Better Sundays Begin on Monday

Better Sundays Begin on Monday
Author: David W. Manner
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1791004741

Reviewing game film is a discipline that sports teams often incorporate after each game. Teams watch game videos to identify mistakes, make adjustments, consider radical changes, and highlight successes. The goal of this analysis is to facilitate individual and team improvements that will positively affect subsequent games. The fundamental reason why a team needs adjustments is not always evident in the middle of the game. But evaluating important elements after a game gives coaches and players the opportunity to review individual plays and players in a more relaxed setting away from the time constraints and pressures of the game. So why aren’t pastors and worship teams incorporating similar evaluative practices? Implementing a collaborative process of analyzing worship services or planning for upcoming services requires a deep level of humility, trust, and shared accountability. It also requires selfless leaders who are willing to sacrifice their own ideas and interests for the greater worshiping good of the congregation. Better Sundays Begin on Mondays offers foundational worship considerations to help leadership teams ask questions evaluatively rather than defensively. These weekly reflections encourage worship leaders and their teams to think beyond style to biblical and theological worship content.

Can't Wait for Sunday

Can't Wait for Sunday
Author: J. Michael Walters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Cults
ISBN: 9780898273137

The entire is worship and is the responsibility of the senior pastor to coordinate

Sunday's on the Phone to Monday

Sunday's on the Phone to Monday
Author: Christine Reilly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501116878

The Middlesteins meets The Virgin Suicides in this arresting family love story about the eccentric yet tightknit Simone family, coping with tragedy during 90s New York, struggling to reconnect with each other and heal. Claudio and Mathilde Simone, once romantic bohemians hopelessly enamored with each other, find themselves nestled in domesticity in New York, running a struggling vinyl record store and parenting three daughters as best they can: Natasha, an overachieving prodigy; sensitive Lucy, with her debilitating heart condition; and Carly, adopted from China and quietly fixated on her true origins. With prose that is as keen and illuminating as it is whimsical and luminous, debut novelist Christine Reilly tells the unusual love story of this family. Poignant and humane, Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday is a deft exploration of the tender ties that bind families together, even as they threaten to tear them apart.

Designing Worship Together

Designing Worship Together
Author: Norma deWaal Malefyt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2004-12-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1566995051

Much more than a "how-to" for worship planners. Drawing on more than two decades of collaborative worship planning, as well as numerous conversations with other worship planners. Pastor Howard Vanderwell and musician Norma de Waal Malefyt lay out a thoughtful, field-tested process for planning, implementing, and evaluating life-enriching weekly worship. Well over a dozen field-tested tools and a selected bibliography round out this invaluable resource for worship planners.

Worship Essentials

Worship Essentials
Author: Mike Harland
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1535905174

Everybody talks about the worship, but nobody does anything about it. The well-known quote associated with Mark Twain actually goes like this—Everybody talks about the weather ... But changing it to "worship" seems appropriate. With Worship Essentials, Dove Award-winning worship leader Mike Harland helps leaders do something about it. Perhaps no subject about church generates more opinion and passion than worship. Walk with the typical church-going family on their way to the car after the service and just listen. Everybody really does talk about worship. Now, veteran worship leader and experienced ministry coach Mike Harland offers the tools worship leaders need to build biblically-faithful and effective worship ministries without bringing the disruption that often accompanies change. Psalm 67:5 reads, "Let the peoples praise you, God, let all the peoples praise you." Worship Essentials is here to help.

All Ages Becoming

All Ages Becoming
Author: Valerie M Grissom
Publisher: ACU Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2023-10-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1684268656

We are in this together—all ages practicing, all ages becoming God’s people. Often, intergenerational initiatives are seen as the next new church trend, or another programming tool for church growth and revitalization. Ultimately, though, intergenerational practice is at the core of what it means for us to be the body of Christ. God intends for all ages to participate in faith formation together; we are formed in our practice of intergenerationallity as we participate in the formation of becoming God’s people. All Ages Becoming brings theologians, practitioners, and ministry leaders, representing diverse denominations, generations, cultures, and geographical locations, together to help us explore this adventure of intergenerational Christian practice. As you consider intergenerational practice in your own faith community, each chapter provides “Theology in Practice” sections with questions designed to help your community reflect, discuss, discover, experiment, reinvent, redesign, and continue in your community of practice.

Sunday

Sunday
Author: Craig Harline
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300167032

Originally published: New York: Doubleday, a division of Random House, 2007.

The Purpose, Pattern, and Character of Worship

The Purpose, Pattern, and Character of Worship
Author: L. Edward Phillips
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1791004695

Within the broad range of Christianity we find diverse understandings of what makes for “good worship.” The Purpose, Pattern, and Character of Worship develops a typology of Christian worship to provide a method of assessing the decisions of congregations and leaders in forming and changing the orders of their worship. Among contemporary western Protestants, we identify at least six discrete characteristics of worship: -the Revival, -the Sunday School, -the Aesthetic Revival, -the Pentecostal/holiness movement, -the Prayer Meeting, -the twentieth-century Catholic Liturgical Renewal. These patterns define contemporary expression as: -Seeker Worship, -Creative Worship, -Traditional Worship, -Praise Worship, -House Church Worship, -Word and Table Worship. Absent an overall authority for the structure of worship (such as the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer), many Protestant congregations have developed a “conflation of patterns,” which often creates incoherent worship. This book helps leaders define the purpose, character, and pattern of their community’s worship.

Journey to Wholeness

Journey to Wholeness
Author: John E. Guns
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2011-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1462014798

Our world continues to move at an alarming pace, and this "busyness" can often threaten our walk with God. In the midst of dramatic cultural change, it is crucial that we immerse ourselves in his Word so that we may clearly hear his voice. In this uplifting guide, Dr. John E. Guns applies his extensive practical and professional knowledge as a pastor, author, and theologian to show you how to devote yourself entirely to God. In this manner, you can build your relationship with God on the firm foundations of Scripture and faith. By opening ourselves to spiritual growth, wisdom, and life lessons, we can shed our halfhearted faith and fully embrace God and his Word. Dr. Guns's encouraging message will show you how to release the negatives in your life and replace them with the positives. He shares personal anecdotes and offers daily inspirational thoughts to help you fully immerse yourself in God instead of merely going through the motions. Written in a down-to-earth, friendly style, Journey to Wholeness delivers a roadmap for the journey of life, one solidly pointed toward God through Jesus Christ. Develop a deeper understanding of the One that made you and rejoice in his everlasting love!

The Bible Study

The Bible Study
Author: Zach Windahl
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780764243097

A Clear, Simple Guide through the Bible Now in one volume and redesigned to help you understand God's Word even better, The Bible Study is your one-year roadmap through Scripture. • DAILY OR WEEKLY READING PLANS provide an uncomplicated, manageable way to personalize your study of the Bible and grow as a Christian. • THOUGHT-PROVOKING QUESTIONS AND SPACE TO WRITE help you discover what the readings mean and apply what you're learning to your daily life. • OVERVIEWS AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION for each book of the Bible provide helpful context to the big and small aspects of Scripture. With colorful imagery and an engaging design to propel you forward, this easy-to-use study--whether self-led or done with friends--offers a transformative way to connect deeper with God. Join more than 500,000 others who are learning the Bible like never before!