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Here are several worship service plans for ordination and installation services. You will find many ideas here that will aid you in making this worship event inspiring and challenging as well as one that will reflect the honor of Christian ministry and bring glory to God.

A service plan for Lent from Psalm 118 focused on thanking God for his deliverance in a Lenten series on the Psalms.

Marcell Silva Steuernagel, assistant professor of church music and director of the Master of Sacred Music program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, talks about what instruments can be added to better capture the style and spirit of Latin and South American choral music.

In 1996, Pres and Di Moerman invited their cousins, Steve and Diane Moerman, to a Prison Fellowship weekend. Steve and Diane got to know other inmates through one-on-one visits and Bible study correspondence.

A helpful article looking at the challenges that new and emerging churches face.

You’ve probably heard that we should take all of ourselves to God in prayer. But does God really care about doing laundry, aging rapidly, fighting traffic, or spending time with friends? God does care, according to W. David O. Taylor. His Prayers for the Pilgrimage: A Book of Collects for All of Life offers prayers about mundane sorrows and joys.

A service for Epiphany built around Isaiah 61, Luke 4, and I Peter 1

The following anthems are some of the most popular pieces in CICW's choral series and are also included on GIA's list of "Top 10 All Time" best sellers. 1. "Christus Paradox" For SATB Voices and Organ (Text: Sylvia Dunstan. Music: Alfred V. Fedak) “You, Lord, are both Lamb and Shepherd.” Thus begins Sylvia Dunstan’s text, which examines the seeming contradictions inherent in the one called the Christ.

In this series of meditations on the work of the Holy Spirit, we are considering features the English Puritan Christians said are Spirit-prompted and Spirit-endowed and which more and more ought to mark the lives of those who aim to follow Jesus faithfully. Christians who do display these qualities are LUI— Living Under the Influence of the Spirit. In this article we consider the sixth of these marks: “Generous humility and compassion—a servant spirit.”

In this pericope Paul speaks of his affirmed faith to the Philippians. While trials and difficulties may attempt to weaken our faith, Paul finds the opposite. The work of the gospel goes forward even in difficulty, and in that he finds joy and an affirmed faith in the purposes of God.