Spoken Worship: Living Words for Personal and Public Prayer

by Gerard Kelly

Spoken worship … is poetry of the soul, reaching out to the soul’s greatest lover. Where deep calls to deep, spoken worship heeds the call. Spoken Worship is written with the conviction that the spoken word has a unique power – power to reach into the heart, power to transport us to where we could not otherwise go and transform us into what we would not otherwise become. The forty poems in this collection go beyond image and emotion. They are created to be not merely read silently but spoken aloud in a way that brings both the speaker and all who listen into a fresh new experience of worship. With performance notes for each of its eight sections that offer insights into the why as well as the how of spoken worship, this book is designed for use in every setting: church services, home groups, personal times with God, hospital rooms – any and every circumstance in which human hearts long to engage with a passionate, deeply loving God who formed us to feel and to respond to him with emotion.

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2007

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit of a lone star in a limited market - contemplative material for those who would normally place themselves in the evangelical wing

[Tim Knight · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poetry Please

This book is beautiful. It will help you appreciate the role of well spoken words in worship! So well done.

[Calum Mackenzie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall, as a Christian poet, this sparked lots of ideas and the non-poetry bits were brilliant. Occasionally I loved some of the pieces but some a lot weren’t my ‘cup of tea’ and one mentioning the Titanic was frankly poor taste.

I can’t recommend it but as with most poetry I’ve read, it helped me work out what I do (and don’t) want my writing to be.

[Fubzi · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really good book. I enjoyed reading his poems and can see myself using them in services in the future.