Each volume offers liturgical advice for worship planning. For each Sunday, there are ideas to integrate the focus on the Church Year through worship, music, color, and the proclamation of the Word.
Unlike other lectionary commentaries, this series offers preachers extensive liturgical advice for worship planning. Each volume begins with a chapter on the theological meaning of the season, its relation to the overall Christian Year, and specific liturgical suggestions. For each Sunday and special day of the year, the books show how the focus on the Church year can be integrated through worship, music color, and the proclamation of the Word. After Pentecost 2 includes lections for the fall; After Pentecost 1 takes the preacher through the summer. Year A: After Pentecost 2... View More...
Spiritual formation is the key to the survival of our faith. Stigmatized by scandal, the church in North America and throughout Europe has been branded as useless and irrelevant. To stem the tide of nominal Christianity, we need to get serious about making disciples who can make other disciples. There is an urgent need today for church services that are substantive and purposeful. Rory Noland is a worship leader who has led in contexts ranging from megachurches to small retreat settings such as the Transforming Center. Combining discipleship and worship--what Noland calls "Transforming Worship... View More...
