Worship : 21 June 2009

Posted by David on June 21, 2009
God, Worship+

This post is part of the weekly Sunday Setlists blog carnival over at FredMckinnon.com. Go and check out the other setlists too!

Firstly, it’s not Father’s Day in Australia. That doesn’t happen until September. I have no idea why. But it at least explains why there’s no mention of it anywhere else in this post, huh.

I really don’t know how to describe today. On the one hand, Diane was unwell and stayed home to sleep. And on the other, our encounter with God in both today’s meetings was precious, rejuvenating, beautiful…but incomplete because I wasn’t sharing it with my wife. *sigh*

One day, and I hope it will be soon, the messages from our church will be available as vodcasts on iTunes. Then I won’t need to try and cursorily summarise them here ;)

The AM message was part 2 of the “Let The Word Do The Work” series, and it was one of those messages that was filled with lightbulb moments.

For some scant details on the PM message…have a look further down the page, under the PM music section. Just mixing it up a little.

Music

Sunday AM
1. Happy Day (Hughes, Cantelon)
2. For Your Glory (Pringle / C3)
3. Lord Of Lords (Fraser / Hillsong)
4. Worthy Is The Lamb (Murgida / Harbourside)
…then following tithes, offerings, news…
5. Forever Praise (Goodwin / Harbourside)
…and for the ministry/end of service
6. Let It Rain (Farren)

Margaret led this morning, pulling down heaven into the room in the most awesome of ways. Her exhortations were exactly right for the service today, and all the songs fit together this morning perfectly…with both the opening upbeat songs having a similar-ish feel, and both the slower songs being in 3/4 time. I don’t know about you, but songs in 3/4 time (apart from making me want to waltz on the stage) always seem to get the congregation worshipping more intimately, passionately.

Question: Do you find there are time signatures that just click better with your congregations ?

The ministry time included some lots of spontaneous worship in tongues and meditating on Jesus’ name. After which, no-one wanted to go. It always amuses me when that happens. “Come on people, you’ll be back again in a couple of hours…go and get some lunch.”

And after being the hit of the evening service last week, the riffing on Men at Work’s Down Under become the meet ‘n’ greet background music once again. However, as I was on stage, I got to do my very best exceptionally bad Colin Hay impersonation and sing about chundering men. Fun though.

Another question : do you, my readers from across the globe, know what “where women glow and men chunder” means?  Is that an appropriate question to ask in a worship post? Whatever…it’s been asked…too late now.  And it’s my blog anyway; I’ll ask what I like :grin:

Sunday PM
1. Salvation (Seeley / Planetshakers)
2. This Is Our God (Morgan, Fielding / Hillsong)
…then following tithes, offerings, news…
3. Shout You Praise (Orosa, Araullo, Reddy / Harbourside)

Julie led yet again tonight, even though she didn’t vocally lead any of the songs. She handled this really well, and she’s gonna be a great worship leader well before she turns 16 at this rate.

We didn’t have Worship+ tonight, as after the message and altar call, Pastor played us a song called There Is A King In You from the Donald Lawrence album The Law Of Confession, Part 1, which I talked about last week…so have a look in that post for more information…or Google him, or find him up in iTunes…or watch listen to the video mp3-masquerading-as-a-video of the song that closed our service. Click through to YouTube to find some more of his stuff too.

Other Stuff

Um, I think I covered most of this in other places. Like, under the hyper extended music section above. As I said…mixing it up a bit. Or just not organised. You choose.

So what did you get up to today ?

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10 Comments to Worship : 21 June 2009

tsholo
June 22, 2009

'do you, my readers from across the globe, know what “where women glow and men chunder” means?'

nope, no idea.

David
June 22, 2009

I'll keep you in suspense until a few more people have stopped by :)

steff
June 22, 2009

You're the first person on Sunday Set-Lists I've seen do "Lord of Lords". Great song love it.
I could be totally wrong but… does chunder have anything to do with throwing up?

David
June 22, 2009

Lord of Lords is one one of our favourites, and I think was the second song we learned from the Saviour King album a couple of years back. Then again, it's by Brooke, so we were always going to learn it :)

And, yes chunder does have lots to do with throwing up. Thankfully women glowing doesn't have anything to do with that, but I'll keep you in suspense about that one for now…

janaki
June 22, 2009

Okay, first, I cheated and googled "where women glow and men chunder" so I'll keep my mouth shut on that. Second, there are a few songs in 6/8 that I find particularly powerful – musically I think it may be attributed in some part to the strong emphasis on the 1 and 4. Could be the same for 3/4, just on the 1 downbeat. What do you think?

And lastly, that is totally off topic, but when is firefox going to get it together and add "googled" to their dictionary/spell checky thing? It's TOTALLY a legit word!

David
June 22, 2009

Totally agree on the 6/8 thing…and in fact, I should have included that in my post as well, and Lord of Lord is actually in 6/8 – just checked!

And thanks for keeping quiet re the lyrics…though I'm always surprised more people don't just immediately google things like that :)

On the spellcheck thing…there's so many new words it doesn't recognise yet. You'd think Mozilla would be at the forefront on dictionary creation stuff since they're so closely linked to our new language – haha.

Mike Mahoney
June 23, 2009

Most of the songs we do are simple 4/4, though there are some 6/8 songs as well. We also do quite a bit of latin- and carib- flavored music, so there is a lot of backbeats and syncopation at times. We try to stay away from 3/4. It puts people to sleep. :)

As to the other, I've known from the 80s that "chunder" is a euphamism for vomiting. What the origins of that phrase are, I have no idea!! You'd be amazed how many people here in the States think the lyric is "… and men plunder." Obviously that makes no sense in the context of the songs. (Not that lyrics in the 80s were heavy on the context, anyway.)

David
June 24, 2009

"We try to stay away from 3/4. It puts people to sleep. :) "

Hmmm, interesting the differences hey! :)

And talking of lyrics making sense, not much of Down Under makes sense…seeing it's about drunkeness etc…so men plundering is just as viable.

You pose an interesting question on the origins of the phrase chundering…and I've no idea either.

Anyway, the final answers are…chunder – as you all noted, is delightful slang for vomit. While the reference to women glowing is referring to that terribly British expression that women glow, they don't sweat :)

Side note : when I was at boarding school, we called the salad rolls we got for lunch on weekends "chunder buns". Yep.

Dennis
June 25, 2009

David – great sets! I too am "off" when my wife is not with me on Sundays. God is always glorified and I have wonderful friends, but I still feel unwhole! Whenever we do 3/4 or 6/8, I always think about pirates! Blessings!

David
June 25, 2009

Pirates! hahahaa

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