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Join Austin Crawford, our Director of Worship here at Emmanuel, as he shares his heart & passion for this week’s worship service. He will be sharing his thinking behind the songs he has chosen for the service as well as encouraging us to prepare our hearts to worship together on Sunday.

You can almost hear the residual Sonshine spirit in Austin’s voice in the wake of a massively successful Sonshine week!  On this edition of Weekly Worship, Austin talks about the challenges of displaying lyrics off a screen as opposed to reading them out of a hymn book.  While this can be a greatly effective way of displaying our song lyrics, we need to keep in mind that it can bring new challenges.  Specifically, the congregation is going to have to have prior knowledge of each song, and the musicians play by improvisation, instead of reading notes off a page.

This podcast is made specifically to help our church family defeat this problem: to get the songs out to the congregation before we get together on Sundays.  Make sure you share this podcast and the songs we share on it!  Remember, the most current episode can always be found on the “Get Ready For Sunday” page on the church website, or in the text we send out every Saturday.

You will want to familiarize yourself with this song: Rise Up, O Church of God.  Isn’t this lyric incredible and convicting? “Rise up, o men of God!  Have done with lesser things!”

Join Austin Crawford, our Director of Worship here at Emmanuel, as he shares his heart & passion for this week’s worship service. He will be sharing his thinking behind the songs he has chosen for the service as well as encouraging us to prepare our hearts to worship together on Sunday.

It’s almost time for Sonshine here at Emmanuel.  In this short podcast, Austin talks about this week’s new song: Praise the King.  “There’s a reason why our hope remains eternal: Jesus is alive!”

Join Austin Crawford, our Director of Worship here at Emmanuel, as he shares his heart & passion for this week’s worship service. He will be sharing his thinking behind the songs he has chosen for the service as well as encouraging us to prepare our hearts to worship together on Sunday.

Peter Nesbitt, Emmanuel’s School of Church Ministry intern, joins Austin for this episode of Weekly Worship.  The focus of today’s episode is our new-found zeal for the Prayer of Adoration in our services.  From 1 Timothy 2:8, we have committed to give intentional time to this prayer in our Sunday morning services.  Rather than using it as a chance to cover movement or to transition through the service, we are focused in on the prayer which has been prepared by a faithful man in our church to exalt the Lord and encourage our people.

This Sunday morning, we are going to be looking at The Gospel Project.  It is our belief that God’s Word is the sole authority for how we should live our lives and minister in our church.  Please enjoy this episode of Weekly Worship w/Austin!

The Apostles’ Creed: 5 Minutes in Church History

The Apostles’ Creed: Discovering Authentic Christianity in an Age of Counterfeits

Ancient Words by Michael W. Smith

Join Austin Crawford, our Director of Worship here at Emmanuel, as he shares his heart & passion for this week’s worship service. He will be sharing his thinking behind the songs he has chosen for the service as well as encouraging us to prepare our hearts to worship together on Sunday.

In this episode of Weekly Worship, Austin highlights the way the new click track is being used for the worship team on Sunday mornings.  He relates this standard: the perfectly timed, predetermined clicking of an iPad app, to the way we believe the truth of God’s Word.

To prepare for Sunday, you will want to get to know this song: This I Believe (The Creed)

We believe!  What a perfect opportunity to speak to each other in a spiritual song!  We will see you at Emmanuel this Sunday.

Join Austin Crawford, our Director of Worship here at Emmanuel, as he shares his heart & passion for this week’s worship service. He will be sharing his thinking behind the songs he has chosen for the service as well as encouraging us to prepare our hearts to worship together on Sunday.

In this episode of Weekly Worship, Austin talks about our next new song coming up Sunday:  Glorious Day by Kristian Stanfill.  As you learn the song, pay close attention to the message of the two verses and the contrast between them.  It all hinges on the phrase, “When I met You.”  This is a similar message to the other songs we have coming up, such as At Calvary.

On Sunday morning, be prepared to sing the gospel in several hymns of personal experience of meeting Christ and having hope in the resurrection.  Thank you for listening!