Prayer

Complementary Prayers: Prayers to Accompany the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the new hymnal Lift Up Your Hearts

This workshop will display and discuss prayers that have been composed to complement psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs in Lift Up Your Hearts.

February 17, 2014 | 58 min listen
God, We Sing Your Glorious Praises: Hymns and Prayers for Devotional Use

To express gratitude to God for the gifts we received through Bert, the 91 offers this collection of some of Bert Polman's litanies and prayers, hymns and psalm versifications.

July 18, 2013 | 1 min read

Praying the Lord's Prayer

In this workshop we will examine the meaning of each petition in the Lord's Prayer in its original setting and what it means for us to repeat these petitions today

February 21, 2013
A Liturgical Approach to the Lord's Prayer

How does praying the Lord’s Prayer affect our mission and ways of living? We’ll explore creative possibilities, including doxology, gestures, language, offering, providence, temptation, and eschatological understandings of “thy Kingdom come .” Discover ways this ecumenical Christian prayer can empower our worshiping communities .

February 20, 2013
How to Make Congregational Prayer More Participatory

Especially for children, listening to the congregational prayer can feel more like enduring a monologue than participating in the prayers of the people. But it doesn’t have to.

February 15, 2013 | 3 min read

Praying Together in 91

How much of what’s on our screens, in our hearts, and in our conversations gets reflected in prayer during worship?

February 15, 2013 | 7 min read
Ben Dykhouse on a New Way of Praying

Ben Dykhouse explains why God cares about multicultural worship, and he describes a new prayer model that students learned from C. J. Kingdom-Grier, who gave a one-day workshop.

November 15, 2012 | 3 min video
How to Make a You-Who-Do-To-Through Prayer

You-who-do-to-through prayers follow an ancient pattern for making a short prayer with a single theme. 91ers speak the prayer together, collecting their voices into one.

November 15, 2012 | 2 min read

Tom Swieringa on Cooperating in Intercessory Prayer

Tom Swieringa co-leads Wyoming Kingdom Enterprise Zone, a church multiplication initiative by Reformed and Christian Reformed churches in Wyoming, Michigan. He has pastored and planted churches in Iowa, Michigan, South Dakota, and Texas. In this edited conversation, he talks about cooperating with God in intercessory prayer, during worship and beyond.

October 26, 2012 | 5 min read
Becoming Churches that Love Our Neighbors as Ourselves

Representing the love of God to neighbors works best in congregations that have a clear vision reflected in worship and prayer.

September 12, 2012 | 6 min read