Worship Leadership

Prayers after Communion gathered from historical Reformed and Presbyterian sources, compiled by Michael D. Bush for the Institute for Reformed Worship at Erskine Theological Seminary.

Opening of Worship gathered from historical Reformed and Presbyterian sources, compiled by Michael D. Bush for the Institute for Reformed Worship at Erskine Theological Seminary.

This is an adaptation of the Order for Morning Prayer from the 1552 Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. This prayer book represented the English Church's nearest approach to the Reformed tradition.

A worship course examining the worship of the early church through the Didache, Justin Martyr, the Odes of Solomon, and the prayers of the fourth-century church, with special attention to the sermons of John Chrysostom and Augustine and the hymns of Ambrose and Ephrem.

A course on the history of expository preaching, from Origen, Chrysostom, and Augustine through Zwingli, Calvin, and the Puritan masters to Spurgeon, Lloyd-Jones, and other modern expositors, aimed at strengthening the craft of preaching.

A course on the Psalms in Christian prayer and worship, tracing their use from the worship of Israel and the New Testament church through the ancient and medieval church to the revival of psalmody in the Reformation and the Protestant psalters that followed.

A course on baptism in Reformed faith and worship: its biblical roots, its evolution in late antiquity, the medieval abuses, and the sixteenth-century reform of the rite, with a view to making the sacrament more meaningful in the congregation today.

A course on worship in the age of pietism, romanticism, and the evangelical revival: its evangelistic preaching, mystical prayer, lyrical hymnody, and rigorous eucharistic discipline, and the questions it raises for the contemporary recasting of worship.

The classic 1907 work on preaching by P. T. Forsyth, a bracing call to the positive proclamation of the gospel of the cross. This file is a 140-page reprint; the complete text is available in the PDF.

Prayers of Invocation gathered from historical Reformed and Presbyterian sources, compiled by Michael D. Bush for the Institute for Reformed Worship at Erskine Theological Seminary.

Confessions of Sin gathered from historical Reformed and Presbyterian sources, compiled by Michael D. Bush for the Institute for Reformed Worship at Erskine Theological Seminary.

Prayers for Illumination gathered from historical Reformed and Presbyterian sources, compiled by Michael D. Bush for the Institute for Reformed Worship at Erskine Theological Seminary.

Prayers of Dedication gathered from historical Reformed and Presbyterian sources, compiled by Michael D. Bush for the Institute for Reformed Worship at Erskine Theological Seminary.

Real eucharistic prayers fell out of fashion in Reformed worship soon after the Reformation. Calvin used them, and this one adapted from Knox is dependent at several points on Calvin's. Old's Leading in Prayer has a number of excellent eucharistic prayers of Dr. Old's own composition . I recommend those prayers, that book, and everything Old writes.