| Bringing you relevant inspiration, right for this moment. |  | | september 2022 | Happy New Year! That's right, I'll say it again, Happy New Year! While we are several months away from recycling our 2022 wall calendars, we will soon be celebrating the arrival of a new liturgical year. The Christian year ends on Christ the King Sunday (November 27th) and begins with the first Sunday of Advent (December 4th). Consider using both of these dates to "tell the story" of God's love for us in Jesus Christ from start to finish. This e-newsletter is full of resources to help you end and start this new year well. | | |  | | | A Festival of Scripture and Song for the Last Sunday of the Christian year “Nearly every hymn selected has some reference to the kingship of Christ, and because they are sung out of their usual context, there is much potential for the congregation to experience their great depth and meaning.” This service has 10 Scripture lessons and hymns, corresponding to the significant events in Jesus’ life. This is an invitation to tell the “whole story” in one service. | | | | |  | | | Service Plans for the Last 6 Weeks of the Year This worship series uses Hebrews texts to focus our attention on Jesus Christ's priestly ministry. It could be adapted to cover the full 6 weeks, or shortened into a rich Christ the King service on the last Sunday of the year. | | | | |  | | | | This Advent service of lessons and carols would be appropriate early in the season. It's filled with Old Testament texts of both longing and hope, drawing us into the Advent season of waiting. | | | | | | | Worship planning Resources | | | | | Reformed Worship has rich resources for preachers and worship planners whose worship services follow the Lectionary. Check out this chart for Year A resources for the rest of the liturgical year. | | This newest Advent series encourages us to enter into the season with curiosity and wonder. The series was originally created to accompany the book "What is God Like" by Rachel Held Evans, but the series works equally well with or without the book.  | | | A Series for Advent and Christmas As you start thinking ahead to Advent, this series has a contemporary feel with the familiar ancient rituals of the season of Advent. What are you waiting for? | | | A Series for Advent and Christmas This service of lessons and carols was written to name ways to read the Jesus story through the Old Testament narrative. It would be a wonderful service to use in early Advent. | | | Paid advertisements |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a crucial moment in which we are reminded and assured of God's faithful presence among us. Along with the benediction, it undergirds our worship with God's grace and peace promised to us. But this greeting is more than an announcement or assurance of divine presence—certainly much more than a mere hello from God. | | | | | | | | | | | | Are you unintentionally sending the message that work has no place in worship? "Leave it at the door and pick it up again on your way out!" | | | | | | | | Subscribe to our award-winning quarterly worship journal and be able to read articles with this symbol:
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