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Five Minute Countdown - Cloudy Sunrise
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Genres: Emotional, Powerful, Uplifting, Reflective
Service Styles: Contemporary, Traditional, Progressive
Use Countdown from our Let My People God Box at your church as a fun way to kick off your Kid's Worship Experience with a theme around Moses and the Exodus.
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Genres: Uplifting
Service Styles: Contemporary
Labor Day Bible Trivia Countdown is a fun fill-in-the-blank quiz exploring various bible passages about the topic of labor and rest. This is a fun way to focus on the bible promises surrounding Labor Day while waiting for the service to begin.
Scripture: Jeremiah 31:25, Psalm 127:1, 1 Peter 5:7, Proverbs 12:11, Exodus 23:12, Proverbs 14:23, Proverbs 19:23, Ecclesiastes 5:12, Galatians 6:9, Isaiah 40:29, Matthew 11:28 (view more) (view less)
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Genres: Uplifting, Reflective
Service Styles: Contemporary, Traditional
This Floating particle – Volume One countdown is part of a a dynamic collection perfect for your worship services.
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It's fall, y'all, and you don't need to be in the south to appreciate this sentiment. Colorful, falling leaves and upbeat dreamy music make this countdown perfect for the entire fall season. It coordinates with our Vibrant Fall Countdown and backgrounds.
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Five Minute Countdown - Green Forest
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Five Minute Countdown - Sea Aerial
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Genres: Emotional, Powerful, Uplifting, Reflective, Bible History
Autumn Glow - 5 Minute Countdown - This autumn season theses warming orange and deep purple orbs are the perfect backdrop for your harvest services.
Scripture: Exodus 23:16
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Service Styles: Progressive
Countdowns are great to welcome your congregation into Worship. This Countdown is from our Men's Ministry Volume Two Pack.
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Countdowns are great to welcome your congregation into Worship. This Countdown is from our Water Shapes - Volume Two Pack.
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Genres: Powerful, Uplifting
Use this countdown from the series, The Look of Love, as a transformative sermon series centered around the Fruit of the Spirit, focusing on love. Through biblical teachings and practical insights, this series content along with your own message content can guide individuals to cultivate a genuine and compassionate love that reflects the character of Christ in their daily lives.
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Night of Worship Volume Two is a dynamic collection perfect for your worship services. Use this to theme your entire service together as one cohesive set. Night, Worship, Volume, Two, dynamic, collection, perfect for your worship, services, theme, cohesive, set
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Have You Not Heard - Scripture Countdown is a dramatic portrayal of Isaiah 40:28-31, one of God's most beautiful reassurances to all His people who feel that the battle will overwhelm and destroy them. This is a great way to get hope-filled scripture into hearts and minds in this dark time of the year.
Scripture: Isaiah 40:28-31
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Genres: Reflective
Five Minute Countdown - Thanksgiving Leaves
Scripture: Jonah 2:9, Leviticus 22:29, Psalm 30:12, Psalm 50:23, 1 Chronicles 16:34, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Colossians 3:17, Psalm 100:4, Psalm 95:2, Ephesians 5:20, Psalm 107:1, Psalm 118:1, Psalm 136:26, 2 Corinthians 9:15, Philippians 4:6, 1 Chronicles 29:13, 1 Timothy 4:4, Hebrews 13:15, Colossians 4:2, Romans 14:6, Colossians 2:7, Psalm 34:1, Psalm 69:30, Daniel 2:23, 1 Timothy 2:1, Psalm 50:14, James 1:17, Psalm 147:7, Luke 17:16, Revelation 7:12 (view more) (view less)
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Five Minute Countdown - Thanksgiving Prayer
Scripture: 1 Chronicles 16:34, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Colossians 3:17, Psalm 100:4, Psalm 95:2, Ephesians 5:20, Psalm 107:1, Psalm 118:1, Psalm 136:26, 2 Corinthians 9:15, Philippians 4:6, 1 Chronicles 29:13, 1 Timothy 4:4, Hebrews 13:15, Colossians 4:2, Romans 14:6, Colossians 2:7, Psalm 34:1, Psalm 69:30, Daniel 2:23, 1 Timothy 2:1, Psalm 50:14, James 1:17, Psalm 147:7, Luke 17:16, Revelation 7:12, Jonah 2:9, Leviticus 22:29, Psalm 30:12, Psalm 50:23 (view more) (view less)
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