| 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 lowena@stedmundsbury.anglican.org
For
resources for Readers
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Make
Poverty History
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here for worship and prayer material
to support the campaign |
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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
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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