This document discusses the author's journey of incorporating ancient liturgical practices like fixed hour prayers, spiritual direction, and following the lectionary into their personal faith in hopes of finding deeper connection with Christ. It describes challenges of creating accessible yet meaningful liturgies for college students. The author advocates blending reformed traditions with liturgical elements and actions in corporate worship to add richness while developing on historic confessions and orders of services. Resources on alternative worship and curating liturgies are recommended.

1. Going Liturgical
The story of losing myself in ancient practices in hopes of finding myself in Christ.
May 25, 2011 - NPS Presbytery

2. My story

4. Going Liturgical - My Story
✤ Holidays and Advent
✤ Fixed Hour Prayers
✤ Spiritual Direction
✤ Reading the Lectionary

5. In corporate practice

6. Developing a Liturgy
✤ Challenge: creating a liturgy for college students
✤ Fun
✤ Experience-based
✤ Deep, but accessible

7. Going Liturgical - In practice
✤ Reformed and Liturgical
✤ Actions in corporate worship
✤ Adding richness to orders of service
✤ Developing upon our traditions - Books of Confessions & Order
✤ New forms out of historic traditions

8. Movement
Prayers for the year ahead
Pure Religion Starts With...

9. Movement
Redeemed - seeing God’s redemption in ourselves
Whole Body: Body Image Evening

10. Movement
Behold, I make all things NEW
Revelation 21:5-6

11. Movement
Becoming Fully Alive
Colossians, Quarter Overview

13. Movement
Swagger. Father. Invisible. Reconciled.
Colossians 1:9-23

14. Movement
Defining God vs. Defined by God
Colossians 2:1-17

17. Movement
Emptying and Clothing Labyrinth
Colossians 3:1-17

21. Going Liturgical - Resources
✤ The Divine Hours series - Phyllis Tickle
✤ The Ancient Practices series - ed. Phyllis Tickle
✤ “Alternative Worship” - Jonny Baker & Doug Gay
✤ “The Art of Curating Worship” - Mark Pierson
✤ “Curating Worship” - Jonny Baker
✤ “Common Prayer” - Shane Claiborne
✤ “Living the Christian Year” - Bobby Gross