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11/8/09 Set List

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:31:21 +0700

This series is part of Fred McKinnon's Sunday Set Lists project. You can read dozens of sets from other churches on Fred's blog!

CenterPoint Church 11/8/09

Opening Set
    -Counting On God - B - Jared Anderson
    -Marvelous Light - A - Charlie Hall
    -Holiness (Take My Life) - G - Scott Underwood (Loop Available)

Closing Song
    -Strong Tower - C - Mark Byrd, Mark Lee, Aaron Sprinkle, Jon Micah Sumrall

We continued our spiritual warfare series yesterday. Dave's message was called "Suiting Up For Battle" and dealt with the armor of God. I'll just say right up front that I really needed that message yesterday. I came into work tired and not feeling real great after a very long weekend, and God really lifted me up with that message!

Musically, we kept things pretty simple this week. We repeated "Counting On God" from last week (glad the congregation is getting into that one, since the band likes it so much!) and then played a couple standards. We closed with Kutless' "Strong Tower" - a great song that we haven't played in a LONG time. It took a little work in rehearsal to get that one back up to speed, but it turned out great!

We also used a short clip from "The Dark Knight" this morning to set up the message. It worked really well!

All in all, a good week at CenterPoint! Really looking forward to the last couple weeks of this series, God is definitely moving through it!

11/1/09 Set List

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:03:45 +0700

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CenterPoint Church 11/1/09

Opening Set
    -Not To Us - A - Chris Tomlin
    -Counting On God - B - Jared Anderson
    -Christ The Solid Rock - D - Traditional

Closing Song
    -I Will Overcome - D - Charlie Hall

Another great worship service at CenterPoint yesterday! We had a TON of stuff going on... new music, an original video piece, and an infant dedication! Lots of energy and excitement in the air yesterday morning!

Yesterday was the second of five weeks in this series on spiritual warfare. Pastor Dave's message was called "Knowing Your Enemy" (I tried to figure out if there was any way to work a little Green Day in, but just couldn't do it :-P ). I thought Dave did a great job packing a ton of information into a single message. Really laid out what we know about Satan and his power... great set up for the coming weeks.

Back at Christmas time, we did a series of video clips called "Jesus & Santa" that spoofed the "Get A Mac" commercials. They went over really well and were a lot of fun. When we were starting to put together this series, our creative team thought it might be fun to do a couple more, but with Jesus and Satan. We got the same two actors back to do them and ran the first one yesterday. Video quality on these new ones is pretty rough, but they definitely get the point across!

Musically, we had another really solid morning. The band was right on and we rocked pretty hard yesterday! We also introduced a new tune... New Life Worship's "Counting On God". That song is just perfect for this series, and it has a ton of energy and a very singable chorus. I could really hear the congregation singing back on that one (ALWAYS a good thing!). We also reprised Charlie Hall's "I Will Overcome" from last week... just a great tune!

A great time of worship!

10/25/09 Set List

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:01:22 +0700

This post is part of Fred McKinnon's Sunday Set List project. See more sets at Fred's blog.

CenterPoint Church 10/25/09

Opening Set
    -Blessed Be Your Name - A - Matt Redman
    -I Will Overcome - D - Charlie Hall
    -Everlasting God - Em - Glenn Packiam

Closing Song
    -Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - E - Chris Tomlin

I love switching things up. Fortunately, a majority of our CenterPoint folks do too! Sometimes we do it on purpose, and other times it happens out of necessity. That was the case today. Our men's retreat was this weekend (in a church as small as ours, an event like that can really put a dent in the congregation), and that along with several other absences left us pretty short handed today. We ended up going with nothing but 3 vocalists and keys, and it worked out very well. I didn't lead today, so all I had to do was play piano. Not bad! We picked our set to work well with that setting, but also to coincide with the new series we started today on spiritual warfare.

We wanted a different kind of illustration to open this new series, and our creative team came up with a very cool one. We used Matthew West's song "The Moment Of Truth". We had one actor out front performing a "monologue" of sorts illustrating the verses of the song, and then during the chorus, we lit a large screen from behind to show an "angel" battling a "demon". I was one of the characters behind the screen so I didn't really get to see any reaction, but from what I heard afterward, it was well received. Here's a picture of the stage with the screen lit that I took on Friday:

All in all, a very cool service. Looking forward to what's coming these next few weeks!

10/18/09 Set Lists

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:49:57 +0700

As always, this post is part of Fred McKinnon's Sunday Setlist Project. Check out Fred's blog for more sets!

I've got two lists to post this week...
CenterPoint Church 10/18/09

Walk-In
    -Rain Down - G - David Crowder

Opening Set
    -Your Grace Is Enough - G - Matt Maher
    -Glorious One - C - Steve Fee
    -Oh The Glory Of It All - A - David Crowder

Closing Song
    -From The Inside Out - Bb - Joel Houston

This was an EPIC week at CenterPoint, at least musically! The band was spot on and the mix was great. We used click tracks on everything this week, and ended up with a very full, rocking sound in the process. We decided to try something a little different, in the form of David Crowder Band's "Rain Down" (we did the "Remedy" version, not the original). Definitely the most complex loop we've ever run, but it went off without a hitch and people were really digging it.

This was the fifth and final week in our new vision series, "Multiply". This week the message was "Multiply Sites", and Pastor Dave talked about the eventual goal of planting a new church/campus/ministry/something in the fall of 2011. I know that for myself personally, I'm very excited about this!

Cedarville United Presbyterian Church 10/18/09

This brings up another thing that happened during my unplanned blogging hiatus. I've been attending and playing at C.U.P.'s contemporary experience, which they call "Bread & C.U.P." for about two years now. When the previous worship leader graduated and stepped down in the summer, they asked me to take over, which I was more than happy to do! This week ended up being a little different, as our numbers were very low. (Actually, CenterPoint has been down the last couple of weeks, too... pretty sure half the state of Ohio is sick right now) In any case, I had a set list planned, but ended up scrapping it and just playing a couple of requests. Here's what we ended up with:

Forever - G - Chris Tomlin
Here I Am To Worship - E - Tim Hughes
Open The Eyes Of My Heart - D - Paul Baloche

C.U.P. is into a little bit older stuff than most of the other gigs that I play, but I don't really mind it. It's fun to do something different than what has become "normal" for me and play some of those old tunes again!

Playing With Aaron Shust

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:05:56 +0700

Last night I got a chance to play with Aaron Shust. Definitely one of the coolest things I've ever gotten to do! Let me explain a little bit:

A couple of weeks ago, Aaron posted a YouTube video with a very simple contest: each night of his current tour, he's pulling one person up to play "Matchless". All you had to do to enter was record a video of yourself playing the song, post it on YouTube, and leave a comment for Aaron to check it out. 24 hours before the show, he picks somebody, comments on their entry, and you're in! I hadn't originally planned on doing it (because the closest show was a solid 6 1/2 hours away from Columbus), but once I realized that nobody had entered yet for that date, I went ahead and put a video up.

Long story short... I did get to play. I left Columbus at 9:00 yesterday morning, picked my dad up in Wheeling around noon, and made it to Watsontown, PA by 5:30. We got to go to the pre-show meet & greet and acoustic concert, so I did meet Aaron before the show, but there was no sound check, no rehearsal. He just called me up when it was time for the tune. Made it back to Westerville right at 4 AM and grabbed a couple of hours of sleep before church. Definitely worth it, though! A great experience all around.

Here's the video... the audio is pretty bad. I always swore I'd never be one of those people uploading concert video that sounds like this, but since I'm actually in this one, I'm going to make an exception!

10/4/9 Set List

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:16:44 +0700

It has been a very long time since I've posted a set list! In any case, I am back now! Don't forget that you can check out TONS of other sets at Fred McKinnon's blog each week!

CenterPoint Church 10/4/09

Opening Set
    -Meet With Me - A - (Lamont Heibert)
    -My Savior, My God - D - (Aaron Shust)
    -Amazed - D - (Jared Anderson)

Message: "Multiply Leaders"

Closing Song
    -Came To My Rescue - Bb - (Joel Davies, Marty Sampson, Dylan Thomas)

We had a great morning at CenterPoint, despite some unique challenges. I was dead tired today from my adventure playing with Aaron Shust yesterday (yeah, I really did! more on that in a future post!) and the 14 hours of driving it entailed, and our pastor was out with the flu. One of our elders jumped in and did a GREAT job with the message today!

In my long hiatus, I missed blogging about the new vision statement that we laid out for CenterPoint a few weeks ago. Basically, the new vision is to "Multiply Disciples, Leaders, Groups, & Sites", with the ultimate goal being the launch of a new site or campus in the fall of 2011. It's very exciting stuff, and this was the fourth week of a six week series dealing with that topic.

We kept it pretty simple today, musically. We opened with "Meet With Me" (always a favorite) and led straight into "My Savior, My God" (I mean, how could I not! :-P ) and then directly into "Amazed". We did "Came To My Rescue" (another CenterPoint favorite) to close. We used a smaller band today (5 piece instead of our usual 7), but the sound was really tight. Solid stuff this morning.

Since we were talking specifically today about multiplying leaders, I got an opportunity to talk a little bit about the way we do that at camp. I drew a bad picture on a poster board, but I think it got the point across!

A great morning of worship today!

Big News All Around!

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:40:35 +0700

Hi everybody... it's been quite some time since I've written here, despite my own good intentions! MUCH has happened since my last post over two months ago, including two band camps and a LOT of gigs! Hopefully I'll be able to get back here more regularly now. In any case, I have lots of news to share today:

1. Website/Blog Changes - If you're viewing this page at www.themusiciansmind.com, you've already noticed that things look a little different around here. A couple of weeks ago, I took it upon myself to completely redesign my website (www.ericfrisch.com), and as part of that redesign, I decided to integrate the blog. Not a whole lot has actually changed - you can still access the page from www.themusiciansmind.com, and the RSS feed hasn't changed. Since you're here, though, feel free to check out the other sections of the site!

2. New Music! - At long last, the Secondhand People EP is complete! I'm really proud of this record, and owe a great deal to Josh Howey for his contributions! You can download the tracks now from the "Media/Store" section of the site. The hardcopy CDs have been ordered, but haven't arrived yet, so if that's more your flavor, feel free to preorder, and I'll get it out you just as soon as it arrives! I hope you guys enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it! Here's a taste of the new record:

Sidenote: I'm hoping to book a lot of shows in November/December to support the new record. If you think you might be able to help me out by hosting a house concert or promoting a larger event, shoot me an email ASAP on the "Contact" page!

3. New Band! - I've got a new acoustic cover project up and running now called The Two Guys Band. We've got a website that you should definitely check out, and if you're in the Columbus region (or anywhere in Ohio, really), look us up for your next party or event!

Well, that should cover it for now! I'll be back for Sunday Setlists, if not before!

7/26/09 Set List

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:33:21 +0700

It's the one year anniversary of Sunday Set Lists on Fred McKinnon's blog! Check our more lists here!

CenterPoint Church 7/26/09

Opening Set
    -Love The Lord - G - (Lincoln Brewster)
    -The Glory Of It All - A - (David Crowder)

Offering/Baptism Song
    -Love Is Here - A - (Tenth Avenue North)

Closing Song
    -Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - E - (Chris Tomlin)

We had baptisms yesterday, which is always a great celebration at CenterPoint! Beyond that, the message was great and the band was really on... a great time of worship!

We cut a song up front this week, because we needed the time for baptisms. No big deal. We did play a special - "Love Is Here" during the offering. It's a great song... I've been waiting for the right week to do it eve since I heard it, and I was really glad an opportunity came along!

This was the second week of Dave's "Changed" series on Philemon. The message was about having a new perspective, so we tried something different... when Dave got up to preach, he stood in the back of the room! Because we use folding chairs and project front and back, we were actually able to have the entire congregation turn around to listen to the message (we ran extra speakers to the back). It was a very effective illustration! I loved it. We closed the service with "My Chains Are Gone". Just an acoustic and my vocal (since they were both wireless - that way we avoided turning the whole congregation back around for the closing song).

Lot's of great creative stuff going on yesterday, and a great time of worship at CenterPoint!

7/12/09 Set List

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:17:37 +0700

We're only one week away from the 1 year anniversary of Sunday Setlists! Check out more sets on Fred's blog!

CenterPoint Church 7/12/09

Opening Set
    -Your Grace Is Enough - G - (Matt Maher)
    -I Will Overcome - D - (Charlie Hall)
    -Amazed - D - (Jared Anderson)

Closing Song
    -Came To My Rescue - Bb - (Joel Davies, Marty Sampson, Dylan Thomas)

This was a very exciting, high energy week at Centerpoint! Due to some schedule changes (and what was actually a mistake in my own scheduling process), we ended up with a 9 piece worship team on stage this week. I'm pretty sure that's the biggest group we've ever had on stage since I started working at CenterPoint. That presented a couple of monitoring challenges, but everything ran pretty smoothly, and the energy of the bigger team was really great. Timon led worship this week (I had originally planned to be at FOH, but ended up getting to play keys after all) and did a great job!

Pastor Dave is on vacation this week, but we were incredibly blessed to have Mike Chilcoat as our guest teacher yesterday. Mike directs Young Life throughout Columbus, and also leads the group that meets at CenterPoint each week. He is very high energy, very engaging, and VERY funny! He spoke about the temptation of Jesus and how Ho modeled ways to deal with temptation in our own lives, and the message was excellent! We were also blessed by the presence of quite a few Young Lifers who came out to hear Mike teach.

We had a software glitch with the teaser video for next week, but Jen was on top of it and figured out a workaround. Everything ran very smoothly in the service.

Another great week at CenterPoint... really looking forward to the series that we're launching this coming Sunday... can't wait to share it with all of you!

7/5/09 Set List

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:22:47 +0700

This week marks the 50th consecutive week of Sunday Setlists on Fred McKinnon's Blog. Check out more sets here!

CenterPoint Church 7/5/09

Opening Set
    -Everyday - B - (Joel Houston)
    -Glorious One - C - (Steve Fee)
    -My Savior, My God - D - (Aaron Shust)

Offering Song
    -What If I Stumble? - Dm - (Toby McKeehan)

Closing Song
    -Mighty To Save - A - (Reuben Morgan, Ben Fielding)

What a great time of worship yesterday at Centerpoint! We were working with a slightly smaller band because of scheduling issues, but the folks that were there really played well. Musically, I thought it was one of the better services we've had in quite a while!

We wrapped up our first summer series yesterday with a message about not being a stumbling block to others' faith. To illustrate that point, we used a clip from the movie "Eight Men Out" - I wasn't familiar with the film before this week, but it really did make the point! We also used the dc Talk song "What If I Stumble" during the offering... good stuff! The congregation responded very well to "Mighty To Save" at the end of the service. It's always encouraging to be able to look out and see folks really getting into worship!

Yesterday was our second service running a second projector on the back wall. I'm really enjoying being able to see what's on the screen from the stage, so I think we'll keep doing it for now. What's more, we got through the whole rehearsal and service yesterday without any technical glitches or issues... always makes my day better!

Overall, a great service yesterday!