Calls to Worship: Topical Index

Here’s a list of some of the calls to worship on this blog, listed by title or topic.  (Updated April 2013)

You can also search for calls to worship by scripture reference—see one of these scriptural indexes:

Calls to Worship: Old Testament
Calls to Worship: New Testament 

If you are looking for a call to worship for a specific season or celebration (e.g. Christmas, Mother’s Day, etc.), try the list of “Labels” at the lower right side of the page, or see this list of all the Indexes on this blog.

A call to worship from Psalm 100
A new song

A Night to Remember (Maundy Thursday)
Advent: A great light (Isaiah 9)

Advent: A voice cries out (Isaiah 40)

Advent: Almost Here
Advent: Are we ready?

Advent call to worship (Luke 1)

Advent: Gathering with Joy (Isaiah 12)
Advent: God Comes!
Advent: Good News! (Zephaniah 3)

Advent: He is coming

Advent: Here is your God

Advent: In due time (Hebrews 1)

Advent: In this season of expectation

Advent: Listen! (Isaiah 40)

Advent Litany: Prepare a Way for the Lord
Advent: O come, O come Emmanuel (Psalm 89)

Advent: Prepare a way

Advent: Prepare the way (Isaiah 11)

Advent: The God who speaks comfort (Isaiah 40)

Advent: The people walking in darkness (Isaiah 9)

Advent: We come to worship Christ (Isaiah 61)

Advent: Where crooked roads need straightening

All Are Welcome
All Saints: We come to be Your people

All Saints: We remember, O God (Hebrews 12)

All You Who Are Thirsty (Isaiah 55)
Always there is a choice (1 Kings 18)
Anointed (Isaiah 61, Luke 4)
Alpha and Omega (Revelation 1:4-8)
An invitation to all
Approaching the throne of grace (Hebrews 4)

Are you awake?

Arise, O Lord (Psalm 132)
Ascension calls to worship

Ascribe to our God (Psalm 29)

Ash Wednesday: Blow the trumpet (Joel 2)

Ash Wednesday Call to Worship
Ash Wednesday call to worship

Ash Wednesday: Return to the Lord (Joel 2)

As we gather...
At night…each day (Psalm 30)

Beatitudes call to worship (Luke 6)

Blessed are those who have not seen (Easter 2)

Blessed be the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth (Psalm 124)
Bold and Timid
Call to worship for Communion Sunday
Call to worship litany: Psalm 85

Call to worship litany: Psalm 100 (intergenerational)

Call to worship: Psalm 8

Call to worship: Trinity

Called to be His own

Call to thanksgiving from the psalms

Caring Shepherd (Psalm 23)

Celebrate resurrection!

Christ is risen: Alleluia!

Christ the King Sunday call to worship

Call, all who seek the Lord God

Call to us today

Christmas: Arise, Shine! (Isaiah 9, 60)

Christmas call to worship

Christmas call to worship: We Gather
Christmas call to worship: Come Away
Christmas call to worship: We are here
Christmas: Candle Litany

Christmas: To us a child is born

Christmas: Welcome the light

Christmas Eve: Hush

Christmas Eve: In the quiet of the night

Christmas Eve: O come, O come Emmanuel

Christmas Eve: Time is standing still

Christmas Eve: The impossible is about to happen

Christmas Litany: John 1

Clap your hands! Shout for joy! (Psalm 47)
Come!
Come!

Come, all who thirst—come to the water

Come among us, healing God
Come and celebrate!

Come and eat!

Come and hear what God has done (Psalm 66)

Come and see

Come and worship! (Intergenerational)

Come and worship, all you who love and serve our God

Come, bringing treasure, seeking treasure (Mark 10)
Come, brothers and sisters (Romans 12) Intergenerational

Come, children of God

Come, God is leading us home

Come into this sacred space (Psalm 19)

Come, let us gather (Psalm 78)

Come, let’s praise God together (Psalm 145)

Come, let’s praise God together (Psalm 149)

Come let us praise God together (Psalm 111)

Come, lift up your hearts to the Lord (Psalm 25)

Come, people of God (Psalm 116)

Come sing and dance before the Lord
Come, Spirit
Come, there is room for all!

Come to me (Matthew 11)

Come to the banquet (Matthew 22)

Come to the water

Come to us even now

Creation (Psalm 8, Genesis 1)
Crossing the sea together (Exodus 14)

Daily bread
Day by day

Don’t you know? (Isaiah 40)

Draw us closer

Each day

Easter call to worship

Easter call to worship (Year C)
Easter call to worship: Risen!

Easter: Christ is risen!

Easter: Come to me, all you who sit in darkness

Easter: From the darkness of the grave

Easter: Hold your head high!

Easter: Out of the darkness of grief

Easter people

Easter: U2 Easter call to worship

Easter: We have not seen the risen Christ

Easter: When the tomb looms large

Easter: Where is this Jesus?

Easter: Wonderful

Easter: Worthy is the Lamb who was slain

Emmaus Road
Epiphany call to worship

Epiphany: God is there

Epiphany: Light, light and more light

Epiphany: The light is here

Epiphany: The new dawn will arise

Epiphany: The Kingdom (Matthew 2:1-12)
Epiphany: We gather wondering

Everything is New (Isaiah 65)
Faithful to a thousand generations (Psalm 105)

Father’s Day calls to worship

Father’s Day: scriptural call to worship

Feed us, Jesus
Finding life

First and Last
Follow me (intergenerational)

For God so loved the world (John 3:16)

Fresh with possibility

From near and far, we come together (Jeremiah 31)
Gather us in

Give thanks to God! (Ephesians 5:20)
Give thanks to the Lord (Psalm 105)

Give thanks to the Lord: Isaiah 12

Give the Lord glory and honor (Psalm 96)

Give to the Lord the glory He deserves (Psalm 96)
God always keeps his promises (Psalm 105)

God comes

God comes to us

God has gathered us

God is gathering the people (Jeremiah 31)
God is in our midst (Luke 4)
God is already here (Hebrews 10)
God is present now

God is with us now

God looks from heaven (Psalm 14, Ephesians 3)
God loved the world (John 3:16)

God meets us
God of laughter (Holy Humour Sunday)

God rules the earth with justice (Psalm 97)
God says welcome!

God the Lord has spoken (Psalm 50)

God: the Lord of all life

God’s faithful love endures

God's Steadfast Love Reaches Out (Psalm 36)
God's Story, Our Story (Revelation 21)
Good Friday call to worship

Good Friday: Opening litany

Grace and peace to you (Revelation 1)
Grace to you, and peace (Revelation 1)
Graduation Call to Worship
Great is our God and abundant in power (Psalm 147)

Greatest Commandment (Mark 12)
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord (Psalm 148)
Hallelujah! We will praise the Lord (Psalm 146)
Happy are those whose help is God (Psalm 146)
Happy are those... (Psalm 146)
Happy are those whose hope is in the Lord (Psalm 146)
Have you not seen? (Isaiah 40)

He is the One we have come to worship (Hebrews 1:1-3)
Healing God, we come together
Hear us (Psalm 80) Intergenerational

Here in this place

Here in this place…in this time…in these moments

Here, our Beloved speaks to us (Song of Solomon 2)
Here today is love

Here we are, ready or not

Holy are You, O God of grace (Psalm 67)
Holy Humor call to worship

Holy Humor call to worship
Holy Humour: Praise in the most unlikely places

How beautiful are the places where you dwell
How does God speak? (Psalm 19)

How good it is to sing praises (Psalm 147)

How good it is to sing praise (Psalm 147)

How good it is (Psalm 147)

Hunger and Thirst
I am the Bread of Life
I lift my eyes up
In a world ravaged by war (Psalm 22)
In the beauty of this moment
In the midst of a world where people hunger and thirst…

In the midst of life’s storms

Invitation

Jesus invites us to come

Jesus is Lord!

Jesus is the Living Bread
Joy comes to those who hope in God (Psalm 146)
Labor Day Call to Worship
Laughter Sunday Call to Worship, Prayer
Lent: Invited to journey

Lent: Litany for the beginning of Lent

Lent 1: Call to Worship

Let the heavens be glad (Psalm 96)
Let the people praise you, O God
Let us lift up the name of the Lord (Psalm 30)

Let us wrestle (Genesis 32)

Let’s praise God together (Psalm 65)

Lent: We rejoice

Let us boldly draw near (Hebrews 4)
Let us hold firmly to the faith we confess (Hebrews 4)
Lift up your voice (Psalm 130)

Lift your eyes to God (Psalm 123)
Listen! Can you hear it?

Listen! Wisdom is Calling (Proverbs 8)
Litany: Come and Listen
Litany of praise (Psalm 111)

Litany: The light is coming

Living Stones

Lord my God, how great you are (Psalm 104)
Maundy Thursday: Are you prepared?

Maundy Thursday call to worship

Maundy Thursday: Come and remember

May God be gracious to us (Psalm 67)
May our praise go on forever

May we be bound with love

May we find here

Memorial Day Call to Worship
Memorial Day Call to Worship
Memorial Day Call to Worship
Mother’s Day: And Jesus said, “Come”

Mother’s Day call to worship

Never put your trust in princes or politicians (Psalm 146)
New Year: For everything there is a season

New Year: God’s Promises

No God like You (1 Kings 8)
No longer outsiders
No one is an island

No other God like you

O let us give thanks to the Lord (Psalm 107)

Our God

Our God invites us
Our God Reigns (Psalm 93)
Our help is in the name of the Lord our God

Our souls magnify the Lord (Luke 1)

Out of the depths (Psalm 130 and John 6)
Palm Sunday (intergenerational)

Palm Sunday call to worship

Palm Sunday: Cleansing the temple

Palm Sunday: Contemporary call to worship

Palm Sunday: Jesus entered into Jerusalem

Palm Sunday: Let us enter the city with God today

Palm Sunday: Our Lord is on a journey

Pentecost Call to Worship

Pentecost: Call to worship litany

Pentecost: Come, Holy Spirit

Pentecost: Send down your Spirit

Pentecost: The Spirit is here among us

Pentecost: Touched by holy fire

Pentecost: When the day of Pentecost had come…

People of God, open your eyes!

People of God, look around!

People of the Light (Romans 6)

Praise be to God!

Praise God! Psalm 148
Praise God from the Heavens
Praise the Lord! (Psalm 111)

Praise the Lord! (Psalm 148)
Praise the Lord! (Psalm 148)
Praise the name of the Lord 
Psalm of Celebration
Psalm 23 Litany
Psalm 32 Litany
Psalm 84 Litany
Psalm 100 (The Message)
Psalm 118: Blessed is the One Who Comes
Psalm 118
Psalm 146 Intergenerational Litany
Psalm 146 Opening Litany
Psalm 148: Circle of Praise
Psalm 150
Psalm 150 Contemporary Call to Worship
Psalm 150: Praise Our Wonderful God
Psalm 150
Psalm 150
Psalm of Praise: Psalm 148
Put aside the distractions (Joshua 24)

Raised from the dead

Reformation Day call to worship

Reformation Day: opening litany

Remembrance Day Call to Worship
Remembrance Day: Call to Worship
Responsive Call to Worship: Psalm 148
Seekers and Followers
Seeking God’s presence

Seeking justice

Send your Spirit upon us (Mark 1)

September 11 call to worship

Shout with joy to God, all the earth (Psalm 100)

Sign of the covenant

Sing a new song to the Lord (Psalm 96)
Sing for Joy (Zephaniah 3)
Sing praise to God! (Psalm 30)

Sing praises to the Lord! (Psalm 30)
So we come

Surely God is our salvation (Isaiah 12)

Surely God is our salvation - Litany
Surely the Lord is in this place (Genesis 28)

Telling time differently (Psalm 90) Intergenerational

Thanksgiving call to worship

Thank You!
The blessings of God (Psalm 107)

The days are surely coming (Jeremiah 31)

The earth is the Lord's (Psalm 24)
The first shall be last (Mark 9)
The foolish say... (Psalm 14)
The gifts of God

The God of All
The God of our fathers and mothers

The God who comes when we least expect it (Matthew 14)

The God who has called us together

The greatest commandment (Matthew 22)

The heavens are telling (Psalm 19)

The heavens are telling the glory of God (Psalm 19)

The kingdom of God is here and coming (Matthew 13)

The law of the Lord is perfect (Psalm 19)

The Lord is King! (Psalm 99)

The Lord is King! (Psalm 97)
The Lord Reigns!
The love of Jesus Christ

The Spirit of God bids us "Come" (Revelation 22)
The vine emerges

The Voice calling (Jonah 3)

There is a time

There is no one like our God (Isaiah 44)

There is no God like our God
There is no one like our God
There the stone has been rolled away

This day, in this place (Joshua 24)

This is God’s house (Genesis 28) Intergenerational

This place, for us, is holy ground (Exodus 3)

Thirsty? (Isaiah 55)

Thirsting for God
Though storm clouds threaten

To God be praise and glory!

To God, who knows and loves us all (Romans 8)

To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul (Psalm 25)

Transfiguration: Entry into worship

Transfiguration: Opening litany

Transfiguration: We do not know what to say (Mark 9)

Trinitarian call to worship
Trinitarian call to worship

Turning a cheek
Unless our worship is genuine
Victory belongs to our God (Revelation 7)
Wait for the Lord
We are Jesus' disciples (Maundy Thursday)
We are the people of God

We bring our lives (Pentecost)
We come
We come
We come

We come because…

We come, for God gathers us here (Matthew 25:31-46)

We come in reverent awe (Psalm 96)
We come to give thanks (Psalm 126)
We come to worship and praise our God (Psalm 78)

We come to worship You (Psalm 72)

We come together to celebrate Jesus Christ (Philippians 2)

We enter this place with thanksgiving (Psalm 100)

We follow Christ (Mark 8)

We gather as God’s people

We gather here in anticipation

We gather in Your name (Psalm 139)

We gather to celebrate (Psalm 100)

We gather to praise and worship (Psalm 30)

We gather to worship

We gather to worship and praise (Psalm 90)

We gather to worship the God of our ancestors (Psalm 22)
We gather together…

We gather together in praise and worship (Psalm 124)
We gather together in the name of our God

We gather together to remember (Psalm 78)

We have come
We have seen the light of God (Transfiguration)

We wait for you

We wait quietly before God (Psalm 62)

We who wait for the Lord (Isaiah 40)

We will worship You among the people (Psalm 22)

Welcoming a New Year

Welcome to this place
What are your dreams? (Psalm 126)

What do you bring to worship?

What can we give back to God? (Psalm 116)

What extravagant love is this? (Romans 8)

What mighty praise belongs to you

When God speaks (Psalm 19)

When we wait (Advent, Christmas)
Who may worship in Your sanctuary (Psalm 15)
Who will hear?
Whom then shall we invite? (Matthew 22)

With what shall we come before the Lord? (Micah 6)
World Communion Sunday
Worthy is the Lamb (Revelation 5)
Worthy is the Lamb! (Revelation 5)
You alone (Psalm 146)
You are our security, O Lord (Psalm 16)
Worthy of praise (5^th century litany)

Your church gathers
Your coming is not in vain!
Your steadfast love (Psalm 36)
You have changed our sadness into joy (Psalm 30)

You have turned our mourning into dancing