Wednesday, April 3, 2013

The Sunday After Easter

Easter Sunday was amazing at Calvary and I am grateful to all the people who gave so many hours of their time and talents to make it happen. Here is a video of one of the songs we used. It is a little dark at times but you will see Joel Oyarzun speed painting while we are singing. It was an incredible moment.


In some ways it is hard to turn the corner and prepare for the next Sunday, but that is what we must do week after week. This Sunday, Calvary Schools' Spiritual Formation Director Mike Fritz will be preaching through our series in John.

We open the service singing Greater Than We Can Imagine, a song from Sovereign Grace Ministries based on Psalm 145. I love the theme that one generation will declare His marvelous works to another. This song is intended to help us remove the limits or box that we have put around God and to remind us that we cannot even begin to fathom how great He is.

We continue that theme singing Matt Redman's 10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord). We will never run out of reasons to sing God's praise. Each new day gives us a new reason to sing and even on the last day, we have every reason to sing of His goodness.

We continue to declare His greatness and goodness with the song Forever Reign from Hillsong Music. In this song we declare that He has covered all our sin and therefore death has lost its sting. This song really focuses on Jesus and what He accomplishes in us and for us.

Before the message we will sing Behold Our God from Sovereign Grace. This worship song begins to focus on God as Creator, then on Christ as our risen Savior, and finally on Christ reigning throughout eternity. Come let us adore Him!

After the message, we will close with Chris Tomlin's arrangement of the old hymn I Stand Amazed In The Presence (How Marvelous). This simple arrangements stays very true to the original tune. The text is really timeless and focuses on Christ, His love, His atoning death, and His eternal reign in glory.

I am excited to sing about Christ this weekend and I hope you can join us.

Soli Deo Gloria,
Trent

No comments:

Post a Comment