Song Lists for 5/26

FOUR WEEKS OUT:June 18/21 John Burke, God is With Us
Message: One Prayer: God is WITH USBerthoud: RoxanneLoveland: Rough DraftPlease post songs before the Creative Planning Team meeting 6:30AM next Tuesday June 2nd

THREE WEEKS OUT:June 11/14Message: One Prayer: God is LOVE (Craig Groeschel)Berthoud: TravisYou Found Me/Call My Name (we liked them both, you and Mike chat…)
God of Wonders
Unfailing Love
God of this City
Jesus Messiah

Planning center plan reviewed by CPT.Thank you for the song list!
Loveland: JorieBeautiful One
Your Love Oh Lord
Amazed
Continue to Love Me (NEW)
How He Loves

Planning center plan reviewed by CPT.Thank you for the song list!

TWO WEEKS OUT:
June 4/7
Message: One Prayer: God is Good

Berthoud: Travis (reviewed last week)Grace Like RainEverlasting GodKindness/Give Us Clean HandsBe Near Me (presentational)Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)Loveland: Jorie
Come Let Us Adore Him
Everlasting God
Better is One Day
Holy God
Come Let us Adore Him (reprise)

Planning center plan reviewed by CPT.Thank you for the song list!

June 18/21 God is With Us

June 18/21) John Burke, God is With Us
This is a video message. We watched and I took the following notes.

From Austin ‘the live music capital of the world’ at least they think so. People might think that this is where people come who are far away from the Lord. Interview about people being comfortable about going into bars but not really coming into Church. He asked the question ‘Do you think God is for you or against you?” Lots of hesitation in the answers. A lot of uncertainty. John speculated that this might be the most likely place for God to come to minister to the lost. Do they get the message from the church that God is FOR YOU?

God is a God of mercy and he wants people to know that he is for us not against us. But it means we need to be willing to let things get a little messy. The folks that are seeking are generally coming from very difficult pasts (abortions, abuse, divorce, pornography) everyone is struggling with something. Paul wrote to a very messy church in the city of Corinth. They were struggling with many messy things. (1Cor 3:6-9a). God causes the growth. That is not our responsibility. Only God can cause th growth. We do have a responsibility as his co-workers. We tend the soil (the culture, the context). There is good soil and bad soil. Jesus had many interactions with the religious leaders of his day. He saved his strongest words for these leaders. They were creating ‘bad soil’. They called Jesus ‘the friend of sinners’ and these sinners were drawn to him . The leaders were repelled by him. He did not tolerate their inauthentic actions. WE want to create the culture, the environment where ALL people can grow. The whole world longs to be free. We need to lose the religious pretense and get a heart of mercy/ The leaders of the day were very uncomfortable with how messy the ministry of Jesus was because he was surrounded by the people who needed him. It was the ‘sick who need a physician’. The leaders were playing a religious game. They were preserving the illusion of religion. What Jesus wanted was no pretense, just honesty. People who would recognizes their brokenness and come honestly to God in their need. If we are going to be his church, his body here on earth, then we need to be here for the ‘messy’ broken people that Jesus loves and came to save. God does not want us to offer external sacrifice – he wants hearts filled with love and freedom and authenticity. He told a story about a woman who came to their church and felt welcomed even though she and her husband were ‘tattooed’. Another story of a messy situation with odd choices. He felt like he should listen and seek to understand. The story he heard broke his heart and showed him the path of pain that lead to this ‘messy’ lifestyle. Hearing this woman say that ‘Jesus people are mean’ and John had the chance to tell her who Jesus really is and what he came to do. Only God causes growth – we need to tend the soil. God is not interested in our conformity to outward standards. He wants to transform us into real people to live real life. Lose the religios pretense for it is not the soil in which people grow. Learn to trust and depend on him. DO you feel like you need to play a game? The religious game? That is not God’s way. He wants you to live, warts and all, and learn to become more like him. To trust him more. If we are going to see this, growth, then those of us already in the church are going to have to lose the us/them attitude and language. People who visit hear it, they know what we really think – especially if we are judging. (Luke 18:11-14a) There aren’t 2 categories of people – good and bad. There are just PEOPLE. All of us broken and desperately in need of his salvation. God is for us all even before we change. ALL of us. We need to lose the us vs them attitude. What if we focused on what God sees in them (in us all) that was worth dying for. (Eph 2:8-10) If Jesus gave his life so everyone came become the masterpiece he made us to be. We need to help people see themselves like the masterpiece waiting to be revealed. If you saw a masterpiece covered in mud – would you treat it like mud? NO – you would treat it like the masterpiece it is. And you would clean it carefully so as not to damage it. God does for us what we can’t do for ourselves. He restores us. Lets call out the masterpiece in each other. We need to lose this need to be perfect. Create a ‘confessing culture’ (Matt 23:25-26) The way to please God is not to show pharisaical outward ‘perfection’. Jesus didn’t condone wrong behavior – he was showing people the real and fulfilling way to live. Those who were not pretending they were perfect we able to reach for the freedom he offered. (Matt 21:31) The Pharisees hated Jesus for not respecting their outward perfection. But God knew the truth. You can only grow if you realize you are not perfect. None of us are sin free or struggle free. None of us can do it on our ouwn. We cannot become what we were made to be until we depend on him. There needs to be a place where we are free to be who we really are without judgment or condemnation. There needs to be an environment that is safe – filled with Grace. A place where we know that God is for us and not against us. That is where God heals us and grows us – in a supportive environment of mercy and grace. The whole world longs for this. They returned to the 6th street bars in a video. Their worship leader formerly lead ‘drunken sing alongs’ in the bar. He had had bad experiences with Christians and it pushed him into sex/drus/rock and roll. And he came to a place with God where he was really honest and God heard him. Dealing with anger and emptiness. There was a big hole in him. He came to the Lord in the midst of a messy life. And the messiness continued but he started growing. He came into a church environment that welcomed him. God grew him up to lead in worship through learning and honesty. God met him and healed him. And cleansed him of unrighteousness. Jesus really is on 6th street. (Back to the sermon). End in prayer. Thank you God for demonstrating mercy and grace to all of us. Help us to become more of what you made us to be. Help us show the world that you are for them and not against them.

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We had discussion about where we are as a church. How has it become true that the church in general has not remained a place like Jesus – where people who need Jesus were drawn to him not repelled. Is there something in us as a church that does not communicate that this is a place to be accepted and to grow in the Lord? How do we create a ‘confessing culture’? We are in a small community (Berthoud/Loveland) and people can tend towards judgment. Small towns tend to ‘know everything’ about each other.

Eph 2:10 “We are God’s masterpiece.”Rom 8 “God is for us” (Possible powerful reading in the service? Worship leaders – consider using this either yourself or have someone read…)

Song Lists and the Blog!

Iwill start to try and post the upcoming lists as the Creative Planning Team reviews the services. Let me know if the blog process is working and if you have any ideas to make it better!

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June 11/14
Message: One Prayer: God is LOVE

Berthoud: Travis
Loveland: Jorie

Please post songs before the Creative Planning Team meeting 6:30AM next Tuesday May 26th
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June 4/7 Services
Message: God is Good

Berthoud: Travis
Song list
Grace Like Rain
Everlasting God
Kindness/Give Us Clean Hands
Be Near Me (presentational)
Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)

Reviewed – planning center plan reviewed by CPT and updated.
Thank you for the song list!

Loveland: Jorie
Song List not yet available

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May 28/31 Services
Message: And So it Begins: Cross Country (Acts 8:1 - 40)

Berthoud: Roxanne
Song List
Run to You
Blessed be your name
Friend of God
Lead me to the Cross
Hungry (Falling on my knees)

Reviewed – planning center plan reviewed by CPT and updated.
Thank you for the song list!


Loveland: Jorie
Song List
You Never Let Go
We Are Hungry
Holy God
All Who Are Thirsty
Enough

Reviewed – planning center plan reviewed by CPT. Could we move one more to the end from the beginning? Take a look at the Planning Center Online.
Thank you for the song list!

June 11/14 God is LOVE

BERTHOUD Worship Leader: Travis
LOVELAND Worship Leader: Jorie

God is Love (Craig Groschel preaching) will be four weeks out.
We listened to the message and I took notes on it below. It is a video message.

NOTE: Clay will change the message title for three weeks out to God is GOOD to match the series – the content will be the same.

When I understand that God loves you – it is still hard for me to understand how God could love ME. Talking about the unconditional love of God.
Starting with 2 questions: Why would God love someone as bad as me? I know all the things I’ve done wrong etc. I know how undeserving I am. I know how unworthy and sinful I am. There were stories of those in the scripture who felt unworthy (Job 42:5-6; I Cor 15:9)
Q2: Why would God love someone so insignificant? There are 6Billion people on earth. There are wars and disasters etc. There are world leaders and big players. Who am I? Stories in the scripture (Exodus 3:11; I Chron 29:14) How could you love someone like me, God? God doesn’t JUST love –God IS love. Love is not just something that God does – Love is what God IS. God is LOVE. Who is God? God is love! He showed it by sending his son…so that we might live through him. This is love – not that we love God but that he loved us. Love is the essence of who he is. There is nothing I can do to earn more love – or anything I can do to diminish it.

Here is alist of who God loves…A: Artists, Astronaut, Aerospace engineers, Accordian players, ankle biters, etc B: Babies, Boys, bad leaders, bus drivers, bachelors, beekeeps, blondes, brunettes, blue hair, bosses, Baptists, etc C: Catholics, Charismatics, congressmen, cheaters, country music fans, Cubans, Cambodiancs, cooks, cops, clowns, cat owners, etc. God loves everyone. It is who he is. He is love. That changes everything. The next time you feel unworthy – God’s love covers yours sins. Jesus shed his blood to cover your sin (I Pet 4:8). I always felt like I needed to be religious, doing all the right things. Then I learned about His grace. There was something in me that burst to life. I went back into the bar scene to offer living water. They were interested in talking about God. Told a story of an angry street preacher. A crisis of a man Craig was witnessing to leading him to understand the love of God and the gospel.

In the garden God took the skin of an animal and covered the shameof Adam and Eve. The father covered the shame of the prodigal son. God’s love covers out sings. Quoted Titus 3:4-5. It is God’s love who makes you significant. Jer 31:3 God’s loving kindness. Luke 15 – stories showing the love of God. Woman searching for the gold coin, The prodigal Son, The shepard and the 1 wandering sheep. Even though there are 6Billion people in the world – you are the one that God searches for. His lovingkindness is drawing you back. Drawing you to himself. He loves you. He is Love. Maybe you are the very one he is pursing. “For God so loved your name here that he gave his one and only son…”
He talked about having many children. How he loved his first child and wondering how he could love another. But he found he could love all his children with personal and intense love. His love increased as his children increased. He starts to understand how God can love us all with an intense and personal love. God loves us in a very personal sort of way. We love because he first loved us.
A little girl came running into a Dad and said “Daddy, did you know that God will tell you that he loves you if you listen close enough?” God will tell you that he loves you if you will listen closely enough.
Closing prayer Overwhelm us with your love. God help us to know you in a more intimate way. I want to know your love in a more intimate way. May your love become so real to us that we can’t miss it. Make us different because we understand we are living from a position of acceptance not because of our actions and deed. Let us reflect your love to a world that so desperately needs to know you.Appeal: You are here because God is drawing you to himself. Your sin separates you from a holy God – but God loves you so much he sent his son to redeem. You can never work your way to God. But he made a way for you through his son. You are the one God has been reaching out to. Reach out to him. Accept him. He will change you as you call on him. You will never ever be the same. This is the beginning of your real life. Jesus would you save me? Yes, this is my prayer. Empower me to love you and to serve you and help me show it to the world. (There is strong appeal at the end).

June 4/7 - One Prayer: God is Good

Worship Leaders

Berthoud: Travis - http://www.planningcenteronline.com/plans/639747
Loveland: Jorie - http://www.planningcenteronline.com/plans/63979

Text
Gal. 3:28

Big Idea

Four Weeks Out (June: It is the first week of One Prayer – Clay is preaching on week one. This week the theme is “God is…” Possibility for title:”God is My Redeemer”.

People are reading through the Bible and there has been a lot of mixed emotions about all the shenanigans that goes on in the history of God’s people. The key verse to kick it off is: Deut 22:28-30. (regulations concerning virgins). A verse that presents a challenge to say the least. How do we pull this verse into the story about a redeeming God? The woman’s life is ruined in the cultural context. Her future is devastated without God’s redemption. In the culture we see God’s intervention in the story of Tamar (Absalom’s sister). We talked about the fall of man – the story of the dramatic fall and the gradual revealing of the redemption plan and God’s grace. But it is a long journey to the cross and then to the second coming. Looking back through the cross – the Deut 22 law seems so stark, wrong, etc. The only way you can understand any scripture is to look back through the cross. But God’s redemptive plan continues to progress. He is a patient God. He presses culture/gradually leads through his church to move towards his plan – this story about the raped virgin is heinous from our point of view – but in the time it was more protective (she would have simply been cast aside and abandoned with no options – and this forces the man to take care of what he took). This was NOT his final teaching on the value of women – it was merely a cultural step forward. There was much more that he had to say about women. And is continued to affirm value and equality especially in the new testament.

Application: ‘a woman should have her head covered’ – is this universal or cultural? You need to seek the principal. Principals could be: Submission to authority, Protection, Modesty => the sense of appropriateness. At the application level there is a lot of apparent contradiction – but the actual principles illustrated are never in contradiction.

May 21 & 24

Huck: http://www.planningcenteronline.com/plans/594638

Travis: http://www.planningcenteronline.com/plans/563268

Huck & Travis,

I understand you two will be leading worship on the weekend of May 21 & 24. I will be bringing the teaching that weekend at both campuses. The material will be from Acts 6 – 7; the appointment of the 7 to wait tables and the stoning of Stephen. I’ll use the “waiting tables” text as a spring board to the main point of the teaching on Stephen (he was one of the 7 appointed). His death is the result of the content of his sermon. His points:

God works outside of Israel (Abraham in Babylon; Moses in Egypt, etc.)
Moses is not the final revelation
Israel has a poor tract record when it came to following God
The Temple was a mistake

These points frustrated and infuriated the religious establishment so much that they were at a loss of words to combat what he said so they stoned him. As a result the church began its journey into the world (Acts 8:1-4).

The take away point: Stand firm regardless of culture, peers, etc and proclaim truth/gospel even though it looks/sounds different from the norm and represents a change from the norm. Stephen preached change and there were consequences. Haven’t fleshed out the “application” like I want. Suggestions/ideas welcome.

I wanted you to have my thoughts to date so you can begin thinking of music selection for that weekend. Hope this helps.

Thanks for serving.

Steve (posted on blogger by Trav)

May 28/31 And So it Begins: Cross Country

Worship Leaders:

Berthoud: Roxanne
http://www.planningcenteronline.com/plans/594647

Loveland: Jorie
http://www.planningcenteronline.com/plans/563273

Text:
Acts 8:1-40

Big Idea:

Coming off of the stoning of Stephen. Saul was there giving approval to his death. Persecution begins. Scatters the church – and everywhere they went they spoke about Jesus. The church began to spread rapidly outside Jerusalem. (Do we take the message wherever we go?) The new sparks of the church and the spread of the Gospel lead to:

· The breakdown of prejudice/An outpouring of the Holy Spirit in “all Samaria”How does this apply? Are we ethnically diverse? Socio-Economically diverse? Who would we need to ‘step over the line’ to minister to? Getting out of clicks seems like a big thing. Going beyond your comfort zone to talk to people. There is a huge Hispanic population around Longmont – and there is a huge gap. Main street vs Hover is quite a contrast. What about this large and growing Hispanic population around us? Do we need to reach out to them more purposefully than we have? Could we partner with someone else to support it? Could we record the Madiera church message and broadcast it here? (Tangent…) Take a step outside your comfort zone.

· Counterfeits rise up Simon the sorcerer rose up and desired to have this power. There are a lot of people who want the ‘magic’ of it without the path or without the repentance or humility. Simon had a hard heart filled with bitterness – his path should have been one of repentance.

· Seekers cross overAs a result of the Gospel lives are changed. The story of the Ethiopian. There seems like there are two kinds of seekers.

Two kinds of Seekers:
· Supernatural/Power/Experience/’magic’/self/benefitsWhat I can get
· Truth/Jesus/What God has for me.

Who am I?

What kind of church do we want to be?

Rebuke hardness

Minister to soft hearts

Clay wants to spend most of his time on the last point about the Ethiopian.

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