Worship Ideas

This is a great way to get all ages praying for the world, in a fun and simple way. Play the music and pass the globe around like a balloon. When the music stops, the person holding the globe opens a prayer and reads it (into a microphone if necessary), and...

Igor Martins got in touch to say "I've been working hard to use the talent God gave me to create art videos to spread His Gospel online.  I believe that through art people can not only listen about Christ, but have a Christian experience through the artistic experience."  We took a...

Our church community is starting to get ready for the Open Doors day of prayer for the persecuted church on Nov 6th, on the theme of "Secret Children". A bunch of resources including vids, Ppt, service plans are available on their website - take a look. For me, this feels...

Our lovely friend, DJ and worship-boundry-pushed did a set at Greenbelt this year, and has generously put the whole thing on Soundcloud to listen to or download.  As he says "A mix of dubstep, D'n'B, and bass heavy electro house, with the trademark preacher samples. All good fun, all for...

This prayer has been written for Sunday 11th September 2011, ten years on from the 9 11 attacks.  It is designed to help congregations reflect on their memories, and centre around God and how he meets us in tradgedy.  There is a PowerPoint you can show, or you could just...

This is a poetic liturgy for the office of Compline, one of the short services of prayer, or nocturns, historically said by monastic orders at night. It formed part of their ongoing rhythm of prayer and participants would often go straight to bed at the end of the service without talking...

I have used this idea at several places, all very different worship settings. First it was used in in my apartment in Chicago, as we prayed for each other, second it was used in a house church, third at a college all night worship event setting, and lastly in my...

Here's a simple idea to encourage people to commit to praying for specific people who don't know Jesus. Say: "God wants us to reflect him and his glory to all those around us. Let's commit to praying for one specific person this week. Let's pray that as we keep close to God,...

The idea of this is to sing a song (we've often used the Taize 'O Lord Hear My Prayer'), and then have the sound effects start, unannounced, underneath (download the mp3 from the box above).  As the singing is 'interrupted' by the sounds of war, poverty and suffering, the idea...

This reading was written for an Ascension Day service years ago, but as that season is coming around again I dug it out realised other folks might like to use it!  It tries to dramatise the action of Jesus' Ascesion, from the point of view of one of the disciples.  There is...