The psalms are intended for singing. Singing engages us much more deeply — heart, mind, soul and strength — with these profound and ancient songs of prayer and praise. Singing the psalms is also a significant part of our Reformed liturgical heritage.
This PowerPoint presentation provides the text of Psalm 146.
The psalms are intended for singing. Singing engages us much more deeply — heart, mind, soul and strength — with these profound and ancient songs of prayer and praise. Singing the psalms is also a significant part of our Reformed liturgical heritage.
This PowerPoint presentation provides the text of Psalm 147:1-11.
Readers of Call to Worship are surely convinced of the merits of psalmsinging and perhaps even sing the lectionary psalm each week in their churches. However, even those of us who are intentional about singing the psalms may benefit from a revival of our repertoire. Many of us take a “one size fits all” approach to psalmody, remaining squarely in the favored style of our tradition— metrical or responsorial.
Read a prayer before each meal, reflect upon it and share your insights or thoughts with others.
Download this presentation by Robert A. Chesnut.
Spiritual Practices and Perspectives of Negotiation - Prayer
Some passages from Scripture and PCUSA’s Constitution you may want to consider and study as you encounter divisive conflict in the church. It may be helpful to study and reflect on these passages or portions of these passages individually or as group through the process of Lectio Divina. Additionally, you may want to consider if certain passages would be helpful to be read as part of the negotiation process. For example, you may choose to begin and end each negotiation session with certain passages.
A prayerful reading of Scripture is a way of entering into a conversation with God, and allowing God to be the first speaker. So often our prayers are a conversation in which we are the only speakers and God does all the listening. This can be our default mode of conversation with God even during a worship service. The next time you attend a worship service pay attention to the “Prayers of Confession” or “Prayers of the People,” or even the “Proclamation of the Word,” and compare the amount of time spent we do the talking compared to the amount …
This multisensory, peripatetic service in the tradition of the stations of the cross includes scriptures appropriate for a Reformed church.
See related pages: Good Friday, Presbyterian Worship
An Order of Worship for Human Rights Day.