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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...

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,...

 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...

 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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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'. ...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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,...

"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...

We've been having a lot of fun with Wordle over the past week, and incorporating it into worship.  If you've never used it, Wordle is a free, online computer programme which creates word clouds.  You paste in some text, it strips out the numbers and joining words ('and', 'the' etc)...

This is a version of the Lord's prayer, rewritten by Rebekah Long from the Bless network (blessnet.eu), and led by her husband Matt at Youthwork the Conference 2010.  We like the way it gives fresh insight into that most familliar of prayers, and it works well when you encourage the...

We just wrote these for our service on the Sunday before Christmas, so thought we'd share them with you.  You can use them to lead prayers in church, remembering that Jesus was born into poverty and disadvantage, and turning this into intercession for those considered 'the least' in our world.   Jesus Christ,...

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...

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...

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...

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...