Here are the prayers we will use this week for our hymn sing worship service. Blessings to you all as you plan, lead, and live worship this week–and beyond. Call to Worship (from Psalm 63:1-5) You, God, are our God, earnestly we seek you; we thirst for you, we long for you with our whole…
Sometimes there is one phrase in a given scripture passage that grabs my attention and seems to bear repeating. This happened for me this morning with part of verse 29 from the Ephesians 4 reading. So today I offer a call to worship based on Ephesians 4:29, as well as a piece for communion preparation…
*This liturgy is an adaptation of the traditional Great Thanksgiving liturgy. The concluding prayer of thanksgiving was (heavily) adapted from a prayer by Katherine Hawker. Communion Liturgy for Easter Sunday Friends, let us come out of the darkness and join together in the light of God’s love. You are invited to this table of life…
Next Wednesday, March 9, is Ash Wednesday. Here is the service I have put together for my congregation. As always, feel free to use any of this material and adapt it for your own context. I always appreciate a note from those who find my liturgies helpful. Ash Wednesday Worship, 2011 Welcome Words about Ash…
Call to Worship, based on John 15: 1-8 We are branches, rooted in the vine of Christ. We come because we seek to abide in Christ. The branches that remain in the vine bear much fruit. We come because we long to be spiritually vibrant, alive, productive. If we abide in Christ, then Christ’s words…
You might say I’m a bit of a prayerbook junkie–a free-church pastor who loves deep liturgy. Also, I should add, an embarrassingly undisciplined person who needs all the help I can get when it comes to the spiritual essentials of daily prayer and Bible-reading. Just before Thanksgiving I received my pre-ordered copy of a new…
