Worship Resources

 Select and CLICK a link from the categories below and begin the adventure of worship

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:: Reading :: Song :: Scripture :: Poetry :: Art :: Video :: Other ::

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:: Reading ::

These items are avaiable for checkout. If interested Email Craig or visit the House Church Resource Center on a Sunday morning. Links are for information purposes.

Biblical Worship - Is it What You Think? - By Dr. Rob Byrd
Spoken Worship - Gerard Kelly
Experiential Worship - By Bob Rognlien
Here I am to Worship - By Tim Hughes
Praise Habit - Finding God In Sunsets - By David Crowder
Sacred Pathways - Discover Your Soul’s Path to God - By Gary Thomas
     • Sacred Pathways: A Brief Description (PDF )
     • Sacred Pathways: A Study Guide (PDF )
     • Sacred Pathway Assessment (Link to Online Assessment Tool)
The Unquenchable Worshipper - By Matt Redman
The Worship God is Seeking - By David Ruis
Inside Out Worship - Matt Redman
Songs from Heaven - By Tommy Walker with Phil Kassel
For the Audience of One - By Mike Pilavachi with Craig Borlase
Facedown - Matt Redman
The Air I Breathe - Louie Giglio
The Dangerous Act of Worship - Mark Labberton
The Complete Worship Leader - Kevin J. Navarro
The Worship Leader’s Handbook - Tom Kraeuter
I am Not, but I Know I AM - Louie Giglio
The Way I Was Made - Chris Tomlin
The Heart of Worship Files - Matt Redman

 

:: Song ::

 

Item Description	MP3	Text
All Song Lyric/Chords		PDF
Just a Closer Walk with Thee	MP3
Allelujah, Sing	MP3
Doxology	MP3
Glory to God	MP3
Hosanna	MP3

Item Description	MP3	Text
All Song Lyric/Chords		PDF
Call to Worship	MP3
Blessed Assurance - BLEND	MP3
I'll Fly Away - BLEND	MP3
Song of Hope - BLEND	MP3
One Way - BLEND	MP3
Prayer - BLEND	MP3
Center - BLEND	MP3
Neverending - EDGE	MP3
Dancing Generation - EDGE	MP3
Undignified - EDGE	MP3
Prayer - EDGE	MP3
I'll Fly Away - EDGE	MP3

 

Item Description	MP3	Text
All Song Lyric/Chords		PDF
Call to Worship	MP3
Psalm 33	MP3
Agnus Dei - BLEND	MP3
What is the glory of God - BLEND	MP3
How Great is Our God - BLEND	MP3
Sticky Note Directions	MP3
Glory in the Highest - BLEND	MP3
Glory to God Forever - EDGE	MP3

Item Description	MP3	Text
All Song Lyric/Chords		PDF
Your Grace is Enough	MP3
Sing to the King	MP3
Prayer	MP3
Oh Lord, You're Beautiful	MP3
I Exalt Thee	MP3
None But Jesus	MP3
Prayer	MP3
Salvation is Here	MP3
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Item Description	MP3	Text
All Song Lyric/Chords		PDF
Call to Worship (Poem)	MP3
'Tis So Sweet	MP3
Psalm 30	MP3
Blessed Be the Name	MP3
In Lieu of the Lure	MP3
Mystery	MP3
Prayer	MP3
I Need Thee	MP3
It is Well	MP3

 

Link to (must be registered as a worship team member):
Grace Gathering Current Schedule and Playlist

Email Craig for more information about access to above page

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:: Scripture ::
more to come...

John 4: 4 - 30
Romans 12: 1 - 21

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:: Poetry ::
Spoken Worship - Gerard Kelly

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:: Art ::
Art to Heart Worship Resources

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:: Video ::
These items are avaiable for checkout. If interested Email Craig or visit the House Church Resource Center on a Sunday morning. Links are for information purposes.

Igniter Tracks 01 - Visual Worship DVD
Igniter Tracks 02 - Visual Worship DVD
iWorship DVDs Volumes A - Z

 

Re:Verb - Conversations on Bibllical Worship (LINK)
Re:Verb - Conversations on Biblical Worship

Session One (30.7 MB MP3)
Session Two (29.6 MB MP3)
Session Three (26.9 MB MP3)
Session Four (39.5 MB MP3)
Session Five (33 MB MP3)
Session Six (31.9 MB MP3)

Session Notes All (PDF)

Experiential Worshiper: Small Group Kit (LINK)
Experiential Worship: Small Group Discussion Videos

Introduction: Giving Yourself More Completely (103 MB MPEG Video Fiie)
Heart Worship: Loving God with Your Choices (79 MB MPEG Video Fiie)
Strength Worship: Loving God with Your Body (119 MB MPEG Video Fiie)
Mind Worship: Loving God with Your Thoughts (109 MB MPEG Video Fiie)
Soul Worship: Loving God with Your Feelings (99 MB MPEG Video Fiie)
Living as an Experiential Worshiper (97 MB MPEG Video Fiie)

Leading A Group of Experiential Worshipers (81 MB MPEG Video Fiie)

 

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:: Other Worship Forms::

 

Use some of the above media to lead your house church through a discussion.

Try some of the activities below yourself first and then with your house church family. Realize that each of these is meant to be done as an act of worship - opening ourselves up to be filled and tranformed by God. Any other purpose or motivation is pointless. It is also noteworthy that relying too heavily on any activity to "produce" a feeling or experience is not healthy. Worship is giving all that we are for/to Him, not getting all that we can from Him. Any of these activities could be taken to an unhealthy extreme. Keep God at the center and worship of Him as the focus. Always use Scripture and its prinicpals to filter and guide.

• Go to the HubbleSite.com and peruse the gallery of images taken by the Hubble telescope. Ponder how vast and immense creation really is and how small you really are. Then read Psalm 139, or 1 Peter 5:6-7. Isn't it amazing that He cares for you?
• Use (a book of) images and consider; the greatness of creation (huge mountains, the ocean, etc.) and then ponder how much bigger God is, the multitude of creation (how many different kinds of plants, animals) and then think about what a creative God we have, and how he is able to manage so many things at once, the beauty of creation.
• Take a walk in nature, let down your anxieties, allow God to speak to you.
• Listen to a great piece of music (classical, contemporary, even country).
• Listen to Scripture being read out loud multiple times, and through various voices.
  

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• Use a scented candle or incense during a worship time.
• Hold objects while you pray; for example - hold a paperclip while praying for a marriage that is struggling (that the marriage would be held together).
• Meditate on a classic piece of Christian art.
• Take a drive and appreciate beauty in ancient and modern church buildings.
• Draw while praying.
  

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• Allow taste to remind you of God - for example, something sweet could remind you of God's goodness.
• Decide together to read the same Psalm every day, or read one in the morning and read one in the evening.
• Create a house church calendar and traditions to celebrate sacred holidays.
• Make a liturgy for you and your house church to read every day that incorporates different aspects of prayer (like drawing things from The Book of Common Prayer) - adoration, confession, thanksgiving, intercession, supplication.
• Schedule a time that you will all regularly pray together for the next week on a specified subject.
  

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• Find a picture or object (or a symbol like a cross, or a color) that you can use to remind you of God at your home or workplace.
• Fast during Lent.
• Decide to fast from food together and pray for a pressing need or concern in the house church.
• Get the kids a sitter and plan a time of silent worship.
• Fasting from movies, radio, etc. - anything you think you might be depending on for spiritual nourishment.
  

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• Decide to discuss and hold each other accountable to work hard at your job.
• Plan how each person could take a simple personal retreat in the next month. Set a date to share after everyone has gone away.
• Discuss how you could all live more simply as an act of worship - keeping from materialism and packed schedules.
• Plan and go on a prayer walk, intercede for others.
• Get involved in a political issue as an act of worship - to GLORIFY God.
  

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• Get involved with a social issue (abortion, for example).
• Discuss and pray that each of you could speak the truth in love to another Christian. Name them. Pray for them daily.
• Visit a nursing home, retirement community, hospital, or another place where sick and lonely people hang out.
• Adopt a prisoner.
• Help a friend or neighbor in need.
  

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• Lend someone money.
• Volunteer on a rescue squad.
• Fix someone's car.
• Make meals for a needy family.
• Journal your dreams (to help remember them!) and ask what God could be trying to teach you.
  

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• Keep a prayer journal and being expectant throughout the day for God's activity.
• Celebrate in corporate worship. Try something new. Raise your hands. Kneel. Lay prostrate. Dance. Etc.
• Create something (paint, words, lyrics, clay, wood, etc.).
• Use your imagination, feeling, or reason to meditate on Scripture; imagine Scripture actually working out in your life (what it would look like for you to be more loving, etc.)
• Pray the "Jesus prayer " or a centering prayer, which helps to practice God's presence and rest.
  

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• Do secret acts that are just between you and God (anonymously helping someone, writing a letter to God that you burn, "secret" prayer walk, or making a secret vow or fasting).
• Try "dancing" prayer" -- allowing God to be the lead and guide you to what to pray for.
• Practice just "being" in front of God - sitting quietly with him, without trying to pray "for" anything or do anything.
• Reflect on the stations of the cross.
• Use your imagination to enter Scripture scenes and encounter God.
  

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• Use an object to prayerfully reflect on Scripture.
• Take a class to help your mind stay active.
• Do a study together in church history, Biblical studies, systematic theology, ethics, apologetics.
• Read a good Christian book together.
• Learn a new way to study the Bible together, and spend enough time doing so (like, focus on one book a month).