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The Christmas season is always interesting when it comes to planning worship.

It begins with the always-hard-to-figure-out dilemma of what fits at the end of November / beginning of December. I mean, you can’t just come out and belt “O Holy Night” right away! People aren’t that into the Christmas spirit yet.

This year, however, I’ve been singing Christmas music since July because of our Church Outside the Box piece that we’ve just released. I feel like I have a pretty good bank of solid Christmas song arrangements that we can incorporate nicely into our Sunday morning worship sets.

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Hey guys.

Here’s a brief update from our November set lists at Connect Church.

If you’re unfamiliar with some of the worship blogs I post, I basically take a few different approaches. Sometimes I’ll post simple set lists with iTunes links to the songs sang that week/month, I’ll write thoughts behind why different worship elements were included, reference scriptures that the songs came from and sometimes I’ll include stories and links behind some of the songs sang.

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