NEW! Reconnecting Worship
by Rob Weber and Stacy Hood
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Pastors, worship leaders, worship planners, and laypersons will use this video-based small group study to learn about and discuss worship in the congregation. In eight rich and stimulating sessions, a group will come to terms with the rapidly changing worship environment. The participants will examine practices and develop skills for improving the ways we worship, while preserving and honoring each particular tradition.
 

Hurry Less, Worry Less
by Judy Pace Christie
 

Judy Christie is a member of Grace Community United Methodist Church and has blessed us in the past with workshops concerning this crucial life topic. Now the book is here! Hurry Less, Worry Less is intended for all those busy women and men who want to slow their lives down but don’t quite know where to start. It offers strategies for change, and an invitation to a Christian life. The author writes: “This book shares the path that I took and is written with the certainty that there is a better way to live, even in these hectic times…especially in these hectic times.  An unexpected part of the journey was how God began to speak to me and help me grow. I discovered that part of the yearning inside me was for this underdeveloped part of my life.”  

 

Igniting Worship Series - Communion
by Grace Community Church and Spirit Films
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The Igniting Worship Series consists of resources to assist pastors and worship leaders in building an effective worship experience. This volume contains ten unique and complete acts of worship for the topical subject of Communion. The worship experiences are organized around a Scripture and theme, and include brief biblical and liturgical comments, sermon outlines, calls to worship, prayers and benedictions. Some worship acts also include short dramas. The DVD contains ten or more video clips (i.e. complete vignette or stock footage) suitable for projection in worship or customized in a desktop video software package.  

Rob Weber stresses the importance for a church leader in our current multisensory and multicultural society to lead through engaging people in the multisensory world of images. This kind of leadership requires skills in storytelling and media. The leader must develop sensitivity to a variety of media forms as well as an understanding of the multiple levels of story, understanding and image out of which (and into which) people live. Leaders must be able to function in the midst of a variety of perspectives, not looking for absolute unanimity of belief and understanding, but instead attempting to build a framework of understanding and possibility with a variety of "receptor sites" on to which people from many different backgrounds can grasp.