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