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The Rock Church Worship Service

Paul 15th of December is the kids big show Christmas Eve we’re doing something a little different Doing a joint service with Peninsula Community Church (the other church I lead worship at) There will be a 5pm and a 7pm, I recommend the latter as the former is usually packed First Sunday of Advent Christmas isn’t something that sneaks up on us, we wait for it and anticipate it Chris Isaiah 2:1-5 Paul with O Come, O Come Emmanuel riff at the end Jon … Jesus entered a house. A crowd gathered again so that it was impossible for him and his followers even to eat. When his family heard what was happening, they came to take control of him. They were saying, “He’s out of his mind!” His mother and brothers arrived. They stood outside and sent word to him, calling for him. A crowd was seated around him, … Continue reading →

The Rock Church Worship Service

Paul (Every Chorus I Sing) Eastman Family Micah 5:2 Matthew 1:18-25 – The Birth Of Jesus Christ Paul (A thousand times I’ve failed) (I am a famine, my heart a drought) Jon Today is Stephen Keating’s birthday I love being here and seeing your faces Some passages of Scripture to share Everyone is created in God’s image and that we matter We matter to the Great Healer of this world Be comfortable with the way God created you Great power can come from embracing you Deuteronomy 6:4 This is a Shamah, an important Hebrew prayer He is One Ephesians 1:7 God is forgiving Need to walk through life forgiving Acts 17:24-25 God is generous 1 John 1:5 God is light Because He is light, there is no darkness Truth cannot coexist in light and darkness 1 John 4:16 God is love One, Forgiving, Generous, Light, Love Jesus did not come … Continue reading →

Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness – The Rock Church Worship Service

Paul 12th century, oldest song of our faith Means “God With Us” 1 John 3:16-20 16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians. 17 But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth. 19 And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence, 20 that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things. Matthew 6:19-23 19 “Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where … Continue reading →

The Christmas Music Of Mannheim Steamroller – OCPAC

Video Intro/Announcement by Chip Davis saying due to recent neck surgery he can’t play for a while (and in which he stomps fake snow off of his pristine white sneakers) Act 1: Hallelujah Band Introductions by Ron Cooley Feliz Navidad Deck The Halls We Three Kings Catching Snowflakes On Your Tongue Messengers Of Christmas Away In A Manager Faeries Good King Wenceslas White Christmas Act 2 – This is where the fun really started – the video screen stayed lowered and they played a Renaissance Christmas feast on the upper portion while you could see the band through the bottom half of the scrim: Gagliarda In Dulci Jublio Wassail, Wassail (which is a hot mulled cider) Carol Of The Birds (projected images of large flocks of birds) I Saw Three Ships Video cast member shouts out, “Hey Chip! How about something we can dance to?!” God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen … Continue reading →