Let All Creation Praise  Care for creation worship throughout the year Season of Creation resources Celebrating the Trinitarian God as creator Download freely and adapt for your worshiping context. Share your sermons, prayers, liturgies, litanies, ideas, and pictures. Send resources or comments to Nick Utphall: nick@ststlc.net or post them on our  Facebook page, a great forum to share your ideason incorporating creation-care into the worship life of your congregation and to learn from others visit. (You can access the page even without a Facebook account.) NEW EACH WEEK Weekly Care for Creation Commentary on the Lectionary The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany in Year B (by Dennis Ormseth, 2015). "For those who are in Christ, creation is new!" The Third Sunday after Epiphany in Year B (by Dennis Ormseth, 2015). "This Changes Everything": No Longer Business as Usual. Seasonal Planning Among your preparations in these days, for the spring months from February into May, we have ideas and reminders for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter, as well as Earth Day Sunday, Mother (Earth) Day, planting days, and more.  John Bell Ecology and Liturgy workshop For those with access to the Chicago area, we are excited to announce a Worship Alive! workshop featuring John Bell, of the Iona Community. The event, called "God, Land & Love," will help you to see an expanded view of the church's work in liturgy, with doxology as one of the prime purposes of ecology. Sunday, March 8 at First United Church of Oak Park. Click here for a pdf flyer with more info. Visit our preaching page for a video from Luther Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota) chapel service, where David Rhoads gets to the heart of our identity as earth-people and our sacramental theology. Celebrate any season of the year with this 30-Day devotional booklet: Stewardship of Creation: A Thirty Day Discipline. Download and copy this daily devotional booklet. Each day has a scripture verse, theological reflection, fact about the environment, action we can take to address it, and a prayer. Make this available to each member of your congregation as a discipline during any season of the year. Would you like background on "why" this emphasis in worship? Read A Theology of Liturgy in a New Key: Worshiping with Creation by Norman Habel, David Rhoads, and Paul Santmire, from The Season of Creation: A Preaching Commentary (Fortress Press, 2011) NEW PAGE A blessing of bicycles, from Vermont Lutheran Church in WI NEW See this treasure trove of wonderful hymns celebrating creation by Carolyn Winfrey Gilette, co-Pastor of Limestone Presbyterian Church in Wilmington Delaware. Visit http://www.carolynshymns.com/lect_earthcare.html Book Recommendations See our Annotated list of books related to ecology and worship Four Stages to Comprehensive Care for Creation in All Worship. Follow these comprehensive suggestions to make every worship service a opportunity to worship with creation and on behalf of creation.
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