Best of Worship

By ministry_matters
Created on June 15th, 2012

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Some of our most popular worship articles from the past year, just in case you missed them.

Articles Worship and Liturgy
- By John O. Gooch
- Posted on November 14th, 2011
“We don’t want a fixed order or any liturgy, not even a bulletin. That locks us in to the same order all the time. We just want to worship.” That was a village…
Articles How to Rid Your Church of Young People
- By Ben Boruff
- Posted on February 27th, 2012
Young people are, by and large, missing from the church. This realization came one day when I opened my eyes and saw pews full of heads that were, with few exceptions, bald…
Blog 5 Strategies for Leading Change in Worship
- By Len Wilson
- Posted on July 18th, 2011
A friend called me the other day asking for advice on first steps in a new worship position at a local church. We only spoke for a few minutes, but after hanging up, I continued…
Blog Losing the Offering Plate
- By Shane Raynor
- Posted on April 17th, 2012
Change is a buzzword in church circles. Even some traditional congregations have added modern worship music, practical sermon series, 21st century marketing concepts, theater…
Articles Children's Sermons: 6 Essentials
- By Sarah McGiverin
- Posted on May 28th, 2012
Children’s sermons must be really hard to do, because I have mostly only seen them done poorly – too often they exploit children and pander to the grown ups in the…
Articles Screens in Worship: Top 10 Questions
- By Len Wilson
- Posted on May 7th, 2012
No matter what happens at seminars and conferences on images in worship, when it comes to Q&A time, it's always the same basic set of questions. These are the basic concepts…
Blog Handling Worship Distractions
- By Shane Raynor
- Posted on May 11th, 2012
Are you easily distracted during Sunday worship? People who have ADHD or those who find it hard to focus in a school or work setting will often have similar struggles during…
Articles Joyful Noise with Limited Musical Resources
- By Ian Heston Doescher
- Posted on May 1st, 2011
“When they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives” (Mark 14:26). Throughout the Christian tradition, from the Psalms to the angelic choruses of…
Articles Ten Tips for Holier Holy Communion
- By William H. Willimon
- Posted on February 6th, 2013
The Christian faith is proved in its performance. This faith is not so much a set of beliefs or propositions, but a way of life, something we do, a way we walk, a set of embodied…
Blog Pressure to Make Out with God
- By Shawn Wood
- Posted on April 25th, 2012
A friend of mine tweeted something the other day that caught my attention. “Anyone else concerned that congregations in modern worship have become observers instead of…