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December 27

This week was very acoustic. It was nice to hear the congregational singing above everything else.

Here were our songs:
O Come All Ye Faithful
Because of Your Love - Paul Baloche
You Are the One - David Potter

I also sang I've Got News by Andrew Peterson to help prepare us to hear from God.

Happy New Year!

December 20

The songs for this week were quite different than the week before. Instead of strings and bluegrass, it was heavy metal madness! It is always fun when the Christopherson brothers are home, even if the volume goes to 11 once in a while.

These were our songs:
Go Tell It On the Mountain - Original Arrangement
What Child Is This - Loosely based on this arrangement
Glory in the Highest - Chris Tomlin
O Holy Night - traditional arrangement

December 13

What a treat this week. We had some great musicians join us on strings and piano. It was a real joy playing with this group, and I hope we can get them back again soon. If you were there and liked the style (or if you think you might like a folk/bluegrass Christmas album), you should pick up Advent Songs by Sojourn. Amazing.

Here were the songs we played:
Joy to the World - Sojourn
Away in a Manger - Traditional
This Is How We Know - Matt Redman
Mary Did You Know - Arr. David Potter
God Is With Us - Sojourn

December 6

Christmas is here! We kicked off Journey's first Christmas with an old fashioned sing-a-long. It was fun to have a few extra singers this week (it was not a choir! haha).

We kicked off Christmas with these songs:
O Come All Ye Faithful
Angels We Have Heard on High
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Come Thou Long Expected Jesus - Arr. David Potter

We remembered Christmas is not just a story about a baby in a manger, but a pivotal point in the whole story of redemption. Jesus was born on earth so that he could be our savior. We ended our service by singing together the chorus of Mighty to Save.
If you like Christmas music, you may want to download a Christmas EP that Cody helped record this fall. Download it FREE here: www.noisetrade.com/omahacollective

November 29

Here were our songs this week:
Blessed Be Your Name - Matt Redman
Everlasting God - Lincoln Brewster
Amazing Grace - Arr. Chris Tomlin
Nothing but the Blood - Traditional Hymn
The Wonderful Cross - Matt Redman


I for one am looking forward to singing some seasonal music this month! Can't wait to kick it off this week with an ol' fashioned sing-a-long.

November 22

This week we had the treat of Doug Kenyon giving the message. He did a great job, and if you missed it, you can check it out at journeychurchne.org under the Media section.

Here were our songs:
Arise My Soul Arise - Charles Wesley
Hosanna - Paul Baloche
Jesus Paid It All - Kristian Stanfill
Rock of Ages You Will Stand - Paul Baloche
This Is How We Know - Matt Redman

November 15

Recommended album: Hello Hurricane by Switchfoot.
Recommended Christmas album: Advent Songs by Sojourn (this would be a sneak preview for Journey folks).
Recommended Coffeehouse in Gretna: The Beanery. They have new teas!

This weeks songs:
Kingdom of God - Paul Baloche
How Great Thou Art - Paul Baloche
Before the Throne - Sojourn
One Thing - Charlie Hall

November 8

We had a special opportunity this week to hear from Sabina, a Chinese church planter from Bejing. We responded to her moving testimony with a song from Tim Hughes, listed below. It was amazing to hear how much of her testimony was about trusting God, which just so happened to be the topic of our sermon for the morning. No, we don't usually plan these things...we couldn't do it better if we tried.

Here were our songs (acoustic set this week):
Those Who Trust - Don Chaffer
On Christ the Solid Rock - Arr Charlie Hall
God of Justice (We Will Go) - Tim Hughes
You Never Let Go - Matt Redman

November 1

November already!?! I don't know about you, but I had an extra smoky voice this week. Probably because I sat next to a fire for four hours on Halloween night! I love fall, and nights like last Saturday night are a very big reason why. Maybe sometime we can have church around a fire on a cool fall night.

Here were our songs this week:
All to You - Lincoln Brewster
Beautiful One - Tim Hughes
Your Grace Is Enough - Chris Tomlin
Surrender - Marc James
All I Have Is Yours - Rebecca Elliott and Bobby Gilles (This is a great album)

October 25

The following songs took place between 10:00am and 11:00am:


This Is How We Know - Matt Redman
Lord You Have Searched Me - Jared Jensen
From the Inside Out - Joel Houston
What Can I Do - Paul Baloche
Made to Worship - Chris Tomlin

October 18

This week we introduced our first song off the new Matt Redman album, We Will Not Be Shaken. Did I mention you should buy this album?

Here were our songs this week:
Holy - Brenton Brown
This Is How We Know - Matt Redman
Lead Me To The Cross - Hillsong United
The Wonderful Cross - Arr. Matt Redman
How Deep the Father's Love for Us - Stuart Townend

October 11

This week we talked about LUST. Since there are so few lustful songs to play as intro music......yeah.

Before jumping into the song list, I want to highlight a couple worship albums that I would recommend. We will be singing songs from both of these albums in the future, so if you listen to them now, you will be ahead of the game when we introduce the songs as new!
The first is Matt Maher's Alive Again. This album has several good corporate worship songs, along with several good songs for personal listening. Check out No Greater Love for a great cross centered anthem.
The second album I would suggest buying right this second is Matt Redman's We Shall Not Be Shaken. This album is full of cross centered worship songs that connect the truth of scripture to excellent, current music. Redman has a gift for making simple truths come alive in song. We will definitely be visiting this album again and again over the next few years.

Here were our songs this week:
 Beautiful One - Tim Hughes
From the Inside Out - Joel Houston
In Christ Alone - Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - Chris Tomlin
I Could Run Away - Don Chaffer & Waterdeep

October 4

I couldn't be happier that we're into October! This is my favorite season, although I usually end up sick at some point. You guessed it...it was last week. Thanks to God for my voice Sunday. I didn't have much the whole week before.

Here were this week's songs with links to the recording on iTunes:
Let the Praises Ring - Lincoln Brewster
I Will Boast - Paul Baloche
Jesus Paid It All - Kristin Stanfill
I Surrender All -  Hymn with our own arrangement. Check out how these guys sing it.
Be Thou My Vision - Same as above. Man, these guys can sing.

September 27

This week was the beginning of a new series called Uncomfortable. We will be looking at the sermon on the mount from Matthew 5-7. Often times the things Jesus calls us to do or be make us uncomfortable because it seems an impossible task. I'm looking forward to this series!

Here were our songs this week:
Let God Arise - Chris Tomlin
Not to Us - Chris Tomlin
I Need Thee Every Hour - Arr. Jars of Clay
God You Reign - Lincoln Brewster
We Come to You - Derek Webb

September 20

This was our last week of our Fight Club sermon series. This has been a fun series, so it was bitter sweet for me. However, we fittingly ended the series with an instrumental version of Battle Hymn of the Republic before the service. Andy did a great job on saxophone, and big thanks to the Gretna High School Band for borrowing us a marching snare drum for the morning!

Our songs were:
All to You - Lincoln Brewster (looking forward to seeing him in concert this Friday!)
Jesus Messiah - Chris Tomlin
Mighty to Save - Hillsong United

We also celebrated communion together with the following songs:
Before the Throne of God Above - Sojourn
Revelation Song - Kari Jobe

And we closed the Fight Club series by singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic together. It has been a fun and challenging series, and our next one looks to be quite exciting as well: Uncomfortable: looking at the teachings of Jesus that make us shift in our seats! See you Sunday.

September 13

This week we stripped the band back for an acoustic set. It really helped bring us back to our foundations - get at the heart of what we sing about. Here were our songs:

How Great Thou Art
How Deep the Father's Love for Us
Blessed Be Your Name
Your Name
Offering
O Sing the Greatness


We also had to find an instrumental "fight song" to go with our series, which presented a challenge when doing an acoustic set. However, a little Bon Jovi, "Dead or Alive" always gets the fight stirring in most people, and is played on acoustic guitar! It worked great and was a fun start to the morning.

September 6

Happy Labor Day Weekend! For you husker fans, it was a great weekend. Oklahoma fans, not so much. Fortunately, we started the service off with the Husker Tunnel Walk song (also known as Sirius by the Alan Parsons Project) as an instrumental "fight song."

Here were the songs we sang, reminding ourselves to fight to be Godly:

Hosanna - Paul Baloche
Take My Life - as recorded by Chris Tomlin
Everything - Tim Hughes
Kingdom Come - David Potter

August 30

Our focus in this week's service was on purity. We continued in 2 Timothy, hinging on 2:22 - "Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts." Paul instructs Timothy to pursue righteous living - not as a way of being right with God - but in response to God's grace. We worshiped the God of grace through these songs:

Kingdom of God - Paul Baloche, Mia Fieldes, and Kari Jobe
Your Name - Paul Baloche
'Til I See You - Joel Houston
Enough - Chris Tomlin
One Pure and Holy Passion - Mark Altrogge

August 23

This week we continued our Fight Club series. We've added the "fight club" theme to the instrumental music right before the service begins. The first week we played "Eye of the Tiger" which is sure to get anyone's blood pumping. This week, we went with a Husker Blackshirts tradition and played Back in Black. There were a few heads bobbing!

Kingdom of God - Paul Baloche, Mia Fieldes, and Kari Jobe
On Our Side - Chris Tomlin
Nothing But the Blood - Matt Redman
From the Inside Out - Joel Houston
Everything - Tim Hughes

August 16

We kicked off our new series, Fight Club, with some rock anthems! Ok, In Christ Alone isn't necessarily a "rock" anthem, but it always feels like it when we get to the sweet words of verse 3 and 4 - "As he stands in victory, sin's curse has lost it's grip on me." Those words should rise emotion in us like a fourth quarter game winning touchdown pass! We will be camping in 2 Timothy for the remaining five weeks of this series, and you can probably expect a few more anthems to come - and another fight song or two along the way.

Kingdom of God - Paul Baloche, Mia Fieldes, and Kari Jobe (This song could be our theme song for the fight club series! Great song)
In Christ Alone - Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
Time Has Come - Joel Houston
'Til I See You - Joel Houston

August 9

This week we scaled back the band to just electric guitar and keyboard. It was fun playing a simpler set with Bart, and it's always great to hear the voice of the church praising our God together.

Those Who Trust - Don Chaffer
Great Is Thy Faithfulness - Lincoln Brewster Arrangement
Awesome Is the Lord - Chris Tomlin
What Can I Do - Paul Baloche

August 2

This week we focused on God's holiness using Psalm 99.

Holy - Brenton Brown
Holy Is the Lord - Chris Tomlin
I Cling to the Cross - Paul Baloche
Jesus Paid It All - Kristan Stanfill
Your Name - Paul Baloche
Revelation Song - Jennie Lee Riddle
I Stand Amazed - Charles Gabriel

July 26

Chad is back! If you noticed the volume level was turned up to 11, you may have also noticed our multi-colored drummer was back in the saddle. No amount of plexi-glass can contain what is Chad. He is heading back out on the road again this Friday, and he will be in the UK and Japan for the next couple weeks, so if you think of it, pray for him.

We started the morning with a bit of live music - usually we do a pre-service instrumental, but today we added a song from the band By the Tree called "Hold You High." It was a fun, loud song to start the morning with, and it definitely signaled the start of the service to all the coffee drinkers.

Here are the rest of the songs we sang this week:
Famous One, Chris Tomlin
Rock of Ages You Will Stand, Paul Baloche
You Never Let Go, Matt Redman
I Cling to the Cross, Paul Baloche
Great Is Thy Faithfulness, as recorded by Lincoln Brewster

July 19

Gretna Days! Hopefully you all had a great weekend, and if you missed Phil in the dunk tank, well then you missed it.

We had several new faces in the band this week, along with probably the most difficult slew of songs I've thrown at them yet. They did great!

Our God Reigns - Brandon Heath
On Christ the Solid Rock - arr. Charlie Hall
Rock of Ages You Will Stand - Paul Baloche
God You Reign - Lincoln Brewster
Whole World in His Hands - Tim Hughes (Casting Pearls/Vota also covered this song)
O Sing the Greatness - Fanny Crosby/David Potter

July 12

This week was the first Sunday of a new series: Hello! My Name Is: God. The series will focus on who God is using a different Psalm each week. This week's Psalm was Psalm 103, which happens to be one of my favorites.

Here are the songs we sang this week:
Our God Saves, Paul Baloche
You Are Good, Lincoln Brewster (originally written/recorded by Israel Houghton and New Breed)
This Is Our God, Chris Tomlin
You Are the One, David Potter (David leads worship at Christ Community Church in Omaha and is a good friend of mine)
You Have Been So Good, Paul Baloche

July 5

By popular request, I am posting the songs and artists and (whenever possible) an iTunes link to the songs we sing each Sunday. I hope this helps you worship God throughout the week! The bible says "whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." Let everything you do be worship, and let these songs draw you closer to our Lord.

This week was an acoustic setup with Cody on acoustic guitar, Tony on the Cajon (hand drum), and Louise on vocals. It was fun to scale the band back and hear more of Journey's voices!

Here are the songs we sang this week:

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