Suggested Guidelines for Hosting Guest Preachers
Some suggestions for hosting a guest preacher
April 30, 2012
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2 min read
Acquired Tips on How to Be a Guest Preacher
A seasoned preacher offers tips on how to be an effective guest preacher
April 30, 2012
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2 min read
Planning and Leading Congregational Worship
This syllabus covers a study of resources, skills, and strategies for planning and leading public worship services. Particular attention will be given to the interpretative reading of Scripture, congregational prayer, training lay worship leaders, and celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
March 8, 2012
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7 min read
Planning Worship Series Ahead
Worship planned in series provides for a greater cumulative impact on the spiritual life of a congregation as a theme is continually reinforced.
September 1, 2011
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6 min read
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Veterans - Psalms and Prayers
These psalms and prayers are provided as many voices are calling for the church to be a significant partner in the complex readjustment process of returning home for military veterans.
July 12, 2011
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9 min read
An Introduction to Pentecost Season and Summer
Your worship planning has likely been marked by a good bit of intensity in recent weeks. The season of Lent followed by Holy Week and Easter require a great deal of effort by worship planners, preachers, and worship leaders. The services have hopefully all had a consistent theme focused on the suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord.
October 27, 2010
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9 min read
World Communion Sunday
The Sunday for which this service is designated is World Communion Sunday. On this day churches around the world will come to the Table of the Lord as an expression of their oneness in Jesus Christ.
October 21, 2010
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15 min read
Collaboration in Worship Planning (Bible Study)
Ministry goes forward when faith-filled people work together collaboratively! Collaborators are co-laborers. They contribute from the field of their own gifts and passions. But they do not labor in isolation. Their labors are so interwoven that the final product is a composite. A group effort is genuinely the product of the entire group, not merely a modified solo plan"
October 19, 2010
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6 min read
The Pattern of a Worship Service (Bible Study)
We do not find that the Bible prescribes a specific liturgy for worship, we do find that our understanding of the Scriptures and the guidelines that it provides will be very helpful in discerning the pattern of worship and understanding the freedom for variation and flexibility in our worship life.
October 19, 2010
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5 min read
Good Reasons for Good Worship (Bible Study)
Before you come to the meeting, spend some time with these two chapters from Revelation. As you read these chapters, remind yourself that while John is an exile on the island of Patmos he receives this revelation from God. You are getting a view of the throne room of heaven.
October 19, 2010
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4 min read
Issues in Worship Renewal (I) (Bible Study)
The theme of worship is very prominent in the Scriptures. Many of the references are calls to worship in which God's children are told that worship is their joy and their privilege. But many other passages indicate that the worship life of the church requires constant assessment. It can get off course and need to be redirected; it can face new opportunities and need new forms; and it can benefit from new insights and experiences.
October 19, 2010
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7 min read
Responding in Praise and Thanks (Bible Study)
In corporate worship we are expected to give a response to what God has said and done. So we talk about the "service of response" of a worship liturgy, and it always follows the proclamation of God's word in the sermon. When God has spoken his word of hope and grace, it is unthinkable that we would leave church without a response. The dialogue of worship always includes the assumption that God waits for some response to his word.
October 19, 2010
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9 min read
