to our offering, during which we showed the following video about the value of life from Hyper Pixels Media.

We did an interview about the Crisis Pregnancy Center that is forming and took some time to pray about it. We then had the children come in and recite the Shema, otherwise known as Deut. 6:4-9 before the sermon.

After the message, we had some baby dedications, and then closed by singing In Christ Alone (Townend/Getty). We again concluded by having everyone say the blessing from Number 6:24-26 together, which we have done all month long.

Thanks for stopping by for my 100th post. If you were present, I would enjoy hearing your thoughts or feedback.

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Related posts:

1. Worshiping Together: 2/28/10
2. Worshiping Together: 1/3/2010
3. Worshiping Together: 1/17/2010