Christmas Eve for us at Grace is a time to return to tradition. We still use our bands, but for the most part, we stick as close to the original carol melodies and arrangements as possible.
During the weeks leading up to December, I like to introduce a few surprises into our worship set.  For instance, [...]

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We launched a brand new series this weekend called Captive–it’s all about sin and the gospel–how we’re captive to sin, but Jesus rescues us by his death on the cross. The metaphor we used was chains/prison/being set free. Check out the video confessional:

Worship Confessional: Freedom From Yourself from Brian Lusky on Vimeo.
Be sure also [...]

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We just launched our brand new series entitled Captive here at Grace. We don’t usually have the budget to go for elaborate stage design or lobby support, but we felt like this series merited something more ambitious than normal.
The theme involved being set free from sin by the grace of the cross–a theme we’ll [...]

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Check out the promo that our video director Dave created for our sermon series this month:

Captive Trailer from Grace Church on Vimeo.
Dave used a spoken word piece from Ian McIntosh’s new album (a.k.a. the keyboardist from Jesus Culture) as the focus of the video and then animated the text in followed by some pretty sweet [...]

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The following post is a part of Fred McKinnon’s Sunday Morning Setlists. Check out what other worship leaders are doing on Fred’s carnival of worship blogs.
As part of an attempt to debrief with you (and with myself), I’ve begun offering weekly video worship confessionals–a way to gain insight into the strange thinking of a pastor [...]

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We’re in a series right now called Heroes & Villains–the basic concept is that the stories we were told in Sunday school as children are actually incredibly deep and meaningful, and yet we hardly ever preach about them to adults. Our goal was to take back those stories, and to unpack the deep truth [...]

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