Worship Words

Worship Words

creative and refreshing liturgy for today’s church
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      • Call to worship
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      • Faith Statements & Affirmations of Faith
      • Lord’s Prayer
      • Passing the Peace
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        • Pastoral Prayers
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        • Prayers of Intercession
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      • Psalms – Old & New
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      • Baptism, Christening, Naming, Dedication
      • Blessing services
        • Blessing the Animals, St Francis Day 4 Oct
        • Blessing of Gardens & Gardeners (Plough Sunday)
        • Blessing for a Distressed Home
        • Blessings with water
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        • Reaffirmation of wedding vows
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      • Lectionary Year A
        • A: Advent & Christmas
        • A: Epiphany
        • A: Lent
        • A: Holy Week
        • A: Easter & Eastertide
        • A: Pentecost & Ordinary Time
      • Lectionary Year B
        • B: Advent & Christmas
        • B: Epiphany
        • B: Lent
        • B: Holy Week
        • B: Easter & Eastertide
        • B: Pentecost & Ordinary Time
      • Lectionary Year C
        • C: Advent & Christmas
        • C: Epiphany
        • C: Lent
        • C: Holy Week
        • C: Easter & Eastertide
        • C: Pentecost & Ordinary Time
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    • Church Year
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        • Advent
        • Blue Christmas / Longest Night
        • Christmas
        • Nativity
      • Epiphany
      • Lent
      • Holy Week
        • Passion/Palm Sunday
        • Maundy Thursday
        • Good Friday
        • Easter
      • Pentecost
    • Seasonal Words
      • Spring words
      • Summer words
      • Autumn Words
        • Harvest
      • Winter Words
    • Month by month words
      • Calendar
      • January-June
        • January words
          • New Year
          • Martin Luther King Day, USA
          • Holocaust Memorial Day 27/1
        • February Words
          • Black History Month – USA
          • Valentine’s Day
        • March words
          • World Day of Prayer – March
          • Mothering Sunday
          • World Water Day – 22 March
        • April words
          • World Health Day – 7 April
          • Earth Day – 22 April
          • ANZAC Day, 25 April
        • May words
          • Pluralism Sunday, first Sunday of May
          • Mother’s Day
          • Nakba (Catastrophe), Palestine 15 May
          • Matariki – Māori New Year — New Zealand (Aotearoa)
        • June words
          • World Environment Day — 5 June
          • Father’s Day
          • World Refugee Day – 20 June
      • July-September
        • July words
          • Independence Day
        • August words
          • Hiroshima Day, 6 August
        • September words
          • Season of Creation 1/9 – 4/10
          • World Week for Peace in Palestine & Israel
          • International Day of Peace 21/09
          • Day for Syria 21/09
      • October, November, December
        • October Words
        • November words
        • December words
  • Prayer words
    • Prayers for Today
    • Candlelight words
    • Creation Words
    • Gratitude words
    • Healing words
    • Hopeful words
    • Justice Words
    • Love words
    • Meditation Words
    • Peace Words
    • Psalms – Old & New
    • Praise Words
    • Strengthening Words
    • Wisdom Words
  • Open Table
    • Open Table service – Advent
    • Open Table service — Are Angels still speaking?
    • Open Table Service — Blessing the Animals
    • Open Table –Growing in the habit of prayer
    • Open Table Service — Harvest: celebrating abundance
    • Open Table service — Mothering Sunday
    • Open Table service — New Year
    • Open Table service — Pentecost
    • Open Table service — Remembrance Sunday
    • Open Table service — Standing firm in our faith
    • Open Table Service — Star-gazing, God’s awesome creation
    • Universal wedding service, for any two people
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Windermere, Cumbria UK — photo by Ana Gobledale

Windermere, Cumbria — photo by Ana Gobledale, UK, river, water, nature

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