Reflecting on Sunday morning (yesterday), 11-7-10:

Well as it happens, the Sunday after I tell everyone on the music team about the blog, I don't get a chance to post about Sunday morning before Sunday comes. Irony eh?

Reflecting is good, however, so I'm taking this opportunity to reflect back on corporate worship yesterday morning.

• We started things off with Our God, a "call-to-worship" style of up-tempo praise song. This is a newer song we've introduced recently, and yesterday was the 3rd time we've sung it together on a Sunday morning.

• After song #1, Pastor John brought the preaching of the Word, focusing on Titus 2:6-8 and the character and ambitions of a godly young man. One of John's points that I thought was excellent, and that I need reminders of all the time, was that our "good works" that God commands and expects from His children, happen because we are children of God. We do not earn our salvation by doing good works, but do good works because God has saved us and given us His Spirit!

• After preaching we responded in song, with How Great is Our God, a joyful exultation in our great God, Who is both Lord of the universe, and our gracious Savior.

• We continued our corporate worship with a baby dedication of Phil and Christy Twitchell's little girl Madeline.

• After the baby dedication and a few announcements, we sang 2 more songs together: How Marvelous, and new song called There Will Be A Day. The purpose of these two songs was to bring our focus more closely onto the Gospel, and the connection between the two is the hope of one day being with Christ, our Savior, free from sin and death.

Overall, I think the flip-flopped order of service went well, although we may tweak a few things in the future to make said "flip-flopping" as effective as possible. Good morning of worship together though, through preaching, singing and fellowship.

There Will Be A Day is one of my favorite new songs, and I heard a lot of encouraging feedback about the clear, biblical lyrics, etc. We will play it again in a couple weeks, but for now either go here to listen to the song, or go to iTunes and download it. It's worth your .99 cents!