Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs - STAND 2011 set list

(Here’s a recap of the service and the songs we chose over the past weekends at Howick Baptist Church. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week at theworshipcommunity.com. You can also read through previous HBC service recaps here.)

I’ve spent the past weekend being involved in leading the music [...]

HBC service recaps: 22 and 29 May 2011

(Here’s a recap of the service and the songs we chose over the past weekends at Howick Baptist Church. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week at theworshipcommunity.com. You can also read through previous HBC service recaps here.)

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Order of Service AM (22 May 2011)

(leader: Craig [...]

HBC service recaps: 1-15 May 2011

(Here’s a recap of the service and the songs we chose over the past weekends at Howick Baptist Church. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week at theworshipcommunity.com. You can also read through previous HBC service recaps here.)

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Order of Service AM (1 May 2011)

(leader: Joe [...]

Worship: broadening our definitions

Last week I had the privilege of leading a short study with some of the folks that serve in a number of worship ministries at HBC. We spent our time looking at our definitions of the term “worship”. Then we examined the scriptures to see how the Bible discusses worship, and what we can learn [...]

Lessons from leading worship after an earthquake

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This past Sunday I got the opportunity to discover first hand leading worship in light of a 6.1 magnitude earthquake. While the earthquake occurred in a different city to us, with New Zealand being the small country it is, many people in our church had indirect or direct links to those affected. It was definitely [...]

HBC Service Redux: 2 January 2011

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Here’s a recap of the service and the songs we chose this past weekend (You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week at theworshipcommunity.com).

Order of Service – 2 January

(worship leader: William Chong)

1. O Church Arise – Stuart Townend and Keith Getty. I chose this song as the [...]

Christmas Weekend Service Redux: 25-26 December 2010

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For many people, Christmas Day marked the start of the holidays. But I’m thankful to have been part of a faithful music team that sacrificed some family and present-opening time to serve our church family here at HBC.

Since Christmas fell on a Saturday this year, it meant that we ran two consective-day services, and kept [...]

HBC-EFC Combined Service Redux: 12 December 2010

Here’s the weekly recap of the Sunday service at my home church. This week we joined in worship with brothers and sisters from the Evangelical Formosan Church NZ (a Mandarin-speaking congregation) – naturally there was quite a different, yet immensely exciting feel to the day! I led the service, which was ably translated by Paul [...]

HBC Service Redux: 21 November 2010

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Here’s our weekly recap of the Sunday service at my home church. This time, I led the worship service while Peter preached from 1 Timothy 2:3-6, carefully explaining through some quite tough gospel dilemmas. We concluded the service by taking communion together in remembrance of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. [...]

HBC Service Redux: 14 November 2010 (summary)

Simon Newbould led the worship service, while Peter preached from 1 Timothy 2:4.

1. Come Now Is the Time to Worship – Brian Doerkson.

2. Resurrection Hymn – Keith Getty and Stuart Townend.

3. All Is Well – Robin Mark.

4. Rejoice – Simon Newbould. Simon wrote this one about a month ago and the church have quickly picked [...]