From the Mind of MandoRon

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!

“Praise the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, just as he promised.” - 1 Kings 8:56 (part of Solomon’s dedication of the temple)

Just as God gave rest to the people of Israel, the people of GracePoint gained a little rest today too.  After 6 1/2 years of portable church, we held our first services  in our first permenant home in the old Cinemas West building at Central & Tyler!  It was a very exciting day.  Both services were packed!  I can’t imagine what the “official grand opening” will be like on August 22! 

The buzz of energy in the air was incredible.

And it was awesome to not have to rush around and pack everything up afterwards…

Carmen and Gil did a phenomenal job of leading worship.  And the music was awesome!

• We Weren’t Born to Follow by Bon Jovi (walk-in and exit)
• Break Free by Hillsong United
• We Shine by Fee
• Hold You High by By the Tree
• Revelation Song, Jesus Culture version
• Heaven is Here by Jesus Culture (offering)

We Weren’t Born to Follow was a new one for us.  It was a fun song to kick things off.

Break Free … Carmen did an awesome job of kicking off the worship set with this song.  Today was probably the most engaging that I’ve ever seen her. 

We Shine is a great song by Fee that we’ve been using for several years.  I always love it when Gil yells at “YEA!” at the end.

Hold You High is another one that has been around for a few years.  Interestingly, we’ve frequently used this song to kick off the worship with a lot of energy; but today, we used it to start slowing things down.

Revelation Song … All I can say is WOW!  Carmen shared a brief testimony before the song began about a recent experience of singing this song on a retreat.  Very powerful!  It was great to hear everyone singing along with her.

Heaven is Here is a song that I’m still trying to figure out.  I love the music.  I love the melody.  I love to hear Carmen sing it.  If it wasn’t for the lyrics in the chorus, it would be one of my favorite songs…  Someday it’ll all make sense…

The band: Carmen - vocals, Gil - vocals, Bruce - electric guitar, Rod - keys, Jeff - bass, Deric - drums

A great morning!  You should be able to download the worship podcast off of itunes later this week.

For more Sunday Setlists, be sure to check out the blog carnival over at TheWorshipCommunity.com.  There are some amazing things going on in churches around the world!

It’s August 1st which means it was Servolution Sunday at GracePoint Church.  Last week, we ended our lease at Maize South High School.  Next week, we will have our first service in the new building.  So this week, we had a short 30 minute worship service outside the new building and then hit the community as a church to show God’s love thru service.  Teams of people went out to mow lawns, wash windows, clean bathrooms at local businesses, pick up trash along the streets, etc…

My family signed up to hand out bags of quarters and dryer sheets to people at the laundrymat.  There wasn’t anyone at our “assigned” laundrymat, so we called an audible and went to another one in the neighborhood.  As you can imagine, people were quite surpised to get quarters and dryer sheets with no strings attached.  The kids wanted to keep serving, so we joined some other families picking up trash along Central. 

We had a great time!

Oh yeah… the Setlist… 

• Your Grace is Enough by Chris Tomlin
• If We Are the Body by Casting Crowns
• You Never Let Go by Matt Redman
• Give It All Away by Aaron Shust (offering)

For the worship set, we tried to pick a few songs that everyone would know since there weren’t any lyrics.  If We Are the Body and Give It All Away were especially appropriate for a morning of community service.

The band (if you can two people a band…): Gil - vocals, Ronnie (me) - acoustic guitar

Here are a couple of pictures from this morning.  I took the first one; Perry Johnson took the second.

 For more Sunday Setlists, be sure to check out TheWorshipCommunity.com.  Have an awesome week!

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!

It was good to be playing in church again this morning!  It’s been 4 or 5 weeks due to travel, a sick kid, and a planned (but not taken…) vacation.

We mixed things up a bit at GracePoint this morning.  Bryson spoke about worship, and we alternated back and forth all morning between music and his message.  I think it was pretty effective, although I wouldn’t want to do it every week since the band stayed onstage for the whole service…  It’s hard to be still and not be distracting…

This week was also notable because it was the first time that I’ve ever been the only guitarist.  Usually, I’m playing rhythm with someone else playing lead.  I thought it went pretty well overall.  It helps to play musicians that are so incredibly talented.

The Setlist:

I Run to You by Lady Antebellum.  We first used this song during the country series earlier this year.  It’s a fun little tune, even if it is a country song…  Thomas and Christina did a great job on the vocals!

Bryson spoke for about 10 minutes about why we use secular songs, the importance of worship in our lives, and about “horizontal worship”.

Let God Arise by Chris Tomlin.  One of my favorite Tomlin songs!

Breath by Jeremy Camp.  One of my favorite Camp songs!  Had a little glitch with my effects pedals in the 1st service, and completely blanked out on the outro in the 2nd service…  It’s always frustrating when you just suddenly forget part of a song.  Especially when it’s one you’ve played a lot.

Bryson now spoke on the subject of “vertical worship” and improving our relationship with God through worship.  He made a really good point that we need to make time to just ”be still” and connect with Him.

Hosanna by Hillsong United.  This song has such powerful lyrics.  I love the bridge: “break my heart for what breaks Yours.”  Rod played a tasty little keys solo in the middle.

Finally I Surrender by Misty Edwards.  It’s a very simple song, but it’s an awesome one.  It was amazing to see people on their knees crying out to God as we played and sang this one.  If you’ve never heard it, I suggest you check it out.

Bryson wrapped up by teaching about offering as worship.

Set Me Free by Casting Crowns (offering).  We’ve been playing this one for years.  Great song!

The band:  Christina - vocals, Thomas - vocals, Deric - drums, Gil - bass, Rod - keys, Ronnie (me) - electric guitar.

Be sure to check out more Sunday Setlists over at TheWorshipCommunity.com.

[Edit: I should probably point out that Ed has started loading the worship podcasts onto itunes again. The technical glitches with the recording equipment have apparently been solved... You can find the last 3 weeks on there now.]