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(Post by Matt Grant, 2 Pillars Worship Leader)

At 2 Pillars Church, we strive for transparency in our worship services. No magical fog machines, fancy lighting, or cool moving images behind the lyrics on the screen. We try not to dilute Jesus with fluffy songs that don’t really say anything or move us spiritually. We develop each worship gathering as a continual movement from beginning to end, from first song to sermon, from communion to final prayer. This is done, sometimes with difficulty, to evoke a response from the heart. A response that cuts. A response that breaks down walls and tears through sin and allows us to see Jesus as our Savior and Healer. Jesus is the reason we sing. Jesus is the reason we sweat it out in our surprisingly hot building and listen with intention to the teachings each Sunday. Without Him, we are lost. Jesus is our Hope and Promise.

We look forward to worshiping Jesus together with you this Sunday.  In order to serve you, below is the list of songs we’ll be singing together.

2 Pillars Church is currently forming a Lincoln cohort for the Porterbrook training that is being conducted through one of our Acts 29 partner churches in Omaha, Coram Deo.  Porterbrook is basically a church-based theological curriculum that you work through locally – gathering once a week in your local cohort and then quarterly in Omaha with all of the cohorts.

The only requirement for the Lincoln cohort that we’re forming at 2 Pillars Church is that you live in Lincoln (or easy driving distance such that you can get here once a week).  You do not have to be a part of 2 Pillars.

If you have any interest in learning more about this, please contact us by commenting on this post.

For more information about the program:

• Watch this video by Pastor Bob Thune from Coram Deo explaining more.
• Read this post by Coram Deo announcing the training (also includes a link to a PDF you can download and get all the ditty).
• Check out the Porterbrook Network website.

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As we gather we will sing: “My God, My Father,” “Death in His Grave,” “Help My Unbelief,” “It is Finished,” “Doxology,” and “How He Loves.”

To prep your heart for Sunday morning, I would encourage you to read and meditate upon Psalm 118 – especially verses 19-24 as well as to pray for God to reveal areas of unbelief in your heart.

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This week I wanted to send everyone this Sundays complete music set list with links to videos so you can spend time on your own listening and growing in the songs we sing at 2 Pillars. Our goal is not perfection in worship, for which I know our earthly bodies can’t attain. Nor is it so we can film a super sweet worship video and post on our site so everyone knows how much more awesome-er we are then them at worshiping. Even though, we may be pretty rad, that’s just not the case. It could be that we just want you to fall in love with Jesus and sing your hearts out in your homes and at church on Sundays. That just might be it……

Included below are videos of the songs we’ll be doing this Sunday and the names of the artist involved. At the end of the post, there is also a PDF linked with the lyrics to each of the songs.  I do this in case you want to find more music from the artist. There are tons of great songwriters and bands out there once you get passed the “Christian Top 40″ found on K-LOVE.

And…without further adieu…..

“The Earth is Yours” – Gungor

“What Wondrous Love is this” – Ex Nihilo

“Jesus, You are Worthy” – Benton Brown

“Death in his Grave” – John Mark McMillan

“My Jesus, I Love Thee” by Page CXVI

No video for this one, but you can click over to the Page CXVI MySpace page and give it a listen.

“Skeleton Bones” by John Mark McMillan

Download a PDF of the lyrics.