Music Director: Regina Oettinger
Email: regina@montananazarene.org
Praise Team Schedule Special Music Schedule
August -- Ralph Schulz, Cindy Crofford
Aug. 16 -- Melita Dubach
Aug. 23 -- David Grimes
Aug. 30 -- Ralph Schulz
September -- Melita Dubach, David Grimes, Lois Bell Sept. 6 -- Roger Ellis
Sept. 13 -- Pete Boyer
Sept. 20 -- Regina
Sept. 27 -- French congregation
October -- Jacob Williams, Kristi Armstrong, Michelle Williams
Announcements and Upcoming Events
Band Practice: every Sunday morning at 8:45
Praise Team Practice: every Sunday morning at 9:00
Worship Team Life Group on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. We are using Tom Kraeuter's study "Worship: Our Highest Calling."
Weekly Word on Worship
When my son is playing on his Xbox, an atomic bomb could go off in the same room and it probably wouldn’t even register with him. His focus is singularly lasered in on what he is doing. Imagine a teenage girl staring at her crush across the room. You can try to get her attention, but yours isn’t the voice she’s tuned into.
Do we have that kind of focus when we worship? Whose voice are we tuned into? Are we remembering the voices that have said the worship is too loud, or not loud enough? The voices that have said the songs are too slow, or too fast? Right now, more often than not, I’m thinking “Are people even singing right now? How can they breathe in those masks? Are they really worshiping? I can’t tell because their faces are all covered!”
I don’t know about you, but I want His to be the only voice I hear. I want to be so enamored with my Savior that my eyes are only on Him. It makes me think of the words to that old hymn:
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things of earth
Will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace
Lord, there are so many distractions and annoyances to keep us from worshiping You right now. Please help us to focus on You and Your voice alone. May our eyes light up in Your presence as You fill our hearts with the joy and peace that only You can give. You alone are worthy of all of our praise forever and ever. Amen.
When my son is playing on his Xbox, an atomic bomb could go off in the same room and it probably wouldn’t even register with him. His focus is singularly lasered in on what he is doing. Imagine a teenage girl staring at her crush across the room. You can try to get her attention, but yours isn’t the voice she’s tuned into.
Do we have that kind of focus when we worship? Whose voice are we tuned into? Are we remembering the voices that have said the worship is too loud, or not loud enough? The voices that have said the songs are too slow, or too fast? Right now, more often than not, I’m thinking “Are people even singing right now? How can they breathe in those masks? Are they really worshiping? I can’t tell because their faces are all covered!”
I don’t know about you, but I want His to be the only voice I hear. I want to be so enamored with my Savior that my eyes are only on Him. It makes me think of the words to that old hymn:
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things of earth
Will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace
Lord, there are so many distractions and annoyances to keep us from worshiping You right now. Please help us to focus on You and Your voice alone. May our eyes light up in Your presence as You fill our hearts with the joy and peace that only You can give. You alone are worthy of all of our praise forever and ever. Amen.
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