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Reformed Worship

Liturgical Calendar

World Communion Sunday (1st of October)

  • Come All You People: A Service for World Communion Sunday. (RW, Sept 2004, 28-29)
  • All God’s People. (RW, Sept 2005, 31)
  • The Communion of Saints: Resources from the Worldwide Church. (RW, June 2005, 31-36)
  • Many Tongues: Worship for World Communion Sunday. (RW, June 2006, 4-6)

Thanksgiving

  • So Many Leaves: A Thanksgiving Service. (RW, June 2006, 38-39)
  • Words for Worship. Ed. Arlene Mark. Herald Press, 1996. Thanksgiving Readings #69-75.

Reformation Day or All Saints’ Day

  • For All the Saints: A Service Using Sixteenth-Century Reformation Practices. (RW, Sept 2004, 25-27).
  • Making Our Own Confession: A Service for Reformation or All Saints’ Day. (RW, Sept 2005, 32-33)
  • A Cloud of Witnesses: All Saints’ Day Service. (RW, June 2006, 12-13)

Christ the King/Advent

  • In the Beginning Was the Word: a Four-week Advent Series based on John 1. (RW, Sept 2003, 11-17)
  • The King of Glory Comes: an Advent Service of Scripture, Poetry, and Song. (RW, Sept 2003, 18-19)
  • Songs of Celebration, Meditation, and Confession for Advent and Epiphany. (RW, Sept 2003, 30-34)
  • What to Expect When You’re Expecting: Six Service Plans for Advent and Christmas. (RW, Sept 2004, 8-12)
  • And Mary Pondered All These Things: An Advent Monologue. (RW, Sept 2004, 13-15).
  • When Hearts are Troubled: A Service Embracing Those Who Grieve During Holidays. (RW, Sept 2004, 16-17).
  • Songs of Hope, Glory, and Joy. (RW, Sept 2004, 30-33)
  • A Voice Cries Out: Creative Approaches to Selected Scripture Readings for Advent. (RW, Sept 2005, 8-10)
  • The Places of Christmas: Six Weeks of Service Plans for Advent and Christmas. (RW, Sept 2005, 12-16).
  • Longing for Redemption: An Advent Prayer of Confession and Lament. (RW, Sept 2005, 27).

Christmas

  • Longing for Home: A Service of Lessons and Carols. (RW, Sept 2003, 20-21)
  • O Come Let Us Adore Him: Service Resources for the Christmas Season. (RW, Sept 2003, 22-24)
  • Christmas Classics Revisited. (RW, Sept 2005, 22-26).

New Year

  • New Every Morning: A Covenant Renewal Service for New Year’s Day. (RW, Sept 2003, 26-27)
  • Another Year is Dawning: Scripture and Song Provide an Overview of Christ’s Sovereign Reign. (RW, Sept 2005, 11)
  • Words for Worship. Ed. Arlene Mark. Herald Press, 1996. New Year’s Readings #65-68.

Epiphany

  • Arise, Shine!: A Service Based on Isaiah 60. (RW, Sept 2004, 21-23)

Temptation

  • Jesus and the Devil: A Three Week Series on the Temptations of Jesus. (RW, March 2005, 26-30)

Ash Wednesday & Lent

  • The Lord, Our Shepherd: A Series for Lent and Easter Based on Psalm 23. (RW, Dec 2002, 12-16).
  • Songs for Lent and Easter. (RW, Dec 2002, 20-25)
  • The Atonement in Scripture and Song: A Lenten Service with Teaching Notes. (RW, Dec 2003, 4-7)
  • Listening to the Prophets: A Five-Week Series for Lent. (RW, Dec 2003, 13-19)
  • Old Texts, New Sounds [for Lent]. (RW, Dec 2003, 23)
  • A Lively Look at the Seven Deadly Sins: An Eight-Week Series. (RW, Dec 2004, 9-13)
  • Filthy Rags of Deadly Sins: A Visual Focus on Repentance. (RW, Dec 2004, 14-15)
  • God’s Reply to Cries of the Heart: Neland’s Lenten Theme. (RW, Dec 2004, 22-23)
  • Stages on the Way. Wild Goose Worship Group. Prayers, Dramas, Litanies, etc. pp 19-77.
  • Crown of Thorns, Crown of Glory:A Lenten Series (RW, Dec 2006, 10-15)
  • Introducting Lent: A Short Drama (RW, Dec 2006, 28)
  • Using a Lenten Triad (RW, Dec 2006, 29)

Palm Sunday

  • The King of Glory Comes: Resources for Palm/Passion Sunday. (RW, Dec 2003, 20-22)
  • A New Commandment: A Service for Palm/Passion Sunday. (RW, Dec 2006, 4-7)

Holy Week

  • Stages on the Way. Wild Goose Worship Group. Prayers, Dramas, Litanies, etc. pp 81-124.

Maundy Thursday

  • Table Service: Maundy Thursday Worship Including a Meal, Footwashing, and Communion. (RW, Dec 2002, 6-7)
  • Vigil of the Final Hours: A Service for Maundy Thursday. (RW, Dec 2004, 6-8)
  • Rachel's Tears: Maundy Thursday Chapel Service (RW, Dec 2006, 8-9)
  • Liturgical Footwashing: A Maundy Thursday Communion Service (RW, Dec 2006, 19-21)

Good Friday/Holy Saturday

  • The Solemn Reproaches of the Cross: An Ancient Ending for a Good Friday Service. (RW, Dec 2002, 3)

Easter Sunday

  • Robes of Righteousness: An Easter Drama. (RW, Dec 2002, 8-9)
  • Celebrating Easter in God’s Acre: A Sunrise Service from the Moravian Church . (RW, Dec 2002, 10-11).
  • Alleluia! Jesus is Risen!: A Service of Witness to the Resurrection. (RW, Dec 2003, 3)
  • Christ Has Died, Christ Has Risen, Christ Will Come Again: Proclaiming the Gospel through African-American Prayer and Song. (RW, Dec 2004, 16-19)
  • He is Risen Indeed: A Service of Restoration and Renewal (RW, Dec 2006, 22-23)

Ascension

  • Lifted Up to Glory and Power: A Dramatic Reading with Four Voices for Ascension Sunday. (RW, March 2005, 8-10)
  • Singing Our Way from Ascension to Pentecost. (RW, March 2005, 11-15)
  • The King of Glory Now: A Service Celebrating the Ascension of Christ. (RW, March 2006, 6)
  • Doctrinal Tonic for Spring Celebrations: Resources for Ascension and Pentecost. (RW, March 2003, 3-6)

Pentecost

  • The Power and the Presence: A Dramatic Reading for Pentecost Sunday. (RW, March 2003, 7-8)
  • Songs for Ascension, Pentecost, and Professing our Faith. (RW, March 2004, 30-35)
  • Life in the Spirit: An Ascension and Pentecost Service Based on Romans 8. (RW, March 2004, 38-39)
  • Like Tongues of Fire: A Service for Pentecost. (RW, March 2005, 16-17)
  • You Shall Be My Witnesses: Pentecost Service. (RW, March 2006, 36-37)
  • Doctrinal Tonic for Spring Celebrations: Resources for Ascension and Pentecost. (RW, March 2003, 3-6)

Mission

  • You’re Invited: A Four-Week Series Focusing on Your Witness and Mission to the World. (RW, March 2006, 12-17)
  • August Adventures: A Month-Long Series on Evangelism. (RW, March 2004, 13-17)

General Themes

Celebrating Communion

  • Table Graces: Connecting Sung Prayers in Church with Meal Prayers at Home. (RW, June 2005, 19-21)
  • Many Gifts, One Lord: A Communion Service Based on 1 Corinthians. (RW, March 2006, 24-25)
  • ‘Acts and Letters’ Song Search Results. [two songs] (RW, March 2006, 26-29)

Creation

  • The Heavens Declare the Glory of God: Resources on the Theme of Creation. (RW, March 2004, 10-12)
  • Our World Belongs to God: A Hymn Festival of Praise to the Creator. (RW, March 2004, 40-41)

Generations

  • Called to Carry the Light: A Litany of Passing Good News from One Generation to the Next. (RW, June 2005, 6-7)
  • Songs for All Ages. (RW, June 2005, 14-18)
  • God of All Ages: Four Service Plans Using Resources from Different Centuries. (RW, March 2003, 30-35)

Healing

  • What a Friend We Have in Jesus: A Service of Prayer for Healing. (RW, June 2004, 8-9)

Justice

  • Let Justice Roll: Worship Planning Resources with a Justice Theme. [for all seasons] (RW, June 2003, 6-11)
  • Seasoned Justice: Resources for Remembering the Whole Family of God. (RW, June 2003, 34-37)
  • Proclaiming the Year of Jubilee: Four Service Plans on Isaiah 61:1-2. (RW, June 2006, 23-29)
  • I Was Hungry: A Litany of Remembrance and Confession. (RW, March 2005, 21)

Lament

  • Pain is a Four-Letter Word: A Congregational Lament. (RW, June 2004, 6-7)
  • Singing Through the Hard Times. (RW, June 2004, 23-28)
  • Hymns from the Cutting Edge: An Introduction to Stuart Townend. (RW, March 2004, 28-29)
  • Ideas for including Lament in Your Worship (RW, Dec 2006, 40-41)

Life’s Journey

  • For All Generations: Prayer and Song for the Seasons of Life. (RW, June 2005, 3)
  • Hymns to Mark the Journey of God’s People. (RW, June 2006, 30-34)

Prayer

  • Rattling Heaven’s Door: Six Service Plans Based on the Lord’s Prayer. (RW, June 2003, 12-19)
  • Prayers of Hope and Healing: Resources for Troubled Times and Special Circumstances. (RW, June 2004, 12-15)
  • Celtic Connections: Tapping into a Rich Heritage of Prayer. (RW, Dec 2002, 26-30)
  • Songs for Intercession, Ordination, and Trinity Sunday. (RW, March 2003, 40-44)
  • Our Father in Heaven: A Prayer Service Using the Lord’s Service and the Heidelberg Catechism. (RW, March 2005, 24-25)
  • In Jesus' Name: A Prayer Day Service (RW, Dec 2006, 44-45)

Small Congregations

  • Where Twenty or Thirty are Gathered: Creative Worship Ideas for Smaller Congregations. (RW, March 2004, 23-25)

Story of Redemption

  • The Big Picture: A Service That Tells the Whole Story of Redemption. (RW, Sept 2003, 38-39)

Ten Commandments

  • Dialogue with Scripture: Contemporary Responses to the Ten Commandments and Psalm 23. (RW, Dec 2002, 31)

Work

  • The People Had a Mind to Work: A Service for the Sunday Before Labor Day. (RW, June 2004, 38-39)

Youth and Children

  • Treasure Hunt: A Service Modelling Youth Leadership Development. (RW, Sept 2004, 36-39)