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Setlist May 14

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Worship Setlists

It’s fun to see “Forever Reign” by One Sonic Society (made popular by Hillsong) at the top of the list this week. It’s been steadily a rising favorite, but there has usually been a typical standard solidly taking the top couple of positions. We have had Jason Ingram lead at the past three Creative Conferences we have put on, and it’s been fun to watch and listen—to see the participation and enthusiasm each year grow. The first year it was just being introduced to the Church at large, this year, as soon as people heard the opening, “You are good, you are good …” they were on their feet.

And talking about Hillsong, remember “The Wonder of Your Love”? It’s still a great song. Check out the video, this might be a good one to bring out at one of your worship services this week:

Oh and one more that is worth mentioning, simply because his new CD Everything in Colour was chosen by us here at WL as the best in new music: “Saviour of the World” by Ben Cantelon turned up on this list. Since the CD released last week, looks like we have some pretty early adapters out there. (Read the review here). 

Participation was on the lower side this week, but that is kind of a good thing because we felt like we could post the whole list and let you tear into it yourselves.

 See ya next week!
-JA

That said:

The number one song this week is a 4-way tie between:

Forever Reign – Morgan, Ingram
Search Me, Know Me – Kathryn Scott
The Wonder of Your Love – Hillsong
What a Savior – Laura Story

Worship Leader Setlists

  • Please list the songs you used in your most recent weekend worship service. (Song title first, then songwriter, one per line)
  • If you want to share your setlist as an example, please input it here (song order, selected readings, videos and multimedia elements, liturgical elements, etc).
  • How do you find new worship music for your church?

The full list:

All About You, Houghton/Ratcliffe
All things new-Elevation Worship
Amazing (redman)
At Your Name
Beautiful One, Tim Hughes
Because He Lives – Gaither
Because of Your Love – Tim Hughes
Be thou my vision
Blessed Be Your Name – Matt Redman
Blessed be Your name – Matt Redman
Blessed Be the Name, Park
Carrier-Jared Anderson
Come Just As You Are – Joseph Sabolick
Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King – Robert Robinson and Thomas Miller
Consuming Fire, Tim hughes
Everlasting God (brown)
Forever, Chris Tomlin
Forever Reign, Hillsong
Forever Reign, Hillsong
Forever Reign, Hillsong
Glorious (tomlin)
Glorious Day – Casting Crowns arr.
Glory to God Forever, Steve Fee and Vicky Beeching
Glory to God Forever – Steven Fee
God I look to You, Bethel
God is Great, Sampson
Great is Thy Faithfulness (hymn)
Hallelujah, Myrin/Sampson
Hallelujah, Praise the Lamb (chorus) -Pam Thum, Dawn Thomas and Gary McSpadden
Here I Am To Worship, Matt Redman
Here in Your Presence, Jon Egan
Hold Us Together, Matt Maher
Hope Rise-Ryan Moore (original)
Hosanna – Brooke Fraser
How Can I Keep From Singing? – Chris Tomlin
How Great Thou Art
How Great is Our God (tomlin)
How Great is our God – Chris Tomlin
I’m Not Ashamed – Israel Houghton
I Am Free,  Jon Egan
I Can Only Imagine,    Mercy Me
I Stand In Awe Of You, Altrogge, Mark
I WIll Sing of My Redeemer – P.P. Bliss and James McGranahan
I am Yours – Michael Neale
In The Sanctuary – Kurt Carr
Jesus, all for Jesus
Jesus Calls Us – Cecil Alexander
King Of Heaven-Paul Baloche
Lead Me, Lord – Wayne and Elizabeth Goodine
Lead Me To The Cross,    Brooke Fraser
Let It Rise, Davis, Holland
Let it Rain….Ferran
Light of the World Tim Hughes
Lord I Give You My Heart, Morgan, Reuben
Love Is Here – Tenth Avenue North
My Faith Has Found w/ Power In the Blood” – Lidie H. Edmunds, Lewis E. Jones/Arranged by Ken Barker
Mystery, Charlie Hall
Nova…..Joel Houston
Old School Medley: You are my all in all-Dennis Jernigan/Renuevame-Marcos Witt/Let the rain of your presence-Danny Chambers/Your latter will be greater-Israel Houghton (All songs were composed into a one song length)
Open The Eyes of My Heart, Baloche, Paul
Open the eyes of me heart – Paul Baloche
Our God – Chris Tomlin
Our God…..Tomlin
Our God Is Love-Joel Houston
Our God Saves – Brenton Brown
Our God is greater
Praise The Name Of Jesus-Trad.
Praise you in this Storm – Herms / Hall
Rain Down
Redeemed – Fanny Crosby
Revelation Song, Jennie Lee Riddle
Rez Power-Israel Houghton
Rock of Ages
Saviour of the world ben cantelon
Search Me, Know Me, Kathryn Scott
Search Me, Know Me, Kathryn Scott
Search Me, Know Me, Kathryn Scott
Sing For Joy (hiebert)
Speak, O Lord  – Getty & Townsend
Spirit Fall, Tomlin
Stay Amazed, Birkenfeld/Kuehn/Quintana
The More I Seek You – Neese
The Wonder of Your Love, Hillsong
The Wonder of Your Love, Hillsong
The Wonder of Your Love, Hillsong
The same love – Paul Baloche
Today is the Day, Lincoln Brewster and Paul Baloche
What a Savior, Laura Story
What a Savior, Laura Story
What a Savior, Laura Story
When I Believe, Utterbach
Yahweh, Tomlin
Yahweh….Morgan
You Are the One (baloche)
You are the one, Tomlin
Your Grace Is Enough,  Matt Maher
Your Name- Paul Baloche

 

Songs About God’s Love

Because of Your Love – Tim Hughes
Our God is Love – Joel Houston
The Wonder of Your Love, Hillsong
The same love – Paul Baloche

 

Example Setlist 1:

Praise The Name Of Jesus-Trad. (key of B)
On screen before song: Psalm 18:1-2(GOD”S WORD Translation)
“I love you, O Lord, my strength.
2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my Savior,
    my God, my rock in whom I take refuge,
        my shield, and the strength of my salvation,
            my stronghold.”
Your Name- Paul Baloche (Key Of B)
Our God Is Love-Joel Houston (Key: E)
Verbal Transition into Phil 2:6-11(NLT)
King Of Heaven-Paul Baloche (Key: F)
Sermon
Carrier-Jared Anderson (Key: G)

 

Example Setlist 2:

Welcome/ notices
Prayer
Our God is greater
Kids presentation and prayers
Children leave
Prayers for persecuted nations with short film
Joel 2 28-32
Consuming Fire Tim hughes
Saviour of the world ben cantelon    prayer
Light of the World Tim Hughes
Sermon Eph 5 15-17 Time and stewardship
Call for ministry and prayer during sung worship
Jesus, all for Jesus
Be thou my vision
Grace invitation to pray some more…

Example Setlist 3:

Time of Prayer
Because He Lives
Hosanna
Prayer for Offering
Reading of Psalm 121 and personal story by team member
Praise You in This Storm
The More I Seek You

Where Do You Get Chord Charts and Lead Sheets?

Songselect
Songselect
Songselect
Song Select
Song Select
CCLI or I make my own.
CCLI
CCLI
I am a SongSelect subscriber and when it’s not available there I use PraiseCharts. When those two options are not available I will chart them myself by ear.
I do them myself.
www.lifewayworship.com and www.ccli.com/songselect
ultimate guitar .com
Powerpoint
Easy worship
Pro Presenter
Media Shout 4

Apogee Duet 2 Review

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Apogee Duet 2 Review

Function: Audio Interface

Price: $595

What’s New: The Duet 2 from Apogee Electronics is a two input, four output interface for Mac.  Improving on the groundbreaking original Duet design, the Duet 2 features upgraded microphone preamps, all new analog to digital and digital to analog converters, independent headphone and speaker outputs, and a full color OLED screen.  Duet 2 boasts 24 bit/192kHz recording quality and runs off an included power supply or can be bus powered via USB 2.0.  A feature unique to the Duet 2 is the fact that the only controls are a single knob in the center of the interface flanked by two touchpads that can be configured to many different controls such as muting the outputs or summing to mono.  Navigation takes some getting used to, but the controls are straightforward and intuitive.  Included in the package is Maestro 2, a new software from Apogee that helps the user control more advanced features of the Duet 2, such as bypassing preamps, providing 48v phantom power, phase inversion, soft limit, and customizing the 2 touchpads on the interface.  The Duet 2 sports all new preamps for microphone, instrument, and line level inputs supplying clear, crisp detail for any recording source.  Compatible with all Core Audio software including Logic, ProTools, Garageband, Ableton Live, Cubase and many more, Duet 2 works seamlessly with Mac OS.  Possibly the best feature of the Duet 2 is the all new AD/DA (analog to digital and digital to analog) converters that provide incredibly pure recordings and a listening experience with unprecedented clarity.  While the price may scare some potential users away, don’t be fooled, the Duet 2 is well worth the $595 pricetag and is perfect for recording music and spoken word as well as running tracks, loops or outputting MIDI from a laptop.  Overall, the Duet 2 provides incredible sound and ease of use and easily outdistances most portable audio interfaces on the market.  The versatility and unparalleled quality that Apogee provides makes the Duet 2 a perfect companion on the stage or in the studio. For more information on the Duet 2 and other Apogee products visit apogeedigital.com.

 -Andy Toy

Setlist May 8

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Setlists, May 7

Don’t you love how music searching flows in such strange, organic, fairly random patchesof hope and movement. Going through this week’s list, I saw a song I had never heard of: “Wildfire,” Adam Russell.
 
So I went to check it out and see what the Googles had to say about it, and low and behold was treated to a gorgeous haunting prayer of poetry and music.  I encourage you to take a listen as well, here’s the iTunes link. That’s where I found that Russell is part of the Embers who apparently are a Vineyard church Campsbellsville KY.  Then I’m not exactly sure how, but some thread from somewhere on the Embers trail I was lead to this worship leading couple: Bryan & Katie Torwalt and was shocked that I had not heard this passionate and powerful record yet. And they are with Jesus Culture!
 
Anyway, it was an interesting search this week. Below is the list of top songs (and further below is the bonus question about presentation software), but I also left a portion of the list in its raw form, just because I think it’s interesting to see those kinds of things. Maybe you do too. The top two songs this week was 
 
1. How Great Is Our God, Tomlin, Giglio, etc.
 
The rest are pretty self-explanatory.  Please add your most recent setlist, then see the rest of the results.
 
-Jeremy Armstrong
 
  • Please list the songs you used in your most recent weekend worship service. (Song title first, then songwriter, one per line)
  • If you want to share your setlist as an example, please input it here (song order, selected readings, videos and multimedia elements, liturgical elements, etc).
  • How do you find new worship music for your church?
 
Interesting Songs of the Week:
40, U2
Kwake Yesu nasimama/Here on Jesus Christ I will Stand, Trad. Kenyan
Safe, Travis
What About Now, (made popular by Daughtry) Ben Moody, David Hodges, Josh Hartzler
 
 
All my fountains, Tomlin
All my fountains, Tomlin
All My Fountains/C. Tomlin
 
Amazing – Redman
Amazing (redman)
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) (Chris Tomlin
 
 Blessed Be Your Name – Matt & Beth Redman
 Blessed Be Your Name – Matt Redman
 Blessed Be Your Name:  Matt Redman
 
Cannons – Phil Wickham
Cannons (falling from the clouds)
 
Give Me Faith, Elevation Worship
Give Me Faith, Elevation Worship
 
Here I Am the Worship – Hughes
Here I Am to Worship (Tim Hughes)
Here I Am to Worship by Tim Hughes
 
How Great is Our God
How Great is our God – Chris Tomlin
How Great Is Our God (Chris Tomlin)
How Great is Our God (tomlin)
How Great is Our God; Chris Tomlin
 
How Great Thou Art (My Savior God) – Barry Johnson
How Great Thou Art (upbeat) – Wesley/Hine
How Great Thou Art; traditional hymn
 
 
Lamb Of God – public domain
Lead Me To The Cross – Brook Fraser
Let Everything that has Breath – Matt Redman
Let it Rise                                Baloche
Light of the World Tim Hughes
like a lion crowder
Like a Lion, Daniel Bashta
Look what the Lord Has Done                                            
Lord God Almighty by Coni Huisman
love came down brian johnson
Love Is Here – Tenth Avenue North
Love the Lord – Lincoln Brewster
 
Made me Glad                                                      
Marvelous Light, Charlie Hall
Mighty To Save – Reuben Morgan & Ben Fielding
Movements, Rend Collective Experiment
My Faith Looks Up To Thee – public domain
My Redeemer Lives
My Savior Lives – Jon Egan & Glenn Packiam
Nothing but the Blood (Robert Lowry)
O Praise Him – David Crowder Band                                                     
O Praise Him, David Crowder
Oh lord my God (how great thou art)
One Thing Remains, Christa Black
One Thirst, Jeremy Riddle
Our Father – Norm Strauss
Our God – Tomlin
Our God is greater
Reaching for You, Lincoln Brewster
Resue – Anderson
 
 
Revelation Song – Jennie Lee Riddle
Revelation Song – Riddle
Revelation Song:
 
Rise Up and Praise Him           Baloche
 
Safe / Travis
Salvation Belongs to Our God
Saviour of the world ben cantelon
Set A Fire….Will Reagan (United Pursuit Band)
Shout to the Lord – Darlene Zchesch
Sing For Joy (hiebert)
Speak O Lord by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
Strength will rise (everlasting God)
Sweet Hour of Prayer, Wm W. Walford
Take My Life (and Let it Be)    Tomlin
Take My Life (Chris Tomlin)
The Heart Of Worship – Matt Redman
The King Has Come, Eoghan Heaslip
The Kingdom (Starfield)
The Mystery Of Faith – public domain
The Price is Paid, Paul Barker
The Solid Rock Edward Mote
 
The Stand, Joel Houston
The Stand, Joel Houston
The Stand/J. Houston
 
 
What Presentation Software Do You Use?
As we don’t have a band we use Flyworship and I would thoroughly recommend this to anyone to has no band or a very small band!!”
Currently Pro-Presenter, but looking into Planning Center Projector for iPad
Easy worship
Easy Worship
Easy Worship
Easy Worship
Easy Worship
Easy Worship
Keynote
Keynote
Keynote
Media Shout
Media Shout
Media Shout
Media Shout 4
MediaShout
MediaShout 4
Microsoft Power Point
Power Point
Power Presenter
Powerpoint
PowerPoint
Powerpoint
Powerpoint right now but we are making the shift to Pro Presenter and will launch that in September
Pro Presenter
Pro Presenter 5
Propresenter
Propresenter
ProPresenter
ProPresenter
ProPresenter
Song Show Plus 7

Bomes Electric Bat Review

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Bomes Electric Bat Review

 

Function: Overdrive/boost pedal

Price: $179

What’s New: The Bat is a truebypass overdrive/gain boost guitar pedal from Bomes Electric.  A truly unique overdrive pedal, the Bat features a boost channel and an overdrive channel covering an incredible range of tones from a mellow boost to a cranked plexi-style drive.  Thick and open sounding, the Bat is a unique and versatile effect.  The Bat has four knobs: volume, tone, drive, and a 6-way bass selector switch.  An interesting feature of this pedal is that the volume and drive knobs work together similar to the controls of a tube amp; the lower you set the volume control, the less drive is available, and likewise the higher you set the volume control, the more the drive opens up.  The 6-way bass selector, another feature unique to the Bat, determines how thick and distorted the bass is, allowing the user to either keep the bass full or filter it out to cut through the mix.  The bass selector along with a separate tone control allows the user to voice the pedal for virtually any type of guitar or amp, or any instrument as well.  The Bat sounds great on bass or keys as well as guitar.  A heavy-duty truebypass switch controls the boost/overdrive channel selector and another controls the bypass switch for the entire pedal.  Adding to the versatility to the pedal are the switchable dual channels on the Bat, perfect for switching between rhythm/lead tones with the tap of your foot.  The pedal sports a distinctive red and black color scheme with bright blue LED’s and two tiny red LED bat “eyes” that light up when signal passes through the Bat.  Overall, the bat is an incredibly versatile pedal that sounds great no matter what instrument you put behind it or where you set the knobs.  In a world full of boutique guitar overdrive pedals, the Bat stands out with its ability to cover a multitude of drive tones and sound full in all of them.

-Andy Toy

Jon Bauer

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Inside Track with Jon Bauer
Scroll down for links to free tracks and to listen to Bauer’s new release, “Forevermore” 

What is your ministry background?
Born and raised in a Christian home, and at a young age encouraged to take piano lessons and participate in the children’s church musicals—worship music and ministry was always in my veins—but was never a passion. At age 18, everything changed. My sister gave me a worship CD—some of you may remember this one –Bob Fitts He Will Come and Save You. One morning, as I put this CD into my Honda Civic and drove to college, I started to worship God. As I sang—God’s Spirit filled my car and tears filled my eyes. In that moment, God whispered to my heart that just as I was being led in worship through this CD, that He had something similar for me to do in the days ahead. Not too long after I was asked by the worship pastor to begin leading worship at my home church, as a volunteer, and this is what I have been doing for the past 15 years—voluntarily leading worship once a month, and writing songs of worship for the body of Christ. Over the past six years, ministry in music has taken a full time role in my life. I still lead worship at my home church, monthly, but now as more of an Artist in Residence. On other weekends, I tour, and lead worship throughout the world at churches, conferences, schools, and retreats. I develop help worship teams through seminars, and write and record worship music for all generations.

What is distinctive about the culture of worship in Canada as compared to the States?
The only difference is that in Canada we sing lots more songs in the key of Eh! Okay—bad joke! But on a serious note, as I tour and minister on both sides of the border and even over in Europe, I find many similarities as opposed to differences in terms of worship culture. God is moving in each church, across borders, and each church has its own unique worship culture. I find it amazing that worship culture is formed by the unique blend of ages, ethnic background, denominational roots, direction from the pastor or worship pastor, the age and maturity of the worship leaders, and even the age of the church itself.

What is something that North America, on the whole, needs to learn or better understand about worship?
No matter how many times we hear it, I think we always need to recognize and focus on the thought that worship is 24/7. When worship and the world collide it is a beautiful thing because that is when Jesus is most easily seen, and the living worship expressed in Romans 12:1-2 happens. No matter how many times we sing about it in church, if we don’t ‘live it out daily, in our homes, schools or work places, church becomes a social gathering of people who say they love God, but do not “Love their neighbor as themselves.” So my encouragement as I travel and minister and to the readers today is that we might ‘live out our worship’ so that Jesus would be seen and found in the places we live, work and play.

What do you like best about leading worship with music?
I just love how the right blending of tones, melodies, and lyrics can help us express our deep heart’s cry to our Heavenly Father, His Son Jesus, and God’s Spirit. Music transcends our human understanding and throughout the scriptures we see how music was an important way of approaching the mystery of God and of expressing the joy of His presence.

What is the most challenging aspect of leading worship?
As a worship leader one of the most challenging aspects of leading worship is to find ways to connect with the congregation that is before me—whether they are my familiar church family back home or a new church family that I am serving on the road. Throughout the years I have prayed that God would give me keys to unlock doors in ministry and connect with each congregation that I am before. One of the keys He has shown me is to always be “sheet music” free on stage. Maybe have a little cheat sheet of lyrics or chord progression on a piece of paper on the floor for a new or more complex song but do not have a music stand with pages before me. So what this means for me is that I always need to carve out enough time to practice and memorize the lyrics, chords, and song structure to any song the band and I will play that weekend. I don’t mind if the other band members have lead sheets or chord charts (I would prefer them also to memorize) but for me as a worship leader this is a crucial step. What this forces me to do is to not have my eyes glued to a music stand when I lead (which is far less scarier than peoples eyes) but rather look out into the congregation, make eye contact, smile, acknowledge the congregation as we enter into worship. In essence it allows me to worship God and connect with his people without the distraction of a stand and music before me.

You have a lot of resources available on your site, what are some other useful resources that you would recommend to worship leaders?
A focus of the ministry that God has blessed me with is not only for adults and Sunday morning worship, but also for children. Before I began touring full time, I was an elementary school teacher and the Lord gave me a heart for reaching children for the Kingdom. A big part of this ministry is to encourage all generations to worship the Lord. On my site you will find two CDs that are geared for children ages 1-12, and produced with children’s choirs and scriptures read by children.

Get 3 tracks from Jon Bauer’s Forevermore, here.

Stream the entire album for free, here.