Online Church Services- Saddleback Church
Saddleback Church based in Lake Forrest, California, has eight (8) worship venues and six (6) campuses. Senior Pastor Rick Warren is well known in the Christian community and author of the best-selling Purpose Driven Church. Warren started Saddleback Church on Easter of 1980, and it has grown to be one of the largest churches in the country. Pastor Warren and Saddleback Church’s influence has now spread around the globe.
You can visit Saddleback by taking a nice trip to Southern California, or you pull up your chair to computer and attend online. Saddleback offers live streams of its services here. Live services are streamed on Saturdays at 4:30 and 6:30 PM, and on Sundays at 9:00 & 11:15 AM and 4:30 & 6:30 PM. All times are Pacific. If you arrive at a time when services aren’t being streamed live, a countdown clock will appear indicating when the next service will air.
On Saddleback’s live service page you can join a chat, take notes, look up passages in the online Bible, and complete a response card. You can also download the sermon notes and a discussion guide. Archived services are also linked to the page so that you can watch past messages in case a live one isn’t available. Saddleback also links to other ministries from their live service page that can connect you to small groups, offer an opportunity to give financially, learn more about Christ, and find care and help.
With the internet becoming more and more important in our lives and the quality that new technologies allow, Saddleback’s campus is a great one to bookmark. If you always wanted to live in Cali but just can never seem to get there, at least you can worship at a church that’s making a difference in the OC.
Online Church Services- Church of the Highlands
Many churches around the country offer live church services via the internet. We will focus on as many as we can over time. Today, we’d like to point you to Church of the Highlands’ live services.
Church of the Highlands is a fast-growing, life-giving church based in Birmingham, Alabama. Its Senior Pastor is Chris Hodges. In 2008, Church of the Highlands was the fastest growing church in the country. In 2009, the church is still growing and has over 10,000 in attendance each weekend. It has five (5) campuses located around the Birmingham metropolitan area and one in Auburn, AL, and another in Tuscaloosa, AL.
Highlands’ live services can be found here. If you click through during a live event, you will bring up their streaming feed which includes worship and preaching. If you arrive before a service begins, you’ll be informed by a count-down clock of the time the next service is scheduled. A nice feature of the page is Highland’s link to message archives. If you do arrive before a service, you can still watch past messages by clicking that link. When you’re there, you can download a Worship Guide and the day’s Message Notes. Links on the bottom of the page offer you a chance to learn more about the church, give online, and fill out a connection card.
If you’re ever in the area, you should definitely check out live services at either Church of the Highlands’ main campus or one of its satellites. If a trip to Alabama isn’t in your near future, you can attend a great service at a great church right from the comfort of your own computer screen.
How He Loves Us – Kim Walker / Jesus Culture
Sometimes songs are simple, catchy and fun to sing. Sometimes they are deeply meaningful. Not to say that they can’t be both. Sometimes songs are incredibly poetic. We are amazed when the lyrics are so vivid that pictures explode in our minds. The song we are featuring today is one of those. How He Love Us by Kim Walker / Jesus Culture paints the closest picture of the vastness of God’s love for us in some of the best visual words we’ve ever heard- from a single tree in a hurricane to a drowning person in an ocean of grace.
It may not strike you the first time you hear it because the melody of the verses is a little complicated. In contrast, the chorus is very simple and easy to sing. When you listen to the song from the embedded YouTube we’ve posted below, it would serve you well you read along with the lyrics. If you miss the words, you’ll likely miss the touch.
How He Loves Us :
He is jealous for me
Loves like a hurricane
I am a tree bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
I realize just how beautiful You are and how great Your affections are for me.
And Oh how He loves us so
Oh How He loves us
How He loves us so.
We are His portion and He is our prize
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes.
If grace is an ocean we’re all sinking.
So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest.
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets when I think about
The way…
Yeah He loves us
Oh how He loves us
Oh how He loves us
Oh how He loves
Video on the Spirit-Filled Life
Check out this video from LifeChurch.tv on the Spirit filled life.
LifeChurch is known for their short clips, bumpers and intros. You can also download and watch all their stuff free from their home site and from their OPEN site. If you’re in need of resources from sermon outlines, to artwork, to video bumpers, etc. you should definitely check them out.
