We had a ton of fun last sunday, mocking up our own "Tonight Show" called "Straight Up". Check that out here.
-- Remember church in the park this week. Starting at 10:30am.
Set List
Happy Day - Tim Hughes
Holy is the Lord - Chris Tomlin
Wholly Yours - David Crowder
How great is our God - Chris Tomlin
Adam
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
what a day!!
Jeff is gone, party in the office. HA.
Jeff had the opportunity to go and offer his expertise to a great friend who is planting a church in Boise, ID. He is part of a team of pastors that are rallying with Dusty in his plant of Connections Church.
Man yesterday was tough. I recently read a blog about a pastor having a bad experience at starbucks and how they completely took care of everything and apologized for the bad experience, and how many times he should apologize for a bad experience at his church for various reasons. Not sure it was that bad but from staff perspectives we had a rough day. I was very sick all weekend. God gave me much grace to get thru. It was so stupid hot on the stage I felt like I might pass out. In fact I heard several comments after service in regards to weather I would make it or not. LOL. The my pedal board went out and so there was no electric guitar for our entire set second service. Nate did a phenom job stepping up and leading while I tweaked stuff to get something back in my guitar. When the guitar finally came back it was so out of tune I might as well have started dancing and spinning in circles and it would have been less distracting. HA. OK maybe not so bad, but you get the point.
We will have those days and you just learn to push thru.
Jeff has done such a great job with this series, UNTOUCHABLES. Make sure if you haven't listened to each week that you grab a copy online or in our lobby. Also remember to turn in your questions to questions@elementweb.net this week so that Jeff can tackle them on sunday.
We launch our new series coming in a couple weeks which is going to be one you won't want to miss. More details to come.
Superday is this Saturday. Please come help us volunteer as we provide inflatable games and a Baby Station for families in cheyenne.
Alright back to work.
Setlist for Sunday june 22nd
My Reward - Adam Cruz
Beautiful One - Jeremy Camp
Enough - Chris Tomlin
Beautiful Jesus - Kristian Stanfill
Beauty of the Lord - Jared Anderson
Jeff had the opportunity to go and offer his expertise to a great friend who is planting a church in Boise, ID. He is part of a team of pastors that are rallying with Dusty in his plant of Connections Church.
Man yesterday was tough. I recently read a blog about a pastor having a bad experience at starbucks and how they completely took care of everything and apologized for the bad experience, and how many times he should apologize for a bad experience at his church for various reasons. Not sure it was that bad but from staff perspectives we had a rough day. I was very sick all weekend. God gave me much grace to get thru. It was so stupid hot on the stage I felt like I might pass out. In fact I heard several comments after service in regards to weather I would make it or not. LOL. The my pedal board went out and so there was no electric guitar for our entire set second service. Nate did a phenom job stepping up and leading while I tweaked stuff to get something back in my guitar. When the guitar finally came back it was so out of tune I might as well have started dancing and spinning in circles and it would have been less distracting. HA. OK maybe not so bad, but you get the point.
We will have those days and you just learn to push thru.
Jeff has done such a great job with this series, UNTOUCHABLES. Make sure if you haven't listened to each week that you grab a copy online or in our lobby. Also remember to turn in your questions to questions@elementweb.net this week so that Jeff can tackle them on sunday.
We launch our new series coming in a couple weeks which is going to be one you won't want to miss. More details to come.
Superday is this Saturday. Please come help us volunteer as we provide inflatable games and a Baby Station for families in cheyenne.
Alright back to work.
Setlist for Sunday june 22nd
My Reward - Adam Cruz
Beautiful One - Jeremy Camp
Enough - Chris Tomlin
Beautiful Jesus - Kristian Stanfill
Beauty of the Lord - Jared Anderson
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
set list from sunday
Love the lord - Lincoln Brewster
My Reward - Adam Cruz
Famous One - Chris Tomlin
Here I am to worship/All I want - Tomlin/LifeHouse
Came to the rescue - United
Adam
My Reward - Adam Cruz
Famous One - Chris Tomlin
Here I am to worship/All I want - Tomlin/LifeHouse
Came to the rescue - United
Adam
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Untouchables and Frisbee
Untouchables starts tommorow. THis has been one of those series we planned from the beginning where you are like "that is for ever away". Well here it is. The anticipated series of untouchables is here. Jeff will be takling 4 topics often untouched in the church today, ABORTION, DRINKING, HOMOSEXUALITY, and DIVORCE. We are offering a 5th week questions week, where we will be taking your questions about untouchable subjects over the course of this series. You can email your questions to questions@elementweb.net. You won't want to miss this great summer series.
Here is the promo:
Also we began our Ultimate Frisbee tradition last week. It was a blast! So again come out at Holiday Park (across from the church office on Lincolnway) at 2:00pm (NOT SHARP, if your late still come). We have a blast.
I am anticipating our time of worship tommorrow, as I do every week with you all, come ready to meet with our God.
Anticipating,
Adam
Here is the promo:
Also we began our Ultimate Frisbee tradition last week. It was a blast! So again come out at Holiday Park (across from the church office on Lincolnway) at 2:00pm (NOT SHARP, if your late still come). We have a blast.
I am anticipating our time of worship tommorrow, as I do every week with you all, come ready to meet with our God.
Anticipating,
Adam
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Sunday Afterthoughts
Elementers. What a beautiful day it is outside. This is amazing. I am so ready for spring. Amber and I are huge frisbee fanatics so bring on the nice weather. Which by the way starting within the next few weeks we are going to start a 2:00pm Sunday Afternoon ULTIMATE FRISBEE tradition. If you are interested send me an email at adam@elementweb.net with your name and phone number so we can put this thing together, we're very excited.
We had a great day today at Element. Jeff did a wonderful job talking about Hell, today. The reality and finality of eternity is so heavy. We carried Jeff out in a casket as a sermon illustration, that was really powerful. Watch the video once I get it online.
Worship was good today, which, ha is so weird to say cause I lead it, but I really felt you all engaged in the songs and God's presence was heavy in the room. We busted out a little AC/DC to open the service. That was fun. Jen great job on vox this week, you sounded great, Morgan, nice work on rockin the bass lines, (morgan had a tuff bass line in our opening song, but rocked it), Bryant nice work rockin the set. Picking up on my rushes of chorus and verse lines, HA, and Nathan, nice work on electric this week. Nathan typically plays acoustic, and by the way is a great guitar player, but today I had him rock some electric on his new VOX amp.
We will be adding a new musician this week, Chris, who plays electric guitar. A very solid guitar player, you will all enjoy having him as an addition.
Alright I'm out, we have friends coming into town.
Set List for Sunday April 13th
Hells Bells - AC/DC
Salvation is here - United
Faithful - Steve Fee
Mighty to Save - United
Jesus paid it all - Kristian Stanfill
Marvelous Light - Charlie Hall
Worshipping Him,
Adam
We had a great day today at Element. Jeff did a wonderful job talking about Hell, today. The reality and finality of eternity is so heavy. We carried Jeff out in a casket as a sermon illustration, that was really powerful. Watch the video once I get it online.
Worship was good today, which, ha is so weird to say cause I lead it, but I really felt you all engaged in the songs and God's presence was heavy in the room. We busted out a little AC/DC to open the service. That was fun. Jen great job on vox this week, you sounded great, Morgan, nice work on rockin the bass lines, (morgan had a tuff bass line in our opening song, but rocked it), Bryant nice work rockin the set. Picking up on my rushes of chorus and verse lines, HA, and Nathan, nice work on electric this week. Nathan typically plays acoustic, and by the way is a great guitar player, but today I had him rock some electric on his new VOX amp.
We will be adding a new musician this week, Chris, who plays electric guitar. A very solid guitar player, you will all enjoy having him as an addition.
Alright I'm out, we have friends coming into town.
Set List for Sunday April 13th
Hells Bells - AC/DC
Salvation is here - United
Faithful - Steve Fee
Mighty to Save - United
Jesus paid it all - Kristian Stanfill
Marvelous Light - Charlie Hall
Worshipping Him,
Adam
Sunday, January 13, 2008
sunday afterthoughts
BLOWN AWAY! As I sit and write this I am reflecting on the day and all I can say is that I am blown away. For a detailed review on the day with peoples comments and such check out Jeff's blog here.
I am not one to blame the devil for everything that goes wrong. But today there was a buzz about some things we were announcing and the message that was coming forth and a great worship set and I don't thing that the enemy was very excited about it. Jeff and I really felt like we were under attack. We had several things happen that really could throw off our service. We were 30 minutes late in setup due to the theater employee not showing up on time to let us in. Then our speakers just shut off 3 times for no reason (never happened before) and then my amp went completely out for first service throwing off the feel of worship. And yet our God is greater and he was worship and people were touched and God INVADED that place.
RECORD NUMBERS! 282 in service today. WOW! God is on the move and he is rocking this place because there is such an expectancy for Him to move.
We gave away an entire offering today to our church as an example that none of this is ours. God just lets us manage it. People were blown away that we would do this. The only stipulation is that they can't use it on their self and could not place it in the offering. We set up a website called www.elementgivesback.com where people can go on and tell their story of what they did with the money. Amazing stuff.
We also did a 90 day challenge, where we challenged the people to tithe 10% for 90 days and if they didn't feel that it worked then we would give them 100% of their money back. We had like 57 people sign up. I am telling you God is using this series in a way I never thought was going to happen. People are responding like crazy to this series and straigtining out their priorities in the area of finances.
In fact one person gave their life to Christ today. AMAZING... That is what it is about.
WORSHIP WOW! and I don't just say that cause I am the leader. I told my team on thursday night rehearsal that I am so proud of them. They have huge hearts and serve with such passion and man can they play and sing. I had 2 of my team members lead songs today which is so good that I can do that. I feel blessed to have talented annointed leaders on my team. We did a song that I wrote with a friend of mine in an old band I used to play in, only we change the whole feel of the song and wrote a new bridge. I thought that it turned out great.
Looking very forward to the weeks to come and year, MAN DO WE HAVE SOME HUGE STUFF PLANNED THIS YEAR. Elementers get ready cause its go time, and God is on the move.
Don't forget to visit www.elementgivesback.com and post your story about what you did with the money.
I love being your worship pastor. I hope all of you find huge blessing in giving back to your city this month.
Set List for Sunday Jan. 13th:
Love the Lord- Lincoln Brewster
Beautiful One- Tim Hughes
Yearn- Adam Cruz & Dusty Taylor
Center- Charlie Hall
Turn your eyes/Beautiful - New Spring Church
Worshipping Him,
Adam
I am not one to blame the devil for everything that goes wrong. But today there was a buzz about some things we were announcing and the message that was coming forth and a great worship set and I don't thing that the enemy was very excited about it. Jeff and I really felt like we were under attack. We had several things happen that really could throw off our service. We were 30 minutes late in setup due to the theater employee not showing up on time to let us in. Then our speakers just shut off 3 times for no reason (never happened before) and then my amp went completely out for first service throwing off the feel of worship. And yet our God is greater and he was worship and people were touched and God INVADED that place.
RECORD NUMBERS! 282 in service today. WOW! God is on the move and he is rocking this place because there is such an expectancy for Him to move.
We gave away an entire offering today to our church as an example that none of this is ours. God just lets us manage it. People were blown away that we would do this. The only stipulation is that they can't use it on their self and could not place it in the offering. We set up a website called www.elementgivesback.com where people can go on and tell their story of what they did with the money. Amazing stuff.
We also did a 90 day challenge, where we challenged the people to tithe 10% for 90 days and if they didn't feel that it worked then we would give them 100% of their money back. We had like 57 people sign up. I am telling you God is using this series in a way I never thought was going to happen. People are responding like crazy to this series and straigtining out their priorities in the area of finances.
In fact one person gave their life to Christ today. AMAZING... That is what it is about.
WORSHIP WOW! and I don't just say that cause I am the leader. I told my team on thursday night rehearsal that I am so proud of them. They have huge hearts and serve with such passion and man can they play and sing. I had 2 of my team members lead songs today which is so good that I can do that. I feel blessed to have talented annointed leaders on my team. We did a song that I wrote with a friend of mine in an old band I used to play in, only we change the whole feel of the song and wrote a new bridge. I thought that it turned out great.
Looking very forward to the weeks to come and year, MAN DO WE HAVE SOME HUGE STUFF PLANNED THIS YEAR. Elementers get ready cause its go time, and God is on the move.
Don't forget to visit www.elementgivesback.com and post your story about what you did with the money.
I love being your worship pastor. I hope all of you find huge blessing in giving back to your city this month.
Set List for Sunday Jan. 13th:
Love the Lord- Lincoln Brewster
Beautiful One- Tim Hughes
Yearn- Adam Cruz & Dusty Taylor
Center- Charlie Hall
Turn your eyes/Beautiful - New Spring Church
Worshipping Him,
Adam
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Sunday Afterthoughts
Today was a great day. I know that I say that a lot. But there was something very special about today. Things just gelled today. Not that they havnt before but again there was just a great vibe today. God's presence was evident, worship just flowed and there was a great heart beat of worship to the throne today. Way to go worship team. Jeff delivered a great word, in fact, I dare to say its one of his best. A great close to the "IT" series. Several hands were in the air for first time decisions. I am blown away, when you just give a simple invitation people come running. They are ready and just need to be asked and encouraged. About double the hands went up for people reconsidering where they are at with their relationship with God. It was just a great great service all the way through.
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: we have maxed our capacity at Element Church in the one theater we are in. So through much prayer and exhausting every option, we excitingly announce that we are going to 2 services in two weeks on Dec. 2nd. Service times will be at 9 and 10:30am. We are looking forward to this to keep reaching people for Christ. God keeps bringing them so we want to continue to make room for them. Our volunteers have been so supportive. In fact many of them have said that they will serve both services if we need them. AWESOME. God is good.
We closed out our first series officially as Element Church, and are doing a 2 week mini series called "Thanks:Giving". And then jumping right into a 4 week Christmas series called "Believe", which I am very excited about.
God is doing some great things around here and we are always blown away that God keeps choosing to use us.
Set design today was simple and clean. Our closing core value today was "allegiance" (which was planned over 2 months ago) and it just so happened to fall on Veterans Day, SO GOD LIKE HA. So we ordered a 10 ft X 6ft Flag that flew in the center of the stage with two smaller flags on the sides. Also during a transitional video we mounted 2 fallen soldier displays on the stage. It was very symbolic of our Allegiance to God. EVERYONE SHOULD LISTEN TO TODAYS MESSAGE. www.elementweb.net then click on "Watch and Listen" (wont be online until tuesday). I will post pictures tommorow afternoon.
Set List:
Awesome is the Lord Most High - Chris Tomlin
Famous One - Chris Tomlin
Beauty of the Lord - Jared Anderson (Desperation Band)
Oh Lord Most High - Joel Hatcher
It's all about you/Jesus Lover of my Soul - Passion
Worshipping him,
Adam
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: we have maxed our capacity at Element Church in the one theater we are in. So through much prayer and exhausting every option, we excitingly announce that we are going to 2 services in two weeks on Dec. 2nd. Service times will be at 9 and 10:30am. We are looking forward to this to keep reaching people for Christ. God keeps bringing them so we want to continue to make room for them. Our volunteers have been so supportive. In fact many of them have said that they will serve both services if we need them. AWESOME. God is good.
We closed out our first series officially as Element Church, and are doing a 2 week mini series called "Thanks:Giving". And then jumping right into a 4 week Christmas series called "Believe", which I am very excited about.
God is doing some great things around here and we are always blown away that God keeps choosing to use us.
Set design today was simple and clean. Our closing core value today was "allegiance" (which was planned over 2 months ago) and it just so happened to fall on Veterans Day, SO GOD LIKE HA. So we ordered a 10 ft X 6ft Flag that flew in the center of the stage with two smaller flags on the sides. Also during a transitional video we mounted 2 fallen soldier displays on the stage. It was very symbolic of our Allegiance to God. EVERYONE SHOULD LISTEN TO TODAYS MESSAGE. www.elementweb.net then click on "Watch and Listen" (wont be online until tuesday). I will post pictures tommorow afternoon.
Set List:
Awesome is the Lord Most High - Chris Tomlin
Famous One - Chris Tomlin
Beauty of the Lord - Jared Anderson (Desperation Band)
Oh Lord Most High - Joel Hatcher
It's all about you/Jesus Lover of my Soul - Passion
Worshipping him,
Adam
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Sunday AfterThoughts
Had a great sunday. More new people, which blows me away how God brings them in. 201 was the numbers today. Jeff talked about "significance", our 5th Core Value, for a phenomenal delivery. Make sure you watch the service online at www.elementweb.net.
Tried a new way to do offering today. DIDNT LIKE IT. Ha. But that is what is great about being new is that you can try it and if it doesnt work you dont do it again. Still trying to find the best way to do it and make it feel a part of the worship service.
One more week of our "IT" series. Looking forward to all the upcoming series. Our next series is called "THANKS/GIVING an Element mini series" Then we start our Christmas series which you wont want to miss.
Todays Set design:
2 Card board Cutouts: 1- marilyn monroe 2-Elvis Presley
3 Posters of Lebron James, Tom Brady, Brett Farve
(I will post pictures once I get them)
Todays Set List:
Take my Life - Jeremy Camp
We Shine- Steve Fee
Everything Glorious- David Crowder
Live To Worship - New Life Worship
The Stand - Hillsong United
The noise we make - Chris Tomlin
Worshipping Him,
Adam Cruz
Tried a new way to do offering today. DIDNT LIKE IT. Ha. But that is what is great about being new is that you can try it and if it doesnt work you dont do it again. Still trying to find the best way to do it and make it feel a part of the worship service.
One more week of our "IT" series. Looking forward to all the upcoming series. Our next series is called "THANKS/GIVING an Element mini series" Then we start our Christmas series which you wont want to miss.
Todays Set design:
2 Card board Cutouts: 1- marilyn monroe 2-Elvis Presley
3 Posters of Lebron James, Tom Brady, Brett Farve
(I will post pictures once I get them)
Todays Set List:
Take my Life - Jeremy Camp
We Shine- Steve Fee
Everything Glorious- David Crowder
Live To Worship - New Life Worship
The Stand - Hillsong United
The noise we make - Chris Tomlin
Worshipping Him,
Adam Cruz
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Sunday Recap
Well if things went as my dream was telling me this morning we would have had a very sad service. It was weird because last week, Launch week, I had a great night rest, however this week I was a mess. I could not sleep at all along with Jeff and Grant. Not sure if there was something spritually going on or what but none of us slept. I dreamed that Jeff wanted to go and shoot a video for next week at like 7:00am which is usually when we start setting up. I was like "Jeff we can do this later this week, but he insisted." So we got to church at like 8:00 and I was like there is no way we will be able to set up. The dream made me a nervous mess.
However our service went great. I believe God was there and was worshiped. I am learning a lot and still have so much to learn. Worship dynamics and people and all the things that go into worship ministry is so much more than you would ever think. Dont get me wrong there is nothing in the world I would rather be doing, but I am learning a lot.
We were praying this week for 120 and we had 127. God is so faithful to bring the people and call the hearts if we will be faithful to give our all to Him and do all we can. God wants us to dream and it takes a lot of trust and faith to dream as big as He is. If I caught it right from Jeff we had 5 more decisions for Christ this morning. This is what its all about. I am just blown away that God just simply uses us for His glory. And yet its so simple. Just give everything and He gives everything. HA.
Curtis (our Youth Pastor) jumped in on Djembe for a new rendition of "I belong to Jesus" to open up the service. Great job Curtis. Bryant and Morgan and Amber just do a wonderful job every week. It gets better and better.
Doing a couple of really cool songs this sunday. Check out next weeks video to hear them. They will really pull in well with the message. Probably the two most complicated songs we have done yet.
Well thats a wrap up.
Worshipping Him,
Adam Cruz
However our service went great. I believe God was there and was worshiped. I am learning a lot and still have so much to learn. Worship dynamics and people and all the things that go into worship ministry is so much more than you would ever think. Dont get me wrong there is nothing in the world I would rather be doing, but I am learning a lot.
We were praying this week for 120 and we had 127. God is so faithful to bring the people and call the hearts if we will be faithful to give our all to Him and do all we can. God wants us to dream and it takes a lot of trust and faith to dream as big as He is. If I caught it right from Jeff we had 5 more decisions for Christ this morning. This is what its all about. I am just blown away that God just simply uses us for His glory. And yet its so simple. Just give everything and He gives everything. HA.
Curtis (our Youth Pastor) jumped in on Djembe for a new rendition of "I belong to Jesus" to open up the service. Great job Curtis. Bryant and Morgan and Amber just do a wonderful job every week. It gets better and better.
Doing a couple of really cool songs this sunday. Check out next weeks video to hear them. They will really pull in well with the message. Probably the two most complicated songs we have done yet.
Well thats a wrap up.
Worshipping Him,
Adam Cruz
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