Worship Ideas

  This is designed for a church service or youth group setting and can be adapted to suit an adult only or all age congregation. It could also be done in the open air at a church weekend away etc. It will require about an hour’s preparation beforehand.   It is based upon...

The church I belong to doesn’t do much to celebrate Holy Week, which means in practice that we don’t meet all together between Palm Sunday and Easter Day. I wanted to create a way to walk through Jesus’ final week as a man, in one act of worship, suitable for...

A liturgical lament for advent. Its intention is to refocus and cause abandonment, surrender; stir desperation for and intimacy with God.   Isaiah 21:12-14 (MSG)  11-12A Message concerning Edom:    A voice calls to me    from the Seir mountains in Edom, "Night watchman! How long till daybreak?    How long will this night last?" The...

A liturgical call to worship that works well spoken over music and could be used at the start of a time seeking God or in the midst of a worship time. Its intention is to refocus and cause abandonment and surrender, and to stir desperation for and intimacy with God. Tonight...

This act of worship is designed to encourage people to think beyond the cradle and to put the Resurrected Christ into the Christmas story. Activity: As the service begins and you give notices, welcome, sing etc. have people come and place baubles in the manger.  Then at the time you want to...

We're pleased to share this great new Christmas song by Gavin Ball - mp3, sheet music and backing track all available for FREE on RESOUNDworship.org right now!  And as a special Christmas present, we've made a video you can download and stick in as a last-minute insert into your Christmas services.   Enjoy, and...

This is a very simple idea, but one we've used a few different ways and always got a lot of positive feedback about. The basic premise is singing out your prayer, using a few lines from an existing Christmas Carol (or other hymn or song would work).  At a number of...

Here's an idea of how to use beads to remember a certain way of praying, the ACTS way (adoration, confession, thanksgiving and supplication / stuff). We used this idea on our exhibition stand at Youthwork the Conference, and had some great chats with people whilst threading the beads. I got these...

This is the opening prayer we used into the sung worship at Youthwork the Conference 2011.  Sam wrote it to draw people into praise, but also to tie in with the reading from Revelation 7.   God we’ve come hungry - hungry for you. ALL: Bread of life, feed us by your word. God...

To introduce the subject of lament, this is a visual way to engage people with the concept of the brokenness of the world we live in. It lends itself to preceding an explanation of the gap between the brokenness of the world and our understanding of God’s goodness and care for...