Eschatalogy at KP

This week's sermon in the series of "Things I wish Jesus hadn't said," was about the end times. Jesus did talk about the end, and he said some things that are very intriguing. Opposite of that, He also said that our chief concern was that of doing the work of the Father until the Son returns, not to ignore that work to devote our time and energy to figuring out when and how He's returning.
Admittedly, the study of His return does in many ways yield the fruit of of the Kingdom as it gets people thinking about it and confronts them with a decision. So the sermon wasn't about finger-pointing, and line-drawing between people, it was simply a palette of several scholarly and faithful views that exist on the second coming.

My favorite part of it all was that short video in that church. That part when the lighting strikes and suddenly the room goes from being full to there only being like 20 people there. It was a cool video anyway.

As part of this presentation on such a hot topic, we did our best to cover REM's "it's the end of the world as we know it." That was pretty fun too. There were more words in one verse of that song than there were in all the other songs we sand the whole morning combined. Actually, I don't know if that's a fact, but it sure seems like it.

We also did:
Beautiful the Blood (Fee)
Enough (Tomlin)
How Deep the Father's Love (our own arrangment; more closely resembles Kelly Minter's)
The Stand (Hillsong United)

I'd be curious to learn what most folks at KP thought of the "The Stand." It's a great song with a simple lyric. For me, the intense nature of the words and music of the chorus really draws me in to the meaning of the words. I've been singing that song for a few years now, and as you might know, the words repeat themselves quite a few times. Even with that, the words still draw me to their meaning much like they did when I first learned them.

"I'll stand with arms high and heart abandoned, in awe of the one who gave it all. I'll stand, my soul, LORD, to you surrendered; all I am is yours."

The band did a really great job this week. Aleks was able to play guitar, which was a a lot of fun. Ethan went from being asleep at practice, to being totally rocktastic on the drums during the actual service. I just don't know what happened there. Kasie was a rockstar on the guitar. Doug seemed to have a great time singing. Joe played very well. Sam was his usual awesome.

The coolest thing I heard about our set was that someone said, "on that last song, it was worshipful to just watch the band worship." That is the highest of affirmations and testimony for a worship team.