From the Mind of MandoRon

Woo-hoo! It’s been a couple of weeks since I actually got this out on Sunday…

Today was week 2 of the “Jack’d Up” series at GracePoint.  The message this morning was titled “No Perfect People Allowed”.  Props to Kelly  for sharing his story on video about how God had taken his jacked-up life and turned it around.  It seems to be a common theme at GracePoint…

The setlist:

• All Jacked Up by Gretchen Wilson (walk-in)
• Revolution by Starfield
• My Glorious by Delirious
• Made to Love by TobyMac
• Hosanna by Hillsong United
• Sanctity by Christina Wark/Phorn (offering)
• Revolution (exit)

 All Jacked Up is… appropriately… the theme song for the series.  It’s been a while since we’ve done a song throughout an entire series.  I’m sure we’ll be sick of it by week 4…

Revolution is a great high-energy song to kick things off with.

My Glorious is one of my favorite Delirious songs.  What an awesome moment at the end when everyone was singing “My Glorious” over and over acapella!  The church bells that Rod threw in for the 2nd verse were very nice…

Made to Love is a song that we hadn’t done in a while.  On TobyMac’s Alive and Transported concert DVD, he turns the song into a pretty powerful worship moment.  It was good, but I think we probably fell short of that…  (He is TobyMac after all!)  We’ll give it another go sometime.

Hosanna… You’ve got to have Hillsong somewhere in the worship set, right?  Great song!

Sanctity was a new one for us.  Christina wrote this song and has been singing it with her band, Phorn (a.k.a. 4N), for a while.  I thought it really made a nice counter-point to All Jacked Up. 

The band: Christina - vocals, Gil - vocals, Jeff - electric guitar, Ronnie (me) - electric mandolin & electric guitar, Eron - bass, Rod - keys, Chris - drums.

I think that’s about it…  You can find Sunday Setlists from other churches over at TheWorshipCommunity.com.

See you next Sunday!

Greetings, and welcome to a slightly belated GracePoint Sunday Setlist post!  It just didn’t happen yesterday…

Sunday was our second week in the newly renovated building, and my first week playing in it.  Definitely a completely different feel than playing at Maize South.  Much more intimate!  Next week will mark our official grand opening.  We’re expecting quite a crowd and will be adding a 3rd service. 

The setlist:

• Cross the Line by Superchick (walk-in and exit)
• Broadcast by Fee
• See His Love by Kim Walker-Smith/Jesus Culture
• Give You Glory by Jeremy Camp
• My Hope is You by Third Day
• If Today Was Your Last Day by Nickelback (offering)

Cross the Line is a fun song to start the service off.  It’s rowdy!  Just like the people at GracePoint.  I believe this was only the second time for the tune.

Broadcast is one we’ve been doing for a few years.  It was a nice fit for the Servolution message series.

See His Love has also been around for a little while.  Awesome worship song.

Give You Glory… as I’ve said before, not one of my personal favorites.  But other people seem to really like it…

My Hope is You is an older song, but it was our first time to sing it at GracePoint.  It’s a great song, but I’m not sure how it went over.  Let me know what you thought about it! 

If Today Was Your Last Day is one we’ve been doing for a year, or two.  Not a huge Nickelback fan, but the song has a great message and Christina does a great job singing it.

The band:  Christina - vocals, Thomas - vocals, Gil - bass and vocals, Tommy - electric guitar, Ronnie (me!) - electric guitar and electric mandolin, Rod - keys, Chris - shiny gold drums

For more Sunday Setlists, be sure to check out TheWorshipCommunity.com.

See you next week for the Grand Opening!

Hola!

Today was a special day at GracePoint.  It was our last Sunday as a portable church!  (At least, for the time being…)  I can’t wait for our first service in the new building on August 8.

Our youth pastor, Terry Johnson, gave a great message about the importance of reaching the younger generation.  He always does a great job.  We also welcomed Mike back to the band for the first time in nearly a year.  It was good to have him singing with us again.

The Setlist:

• Time After Time by Spoken (walk-in)
• Deeper by Delirious
• You’re Worthy of My Praise by Jeremy Camp
• King of Glory by Jesus Culture
• He Reigns by Newsboys
• My Generation by Starfield (offering and exit)

Time After Time is a fun Cyndi Lauper cover that we’ve been doing for a few months.

Deeper kicked off our “mostly retro” worship set.  It’s a fun song to sing and play.

You’re Worthy of My Praise is another one we’ve been doing for quite a while.  For those who care… we played this in A with female vocals.

King of Glory is an awesome song by Jesus Culture that we first learned for a worship night earlier this year.  Jamie shared part of Psalm 24 during the intro.  Tommy ripped off an insane guitar solo!

He Reigns rounded out the retro setlist.  I pulled my in-ears out on this one so I could hear everyone singing along.  Very cool!

My Generation was a new one for us, although we’ve talked about it for years.  Great song, and it fit very well with Terry’s message.

The band:  Jamie - vocals, Mike - vocals, Tommy - electric guitar, Jim - bass, Phil - drums, Ronnie (me) - electric guitar and electric mandolin.

For more Sunday Setlists, be sure to check out TheWorshipCommunity.com.

Have an awesome week!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

After last week’s acoustic music, it was time to pull out the distortion pedals and amps again this week…  All in all, it was a pretty good morning.  My only complaint is that I kept forgetting how to play the songs in the 2nd service.  It was bizarre actually.  1st service went fine…  Maybe I needed more caffeine…

The setlist:

• Undo Me by Jennifer Knapp (walk-in & exit)
• We Shine by Fee
• Holding Nothing Back by Melissa How/Jesus Culture
• See His Love by Kim Walker-Smith/Jesus Culture
• My Savior My God by Aaron Shust
• Psalm 130, original arrangement (offering)

Undo Me is one we’ve been doing for the last year or so.  Incredible lyrics!

We Shine is a great song to kick the worship set off.  It was great to see everyone clapping and singing along.

Holding Nothing Back … call me shallow, but my favorite part of the song is the guitar riffs at the end.  I do like the other parts too, however…

See His Love … we shorten this one a bit from the original recording on We Cry Out.  Jesus Culture does a lot of long songs…

My Savior My God is one we hadn’t used in about a year and a half.  The lyrics in the chorus are particularly powerful.

Psalm 130 is an original arrangement of, well, Psalm 130…  (NIV, in case you’re curious)  It all started last November when I suggested to Carmen that she take a stab at making a song out of Psalm 130.  (I had recently listened to Bryan Doerksen’s arrangement of Psalm 13…)  She pretty quickly came up with something which she played for me after practice last Winter.  It was really good!  The song sat dormant until recently when I added it to this morning’s setlist.  Originally, I was just thinking of having Carmen play piano and sing.  But she really wanted the band to learn the song and play it with her.  So we spent about an hour working on the arrangement at practice, and we came up with something that we were pretty proud of.  It’s so powerful to sing scripture!

The band was a little smaller than normal today… Carmen - vocals and piano, Gil - vocals and bass, Bruce - electric guitar, Chris - drums, and Me - electric mandolin.

Be sure to check out the Sunday Setlist Blog Extravaganza over at TheWorshipCommunity.com.

Just for something different, we rocked it acoustic-style this morning at GracePoint.  It was a lot of fun, and I think we managed to retain the normal energy even without screaming electric guitars.  We did decide to keep the drums for this week, which helped with the energy.  Deric played using brushes and splashsticks on a simplified drum kit on most of the songs, and a cajon on Hey Ya.

The setlist:

• Hey Ya by Obadiah Parker (walk-in & exit)
• No More No Less by MercyMe
• You Never Let Go by Matt Redman
• Hope Now by Addison Road
• In the Light by DC Talk
• Hole Hearted by Extreme (offering)

Hey Ya … This was a cool acoustic cover of the Outkast song. 

No More No Less … I think it had a been a little while since we used this in church.  It’s a fun song to play.

You Never Let Go … It’s always convenient when the last note of one song is the first note of the next song.  (And for full disclosure, it was dumb luck and not planning…)  I played without any in-ear monitors this morning due to the lower stage volume, and you could really hear people singing along on this one.  Especially 2nd service!

Hope Now … “Everything rides on hope now.”  I always enjoy hearing Christina sing this song…

In the Light … For some reason, people always get fired up on this one.  Which is just fine by me.  A classic!

Hole Hearted … I don’t think I’d heard this Hole Hearted until Tommy suggested it a few weeks ago.  Interestingly, the lyrics are very similar to Plumb’s God Shaped Hole…  Very cool song!  Tommy did an amazing job on some crazy guitar riffs.  Gil and Christina’s vocals were great too.

I should point out that Gil put together this week’s setlist…  And he did a fantastic job!

The band: Gil (vocals), Christina (vocals), Rod (keys), Jeff (bass), Deric (drums and cajon), Tommy (acoustic guitar), me (acoustic guitar and mandolin).

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