Paxson Jeancake

Consistently reading God's word and cultivating spiritual practices in the home during the week can be a challenge. Engaging God's Story: Weekly Devotions for the Christian Year is a helpful resource that provides weekly Scripture readings, a devotion, questions for reflection, and a prayer of response. Engaging God's Story follows the Revised Common Lectionary and the cycles and seasons of the Christian year, providing a steady rhythm for reading and reflecting on God's word. Engaging God's Story can be used in a variety of ways. Worship leaders and pastors can use this resource to prepare for weekly worship planning, a means of engaging the word before crafting their liturgies or writing their sermons. Individuals can use this book for personal devotions, and parents can use it for family devotions during the week. Small group and Bible study leaders can use this resource for weekly Bible study. In all of these uses, Engaging God's Story allows the word of Christ to dwell in readers richly as a consistent means of spiritual growth and formation. Through each weekly devotion, the tapestry of biblical genres will allow all to see the big picture of God's redemption and his covenant faithfulness to his people.

Consistently reading God's word and cultivating spiritual practices in the home during the week can be a challenge. Engaging God's Story: Weekly Devotions for the Christian Year is a helpful resource that provides weekly Scripture readings, a devotion, questions for reflection, and a prayer of response. Engaging God's Story follows the Revised Common Lectionary and the cycles and seasons of the Christian year, providing a steady rhythm for reading and reflecting on God's word. Engaging God's Story can be used in a variety of ways. Worship leaders and pastors can use this resource to prepare for weekly worship planning, a means of engaging the word before crafting their liturgies or writing their sermons. Individuals can use this book for personal devotions, and parents can use it for family devotions during the week. Small group and Bible study leaders can use this resource for weekly Bible study. In all of these uses, Engaging God's Story allows the word of Christ to dwell in readers richly as a consistent means of spiritual growth and formation. Through each weekly devotion, the tapestry of biblical genres will allow all to see the big picture of God's redemption and his covenant faithfulness to his people.

Would you like to have a creative resource that offers form and freedom for worship planning? Do you have a desire to weave more Scripture into your worship services? Would you like to follow the cycles and seasons of the Christian Year? If you can relate to these questions, Lectionary Journey is a great resource for you Following the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), this resource provides integrated, Scripture-based calls to worship, prayers, and affirmations of faith for each Sunday and for special days in the Christian Year, over the three-year lectionary cycle. This resource is of great benefit even if your church does not follow the RCL in its preaching. Lectionary Journey ensures that we are being called into worship, praying, and affirming our faith through the word. It allows Scripture to be woven throughout our corporate worship services, letting its language, narrative, metaphors, themes, teachings, truths, and paradigms form and shape us, week after week. Worship planners will find this resource to be of benefit as an annual guide for stewarding God's story, a weekly guide for planning corporate worship, a regular source of spiritual formation, and an ecumenical resource that fosters community within the body of Christ.

Would you like to have a creative resource that offers form and freedom for worship planning? Do you have a desire to weave more Scripture into your worship services? Would you like to follow the cycles and seasons of the Christian Year? If you can relate to these questions, Lectionary Journey is a great resource for you Following the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), this resource provides integrated, Scripture-based calls to worship, prayers, and affirmations of faith for each Sunday and for special days in the Christian Year, over the three-year lectionary cycle. This resource is of great benefit even if your church does not follow the RCL in its preaching. Lectionary Journey ensures that we are being called into worship, praying, and affirming our faith through the word. It allows Scripture to be woven throughout our corporate worship services, letting its language, narrative, metaphors, themes, teachings, truths, and paradigms form and shape us, week after week. Worship planners will find this resource to be of benefit as an annual guide for stewarding God's story, a weekly guide for planning corporate worship, a regular source of spiritual formation, and an ecumenical resource that fosters community within the body of Christ.

Paxson Jeancake's The Art of Worship invites readers to explore the intersection of gospel, art, and worship. In the midst of corporate worship--through the artistic media of story, imagery, and expression--people's eyes can be opened to the beautiful, paradoxical truth of the gospel. Gospel-centered worship, however, does not happen in a vacuum. It is crafted and facilitated by human leadership, informed by biblical inquiry and theological conclusions, and fleshed out in the context of a local culture and community. This book explores all of these various facets of worship to help worship leaders, worship planners, pastors, and laypeople experience and plan gospel-centered worship that is contextual and creative, for the glory of God and the edification of his people. ""Paxson's attention to the worship leader's task of thinking like a theologian, laboring like an artist, and shepherding like a pastor is worth far more than the price of this book. This is a book that every pastor, musician, and conscientious layperson should read."" --Bart Garrett Lead Pastor, Christ Church of Berkeley, California ""Finally . . . a book on worship which approaches every aspect of our most glorious doxological calling from the perspective of the gospel of God's grace. . . . As my friend and colleague, Paxson gives us rich content without predictable cliche, practical instruction devoid of pragmatic gimmicks, and a passion to glorify God as true worshippers, and not merely satisfy ourselves as selfish consumers. --Scotty Smith Founding Pastor, Christ Community Church, Franklin, Tennessee In The Art of Worship, Paxson Jeancake presents a compelling case for why ""story, imagery and experience, lyrical and poetic expression"" should fill our worship. But more: he offers a handbook of practical wisdom as to how. . . . T]his is an amazingly simple, extraordinarily profound, and utterly useful book. It deserves a privileged place in every worship leader's tool kit. --Reggie M. Kidd Professor of New Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, and author of With One Voice: Discovering Christ's Song in Our Worship Paxson H. Jeancake is a worship leader, author, and songwriter. He is the Director of Worship and Arts at East Cobb Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and the founder of Rhythm of Worship--a ministry that seeks to serve the church and cultivate the creative process by providing musical resources, formative teaching, and practical training. He and his wife, Allison, live in Atlanta with their two daughters, Laura Camille and Mallory.

Paxson Jeancake's The Art of Worship invites readers to explore the intersection of gospel, art, and worship. In the midst of corporate worship--through the artistic media of story, imagery, and expression--people's eyes can be opened to the beautiful, paradoxical truth of the gospel. Gospel-centered worship, however, does not happen in a vacuum. It is crafted and facilitated by human leadership, informed by biblical inquiry and theological conclusions, and fleshed out in the context of a local culture and community. This book explores all of these various facets of worship to help worship leaders, worship planners, pastors, and laypeople experience and plan gospel-centered worship that is contextual and creative, for the glory of God and the edification of his people. ""Paxson's attention to the worship leader's task of thinking like a theologian, laboring like an artist, and shepherding like a pastor is worth far more than the price of this book. This is a book that every pastor, musician, and conscientious layperson should read."" --Bart Garrett Lead Pastor, Christ Church of Berkeley, California ""Finally . . . a book on worship which approaches every aspect of our most glorious doxological calling from the perspective of the gospel of God's grace. . . . As my friend and colleague, Paxson gives us rich content without predictable cliche, practical instruction devoid of pragmatic gimmicks, and a passion to glorify God as true worshippers, and not merely satisfy ourselves as selfish consumers. --Scotty Smith Founding Pastor, Christ Community Church, Franklin, Tennessee In The Art of Worship, Paxson Jeancake presents a compelling case for why ""story, imagery and experience, lyrical and poetic expression"" should fill our worship. But more: he offers a handbook of practical wisdom as to how. . . . T]his is an amazingly simple, extraordinarily profound, and utterly useful book. It deserves a privileged place in every worship leader's tool kit. --Reggie M. Kidd Professor of New Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, and author of With One Voice: Discovering Christ's Song in Our Worship Paxson H. Jeancake is a worship leader, author, and songwriter. He is the Director of Worship and Arts at East Cobb Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and the founder of Rhythm of Worship--a ministry that seeks to serve the church and cultivate the creative process by providing musical resources, formative teaching, and practical training. He and his wife, Allison, live in Atlanta with their two daughters, Laura Camille and Mallory.