tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7226414524517678615.post8928097768944111326..comments2024-03-29T06:13:27.902-04:00Comments on Looking At Life Through My Bifocals - Sharing my life one day at a time: SUNDAY PRAISE -- 10,000 REASONSKathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05673288414533354350noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7226414524517678615.post-40483883541340762922016-04-18T21:27:04.491-04:002016-04-18T21:27:04.491-04:00I enjoy your blogI enjoy your blogshortybearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06104822128450697901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7226414524517678615.post-22421366087615450642016-04-18T06:57:56.752-04:002016-04-18T06:57:56.752-04:00I love it too! You feel welcome the minute you ent... I love it too! You feel welcome the minute you enter. 10,000 Reasons is one of my favorite songs.The chorus ...you can just feel the praise welling up & out! I've found Joe covers a LOT in those 20 minutes! Great sermon! woofDebbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08966211309983592345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7226414524517678615.post-74836371304536838522016-04-17T19:59:27.684-04:002016-04-17T19:59:27.684-04:00Rachel, I love how you write. I feel as if I were...Rachel, I love how you write. I feel as if I were there with you. We are a little different than your service, though. For one, we never sing the Doxology. We sing all verses of a hymn even if it's 5 or 6. We do not take up an offering. We do not have an invitation at the end. And we don't have a choir.<br /><br />Here's our schedule: Call to Worship, 2 hymns, Prayer & Praise, Scripture, Announcements, Hymn, Message, Hymn. Very simple. We come out of the anabaptist movement so there are no stained glass windows, no pictures, nothing embroidered. Our church looks like a home. White walls and plain windows on the side. Wooden floors. It's not for everyone, but I love it.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05673288414533354350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7226414524517678615.post-21281884023379212212016-04-17T11:21:02.538-04:002016-04-17T11:21:02.538-04:00From the Land of the Twenty-Minute Sermon, and fro...From the Land of the Twenty-Minute Sermon, and from my perch on the front pew so as to be handy to the piano, I could time off those minutes unconsciously---the first thirty were Doxology and singing and announcements and prayer and more singing, (three verses each, minimum, from the four-verse Broadman---it's a known fact that the third-verse is a great Wasteland, seldom sung and unfamiliar) and then a choir special right after the offering, and that twenty-minute sermon, from a succession of probably twelve pastors during my lifetime in that little Southern church. <br /><br />A soft slowing at the end, the Invitation, prayer, and then the shuffle/talk out to the parking lot. One innocent little joke was about the church across town which "let out" at 11:50, so as to give its congregation first-in-line spots at the new cafeteria up the highway. We always wondered if they shortened the music or the sermon!<br /><br />I'll look forward to hearing the message later today.<br /><br />rRachelDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11204947567574886675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7226414524517678615.post-55185995218011828282016-04-17T08:31:42.841-04:002016-04-17T08:31:42.841-04:00Kathy, A twenty minute sermon...people will not be...Kathy, A twenty minute sermon...people will not be squirming in the pews. :) I will be back later today to listen to you. Blessings for a great Sunday. xoxo, SusieSusiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06425051654313691986noreply@blogger.com