| Worship
Resources |
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page aims to provide useful suggestions for resources for
everyday worship. If you have can recommend any resources
- whether a website, book or course - for anyone from clergy
to individuals and families wishing to worship at home,
please email your suggestions to naomi@stedmundsbury.anglican.org
For
resources for Readers
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| WebSites |
Church
of England
The
Church of England website offers a variety of Worship Resources.
Follow Worship link.
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| The
Canons of the Church of England
can
be downloaded and printed from www.cofe.anglican.org/about/churchlawlegis/canons/ |
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Synodical
Legislation
Most
can be found, and printed from, www.hmso.gov.uk |
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| An
Invitation to Prayer
Praying
together for peace, justice and reconciliation. Offers guidance
on how to pray as well as written prayers for troubled times. |
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| Collective
Worship Resource
The
Culham Institute in association with the National Society,
providing new, topical ideas for Collective Worship, at
both primary and secondary levels. |
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Freshexpressions
The site aim is to resource a growing movement of fresh expressions
of church. |
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Christian
Aid
Supports
your church's work month by month, with prayers, reflections,
short articles, and a wide range of published material. |
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Praxis
Aims to enrich the practice and understanding of worship
in the Church of England, to serve congregations and clergy
in their exploration of the call to worship and provide
a forum in which different worshipping traditions of the
Church can meet and interact. |
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The
Methodist WebSite (updated)
Prayer and Worship section provides prayers and materials
for worship. |
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| Rejesus.co.uk
Explores the life, character, teachings and followers of
Jesus. Looking at how Jesus has been quoted and misquoted,
filmed and written about, worshipped and argued over and
and includes prayer and medititation material. |
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Gospelcom.net
Includes
over 300 individual online ministries working to use technology
and the Internet to reach the world with the message of Jesus
Christ. |
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College
of Preachers
The
College of Preachers site is a good starting point. This is
definitely a resources site, without a sermon text in sight.
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Worship
that Works
The
Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA) has a good website
and from it a link to a weekly sermon page. Some of the sermons
are quite good, and based on the Revised Common Lectionary,
but in many cases the illustrations are very American and
would not work well over here without a lot of adaptation. |
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Sermon
Central
has
its own search page and an apparently comprehensive range
of sermons and illustrative material. It is possible to search
by topic, text, preacher or denomination. |
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Sermonlinks
provides
links to all sorts of sermons posted by all sorts of preachers
— rather a lucky dip approach and care may be needed.
But in addition to sermons, there are outlines, or ‘seeds’,
the sort of thing that just might be helpful in organising
a number of random thoughts into something more orderly and
therefore better able to be followed by those in the pews.
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Sermonhelps
In
addition to a searchable sermon resource (some of it linked
to the lectionary) has a number of other study resources such
as the interlinear bible. |
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Textweek
This
is one of the most comprehensive sites for preaching from
the Revised Common Lectionary on the web. If you remember
Rowan Williams saying that Augustine knew how to read the
psalms, you'll find it here. The site has many classical commentaries
on the passage for the week, and links to contemporary writers.
Links
include references to movies which deal with have theological
implications in their storylines. |
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Books |
Pastoral
Prayer Book,
Raymond Chapman, Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd 1998
Prayers
and resources for times of change, concern and celebration
e.g. weddings, baptisms, anniversaries, illness, bereavement.
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Pastoral
Prayers, Richard Deadman et al, Continuum 2002
Prayers
and liturgies for various pastoral occasions including the
most difficult ones - with preparatory prayers to be used
by the minister him/herself too. |
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Liturgies
for the Journey of Life,
Dorothy McRae-McMahon, SPCK 2000
Occasions of Prayer, Lisa Withrow, SPCK 1999
Both offer a range of prayers, short liturgies
and meditations suitable for use at home or in a less formal
church situation. |
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