Forty or fifty years ago, there wasn’t much question of what one would find when opening a hymnal: congregational songs...
Greg
2009 Lessons & Carols
Sunday, December 13 was our annual Lessons & Carols service. There are plenty of places you can hear the big...
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...
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...
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...
Ash Wednesday, ingredient list
The ashes are made from burning the palm branches used the previous year on Palm Sunday. They are stored in...
Worship Services: leaders’ edition
This page includes anything a COS worship leader could ever want: links to song lists and liturgies, a list of...
2008 Lessons & Carols
Again this year, Church of the Servant prepared for Christmas with a service of lessons and carols, in which we...
Practice MP3s
The choir wants to make this Sunday’s Lessons & Carols service pretty, so they’re going to be listening to these...
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...
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”...
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....