This is my first “Sunday Setlist” post. Sunday Setlist is where worship leaders all over the world post on their blogs the songs that they did for that Sunday at Church. The central hub and directory of all Sunday Setlist posts for a given Sunday can be found over at fredmckinnon.com. Now that the intro is done, let’s get to the set for Sunday July 5, 2009.

We only had three people playing today, me on guitar, Jonathan on bass, and Kristian on drums. Sometimes, I like it when there’s only three of us playing, things are simpler and we tend to get through material faster during our rehearsal. Don’t get me wrong, nothing beats having the full band together, it’s just nice to have a little change once in a while.

The first song we did was Marvelous Light by Charlie Hall. This song is relatively new to our church, it was first introduced at the Senior High retreat back in April, but since then, the song has gained a lot of momentum. It’s been really resonating with our entire church. With the youth groups in particular, I find myself caught in between doing it a lot because of how liked it is and trying not to overdue it to where it gets met with resistance, “Oh great, this song again?”.

The next song we did was Mighty to Save by Reuben Morgan. Mighty to Save is a great transition song to get from the upbeat to the slower songs. The thing that really worked well with this one tonight was the way we transitioned into it from Marvelous Light. We do both songs in the same key, A, and after the last chorus of Marvelous Light, we stayed on a D and carried that into the start of Mighty to Save so I could just start singing the first line. It had a really good flow to it.

Next was Only You by the David Crowder Band. This was the first time I had done this song. I’ve always liked listening to it, but it was a song that was on my heart today as I was singing most of the morning, so it got put in. I felt like this was a great, true worship song. It’s simple and it’s singable. It was almost like taking a deep breath and just being with God. It was nice.

The last song we did was one I wrote back in January called Come to Us. This song has a very Fire Fall Down feel to it. This song went well, we’ve only played it once at youth group before, and the guys did a great job with it. (Side note, it’s super affirming as a worship leader and songwriter when you hear people in the congregation singing a song you wrote and singing it loudly.)

There you have it. The setlist from tonight. It was a good night and God was glorified.

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