Season's Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everybody!
I declare blessing to you and your loved ones; more prosperity; more love; more peace; more joy; a deeper relationship with God...

... and a partridge in a pear tree!

God bless you all!

Wonderful Christmastime

Wonderful Christmastime
[by Paul McCartney, as covered by Jars of Clay]

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The mood is right
The spirit's up
We're here tonight
And that's enough

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

The word is out
About the town
To lift a glass
And don't look down
The party's on
The feeling's here
That only comes
This time of year

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime
Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

The choir of children sing their song
They practiced all year long...
Star of wonder, star of light
Star of royal beauty bright

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

The mood is right
The spirit's up
We're here tonight
And that's enough

Christmas Cantata Schedule

Scheduled performances of the 2008 Christmas Cantata, "Joy Joy Joy":


December 6, Saturday
SM City Cebu, North Wing
5pm

December 13, Saturday
Maranatha World Outreach Center
7pm

December 14, Sunday
Maranatha World Outreach Center
9am

December 14, Sunday
SM City Cebu, North Wing
5pm

December 17 & 18, Wednesday & Thursday
Waterfront Hotel and Casino Cebu
6pm

December 24, Wednesday
SM City Cebu, North Wing
5pm

Song of the Day: Reign in Us

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Reign in Us / Starfield
[from the album "I Will Go"]

You thought of us before the world began to breathe
And you knew our names before we came to be
You saw the very day we'd fall away from you
And how desperately we need to be redeemed

Lord Jesus come lead us
We're desperate for your touch

[Chorus]
Oh Great and Mighty One, with one desire we come
That you would reign, that you would reign in us
We're offering up our lives, a living sacrifice
That you would reign, that you would reign in us

Spirit of the Living God fall fresh again
Come search our hearts and purify our lives
We need your perfect love
We need your discipline
We're lost unless you guide us with your light

Lord Jesus come lead us
We're desperate for your touch

[Chorus]

We cry out
For your love to refine us cry out
For your love to define us cry out
For your mercy to keep us blameless until you return

[Chorus 2x]

You would reign in us

[Bridge:]
So reign, please reign in us
Come purify our hearts we need your touch
Come cleanse us like a flood and send us out
So the world may know you reign, you reign in us


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One of the Starfield songs that our worship team is considering for use in our congregation. I am excited with "Reign in Us" because it captures the hunger and the desperation our church has for the Lord the really come and take over our lives, our city and our nation.

Triple Portion

The choir gets a triple portion of joy for this Christmas season. We will be celebrating the holidays with the new Cantata from Word Music entitled "Joy Joy Joy".

We're already half way through (yeah! we're fast-tracking things with our practices [I "love" the challenge... and the discipline of it all. hahaha]). The second song's got a very special feel to it -- it's very broadway and very reminiscent of the musicals of old. Can't wait to present this cantata and bless people with God's message of joy in it.

Christmas is five months away yet, but I can already feel the joy, joy, joy of the holiday season welling up in my heart.

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to New Life Sounds Choir members: I believe there's a greater anointing (multiple, not just double) and a greater harvest for us this season because we've all submitted to the Lord's discipline and workings in our lives, and allowed Him to take us to the next level. Let's not grow weary in doing good for in due time we will reap a harvest if we faint not! God bless you all.