Tag: worship
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Thanksgiving in Threes
A prayer for thanksgiving. O Living God, you who are Three-in-One and One-in-Three, we give thanks and praise for your abundant gifts—your mercy and grace. We give thanks… For friends who challenge, bless, and care.For books that confound, enlighten, and teach.For scriptures that nourish, correct, and upbuild.For Jesus, who heals, forgives, and saves.For ancestors of…
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global music and worship
It seems that a truce has been called in the so-called worship wars. Or at least I seem to hear a lot less about such wars raging in the church today. Perhaps this lull in the fighting is because the church in the West has finally realized it has more important questions to answer than whether…
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Easter Kids’ Litany
A litany we will use this Sunday at Kensington, to be led by one of the kids of the congregation. This is a great day; a beautiful day. What makes it a great and beautiful day? This is the day of Jesus’ resurrection. What’s that you say? Tell us again! This is…
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poem for palm sunday
PALM SUNDAY hymn Time-pressed sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic rocks Burst with anticipation that, human voices stayed, Their moment of unlocked eloquence and Soaring speech might finally arrive. But vocal chords reverberate with ancient choruses, Embodying praise for earth divinely imagined, given, Gathering sentiments of quartz, kingfisher and crocodile: Hosanna! King! Saviour! recoil Impossible words,…
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Kids’ litanies for lent
A series of litanies that we are using this year at Kensington – led by children of the congregation during Lent. Based on texts from Exodus… Good to have the kids’ voices sharing and leading in worship. Two of them were also done in French (those translations are at the bottom of this post.) Litany…
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congregational aesthetics: a LIVING faith (2/3)
In this short blog series I’m exploring this question: What is the aesthetic profile of your congregation? Every congregation has an aesthetic profile, a profile that emerges out of the architecture, memorials, artwork, and liturgical accoutrements that make up the worship space or community space of a particular church. This aesthetic profile says something about…
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A New Call to Worship? #DoubtIsTheNewBlack
It appears that “doubt is the new black.” Or, that uncertainty is “in.’ This is so particularly in Christian circles. This sentiment is everywhere on the web these days – in blog posts, in Facebook postings, in tweets, and also on the more established Christian publishing sites. Doubt has displaced dogma. We are supposed to…
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