Tuesday, October 18, 2016

i WORSHIP with ALL NATIONS


OCTOBER 30 SUNDAY 
is MISSIONS SUNDAY
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note:
SOUTH EAST ASEAN Community of NATIONS FLAGS must be FOUND in all our CENTERS and Worship Venues by October 30, our MISSIONS SUNDAY (GLOBAL MISSIONS SUNDAY).
This then will be Permanent. Philippine and Thailand FLAGS a bit BIGGER than the rest.
MODEL of FLAGS DISPLAYED will be at the HLM NATIONAL CENTER ANNEX
by October 22 SATURDAY at our 515pm VISAYAN CELEBRATION.
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Suggested Missions Sunday Program
iworship with all Nations
  • Global Missions Video
  • Praise and Worship
1. Every Nation In our Generation
2. Everyone
3. Worthy of It All
4. Hellelujah to the Lamb
5. Our Desire

  • Welcome / Introduction about Missions Sunday
  • WORD
( Mark 12:28-31 as Introductory)
( Loving God, Loving people as the heart of our Vision)
( Malachi 1;11 prophecy, why are we going out for missions and that is to see all Nations to worship)
( missions is not the end, but worship is the end of missions)
( Concluion in Revelation 4)

Update from Thailand group
Need for Southeast Asia Nations
Ending of the Word ( will sing worthy of it all)

  • Altar Call
  • 2nd Call ( Southeast Asian Missions worker, to prepare forms to be filled out as they go out and drop it on the booktable)
  • Giving time ( 2 envelopes// regular Giving envelopes and Airmail for Missions giving. Have someone to pray for the regular giving and let the Lead Pastor or Junior Pastor to pray for the missions giving and pray for Thailand.  Sing the Song Hallelujah to the Lamb while giving)
  • Benediction
  • Celebration ( with flaglets)
  • Suggested Costume of all the people on stage--- South East Asian costumes

Friday, October 7, 2016

YX SERIES Amplify


Amplify Series is based on the church’s next series, iWorship.

Main Verse:
Mark 12:28-30
“One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?” Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘HEAR, O ISRAEL! THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD; AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.’”

Definition of Terms:
Amplify – cause something to be more intense or more marked
- Synonymous to intensify; magnify
Spotify – is a digital music service that provides a listener access to millions of songs
Playlist – a list of songs or pieces of music personally chosen by the listener himself.

Objectives:
At the end of this series, the listeners would be able to:
Define what worship is
Realize the importance of worship in their lives
Know God’s standards for worship
Worship God with a total heart, soul, mind and strength

Why Amplify?
Since it rhymes with the word Spotify, the team decided to choose the word Amplify as the title of our next series.
In line with our next series, amplify can somehow be connected to the word, worship. We are living in a culture wherein worship is just boxed in music, songs and what tickles our ears and gives us goosebumps. This is where the word Amplify comes. The reason why some people are still spiritually thirsty and hungry after a sumptuous set of worship songs is because they tend to depend to music as the primary factor on how great or satisfying the worship is. Our standards for worship need to be amplified. What can amplify our worship towards God? We can’t just settle in music. Isn’t worship the active response of a beloved to God wherein the mind is transformed, the heart is renewed and actions are surrendered? God should experience our worship towards Him,

Topics:
I. (Introduction) Amplify
Easy access to millions of songs. Get updates from your favorite artists. Tune in to a local radio station. That’s what Spotify is. In our generation today, most young people, both believers and non-believers, have this software on their smartphones, tablets and laptops. This is their most convenient way to listen to their favorite music. It must be a privilege to be born in such a time where music is at its highest peak and where our senses are highly sensitive towards music. Is it possible that we tend to use the sensations we get from music as the primary factors for great worship? It’s true that God invented music and loves music. It is present in the Old Testament back in the time of the Levites, even in David’s psalms. What can amplify our standards for worship? This is where Mark 12:28-30 is introduced. God should be worshipped with all of our hearts, souls, minds and strengths.

“Angels could give him glory, but what He longs for is the worship of a human heart.”

Verses:
1) Mark 12:28-30
2) Exodus 23:25
3) Psalms 150:6
4) Psalms 103:1
5) John 4:24
6) Psalm 33:3

The speaker should be able to:
1) Explain what worship is
2) Introduce generally the roles of our hearts, souls, minds and strengths in worship
3) Highlight that worship is more than a song


II. (Total Heart) Foolish Heart

“I need a love that grows. I don’t want it unless I know…” “I need a love that grows. I’m so tired of being alone, but will my lonely heart play the fool again…?” The song, Foolish Heart, is all about a person once broken now longing for love again, but being broken once causes the person to be afraid of committing to love. Indeed, this generation has a huge problem towards commitments and relationships, maybe because some have their hearts been broken many times and some just don’t want to be serious in their commitments, but what heart are we referring to? This heart is not obviously the vital organ that pumps the blood throughout the body. Instead, we’ll focus on what the Bible has to say about the heart. The Bible mentions the human heart almost 300 times. In essence, the heart is the spiritual part of us where our emotions and desires dwell. Some sources say that in the Old and New testament, the Bible refers to the heart as the innermost part of the human. The heart is the core of our being. The Bible teaches us that above all else, we should guard our heart for it is the wellspring of life. What is really the role of the heart in worship?

Verses:
1) Proverbs 4:23
2) Story of David as a man after God’s own heart (1 Samuel 13 and above)
3) Jeremiah 17:9
4) Mark 7:21-23
5) Romans 10:10
6) Ezekiel 36:26
7) Psalms 51:10
8) Psalms 17:3
9) Deuteronomy 8:2

The speaker should be able to:
1) Explain what the heart is and its role in worship
2) Relate the heart to music


III. (Total Soul) Beautiful Soul
“I don’t want another pretty face. I don’t want just anyone to hold. I don’t want my love to go waste. I want you and your beautiful soul.” As far as the song keeps repeating this part, the persona seeks the most despised part of the person, the soul. The persona(man), who desires to fall in love again, this time looks at the soul of a person, not her physical characteristics. What is the human soul? The Bible tells us that there are only two things that last, the Word of God and the human soul (may forever!) Simply stated, the human soul is the part of the person that is not physical. The human soul is central to the personhood of a human being. Now that we have a simple understanding about the human soul, does it have a huge role in our worship?

Verses:
1) Matthew 16:26
2) Psalm 62:1
3) Psalms 139:13-14
4) Psalm 63:1
5) Psalm 103:1

The speaker should be able to
1) Explain what the soul is and its role in worship
2) Differentiate the soul from the spirit, body and mind


IV. (Total Mind) Tattooed on my Mind
The Bible never instructs us to be led by our emotions, rather by our minds. Tattooed on my Mind talks about a certain man desired by the persona(woman) that keeps on showing up in her dreams. “…I’m all knocked out. Spend too much time thinking of you…,” Obviously, the persona is torn between wanting to experience the butterflies in her stomach every time she sees him smile and wanting to get away from the heartaches their relationship once brought. This relentless, insatiable desire eventually digs in to her mind resulting to her actions now led by her troubled mind. Now, how can we worship God without a sound mind?

“A beautiful mind is a terrible thing to waste.” - UNICEF

Verses:
1) Romans 12:2
2) Philippians 4:8
3) Romans 8:6
4) 1 Corinthians 2:16
5) Philippians 2:2
6) Philippians 4:7
7) Hebrews 8:10

The speaker should be able to:
1) Explain what what the mind is and its role in worship
2) Differentiate the mind from the hear
   

V. (Total Strength) All of Me
“All of me loves all of you. Love your curves and all your edges. All your perfect imperfections…” This song talks about the unconditional love of the persona to his inamorata. Jesus teaches us to love God with all of our strength amidst imperfections, flaws and criticisms. The Bible tells us that the strength referred by Jesus is the strength we get from God, not from our own. This can also mean that we should worship God not in our own terms but on His terms. His strength, not our own. We can’t worship a mighty, powerful God with a human strength. We need a divine strength to worship Him. How can we worship God with total strength?

Verses:
1) Philippians 4:13
2) Ephesians 6:10
3) Ephesians 3:16
4) Psalm 21, 23, 28 and 73

The speaker should be able to:
1) Define strength and its role in worship
2) Differentiate human strength from divine strength
3) Expound strength and its aspects


Other Suggestions:

Intermission number of a song (the one used as a title) every Friday
1) 1st Week - Clear the Stage by Jimmy Needham
2) 2nd Week – Foolish Heart by Nina Girado
3) 3rd Week – Beautiful Soul by Jesse Mccartney
4) 4th Week – Tattooed on my Mind by
5) 5th Week – All of Me by John Legend by

Songs
1) Heart of Worship
2) For who you are
3) Leave me Astounded
4) Adonai
5) I Adore

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References:
http://www.theopedia.com/worship
http://www.christianlibrary.org/authors/Grady_Scott/meaningofworship.htm
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nina/foolishheart.html
http://www.gotquestions.org/what-is-the-heart.html
http://www.gotquestions.org/human-soul.html
https://dailyverses.net/
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jessemccartney/beautifulsoul.html
http://www.gotquestions.org/human-soul.html
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/d/dsound/tattoed_on_my_mind.html
http://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-about-our-thoughts/
https://faithbibleministriesblog.com/2012/07/06/the-heart-and-the-mind-what-the-biblical-word-heart-means/
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/johnlegend/allofme.html


Sunday, October 2, 2016

LETS WORSHIP in SONG!

LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL

ONLY YOU

BLESSED BE THE NAME of the LORD [last song]

Friday, September 30, 2016

Worship Begins Here ...


THIS IS WHERE WORSHIP BEGINS!
ALL-IN-ALL

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Jesus was asked by one of the scribes recorded in the 
gospel of Mark 12:28-30 ... 
"And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he [JESUS] answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’"
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Instead of receiving a complicated, confusing, complicated
answer, Jesus gave a simple-all-in-all-total answer that
must only be directed to the One True and Living God!
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Our all-in-all "Heart, Soul, Mind, Strength MUST be to the uttermost degree [all that is within] and with the full potency of that “all” must ONLY be towards the LORD GOD who revealed Himself to His people and recorded in sacred Scripture!
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This is where WORSHIP begins.
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As we start this NEW SERIES at His Life, my prayer is 
that we will behold the Only God that must receive worship 
with all OUR Passion, Perception, and Practice. 
And after which all of us will be telling the NATIONS 
to do the same! JESUS reminded everyone that this is 
the greatest! 
LET'S ABANDON ALL TO WORSHIP the ONLY ONE :-)
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*newsletter Pastor's Column, October 2 2016

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

SUNDAY WORSHIP EXPERIENCE


Mark 12:28-30English Standard Version (ESV)
The Great Commandment
28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, 
O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

English Standard Version (ESV)
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

EXPOSITOR'S GREEK TESTAMENT Commentary
Mark 12:30. 
Heart, soul, mind, strength (ἰσχύος); 
in Mt.: heart, soul, mind; 
in Lk. (Luke 10:27): heart, soul, strength, mind; 
in Deut. (Deuteronomy 6:4): heart, soul, strength (δυνάμεως); all varied ways of saying “to the uttermost degree” = “all that is within”; and with the full potency of that “all”.

October 2
kick off sunday
The Only God I Worship
mark 12:28-30

October 9
youth sunday
I Worship With Passion
mark 12:30 [heart and soul]

October 16
women of destiny sunday
birthday sunday
I Worship With Perception
mark 12:30 [mind]

October 23
kingsmen sunday
crossroads for executives recruitment
his life academy children's chorus sings
I Worship With Practicality
mark 12:30 [strength]

October 30
missions sunday
flags of the world
All Nations Worship
mark 12:31;  revelations 7:9, 10
The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'  There is no commandment greater than these."