Posts Tagged ‘Multi-Part Reading’

 The following is a responsive reading that uses two readers with congregational responses.  Soliciting Lay readers once in a while helps to build their faith and encourages others to use their gifts in support of the ministry.   Pastor: Praise the LORD, O my soul; Congr:with all my inmost being, praise his holy name.   Pastor:              [...]

Ash Wed – Responsive Reading   Pastor:              Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent.  The date is set by counting back forty days from Easter (excluding Sundays), which takes us to the Wednesday seven weeks before Easter.  Why forty days?  Each day symbolizes one of the forty days when Jesus fasted in the wilderness, [...]

A Concentrated Description of Christ’s Glories Intro Read by Pastor:   Paul has just prayed for the Colossians that they would “be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good [...]