Sunday Morning Worship

In most ministries it is normal to find other people's' ideas and borrow them. Well, this idea came from the Lifepoint Church Tavernier crew via Russ Garner. I will still have mp# players, but this way everyone can hear and see the same thing, and maybe it will add to your personal worship as we move forward. 

You should be able to click here and get to my YouTube page where all the videos are in a playlist: http://www.youtube.com/user/jonwesleybarnhill

If that does not work, use these individual links to view and listen. 

Jesus Paid It All

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onxhvivQYfI

In My Heart There Rings A Melody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOCCr17eQQk

The Wonderful Cross

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9oIJUK8QLA&feature=fvst

Love The Lord

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV7qTD_X0Rk

Either way, please take a minute to let me know what you think and how it works for you.

--
In the Potter's Hand,
JonWesley Barnhill, Associate Pastor/Minister of Music
First Baptist Church of Key Largo
99001 OVS HWY, Key Largo, FL  33037
305.304.1526
jonwesleybarnhill@gmail.com
http://jonwesleybarnhill.com

Planned Sunday Worship Music

These are the songs scheduled for this week's Worship.

Against Me

Getting ready to lay down at the end of the day, and I'm looking back on what now seems so trivial. I just have to wonder why allow so many not true things plague me. For instance, if I know who I am in Christ why do I let people drag me down? Doesn't Isaiah 54:17 say, "no weapon forged against you will prevail?"

I don't know. I guess I'm just human. God, love me tonight as I sleep. Teach me grace and help me learn how to let Mercy lead me.

End Of The Day

Another one of those days that just keeps on going. After Easter choir practice and rounding up the kids, I found myself at the store, getting supplies for our Wednesday Family Meal at the church. Following my wife diligently through the store, up and down the aisles, obviously disinterested, I even didn't pay attention as she was bent over picking up the heavy cans from the bottom shelf (she has two herniated discs and hates when she feels needy and helpless.) but at the end as we get ready to check out and I look up from my phone and I see:


Man, I love my wife! I just really love her. She is an incredible mother and my best friend. She takes care of everything and makes it look easy.

Thank You God for my wife. Thank You for all the blessing she brings to my life and our home. You really are a great God!

What About Haiti?

Like everyone else, I had thoughts about Haiti, about Pat Robertson, yada yada yada. But this came across my desk and it was the best way I had seen it put, and I had to share. So thanks @shaunking. Your candor is appreciated and necessary. 'Nuf said

(You can learn more about Shaun and The Courageous Church here.)

It Stinks To Be Me!

There was a lady I knew in a church in which I served who would get so hurt because it seemed that others always walked all over people, while she was constantly being walked on. She would say, “Why do I always have to be the servant that gets stepped on? Why don’t they ever have to humble themselves? When is it my turn to be served?”

I found this this morning: “Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign- and that without us! How I wish that you had really begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectale to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. We work with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world- right up to this moment.” (1 Corinthians 4:8-13, TNIV)

Wow! Do you think Paul was happy? Was he pleased with the way others were treating themselves while he endured the worst?

I think that what we see here is Paul, who knew what it meant to follow Jesus in the worst of times, warning the church at Corinth not to settle as a follower of Christ; not that they may not be blessed by God, but that they should remember that everyone’s burden is different. Not better or worse, just different. And glorying in their status rather than the Cross of Christ is dangerous business.

Lord, help me remember today the burdens of others before my own. Help me to walk and live only “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2)

A New Year's Resolution

It's the end of the day, January 1, 2010. What a wierd year to write, especially as a file name. But I am planning this year differently from any other before. I want this year to be one of action, even pro-action. I'm not even looking back at what has gone before; there is only forward.

God, I lay the past at Your feet. I am today and every day Your servant. Create in me a clean heart, renew my spirit as steadfast and sure, and lead me. I love You, Lord God.