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 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 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 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 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 liturgy was written to open the 'Emerging Worship' lab we did at WorshipConnect, and Sam recently reworked it for the 'Biblefresh' initiative.  It could be very appropriate at the beginning of many services, or as the intro to a sermon or Bible reading.  The leader speaks the bits in...

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...

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 liturgy closed the 'Liturgy for our times' we led at the UK Songwriters Consultation, and is focused around how we identify with Christ on the cross - such and unlikely way to transform the world.  It would be very useful as a close to services where you were thinking...

This liturgy by Mark Earey opened the Liturgy for our times we used at the UK Songwriters Consultation.  We let the first three slides auto-change, and played the opening track from the Sigur Ros album 'Takk' as an emotive, heavenly soundtrack (it lasts exactly the same amount of time it took...

This is an alternative take on an Advent liturgy - reminding people the true reasons why we should look forward to the Christmas season.  It is tastefully accompanied by appropriate images on this PowerPoint.  Its great to have some work by Kieran posted, as he designed this website for us!  Do...

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 piece of spoken worship is particularly useful because it requires no printed or projected words to involve a whole congregation.  We've used it at Spring Harvest, on our 'How would Jesus worship' tour and in regular Sunday services. Explain to the congregation that you are going to say a line,...

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...

This is Psalm 16 from the Message, adapted by Matt Long as a corporate prayer, which he led on Sunday morning at Youthwork the Conference 2010.  The leaders says the bits in plain text, and the congregation can join the bits in bold.  You can download and use the PowerPoint...

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,...

I don't know about you, but when I'm praying, my mind wanders,  especially when prayers are led in a coporate setting.  This idea is intended to try to root the wandering mind by bringing a physicality to our prayers.  For generations, Christians have established pracices which hold the body in...

In light of the earthquake and tsunami that have affected many people in Japan and other pacific regions countries, let us pray. If you want to use or adapt this prayer, either personally, in churches or other groups, I hope you find it useful and helpful. Jimmy   Lord Jesus, Prince of peace, we...

A group of people associated with the Nightclub Chaplaincy in Bournemouth have run ‘Church for the Night’ quarterly for over five years.  These are wonderful events where hundreds of passers-by drift in and out of St Peter’s church in the heart of the club strip in the centre of town. ...

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...

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 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...