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20 Oct 2008 08:48
| Themes: | peace, praise |
| Powerpoint | |
| Bible refs: | Psalm 66 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This praise shout is a mash-up of Psalm 66, using both the NIV and the Message version of the Bible, with inspiring images in the PowerPoint.
Use it to start a worship time, or in the middle of a set of songs. We tend to use it sandwiched between an upbeat...
22 Nov 2008 15:32
| Themes: | prayer, trinity |
| Powerpoint | |
| Bible refs: | John 15:5, Gen 1:27 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This prayer was written as a call to worship for Youthwork the Conference '08, but could be used in many other settings. It tries to acknowledge that in God's eyes we are not just the miserable sinners that some people like us to think we are - he made us perfect,...
25 Nov 2008 14:25
| Themes: | praise, celebration, peace, meditation |
| Powerpoint | |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This PowerPoint of various biblical names of God was made for Youthwork the Conference. It is designed to help people reflect on the varied sides of God's attributes and character. It could be used with live or recorded music underneath as a meditation during a worship time, or as the...
25 Nov 2008 14:31
| Themes: | confession |
| Powerpoint, Liturgy | |
| Bible refs: | Psalm 51 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This is a mix of parts of Psalm 51 from both the TNIV and the Message. It is designed to be said out loud together as a corporate confession, but it could also be used as a silent reflection. You may wish to give people time before hand to silently allow...
25 Nov 2008 14:54
| Themes: | advent, christmas, all age |
| Spoken Word | |
| Bible refs: | John 1 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This was written to be used as a responsive prayer during the lighting of advent candles. The leader says the bits in normal text and the congregation responds with the text in bold. It can add some depth to the ritual of lighting the candles, whilst being simple enough for all...
12 Jan 2009 18:14
| Themes: | change, faithfulness |
| Poetry, Powerpoint | |
| Bible refs: | Rev 4:8 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This poem was written as an introduction to singing the song 'Everlasting God' by Vicky Beeching, to get people thinking about God being unchangind in a transitory world. The contemporary images on the PowerPoint make it useful in an outreach or youth setting. It could be just used for reflection,...
17 Feb 2009 10:38
| Themes: | intercession, justice, prayer |
| Prayer Station | |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
1st-7th March is 'One Voice', Global Poverty Prayer Week 2010', and our friends at Tearfund Youth and Students have partnered with 24-7 prayer to produce some amazing resources to help you to pray for our broken world. http://www.tearfund.org/youth gives you loads of brilliant ideas and resources for running prayer rooms,...
30 Mar 2009 17:15
| Themes: | easter, resurrection, praise |
| Corporate Worship Idea | |
| Bible refs: | Col 1:18-20 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This Easter Sunday we are planning a Resurrection Praise Celebration. We are splitting the teaching into two halves – in the first half the preacher will show a giant paper world, and talk about how God created everything perfect. He will then rip the world into pieces, talking about how...
20 Apr 2009 17:46
| Themes: | evangelism, trinity, commissioning |
| Powerpoint, Liturgy | |
| Bible refs: | Matt 28:17-20, Matt 10:7-8 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This was written for the final morning of Spring Harvest '09, but could be used in any context where you want people to corporately commit to living out Jesus' Great Commission.
Commissioning prayer
based on Matt 28:17-20 and 10:7-8.
(said by all together)
Jesus we worship you,
And sometimes we doubt.
Yet we know all authority...
20 Apr 2009 17:50
| Themes: | suffering, discipleship |
| Poetry, Powerpoint, Spoken Word | |
| Bible refs: | Matt 16:13-25, Mrk 8:29, Luke 9:20 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This spoken word piece was used as a reflective response at Spring Harvest '09. It meditates on the well known passage where Peter proclaims that Jesus is the Christ, and Jesus' responses about what kind of Messiah he is and how we might display that as his followers.
‘Who do I say...
25 May 2009 14:33
| Themes: | Pentecost, Holy Spirit, fire |
| video, visuals, motion graphics | |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This is a motion graphics video of Acts 2:1-13, the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit on the disciples on the day of Pentecost. We've made it for Pentecost Sunday, but you could use it at other times. It features a stirring contemporary soundtrack by AdAM Parkes. You...
10 Jul 2009 10:29
| Themes: | suffering, abundance, desert, doubt |
| Liturgy, Powerpoint, Call To Worship | |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This is written as an intro to Matt and Beth Redman's song "Blessed be your name", but you could use it alone. The aim is to help people meditate on how they are feeling and make everyone feel welcomed, so that they know their contribution to worship is important however...
05 Aug 2009 13:27
| Themes: | testimony, praise |
| Corporate Worship Idea, testimony | |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
We first saw this idea used at Willow Creek - it may have originated before that - and the YFC team used it really effectively last week at New Wine.
It is a way of helping people share what God has done in their lives in a simple but powerful way. ...
07 Sep 2009 09:58
| Themes: | calling, guidance |
| Prayer Station | |
| Bible refs: | Prov 4:10, Matt 11:29-30, Psalm 119:105, Matt 6:25-34, Luke 9:2-4, Eph 6:15, Isa 52:7 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
These prayer stations were prepared for the Tearfund Students' conference "Journey" and are themed around the idea of preparing for the journey of your life. All the instruction sheets and extra print-outs are available above as downloads for subscribers.
Journey Response stations
Compass
Need - compass(es) and magnet(s)
sheets with compass printed on and...
16 Sep 2009 09:04
| Themes: | abundance, consumerism |
| video, visuals, motion graphics | |
| Bible refs: | Prov 3:12-14, Prov 8:11-13 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This motion graphics video was made for the Tearfund 'Journey' student justice conference. It is based on a track by Steve Leach from his album 'Right here in this room', where he has remixed a Louie Giglio sermon. We wanted to contrast the worldly hunger to consume 'more' with the...
07 Oct 2009 13:55
| Themes: | sending out, blessing |
| mp3 | |
| Bible refs: | Num 6:24-26 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
Here's another resource to help you add creativity to your services and church meetings:
This is a setting of the blessing given by God to Aaron through Moses in Numbers 6. It was written to be used at the end of a service, for the congregation to sing to one another....
21 Nov 2009 15:43
| Themes: | light, Word of God |
| Powerpoint, Liturgy | |
| Bible refs: | John 1:1-14, Matt 4:4, Matt 5:16 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This is a liturgy we used at the beginning of Youthwork the conference. It is a leader/response format, and the themes are taken from the opening of John's gospel and and a couple of other sayings of Jesus. It would work towards the beginning of a meeting.
Leader: In the beginning...
21 Nov 2009 15:43
| Themes: | Bible, Word of God |
| meditation, Prezi | |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
View this online at http://prezi.com/nslwizrwxzsh/
This 'Lectio Divina' style meditiation was used at Youthwork the Conference. It makes use of a cool online presentation builder called Prezi (go to www.prezi.com to see other people's or create your own, for free!) You place words, images and video on a canvas, and then...
30 Nov 2009 11:30
| Themes: | confession, justice |
| Powerpoint, Liturgy | |
| Bible refs: | Amos 5:23-24, Isa 58, Heb 13:15-16, Luke 4:18-19 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
We were asked to prepare and lead a 'Liturgy for our times' at the UK Songwriters Consultation, organised by Graham Kendrick and Spring Harvest. This time of mostly spoken worship followed a really challenging day of teaching from Jim Wallis of Sojourners, about how the worship 'scene' in the UK might...
30 Nov 2009 14:19
| Themes: | justice, Holy Spirit |
| video, motion graphics | |
| Bible refs: | Luke 4:14-21 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This motion graphics video of Luke 4:14-21, Jesus' 'Nazareth Manifesto', was made for Youthwork the Conference. It uses a track by AdAM Parkes, and is an engaging way of presenting this well known Bible passage.
The Youtube version below is quite poor quality, so to use this in church or just to...
09 Feb 2010 21:15
| Themes: | lent, God's Care, resurrection, brokenness, suffering, prayer |
| Powerpoint, mp3, visuals, reflection | |
| Bible refs: | Matt 4:1-11, Luke 9:24, 2 Cor 12:9, 2 Cor 1:3-7, Rom 8:26 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This song was written by Sam as a reflection on the themes of Lent, but it can work at any other time of the year. It focuses on meeting God in the hard places, allowing him to grow us through difficult times and trusting in him for a 'resurrection dawn'. ...
17 Feb 2010 10:13
| Themes: | justice, environment, lent |
| Powerpoint, Fasting | |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
At a recent engage contributors' day, we were asking the question "what constitues 'worship'? How can we share ideas on this website that go beyond our narrow expectations of what worship is, and embrace God's bigger picture?"
Well, it is clear that fasting was part of Old Testament worship, and that...
22 Mar 2010 19:07
| Themes: | transformation, change, mission, commitment |
| video, visuals, motion graphics | |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This video was originally made as an intro to Youthwork the Conference 2009. I've recently tweaked it so it could be used in any setting, including the recent Worship Beyond conference and our local Sunday night service. The concept is if we want to see our communities and world transformed for...
08 Apr 2010 13:57
| Themes: | chosen, gathering |
| Powerpoint, Spoken Word, Liturgy | |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This was written for Spring Harvest 2010, based around the themes of Esther chapter 2. We were thinking about the idea that Esther was chosen by the king in that story for all the wrong reasons, but we are chosen by the King of Kings for all the right reasons. ...
10 Apr 2010 11:06
| Themes: | justice, calling, intercession, sending out, chosen |
| Powerpoint, Liturgy, Spoken Word | |
| Bible refs: | Esth 4 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This is based on Esther 4:12-14, and was written as a response for Spring Harvest 2010. It could be used in any context where you wanted people to think through their response to injustice and the challenge to make a difference in the world.
We had the leader read the whole...
10 Apr 2010 16:41
| Themes: | silence, faithfulness, presence of God, God's Care |
| video, motion graphics, Poetry | |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
This is a poem we made into a motion graphics video, for Spring Harvest 2010. It unpacks the idea that the name of God is never mentioned in the book of Esther, yet that doesn't mean he is not present. We used it as a response in the Big Top,...
12 Jul 2010 10:58
| Themes: | creation, meditation, Bible, environment, water |
| Bible refs: | Psalm 19 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words...
17 Nov 2008 10:48
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
We don’t want to say it. It sounds like we’re consumers, wanting more entertainment, and we know that’s not the problem (we’ve had enough of that). Worse, it might sound like we’re tired of God – when we know we’ve only just scratched the surface of the infinitely creative, dynamically...
17 Feb 2009 11:25
| Themes: | easter, lent, good friday, resurrection |
| Bible refs: | Col 1:18-20 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
Not long until we’ve stuffed ourselves with pancakes and got down to the serious business of Lent... And I don’t just mean ‘giving up’ something – Wikipedia says “The three traditional practices to be taken up with renewed vigour during Lent are prayer (justice towards God), fasting (justice towards self),...
30 Mar 2009 21:23
| Bible refs: | Ex 35:30-36:1, 1 Chron 25 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
It has been really encouraging to hear that people are using the creative ideas we are posting on this site. But what about making your own creative worship – where can you get original ideas, and how can you shape them to connect with your congregation in safe yet challenging...
18 May 2009 20:22
| Themes: | unfinished |
| Bible refs: | 1 Cor 14:26 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
All around us media providers are scrambling to make their products interactive. You don’t just watch the News - you email your opinions and photos. You don’t just listen to the radio - you text what you are up to, and what you thought of that song. You don’t just...
05 Aug 2009 12:12
| Themes: | unfinished, festival worship |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
We had an amazing (if shattering!) two weeks first at London School of Theology’s worship summer school, and then New Wine...
09 Dec 2009 13:16
| Themes: | justice, mission, intercession, sending out, world worship |
| Bible refs: | Heb 13, Matt 5 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
I just got off the phone with a friend, who is a passionate worship leader and yet at the same time has been struggling lately because she finds areas of what we call ‘worship’ so inward looking. She said "At my most cynical moments I have felt like I am...
24 May 2010 15:35
| Themes: | humility, identity, service, chosen, Jesus |
| Bible refs: | John 13:3-5, Matt 7:29, John 14:13, John 15:13, Rom 3:38-39, 1 John 3:1, Luke 9:24 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
“Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God...”
Imagine for a moment that this was said to you. You have all things under your power! You’ve come from God and you’re going back to...
12 Jul 2010 12:48
| Bible refs: | 1 John 1:1 |
| Written by: | Sam Hargreaves |
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