This is one of the songs we’ve been playing a lot at home this month.
This week’s Home Brewed Worship provides you all a number of ways to enter into prayer and to explore the story from Acts. If you’re at home with family, a partner, a friend or a spouse please consider working through some of this with them. If you’re alone, consider phoning someone else and inviting them to join you in worship.
A special thanks to Margaret and Pauline for the liturgy and prayers throughout the material in the order of service for people at home.
Carve out some space sacred space in your home, perhaps you have candle, some colourful material, a cross, a bible, some pictures of the world, artwork or images of Jesus…
You don’t need to use all of this material, nor do you need to do it all in one sitting, perhaps some of these prayers and music can travel with you throughout the week. Use the material as part of daily exercises, music to carry you through the week, reflections to ponder as you walk or stay at home.
For some your focus may be to hear the gospel preached, others the gospel sung, while others may want to find a practice that they can enter into over the course of the week to make space for the Holy Spirit to work on us.
Order of Service
Here’s an order of service curated by Margaret Reeson for people worshipping at home
Home Brewed Family
Here are some resources for families to explore the story and faith together at home.
Prayers
A Blessing & Sending for Pentecost
Prayers of Intercession by Ron Reeson
Readings for Pentecost 2020
Acts 2:1-21
Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
1 Corinthians 12:3b-13
John 20:19-23
Singing The Scripture
Here is a playlist of music that explores the scripture from this week, there are a lot of Holy Spirit songs.
What are your favourite Spirit songs? Can you send them in and we’ll add them to our playlist.
Visual Reflections on Pentecost
This week there are two reflections, one on the birth of the church and our annual prayer for renewal and revival, the other invites you to imagine God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit artistically.
If you go the artistic route I invite you to consider sending in your creations, if you sculpt, collage, paint, sketch, etch, mould, write poetry or build please show us your creations.
If you go the route of reflecting on renewal and revival then perhaps you may like to email in your own prayer for revival, let us know what you’re praying for this week.
Illustrated Ministry – Pentecost Poster
Wanting to bring some colour into your homes?
The Holy Spirit – A Godly Play Story
Godly Play is a multi sensory storytelling practice inviting the hearer to enter into the story and wonder. This story invites us to reflect on the Holy Spirit.
Spiritual Practices:
Breath Lines
Breath Prayers
Go Deeper
Statins Of The Spirit
I’ve admired the work of Sue Wallace for a long time now, she has been a creative community leader in the church in the UK working on multimedia and multi sensory worship.
This week Sue has curated a series of stations reflecting on the Holy Spirit. You can access each of the stations this week on youtube on the Stations Of The Spirit channel. Perhaps you might find the time to interact with each station every day of the week.
Bar Theology:
The Bar Theology series is a great way to dip your toes into some deep theological conversations. Over a couple of drinks Dr. Walter Brueggemann, Bishop Thomas Breidenthal & the Reverend Jane Gerdsen engage in a Q&A theological conversation. This short piece includes a conversation on the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit – The Bible Project
The Bible Project created a number of resources exploring the Holy Spirit including other videos, podcasts and study notes.
Podcasts:
The Bible For Normal People Podcast recently released an episode focused on The Holy Spirit.