It’s here! The weekend where we join in with Beyond 884 and turn in our pledges. Kendra and I have been praying about what it will look like for us, and I hope you have been too. This Sunday we’ll sing some familiar songs so we can unite our hearts around this movement that God is doing at BACC. Here’s this week’s set list:
This Sunday we’re thrilled to have Ben Heemstra and Rachel Perry leading us in worship! Come ready to worship as we dig into more about Beyond 884. Here’s this week’s set list:
This week we’ll throw a twist into the worship set with lots of instrumentation, some classic hymns, and enough newer stuff to keep it all in balance. 
We’re excited about worshiping on Sunday, and hope you are too! Here’s this weekend’s set list:
See you Sunday!
See you Sunday!
Micah
Beyond 884: Room For People is in full swing! I’m so excited about all that God is doing and hope that you are too. Greg’s challenge from this last Sunday was about the hurdle of simply praying and asking God to give us a heart for this movement, and ask Him to show us what our role in it should look like. My wife Kendra and I are doing that, and I encourage you to do it too. I’d hate to think that we could miss out on an opportunity to have a hand in the incredible movement that’s happening right now in our church and far beyond it.
This week we’ll sing more songs that speak of this new work that God has in store for us as we continue to look forward. Here’s this week’s set list:
See you Sunday!
Micah
Remember a few months ago when we had a series of messages on worship? It was called “All of Life”. We know that worship is a state of being, not just a moment in time during a song on Sunday mornings. And funny the reality is, if we’re worshiping throughout our week, those few moments we experience together worshiping through becomes so much more powerful! As we get ready for week two of our “Beyond 884″ series, take a moment to soak yourself in the songs we’ll be singing on Sunday, and let’s come in ready to rumble! Here’s this week’s song list:
Cheers!
Micah
This week we’re doing a good ole’ fashion mash-up of a few choruses from songs, and a few full songs stuck in there too. The theme is God reigning and His kingdom advancing. We’ve been called to be a part of that plan, so “Get Ready”! Here are this week’s songs:
See you Sunday morning!
Micah
This week’s message will address the doubt and unbelief we sometimes face about Jesus and who He said He is. To emphasize the truths we’ll hear about, we’ll be singing the following songs on Sunday:
See you Sunday!
Micah
John 10:9-10 are life-changing words from the lips of Jesus:
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
To “go in and out and find pasture” was abundant life for sheep. There was no better life than to have a shepherd lead them out to green pasture. And that’s the point of John 10. There is no better life for us than to have our Shepherd, Jesus, watch over us and guide us into fullness of life.
Yet we are like stupid sheep easily led astray by the lures of this world. C.S. Lewis put it like this,
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
We are too easily pleased and too quickly deceived by the thief who comes to kill and destroy.
The birthright of every child of God is the life Jesus offers in John 10:10. The kind of life Jesus is talking about is the very life of God living in us and flowing through us. Jesus and the New Testament go to great lengths to help us grasp this abundant life. Consider these metaphors as efforts to get through to sheep like us:
come to me and drink (John 7:37-38), abide in me (John 15:5), take my yoke upon you (Matt 11:29), if anyone opens the door I will come in (Rev 3:20), be filled with the Spirit (Eph.5:18), walk by the Spirit (Gal.5;16).
Coming to Jesus to drink, abiding in him, taking his yoke upon us, opening the door, being filled with the Spirit, walking in the Spirit…do you see?? These are all metaphors to help us grasp the life offered by Jesus. And the basis of this abundant life is a door. A door that opens to all who believe. A door that longs for us to open, be saved, and go in and out and find pasture.
If you are not experiencing the abundant life, embrace the metaphors in John 10. Think of yourself as a dumb defenseless sheep in need of a shepherd. And think of Jesus as both the shepherd and the door. The door to eternal life and the shepherd who leads us into the green pastures of abundant life.
We’re only a week away from Easter! If there’s anything that Easter reminds me of, it’s the love of Christ. With this past Sunday’s music set we focused around that theme: Christ’s love and faithfulness to us. Take a look, and download this past week’s music today!
This week we ramped things back up with a big band and a big sound. Don’t forget that if there’s a song that particularly spoke to you, there are links provided here every week that you can come back to and purchase the song played by it’s original artist! I’d recommend that you not just buy that individual song, but consider buying the whole album, since typically that one song is a pretty good representation of what that particular artist produces.
