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Lectionary Worship Aids Series 4 Cycle A
$20.95Add to cartLectionary Worship Aids by James R. Wilson is a lectionary book based on Cycle B of the Revised Common Lectionary. Here are some of the topics covered in this lectionary book:
– Worship
– Worship resources
– Worship services
– Worship aids
– Lectionary
– Cycle B of the Revised Common Lectionary
– Lectionary worship aids
– Lectionary resources
Call to Worship, Collect, Prayer of Confession, and three suggested hymns based on each lectionary text (First Lesson, Second Lesson, Gospel) are provided for every Sunday of the year in cycle A. Additional non-lectionary days such as All Saints’ Day, Thanksgiving Day, Fourth of July, World-wide Communion Sunday and Parent’s Days are also included.A scripture index helps to make this one of the most useful and necessary worship helps in any pastor’s library.
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Visions Of Lent Year 2
$7.95Add to cartVisions of Lent Year 2 — Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) offers congregations a weekly presentation to be included in the regular Lenten worship service. This follow-up to Volume 1 (which concentrated on the Feast of Passover) focuses on the Palm Sunday story and six elements within that story that were significant parts of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles or Booths. The festival is rooted in Leviticus 23:33f, where God commanded Moses to declare the festival to the people of Israel as a reminder of the temporary shelters they lived in when He delivered them out of Egypt.
Preparation for this worship series is very simple. Lent I begins with a plain, “symbolic” booth which is placed somewhere within the sanctuary. For the next five weeks objects are gradually added inside the booth.
Objects include:
Lent 2 — citron (or other citrus fruit) in an attractive yet simple container
Lent 3 — musical instruments (flute, cymbal, lyre, harps, trumpets, etc.)
Lent 4 — donkey figure or picture
Lent 5 — a large crown
Lent 6 (Palm Sunday) — palm branchesEach presentation involves four participants including: minister, a youth and two other readers. Parts are brief and need not be memorized.
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Words For Worship
$18.99Add to cartThis collection by Arlene M. Mark is a ready resource for pastors and leaders to enrich and deepen worship together. When offered in bulletins, these words can become congregational statements that unify believers and nourish faith and discipleship. Responsive readings come from all ages of the church- our common Christian legacy.
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Reflections Of Light Ponderings Of Mary The Mother
$7.95Add to cartHere are five brief dramatic monologues that tell the Christmas story through the eyes of Mary. A suggested order of worship includes hymns, scripture and a candlelighting ceremony, but the monologues could be used throughout Advent during the lighting of the Advent candles, in Sunday school or even weekday programs.
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Contemporary Lectionary Prayers Cycle A
$15.95Add to cartLord of the harvest, we hear that you need laborers.
For our benefit, please review the qualifications.
Will biblical knowledge be a consideration?
Is there an age limitation?
How about ethnic origin? Any preferences there?
Does family background enhance our chances of a good assignment?
Excuse me? These things are irrelevant? Jesus is the only reference required?
Forgive me for asking too many questions.
I am ready to work, Lord. It is quite obvious that you are going to have to help me.
Thank you, Lord. Amen.
(Prayer for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost)These and other prayers for each Sunday of the Cycle A Lectionary may be used for congregational worship as is or modified for antiphonal reading. The style is conversational and written in the language of today.
On the corresponding page of each prayer is:
a listing of the assigned lectionary Gospel
a Gospel theme
a Gospel note
the liturgical color of the day
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Mothers Of The Bible
$12.95Add to cartWe often hear of the lack of and the need for, strong role models in our society. This worship service, about 10 biblical women who overcame seemingly impossible situations by being faithful to God, provides just such role models, The traumatic experiences and depths of faith of these women, though poignant, are rarely considered in today’s society.
These 10 women came from various levels of society and had different types of problems. Yet, they all knew God as their only hope and refuge. An excellent resource for Mother’s Day, it is also great for other special occasions.
Characters included are:
* Hagar
* Sarah
* Moses’ mother
* Rahab
* Deborah
* Naomi and Ruth
* Hannah
* Esther
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Worship As Theology
$30.99Add to cartIn Worship As Theology, Don Saliers discusses how worship is both theological and anthropological (embodied and embedded in specific human and cultural contexts). He illuminates theology “prayed, sung, and enacted.” At the same time, by focusing upon specific dimensions of liturgical action such as praising, thanking, invoking, confessing, proclaiming, interceding, and blessing, he addresses the differences between the liturgical/ sacramental and the “free – church”/ evangelical church traditions.
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Community Of Joy
$22.99Add to cartIf congregations are to reach new generations of people, they must explore new styles of worship. Timothy Wright stikes a balance between liturgical worhip and worship that seeks to meet the needs of the unchurched and those who have a “hi-tech”, baby-boomer mentality. Written by a pastor in a vital and growing congregation, A COMMUNITY OF JOY suggests practical, innovative, and nontraditional forms of worship, enabling churches to minister more effectively.
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Old Wine In New Skins 1
$16.95Add to cart“Worship must be directly connected to our daily lives,” writes George A. Nye. “It must address our fears, our hopes, even our indifferences.”
Old Wine In New Skins provides pastors many resources to make the connection. These include 66 calls to worship, 13 preparations for pastoral prayers and 52 reflections.
Calls to worship categories include:
With praise and celebration
Using traditional hymns and praise hymns
Relating to a story
With a commitment theme
Involving personal preparation
By seasonA preparation for pastoral prayer section helps pastors broaden a congregation’s understanding of how to approach God in prayer. Thirteen “preparations” are provided, including one for Advent-Christmas.
Fifty-two short reflections cover eight major themes for countless pastoral uses. These are easily adopted for mini-devotions, sermon illustrations, and newsletter meditations.
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And Him Crucified
$7.95Add to cartCrowd: (Each person selects a phrase and repeats at random) Let him be crucified! Death! Crucify him! Let him die! Away with him!
Pilate: Why. What evil has he done?
Crowd: (At random) Let him be crucified! Away with him! Crucify him! Let him die!
Narrator 1: So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd.
Based on Matthew’s Gospel, And Him Crucified is a complete worship service in readers’ theater format. It brings the events of Jesus’ last days into the lives of your congregation. It needs few rehearsals and no costumes or experienced actors. A vivid and powerful picture of the crucifixion of Jesus is drawn from these pages. Six readers and two narrators are recommended, however you may use nearly 25 different speaking parts. The theater is part of the complete order of service, lasting about one hour.
The service includes suggested choir anthems.
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Restore Me
$12.95Add to cartRestore Me includes a large collection of Lent and Easter season worship resources created to draw congregations into closer relationship with God.
Specific chapters for both Lent and Easter include:
Calls to worship
Common prayers
Prayers of dedication
Benedictions
Prayers of confession and pardon
Gospel dialogues“These resources grew out of my continued interest in the whole use of scripture in weekly worship,” Craig M. Sweet writes. “The dialogue use of scripture adds an extra dimension to the ‘dramaturgical’ experience of worship.”
In the gospel dialogue section are scripture readings based upon various lectionary texts. Dialogues are offered for Ash Wednesday, the Sundays of Lent, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter.
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Sunday Morning Readers Theater Cycle B
$15.95Add to cartA fresh look at scripture, a new presentation of the gospel, a deeper communication for God’s truths — this is what church drama has to offer.
“Sunday Morning Readers’ Theater, B,” offers nineteen skits for use during the church year. Each skit’s performance falls between five and 10 minutes with the exception of readings for major church days.
“What I hope to do is to help people see the gospels, Jesus and the other scripture passages with new vision, unclouded by familiarity,” writes Pamela Urfer of these readings.
This series provides one more form of worship designed to unfold the meaning of the lectionary readings, either as a replacement or a supplement to the sermon. The style varies from comic to tragic and the skits are set in both biblical and modern times.
Readings include the Sundays of Advent and Lent, Christmas Eve/Day, Martin Luther King Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week selections, Pentecost Sunday, All Saints’ Sunday, and Reformation Sunday.
This is a three-book series. It closely follows the Revised Common, Lutheran, Episcopal, and Roman Catholic lectionaries. -
Promise Kept At Christmas
$7.95Add to cartWe approach the worship of God this evening with a hushed awareness of Christ’s presence in our midst. God again breaks through the calm and darkness to reveal himself to us in the stillness of our hearts. (From the order of worship)
Light and darkness is a powerful biblical metaphor to talk about God’s compelling activity in the world. This Christmas Eve resource focuses on this metaphor.
A Promise Kept At Christmas offers congregations a complete order of service with suggested carols, lighting of Advent candles and scripture readings from the Old and New Testaments using a narrator and lay readers.
Scriptures are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
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Sheep Will Be Scattered
$7.95Add to cartThe Sheep Will Be Scattered is an impressive Maundy Thursday communion service. It involves the symbolic recreation of the Upper Room experience through an easy-to-create Last Supper tableau.
Members of the congregation, invited beforehand, make up the tableau.
The service focuses on the tensions and circumstances surrounding the disciples on this night. It encourages worshipers to identify with those tensions in their own faith lives.
Elements include a suggested order of service, a brief commentary, introduction of each guest at the table, holy communion, a reading from Mark (for one to three voices), and a conclusion. The reading is the NRSV of Mark 14:26-50.
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Lectionary Worship Aids Series 3 Cycle B
$16.95Add to cart“Hear the good news! The victory that defeats the world is our faith, for who is victor over evil, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. Friends, believe the good news!”
— Declaration of God’s Forgiveness for Easter 2
“Lectionary Worship Aids,” Series III, Cycle B, follows in the CSS tradition of providing creative worship resources for congregations.
Series III is based on the Revised Common Lectionary and New Revised Standard Version.
Each Sunday offers:
– Listing of the four lectionary texts for the day
– Call to Worship
– Prayer of Confession
– Declaration of God’s Forgiveness
– Exhortation
– Prayer of the Day
– Prayer of Thanksgiving
– Prayer of Dedication
– Psalm (congregational reading) -
Trouble At The Table
$23.99Add to cartHow can we resolve the crsis and revitalize the worship in our church? Too often we evaluate worship as a matter of taste without examinging the presuppositions that inform worship in a given congregation. Exploring and developing techniques for handling resistance to change, the authors help church leaders see that worship is a public event, which must be continually renewed and revitalized.
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ABCs Of Worship
$30.00Add to cartIf you’re curious about the terms and practices used in worship, you’ll enjoy this dictionary. Stake includes 150 concise (not wordy) articles on topics such as ecumenicism, Maundy Thursday, anointing, symbols, Pentecost, and the Christian Year. Clearly written, the articles are arranged in alphabetical order and are cross-referenced so you can get the most out of them. Satisfy your curiosity!
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My Worship Planner And Organizer
$15.95Add to cartMy Worship Planner And Organizer is the best friend of the pastor, organist, church secretary, choir director, and worship committee when it comes to keeping worship records and reference.
Its focus is Sunday worship. Each Sunday has two pages available for taking notes and reference.
You will find Sunday by Sunday:
Cycle A, B, and C, gospel, first and second lesson lectionary text listings for Revised Common, Episcopal, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic.
Countless hymn possibilities based on the lectionary.
Invaluable liturgical information, at your fingertips.
You may record Sunday by Sunday (for three years):
Hymns used
Special music
Sermon titles
Attendance
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Your King Comes
$7.95Add to cartYour King Comes! Is a complete Palm Sunday service. It includes a dramatic celebration of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem led by the children and youth of the church school.
This resource captured the spirit of Palm Sunday with songs, words, and gestures. It will involve as many as 47 persons of all ages from your congregation. Minimum rehearsal is needed.
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Service Of Shadows
$7.95Add to cart“A Service Of Shadows” offers congregations a complete tenebrae service with a suggested order of service and an alternative ending with holy communion.
This impressive service includes 15 candles and parts for up to 15 readers. As the Passion narrative is read, these candles will be extinguished one at a time as directed in the service.
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Services For Occasions Of Pastoral Care
$25.00Add to cartServices for Occasions of Pastoral Care – Prepared by the Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), this liturgical resource is designed to supplement the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship. It provides full liturgies for many services not included in the BCW, including the rites of ordination of ministers, elders, and deacons; the dedication of a church building; the laying of cornerstone; the comissioning of missionaries; and various other services for local congregations and presbyteries. All ministers and other worship leaders in the Presbyterian Church will need this volume as a resource for worship planning and to complement the BCW.
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Searching For Shalom
$30.00Add to cartShalom means much more than prosperity, more than a sense of well-being, and more than quiet and calmness. It is more than just the absence of stress and much more than peace. It is a peace that surpasses understanding. It is a promised gift. This book of poems, monologues, and worship resources is about the search for shalom.
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In His Steps
$7.95Add to cartIn His Steps is a Protestant version of the stations of the cross experienced by Roman Catholics. It is designed as an ecumenical Good Friday worship service. There are 12 stations in the service.
Participants represent the stations during the service by standing in a position visible to the congregation. The participants hold the appropriate symbol for that station.
The leader announces the name of the station and the symbol for it and one of the participants reads the scripture. Time is provided for the congregation to pray and meditate briefly.
The book includes the order of service and a section to be copied and used as a church bulletin.
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Lights Of Love
$7.95Add to cartFaith, Hope, Love, Joy, and The Light Of The World are themes in this candle lighting service for the four Sundays of Advent and Christmas Eve. Each service includes a scripture, message and prayer with optional listing of hymns and calls to worship.
Lights Of Love provides a banner instruction section, a Christmas Eve candle lighting suggested order of service, and a brief explanation of the meaning of Advent.
In addition to public worship, the services can easily be used in a family worship or Sunday school setting.
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Gospel Treasury Cycle B
$16.95Add to cartWould you like to add something new, something fresh, to your lectionary worship experience? If you answered “Yes!” you will love this new collection by Andrew Daughters for Cycle B.
Use these inspirational poems in your church’s worship service as corporate readings, pastoral prayers, opportunities for lay involvement, or as private meditations. Or duplicate them for insertion in your parish newsletter or bulletin. However you choose to use them, this special collection will add vitality and meaning to your worship experience all year long.
This book is part of a three-part set, which follows the Lectionary cycles A, B and C. -
Christ Is Come
$7.95Add to cartThis flexible worship planner can be used as a supplement to your regularly scheduled services or as an independent celebration. Thoughtful reflections on the meaning of Advent and the birth of the Christ child are punctuated by an Advent wreath, familiar hymns and scriptures, insightful prayers, and a colorful banner.
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Choices
$7.95Add to cartYour congregation’s children are the focus of this spectacular service for Christmas Eve.
Traditional Christmas scripture texts are skillfully interwoven with mimed dramatizations, dramatic dialogs in contemporary language, and familiar hymns and carols in this complete order of worship.
With something for everyone to do, from pre-schoolers to high school seniors, your children — and their parents — will personally experience the joy of the Christ child’s birth — and the choices which that miraculous event gives us.
Performance Time: approximately 45 minutes.
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Alive For Everymore
$7.95Add to cartAlive For Evermore is a collection of seven worship services compiled by CSS. It recognizes the need of pastors to have in one volume, orders of service for important celebrations of the church during Lent and Easter.
You will find in this compact volume complete services for:
Ash Wednesday
Palm Sunday
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday (two services)
Easter Sunrise
Easter MorningEach suggested service includes an order of worship, liturgy, scripture, and hymn possibilities. Copy privileges are available with each service. The seven services include congregation involvement in various forms. The Sunday sunrise service invites participation from a family in the congregation.
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Protestant Worship
$46.00Add to cartDrawing on years of teaching experience, James F. White provides a unique overview of PROTESTANT WORSHIP. He examines the origins, development, and present characteristics of nine traditions: Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Anglican, Separatist, and Puritan, Quaker, Methodist, Frontier and Pentecostal. To capture the “reality of worship,” White looks beyond the printed texts and sacraments. He deals with Protestantism on a historical basis and brings insight by studying distinctively American contributions. He develops fresh and appropriate methods, focusing on ordinary events and tendencies that include piety, times of worship, architectural settings for worship, preaching, public prayer, church music, and social change among people.
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Gospel Treasury Cycle A
$15.95Add to cartWould you like to add something new, something fresh, to your lectionary worship experience? If you answered “Yes!” you will love this new collection by Andrew Daughters of contemporary poems based on lectionary Gospel texts for Cycle A.
Use these inspirational poems in your church’s worship service as corporate readings, pastoral prayers, opportunities for lay involvement, or as private meditations. Or duplicate them for insertion in your parish newsletter or bulletin. However you choose to use them, this special collection will add vitality and meaning to your worship experience all year long. -
People In The Presence Of God
$26.99Add to cartIs there one correct way for the people of God to worship him? It turns out that Scripture offers many models and forms for worship, all of which are acceptable but not necessarily appropriate or functional in a particular setting. Barry Liesch, a professor of music at Biola University, helps his readers to grasp that fact and it’s implications for worship in the church today. This is a one-of-a-kind book for many kinds of readers in all kinds of churches. It offers biblical perspective, historical awareness, musical and artistic sensitivity, authentic reverence, and creative stimulation for worship leaders, church musicians, study groups, pastors, worship committees, and a host of others who are interested in appreciating and renewing worship according to biblical models. Within each of the twenty chapters the author shares many suggestions for enhancing and transforming worship in the church today. Not only does he present the various biblical models and offer a wealth of suggestions, he takes up some of the major concerns of worship leaders, planners, and participants — concerns such as the role of music, uses of symbolism, the appropriateness of dance, modes of celebration, expressions of reverence, and many others.
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Gospel Treasury Cycle C
$15.95Add to cartWould you like to add something new, something fresh, to your lectionary worship experience? If you answered “Yes!” you will love this new collection by Andrew Daughters of contemporary poems based on lectionary Gospel texts for Cycle C.
Use these inspirational poems in your church’s worship service as corporate readings, pastoral prayers, opportunities for lay involvement, or as private meditations. Or duplicate them for insertion in your parish newsletter or bulletin. However you choose to use them, this special collection will add vitality and meaning to your worship experience all year long.
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I Was There
$7.95Add to cartThis gripping tenebrae worship drama confronts your congregation with the powers of darkness and destruction which were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ. Brief monologs by Sorrow, Fear, Death, and four other shadowy personae (presented on stage or spoken from off stage), and an eerie, dimly lit stage create the somber and mournful mood which all Christians feel on this day.
This flexible worship drama requires only a few easily obtained props — a large cross, candles, and a spotlight. Costumes are optional, and monologs can be either spoken or read. Whether presented alone or as part of a full-length service, this moving worship experience will leave your congregation prepared to fully appreciate the joyous celebration of Easter morning.
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Ashes And Tears
$12.95Add to cartAsh Wednesday and Holy Week are special days indeed on the Christian calendar. Pastors and worship leaders need to approach these days with special care so that their significance is not lost on the gathered congregation. How does one mark familiar days such as Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday in such a way that a deadening sameness does not overtake the planning and the execution of the worship services for these days?
James M. Bloom provides in this helpful resource eleven separate services or worship ideas. Liturgies and meditations are included. In most cases more than one worship alternative is provided.
Use this volume to enrich your observance of the special season of Lent. Share its ideas with others on your worship planning team. Help the members of your parish to experience a blessed Lent.
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Draw Us Nearer To You Lord
$12.95Add to cartOver one-hundred responsive prayers are included in this useful resource. They may be used either as beginning “Calls to Worship” or at another place within the service. The author has organized the material in eight categories:
Christ’s Life
The Holy Spirit
Christian Values
Consecration
The Christian Life
Gratitude and Praise
The Church
Special OccasionsBy using one prayer each week, a congregation will have a new prayer for each worship service for two entire years.
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Passion Paths : Worthip Services For Ash Wednesday And Holy Week
$12.95Add to cartHere are five creative worship services for five special days on the Christian worship calendar. Each service involves the congregation in responsive readings, participation in contemporary prayers, and appropriate hymnody, psalmody, and scripture. Each service is accompanied with a highly creative sermon dialog to be shared by 3, 4, 5, or 7 readers.
The service and dialogs lead worshipers down familiar and appropriate paths to confrontation with the Living Christ and the God of Grace, whom we meet in the Lenten season in a special way.
The Path of Maturity — Ash Wednesday
The Path of Quality — Palm Sunday
The Path of Integrity — Maundy Thursday
The Path of Dignity — Good Friday
The Path of Creativity — Easter Day
