If you are looking for some words to use for worship, or some inspiration for your own, here are some you can use or adapt, thanks to members of our RevGals community. If you can please give credit in video descriptions or print versions, that would be great, though spoken verbal attribution is not necessary.… Read More
Worship Words: Transfiguration Sunday (2/14) and Ash Wednesday (2/17)
Are you looking for some liturgical language that helps express where we are in these days? Here are some offerings from around the RevGals community, for you to use or adapt. Please give credit in video descriptions or manuscripts, but no verbal attribution is necessary. TRANSFIGURATION SUNDAY Prayer: Glory, by Christine Jerrett, posted on Christine… Read More
worship words for 24 January 2021
It can be hard to find liturgical language that meets the particular challenges of January 2021, can’t it — on the one hand, there is some comfort in the words we have used for centuries. On the other hand, those word imply physical gathering together in the same room, and often seem to gloss over… Read More
Worship Words-January 17, 2021
What a time to be planning worship! May God grant you words and actions to both express/name what is and to call/proclaim what God wills to be. Feel free to use/read/adapt with credit to the listed author and revgalblogpals.org 1A.Opening Prayer by Barb Hedges-Goettl (GATE-L) O God, in this time of change and challenge, we… Read More
Worship words — baptism of the Lord
It’s hard to imagine Baptism of the Lord Sunday online, but many of us (not all, of course) will find ourselves looking for a way to engage in a traditionally tactile liturgy in a digital way. If you have found that our liturgical language is not quite up to the task, here are some starting… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Christmas Leftovers Edition
What do you do with the second Sunday after Christmas? Do you get a jump start on Epiphany, or sing all the Christmas carols that somehow haven’t been sung yet this season? Is this the Sunday for a much-needed vacation, or the Sunday to start a new preaching series for 2021? Does your congregation observe… Read More
Worship Words: Christmas 2/Epiphany
Do you know what day it is? As I type, it’s Tuesday, 29 December 2020. If you’re in the southern hemisphere, enjoy the fresh foods of the season. If you’re in the northern hemisphere, remember to get your Vitamin D and drink plenty of water. We are in the season wherein many pastors lose track of… Read More
Worship Words for Christmas 1
You may have already recorded for Sunday, to try to get a break for you or your tech people (if you’re lucky enough to have tech people!), in which case feel free to pass this post by! Or you may have in-person worship you lead yourself, so you have plenty of time to decide what… Read More
Worship Words
Are you focusing on love this week? Are you in the middle-muddle of multiple services? Have you already recorded your services for Sunday and Christmas Eve. No matter where you are in your preparations on lack thereof, there are gifted writers in RevGalBlogPals community and they are generous in sharing their words. If you are… Read More
Worship Words for Advent 3: Joy
Some people always have the right words. Worship Words is here in case you are not one of those people. Or maybe just not one of those people this week. We have some contributions from our RGBP community to help. Feel free to use as-is, adapt, or use for inspiration. If you use them in… Read More
