This is a fantastic call-and-response style liturgy to encourage people to bring all they are to worship. It is based on Jesus' challenge to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength in contemporary language. Sam had three thousand people shouting it at the top of their...
This is a simple idea for 'unfinished worship' - getting people to interact and participate in the leading of worship in a safe, pressure-free way. Ask people to open their Bibles at the Psalms, then sing a simple, celebratory song. After you've sung it for a few minutes, invite people...
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...
This was written for the opening of our 2010 Greenbelt worship session. Chloe was inspired by a talk she had heard about the roots and meaning of the word 'Hallelujah'. We knocked some ideas around, Sam put them on paper and then Chloe made it sound like a proper piece of...
This resource is a call to worship, following the vein of the Praise Shout resource. It looks at the second coming of Jesus, which is traditionally explored during the period of Advent. It is a liturgical response combining the words of Psalm 24 with the early creedal declaration "Christ has...
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...
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...
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...
