Are you looking for ideas to make this Lent’s worship services memorable for your congregation? Patrick Bourckel shares ways to implement different types of fasting.
Is it really beneficial to sing the Psalms? Patrick Bourckel shares an interview with Wendell Kimbrough.
What can Pokemon Go teach us about worship? Patrick Bourckel shares how the game can open your eyes to unseen realities.
Worship teams can be so much more than a group of musicians who practice their music together. Patrick Bourckel shares how you can help your worship team also be a band of Christians who follow after God together.
So, you’ve been convinced that singing the Psalms would be a good thing for your congregation. Now, how in the world do you actually do it? Patrick Bourckel shares five practical ways to sing the Psalms.
Why does it matter whether we sing the Psalms or just say them? Patrick Bourckel is here to teach us why it matters.
As worship leaders, we have a unique burden and opportunity in our churches. The same task is before us: to re-present God and the Good News in a way that our people can understand and respond to.
One of the common refrains among those who don’t practice a traditional worship liturgy is the idea that repeating things in worship is bad. Patrick Bourckel looks at the ways in which we often discount repetitive liturgies, and offer some gentle pushback on those concepts.
Coming to Sunday worship means entering a different “time zone” – one marked by the ancient rhythms of the church calendar. So, what are the rules, the guiding forces behind the strange world that is liturgical time? Patrick Bourckel offers a few points about the nature of entering into the Church’s calendar.
There are many ways we can speak the language of prayer in our gathered worship. I believe that all of these methods of prayer in worship have value, but I’d like to highlight a specific form of prayer – the collect – as a model and method for how we can pray together.
Why should we leave our Bibles at home and turn off our apps on Sunday morning? What possible reason could there be to discourage people from reading their own Bibles?
