#post-service

[new-day-coming]

Tonight my former pastor came back and preached for the first time in 5 months. It was really good, but the whole point of me writing this is to write about what happened after the service.

Ok, so last night I relapsed and even thought about attempting suicide. So after service I went and asked him (my former pastor) for a few verses to pray over and for some things to look into. He gave me four verses and a new devotional book. As we were talking he looked at me and asked me if I’m attending a Sunday afternoon group and if so, which one. My reply was, “kind of, I mean, I used to, I mean, I haven’t been able to make it these last few weeks.” It was crazy that he could pick up that I wasn’t getting together with the girls of my church. He then said that he is going to hold me accountable, which is what I need, I need someone to remind me and to make sure I go. This man can read me like no one else can, he was the first pastor I ever heard preach, he prayed with me the night I was saved, he baptized me, he has been there for me through everything! I wish he was still preaching every week… our new pastor is good, but him and I don’t click, his preaching style isn’t anywhere close to how I would preach, and is pretty much the exact opposite of our old pastor.

My former pastor gets me so well, he know how my brain works (partially because his works in an oddly similar way), he asks thought provoking questions, and he provides multiple sources, pieces of evidence, and anecdotes to back up everything he says. His sermons make me think, he hasn’t preached for us in 5 months… This is why I haven’t had a Wednesday night post-service rant in a while…

[1ccreative]

Fall 2013 - One Focus Pre-Service-Playlist

This fall, we're heading into a series covering the two letters from Peter. The content follows some of the themes of suffering well, anticipating Jesus' return and, as always, there are some newer songs we're thinking through introducing at our weekend services. Hope there's some good nuggets in there to help our church family prepare for our weekend services as well as maybe for you to check out.

Also - it's worth mentioning, if you want to see the songs we do out our weekend services each week, check out www.apchurch.com/whatsongwasthat

------ Each time we enter a new season as a church we put together a playlist that covers some of the themes, introduces some new songs that we’re thinking about teaching our congregation as worship songs and some new artists we’re checking out recently.

[1ccreative]

June 2013's #PreServicePlaylist

Each time we enter a new season as a church we put together a playlist that covers some of the themes, introduces some new songs that we’re thinking about teaching our congregation as worship songs and some new artists we’re checking out recently.

A week late on getting this playlist together, but it's probably a good thing. Our team was at #create2013, and learned some of Ben Cantelon's and worship central's very congregational songs. A good mix of some other songs that we're still into for a long time.

We're always looking to introduce songs that help our church sing the words in their hearts and help the themes we're in as a congregation stick to our hearts.