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September is a time of new beginnings. The new school year, the new church school year, and a new year of church ministries and activities are all worth remembering, celebrating, and dedicating in worship.
Worship service ideas for the month of November.
Worship planning assumes that a calendar is used. The assumption in worship planning is that we anticipate future worship.
Readings for Nicodemus and the Centurion, along with a service plan for the Centurion.
An Epiphany service and drama
As Christians we step into the new year with faith and confidence, knowing our God has been faithful in the past and promises to remain so.
An Epiphany service and drama
A Litany of Hope based on Ezekiel 37:11. This litany came from an article in Reformed Worship magazine. It offers prayer for restoration and salvation, and gives thanks for the promise of new life.
Just in time for the holidays, here’s an easy one for all you sewers and weavers and other overworked "banner people."
In our worship we enter into a dialogue between God and God’s people—a dialogue that neither begins with our entrance nor ends with our exit. More accurately we are joining in a conversation that started long before we ever showed up. Indeed, worship is a cosmic gathering in which we are privileged to participate.
The idea for this service began in late November 2007. As a congregation we were not planning to hold a New Year’s Eve or a New Year’s Day service. So we asked the question, "How will we begin the new year on Epiphany Sunday?"
When we gather for worship on New Year’s Eve, we do so to praise God for the past year—to thank God for the wonderful gifts he has given us and to remember his wonderful deeds. But what if our year has not been good? What if, when we think back on the year, all we can remember is pain and heartache?
