Liturgy Lessons

Lent is a time of penitence, but like too much in our spiritual lives, we often try to do it...

I have a friend who claims that churches which sing only quickly learned, easily understood songs display a lazy, self-centered...

On this first day of the liturgical New Year, and throughout Advent, we’ll be singing a Magnificat instead of the...

Churches mark time with hymnals, their collective memory shaped by each new season of song. This summer a new era...

Attentive worshipers will have noticed that we have been using a variety of musical settings of the Lord’s Prayer throughout...

We modern Christians have mixed feelings about singing “blood” songs. We understand Christ’s blood to be a necessary part of...

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

This page includes anything a COS worship leader could ever want: links to song lists and liturgies, a list of...

There are two kinds of people in church: those who say “I’m not dipping my bread into this cup after...

When Ron Rienstra first showed me Marty Haugen’s song “Beneath the Tree of Life” I knew we had to sing...

A number of years ago it was in vogue for Christians to sport bumper stickers on their cars that said,...

Astute observers of Church of the Servant’s printed liturgy will notice four large-type words in each week’s liturgy: Gathering, Word,...