Prayers and liturgical material

This book combines critical New Testament scholarship with homiletic concerns.

Lisa Cressman, founder of Backstory Preaching, offers preachers tools to craft difficult sermon messages that can be heard.

What if you could have been an insider to some of the greatest stories ever told?

The "e;summer sermons"e; have been delivered in the Presbyterian Church of Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, over a period of fifteen years.

Little kids want to know who Santa is so this book will serve as an excellent introduction.

This book provides a quick but in-depth discussion of the beginnings of Easter.

Born during the Great Depression and the height of the modernist/fundamentalist controversies, Paul Emanuel Larsen entered pastoral ministries in the late fifties.

This is a big collection of prayers for your little readers.

Within these pages, celebrated Native American writer Gabriel Horn weaves a hauntingly beautiful tapestry of traditional stories, songs, and prayers that highlight the sacred Native way of life.

Easter is not just about the Easter bunny and its colorful eggs.

Being a clergyperson can be stressful--mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and relationally.

Consider: -The church both learns and becomes what it truly is when it gathers to worship.

"e;Reading of God's silence in the Bible gives me courage to explore the practice of restraint in preaching-not as a deliberate withholding of God's word nor, I hope, as a rationale for my own reticence, but as a sober reaching for more reverence in the act of public speaking about God.

What if prayer could become one of the most rewarding and meaningful aspects of your whole life?

This work is a one-month devotional that offers guidance and inspiration to individuals who have failed God in some way and are finding it difficult to accept his forgiveness and forgive themselves.

Easter is more than just the fun activity of egg hunting.

The Rhetoric of the Pulpit treats the sermon as the single most important factor in evangelism for a parish, and also the most important factor in the spiritual growth of both the congregation and the pastor.

Are you ready for an Alaska adventure?

When do Christians pray?

Dementia steals memories--creative stitchery crafts can hold memories.

Coming from this preacher's love of the seashore is a series of sermonettes he heard while walking along some of the world's sandy beaches.

Stress is something that kids experience too.

"e;I came that you may have life and have it in all its fullness"e; (John 10:10).

Our Hearts Are Restless Till They Find Their Rest in Thee: Prophetic Wisdom in a Time of Anguish from Coleman B.

With a relatively recent rapid increase in international marriages, Korea provides a fascinating case study in cross-cultural pastoral care at a time of increasing global movement and migration.

There are so many things to be thankful of.

In a time of political turmoil, how should we pray?

Given that Pope Francis is a popular global religious leader, and in the light of the lessons drawn from the nature, meaning, and functions of Israel's prophets, this tripartite work historically, pastorally, and theologically examines whether, and how Francis' teaching, visits, outreach to the poor, preaching, and recent biblically based writings (Lumen Fidei, Evangelii Gaudium, Amoris Laetitia, Laudato Si', Gaudete et Exsultate, Letters, and Messages) have had any prophetic effects or impact on contemporary society.

Jesus said, "e;Blessed are the peacemakers"e;--but in our increasingly polarized communities and nation, where can a person of faith begin?

Personal encounters with God are vital for the current generation of believers--the postmodern/millennial generation who affirm truth through experience.

This book is a study of how congregational song developed and has been used in the worship of Western churches in general and specifically churches in the United States.

In the #MeToo times in which we live, there are few hard and fast rules that govern personal encounters and sexual liaisons.

Hymns and songs have long been the most frequent and characteristic expression of communal beliefs, particularly among faith traditions that lack authoritarian or rigidly codified doctrinal statements.

Hallowed is a fresh study of the Lord's Prayer against its Old Testament background.

In twenty elegant pieces, writer, sculptor, and theologian Kent Nerburn celebrates the daily rituals that reveal our deeper truths.

How do the dark moments of suffering which we all encounter at some point in our lives connect with the divine?

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Practitioners of Centering Prayer are known for the great enthusiasm they bring to the practice of this ancient discipline.

The desire and struggle to pray pulses through this spiritually resonant collection in forms as various as psalms, Tai Chi, meditation, needlework, lament, and thanksgiving.

In this down-to-earth book on the essentials of prayer, Margaret Guenther answers many of the common questions of the spiritual life.

This book connects the living realms of the church, the self, the neighbor and the world.

This anthology is about caring for all persons as a part of the revolutionary struggle against colonialism in its many forms.

"e;We've got a list of questions, issues, stuff we're dealing with.

Praying in the Spirit of Christ offers contemporary readers a compelling and holistic vision of what life in Christ can mean for them.

Preachers at funerals differ in approach.

Breakfast with Barth: Daily Devotions provides extracts from the writings of theologian Karl Barth.

Now in reissue with a new foreword by Fred B.

How can we be just and merciful?

To explain the power of prayer, Dale Salwak went to more than 30 distinguished spiritual leaders, thinkers, and writers and asked them to offer a few words of wisdom and advice.

Christmas is more than just gift-giving.