Baker's Worship Handbook : Traditional and Contemporary Service Resources

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-03-01
Publisher(s): Baker Books
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Summary

Bakers Worship Handbook, a companion to Bakers Wedding Handbook and Bakers Funeral Handbook, provides pastors and lay leaders with a comprehensive, creative, and up-to-date resource for planning worship services. This cross-denominational guide will aid readers in planning and conducting a variety of God-centered worship services. This compact manual is a handy reference tool not only for pastoral staff members and musicians but also for lay members of worship planning groups. Whether your church prefers services that are contemporary or traditional, informal or formal, high-culture or pop-culture, the helpful resources in this volume can be used to plan next weekend's services. The appendixes include planning forms to photocopy.

Author Biography

Paul E. Engle (D.Min.) is an ordained minister who has served in pastoral ministry in churches in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Illinois, and Michigan. Dr. Engle has also taught as a visiting instructor in the practical theology departments of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Knox Theological Seminary, and Reformed Theological Seminary. He is the author of Baker's Wedding Handbook and Baker's Funeral Handbook.

Table of Contents

Preface 11(8)
Part 1 Worship Planning Resources 19(100)
1. Prayers for Corporate Worship
19(14)
Invocations and Opening Prayers
19(1)
Prayers of Confession
20(6)
Assurances of God's Forgiving Grace
26(2)
Prayers for Illumination
28(2)
Offertory Prayers
30(1)
Benedictions
31(2)
2. Doxologies
33(5)
Scriptural Doxologies
33(2)
Musical Doxologies
35(3)
3. Affirmations of Faith
38(11)
Historic Affirmations
38(7)
Biblical Affirmations
45(4)
4. Offering Resources
49(7)
Offertory Verses
49(4)
Offertory Responses
53(2)
Offering Songs
55(1)
5. Music Resources
56(9)
Five-Phase Hymns and Choruses
56(3)
Contemporary Orders of Worship
59(3)
Hymn Festival Ideas
62(3)
6. Worship Themes: Acts of the Triune God
65(15)
God's Act of Creation
65(2)
God's Act of Election
67(1)
Christ's Incarnation
68(2)
Christ's Acts of Shepherding
70(2)
Christ's Act of Redemption
72(1)
Christ's Resurrection
73(2)
Christ's Ascension
75(1)
God's Act of Sending the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
76(2)
Christ's Return
78(2)
7. Worship Themes: Attributes of the Triune God
80(39)
God Is Beautiful
80(2)
God Is Eternal
82(1)
God Is Faithful
83(2)
God Is Good
85(2)
God Is Great
87(2)
God Is Holy
89(1)
God Is Jealous
90(2)
God Is Just
92(2)
God Is Light
94(1)
God Is Living (Source of Life)
95(2)
God Is Love
97(2)
God Is Merciful
99(1)
God Is Omnipotent
100(2)
God Is Omnipresent
102(2)
God Is Omniscient
104(1)
God Is Patient
105(2)
God Is Sovereign
107(2)
God Is Truthful
109(2)
God Is Unchanging
111(2)
God Is Unified
113(1)
God Is Wise
114(5)
Part 2 Service Models 119(87)
8. Communion Services
119(26)
Baptist
119(2)
Christian Reformed Church
121(6)
Methodist
127(6)
Zwinglian
133(6)
Silent Communion Service (Christmas Eve or Holy Week)
139(3)
Contemporary Communion Ideas
142(3)
9. Believers' Baptism
145(10)
10. Infant Baptism and Dedication Services
155(19)
Evangelical Service of Infant Baptism
155(5)
Presbyterian Service
160(5)
Methodist Service
165(4)
Service of Infant Dedication
169(3)
Baby Blessing and Parent Dedication
172(2)
11. Confirmation and Public Profession of Faith
174(10)
Evangelical Confirmation Service
174(7)
Christian Reformed Public Profession of Faith
181(3)
12. Anointing the Sick
184(9)
13. Recognition of Births and Adoptions
193(5)
14. Groundbreaking and Church Dedications
198(8)
Groundbreaking Service
198(4)
Service of Building Dedication
202(4)
Appendixes 206
A Church Year Calendars and Personal Worship Cycles 206(5)
B Worship Planning Forms 211(5)
C Worship Service Evaluation Chart 216(4)
D Contemporary Worship Music and Drama Resources 220

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