First Baptist Church - San Luis Obispo - Celebration

Phil Steckling - Searching

OneMic Recording - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFDJI_EFHbY

Anna and I wrote this song one quiet Thursday night at band practice. We were wrestling with the difficulty we often have in relating to our God. For the most part, our relationship with God consists of a “quiet time” which is just one more thing on our full to-do lists and often looks like plowing through scripture for the sake of plowing through scripture. This stilted way of relating to God causes us to lose sight of the simple truth that God is already present wherever we are, whatever we are doing.  God wants to meet us right in the middle of our messy, broken lives. That’s what people in relationships do. This song is a prayer, asking God to help us enter into that kind of relationship with Him and to help us see where He is already working in us and through us.
-Phil

Lyrics:
I want to know all about You
Gather facts like collecting leaves
Build my pride will how much knowledge I pack inside
But You offer Yourself to me
Yeah You offer Yourself to me

And You, have been waiting here for me
You’re already here, longing to envelope me
Help me to know, Help me to be
Help me to feel, Help me to see
that You’re already here

Surrounded by messages
Tell me keep trying harder and striving more
When I don’t find all the answers
Then I’m a failure
Then I’m a failure 

I like to keep my world in boxes
All alphabetized, and categorized, and systematized
Put our relationship on my to-do list
Feels so good to cross it off
Yeah it feels so good to cross it off 

Help me to start over, help me to listen well
Let me to be okay with messy, let me to simply invite you in
Please show me life together, show me prayer without end
You didn’t come to give us errands, you came to help us start again
You bring abundant life 


Celebration Worship - You're Already Here - OneMic

Our community began celebrating the Easter Vigil in 2012, and this year we wanted to engage the "Exultet" with fresh eyes. So our worship team drew on the powerful imagery of this ancient hymn and set it to new music, so its message can be sung anew.

Lyric taken from "Exultet," translated by ICEL. Music by Phil Steckling. Produced by Dexter Markley.

Exultet

During a sermon series through Revelation a few years back, we found an old hymn based on the awesome imagery used to describe Jesus in Revelation 1. Our desire in that teaching series was to expand our sense of the power, glory and goodness of Jesus. We wanted fresh eyes to see "the alpha and the omega, the one who was and is and is to come." Using the hymn's lyrics as a foundation, our worship team created this song to celebrate the mystery of the sovereign Lord, Jesus.

Music by Phil Steckling
Lyrics by Timothy Dudley-Smith & Phil Steckling

Produced by Dexter Markley

Band: Phil Steckling, Josh Demolar, Melody Curren, Anna Gerlach, Alex Baucom, Loren Martin, Dexter Markley

He Walks (Among the Golden Lamps)

Taken from Jesus' prayer in John 17, that the believers would be one just as Jesus and the Father are one, this song meditates on that idea.  From all that join us together as believers, to the power given us by the Holy Spirit to make it possible, to the strange verse in John 17:22, "so that the world may believe that you have sent me."  Make us One is a prayer asking God to do what Jesus asked God to do... to make us one.  This live recording came from our evening of worship at First Baptist Church on October 4th, 2014.


FBCSLO Worship - Make Us One - Live

For more than a decade, Christmas Celebration has been a tradition that our community enjoys the last week before winter break. We gather and sing all the Christmas carols we love, listening again to the wonder of their meaning. Last year we recorded this track after the service.

Michelle Berry: Lead Vocals
Phil Steckling: Background Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Dexter Markley: Violin, Double Bass, Percussion

Produced by Dexter Markley.


The First Noel

“Christ, our Savior was born.  To save us all from Satan’s power." Ultimately we are safe. Ultimately God wants us to rest in that reality. We don’t need to have it all figured out, we don’t have to create our own safety net, we can rest in the reality that we are safe in Christ’s power to save us. “Tiding of comfort and joy, comfort and joy, oh tidings of comfort and joy!” 

Recorded live at Christmas Celebration 2014.

Steve Sanchez - Lead Vocals
Phil Steckling - BGV, Guitar
Anna Gerlach - BGV
Morgan O'Hagan - BGV
Gary Weyel - Piano
Danielle Li - Violin
Melody Curren - Bells
Joelle Bianchi - Bells
Dexter Markley - Drums
David Delfino - Bass
Grady Ahern - Tuba
Josh Demolar - Electric Guitar

Produced by Dexter Markley

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Live)

God is bigger than that times my brokenness bruises another
God is bigger
God is stronger than the times my selfishness pulls me under
God is stronger

Do Not Fear

God is able, God is able
To bring about His good
He meant it for our good

God is good in the times when all I see around me seems broken
God is good
God still reigns in all the times I feel a deep sense of lacking
God still reigns

FBCSLO Worship - Meant For Good - Live

Life is filled with pressure and anxiety, stress and worry.  We as a community of Christ followers struggle with these just like everyone else.  Together we resonated with this song's simple message that our God is a good father, and our identity is one that is deeply loved.  That is reality, and that reality, if we truly believe it, will help us deal with the pressure and the stress and the worry.  So we recorded this Housefires song to give to our community to remind us of our Good father and remind us of how loved we are.

Originally recorded by Housefires II. All rights reserved by Housefires. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djrY_eFDOwE

Please support the original artist:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/housefires-ii/id912360127?uo=4


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