Song Choices

As well as fitting in with the season and the Bible passages, I sometimes have the following categories of songs in mind:

• well known rousing hymns (especially for starting and finsihing the service)
• 20th century songs - e.g. Graham Kendrick
• songs as up to the minute as we can manage
• children's songs
• metrical versions of the psalms

Of course what is in our hymn books / serivce books is an influence. I reckon one extra song sheet per service is enough! A screen and Powerpoint would certainly help.

You might also want songs that perform certain liturgical functions of fit in certain parts of the service:

• praise
• thanksgiving
• confession
• creed
• offering
• preparation for Word of God or Communion
• response
• prayer
• etc.