Worship Resources

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.

Bringing together words of warmth across a range of subjects and situations, these timeless prayer collections can be used for both personal and group prayer and provide a wealth of resources.

More themed ideas for those preparing talks Every talk or sermon has to reflect the speaker's own faith and experience of God if it is to communicate effectively, and in Nick Fawcett's experience, a single idea can be useful in providing the raw material from which the finished product is fashioned.

Bringing together words of warmth and contemplation for a variety of different occasions, ranging from Advent and Christmas to Weddings and Funerals, this helpful collection provides a wealth of resources for both personal and group prayer.

A short and sweet sermon is a concise, encouraging word about a Bible passage that has come up in the readings of the day. Lightweight sermons are meant to be brief, with a punch and usually just one main message. These hundred small sermons are a write-up from memory of sermons that were first given live to a congregation, so they are somewhat more formal than the original spoken word.

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

This collection presents over fifty powerful sermons from one of the most trusted preachers today, Walter Brueggemann. In it, Brueggemann continues his task of making the biblical text available to the church. He sees preaching as a performance of God's good rule that, in an act of utterance and receptive listening, mediates the truthful, joyous reality of that rule.

The Anglican Common Worship Marriage Service

Now updated and enlarged, this book is packed with simple, good advice and effective ideas for generating the right kind of publicity for your church and its mission.

Churches are growing. This prophetic and inspirational handbook by church growth expert Bob Jackson explores a variety of growing churches to identify what is making the difference between them and churches which are static or declining.

Worship is more than just music; it's a lifestyle. We all believe this to be true, but finding compelling ways to connect our church gatherings with our everyday lives is often a struggle. Fresh, creative, liberating - Whole Life Worship is the informed practical book which helps to make that connection.

Nick Fawcett has created 100 meditations - all wonderfully imaginative and often moving - in his enormously popular No Ordinary Man.