"Serving the Word" the reader to how God's word can become the crux not only of the sermon but of the worship service as a whole. Over the past half-century, worship scholars have found a substantial ecumenical worship pattern in Luke's story of Jesus' post resurrection appearance on the road and the table in Emmaus. In that word-and-meal structure, the relationship between preaching and worship as distinct aspects of liturgical experience breaks down. The preached word, then, and the liturgical event within which preaching is located become integral to each other. Melinda Quivik here invites the reader to explore how, through God's word, preaching informs and is in turn supported by the worship event as a whole.

God's word is central in worship.

Ash wednesday: a case study.

Greeting and singing in the lenguage of God's word.

Praying in the lenguage of God's word.

Word: he explained the scriptures to them.

Meal: their eyes were opened.

Sending: they told how he had been.

Intercessions for ash wednesday.