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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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Basic English Liturgy

Plans are underway to begin a “Basic English Service” each week at COS that would serve those who are involved...

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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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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...

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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,...

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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,...

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