Prayers and liturgical material

For anyone who has suffered loss, or is facing a personal trial, the pain can be overwhelming, and you might feel at a loss as to where to look for healing.

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

A Sample Meditation:Loss on the Way to EnlightenmentAvoidance, rationalization, religion, reality, projection, distraction Acknowledging that we often grow tired of the painful truthabout poverty, illness, racism, discrimination,environmental ruin, and warfare,we confess that we have escaped through distraction usingfood, entertainment, alcohol, and personal isolation.

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

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

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

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.

The growing use and appreciation of the Common Lectionary (Revised) has stimulated renewed attention to the Christian calendar in its fullness and an enrichment of liturgical worship.

We tend to associate philanthropy with figures like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Phil Knight.

For much of Christian history, pastors not only served as theologians and preachers, but also as poets and hymn writers.

Pastors and ministers have one of the most challenging jobs on earth.

Seeking to push the historical study of the liturgical phenomenon known as "e;Contemporary Worship"e; or "e;Praise and Worship"e; to a new level, this collection of essays offers an introduction to the phenomenon, documents critical aspects of its development, and suggests methods for future historical study.

Every day, a pastor faces armies of despair, fatigue, exhaustion, and frustration.

Christian ecotheology runs the risk of making God himself a resource for human exploitation as a means to species survival.

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

New Testament scholars have widely recognized and acknowledged the occasional nature of Paul's first canonical letter to the Corinthians.

Knowing Him by Name is a book of 336 short devotional readings based on the names and references to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

The Care of Souls is a collection of essays and short reflections on the art of pastoral supervision in the clinical pastoral education (CPE) learning process.

Church weddings, funerals, and most Sunday services reflect the values and dramas of their communities, even when the ministers are the main or sole actors.

Thomas Merton: God's Messenger on the Road towards a New World highlights the contribution of the best-selling North American writer between the Second World War and 1968.

Preaching is a challenging, privileged, and awesome responsibility.

This book is an exercise in a thoroughgoing narrative theology.

These poems owe their origin to Robert Bly's stunning ghazals in Stealing Sugar from the Castle.

Over sixty years ago, Thomas Merton--monk, mystic, and writer--proclaimed that we are living in a post-Christian world.

The Good Shepherd, Gentle Guide, and Gracious Host is a collection of fifteen discipleship meditations, organized around three metaphors from the Twenty-Third Psalm.

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The Hebrew prophets of ancient Israel strove to convey God's point of view to the people and the powers at a time when injustice, deceit, malfeasance, and crushing the poor and the oppressed was prominent--much like today!

What is to be the church's response to the immigrant?

Western culture no longer has a broad Christian understanding.

Having studied preaching at a doctoral level and practiced the craft for more than thirty years, Brad Estep offers fifty biblically grounded, theologically informed, and congregationally contextualized sermons centered around the different seasons of the Christian year.

In our world filled with unending crime, death, relationship issues, and despair, Jennifer Workman incorporates a plethora of inspirational articles to inspire and spiritually empower every reader that no matter what, they are not alone in their struggles because God is open and receptive to their cries for help.

The iconic landscape of the American Southwest reveals the luminescent Mitten rock formations, looming rock arches, and vast sagebrush oceans made vivid and memorable by writer Tony Hillerman, artist Georgia O'Keefe, and director John Ford.

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