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Liturgy Lesson: Perfect Harmony?

Forty or fifty years ago, there wasn’t much question of what one would find when opening a hymnal: congregational songs...

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2009 Lessons & Carols

Sunday, December 13 was our annual Lessons & Carols service. There are plenty of places you can hear the big...

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Reading Scripture Well in Worship

You may think that anyone who can read English and has the gumption to stand in front of 500 people...

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Greg Scheer, church spy: Vineyard North

A few years ago, I was given permission to take a Sunday every two months away from my duties at...

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Reformation Day Bach Bash, 11/01/09

For a few years now, Cal Stapert and I have been threatening to plan a worship service using only the...

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Ash Wednesday, ingredient list

The ashes are made from burning the palm branches used the previous year on Palm Sunday. They are stored in...

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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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2008 Lessons & Carols

Again this year, Church of the Servant prepared for Christmas with a service of lessons and carols, in which we...

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Practice MP3s

The choir wants to make this Sunday’s Lessons & Carols service pretty, so they’re going to be listening to these...

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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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Thanks Be to God Our Savior

Here at Church of the Servant we have a little thing we do called the “Joyful Noise Orchestra,” or “JNO”...

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Arabic Lord's Prayer

Among the many blessings we enjoy in worship at COS is our cultural diversity. (Yes, I know–it could be better....

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