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The music of the megachurch is both a bane and a blessing. The key task is discerning which of its dimensions fall in each category.
A few years ago, East End Fellowship, a multicultural Presbyterian congregation in Richmond, VA, started an urban songwriting internship and a gospel choir to reflect its congregational values of incarnation and reconciliation.
Some questions to guide you through the worship planning process.
Twenty artists from North America and South Africa created “Between the Shadow and the Light: Artists’ Prophetic Responses to South Africa Today.”
John Calvin wrote much about the value, purpose, and nature of Christian liturgy.
A basic flow to the dialogic pattern of worship.
Maybe you heard her song “Try Again” on the TV drama Parenthood or NPR’s Morning Edition.
We need a perspective, a way of conceptualizing our role as worship leaders that will sustain us in our day-to-day work in our congregations.
This article describes the role of the worship planner and provides suggestions for worship planning in a wide range of churches and worshiping communities.
This article translated into Korean calls for worship services that seek to enable the participation of adults and children alike.
an article on how to lead a worship service translated into Korean
The learning went both ways when two school communities decided to “dwell in the Psalms” for a year. Their Psalms-based creations revealed that the Spirit can work through kids and adults of any age to nourish faith.
