Chase the Setting Sun...

Today is Easter Sunday. With that comes so many great things, most of all the hope of salvation in knowing that Christ died for our sins and is risen today. One thing I was not expecting is how much I enjoyed and was moved by the music today.

I am a contemporary worship director at Castleton United Methodist Church in Indianapolis. I prefer contemporary worship, it typically moves me to a greater extent and I am able to worship more through it I believe than traditional worship. Today however, was a different story. Today our Music Director brought in an orchestra complete with brass and strings as well as some percussion. It was amazing in combination with our usual choir. They did "Christ the Lord is Risen today" and "Hallelujah" from Handel's Messiah and it was amazing. The way it was all put together with the orchestra and choir just gave it this holiness or "weight" to it. I have to say I much preferred what we had today to what we would have had in the contemporary worship service...which is saying a lot since I run the contemporary music at Castleton.

Nice work Dr. Wright and choir/musicians. Well done!