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.

On this episode of Weekly Worship, Austin mentions the new equipment which is being installed in the auditorium and highlights the importance of emphasis on our understanding of congregational singing in heaven.

Gospel Coalition Review of the Book Austin Mentioned

I did learn a lot from this book, both positives and negatives about current trends in worship music and media.  Nothing was more concerning, however, than a section on pages 68-69 which describes attendees of worship concerts and festivals who describe these events as “more sacred than church”. (Ingalls, 2018)  Let’s not base our understanding of what is better or more sacred in worship on our own personal preference.  If there’s one thing I want this podcast to accomplish, it’s simply for our church family to learn our worship songs better through the internet so that when we sing them together on Sunday, we already know them.  But if I could accomplish one more thing, it is to get this principle across to our church:

Let’s be a unified church family.  Let’s not put our own interest first.  Let’s give up our own way for the sake of the whole body.  And let’s base our worship experience on glorifying our great God and building each other up.

Thanks for listening to 10 episodes of Weekly Worship w/Austin!  I can hardly believe it!

Reference:

Ingalls, M. (2018). Singing the congregation how contemporary worship music forms evangelical community. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

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. Below you will find links to listen to two songs we will focus on this week.

This week on Weekly Worship, Austin highlights Our Great Savior, a truly classic American hymn from the early twentieth century.  Thank you for listening!

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. Below you will find links to listen to two songs we will focus on this week.

This week on Weekly Worship, Austin breaks down a phrase John records three times in three contexts: “Come and see”.  He relates it to his favorite part of the gospel: that moment God makes us alive and gives us eyes to see His glory.  We are made alive with Christ!  Our mind is changed; our heart is changed.  Our eyes can now see His glory.

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:4-7 ESV)

Marvelous Light by Charlie Hall

Mighty is the Power of the Cross

Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery

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.

This week, Pastor Duke Crawford joins the podcast for a discussion on what it means to worship God the Father in “Spirit and in Truth” from John 4 in the account of the Samaritan woman at the well.  Austin and Pastor Duke then discuss Trinitarian worship and briefly mention a few songs coming up this Sunday!

Grace Alone by Dustin Kensrue

CityAlight Interview

Saved my Soul

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 week’s episode of Weekly Worship, Austin is excited about the upcoming Resurrection Sunday service, and especially this song:

Forever (We Sing Hallelujah)

He also gives the reasoning behind our worship team playing “big” songs:  “I am moved by the gospel; I am moved by the resurrection.  And we should be moved by the gospel and the resurrection.”