Preparing For Worship: October 23rd, 2011

Preparing For Worship: October 16th, 2011

Just a few days until we are together again! Check out the links below to learn/practice the worship songs we'll be singing.

1) Eternal Praise
2) God Is Able
3) Surrender
4) Lord, I Give You My Heart
5) Forever Reign

Preparing For Worship: October 9th, 2011

Anyone know what that stuff falling from the sky earlier this week was??? Weird huh?

Well whatever falls from the sky, we'll still be getting together three times this Sunday at Crossroads so plan to join us!

Here are the songs we'll be singing together so make sure you know 'em all 'cause you're gonna wanna SING with us; see ya Sunday!

1) See What A Morning
2) Because of This
3) God Is Able (**NEW SONG**)
4) Our God
5) Completely Done

Preparing For Worship: October 2nd, 2011

It's another weekend at Crossroads! We're excited to have you join us for what we're hoping is a really cool morning of extended time in the Word and in worship singing. We'll be taking communion together, and remembering both the blood and body of Christ that was broken for us, and also the symbolism of coming to the Lord's table to feast with him as a result of Christ's sacrifice.

Check out the song list below and get ready to come and sing along!

1) Be Thou My Vision
2) Come Praise And Glorify
3) Be Unto Your Name
4) Lead Me To The Cross*
5) Jesus, Thank You*
6) How Deep The Father's Love For Us*
7) By This We Know Love*
8) Stronger

*partial songs we're gonna medley together

Preparing For Worship: September 25th, 2011

Come worship with us this weekend at Crossroads as we study God's Word in John 9; the story of the blind man! Before you come, check out the links below so you can be ready to sing all the worship songs we'll be singing together this week. See ya Sunday!

1) Indescribable
2) Perfect Savior
3) For You Are The Lord
4) Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)

Preparing For Worship: September 18th, 2011

Can you hardly wait until this Sunday after last weekend??? Man, celebrating with CDs, T-shirts, and In-N-Out is always a highlight of our year!

But this Sunday is going to be just as cool because it's the weekly gathering of the body of Christ here at Crossroads! No gimmicks or giveaways this week (although we still have shirts and CDs), just fellowship, teaching, singing, giving, praying, and rejoicing that Christ is alive, and that he paid the ransom for our sinful souls to be washed clean forever!

Check out the songs below and practice them for the next day or two and come Sunday morning and let 'em rip!

1) Christ Is Risen
2) Forever Reign
3) Out Of The Depths
4) In Christ Alone
5) Jesus Messiah

Why not come to our 8:00am service this week?? In case you didn't hear us mention it in the video; we have plenty of open seats for you, and you'll make your 9:30 or 11:00 spot available for new visitors and families! C'mon, try it; you'll like it!!

See you Sunday!

Preparing For Worship: September 11th, 2011

Happy 5th Anniversary Crossroads!

Come join the party this weekend as we proclaim God's amazing goodness and faithfulness! If you've been thinking about coming to visit Crossroads; this is the week to do it! In-N-Out on site, brand-new worship CD for free, Crossroads T-shirts for only $5; we're turning up the generosity because God has heaped so much of it on us in Christ, and in the amazing history of a little church plant called Crossroads.

Check out the video links below as you get ready to gather; get to know these songs well 'cause you'll want to sing with us!

1) Come Thou Found of Every Blessing
2) From The Inside Out
3) Before The Throne Of God Above*
4) Revelation Song*
5) The Stand*

*Featured on our new worship CD: The Saints All Sing. Available THIS SUNDAY for FREE!

Preparing For Worship: September 4th, 2011

So I think everyone in SCV got back from Summer vacations last week! We had over 850 people come through Crossroads last weekend!! How many of you are heading back out of town for Labor Day?

For those of you who're staying around, don't miss this Sunday at Crossroads! Come be a part of what God's doing on a weekly basis; you'll be glad you did.

Here are the songs we're going to be singing together this Sunday; check them out and get familiar with them so you can sing loudly with the gathered church in just a few days...

1) Blessed Be Your Name
2) Come Praise And Glorify
3) How Great Is Your Faithfulness
4) You Alone Can Rescue
5) Marvelous Light

See you Sunday!

Preparing For Worship: August 28th, 2011

Back to school time! For many of us, this signals the return to the routine of life we're tried to escape all Summer. Whether you dread falling back into that routine, or you find comfort in it, it'll be fun to have most of our Crossroads family all together again! Be sure to check out our setlist of worship songs this Sunday, especially the new one from Sovereign Grace!

1) Our God
2) Come Praise And Glorify (NEW!)
3) Jesus Paid It All
4) You Never Let Go
5) The Power Of The Cross

Preparing For Worship: August 21st, 2011

One of my faithful worship blog viewers chided me for his feeling of unpreparedness last Sunday as a result of my failure to update the previous Friday while I was away; to which I offered him, and any of you who may share his sentiment, a hearty "I'm sorry!!"

So now that I'm back from vacations and conferences, we can really focus on being prepared for our corporate worship gathering each week!

Check out the links to the songs we'll be singing together this week and come be a part! This Sunday we'll be featuring a simplified acoustic feel, which a number of you have mentioned that you really enjoy every once in a while!

1) Because of This
2) God of This City
3) O Church Arise
4) How Great Is Our God
5) Glorious and Mighty

See you in a few days!

Preparing For Worship: July 24th, 2011

Can you guys believe it's almost the end of July?? Summer's beginning its descent into the history books, but the heat waves seem like they're just arriving!

This week in our Decades Worship Series we look back at the 1990s. This is the first decade that I really remember well (I was just going to turn 7 when the 80s ended), and there was a lot going on with worship music. I'll talk a little more about the trends and the importance of what happened with worship in the 90s, but for now, check out the set below and take a little stroll down memory lane...see you Sunday!

Call To Worship
Eternal Praise
Be Thou My Vision

Decades Worship: The 1990s
The Heart Of Worship
I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever
Shout To The Lord

Closing Song
Completely Done

Preparing For Worship: July 17th, 2011

Greetings! I hope you'll join us this week as we remember the 80s this week during our Decades Worship segment, and as we sit under the teaching of God's word from one of our elders, Darren Utley.

I know you're itching to know which songs we're doing from the 80s, so check out the set list below and get practicing!

Call To Worship
You Alone Can Rescue
Christ Is Risen

Decades Worship: The 1980s
Oh Lord, You're Beautiful (this song is still strong; check out this new recording!)
Awesome God (I won't make you try to sing those verses, just the chorus on this one)
Lord, I Lift Your Name On High (PETRA rocks this version!)

Closing Song
Revelation Song

Preparing For Worship: July 10th, 2011

Happy Friday everyone! Maybe you're browsing the web killing the last couple hours before the end of the workday, or maybe you're getting ready for a wedding rehearsal (congrats tomorrow Amos and Jennica!). Either way, glad you found your way to the Crossroads worship blog! Come ready for a great morning worshiping with other Crossroaders, and ready for the powerful work of God in your life as we exalt Christ and submit to the Spirit!

Check out the songs we're gonna sing together, and especially listen to the section of songs for our "Decades Worship: The 1970s" segment! If you were alive then and went to church, odds are you'll remember these tunes; if you don't, enjoy learning about this interesting decade in the life of the Church.

Call To Worship
How Great Is Your Faithfulness
Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)

Decades Worship: The 1970s
He Has Made Me Glad
Seek Ye First
Psalm 5
I Love You Lord

Closing Song
Out Of The Depths

Enjoy your preparation! See you Sunday!

Preparing For Worship: July 3rd, 2011

We're looking forward to having you join us at Crossroads this Sunday for an amazing morning of worship with God's gathered church. When I put it that way, doesn't it sound so much better than say...going out of town for the holiday weekend? ;)

Check out this week's songs for worship below. Draw your attention especially to the two songs we'll be doing from the 1960s as part of our "Decades Worship" series over the month of July. This series is meant to remind us of the legacy modern worship, and to appreciate the songs and songwriters that have paved the way for worship music as we know it. If you were alive in the 60s, hopefully these tunes will ring familiar...if you weren't alive in the 60s (I wasn't born until 1983!), let's appreciate the history of the contemporary worship song, and how it began with songs like these!

Call To Worship
From The Inside Out
(I like doing this song as an opener because it is both confessional ["a thousand times I've failed; still your mercy remains..."] and declarative of God's glory. We adapt the style to add energy and dynamics that help bring the focus into worship.)

Decades Worship: The 1960s
I'm Gonna Sing, I'm Gonna Shout
(This song has stuck around, and can be found on a lot of kids worship projects. A simple gospel tune that declares God's praise, and our hope of eternity with him in heaven. You'll have to find the track titled "04. DaveRandy Im Gonna Sing" on the media player)
Reach Out To Jesus
(by Ralph Carmichael, one of the trailblazers of contemporary Christian music, performed by "The King," Elvis Presley!)

Worship Singing (during communion and close of the service)
Jesus Messiah
(a great song for communion, reminding us of the great exchange Paul talks about in 2 Corinthians when Christ became our sin that we might become his righteousness!)
Jesus Paid It All
(a hymn for the ages, with the addition of the ending chorus: O praise the one who paid my debt and raised this life up from the dead. A great way to end the service!)

Preparing For Worship: June 19th, 2011

Happy Father's Day! Come join us at Crossroads this Sunday for our weekly worship gathering. Our special guest speaker, Dr. Keith Phillips, will be preaching from Luke 4 this Sunday so CLICK HERE to read the passage ahead of time. How responsible of you!

Click the song titles below to check out each of the worship songs we'll sing together so you can be a participater and not a partici-HATER! ;)

(Challenge: I (Paul) am in one of the following videos...see if you can find me...)

1) Mighty To Save
2) You Alone Can Rescue
3) Yes You Have
4) All I Have Is Christ
5) Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)

See you Sunday!!

Preparing For Worship: June 12th, 2011

Just a few more days and we'll see you at Crossroads for another amazing gathering of Christ's church to worship as one body!

What can you do between now and then? Read John's account of Jesus walking out to their boat on the sea of Galilee in John 6:16-21 (CLICK HERE to read it online).

Also, check out the setlist of worship songs below, and review them via the linked YouTube videos or other media. You'll want to be familiar with these tunes because Crossroads loves to SING. Check 'em out...

1) Because of This
2) I Have a Hope
3) We Trust Your Will
4) Out of the Depths (This is a NEW SONG for us!! Check it out!!)
5) Our God

Preparing for Worship: June 5th, 2011

Hey Crossroaders! Summer's here! The weather this week hasn't exactly been very convincing of that fact, but like Todd said in the video, we'll be glad for weeks like this come August.

Come start your Summer off right, worshiping with the body of Christ at Crossroads. We'll be singing, hearing fantastic teaching, giving, and coming to the Lord's Table together as we are reminded of the amazing news of the gospel. Won't you come and encourage someone with your presence and a smile? There's probably someone that needs a hug from you this weekend and yes, it has to be from YOU.

Check out the set list for our corporate worship singing, and be ready!!!

1) This God He Is Our God
2) Before The Throne Of God Above
3) Jesus Thank You
4) You Never Let Go

Preparing For Worship: May 29th, 2011

Happy Memorial Day everyone!

Sorry I left you blogless last weekend; my wife and I took off early Friday morning for our 5th Anniversary weekend away in Sonoma wine country. It was a gorgeous weekend in a gorgeous place with my gorgeous wife. It's amazing that five years has gone by since we got married. We had just been married one year when I first got a call from a stranger named Pastor Todd asking if I wanted to come lead worship in a cafeteria!

This Sunday we honor the service of those in the military to protect our country's freedom. We have a cool video with a bunch of pictures that y'all submitted of yourselves or family members that are/have been in the service. It's gonna be sweet!

Check out the song picks for this week:

1) Here I Am To Worship
2) Once Again
3) Yes You Have
4) Eternal Praise
5) In Christ Alone

Preparing for Worship: May 15th, 2011

Hey everyone! Looking forward to a great weekend! Pray for the 40 or so guys that will be up at Forest Home Ojai on Retreat; the speaker is amazing, and I'm hoping for a time of strong relationship building.

For the rest of us, here's the songs you should practice as you prepare for Sunday morning. Also, if you weren't here last week for Mother's Day, you NEED to watch the video below that we made for the morning featuring some of our most brilliant Crossroads kids!

1) Come Thou Fount
2) Our God
3) We Will Remember
4) Be Thou My Vision
5) Marvelous Light

Preparing for Worship: May 8th, 2011

Hey Worship Blog Readers! You know that you are the coolest, hip, happening, with-it, cutting-edge, dedicated, people at Crossroads right? At least that's what Pastor Todd said... ;)

Sunday's comin'! I know you're looking forward to it as much as I am, so check out which songs we'll be singing for our corporate worship session:
1) All Creatures Of Our God And King
2) The Father's Love
3) Forever Reign
4) Revelation Song
5) Give Us Clean Hands

What are you doing with the MOM in your life this Sunday??