Who Can Satisfy?

Sunday's choir anthem is Who Can Satisfy? Part of what makes this a great song is the music. The keychange is so powerful! and you all sing it so well! but the reason - I think - that we all like the song so much is because of all of the names for Jesus that are part of the chorus.

Part of the reason there are so many names for God and for Jesus in the Bible is because God wants us to know Him. We need to know that when we have lost our way - He is our Shepherd. When we are going through a stormy time of life - He is our Peace and Comfort and Strength. When we are enslaved to sin - He is our Redeemer.

I could go on and on... Do you know Him that well? I hope you do. If not, spend some time in His Word and get to know Him. And of course time in worship and singing in choir ads that much more to our relationship and understanding of who God is.

I'll be looking for you this Sunday as we share with our congregation about our King and Redeemer Who reigns upon the throne!

25% More! Free!

I love it when my favorite shampoo gives me an extra 25% for free! Wow! Then I can not only lather, rinse and repeat, but I can splurge a little and have extra suds or even repeat the repeat if I want. And it doesn't cost anything extra! What a deal!

We're running a special in choir for a week or two - an extra 25% free bonus rehearsal. This will help us spend a little extra time - repeat and repeat - getting some songs ready for Sunday worship.

For those who can, we're going to meet at 6:15 on Wednesday nights for a couple of weeks. Not everyone can take advantage of our bonus rehearsal, but for those who can, this will be a great boost. It will also help those who come at the regular rehearsal time as those who came to the bonus rehearsal sing with great confidence (since they will have spent some extra time on notes and words).

So... whether you join us at 6:30 or get to take advantage of our 25% more free bonus rehearsal at 6:15, I'll be looking for you this Wednesday night!

Natalie Grant

I know you all have already made plans to attend the Natalie Grant concert, so I'm just putting this here so you will remember to invite your neighbors, friends, co-workers and strangers at Wal-Mart to join us next Sunday night, July 29 at 6:00.

If you aren't familiar with Natalie Grant you can click here to go to her web site http://www.nataliegrant.com/

If you don't have a chance to click over I'll summarize.

2007 Dove Award winner - Female vocalist of the year, twin baby girls, albums - Awaken, Deeper Life, Stronger, Christmas Album - Believe, 2006 Dove Award winner - Female vocalist of the year, married to Bernie Herms, "Natalie's House" To Offer Safe Haven For Girls Escaping Prostitution, single hits include "Held" (2006), "The Real Me" (2006), "No Sign of It" (2003) and more...

Don't miss a wonderful evening, July 29, 6:30, HIlldale Baptist Church, Clarksville, TN.

What Station Are You On?

I heard an interesting conversation this morning. Someone said, "Do you listen to the oldies station?" "I used to, but the one I liked went off the air", was the reply. Well, that started a whole series of radio comments. "I listen to WXYZ. It's the best." "Oh, I never listen to that one. The best one is 82.7!" "I used to listen to oldies but they changed it to something else." "Southern gospel saxophone is the only thing I ever listen to." "You should try that new station out of, where was that? anyway, they play the most relaxing music. It's wonderful."

And on they went. (OK, I'll admit I made up some of that.) But the interesting thing was that out of the 5 people listening to the radio this morning there were 7 opinions of which station played the best music.

After hearing everyone's views on music I was really glad to be the Worship Pastor of a church that likes all kinds of music. And what makes it work so nicely is that everyone at Hilldale is happy to sing all the different styles. It's part of living out Phillipians 2:3 "Do nothing out of rivalry or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves."

As we willingly sing music that isn't particularly our favorite style, just because we know it touches the heart of others, we are considering them more important. As someone else sings music that you like they are treating you as more important.

Pretty cool, huh? How we can model the Christian life for each other and to the world as we gather together and worship. What station are you on? I hope you are the station where you can worship God with us each Sunday as we gather together. I'll be looking for you this Sunday! (If you are in choir I'll be looking for you Wednesday!)

Sunday's Music

We had a great rehearsal last night. There were 56 in choir counting me and Rusty. That's a great turn out for a hot July night. Thanks for singing with us.

Sunday's anthem - Rock of Ages

Other music will include Victory Song, Shout to the Lord, Blessed Assurance and more! I'm looking forward to a great morning Sunday. See you then!

I love Wednesdays!

Do you remember this nursery rhyme?

Monday's child is fair of face.

Tuesday's child is full of grace.
Wednesday's child is full of woe.

It was that poem that inspired Gomez and Morticia Adams to name their daughter Wednesday.

But Wednesday isn't a day of woe at all. It's a great day!

It's not because the work week is half over and you can see the weekend just around the corner, and it's not because it's "take your kids out to eat for half price at that yummy restaurant across town" day. It's because Wednesday night from 6:30-7:30 is choir rehearsal time! We get to sing, laugh, pray and fellowship together. Wednesday choir rehearsal is the perfect pick-me-up for the middle of the week.

This Wednesday's rehearsal is a very special one because it is my first rehearsal as Hilldale's Worship Pastor. I'm sooooo excited. You all have been so wonderful the last two Sundays singing songs you had barely rehearsed. It will be wonderful to actually spend some time on the songs we will sing Sunday.

I'll be looking for you Wednesday - 6:30 - in the choir room. Bring someone with you.

Bro. Lyndel

If this is your first visit to our Hilldale Worship Ministry blog be sure and check out the previous entries.

You can scroll down and read about how you can get involved in our worship ministry (or click on this link http://hilldaleworship.blogspot.com/2007/07/our-worship-ministry-team-and-you.html ) and be sure and scroll down one entry and read about the incredible conference coming in August (or click this link http://hilldaleworship.blogspot.com/2007/07/mmlc-august-10-11.html ) We want to take 50 people or more with us to Brentwood for the Music Ministry Leadership Conference.

I would love to see you involved in our Worship Ministry at Hilldale. We have some exciting days ahead as we gather our worship team: choir members, praise band members, orchestra players, audio and video technicians, actors, children's choir leaders, scenery designers, buildres and painters. There are so many great ways you can be involved in God's kingdom work through the music/worship ministry. E-mail me or call the church office and talk to me or our Worship Ministry Assistant, Donna, to get more information or to tell us how you want to be plugged-in to ministry.

Rejoice!
Bro. Lyndel