Worship Set 9-28-08

If We Are The Body (Casting Crowns)
Forever (Chris Tomlin)
No One Is Righteous (Rodney Morton)
Fire Fall Down (Hillsong)

Recap from Sunday

WWE Smackdown!
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Division in the church is caused by a lot of different opinions.
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Churches divide over.....
-Baptism (Which way is correct?)
-Worship Style (Hymns or Contemporary? Organs or Electric Guitars? In tune out of tune vocals)
-Version of the Bible (KJV or NIV or NAS? etc.....)
-What's heaven gonna be like? (have your own mansion or room?)
-Color of the carpet (blue .vs. red, green .vs. pink)

Is any of this worth dividing the Body of Christ?
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What the church has avoided to address.....
-Judgemental ism
-The hungry
-False teaching
-Marriage
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1 Samuel 30:1-8
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There are a lot of thing not worth breaking a sweat over like the color of the carpet.
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There are some things worth fighting for like Jesus Christ died for people's sin and shame and was raised from the dead 3 days later.
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The main idea here is that PEOPLE are the most important thing that God created.

See You At The Pole (Pre Rally) Worship Set 9-21-08

Oneway (Hillsong)

Everyday (Hillsong)

Love is Here (10th Ave North)

Times (10th Ave North)


The youth did a great job this evening at Pleasant Hill Advent Church.

Worship Set 9-21-08

Undivided (Elevation Worship)

Everyday (Hillsong)

You Must Be Greater (Rodney Morton)

Mighty To Save (Hillsong)

Only You

Are you entertained?
By the lights
By the music
By the style of this church

Do you leave as the same?
person at heart
person in spirit
person as a servent in this world

Did you experience God?
Through our love
Through our compassion
Through our service to you

All the lights, music, and teaching are great, but if you didn't experience my God then it was just time wasted.

God fill our time together as a church with nothing but Your spirit and Your power.

Only You have the power to heal a broken heart, only You have the power to give new life, only You have the power to break down the walls of addiction, Only You draw men to Your presence.

In the beginning You were, today You are, and in the end You will be the only One that draws me to You.

Forgive me for thinking it would be anything other than You.

Random Thought

OK so I was reading over one of the first devotions that I had posted in the beginning of my blogging life. It was called "Give Us Clean Hands". The title came from the song "Give Us Clean Hands". In this post I referred to Exodus 34:14 where it says; "You must worship no other gods, for the Lord, whose very name is Jealous, is a God who is jealous about his relationship with you." At that time God was dealing with me about video games and all the time I was wasting with them. Since then I have not really played any video games, maybe once a month if I'm lucky. But it seems like something always takes it's place.

Who or what is fighting for the time God wants you to spend with Him?

Can you put it down for 30 days?

I challenge you for the next 30 days to put down what ever you are putting in front of God. In those 30 days dig into God's word, pray, and seek God's direction for your life. A lot of times we have a big decisions to make, or a problem we are facing and we throw up a couple microwaved prayers to God and wonder why He is not showing up. I believe God continually speaks to us but we can't hear Him a lot of the times because we are so wrapped up in what we want to do.

Worship Set 9-14-08

Loser (3 Doors Down)
Be Glorified (Chris Tomlin)
One Way (Hillsong)
Famous One (Chris Tomlin)

Awesome set today in the first service. The second service we had some technical difficulties.
Today we started the Couch Potato Series.

Thrive Groups

Thrive Groups are a new way to reach out to your friends. It is easier to invite ones to a Thrive Group because its a group of people who have a similar interest in an area. It's like a first step for the one who is not sure about the church. We only have one Thrive Group that meets right now on Mondays at 6:30pm at the Anderson Creek Gym. We play 5 on 5 full court basketball. It's awesome and very tiring. If you know anyone who wants to play tell them to come out. For more info email me rmorton@reallifenow.net or Darrell at dbrown@reallifenow.net

Life Groups Starting This Week!

Life Groups start this Saturday with the Real Life Men meeting at 8am. The men will meet every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month. If you have never been to this group don't miss it again. It is packed with discipleship and breakfast and just hanging out with the guys.

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The Women's Life Group will meet on the 20th of this month and will continue to meet every 3rd Saturday of the month. I'm not sure of the time right now. Get with Robyn or Nikki for times.

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The Marriage Life Group will meet on every Wednesday of the month starting next week on the 17th. This is a must for anyone who has been married for any length of time. God doesn't only want us to live an abundant life but to live an abundant life with the one He has created us to be with. Let God restore your relationship, rekindle the fire, and learn how we can actually worship God with our marriage. More details this Sunday.

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Two Services Start This Sunday

1st service starts at 9:45am
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2nd service starts at 11:15am
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We are also starting the Couch Potato series
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This Sunday you will experince Real Life Church in a different way. I am so excited! Bring your friends!

Worship Set 9-7-08

All Because of Jesus (Steve Fee)
Faithful (Steve Fee)
Shout Unto God (Hillsong)

I enjoyed this set today. I enjoy all of them but this morning was very energetic!

Are you ready for couch potato?

Thecouchpotato.tv

There's More To Worship Than Singing

And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Romans 12:1

When we think of worship we think of music, singing, preaching, teaching, etc... That is worship but there is more to worship than just singing and teaching. In Romans Paul tells us to give our bodies as a living sacrifice because of all that God has done for us.

What does this mean? Our bodies as a sacrifice?

When God created you He gave you gifts and different abilities to advance His kingdom. What abilities do you have? Are you good with starting up a conversation with a complete stranger? Do you love to be with kids? Has God gifted you with organization?

There are so many gifts that God has blessed His people with so that we can work as one body. If you don't know what your gifts are try asking God to reveal them to you. When you recognize them, put them to use to serve others. This is exactly what Jesus has taught us to do. Serve! This is truly the way to worship God. Where are you serving in your church? Where are you serving in your community? Where are you serving at work?

God has equipped you. You are awesome!

Here is some more pictures

George and Rex jamming out about a month before the launch. George has got pretty good at playing the bass guitar.

This is the first time leading worship at the launch of Real Life Church.

It's Been a Year

This was our first sevice at the high school. We were setting up getting ready to launch. Good times!

I can't believe we are coming up on a year since launching the first service of Real Life Church. This is an awesome testimony of what God is doing in the Anderson Creek/ Spring Lake area!

Don't forget this Sunday evening around 6pm we will celebrate our 1 year anniversary by providing a catered meal at the church. If you would like to know anything about the church please email myself, (rmorton@reallifenow.net) or Darrell, (dbrown@reallifenow.net) with your questions. We will sort through the questions and during the meal on Sunday, we will have a Q & A.

Buy List!

Here is a couple cd's you guys need to purchase! We use songs from these cd's in worship. Awesome stuff!

What A Weekend!

This past weekend was an awesome weekend. College football started Saturday,(really Thursday but it was on all day Saturday)I had a nice break on Sunday from leading worship,(Darrell did an Awesome job! Thanks Darrell!) we had a couple of friends over Sunday evening for some food, a little football, and Rock Band on the PS3, and Monday I took the family to South Point Mall in Durham(huge mall) and ending my weekend with playing about 3 hours of basketball at Anderson Creek Gym with a bunch of guys.(That was the most effort I have put into playing basketball since in school)

There are weeks and days that we will go through that will be very tough and will seem like there is no way out. But hold fast to what God tells us in Jeremiah 25:11. This weekend was so relaxing after coming off a pretty tough week.