worship words for contemporary church services

Passion/Palm Sunday

What words express the hope, the anticipation, the surge of the excited crowd? What words fill the air of our worship centres?  filling the hollows of the week ahead? How do we express the shadow looming?  the darkness beneath the palms? Songs for Palm/Passion Sunday: Dramas for Palm/Passion Sunday: Worship Words resources for Palm/Passion Sunday: […]

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Psalm 86, Call to Worship — Duncan Wilson

Teach us your way and we will follow it faithfully. Encourage us to serve you with all our heart. With all that is within us, we will praise you and everywhere we will speak of your goodness. How can we measure your love? You have restored our lives. Still, there are those who seek only […]

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Psalm 22 for a quantum world — Heather Whyte, UK

21st Sunday after Pentecost, Year B I feel alone, no one can help, no one hears. I feel abandoned, separate in time and space and yet I know you are all around. You are always there for humanity, listening, speaking, giving knowledge and wisdom, but I feel cut off, feel less than human, separate from […]

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Let there be light, Watched Word -- John Potter, UK

Psalm 19 Renewed — Duncan Wilson, UK

For a single voice or responsive reading The heavens are telling us about God’s glory! the whole universe shows us God’s handiwork. One day tells it to another, and night by night repeats it to the next and this without using words or signs or the sound of any voice. Yet their message has gone […]

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