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This readers' theatre on Matthew 18:21-35 is for 3 voices.
A showcase featuring some thoughtful resources that can help all who participate in worship through public speaking do so hospitably, succinctly, wisely, and with imagination.
Many worship leaders wear themselves out trying to make worship new, fresh, relevant and, above all, different than it was last year or even last week. Maybe they don’t need to change so much and so often.
Assigning different voices to different phrases can be an effective way to convey meaning in public scripture reading. This is known variously as choral reading, scripted scripture and enacted scripture.
A guide to bi-lingual Worship Resources.
This choral reading on 2 Corinthians 4:1-12 is adapted for 3 voices.
This choral reading on 2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2 is adapted for 4 voices.
This is a tableaux script in 4 images for John 20:1-10.
This choral reading prayer is based on Psalm 87. It is arranged for SAB readers and has 4 solos.
Presentation, dialogue, and discussion on the biblical text by Graves, Hoezee, and Wilson.
On Good Friday, as congregations meditate on the betrayal, suffering, and death of Jesus, some liturgies call the Church to identify with those who judged, persecuted, mocked, and killed our Lord. This is a sobering reality, and appropriate. But, like many stories in the Bible, there are multiple implications within this narrative.
One way to keep sermons fresh is to ditch the deductive form, in which preachers begin with their main point and then work to prove it.
