Stolen by Success and Pick-pocketed by the Past

We have to focus in on the next two weeks worship services: the 25th on Success and the 2nd on the Past.

Here are the basic ideas:

Success is focused on how much we allow our career and success financially to drive our identity. Most of the message revolves around workplace and monetary struggles. Here were some of our ideas from the brainstorming session:

Video Clips
Office Space or The Office
Enterprise Rent-a-Car Commercial (with guy renting a nice car to appear successful at his high school reunion)
The Family Man
Fun with Dick and Jane
Greed
Dickie Roberts Former Child Star
American Inventor (people giving up everything to pursue thie invention)
Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (similar idea to Enterprise commercial)

Art
Office items/keepsakes/rewards on tables

Concepts/Illustrations
Pat Tillman quitting the Arizona Cardinals to join the military
Dave Chappelle walking away from a $50 million tv contract to figure out his life
Monopoly
Psych Experiment about following someone successful
Inward vs. Outward success - how do we gauge it?

The Past revolves around how old hurts and guilt can continue to define us today. Here were some of our ideas:

Video Clips
The Lion King (Simba running from his past)
Harry Potter
Good Will Hunting (It's not your fault)
The Shipping News (Kevin Spacey's whole life is shaped by a traumatic experience during his childhood)
The Truman Show
Spiderman (Uncle Ben dies, goes on a killing rampage)
GATTACA (future world where everyone is genetically engineed except for the main character)
Memento (short term memory loss character)
The Woodsman (about the life of a child molester and how his crimes continue to haunt him)
My Name is Earl (The whole show is about trying to right the wrongs in the past)
24 (Jack is always haunted by his past - he can't let go...)
LOST (people not trusting each other)

Music
Eastmountainsouth - Ghost
Evanesence - My Immortal
Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years
Pearl Jam - Gone

Art
Yearbook photos on the table

Worship Tunes that could work each week:
Casting Crowns “Who am I?” (possible series theme song)
He knows my name
Enough

Worship Songs!

We want to figure out what worship songs you guys like and know. Here's my contribution to get us started. Are there some of these you hate? Some you love? What else do you hate or love?

1. All Bow Down
2. Be Glorified
3. Blessed Be Your Name
4. Draw Me Close
5. Enough
6. Forever
7. God of Wonders
8. Grace Flows Down
9. Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing)
10. Holy is the Lord
11. How Great is Our God
12. In Christ Alone
13. Isaiah 43
14. Indescribable
15. Lord Over All
16. Make a Joyful Noise
17. My Glorious
18. Not To Us
19. Open the Eyes of my Heart
20. Our Love is Loud
21. Rain Down
22. Speak to Me
23. Surrender
24. We Fall Down
25. When I Think About the Lord
26. Those Who Trust
27. Your Love is Extravagant
28. Sit Awhile

And Ryan's favorites (that are unique from my list):

1. Give us clean hands
2. Come home running
3. The wondrous cross
4. What a wonderful maker
5. He knows my name
6. I need you (Jars of Clay)
7. Everything (Lifehouse)
8. All Because of You (U2)
9. Before there was time
10. Facedown
11. Who am I?
12. I can only imagine

Post your opinion!