From the Mind of MandoRon

Good morning and welcome to the Monday morning edition of the GP Sunday Setlist.  It was week 3 of the “Modern Family” series at GracePoint.

The setlist:

• Our House by Madness (walk-in)
• Rise and Sing by Fee
• Undo Me by Jennifer Knapp
• Look What You’ve Done by Tree63
• Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz
• Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue (offering)

Our House, in the middle of our street…  A fun little 80’s song that fit well with the series.  Definitely something we’ll have to pull out again sometime.

Rise and Sing is one we introduced on Easter.  A great, high-energy song to kick off the worship set with. 

Undo Me has been in the rotation (if you can call it that) for a while now, but this was the first time Christina sang it.  And it won’t be the last either. 

Look What You’ve Done is one we hadn’t sang for a while.  I think that it makes a great song of surrender for the church when they sing out “What can I do for you, my Lord?  I want you to know my heart is yours.”

Fly Away…  I believe it’s been nearly 6 years since we used this one in church.  That’s before I joined the band.  I was asked to add Fly Away on Tuesday to fit with the airport theme planned for the sermon/stage.  It turned out to be a much less prominent theme than originally planned, so I thought the song ended up not fitting very well in the service…  The band did a great job song though.  With the late addition of Fly Away, we ended up a bit heavy on secular songs this week.  If you’re trying to balance on the edge, sometimes you fall one way or the other…

Home Sweet Home with dual lead vocals was awesome.  Christina and Gil bounced back on forth on the verses, and I thought the end result was spectacular.  Better than the original!  IMHO… 

The band: Gil - vocals, Christina - vocals, Bruce - lead guitar, Jeff - bass and BGV, Deric - drums (minus one ripped bass head), and Rod - keys.

As always, you can check out more Sunday Setlists from churches around the world over at TheWorshipCommunity.com.

Have a great week!

Hmm…  How to describe this morning?  The phrase that comes to mind is “supreme awesomeness”, but I’m not certain that’s proper english.  Oh well, I’m a blogger not a literary novelist.

Today was week 2 of the Modern Family series at GracePoint.  Mike delivered a great message about families while looking a lot like Vince, the guy that tries to sell you the ShamWow and SlapChop.  (On a side note… if you haven’t seen the Slap Chop Rap, it’s pretty funny…)

Where was I…  Oh, yes… supreme awesomeness.  We saw God move in a mighty way today, and it began with the music.  You could really tell that the band was worshipping, and really drawing in the people to join in worshipping with them.  In the second service, everyone kept playing on How He Loves because everyone felt like God wasn’t done with it yet.  There was no cue or signal to keep playing, but everyone did.  And Carmen delivered a powerful word from God for all of us.  Good stuff!

The music!

• Liquid by Jars of Clay (walk-in)
• Today is the Day by Lincoln Brewster
• Holding Nothing Back by Jesus Culture
• Word of God Speak by Kutless
• How He Loves by Jesus Culture
• Home by Daughtry (offering)

Liquid is a song we tried a few years ago, but always in an acoustic setting - never with a full band.  It was fun to do it again this morning.  I hadn’t pulled out my acoustic mandolin on a Sunday in quite a while, so it was great to play it again even if it did feel a little foreign.  I hope everyone could the Gregorian chant sounding stuff that Rod was doing. 

Today is the Day is a new one for GP, although I know a lot of other churches are using it.  People seemed to really respond to it, as did the band.  I’ve never really cared for the song, but I’ve go to admit that it’s a lot of fun to play.  Especially if you have  a guitarist like Tommy who can pull off Lincoln Brewster’s guitar solos.

Holding Nothing Back is an awesome song by the good folks at Jesus Culture.  This is probably the third or fourth time we’ve used it.

Word of God Speak always seems to resonate with people.  Powerful, powerful song!

How He Loves … on the Jesus Culture recording, this is a 9:00 track.  I never really understood why until this morning.  The lyrics and message of God’s love really hit home with people.  We got to witness the Lord ministering to people through Carmen this morning.  We’re so blessed to have her as part of the team!

Home … without actually checking, I think it’s been quite a while since we’ve used this one on Sunday mornings.  We decided to do the acoustic version, rather than the full band studio version.  Just acoustic guitar, strings (via Rod’s keyboard awesomeness), and lead vocal.  Guys, it was absolutely incredible!

The band: Carmen - vocals, Thomas - vocals, Gil - vocals and bass, Tommy - electric and acoustic guitar, Rod - keys, Denny - drums, Me - acoustic mandolin and electric guitar.

For more Sunday Setlist action, be sure to check out TheWorshipCommunity.com and see what other churches are doing.

Good morning and welcome to the Monday morning edition of the Sunday Setlist!

Yesterday, we kicked off the new Modern Family series at GracePoint.  This should prove to be an interesting series dealing with issues like blended families, discipline, homosexuality, etc…  But this post is supposed to be about the music, so let’s get to it!  The worship set was short (that is the songs were all on the shorter side…), sweet, and high-energy. 

The setlist:

• Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf (walk-in)
• Take My Life by Jeremy Camp
• Take It All by Hillsong United
• Give You Glory by Jeremy Camp
• My Redeemer Lives by Hillsong
• Second Chance by Shinedown (offering)

Born to Be Wild was a fun, high-energy song to kick things off with.  It’s especially fun if you’ve got Bruce on lead guitar.  Man, that guy can play!

Take My Life is a great song.  In retrospect, we might have kick things off a little heavy with Born to Be Wild and Take My Life… but it worked.

Take It All is a fun by tricky one.  I thought the band did a great job of finding the groove. 

Give You Glory … I’ve never particularly cared for this one, but people seem to get into it.  It’s probably just me.  Lots of people singing along today.

My Redeemer Lives turns into a blues-rock thing when we do it.  A lot of churches have retired this one, but our band has managed to keep it fresh.

Second Chance had not showed up in the setlist for a little while.  Great lyrics!

The band: 2 singers, electric guitar, electric mandolin (me), acoustic guitar (also me), bass, and drums.  The band did a great job yesterday.  Mucho kudos to them!  I’ve been playing guitar lately, so it was nice to pull out the mandolin again.  It actually took me a bit to get used to the small neck…

For more setlists, be sure to check out the Sunday Setlist Blog Carnival over at TheWorshipCommunity.com.

Happy Easter!  It only takes three letters to describe this morning’s services, and two of them are “w”…

WOW!

We wrapped up the “Reveal” series by asking the question “Can you see him?”  And not just in a metaphorical sense either!  We’ve been using some black lights and otherwise-invisible paints throughout the series. 

This week, a very talented artist (Travis?) airbrushed a picture of Jesus on the cross for use during the service.  And of course, you could only see it when the black lights where turned on.  Also, the band painted t-shirts yesterday that glowed under the lights.  And if that wasn’t enough… the ushers passed out 3D glasses  to everyone as they came in.  The figure of Jesus seemed to float several feet in front of the cross (or so I’m told).

And the music was awesome!  (But I might be a little biased…)

The setlist:

• Time After Time - Spoken cover of Cyndi Lauper (walk-in)
• Rise and Sing - Fee
• See His Love - Kim Walker-Smith
• Here is Our King - David Crowder Band
• Finally I Surrender - Misty Edwards
• Come Alive - Foo Fighters (offering)

Time After Time was a new one for us, although I’d been wanting to do it for a few years.  It was a fun, rocked-up version of Cyndi Lauper’s famous ballad.  Until a few days ago, we had this one slated for the offering.  More on that later.

Rise and Sing was another new one.  It’s an awesome song off of Fee’s newest album, and makes a great call-to-worship.   Good way to get everyone singing right from the beginning.

See His Love was very appropriate for Easter.  The lyrics do a great job of telling of the love the Christ showed for us when He died on the cross.

Here is Our King … one of my favorite Crowder tunes.  We’ve been using it off and on for several years.

Finally I Surrender is one we introduced at the first worship night back in January.  Christina’s vocals were amazing!

Come Alive was the third new song this morning.  It seems like the Foo Fighters wrote this song for Easter, although I doubt that was what they had in mind…  Powerful lyrics!  I loved in the second service when people started clapping and cheering as Gil screamed out  “Come alive, come alive, come alive…”  The song was a late addition to the setlist (four days ago).  In fact, none of us had ever heard the song until about ten days ago.  The lyrics fit the theme too well to not put it in though.  Definitely one of the harder songs we’ve ever played before, but well worth it.  The band really stepped up their game this week.

The band: two vocalists (plus I sang some BGV’s on Rise and Sing), two electric guitars (I played one of them), bass, keys, and drums. 

This was the second time in a row that I’ve played guitar only.  I enjoyed playing my new (to me) Stratocaster, but I’m definitely gonna have to break out some mandolin next week…

That’s all folks!  Hopefully, you’ll be able to check the music on itunes in a few days.

Be sure to check out what other churches are doing at the Easter Setlist Extravaganza on TheWorshipCommunity.com.

HE IS RISEN!

I was harassed this week about the lack of Sunday Setlist posts recently…  So here goes!

Today was week 3 of the “Reveal” series.  It was also my last day running sound (for a while anyway), but that’s a bit off-subject…

The music:

• The Reason - Hoobastank  (walk-in)
• King of Glory - Jesus Culture
• Speaking Louder than Before - Jeremy Camp
• From the Inside Out - Hillsong
• God With Us - MercyMe
• Become Who You Are - Mainstay (offering)
• Speaking Louder than Before (exit)

The band:  two lead vocals, one background vocal, piano, two electric guitars, bass, and drums.

The Reason …  Interestingly we’ve been doing this one for several years, but I just started hearing a cover by Julian Drive on Christian radio.  Great lyrics!

King of Glory is one of my favorite worship songs currently, but I don’t think we’ll stick it at the beginning of the worship set again.  The song takes too long to build up…

Speaking Louder than Before is finally starting to grow on me.  Probably should have opened up the worship set with it instead.

From the Inside Out is also one of my favorite worship songs.  We’ve been using the original Hillsong version, but I think for next time, maybe we’ll try the Seventh Day Slumber cover that is on the radio.

God With Us was probably the best song of the morning.  You could really feel people worshipping during these last two songs!

Become Who You Are…  I love to hear Carmen sing this one.  We used to do this one a lot, but not so much recently.  Awesome song with some great dynamics to it!

As always, you can find more Sunday Setlists over at TheWorshipCommunity.com.  And you can find GracePoint worship set podcasts for some Sundays on itunes.

Have an awesome week!