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Kids Music: Jesus Saves Sinners

August 1, 2011 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Here is our current music liturgy for kids Sunday services:

Please do not simply read this script to the children. Teach the kids by engaging them and talking with them. Pause for answers and questions. Accept truthful answers. Gently correct or re-direct false answers. Have them stand up for the singing. Don’t be afraid to engage the teachers in the room to worship and help keep the kids attentive.

Leader 1: “Hi, I’m Mr./Ms. (First name)” Leader 2: “Hi, I’m Mr./Ms. (First name)”

Leader 1: Everybody stand up! Let’s sing to Jesus, the Mighty Mighty Savior!

1. Mighty Mighty Savior, Words and Music by Mark Altrogge. © 2004 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI), from Awesome God.

Leader 2: We sang in the last song that Jesus is a mighty mighty Savior. He saves people from their sins, or the times people disobey God. We all sin and disobey God, and we all need to be saved.

God sent Jesus to earth to die on a cross for our sins, and if we trust Jesus to take away our sins, then He will save us! We can’t do enough good things to make the bad things we’ve done go away. We need God to take away the bad things we’ve done, soGod punished Jesus instead of us so we can be forgiven and become God’s children.

The people Jesus saves can’t brag about doing it themselves, because God saves people by His grace. That means God is good and kind to us when we don’t deserve it. When God takes away a person’s sins, He’s doing something wonderful that no one deserves. Let’s sing the next song about God’s grace.

2. “Grace (La-De-Da),” written by Rodney Clawson ©2004 Writer’s Extreme Music / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Co. (BMI). Lyrics taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Leader 1: We should believe in Jesus and trust Him to take away our sins because He’s the only way we can be friends with God. Everyone who trusts Jesus to take away their sins becomes friends with God and lives with Him forever! The good news about Jesus is the best news there is! There’s nothing better than Jesus!

3. “Nothing Better Than Jesus,” music and words by Steve & Vikki Cook and Bob Kauflin © 2009 Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP)/Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Ministries. From To Be Like Jesus. 

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Leader 2: We’re going to pray now, so everybody fold your hands and close your eyes and be still and pay attention to God; we’re going to talk to Him now.

“Thank You, God, for sending Jesus to earth. Thank You for making a way for us to be saved! Thank You, Jesus, for dying on the cross and rising from the dead. You are so loving. You even love sinners! Thank You, God, for making a way for us to be forgiven and friends with You! Please help us to remember and believe this good news. Amen. ”

The news about Jesus is so good, we should tell everyone we know that Jesus saves sinners! Let’s GO and tell the good news about Jesus!

4. “Go (Matthew 28:19),” written by Jason Houser ©2007 Big Songs of Extreme / Big Loud Songs (ASCAP) Admin. by Big Loud Bucks. Lyrics taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved. Used by permission. From The Power of Encouragement.

Kids Music: Jesus is Prophet

July 28, 2011 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Our last children’s ministry unit highlighted how Jesus is our prophet, our Great Teacher.  Here is the music liturgy that we used during Sunday Kids Music services:

Please do not simply read this script to the children. Teach the kids by engaging them and talking with them. Pause for answers and questions. Accept truthful answers. Gently correct or re-direct false answers. Have them stand up for the singing. Don’t be afraid to engage the teachers in the room to worship and help keep the kids attentive.

Leader 1: “Hi, I’m Mr./Ms. (First name)” Leader 2: “Hi, I’m Mr./Ms. (First name)”

Leader 1: In the Bible we read stories of the prophets, who told people God’s word. They helped people understand what God wanted them to do. Sometimes the people knew exactly what God wanted, but they did the opposite. The prophets told them how bad it was to disobey God, but they also told them how loving and forgiving God is. The prophets always told the people that God would forgive all their sins if they would return to Him. They also told the people that God was going to do great things to save His people.

We can trust the things God has said to us in the Bible. God’s word never fails. The next song is all about God’s word. Repeat after me:

1. “The Word of the Lord (1 Peter 1:24-25)” by Rodney Clawson © 2004 Writer’s Extreme Music / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Co. (BMI), Lyrics taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission. All rights reserved. As performed on Seeds of Faith by Seeds Family Worship.

All men are like grass
And all their glory is like the flowers in the field.
The grass withers and the flowers fall
But the word of the Lord stands forever. 

Leader 2: When Jesus came to Earth, He told people what God wanted them to do. Like the prophets before Him, He explained God’s laws to people. Jesus told the people the word of God. But Jesus is also the Word of God Himself! Everything He did and said pointed to the forgiveness that God was going to give His people who believe in Jesus. The next song is all about what Jesus did to make a way for people to be forgiven.

2. “Jesus Came to Earth,” by Solomon Campbell, Dave Campbell, and Bob Kauflin © 2004 Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP) and Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Ministries. From Awesome God.

Leader 1: Jesus said that all of God’s laws and all the messages from the prophets were really about love. He said that all the law and prophets are based on two things: loving God and loving other people. He showed us God’s love by dying on the cross for our sins, and His love means we should love Him back! The next song talks about loving God and obeying His laws because He loved us first and sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins.

3.“Because You First Loved Me,” words and music by Doug Plank, © 2009 Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAPI). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Ministries. From To Be Like Jesus.

Leader 2: We’re going to pray now, so everybody fold your hands and close your eyes. Be still and pay attention to God. We’re going to talk to Him now.

“Jesus, thank You for telling us the truth about our sin, and about God’s forgiveness. Thank you for showing us too, by living a perfect life, dying on the cross, and rising from the dead. Thank You, God, that everyone who believes in Jesus is forgiven and friends with You. Please help us never to forget everything You’ve done for us. Amen.”

God’s word is good news for everyone who believes in Jesus! When I think about everything God’s done for me in Jesus, I get so excited! Let’s sing about how exciting this good news is!

4. When I Think about Jesus (spiritual)

When I think about Jesus
What He’s done for me
When I think about Jesus
How he set me free
I want to sing, shout, jump, dance
All day and all night

Watts Wednesday: A General Song of Praise to God

July 13, 2011 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

This is from  Isaac Watts’ Songs for Children (1715). The title is “A general Song of Praise to God.”  There are some great lines here like “How great his pow’r is, none can tell, Nor think how large his grace.” This is one of our goals in SojournKids–to paint a picture of God’s amazing grace for the next generation. Watts is right. It is God’s outrageous grace that leads us to praise.

How glorious is our heav’nly King,
Who reigns above the sky!
How shall a child presume to sing
His dreadful majesty?

How great his pow’r is, none can tell,
Nor think how large his grace;
Not men below, nor saints that dwell
On high before his face.

Not angels that stand round the Lord
Can search his secret will;
But they perform his heav’nly word,
And sing his praises still.

Then let me join this holy train,
And my first off’rings bring;
Th’eternal God will not disdain
To hear an infant sing.

My heart resolves, my tongue obeys,
And angels shall rejoice
To hear their mighty Maker’s praise
Sound from a feeble voice.

For Sojourn’s re-envisioning of some of  Isaac Watts’ hymns for modern listeners, check out Sojourn Music.

 

Watts Wednesday: Advantages of Teaching Children Through Song

July 6, 2011 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

This is from the preface of Isaac Watts’ Songs for Children (1715). I especially like the image in #3. A song is like constant furniture in the mind of a child. It is always sitting there in the room of the mind–welcoming a child to come and recline when they are at leisure.

Verse was at first designed for the service of God, though it hath been wretchedly abused since. The ancients, among the Jews and the Heathens, taught their children and disciples the precepts of morality and worship in verse. The children of Israel were commanded to learn the words of the song of Moses, Deut. xxxi 19, 50, and we are directed in the New Testament, not only to sing “with grace in the heart, but to teach and admonish one another by hymns and songs,” Ephes. v. 19. And there are these four advantages in it.

I. There is a great delight in the very learning of truths and duties this way. There is something so amusing and entertaining in rhymes and metre, that will incline children to make this part of their business a diversion. And you may turn their very duty into a reward, by giving them the privilege of learning one of these songs every week, if they fulfil the business of the week well, and promising them the book itself, when they hare learnt ten or twenty songs out of it.

II. What is learnt in verse is longer retained in memory, and sooner recollected. The like sounds, and the like number of syllables, exceedingly assist the remembrance. And it may often happen, that the end of a song running in the mind may be an effectual means to keep off some temptations, or to incline to some duty, when a word of scripture is not upon their thoughts.

III. This will be a constant furniture of the minds of children, that they may have something to think upon when alone, and sing over to themselves. This may sometimes give their thoughts a divine turn, and raise a young meditation. Thus they will not be forced to seek relief for an emptiness of mind, out of the loose and dangerous sonnets of the age.

IV. These Divine Songs may be a pleasant and proper matter for their daily or weekly worship, to sing one in the family, at such time as the parents or governors shall appoint; and therefore I have confined the verse to the most usual psalm tunes.

For Sojourn’s re-envisioning of some of  Isaac Watts’ hymns for modern listeners, check out Sojourn Music.

October Children’s Music Liturgy

October 20, 2010 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Everybody STAND UP! Let’s sing a song to God!

1. “To Be Like Jesus,” music and words by Pat Sczebel and Todd Twining © 2009 Sovereign Grace (ASCAP)/Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Ministries. From To Be Like Jesus.

Jesus was perfect. He never sinned. He never did what was wrong. He shows us how to live to please God.

But we do sin. We can’t be like Jesus on our own. We deserve to be in trouble with God for all the bad things we’ve done, but Jesus died on the cross and was punished instead of us. We can be forgiven by trusting Jesus to take away our sins! Let’s sing this song about how God saves people through Jesus!

2. “Grace (La De Da),” written by Rodney Clawson © 2004 Writer’s Extreme Music/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Co. (BMI). Lyrics taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. From Seeds of Faith.

Jesus is the only way that we can be forgiven for the bad things we’ve done. He’s also the only way we can do good things. Because of God’s grace in Jesus, we can have power to do what pleases God. This next song is about getting help from Jesus to do what’s right when we trust Him. Continue Reading…

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