Re:Think Worship

Posted by admin on May 1, 2012

Creative Mother’s Day Ideas for Church

Mother’s Day Ideas Well it’s that time of year again. Here’s a collection of Mother’s day video clips and creative ideas of how you can celebrate Mother’s day in your Sunday Worship service. Kids A default idea for Mother’s Day would be to include kids in some way. Maybe saying things they like about their Mom, giving flowers to their mothers, handing out flowers...

Posted by admin on Apr 22, 2012

Creative Congregational Prayer Idea by Gungor

Prayer for Shalom – Gungor I was recently at a concert in Langley, BC where Gungor performed with the Brilliance. Both did a great job, there’s nothing quite like seeing ridiculously talented musicians, wow!!! At one point Michael led us in a prayer for Shalom. You can see the explanation in the video below and hear us start to sing. We sang this simple phrase for what was probably about...

Posted by admin on Mar 29, 2012

Good Friday Video Download – ‘Were You There’

Updated March 2012: Here’s an updated version of the ‘Were You There’ Good Friday video. Feel free to download this and use it in your church service, if you can leave me a comment, I’d love to hear about how your using it. Download Were You There Video Last year I came up with a more somber and reflective version of the hymn, ‘Were You There When they Crucified my...

Posted by admin on Mar 15, 2012

Tenebrae Service Creative Idea

Ideas for Tenebrae Service Last year for our Tenebrae service we followed a typical outline of reading the Easter story and extinguishing candles. Here’s a few things we did to add some creative ideas to the service. Represent Jesus as a cross We had a smaller cross about 6.5 feet tall. We placed it on stage and then had one actor interact with it as if it was Jesus. So during the reading of...

Posted by admin on Mar 13, 2012

Easter Service – Come Awake

For this Easter Sunday Service we tried to find some creative worship ideas to communicate the theme from Ephesians 5:14 ”Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Order of Service Welcome – He is Risen, He Is Risen Indeed Voices of the Cross - Dan Stevers Happy Day -Flowering of the Cross- All the Earth Will Sing Your Praises Mighty To...

Posted by admin on Feb 1, 2012

Love Theme’d Sunday

For our February ‘Valentines Day’ service we explored the theme of Love using some creative readings and videos. Here’s what our service looked like, it worked for Valentines Day but I would think some of this stuff could work for any service that is talking about God’s love or how we should love others. Opening Worship Set Forever Welcome and Announcements Call to Worship...

Posted by admin on Jan 27, 2012

Lament Service

We recently had a Sunday service based on the book of Lamentations. We had been thinking for a while to create space to teach about lament in the Christian walk and thought the book of Lamentations would be a good place to start. We did all of this in place of the sermon so we start with a 10 minute intro Lamentations and the purpose of lament, then contented with songs and videos that gave people space...

Posted by admin on Jan 5, 2012

‘Baggage’ – by Skit Guys

I recently sat down with our youth pastor to help plan some sessions for our church’s annual youth retreat. We were hoping to come with some creative worship ideas for the sessions that would engage and challenge the youth group. One session we planned was based around this clip by the Skit Guys called Baggage. We came up with the idea to have the video shown to the group outside by the...