Liturgy Lessons

Worship will be our eternal occupation. In the meantime, here are some thoughts about the way we practice it at Church of the Servant.

Worship Services: leaders’ edition

This page includes anything a COS worship leader could ever want: links to song lists and liturgies, a list of...

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Liturgy Lesson: Liturgical Germs

There are two kinds of people in church: those who say “I’m not dipping my bread into this cup after...

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Liturgy Lesson: Beneath the Tree of Life

When Ron Rienstra first showed me Marty Haugen’s song “Beneath the Tree of Life” I knew we had to sing...

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Liturgy Lesson: Confessions of a Co-Pilot

A number of years ago it was in vogue for Christians to sport bumper stickers on their cars that said,...

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Liturgy Lesson: Worship in Four Movements

Astute observers of Church of the Servant’s printed liturgy will notice four large-type words in each week’s liturgy: Gathering, Word,...

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Liturgy Lesson: I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song

What is worship? A while back in Reformed Worship, John Witvliet created a diagram to show the different meanings of...

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Liturgy Lesson: Worship with Guts

Last week I was talking to a fellow minister of worship. In his church, the sermon dominates the worship service,...

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Liturgy Lesson: Psalm 23

The twenty-third psalm is the nightingale of the psalms. It is small, of a homely feather, singing shyly out of...

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Liturgy Lesson: Gloria in excelsis Deo!

Gloria in excelsis Deo! Why do we sing languages other than English in worship at Church of the Servant? Doesn’t...

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Liturgy Lesson: Under the Hood

Under the Hood Some of us may be tempted to think that all the work of worship takes place on...

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Liturgy Lessons: The Worshiping Community

The Worshiping Community A number of people have asked me who those two new, young musicians are who have been...

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Liturgy Lessons: Canticles

Canticles Astute observers will have noticed that in today’s liturgy we sang a song based on Isaiah 12:2-6 where we...

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