Palm Sunday Contemporary Music – UPDATED

Here’s a place that sells both palms and ashes:  http://www.stpatricksguild.com Here’s a few songs that would work for Palm Sunday: Scripture References: Zech 9:9,10; Php 2:5-11; Mt 21:1-11; Ps 24; Mk 11:1-10; Lk 19:28-40 Song Title Writer, Song Location & Notes No Tramp of Soldier’s Marching Feet CWS 716 Hosanna (Praise is Rising) Paul Baloche [...]

Videos for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday

You might want to consider the two following youtube videos for use on Maundy Thursday or on Good Friday if your church uses imagery and videos either in worship or maybe during a pre-worship meditation/preparation time.   Even if you don’t use videos in worship, these are also good for use in bible class.  Both of these videos were [...]

Created, Called, Commanded, Saved, Sustained, Shaped and Sent

Isn’t it awesome how God’s Word creates? The earth, the moon, the stars, even the heavenly gates. Isn’t it amazing how God’s Word calls? He calls us sometimes to fall; sometimes to crawl, He’s called Paul, converted him from Saul – He calls us all! He calls the big and the small, His desire is [...]

A Lenten Litany

The following was used at our Ash Wednesday service. I found it particularly helpful to transition my focus from Jesus’ ministry that we covered throughout the season of Epiphany to the Cross which will be our focus throughout the season of Lent. M: Let us live this Lenten season with the cross before us. C: [...]

Isaiah53 – Read Responsively

P:         He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, C:        nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. P:         He was despised and rejected by men, C:        a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. P:         Like one from whom men hide their faces C:        he was despised, and we [...]

Birth and Death Mash-Up

Psalm 22 (selected verses) and the Birth Account (from Luke 2:1-20) The following is a combination of the anguish of death and separation from God stated in Psalm 22 and the birth account from Luke 2.  My thought was to bring together Jesus’ birth and the reason behind his coming to earth in one reading. P: [...]

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross – Responsive Reading

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross – Responsive Reading One thing that I like to do is to read a great hymn text, responsively in worship, with the scripture text that has inspired it.   Here’s an example using “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.”  It could also be done with singing instead of speaking. Pastor:  [...]

By His Wounds

One of the songs that we will be singing in the upcoming season of Lent is “By His Wounds” by Mac Powell of the band Third Day.  I classify this song a scripture song because it basically takes a passage of scripture and puts it to music without any additional fluff. By His Wounds is [...]

Contemporary Lenten Music

Here’s a list of some good Lenten Contemporary music with sound biblical lyrics that have some depth: A Debtor to Mercy Alone Bob Kauflin Above All Baloche, LeBlanc Across the Great Divide Mark Altrogge Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) Chris Tomlin Amazing Love Graham kendrick Amazing Love (You Are My King) Billy Foote At [...]

Ash Wed Ceremony

I’m just reissuing this post to display the piece of artwork that we used for our Ash Wednesday ceremony.   For Ash Wednesday, we had our worshippers form a single file line, during an evening worship service, approach a poster with a cross drawn on it, and made a smudge of a cross, out of [...]