Worship Foundry
Worship Foundry

Author: Jamie Harvill

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 149080997X

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Great musicians and worship leaders are in high demand in the church today, but to be effective, they must first have the necessary tools, including theological, musical, and technical training. Worship Foundry is a self-contained mentorship program in book form, to help train and equip worshipers and leaders alike. Its pages encompass just about everything a successful, modern worship leader must have in their toolbox, including help with: Becoming a strong, servant-leader with a solid connection to the heart of God Operating out of an effective mission and vision for ministry Choosing great teams; attracting and keeping worship ministry volunteers Developing effective, God-focused worship services that engage the congregation, leading to a one-on-one God-encounter Choosing effective worship songs; working with and arranging for the band, vocals and choir; creating flow in the worship set Leading an effective rehearsal; raising up future leaders through mentoring, and much more! A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Worship Foundry is not a factory, but rather a course through which worship leaders, ministers, and musicians of all ages can be shaped, formed by the hand of God, purified with fire, and made into vessels for the Holy Spirit to use in a world that sorely needs Jesus.

Created to Worship
Created to Worship

Author: Brent Petersen

Publisher: Beacon Hill Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780834127920

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As a pastor or worship leader, how do you plan a theologically grounded, relevant worship service? Created to Worship is a guide to help your church grow in a theology of worship

Worship Sound Spaces
Worship Sound Spaces

Author: Christine Guillebaud

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-18

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1000731502

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Worship Sound Spaces unites specialists from architecture, acoustic engineering and the social sciences to encourage closer analysis of the sound environments within places of worship. Gathering a wide range of case studies set in Europe, Asia, North America, the Middle East and Africa, the book presents investigations into Muslim, Christian and Hindu spaces. These diverse cultural contexts demonstrate the composite nature of designing and experiencing places of worship. Beginning with a historical overview of the three primary indicators in acoustic design of religious buildings, reverberation, intelligibility and clarity, the second part of this edited collection offers a series of field studies devoted to perception, before moving onto recent examples of restoration of the sound ambiances of former religious buildings. Written for academics and students interested in architecture, cultural heritage, acoustics, sensory studies and sound. The multimedia documents of this volume may be consulted at the address: https://frama.link/WSS

Do All the Good You Can
Do All the Good You Can

Author: Gary Scott Smith

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2023-10-10

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0252054830

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Methodism in the public and private lives of the politician After more than forty contentious years in the public eye, Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the best-known political figures in the nation. Yet many of her admirers would be surprised to hear Clinton state that her Methodist outlook has “been a huge part of who I am and how I have seen the world, and what I believe in, and what I have tried to do in my life.” Gary Scott Smith examines the role of Clinton’s faith in her life and work. Clinton’s lifelong Methodism shaped a missionary zeal that, combined with her impressive personal talents, fueled many of her high-profile political endeavors while helping her cope with the prominent travails brought on by never-ending conservative rancor and her husband’s infidelity. Smith places Clinton’s faith within the context of projects ranging from healthcare reform to a “Hillary doctrine” of foreign policy focused on her longtime goal of providing basic human rights for children and women. The result is an enlightening reconsideration of an extraordinary political figure who has defied private doubts and public controversy to live the Methodist dictum that one must “do all the good you can.”

Flipping Church
Flipping Church

Author: Michael Baughman

Publisher: Upper Room Books

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0881778559

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An innovative anthology written by successful church planters who have consistently and successfully challenged prevailing assumptions about healthy church development and "best practices." This informative book gives insight into how they broke the mold of church planting. Includes chapters written by Michael Baughman, Olu Brown, Doug Cunningham, Kenda Creasy Dean, Mark DeVries, Amanda Garber, Trey Hall, Diane Harrison, Elaine Heath, Jerry Herships, Derek Jacobs, Matt Miofsky, David Rangel, and Owen Ross.

An Unexpected Journey
An Unexpected Journey

Author: J. Philip Wogaman

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780664225858

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J. Philip Wogaman offers candid reflections on his service as Senior Minister at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., an unexpected journey that he began at the age of sixty following a full career as an ethics professor. Wogaman chronicles the tasks he faced as a new pastor, tasks with which every pastor deals--effective and faithful preaching, balancing pastoral and prophetic roles, presenting the church to the pubic media, dealing with prominent church members, and addressing stewardship. He also discusses the challenges of succeeding a long-loved pastor who departed under a cloud, the responsibilities of pastoring to a president, and his efforts to balance the roles of a pastor against such a dramatic backdrop. Identifying his own successes and mistakes, Wogaman provides fresh insights on parish ministry that are sure to become guideposts for all pastors.

The History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century, called Methodism
The History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century, called Methodism

Author: Abel Stevens

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-06-20

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 338233609X

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

America's Church
America's Church

Author: Thomas A. Tweed

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0199783012

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The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" and dismissed as a "towering Byzantine beach ball." In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is also an illuminating site from which to tell the story of twentieth-century Catholicism. He organizes his narrative around six themes that characterize U.S. Catholicism, and he ties these themes to the Shrine's material culture--to images, artifacts, or devotional spaces. Thus he begins with the Basilica's foundation stone, weaving it into a discussion of "brick and mortar" Catholicism, the drive to build institutions. To highlight the Church's inclination to appeal to women, he looks at fund-raising for the Mary Memorial Altar, and he focuses on the Filipino oratory to Our Lady of Antipolo to illustrate the Church's outreach to immigrants. Throughout, he employs painstaking detective work to shine a light on the many facets of American Catholicism reflected in the shrine.