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"When our songs (have mercy)" was orginally written after the Boxing Day tsunami, when it felt like there was nothing in our repertoire to sing in response.  It brings God's heart for justice into our times of singing, and reminds us that a vital part of our worship is to...

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,...

I have grown up seeing images of war on the television. Conflict after conflict has hit the news headlines and my screen and then appeared to become less significant. It has seemingly been too easy to become desensitised to world conflict. For Remembrance Sunday last year, I wanted to lead something...

A few weeks ago our church celebrated with a thanksgiving meal together, the inspiration span out of a desire to celebrate Harvest in a creative way; but I reckon this could work anytime of the year.   Firstly, we decided to meet at lunchtime instead of our usual 10.30 meeting. For...

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 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...

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 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 idea is to use an auction of gifts and skills to raise money for your church community or project, all within the context of the worship service. What follows is the write up that was produced to promote the idea to our church family - hopefully this should explain...

This worship idea uses a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, The Church at Auvers, to reflect on what image our churches project to those outside their walls. It is suitable for use in a service or small group/youth group. It involves the entire congregation/group going outside at the end! You could...

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...

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...