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Crafting Prayers For Public Worship
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Book Synopsis Crafting Prayers for Public Worship by : Samuel Wells
Download or read book Crafting Prayers for Public Worship written by Samuel Wells and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational and practical guide for all who help to lead the intercessions in regular worship or offer prayers on specific occasions. It aims to empower and equip lay people and clergy alike to offer heartfelt, informed, thoughtful and appropriate prayers on behalf of the people of God for God’s world.
Book Synopsis Let the Whole Church Say Amen! by : Dr. Laurence Hull Stookey
Download or read book Let the Whole Church Say Amen! written by Dr. Laurence Hull Stookey and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stookey seeks to relieve the anxiety of inexperienced leaders of public prayer and the discomfort of those with and for whom they pray in this practical guide to the art of praying in public. The book has three parts. First, Stookey offers reflections on the nature of prayer, utilizing the image of a flow of energy. Second, he discusses the forms, mechanics, and vocabularies of prayer. His analysis brims with insight and practical application. Third, and most importantly, he provides concrete exercises in editing prayers. The reader is challenged to mark prayer texts and then to compare her or his own work with the author's as Stookey points out the particular issues that the exercises highlights. The book is clearly organized, economically written, and easy to use. Those who read carefully and complete the exercises will gain significant experience in crafting prayers to which the whole congregation can respond with an enthusiastic "Amen".
Book Synopsis Perspectives on Prayer and Spirituality by : Maurice Elliott
Download or read book Perspectives on Prayer and Spirituality written by Maurice Elliott and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Spirituality” has become a buzzword in our contemporary culture as individuals strive for meaning and fulfillment. Its detachment from the church and conventional definitions of religious practice highlights the seeming redundancy of what has come before. “Spirituality” in this light signals a new attempt to find wholeness unencumbered by outmoded doctrines and stale rituals. It is the conviction of this publication that the intuition behind contemporary searches for spiritual reality is a good one. It acknowledges that there must be more to life than what secular media or consumerism might tell us. The joyful message of Perspectives on Prayer and Spirituality is that the spiritual quest is a valid one and worth exploring. There is treasure to be found. However, the surprise is that we must rediscover what we have left behind. In the words of G. K. Chesterton, “it is not that the Christian ideal has been tried and found wanting, rather it has been found difficult and left untried.” This book offers us the tools to mine the riches of Christian spirituality and find that elusive treasure. The title, Perspectives on Prayer and Spirituality, alerts us to the fact that life-giving spirituality stems from relationship with a personal God who can be known.
Download or read book Reimagining Worship written by Helen Bent and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worship is a dynamic, living encounter that should never be static. In the Church of England, although Common Worship provides texts for every season and occasion, the church constantly needs to refresh its worship, just as it reshapes its presence in local communities. In this comprehensive volume, a wide range of experienced liturgists, musicians and pastoral practitioners consider the principles that will determine the character and quality, as well as the content, of our worship in the future. It explores how new forms can meet new needs while remaining faithful to the church’s essential understanding of worship. Over twenty chapters consider how emerging forms of worship can be: - Relational, accessible and inclusive - Rooted in Scripture, the Creeds, and Spirit-filled - Sacramental, symbolic and multi-sensory - Transformative, pastoral and prophetic The contributors are all members of the Group for the Renewal of Worship, a broadly evangelical group within the Church of England and including senior clergy, musicians, theological college tutors in liturgy and former members of the Liturgical Commission.
Book Synopsis Shaping the Prayers of the People by : Samuel Wells
Download or read book Shaping the Prayers of the People written by Samuel Wells and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a model of profound and accessible congregational prayer. At once inspirational and practical, it will empower and equip laypeople and clergy alike to offer heartfelt, informed, and appropriate prayers on behalf of the people of God. As Samuel Wells and Abigail Kocher say, "Interceding in public worship is a duty. This book is intended to make it a joy." Shaping the Prayers of the People begins by considering what public prayer is and offering practical guidelines for avoiding common pitfalls. It explores prayer as an integral part of worship and discusses the language we need (and don't need) to address God. Significantly, the book also provides an array of example prayers along with commentary.
Book Synopsis Too Deep for Words by : Clayton J. Schmit
Download or read book Too Deep for Words written by Clayton J. Schmit and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring fundamental ways in which verbal expression in worship relates to aesthetic expression, Clayton Schmit provides a vitally important book for all homiletics students and scholars. Schmit explains that worship isn't just a sequence of "holy" words, and he reflects theologically on the relationship between verbal and aesthetic expression, demonstrating the aesthetic significance of verbal liturgical expression and the aesthetic responsibility of those who preach, pray, and lead in public worship.
Book Synopsis Behold What You Are by : Lisa G. Fischbeck
Download or read book Behold What You Are written by Lisa G. Fischbeck and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behold What You Are is written to open the possibilities of liturgy and liturgical awareness, in the church and of the church, Sunday by Sunday, season by season. In a world increasingly and sharply divided, the image of the body of Christ can provide an alternate and life-giving narrative. We don’t just gather to worship God; we gather to worship God together, even when that gathering is online. And we go forth together to be the body of Christ, that the world might be repaired and restored to God. This body is not finite and exclusive; it is porous and open to all. Our traditions are a wonderful springboard for refreshed liturgical expressions in settings within and beyond our church buildings. These expressions can connect with people who would not otherwise enter a beautiful but somewhat austere structure. With some thoughtful reflection and intentionality, the public expression and formation of the body of Christ through liturgy can become more vital for all.
Download or read book Untamed Gospel written by Martyn Percy and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Untamed Gospel complements The Bright Field and Darkness Yielding, and offers meditations, reflections, stories, prayers and poems for use throughout the church year. Each one focuses on the often startling nature of Jesus’ sayings and teachings, the raw honesty of the psalms and other biblical texts, and on contemporary issues, such as mental health and displacement, seen in the light of the demands of the kingdom of God. A rich resource for worship, preaching, teaching and personal reflection throughout the year, Untamed Gospel contains hundreds of reproducible items, including seasonal reflections, stories, homilies, poems and some of Jim Cotter’s last writings as he was being treated for cancer: a moving sequence of prayer poems inspired by the psalms.
Book Synopsis Reflections for Lent 2014 by : Ian Adams
Download or read book Reflections for Lent 2014 written by Ian Adams and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for material to study in group during Lent? Reflections for Lent contains six weeks of notes taken from the annual edition of Reflections, covering Ash Wednesday to Easter Saturday. It’s ideal for individuals or groups seeking to follow the Lectionary for a shorter period of time. Also includes a simple form of daily prayer.
Book Synopsis Unceasing Worship by : Harold M. Best
Download or read book Unceasing Worship written by Harold M. Best and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold M. Best casts a holistic vision for worship that transcends narrow discussions of musical style or congregational preference, corrects errors in how Christians have viewed the arts and misunderstandings about the use of music, and offers instead a more biblically consistent approach to artistic action.
Book Synopsis Incarnational Ministry by : Samuel Wells
Download or read book Incarnational Ministry written by Samuel Wells and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling writer and popular broadcaster Sam Wells reflects on the essence of discipleship and Christian ministry today. Believing that ministry is essentially about 'being with' the other, whether that is God, the church, friends or strangers, he explores the theme of 'believing with' in variety of contexts.
Book Synopsis Shaped for Service by : Paul W Goodliff
Download or read book Shaped for Service written by Paul W Goodliff and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the English-speaking Western world alone, thousands of men and women begin formal training for Christian ministry each year or informally seek to equip themselves for pastoral ministry. Over the past fifty years, the ancient world of virtue ethics has been re-imagined as a means of forming people of character and morality today. In Shaped for Service, this experience is used as the framework to understand what we are doing as we form Christian ministers now, and how we might strengthen that development by more consciously linking the practices of ministry with the person, spirituality, and wisdom of the practitioner. Writing from the context of a lifetime of pastoral ministry and the oversight of ministers in the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Goodliff explores what pastors do and who they are called to be using a mixture of theological and pastoral enquiry, reflections upon art and personal story. This book will be of interest to those who are charged with forming the next generation of ministers, but anyone beginning that journey of formation for ministry themselves will also find this vision of ministry challenging and inspiring.
Book Synopsis Reflections for Lent 2016 by : Paula Gooder
Download or read book Reflections for Lent 2016 written by Paula Gooder and published by Church House Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections for Lent is designed to enhance your spiritual journey through the forty days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (10 February - 26 March 2016). Covering Monday to Saturday each week, it offers reflections on readings from the Common Worship Lectionary, written by some of today's leading spiritual and theological writers. Each day includes: • Full lectionary details for Morning Prayer • A reflection on one of the Bible readings • A Collect for the day This volume offers daily material for 10 February to 26 March 2016, taken from the Reflections for Daily Prayer 2015/16 annual edition. It is ideal for individuals and groups seeking Lectionary-based reflections for use during Lent and Holy Week, or for anyone wishing to try Reflections for Daily Prayer before committing to a year's worth of material. It also features a simple form of morning and night prayer and a guide to keeping a good Lent.
Book Synopsis Reflections for Lent 2017 by : Jeff Astley
Download or read book Reflections for Lent 2017 written by Jeff Astley and published by Church House Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections for Lent is designed to enhance your spiritual journey through the forty days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (1 March - 15 April 2017). Covering Monday to Saturday each week, it offers reflections on readings from the Common Worship Lectionary, written by some of today's leading spiritual and theological writers. Each day includes: • Full lectionary details for Morning Prayer • A reflection on one of the Bible readings • A Collect for the day This volume offers daily material for 1 March to 15 April 2017, taken from the Reflections for Daily Prayer 2016/17 annual edition. It is ideal for individuals and groups seeking Lectionary-based reflections for use during Lent and Holy Week, or for anyone wishing to try Reflections for Daily Prayer before committing to a year's worth of material. It also features a simple form of morning and night prayer and a guide to keeping a good Lent.
Book Synopsis Reflections for Advent 2016 by : Steven Croft
Download or read book Reflections for Advent 2016 written by Steven Croft and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections for Advent is a seasonal extract from the Reflections for Daily Prayer 2016-17 annual edition. It is designed to give new readers a taste of the high standard of spiritual writing that makes Reflections so popular. A frst class line up of writers provides a daily devotional companion throughout Advent
Book Synopsis Reflections for Advent 2015 by : Maggi Dawn
Download or read book Reflections for Advent 2015 written by Maggi Dawn and published by Church House Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections for Advent offers a seasonal extract from the Reflections for Daily Prayer 2015/16 annual edition. It is designed to give new readers a taste of the high standard of spiritual and theological writing that makes Reflections so popular. A first-class line up of writers provides a quality, yet inexpensive daily devotional companion throughout Advent – a season that is increasingly important in popular devotion. Each day includes: • Full lectionary details for Morning Prayer • A reflection on one of the Bible readings • A Collect for the day It also includes a simple form of daily prayer for Advent and a guide to keeping the season well by Sam Wells.
Book Synopsis Academic Vocation in the Church and Academy Today by : Shaun C. Henson
Download or read book Academic Vocation in the Church and Academy Today written by Shaun C. Henson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the vital, common, yet surprisingly often misunderstood and neglected vocation of people gifted to combine academic and priestly roles in church, church-related, and secular academic contexts. The works of those who unite priestly and academic functions into one vocation have been vital to the Church since its first-century foundations. The Church would have no practically informed theology or liturgy, and arguably no New Testament, if not for individuals who have been as gifted at researching, writing, and teaching as at conventional ministry skills like preaching and pastoral care. With a specific focus on Anglicanism as one useful lens, prominent voices from around the Anglican Communion reflect here on their experiences and expertise in academic-priestly vocation. Including contributions from the UK, USA, and Australia, this book makes a distinctive and timely offering to discussions that must surely continue.
