This past week at Live Oak, we pulled out a couple of classics, and did a few new ones.

1. God of all glory (Riddle/Varietal)
2. Blessed be the name (Redman)
3. We Need Your Touch (Corum/Estes)
4. Only You (Park)
5. You Never Let Go (Matt & Beth Redman)
Ministry: Forever You (Gavin Thompson/VMUK)

It has been a while since we've done "Blessed be the name". The song has gotten a lot of mileage after sweeping the nations, but the song is timeless in it's message and melody.
This week's Lectionary readings were about our desperation for God, and our trust in him, so these songs folded into pastor Steve's message very nicely. Melisa did a neat arrangement of Andy Park's "Only You" on piano, which turned out to be very nice. The song gives the worshiper a voice to acknowledge God's centrality in our lives.

Good stuff.

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Love, Splendor, Majesty (Keller)
Great Are You Lord (Tony Sanchez)
Oh The Glory Of It All (Crowder)
Only You (Crowder)
What Can I Bring (Jeremy Riddle)
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Ministry: As Children (Riddle)

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What a wonderful morning at Live Oak Vineyard, at least for me. I felt God's presence today in the worship, in the teaching, the Eucharist, and the fellowship. Our special guest, Daniel Hernandez, did a great job on guitar, and is just an amazing guy to hang around. What a blessing to get to know him. If you haven't met him yet, come to Live Oak on the first Sunday in April. Daniel will be leading some songs that morning, and he will be doing some of them in Spanish. Daniel is from Venezuela, and plans on planting a church there in the near future.

Here was the set list for this morning:

1. Love Me Like You Do (VMUSA)
2. Nothing But The Blood (Redman)
3. Oh The Glory of It All (Crowder)
4. Holy God (Doerkesen)
5. How Great Is Our God (Tomlin)
6. Be The Center (Ministry Time) (VMUK)

For me, "Oh The Glory of It All" was a highlight. Of course, I love doing new songs, because they bring something fresh. I think they also shake things up a bit, and make us really read the words, and think about what we are singing. The song speaks of redemption, repair, and the renewal God brings to our life. I hope that it resonated with the congregation the way it resonated with the team. It's a song that has blessed me so much.

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1. Bless His Name (VMUSA)
   
2. More (Doerksen/VMUSA)
3. All Hail Jesus (VMUK)
4. Beautiful(VMUSA)
5. Holy (VMUK)
   
6. Hosanna (Baloche) (Closing song)

Led by: Steve and John

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1 | Blessed Be The Name |Redman |Scott & Melisa Co-lead
2 | Love Me Like You Do | Vineyard | Scott
3 | Mighty To Save | Hillsong | Scott
4 | Above All Else | Vineyard | Melisa
5 | Glory In The Highest | Tomlin | Melisa

We kicked it old-school with Blessed Be The Name, which was a song we had not done on Sunday morning for a long time. This song has been over-used by the contemporary church to the point that I got a bit tired of this great song. I like to pull it out sparingly, but when I do, the people love to sing it to God.

Love Me Like You Do is another song I've done too many times, but it felt right to put some familiar songs at the top of the set. We've been doing several new songs in the recent weeks, and putting two familiar songs at the top seemed to allow many in our congregation to dive right into worship at the-get-go.

Mighty To Save, a song that I've long wanted to include in our worship repertoire, is a powerful song. The power in the message of this song is just incredible. I love singing about our mighty King. I remember the old kids-chorus we sang in kids church, "What a mighty God we server what a mighty God we serve.....angels bow before him, heaven and earth adore him, what a mighty God we serve." Remember that one? Well, Mighty To Save is another great song expressing that same message.

Melisa did a beautiful job leading Above All Else. What a beautiful song, and one that serves as both a reminder that we need Him above anything else, and also serves as a prayer-in-song to God.

Glory in Highest is seeming more and more appropriate as we approach the first Sunday of Advent next Sunday. I love the line:

You are the first
You go before
You are the last
Lord, You're the encore

Chris nailed it right there, and the powerful ending to the song is loud and anthemic. I'm sure that the praise in heaven is going to be louder than anything we've ever experienced on earth. Can you imagine the throng that will be praising at the throne?!

Our good friend, Chris Manus delivered a powerful message as part of our series on the book of James. He led a ministry time that allowed brothers and sisters in our church to wash each others' feet. I'm a little squeamish about foot-washing......it kind of bugs me......I prefer to be the washer, because being the washee is so humbling. And I don't like a fuss made of me. But Chris brought me forward to have my feet washed in front of the entire church. It was humbling. It was kind of weird, but it was good. It was also wonderful to see others getting down on their knees to wash the feet of their neighbors. Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

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My wife and I will be leading worship at the Pomona Vineyard this weekend, which is our neighboring church down the 210 freeway. We are looking forward to worshiping together with them. Here is our set list for Sunday.

• Alleluia (Sheri Carr / Stand In Awe / VMUSA)
• Everlasting God (Brenton Brown)
• All I have (Tim Dobbelmann, Gabriel Brennan, Nate Brennan/ Stand In Awe /VMUSA)
• More Than A Friend (Jeremy Riddle / VMUSA / Just Like Heaven)
• Glory In The Highest (Chris Tomlin / See The Morning)
• Ministry: Rescue (Jared Anderson /Vertical Music)

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Here's the set list for tomorrow at the Live Oak Vineyard. My wifey will be co-leading with Milk. Our buddy, Jerod can't make it tomorrow, so I'll set in on guitar for him.

• Famous One (Jessie Reeves & Chris Tomlin/Sixsteps)
• Holy, Holy (Nathen Fellingham...as done by Tim Hughes)
• More Than A Friend (Jeremy Riddle/VMUSA/Varietal)
• Surrender (Marc James/VMUK)
• All Hail Jesus (James Hellings/VMUK/VMUSA)

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This Sunday marks the one year mark for the new Live Oak Vineyard. We are a Vineyard church that was established on the first Sunday of July in 2006 when two churches becamse one. It has been a wonderful year overall that has brough a lot of great new friendships into our lives. It has been a year of deep committment by a couple of hundred people to establishing a new community. Good stuff.

This Sunday is special, so we are going to celebrate and thank God for our first year together. We will be doing the following songs;

• Alleluia (Sheri Carr / "Stand In Awe" VMUSA)
• Awesome Is The Lord Most High (Chris Tomlin / "See The Morning")
• As Children (Jeremy Riddle / "In His Presence" VCF Anaheim)
• If You Say Go (Diane Thiel / "Sweetly Broken" VMUSA)
• Forever You (Gavin Thompson / "Sweetly Broken Club" VMUSA)
• Everlasting God (Brenton Brown)
• Bless His Name (Tony Sanchez / "Sweetly Broken" VMUSA)
  

See you tomorrow!

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Joel Klampert at CECWorship Resources Blog has a cool weekly post of his set list, and I've borrowed his idea. Here is our set list for June 24th:

Set 1

• For Me (VMUK)
• All I Have (VMUSA - Stand In Awe Playlist)

Set 2

• Pour Our My Heart (Vintage VMUSA Classic)
• You Are Wonderful (VMUSA - Never Looking Back)
• If I Have Not Love (Redman - Facedown)
• Glory In The Highest (Tomlin - See The Morning)

Observations:

"All I Have" is a song that seems to be striking a chord with our congregation. They love singing this song.

"Glory In The Highest" was first sung last week by my wifey, and she did great. I wanted to run this one again to reinforce it and get people more familiar with the song while they remember it from last week. I love this song, because its' all about Him, and not about us. We Vineyard folk are often always singing about "us" and our need for Him, and not to "Him" and about "Him".

"You Are Wonderful" is just another great song by Darren Clarke. Simplicity is the strength of this song. And it's another song that speaks to "Him" and of "Him".

It was a wonderful time of worship, and it folded around Jon's message of "extravagant love". I must admit, that in the second set, our songs and words didn't feel extravagant when compared to Mary's outrageous act of love and the tears she dropped on Jesus' feet. It left me feeling like I must spend more time in the word and with Him and get a revelation of how worthy He is, and how much He loves me and has done for me.

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