Mark Rodriguez

Bizzaro Sunday at Calvary Fellowship

Bob and I are switching rolls this weekend. I'll be teaching the service and he'll be leading worship. Neither of us are rookies though... I taught my first sermon to an adult congregation when I was 12 years old and have been teaching ever since and Bob was part of 2 very successful rock bands (watch one of his music videos here) and was Calvary Fellowship's first worship leader. It's going to be an amazing service! Don't miss it... Invite some friends This is calvary's website!

Preparing a Worship Set Part 1

At Calvary Fellowship our services are roughly 65 minutes long and on a typical Sunday we play 4 songs. I get emails and calls on a regular basis from worship leaders asking me what songs are you doing, why don't you use these songs, and how do you prepare your worship set. So here goes:

The first thing you need to prepare a worship set is obvious songs so here are a few of the songs on the CF worship team's rotation:

HIllsong United:

You Deserve

Salvation is Here

Mighty to Save

Evermore

King of All Days

Look to You

The Time Has Come

From the Inside Out

Where the Love Last Forever

Break Free

Always

Desert Song

Desperation Band

Ready Now

Endlessly

Promises

Light of Salvation

Chasing

Passion Peeps

Sing, Sing, Sing

You Lifted Me Out

How Great is Our God

Holy is the Lord

Indescribable

Hosanna

Marvelous Light

Salvation Is Here

Sing to the King

Your Grace is Enough

Center

Our Love is Loud

You Are My Joy

Made to Worship

Mute Math's Version

Love Song

CF Originals

All I Need is You

Release Me

In PART 2 I will cover the criteria that songs need to have to make the cut.

The New Macbook Pro 17"

My New 17" MacBoo Pro is friken Amazing... love the new design WOW... 

2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor

4GB memory

500GB 5400-rpm hard drive

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor with 512MB GDDR3 memory

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor

I've been a faithful apple "believer" before it was cool... 

Now I'm so glad I never gave up on the brand... 

New Song: King of All Days

This song is Rocking My world! We Introduced it to the congregation on Sunday and it was Incredible. 

King of All Days

By: Hillsong United

In your surrender
As You lay down Your life
You took up a sinners cross
And your life rescued mine

In this redemption
Love and mercy display
And lifted my eyes to see
That your truth never fails

Lord of the heavens
King of all days
Without You my world slips away
Redeemed by your mercy
Consumed by your grace
Now I live for You

[CHORUS]
I'm found in the arms of love
For your love it has saved my soul
I'll run to your arms of love
Your life's gonna lead me home

Glorious savior
In your light I am free
If things of this world will fail
Still you are all that I need

Lord of the heavens
King of all days
Without You my world slips away
Redeemed by your mercy
Consumed by your grace
Now I live for You

[CHORUS] x 2

[BRIDGE]
And at your cross
I lay my burdens
At your feet
Where your love covers
All I've done
Now I walk with you lord

[CHORUS] x 2

iPhone 2.0 Problems

Is it only me, or did Apple not work out all the kinks b4 they released the 2.0 update. I guess this next thought can be across the board. U can have an amazing product, but if u release it prematurly it makes u appear foolish. And u piss a lot of people off along the way.

Graphic of the Week

Here are some signs that we designed for the hall in the theater leading up to our children's sign-in table. At CF part of our philosophy is you can never have too much signage.

Micro Blogging

I had breakfast with my wife this morning and I confessed to her that I've been twittering... She's like so now you're micro blogging... She's so funny sometimes... It sux that I was the butt of her joke. It's awesome that after being together for almost 14 years (dated for 8 married for 5 1/2) we can still make each other laugh, and enjoy some coffee in the morning.

I love my boy

This is Kaleb in his Elmo towel...

Please Don't Do This At Home

I went to one of my friend's wedding today. It was awesome to see 2 great people get married. The ceremony was amazing. I was taking notes cuz I'm marrying one of my best buddies in a few weeks, and Bob does the best wedding talk I've ever heard... (And I'm not kissing up!)

But here was the most shocking part of the entire night. I went to my car for a sec during the reception and check out the sign i saw in the parking lot.

THIS IS THE WORST THING YOU COULD EVER DO TO TRY TO WELCOME PEOPLE TO YOUR CHURCH...
OMG!!!!!!!!! The best part is ALL OTHERS WILL BE TOWED AWAY.... What the HECK IS THAT!!!!!!

PINCH ME PLEASE...

I'm a husband, dad, and pastor

This past year and a half has been amazing... I have a gorgeous son named kaleb... He is the coolest kid... We're expecting our second son Joshua on July 31st... I work at the best church ever... and I think i might start blogging again...

Since I last blogged the youth group I lead has double... I've been reading several books that have changed my life and ministry....

I'm gonna blog about all of this madness...

I hope I can squeeze some time into my super stretched schedule to exploit myself...