Resources by Sam Hamstra, Jr.

The Use of Testimony as a Thick Worship Practice
Discipleship Testimony Worship Planning
August 16, 2018

When we gather each week, we participate through thick and thin practices. We benefit from both and both play important parts in the liturgy. But given a choice between the two, choose thick.

As Christ-followers, we worship the Lord through thick and thin. We worship the Lord in good times and bad, with plenty and with little, after victory and after defeat, during storms and while basking in the sun.

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Time-Regulated Worship
Festivals Leviticus (book) Ordinary Time Time
June 28, 2018

While few of us spend much time in the Old Testament book of Leviticus, when we do we discover an exciting truth: our God loves to party. In fact, he prescribed three seasonal festivals of worship and remembrance for his people.

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Gathered Before God: Worship-Centered Church Renewal
Congregation Liturgy Renewal
September 5, 2005
Jane Rogers Vann. Westminster/John Knox Press, 2004. 192 pp. $19.95.

Here is yet another book on worship, but one that stays clear of the “contemporary versus traditional” debate. In Gathered Before God, Jane Rogers Vann encourages church renewal, not through programs but through worship. She then offers an educator’s perspective on how liturgy might accomplish that goal.

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