12.31.06 - Going the Distance

1. The Distance - Cake
2. All Creatures - St Francis of Assisi as done by David Crowder Band
3. Fileld With Your Glory - Starfield
4. Wonderful Maker - Tim Hughes
5. Unashamed Love - Ten Shekel Shirt

12.24.06 - The Choice is Yours

1. O Praise Him - David Crowder Band
2. Better Days - Goo Goo Dolls
3. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Henry Longfellow
4. O Come Emmanuel
5. Invitation Fountain - Violet Burning
6. O Holy Night - Adolphe Adam

12.17.06 - To The Rescue

1. Touch - Delirious
2. O Come Emmanuel
3. Once Again - Matt Redman
4. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Edmund Hamilton Sears
5. Thank You - Sanctus Real

12.10.06 - Big Fear

1. Angels We Have Heard On High - P.D.
   
2. Yesterday, Today and Forever - Vicky Beeching
   
3. You Are Mine - MuteMath
   
4. OK - MuteMath
   
5. Invitation Fountain - Violet Burning
   

12.03.06 - Where Do Women Fit?

1. Beautiful One - Tim Hughes
   
2. I Will - Justin Fox
   
3. Unashamed Love - Ten Shekel Shirt
   
4. Filled With Your Glory - Starfield

11.26.06 - The Life of a Disciple

1. City of Blinding Lights - U2
2. August 30th - Delirious
3. Into Your Arms - Jeff Schissler & Justin Landis
   
4. All Creatures - Francis of Assissi as done by David Crowder
5. Hang On To You - Delirious
   

11.19.06 - Tuna Fish Sandwich

1. Only You Satisy - Jami Smith
2. Yesterday, Today and Forever - Vicky Beeching
3. I Will - Justin Fox
4. Reminders of Your Mercy (buy) - Ryan Townsend
5. O How You Love Me - Jami Smith

11.12.06 - Get the Picture?

Big Idea: I'm called to help others see Jesus Christ through me.

1. Modern Day Prayer - Twothirtyeight
   
2. Nothing Can Separate us - Ryan Townsend
   
3. OK - Mute Math
   
4. Sanctify - Delirious
   
5. Beautiful One - Tim Hughes
   
6. Show Me Heaven - Delirious
   

sorry for the lameness

i've been on vacation for 4 days or so now and have been lax on updating this blog. sorry. my internet access is extremely limited so i'm gonna wait until we get back to sandpoint.

check back next week for updates. thanks

11.05.06 - Movement: Ignite a Reaction

this was the final week in our chasing daylight series. overall, i was a little disappointed with our creative end of this series. if i had it to do over again, i would have done some sort of original video or drama series following somebody in real life facing the types of questions we were talking about. i think the story of jonathan and his armor bearer could have benefited from some more connection to today's life.

here are the elements used in the last week of the series. if you're interested in more info on the series, email me.

Music

1. Tonight (I Want to Live in Your World) - Glassbyrd
2. Love is the Movement - Switchfoot
3. Getting Into You - Relient K
4. Magnetic - Sanctus Real
5. Invitation Fountain - Violet Burning
6. I Will - Justin Fox
7. Filled With Your Glory - Starfield

Video

1. Wade countdown
2. Hauck Story

this book sounds great

this post is a direct copy from my personal blog, which i realize is a little weak, but here it is. and by the way, you can check out my personal blog here.

i'm sort of a quitter-reader. i've got an impressive list of books i've started reading, but usually get distracted about 3 quarters of the way through. so please feel free to read this book and give me a synopsis. otherwise i'll enjoy the first 75% of the book sometime soon.

THE MYTH OF A CHRISTIAN NATION: How The Quest for Political Power is Destroying The Church

Dr. Gregory Boyd


Dr. Boyd states in his introduction that this book is the result of a sermon series he preached in 2004 titled, " The Cross and The Sword", in reaction to growing pressure being placed upon him to endorse political candidates and thier policies from the pulpit. Dr. Boyd has since been branded a heretic by many for his refusal to bow to the will of his church and board members as they desired for him to use his pastoral clout to make political endorsements. The naive assumption that if you dont vote for the party that best matches God's Biblical Mandates equals your abandoning your faith and betraying God is tackled decisively by Dr. Boyd.

impending christmas series

this december we'll be starting a series called "choosing christmas." i don't have much detail about where the series is going but any ideas for creative elements would be awesome!

Last year we did an advent series. here are some of the creative elements we used:

Joy! by Gay Dad
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2
Sing Mary Sing by Jennifer Knapp
Yahweh by U2
Hang On To You by Delirious
Peace on Earth by U2
When I'm With You by
Better Days by Goo Goo Dolls
Rich Herman Video

The List

here's some music from Sunday

with the video camera set up at the back of the auditorium, it's been easy to let it run and see what we get. here are 4 tracks from Sunday. there's quite a bit of echo, but the mix sounds great! way to go, Wade!!


Take the World But Give me Jesus
Perfect
God of Miracles
Beautiful One

October 29, 2006

"Risk: Live While You're Alive"

Touch - Delirious
Look What You've Done - Tree 63
Inside Outside - Delirious
Unashamed Love - Ten Shekel Shirt
Go You Are So Good - Ryan Townsend

One Thing - Finger Eleven

Let's get together on this

I'm gonna start posting information about upcomging gatherings as much as possible. i'm not quite sure about the format yet, but the goal is that with the info i post, you as a reader can help to brainstorm and design creative elements for the gatherings. these elements may be music, video, live drama, etc. if you're a part of cedar hills, you know what i mean.

so please, please comment with suggestions to the upcoming topics. i'm very excited about this new venue for widespread participation.

October 22, 2006

Take the World But Give Me Jesus - Matt Redman*
Take Me Away - Lifehouse
Perfect - Ryan Townsend*
God of Miracles - Ryan Townsend*
Beautiful One - Tim Hughes*


*each of these artists was at one time associated with Soul Survivor, a church movement that i believe was started by Matt Redman, which maintains an emphasis on worship thru the arts, especially music, as well as social justice. the movement began in the u.k. and is now gaining momentum worldwide.

cds of last week

i have 5 leftover copies of the cd that i burned for the band for 10.15.06. this cd contains the songs recorded by the original artists. if you want one, please reply to this post within 5 days with your name and address and i'll drop it in the mail.

October 15, 2006 - Initiative

let the praises ring - lincoln brewster
filled with you glory - starfield
all creatures - st francis of assisi (redone by david crowder)
o how you love me - jami smith
yesterday, today and forever - vicki beeching
meant to live - switchfoot

Mary Herlihy's story

series/teaching schedule planning

The process we go through to plan out the next year’s worth of series/teaching topics for cedar hills church.
1. plan a 2-3 day retreat where we can get away from the office and spend some
time with this planning
2. pray individually & then pray together
3. look at a running list of series/teaching topic ideas that Eric (our lead
pastor) maintains that includes resources that we’ve come up with, resources
from the web, etc.
4. talk through the list, discuss series’ that seem to bubble to the top
a. sometimes we have a tendency to get bogged down in the details of
individual series. At those times we have to bring ourselves back to the big
picture so that we can make the most of our planning time together.
5. write down series’ that seem to have some momentum
6. go through the new list and categorize the series/teaching topics. They
usually end up falling into one of these 5 categories:
a. Christian Living
b. Bible
c. Vision/Values
d. Theology
e. Felt-Need
7. look over the list and determine if we’re missing anything big that should be
taught on during the next year.
8. pencil series onto next year’s calendar. This scheduling is impacted by a
few assumptions:
a. statistically, the biggest days for people who don’t normally, to
attend a church gathering are easter, mother’s day and Christmas
b. the fall is a good time to begin new emphases; people are typically
excited to get back into the rhythm of the school year and have a renewed
passion for church involvement.
9. compile that schedule into an ms excel document


this is a basic outline of how we get the next year's schedule put together. while this functions as our teaching schedule, it is totally flexible based on opportunities and issues that arise, whether a sense of spiritual leading or simple current events.

October 8, 2006 - Choice

beautiful one - tim hughes
thank you - sanctus real
i will - justin fox
fragile moon - john elliot

and here's the video that Brice & Melissa Filippini did.

October 1, 2006 - unloading guilt

here is the music set for this week. The Get Up Kids are one of my favorite bands and definitely worth a listen. The album, guilt show, is awesome. Of course, so are the rest.

1. How Long is Too Long - The Get Up Kids


2. I Was Wrong - Social Distortion


3. Freedom Reigns - Rita Springer


4. August 30 - Delirious


5. God of Miracles - Ryan Townsend (if you dig Ryan's music, email him and tell him so. Several of his songs are available on Soul Survivor USA's "Worship USA Vol. 1", which is really good.)
   


6. Reminders of Your Mercy - Ryan Townsend (This song is also available on Soul Survivor USA's "Worship USA Vol. 1", which is really, really good...really.

"worship" music we use regularly

I've been the music & arts pastor for Cedar Hills Church in Sandpoint, ID for 5+ years now. One of the biggest challenges I've faced is finding good resources for music. Many of the typical "worship" music sites are filled with great music, but a lot of it (the popular stuff) is sort of encrypted in a Christian code using terms and metaphors that are not readily identifiable to the average person who may happen into our gatherings. We have made a choice that our gatherings should be understandable to most everyone, regardless of their past experience. Whether they resonate with it or not is God's job, but we feel we have a responsibility to present the good news of Christ's love in a way that is at least comprehensible if not compelling.

So here's a list of artists that we cover pretty consistently. We may only do one or two songs by some of these artists, but we've resonated with their music to some level.

• Delirious
• Matt Redman
• Ryan Townsend (this guy has yet to relttsease a "worship" music album, but I'm lucky enough to get a copy of pretty much everything he records, so we get a lot of great music there. Email him if you're interested in hearing it.)
• Soul Survivor USA (this is one project that Ryan was heavily involved with, which didn't get the distribution that it could have, I think because the powers that be felt that it wasn't up the alley of the mainstream "worship" music crowd. It's my favorite "worship" record and I think the most underrated.)
• Justin Fox(this guy is an independent artist based out of orange county in southern california. his music is fun, heartfelt and his live show is engaging and uplifting. he's a christian artist who gives christian artists a good name.)
  
• Tim Hughes
• Sanctus Real
• Starfield
• U2

Please reply with music that your church covers and enjoys, especially if it's stuff that isn't in the latest worshipmusic.com newsletter.

September 24, 2006 - death

Herein are the creative elements used in Cedar Hills' gathering for September 24th, 2006, the 6th week of the summer's Rock and Roll series. The theme for the day was death.

Thematic Music:

1. People Who Died - Jim Carroll
2. Like a Stone - Audioslave
3. I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Death Cab For Cutie
4. Gone - Switchfoot
   

Sing-along Set:

1. Thank You - Sanctus Real
2. May the Words of my Mouth - Tim Hughes
3. I Want to Know You - unknown (as close as I can figure by online searching, this is a revamped version of a song called "I Want to Praise You Lord" but I can't find any credits for that song either.
   
4. Nothing Can Separate Us - Ryan Townsend

Video Clip:

1. What About Bob