I’m trying to write a blog right now while watching Kevin James’ stand up, Sweat The Small Stuff. If you have never seen it, let me tell you. It is amazing! So hilarious! It’s making this blogging thing very difficult. So I’ll get to the point. Here’s the setlist for Kingsfield this week!

Let God Arise – Chris Tomlin – Passion: God Of This City
Everlasting God – Lincoln Brewster – Let The Praises Ring – The Best Of Lincoln Brewster
Our God Reigns – Passion Band – Passion: Everything Glorious
Came To My Rescue – Hillsong United – United We Stand
All Because Of Jesus – Fee – We Shine

Well, it’s Father’s Day officially.  I have never had a Father’s Day of my own.  Kinda crazy!  I guess it comes with the territory of having a daughter.  Well to all the fathers out there happy Father’s Day!  And for the rest of you, here is our setlist for Kingsfield Church today!

Awesome Is The Lord Most High – Chris Tomlin – Passion: Everything Glorious
Revelation Song – Kim Walker-Smith – Consumed
Everything Glorious – David Crowder*Band – Remedy
Glory To God Forever – Fee – Hope Rising

Ah, a weekend off.  It’s kinda nice to go to church and not have any responsibilities.  That doesn’t happen for us very often.  But, in my stead this week, Colton is gonna take over at Kingsfield.  I know you guys love seeing him up there so enjoy a break from my yelling singing for a week and I’ll see you next Sunday!

Let God Arise – Chris Tomlin – Passion: God Of This City
Everlasting God – Lincoln Brewster – Everlasting God – Single
Came To My Rescue – Hillsong United – United We Stand
Awesome Is The Lord Most High – Chris Tomlin – Passion: Everything Glorious

Today is a grand day.  The day that every mother tries to get everyone else to do everything for them.  No?  Ok, so it is the one day of the year that we officially show our moms how much we love them.  Make sure you do that today.  Here’s the setlist for Kingsfield Church this week!

Glory To God Forever – Fee – Hope Rising
Power Of The Cross – Free Chapel – Jentezen Franklin Presents Power Of The Cross Live At Free Chapel With Ricardo Sanchez
All Because Of Jesus – Fee – We Shine
Our God – Chris Tomlin – Passion: Awakening

KK, mom, Dodie and Brenda, we love you! – Brook, Jessi & Jack

We are tossing in a new song this week at Kingsfield Church that I heard for the first time at Catalyst West Coast.  It isn’t necessarily a new song (especially if you are a big Chris Tomlin fan), but it has been so long since I have purchased new music, that it was new to me.  It was great to get to see Tomlin and his band lead it.  Anyway, the rest of them are going to be great, too!  So here you go!

Everlasting God – Lincoln Brewster – Everlasting God – Single
Revelation Song – Kim Walker-Smith – Consumed
All Because Of Jesus – Fee – We Shine
Our God – Chris Tomlin – Passion: Awakening

How often do you look to someone else’s leadership role or ministry role and wish you had something like what they have going?  How often does it go farther than that?  You see their success or joy or whatever it may be and instead of just learning from them you try to be them.  You try to do them.  Well if you are anything like me, this has happened many times.  I can think of several different worship leaders that I basically tried to be as I was growing up in my ministry.  I thought that’s who people wanted me to be and so I gave it my best.  And that was my whole problem.

I was looking to what others were doing and who they were and trying to be them because at the same time I was trying to win the approval of people.  I was missing the point.  I was created to be me.  God didn’t put me here to be Chris Tomlin.  He didn’t put me here to be Michael W. Smith (which is really good because my voice just wouldn’t work for that many key changes).  He put me here to be Brook James.  As Carlos Whittaker put it once in a tweet, God created you to lead like you.  He didn’t create me to be anyone else or any other worship leader.  Or as an infamous rap video from Ed Young says, you be you.

Last week at Catalyst Mark Driscoll said something that made all this come back into my mind.  ”Assume that God didn’t make a mistake with you and specialize in what you are good at.”  I can’t count the number of times that I have forgotten this and tried to specialize in what others are good at.  But when I am refusing to be me, I am just telling God that He screwed up with me and should have made me differently and that is probably not a good thing.

Know that God created you to be you.  You are not perfect and should constantly be learning and leaning on Him, but He created you, specifically.  He didn’t create you to be the someone else that others are trying to make you.  He didn’t create you to be the someone else that you think you should be.  He created you without making mistakes in doing it.  Learn from other people in similar roles.  Learn from those with more experience.  But continue to be the you that God chose.  Specialize in you.

Last week at Kingsfield we dodged a potential insanely crazy Sunday with a short setup crew, one staff member gone, another could have been and my wife possibly going into labor.  That would have been one “wing it” Sunday.  But, we made it through!  Now another week has passed and we still have no baby.  So here is our setlist for today!

Let God Arise – Chris Tomlin – Passion: God Of This City
Sweetly Broken – Jeremy Riddle – Full Attention
Came To My Rescue – Hillsong United – United We Stand
Salvation Is Here – Hillsong United – Look To You

Should be another great Sunday!  Please keep us in your prayers as we are staring down our due date this week!  We could have a baby at any moment!  That’s pretty crazy.  Am I old enough for that? (Maybe mature enough or grown up enough would be the better question.)

Today is gonna be a great day.  I know that God is going to work in people’s lives, I absolutely love that I get to be a part of that.  Not sure it gets much better.  Well, maybe when my baby girl gets here it will be better.  I’m pretty sure it will!  So for those of you interested, here is our Sunday Setlist for Kingsfield Church.

From The Corners Of The Earth – Starfield – I Will Go
Glory To God Forever – Fee – Glory To God Forever – Single
How He Loves – Kim Walker – We Cry Out
All Because Of Jesus – Fee – We Shine
Awesome Is The Lord Most High – Chris Tomlin – Passion: Everything Glorious

Should be good times!  The Road Crew is tearing it up and showing the world that it is not a bad thing to do setup and teardown or have church in theaters!  I love it!