A weekly worship planning book for pastors and musicians. An all-in-one resource that helps both the music director and pastor plan the worship services for each Sunday and holy day of the church year, the 2023-2024 edition of Prepare! is lectionary based and places everything at your fingertips: - New theme index! Includes themes like: assurance, doubt, family, justice, prayer, temptation, and many more. - Scripture Index. - Calendar format that helps you plan the entire choir year, from September through August. - Eight or more suggested hymns for each service keyed to 16 hymnals from at least 7 different denominations, including: Africana Hymnal, The Baptist Hymnal, Chalice Hymnal (Disciples of Christ), The Faith We Sing, Glory to God: The Presbyterian Hymnal, The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal), Hymns for the Family of God, Lutheran Book of Worship, The Presbyterian Hymnal, The New Century Hymnal (United Church of Christ), Renew! Songs & Hymns for Blended Worship, Songs for Praise and Worship Singalong Edition, The United Methodist Hymnal, Voices United, Worship & Song, and Worship III (Roman Catholic). - Complete lectionary text of the Old Testament, Psalm, Epistle, and Gospel readings, using the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition of the Bible. - Reproducible worship planning forms. - Resources for holidays and special days. - Suggestions for prayers, solos, anthems, visuals, and much more. Also available with Common English Bible (CEB) lectionary texts

A weekly worship planning book for United Methodist pastors and musicians. An all-in-one resource that helps both the music director and pastor plan the worship services for each Sunday and holy day of the year, The United Methodist Music and Worship Planner 2023-2024 is lectionary-based and places at your fingertips: Weekly pages in spiral-bound format that help you plan the entire worship year, from September through August. Eight or more suggested hymns for each service keyed to United Methodist worship resources: The United Methodist Hymnal, The Faith We Sing, Worship & Song, The United Methodist Book of Worship, and The Africana Hymnal. Complete lectionary text of the Old Testament, Psalm, Epistle, and Gospel readings using the NRSV translation. Reproducible worship planning forms. Resources for holidays and special days. Suggestions for prayers, solos, anthems, visuals, and much more. Also available with Common English Bible texts.

A weekly worship planning book for pastors and musicians. An all-in-one resource that helps both the music director and pastor plan the worship services for each Sunday and holy day of the church year, the 2023-2024 edition Prepare! is lectionary based and places everything at your fingertips: - New theme index! Includes themes like: assurance, doubt, family, justice, prayer, temptation, and many more. - Scripture Index. - Calendar format that helps you plan the entire choir year, from September through August. - Eight or more suggested hymns for each service keyed to 16 hymnals from at least 7 different denominations, including: Africana Hymnal, The Baptist Hymnal, Chalice Hymnal (Disciples of Christ), The Faith We Sing, Glory to God: The Presbyterian Hymnal, The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal), Hymns for the Family of God, Lutheran Book of Worship, The Presbyterian Hymnal, The New Century Hymnal (United Church of Christ), Renew! Songs & Hymns for Blended Worship, Songs for Praise and Worship Singalong Edition, The United Methodist Hymnal, Voices United, Worship & Song, and Worship III (Roman Catholic). - Complete lectionary text of the Old Testament, Psalm, Epistle, and Gospel readings, using the Common English Bible translation. - Reproducible worship planning forms. - Resources for holidays and special days. - Suggestions for prayers, solos, anthems, visuals, and much more. Also available with New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) texts

A weekly worship planning book for pastors and musicians – Refreshed! We listened carefully to customer feedback and added many new features to make these resources more powerful, more useful, and easier to use for people in local churches of all sizes! You’ll find new features like: - The full text from the two most-used Scripture translations, NRSVue and CEB. - Blank writing space to record your plans, ideas, and questions. - Recommendations for music geared for smaller choirs, solos, duets, and other ensembles. - Many new hymn and song suggestions, as well as more song suggestions for modern or contemporary services. - Suggested themes for each week, a helpful Theme Index, plus a Scripture Index. - Weekly suggestions for using visuals in worship. - Reproducible Worship Planning Sheets - This beloved planning tool still begins on the first Sunday in September An all-in-one resource that helps both the music director and pastor plan the worship services for each Sunday and holy day of the church year, the 2024-2025 edition of Prepare! is lectionary-based and places everything at your fingertips: - Theme index! Includes themes like assurance, doubt, family, justice, prayer, temptation, and many more - Scripture Index - Calendar format that helps you plan the entire choir year, from September through August - Eight or more suggested hymns for each service keyed to 16 hymnals from at least seven different denominations, including Africana Hymnal, The Baptist Hymnal, Chalice Hymnal (Disciples of Christ), The Faith We Sing, Glory to God: The Presbyterian Hymnal, The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal), Hymns for the Family of God, Lutheran Book of Worship, The Presbyterian Hymnal, The New Century Hymnal (United Church of Christ), Renew! Songs & Hymns for Blended Worship, Songs for Praise and Worship Sing along Edition, The United Methodist Hymnal, Voices United, Worship & Song, and Worship III (Roman Catholic) - Complete lectionary text of the Old Testament, Psalm, Epistle, and Gospel readings, using the CEB and NRSVue translations In addition, you will find more: - Consistent Worship elements - Content for contemporary worship services - More innovative worship elements

A weekly worship planning book for United Methodist pastors and musicians. An all-in-one resource that helps both the music director and pastor plan the worship services for each Sunday and holy day of the year, The United Methodist Music and Worship Planner 2023-2024 is lectionary-based and places at your fingertips: Weekly pages in spiral-bound format that help you plan the entire worship year, from September through August. Eight or more suggested hymns for each service keyed to United Methodist worship resources: The United Methodist Hymnal, The Faith We Sing, Worship & Song, The United Methodist Book of Worship, and The Africana Hymnal. Complete lectionary text of the Old Testament, Psalm, Epistle, and Gospel readings using the Common English Bible translation. Reproducible worship planning forms. Resources for holidays and special days. Suggestions for prayers, solos, anthems, visuals, and much more. Also available with NRSV texts

The perfect tool for worship leaders, Taught by Love is Lavon Bayler's final installment in her trilogy of liturgical resources. As with previous volumes, Bayler weaves the concerns of individuals, local congregations, and the world community together with the weekly resources of the Revised Common Lectionary.This easy-to-use collection presents new calls to confession, assurances of forgiveness, collects, offertory invitations and prayers, commissions and blessings, and more. It also includes a topical hymn index and indexes of themes, key words, and scriptures, designed for use by those who do not follow the lectionary.Echoing the thirst for the beauty and power of God, Bayler's distinctive work will complement the style of laypeople and clergy who give voice to communities of faith.

The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.