Common Worship Times and Seasons has greatly enriched the language of our seasonal celebrations and in this complementary volume, Richard Giles offers simple yet powerful ideas for bringing that language to life, drawing on ancient customs that originate in the earliest Christian centuries and on co... (more)

In the common practice of Christian churches, across many traditions, a call to worship is typically a few lines of Scripture (or a combination of Scripture texts) expressed at the beginning of a church service. The call to worship exhorts God’s people to turn from worldly distractions and to focus ... (more)