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What is the screen supposed to do? How do you create media that fits what worship is all about? Using illustrations, techniques, and tools from the field, this session explored models for using the screen and a process for creating media that helps lead worship rather than distract from it.
Who is invited to plan worship? What spiritual gifts need to be included on the planning team? How can the planning team leader facilitate conversation among diverse voices?
The wealth of resources for busy preachers available through something like iTunes is a bit staggering. And you can find sermons there too.
"On the third day he arose again from the dead." Simple words often capture life's most profound and important truths the best. How better, therefore, for Christians to make their most astonishing declaration about Jesus Christ than by this direct, unadorned, and so forthrightly clear confession?
Living as faithful disciples of Jesus requires making a lot of judgment calls.
Randy Smit sees all of life as a gift and the Lord’s Table as the “quintessential place for experiencing the hospitality of Christ. And so who’s at the table becomes pretty significant.” He suggests focusing less on “fencing the table,” more on opening it to children or others who may be left out.
The more that you experience God’s grace through the sacraments and in ordinary life, the more attention you’ll pay to who’s not at the Lord’s Table.
Immersing themselves in these psalms helped worshipers view their lives as people journeying together on their way home to God.
This service is based on Philippians 4:2-9.
"If we only had / could ..." can become too common a phrase in smaller congregations. This session equipped and encouraged even the smallest congregation --or small group within a larger community-- to design and experience deep, joy-filled worship using everything God has given them and requiring nothing more.
Paul’s entire letter to Jesus’ followers in Philippi, spoken from memory by Jesus’ followers today, illumined with image and song
From Sunday as the first feast of the Christian Church through the later development of a liturgical year that celebrates the life of Christ, this approach to worship offers rich possibilities for shaping celebration.
