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
Reading Scripture in Public Worship
In all of our worship planning the principle that the Word of God is central must guide us. Since worship is our engagement with God, our group conversation with God, the Word must figure prominently.
October 26, 2010
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8 min read
Planning for Summer Worship: Constructing Series of Sermons
The summer is a good time to draw the worship planners together to take a look at the season that is past.
October 26, 2010
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5 min read
The Role of Prayer in Public Worship
The prayers in a worship service constitute a very sacred time in which the corporate voice of God's people is lifted heavenward. Such efforts should never be done unthinkingly, and such prayers should never be written carelessly. Indeed, in some ways, corporate prayers require more thought than personal prayers because they must address the needs and concerns of many. Let there be careful forethought to the prayers we offer, regardless of whether we offer them extemporaneously or through written form.
October 26, 2010
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10 min read
Advent Prayer Based on the Lord's Prayer
Praying the Lord's Prayer during Advent and Christmas
October 22, 2010
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2 min read
Meditations on Lenten Hymns
These meditations on frequently used Lenten hymns will help you plan worship for Lent.
October 22, 2010
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12 min read
The Longest Night - LaSalle Street Church
This service of lament and longing for God's light was held on the night of Wednesday, December 20—the night with the least sunlight of any day on the calendar in the Northern Hemisphere.
October 22, 2010
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2 min read
Praying the Lord's Prayer During Advent
The Lord's Prayer is a prayer for all seasons. But it comes to us with particular pastoral urgency during Advent and Christmas.
October 22, 2010
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2 min read
Planning Ahead: Worship in September
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.
October 21, 2010
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2 min read
Planning Ahead: Worship in October
The highlight of the October calendar may be World Communion Sunday, when Christians everywhere celebrate what it means to belong to the body of Christ—"the holy catholic church, the communion of the saints." In celebrating the Lord's Supper, we most deeply celebrate our oneness in Christ.
October 21, 2010
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2 min read
Prayer for the Darfuri
Loving God, we cry out to you on behalf of the people of the Darfur region.
October 21, 2010
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1 min read
Planning Ahead: Worship in November
Worship service ideas for the month of November.
October 21, 2010
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1 min read
