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Today I sang and played acoustic guitar. I always enjoy that arrangement because I feel like I get to move around a little more and, maybe it’s psychological, but I feel more free on guitar than on keys or piano (even though I love them).

1) [Walk-in] Glorious (Baloche): Key C. One of my favorites in the last year. Great song. To be kind of a mid-tempo song it has so much energy.

2) Say So (Houghton): Key D. We do this one with a click track. I led out on this one. It’s a great song based on Psalm 107:2. In the key of D it’s pretty high. It’s got a great groove and people connect with it. You can’t help but feel the energy of this one.

3) Oh, How I Love Jesus (Traditional): Key G. Fred brought this arrangement back from the All About Worship Retreat. It was a fun soulful, bluesy arrangement, that showcased all of the vocals. I think the older folks in our church really connected well with it.

4) Christ Is Risen (Maher): Key F#. This is another of my favorites from the last year. Great song!

5) Lead Me (Sanctus Real): Key B. This was one of the two closing songs and was perfect for the moment after the great message given by Jon Blankenship this morning. Our series is about fighting for family/relationships and this song was amazingly perfect. I led out on this one.

6) Lead Me To The Cross (Hillsong): Key Bm. Our closer. We went from asking God to lead us (to be better leaders in our families) with the previous song to a song that talks about being “led to the cross” great follow up.

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Today I had the opportunity (for the second year in a row) to play at the Valdosta High School Baccalaureate service. It was indeed an honor to participate in this inspiration service for the Class of 2010.

I was doubly honored and privileged to have some good friends (from all over South Georgia) join me to form a great team. Big thanks to Jason Crowe (on drums – Jesup), Jimmy Linville (on bass – Valdosta), Hamp Rogers (on guitar – Valdosta), Cortni Joseph (on vocals – Valdosta), Rosalind Moore (on vocals – Valdosta) and Danita Campbell (on vocals – Valdosta). I played keys and acoustic guitar (I’m from Brunswick!).

We had planned to do 5 songs, but added a new one in and cut 2 out due to lack of time, so our end set looked like this:

1) Shackles (Mary Mary): Key Em. This one is always a fun song to rock out. Our tried and true Maroon 5 meets Kirk Franklin version never lets us down! The girls rocked it.

2) Revelation Song (Riddle): Key C. Definitely not your worship leader’s version. This one rocks pretty hard. I actually led out vocally on this one, and it would have been nice to take it up a step or two…but the girls came in on the chorus and pretty much carried from then til the end while I took everything up an octave and had fun “soaring” on this one.

3) Blessed Be Your Name (Redman): Key G. Another steadfast tune that works really well for us.

4) One Way (Crazy Train Remix): Key F#m. This one is always fun. Wish we’d had one more electric guitar but I tried to fill in the blanks a little with my acoustic. Not quite the same but still a rockin’ tune.

We cut: With Long Life (Houghton – Cm) and Your Love is Beautiful (Hillsong – Cm) both great tunes that I wish we could have done.

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Great day today at SSCC! I played acoustic guitar and sang.

This weekend I got to lead (along with my brother, Jon) a 2 hour slot at a 24-hour prayer and worship gathering. Our time slot was from 1 am – 3 am. Early birds! It was a great time. I used my MacBookPro (GarageBand) and made some loops and chord progressions and we just let them long play. It was cool!

1) Say So (Houghton): Key D. Great tune. We used this as our walk-in. I got to lead out on this one! Good times. This was the second time we’ve done this. It sets the room up with lots of energy.

2) Everlasting God (Brown): Key A. Good solid standard arrangement.

3) Rain Down (Crowder): Key Em. Crowder arrangement as our basis. This is the first time I’ve played or sang this tube. It’s a great song!

4) Consuming Fire (Hughes): Key G/Em. I led out on this one a little bit. Great song.

5) Doxology: Key G. Old standard with a driving acoustic rhythm. Nice way to end worship music set.

6) Center (Hall): Key D. Closing song. One of our high school girls, Katie, led out on this one. It was sweet!

Pastor David brought a great message on relationships. We’re in a series called Worth Fighting For. It’s about all the aspects of relationships that we should fight to make better! Great Series.

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Had a great day yesterday!

Got to visit with our old church family at House of Joy in Valdosta. Well, technically they’re still part of the broader Church family that we’re all connected to!

Anyways, we attended 2 services at the same time. HOJ meets in a movie theater and has both an adult service AND a youth service that run simultaneously. We popped into the youth service first.

They were rocking: All Because of Jesus, Revelation Song, and How He Loves.

Then I popped into the adult service and they were rocking: With Long Life, How Great is Our God, and One Way.

Great stuff!

I was able to talk to the “new guy” at HOJ, Jonathan, for a few minutes as well. I like him. He’s a great guy. I would have liked to have worshiped with him back in the day! Anyways, he said that he felt like the foundation was really solid when he took over, so that made me a little happy knowing that I left the HOJ worship ministry in a good spot to keep growing and going as we left back in August of 2009.

All in all, it was great to see old friends, and to step back in to what was such a big part of our lives for over 3 years.

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Today Lydia and I had the privilege of leading worship for Rush Hour (the middles school service for St. Simons Community Church).

What an honor. What a great time. What a wonderful sound.

To hear about 75 middle schoolers singing lout to Jesus “Here I am to worship…here I am to bow down…here I am to say that You’re my God…”

I never get tired of hearing a group of people, especially young people, singing out their worship to God.

I brought back a lot of oldies for today’s set and had a great time leading them. It was just me on the guitar. I capo’d 5 on two of them for a little variety.

1) Here I Am To Worship (Hughes): Key C. I capo’d 5 and played in G. I know C might be a little low for the tenor screamers, but it works REALLY nicely for my range. AND the kids sang out beautifully on this one. I love this song.

***MESSAGE***

2) At The Cross (Butler): Key D. This is the old vineyard tune (not the Hillsong one). I remember singing this one back in the 90s and I loved it then. I pulled it out specifically because the theme of today’s service was The Cross. Worked great as a reflective song coming out of the message time.

3) When I Survey/The Wonderful Cross (Tomlin): Key C. Capo’d 5 and played in G again. This one works nicely in C or D, and Lydia brought the mad harmonies on this one. Another one that brings back memories of my youth pastor days.

4) I Give You My Heart (Morgan): Key G. Pretty standard acoustic arrangement. This is another oldie but goodie.

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