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Bring worship to life

The swell of responsibilities for those who plan worship in communities is restrictive when it comes to dedicating time for creatively planning liturgies. It's one of the easier things to proclaim, yet is a fantastic way to engage as many people as possible. The latest Lectionary Worship Workbook for cycle A from CSS Publishing holds an entire year of worship plans built thematically around the Revised Common Lectionary. Each of these ideas have been tried and tested in a congregational setting and have even been refined with...

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Nothing is higher on God's agenda for Himself and for His people than worship. To God worship is so vital that to fail to experience genuine worship is fatal. Yet it is possible to go through life thinking we have worshiped without ever having done so. Any study of worship is incomplete without a life-action response. This six-week interactive study presents a process where God brings you face-to-face with His truth, then guides you to an interaction with that truth. This study brings the pastor, staff, church leaders, and congregation to a mutual...

Brian Russell writes from real experience with Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist and Catholic churches with real challenges and, thankfully, real success stories.

How can we design worship that touches all of our people when stylistic and musical preferences vary so much from one person to another? Worship can at times struggle to find its identity and vitality as congregations wrestle with declining membership, concerns about finances, and changing cultural attitudes about the role of churches in neighborhoods and communities.

Russell offers to congregations whose worship is...

If you have ever wondered what a disciplined, spiritual life looks like, this book is for you. The Profile of a Worshiper paints a picture of what the presence of the divine looks like in the lives of everyday people. While it is based on scriptures from the Bible, the characteristics discussed are easily applicable to the lives of anyone, from any place, who calls him or herself a worshiper of the true and living God.

Rev. Audrey L. Pryor-Mouizi, B.S., M.B.A., M.Div., is the founder and Executive Director of LifeForce Ministries. Her ministry specialties are Christian...

Sing has grown from Keith and Kristyn Getty's passion for congregational singing; it's been formed by their traveling and playing and listening and discussing and learning and teaching all over the world.

And in writing it, they have five key aims:

- to discover why we sing and the overwhelming joy and holy privilege that comes with singing
- to consider how singing impacts our hearts and minds and all of our lives
- to cultivate a culture of family singing in our daily home life
- to equip our churches for wholeheartedly singing to the Lord and...

This gift is the powerful supernatural ability to hear and see into the spiritual realm, yet many people who have it may think they are crazy. Finding no help from the church, some have turned to medical doctors and actually been diagnosed with a mental disorder. Jennifer Eivaz, a...