Worship Resources

This compendium of prayers, reflections, Bible-based monologues, sermon ideas and full services is a valuable resource for those who devise and lead worship. As well as more general material, the focus is on the two great festivals of Christmas, Holy Week and Easter.

Each year they come round: readings for Advent, Christmas, Harvest, Easter and every other holy day. And the question is, ‘How do I make them fresh? How do I help my church hear with new ears the readings they have heard a hundred times before?’ This collection of scripture retellings is meant to do just that, with passages relating to holidays and holy days from Years A, B and C of the Revised

Liturgies for Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, Transfiguration, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, All Saints’, St Columba’s Day, Father’s Day; on hunger, economic witness, peacemaking, the environment, pilgrimage, welcome, hospitality and friendship. Includes a blessing liturgy for a marriage or partnership, a wedding/partnership ceremony and resources for a memorial event.

Liturgies and liturgical resources for New Year, Epiphany, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, Advent and Christmas. A liturgy for an ‘ordinary day’, and resources for special days like the UN International Day of Friendship and World AIDS Day.

Wild Goose Big Book of Worship Resources 2. Another wide-ranging collection of resources, including material for Advent, Christmas, Lent and Holy Week.

In this beautifully produced lectern book, worthy of the use to which it will be put, are Intercessions for every Sunday of the new Common Worship Lectionary.

Meditations and worship material on the Parables No Ordinary Stories does not set out to add anything to the words of Jesus-those stand complete in themselves. Rather, each of the 38 meditations focuses on a particular aspect of what he said and seeks to draw out it's implications for our own lives.

Prayer is a vital part of the Christian life but people often struggle with actually getting on and doing it. This book offers 80 imaginative and creative ideas for setting up 'prayer stations', practical ways of praying that involve the senses - rather than simply reflecting, as we bring our hopes, fears, dreams and doubts to God. ***THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY IN REPRINT***

A resource of over 550 prayers for use in church, or in groups, and written so that those leading can pray from the heart in straightforward, everyday language.

Themed ideas for those preparing talks

Prayers of Preparation includes a short introductory prayer for each Sunday of Common Worship lectionary.

Includes instructions on how to plan, create and lead whole church family worship throughout the church year

Preaching is an essential component of priestly ministry and a means of pastoral engagement with the community, incarnating the holy and the eternal in the local and the now, and articulating the prophetic voice of the Church. It is a high calling and preachers rightly feel daunted by it.

Creative Ideas for Ministry with the Aged is a wise, timely and practical handbook that meets the urgent need for resources for ministry among the elderly.

Fresh From the Word gathers together Rosalind Brown's acclaimed reflections on the Sunday Lectionary readings which appeared in the Church Times every week for three years.

Meditations, Reflective services and Quiet Day outlines based on the Gospel Readings for Year C of the lectionary

This book brings together 1500 of Susan Sayers' beautiful prayers, arranged thematically according to the Christian year and other key areas of life and worship in which we experience God.

The emphasis is on corporate worship, the body of Christ's people together, and creating an atmosphere that is conducive to wholehearted worship and receptive to God.

'Complete Common Worship Sermon Illustrations' will open up a world of possibilities to preachers' sermon preparations. David Adam's book offers guidance, illustration and creativity for a variety of sermons that may be required throughout a church's 3-year rotation.

This collection of punchy Prayers is designed to help those leading acts of worship-whether in Church, schools, house groups, youth clubs or midweek meetings-to pray simply but effectively on behaif of those present.