Traditional Worship and Music

Worship Planning Resources

GBOD – General Board of Discipleship (United Methodist Church)
Click to visit www.gbod.org

Lectionary readings for the given Sunday and numerous suggestions for music selections

United Methodist Church
Click to visit www.umcdiscipleship.org

Discipleship Ministries provides worship leaders with quality United Methodist music, liturgy, and preaching resources for faithful and vital local church worship. We are committed to working with worship and music leaders throughout the church.

Emory: Candler School of Theology
Click to visit candler.emory.edu

Candler's Office of Worship provides students, instructors, clergy and lay leadership with helpful tools and creative ideas for planning and leading worship services.

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
Click to visit www.lcms.org

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod provides numerous resources to enrich our life together in worship. Pastors, musicians, and all involved in the planning and leading of services will find here assistance for nurturing a culture of confessional faithfulness, artistic excellence, and integrity in the presentation, distribution, and reception of the Blessed Trinity's life-giving gifts in Word and Sacraments.

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Click to visit elca.org

Many resources provided by the denomination.

United Church of Christ
Click to visit www.ucc.org

This Worship Page is your center for locating resources created by UCC pastors, scholars and musicians to enrich worship in your congregation. Sermon Seeds are located here, thoughtful reflection on the weekly texts to help prepare sermons and homilies. Worship Ways, in English and Spanish, are lectionary-based services for Sundays, festivals and special ecumenical or UCC observances. Hymn and song suggestions for each week from The New Century Hymnal and Sing! Prayer and Praise will help you draw inspiration from traditional and contemporary musical sources.

Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Click to visit worship.calvin.edu

We offer a wide range of practical resources and scholarly works for congregational leaders, pastors, teachers of worships, students, artists, and all interested in worship. These resources serve as tools for preparing, planning for, and leading worship as well as for studying the history, theology, and practice of worship worldwide. The website provides free resources primarily in the form of articles, audio files, slideshow and video presentations, plus links to purchase Worship Institute books, cds, and hymnals: we have co-sponsored over 90 titles with five major publishers.

The Presbyterian Church (USA)
Click to visit www.pcusa.org

This site offers a variety of resources for worship planning and education.

Choral Music Resources

Concordia Publishing House (CPH)

Click to visit www.cph.org

Moravian Music Foundation

Click to visit moravianmusic.org

Northwestern Publishing House

Click to visit online.nph.net

Shawnee Press – (Mark Foster)

Click to visit www.shawneepress.com

ChoralNet – American Choral Directors Association

Click to visit www.choralnet.org

GIA – Music by Date Planner
Click to visit www.giamusic.com

Salpidzo Press – Music publisher for Trinity Lutheran Church, Denver, CO
Click to visit www.salpidzo.com

Organ Music Resources

Music by Hymn – Organ Music by Hymn tune

Click to download, view and print the pdf

Music by Title – Organ Music by Title

Click to download, view and print the pdf

Instrumental Resources

Liturgical Resources

Music Licenses

CCLI – Christian Copyright Licensing International
  Click to visit www.ccli.com
  Church Copyright License - License covers over 300,000 worship songs for congregational singing.
  Rehearse - Legally copy and share commercial recordings for rehearsal purposes.
  Church Video License - Show movies for sermons, Sunday School, classes, and special events.
  SongSelect – Lyrics, samples and transposable lead sheets, chord sheets, and vocal sheets.
  Stream – Stream or podcast your live-recorded worship music.
  Screenvue – Movie clips for teaching and illustrative purposes for your ministry or event.

One-License.net – Copyright reprints for congregational songs
  Click to visit www.onelicense.net
  Copyright permission to reprint, podcast, and record hymns and songs for your congregation.
  Search and download high resolution PDF and TIFF reprint boxes to use in your worship aid.

Moravian Worship and Resources

A Partial Listing of Moravian Ministries and their Links

Moravian Music Foundation - A must check out first stop for all things relating to Moravian Music (Unitas Fratrum, Unity of the Brethren) "The Moravian Music Foundation preserves, celebrates, and cultivates the musical life of the Moravians".
Click to visit moravianmusic.org

book

The Music of the Moravian Church in America - Edited by Nola Reed Knouse, 2010
Click to visit moravianmusic.org

WORLDWIDE MORAVIAN CHURCH

World Council of Churches

Tanzania
Click to visit www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/moravian-church-in-tanzania

South Africa
Click to visit www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/moravian-church-in-south-africa

Nicaragua
Click to visit www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/moravian-church-in-nicaragua

Jamaica
Click to visit www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/moravian-church-in-jamaica

Eastern West Indies Province
Click to visit www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/moravian-church-eastern-west-indies-province

Western Europe
Click to visit www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/moravian-church-in-western-europe

Suriname
Click to visit www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/moravian-church-in-suriname

America
Click to visit www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/moravian-church-in-america

World Council of Churches Resources
Click to visit www.oikoumene.org/en/resources

Moravian Church in North America
Click to visit www.moravian.org/2011-09-21-20-21-26/2011-09-26-15-29-34/about-the-moravian-church

Links to the Worldwide Moravian Church
Click to visit www.moravian.org/the-moravian-church/where-to-find-moravians/unity-links
Click to visit www.unitasfratrum.org

The Moravian Church – British Province
Click to visit www.moravian.org.uk

Unitas Fratrum – The Moravian Unity of the Worldwide Moravian Church
Click to visit www.unitasfratrum.org/index.php/unity-provinces
Directory of Unity Provinces

Moravian Church in Canada
Click to visit www.moravian.ca

Alaska Province Moravian Church
Click to visit alaskaprovincemoravianchurch.org

Board of World Mission of the Moravian Church North America
Click to visit moravianmission.org/worldwide-unity

Moravian Brass Band Union of South Africa
Click to visit www.moravianbrass.co.za

Moravian Worship Traditions

Lovefeasts in the Moravian Church Tradition:
Click to visit www.moravian.org/faith-a-congregations/moravian-traditions-a-customs/moravian-lovefeast

Lovefeasts in the Methodist Tradition
Click to visit http://wesleyanleadership.com/2013/05/17/a-love-feast-for-covenant-discipleship-groups

The Love Feast Blog
Click to visit thelovefeast.wordpress.com

Recovering the Love Feast: Broadening our Eucharistic Celebrations (Wipf and Stock). This book is an expansion of my Master’s thesis, which I completed for graduation requirements at Eastern Mennonite Seminary in 2009. The book is also available at Amazon.com, where you can browse through the contents.
My vision for this blog is to provide a place for Christians from a variety of traditions to share their experiences of celebrating the Love Feast.

What is an Agape Meal? – The United Methodist Church
Click to visit archives.umc.org

Moravian Motto - Vicit Agnus Eum Sequamur
(Our lamb has conquered, let us follow him)

The Moravians have also adopted and lay much emphasis upon the ancient motto:
In Essentials Unity; In non–Essentials Liberty; In all things Charity.