Emergent Worship Resources
Emerging/Alternative Worship Resources
General Information on the Emerging Church/Alternative Worship:
alternativeworship.org
http://www.alternativeworship.org/
Be sure to check out the definitions page to gain some valuable insight on what alternative worship is and how it fits into the emerging church. This site also has great links to resources and practical information.
Desperate Preacher
http://www.desperatepreacher.com/index.html
Yearly fee. This is a good site when looking for illustrations and sermon ideas. Also gives ideas for movies illustrations.
Emergent Village
http://www.emergentvillage.com
The Emergent Village is “a growing, generative friendship among missional Christians seeking to love our world in the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” This organization helps to coordinate the emerging church movement especially in the United States. It is full of interesting reading and resources on emerging church.
Emergent Village Podcast—Two different conversations with Phyllis Tickle
http://www.emergentvillage.com/podcast/a-conversation-with-phyllis-tickle
http://www.emergentvillage.com/podcast/phyllis-tickle-interviewed-by-tony-jones
emergingumc
http://emergingumc.blogspot.com/
From the website: A place for United Methodists and others to explore and share their ideas, resources, visions, and dreams of or about mission, ministry and worship in the emerging church...
emergingchurch.info
A website out of the UK “with an interest in the mission and the future of the church.”
Homiletics Online
http://www.homileticsonline.com/
Yearly Fee. This is a great site! It offers lots of stuff for worship. Gives ideas for music, illustrations, worship helps, PowerPoints, and movie clips.
Lumicon Worship Resources
http://www.lumicon.org/index.asp
Some free stuff, but mostly fee based on package and downloads. Great resource for themed based presentations and worship celebrations.
Relevant Magazine
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/
Arguably the leading Christian magazine for twenty-somethings+.
The Text This Week
Searchable Christian art database, as well as resources relating to the lectionary.
Video Resources:
YouTube
God Tube
Compilation of Christian-related video clips.
Sermon Spice
Offers videos for purchase and some for free.
Wing Clips
Free movie clips that have been cut and edited for use in worship services.
Bluefish TV
http://www.bluefishtv.com/Store/Video_Illustrations
Video illustrations that can be used during worship to help illustrate certain points.
Image Resources:
Hermano León Clipart
http://www.cruzblanca.org/hermanoleon/
Imagebank
The imagebank is a not-for-profit initiative started to support the widest possible use of digital images in contemporary worship, talks and events. The images in the bank are developed and designed for use in contemporary and alt. worship, youth events and talks and in the emerging church.
Google Image Search
Quickly searches the internet for images that match the description you provide.
Free Digital Photos
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
Quality site for royalty-free photos.
Royalty Free Photos
Site offers good quality, royalty free photos to use in a variety of ways. Wide selection of topics.
Yahoo Image Search
http://images.search.yahoo.com/
Quickly searches the internet for images that match the description you provide.
stock.xchng
Free stock photos that can be used in worship.
ichurchphoto.com
http://www.ichurchphoto.com/index.php
Christian stock photography community that has a lot of biblical stock photos for backgrounds.
Music:
iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/
itunes is the industry standard for purchasing, storing, and listening to music of any genres.
Pandora
“Live”-style on-line radio that you can customize to your own musical interests, Christian or secular.
Hymn Site
Can listen to the tunes of most of the hymns in the UM hymnal.
Software:
Bible Explorer
http://www.bible-explorer.com/
Not the most extensive research tool, but one of the easiest and quickest to use.
Easy Worship
http://www.easyworship.com/home.php
Easy Worship is not as intricate as Media Shout, but easier to use and easier to train volunteers to run.
Suggested Reading List
Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne
Shaping of Things to Come by Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch
Emerging Churches by Eddie Gibbs & Ryan Bolger
The Sacred Way by Tony Jones
The Emerging Church by Dan Kimball
Emerging Worship by Dan Kimball
They Like Jesus but Not the Church by Dan Kimball
Movie Based Illustrations for Preaching and Teaching by Craig Brian Larson & Andrew Zahn
Lights, Camera…Faith by Peter Malone
Adventures in Missing the Point by Brian McLaren and Tony Campolo
A New Kind of Christian by Brian McLaren
Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren
The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian McLaren
Church Re-Imagined by Doug Pagitt
Preaching Re-Imagined by Doug Pagitt
Church in Emerging Culture by Leonard Sweet
Out of Bounds Church by Steve Taylor
The Divine Hours (trilogy) by Phyllis Tickle
The Complete Library of Christian Worship by Robert E. Webber, Editor
Messy Spirituality by Mike Yaconelli
Stories of Emergence edited by Mike Yaconelli
Emerging Cluster
Brian Cordell is the associate pastor at Forest Chapel, where he leads the contemporary worship service. His strength is using pop culture, contemporary movies, and secular Top 40 music.
Nathan Custer is an associate pastor at Armstrong Chapel UMC. He leads their contemporary worship service in the main sanctuary immediately after their traditional service and is currently helping to design their upcoming 280-seat auditorium for contemporary and youth worship. He’s involved in bridging the relationships between traditionalists and those who favor new styles of worship, and in preaching to people of a postmodern worldview.
Brent Dearnell
Daniel Dawson is the lead pastor of Hope UMC in Franklin, Ohio, where he leads traditional liturgical worship, and blended contemporary worship. He is also in planning stages of beginning a new alternative worship gathering, The Bridge, at the Commercial Building/Sorg Opera House in Middletown, Ohio. His strength is in combining ancient worship traditions with contemporary media and music.
Dan Johnson is the Pastor at West Union United Methodist Church. His strength is his years of corporate leadership experience and his ability to communicate in non-traditional ways.
Benji Sayre is the associate pastor at Groesbeck UMC. He helps lead and design both the traditional and contemporary worship services as well as youth worship. His strengths lie in experiential/alternative worship and using different types of media to enhance the worship experience.
Wes Souders is currently Associate Pastor at St. Mark’s in Fairfield. Prior to becoming a pastor, Wes was a Marketing Director in Cincinnati. He has extensive experience in the area of communications, marketing, teaching, and sales. Within the church, both as a layperson and clergy, Wes has developed many programs for planting and developing the concept of radical hospitality within the local church. He has successfully implemented the use of movies and sensory experiences within both the traditional and “contemporary” worship settings.
Heather Webster is the pastor of Deerfield UMC. She loves to experiment with fresh, new ideas to broaden the horizon of the blended worship experience. Her strengths are in visual video presentations, the use of contemporary Christian and secular music, and bringing tangible, visual elements to the people.
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