| Bringing you relevant inspiration, right for this moment. |  | | MARCH 2023 | When flying, the common advice all airlines give during their pre-flight security brief is to secure your own oxygen mask before you turn to help others. As worship leaders and pastors about to enter the busyness of Holy Week and Easter, we encourage you to do the same. Before each service, take some time, find a quiet place, and read through the words that will be spoken and sung: scripture texts, litanies, prayers, songs–all the texts that you have available. Or if that seems too daunting, pick one scripture text, litany, prayer, or song and reflect on it. Receive the words as a spiritual gift to yourself as God’s words to you. Dwell with them. Listen to the Holy Spirit. Be nourished by them. Then go and nourish those you minister to.
Easter and Eastertide Resources
If you are still finishing up the planning for Holy Week and Easter services and need some additional ideas, go to ReformedWorship.org and enter what you are looking for in the search box. For those of you who are starting to think about what to do after Easter, may we suggest observing Eastertide? We have included a number of ideas for doing just that in this newsletter.
Submit Your Resource
And don’t forget to submit to Reformed Worship the services, litanies, and prayers that have been a particular blessing to your own congregation so that they can become a blessing to others as well. Follow the directions at reformedworship.org/submit-article. We are currently working on the upcoming Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany issue, and while we welcome all submissions, we are particularly interested in those that make a connection between worship and justice. | | |  | Ideas for the Easter Season Based on 1 John The season after Easter, called Eastertide, offers the church a way to continue to explore the impact of Christ’s resurrection on the world. This five week series based on 1 John includes sermon notes, litanies, ideas for children’s messages, congregational song, and visuals. | | |  | | | Two Easter Services Celebrating the Reality of the Resurrection Two Easter services that blended contemporary and traditional Worship styles. Worship was led by a choir, a praise team (guitars, drums, piano, vocalists) and the organ. Includes a link to visuals that were used with the singing of “On the Third Day” Byrd and Maher.  | | | | |  | | | Eastertide Resources Whether you follow the Revised Common Lectionary or are still trying to choose your preaching texts for Easter to Pentecost, consider the resources provided in this article. | | | | |  | | | Latest Issue
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| | | | | Worship planning Resources | | | | | Also fitting for the weeks following Easter Still planning your Easter service and wondering what to do. Consider this liturgy which can also be used for all Sundays in Eastertide. The season of the church year called Eastertide lasts fifty days and includes Ascension, the day when we rejoice in the reign of Christ at God's right hand. A Festival Service for Eastertide Consider adapting this service for your context and continuing your Easter celebration by having a worship festival of congregational song. Reformed Worship has rich resources for preachers and worship planners whose worship services follow the Lectionary. Check out this chart for Year A resources. | | | | | | | | | | | | | As we use the gifts that he has given us to praise him, we can't help but grow as well. We grow in understanding about who God is and who he created us to be. Our faith in who God is grows. And our connection to God's people and the larger story of salvation grows as well. | | | | | | | | | | | | During this season of Lent may the Holy Spirit disturb our souls and draw us closer to God. Spend some time with this poem attributed to Sir Francis Drake, using it as a template for your own prayer. | | | | | | | | Subscribe to our award-winning quarterly worship journal and be able to read articles with this symbol:
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