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Culturally Conscious Worship
$23.99Black uses shared stories, blended music, and the arts to enliven worship in culturally and linguistically diverse congregations. She provides biblical and theological foundations and practical methods and models for creating culturally-conscious worship.
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Praying Twice : The Music And Words Of Congregational Song
$52.001. “Through All The Changing Scenes Of Life”: Glimpses Of Congregational Song
2. “Rescue The Holy Pleasure”: Why Congregational Song Is Indispensable
3. “A More Profound Alleluia”: Encouraging The People’s Song
4. “Some Demand A Driving Beat”: Contemporary Worship Music
5. “And Speak Some Boundless Thing”: Assessing The Lyrics Of Congregational Song
6. “Sing Them Over Again To Me”: Refrains, Choruses, And Other People’s Songs
7. “Captured By Gender”: Chant And Ritual Song
8. “Such A Feast As Mends In Length”: Hymns As Poems Of Faith
9. “To Me, To All, Thy Bowels Move”: Why Do They Keep Changing The Good Old Hymns?
10. “Echoes Of The Gospel”: How Hymns Do TheologyAdditional Info
Renowned theologian and hymn writer Brian Wren explores here the theological significance of congregational singing, analyzes the importance of contemporary worship music, and explains the power of tune and text in the life and nurture of a congregation. Wren studies the lyrics of choruses, hymns, chants, and ritual songs, and identifies their importance as both poetry and communal utterances of theology. This is a valuable resource for church musicians, pastors, and other worship leaders.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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What Does The Lord Require
$20.99Co-published with the Council for World Mission, this exciting new resource focuses on the theme of mission as it is expressed in worship and worked out in the life of the church. 150 original items from around the world include litanies and symbolic acts
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Diverse Worship : African American Caribbean And Hispanic Perspectives
$30.99In this book Pedrito Maynard-Reid explores the multiethnic dimensions of worship by looking at three specific cultural contexts for worship–African-American, Caribbean and Hispanic. After surveying worship and culture through history, the author devotes a section to each of these three cultural contexts. In these sections worship traditions are colorfully described and characterized. Historical developement and change are explored. In each section we gain new perspective on what it means to worship God.
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Little Below Heaven
$29.99For early American Methodists, quarterly meetings were great festivals as the heart of the Methodism’s liturgical life. In this volume, Lester Ruth offers a revisionist description of worship at the quarterly meetings in early American Methodism
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Beyond The Downbeat
$18.99Easy to read, understand, and apply, the material in Beyond the Downbeat covers many important aspects of choral leader- ship beyond conducting. The material is practical for choirs of any size and leaders at any level.
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Choosing Contemporary Music
$54.16A one-volume reference work designed to aid worship planners in the selection of contemporary song. Organized by the three- year lectionary cycle, this book also contains integrated scriptural, seasonal, and topical indexes. Song collections indexed include With One Voice; This Far by Faith; Worship & Praise; The Celebration Hymnal; Gather Comprehensive; Glory & Praise; Maranatha! Music Praise; Renew!; Spirit Calls, Rejoice!; and Worship Songs of the Vineyard.
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True Worship : Reclaiming The Wonder And Majesty
$15.99Worship is one of the most divisive Issues in churches today. Donald Hustad responds to the cataclysmic changes in worship styles over the last fifty years, examining the biblical elements of worship and offering a model for richer, God-honoring services. This provocative book is must reading for all pastors, church music leaders and educators, worship committees, and all Christians interested in worship.
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Gloria Experimentando La Atmos – (Spanish)
$18.99A must for those desiring to enter new dimensions of praise and worship and for those who want to know the glory realm. This bestseller has crossed every denominational barrier and has launched revival the world over.
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Enriching Our Worship 2
$30.60Prepared by the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music and adopted by the 73rd General Convention, this new set of materials was adapted from sources in scripture; a variety of contemporary prayer books throughout the Anglican Communion; traditional materials from Orthodox and medieval western sources; and hymnody of various American cultures. Newly written texts and some texts from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer which have been revised are also included.
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Enriching Our Worship 1
$27.93This is the new edition of Supplemental Liturgical Materials. New materials include seventeen additional canticles taken from the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, the New Testament, Anselm of Canterbury, and Julian of Norwich. There are also additions and changes to the previously published supplemental materials including a third Eucharistic Prayer.
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Church : Contours Of Christian Theology
$35.99Perhaps no other doctrine has more tangible impact on Christians that their doctrine of the church. In a cultural climate where the very word church sounds a tone of dull irrelevance, the doctrine of the church has suffered studied neglect. The persistent demands to market and grow the church threaten to quench serious theological reflection on its abiding nature and mission. But few activities bear greater promise for renewing and reshaping the church than the work of theology. Edmund Clowney addresses these issues from decades of thinking and teaching. Biblical, historical, systematic and reformed, The Church is a timely reflection on the life, order and purpose of the household of God.
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Faith We Sing Worship Planner Edition
$24.99This important tool for worship planners contains introduction and acknowledgements, directions for use, informative articles, and commentary (history, when, and how to use) on all 284 songs in The Faith We Sing. You can also find a sample order of worship, copyright information, modulation charts, medley suggestions (contemporary and blended; includes suggestions from other hymnals), and numberous indexes (scripture, topics and catagories, song titles, authors and composers, first line and common titles, meters, and keys).
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Brief History Of Christian Worship
$23.99192 Pages
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Writing from an ecumenical perspective, White surveys 2,000 of Christian worship, emphasizing the rich liturgical experiences of North American Christians in recent centuries. A groundbreaking revisionist work that is destined to redirect liturgical history by treating the worshipping community itself as the primary liturgical document. 192 pages, softcover from Abingdon.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Inside Out : Worship In An Age Of Mission
$36.66Applying theology to worship and to the practice of liturgy, this innovative work reclaims the importance of word and sacrament as the center for the church’s life and witnesses. Drawing connections between liturgy and life, this collection deepens worship-life by helping congregations “to talk with each other about the ways we encounter the living God in worship;” and by strengthening “skills that enhance worship.” Worship in an Age of Mission addresses pastoral liturgical and sacramental issues at work in congregations today and offers a comprehensive vision for congregational life centered around word and sacrament.
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Music In Churches
$23.00Clergy, worship or music committees, organists, and choir or music directors will find this a practical and invaluable guide to the role and power of music to express and form faith. Clark researched twenty-four Episcopal and United Methodist congregations to discover how churchgoers express their faith through music. Discover how music can either enhance or detract from tradition and faith experience. Explore how it can shape your congregation’s character.
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Sacred In Music
$40.00Religion and music are complementary resources for interpreting our lives. Music serves the sacred in ways that can be specified and articulated, yet the connection between them has been sorely neglected in the scholarly study of religion. In The Sacred in Music, Albert Blackwell brings the two subjects together in a celebration of the rich Western musical tradition, both classical and Christian.
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Word Of The Lord Year B
$40.00Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel readings are printed out in full from the NRSV translation of the Bible, providing an essential resource for worship. The clear layout of the text makes this an ideal volume for reading aloud or for personal study.
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Bible Stories Food And Fun
$16.18Now you can make Bible learning for children more fun … by including snacks and activities that relate to the Bible lesson.
Twenty Bible lessons … and each one includes:
Bible lesson
key verse
key thought
snack/activity
picture suggestionAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Traces Of Glory
$21.95The first in a 3 volume collection of prayers based on the new Common Worship Lectionary used in many parts of the Anglican Communion, and very similar to lectionaries used in the United States. Written in Celtic style and linked to the Sunday readings–may be used by congregations for the Prayers of the People, as well as individual devotions.
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Medieval Church
$60.99Fervently committed to God, gifted preachers have left us a priceless legacy in their proclamation of the Word. Old explores a thousand years of medieval preaching, from sixth-century Byzantium to Renaissance Italy. His in-depth analyses of medieval sermons illuminate the rich diversity of faith in this golden age of church history.
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Torahs Vision Of Worship
$65.00A complement to the author’s earlier Overtures to Biblical Theology study on prayer, this volume addresses the topic of worship as articulated in the first five books of the Bible. Rather than a history of Israelite religion, Balentine’s volume examines the “vision” of worship expounded in the Torah in relation to priesthood, creation, liturgy, and covenant. He concludes by discussing the contemporary situation of experiencing God’s hiddenness and a world caught in despair. Balentine proposes that a fresh look at the Torah offers possibilities of counter-imagination and hope.
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Worship Maze
$24.99IVP Print on Demand Title
As the debate over worship styles rages, leaders and laypeople are often caught in confusion. Which style is right for your congregation? With gentleness and sensitivity, Basden addresses this question. His examination of five worship styles (liturgical, traditional, revivalist, praise, and seeker-sensitive); practical suggestions for choosing a style; and more will help you approach worship with joy.
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Praising God : The Trinity In Christian Worship
$26.00Explores ways to enrich the language of Christian worship while remaining faithful to the church’s affirmation of God as Trinity. The authors encourage gender-inclusive language for the Trinity, and offer pastoral and theological suggestions about trinitarian language in the worship service.
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Royal Waste Of Time
$37.99Learn how worshiping with appropriate adoration can liberate the hearts of jaded churchgoers who are trapped in today’s postmodern, media-saturated culture! Based on solid theological and biblical foundations, Dawn offers experience-based insights to help you navigate beyond destructive worship wars and stimulate renewal in your congregation. Includes nine Scripture-based sermons.
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Prayers And Litanies For The Christian Seasons
$14.00Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1. Advent
Awakening
Coming
Darkness
Expectation
Imagine
Preparation
Risk
Wait
Word
Chapter 2. Christmas
Adoration
Blessing
Christ Child
Expectancy
Fulfillment
Gifts
Incarnation
Joy
Rejoice
Chapter 3. Epiphany
Attention
Baptism
Calling
Faith
Home
Hope
Journey
Love
Nations
Praise
Presence
Reconciliation
Revelation
Seeking
Water
Winter
Wonder
Chapter 4. Lent
Brokenness
Commitment
Communion
Compassion
Confession
Cross
Discipleship
Extravagance
Forgiveness
Gospel
Hosanna
Mystery
Nurture
Openness
Pain
Paradox
Possibility
Renewal
Selfishness
Trust
Waiting
Chapter 5. Easter
Alleluia
Assurance
Belief
Celebration
Companions
Courage
Mission
Music
Proclamation
Promise
Resurrection
Seasons
Surprise
Table
Witness
Chapter 6. Pentecost
Abundance
Advocacy
Always
Beginning
Bread
Change
Children
Church
Comfort
Community
Creativity
Dreams
Encouragement
Faithfulness
Friendship
Grace
Gratitude
Hands
Healing
Heritage
Holiness
Hospitality
Hunger
Inclusivity
Justice
Mercy
Ministry
Power
Rest
Silence
Simplicity
Spirit
Stillness
Tears
Thanksgiving
Vocation
Wholeness
Worship
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The words that describe our deepest longings for God, our highest praise for God, and our most distant wanderings from God are often the starting points of our prayers. Prayers and Litanies for the Christian Seasons focuses each prayer or litany on one word in the vocabulary of our faith, moving through the liturgical year by voicing the language of our hearts.The book is divided into the six seasons of the Christian year: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. Primarily designed for congregational worship, the words are appropriate for invocations, prayers of confession, pastoral prayers, and benedictions. A reader using the book for personal devotion will find the poetic style of the prayers fitting for moving through the year “word by word.”
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Prayers Encircling The World
$38.00This anthology of contemporary prayer reflects the truly ecumenical and international character of the Christian community, with prayers from more than sixty countries. A peasant from El Salvador prays in these pages alongside a businessman from the United States and a group of African mothers. The 300 prayers repesent a wide spectrum of Christian traditions, including Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist, Reformed, and Evangelical. The themes range over life’s experiences: work and rest, war and peace, family and community, grief and joy, provery and plenty, churches and nations – all find their place in this tapestry of prayer.
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Lights Symbols And Angels
$16.18Lights, Symbols And Angels is a compilation of related worship resources that will enhance the Advent/Christmas worship life of any congregation, large or small.
O Come, Blessed Light Of The World! is ideal for raising awareness of the Advent season for families. Those using the material will learn about the Advent candles, read God’s Word for the day, and have a challenge of action each week. Devotions include a reading, reflection, and prayer.
Celebrating The Advent Wreath is a special Advent service which can be used for mid-week or women’s programs. Reflections on each candle will help participants learn more about the Advent wreath.
Christmas Symbols And Songs is a program which blends sharing the meaning of traditional Christmas symbols with the singing of a variety of carols. It’s excellent for a fellowship potluck, women’s tea or program, mid-week worship service, or an intergenerational event.
Angels Inspire Our Worship is an order of worship with a skit that’s ideal for a youth program. The skit, Hark! It’s Harold And The Angel Band, dramatizes an imaginary encounter between Gabe (the archangel Gabriel disguised as a stock boy), Mr. Grumpy and Mr. Grumpier (old men shopping at Heaven’s Grocery Store), and an angel band led by Harold.
Angels In The Outfield is a resource for a Sunday worship experience, mid-week service, or special Advent program. The worship is designed around the ministry of angels, using a baseball theme with appropriate hymns featuring angels.
A Christmas Celebration is a communion/candlelight service for Christmas Eve with readings, litanies, and carols.
A prolific and enthusiastic writer of worship resources, Cynthia E. Cowen has been an established writer with CSS Publishing Company since 1991. She received a B.A. degree in education from Northern Michigan University and is a graduate of the Northern Great Lakes Synod Lay School for Mission. Cowen has served as a licensed lay minister in the Northern Great Lakes Synod of the ELCA at Calvary Lutheran Church, Quinnesec, Michigan, and is currently a rostered Associate in Ministry in Youth And Family at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Iron Mountain, Michigan. She was elected to the Executive Board of the Church Wide Women’s Organization of the Women of the ELCA in 1996, and served on its Printed Resources committee.
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Bright Intervals
$18.68These services with meditations are appropriate for any setting or occasion, but are especially useful for worship services in health care centers, retirement homes, and hospitals. Themes will have special meaning for older adults, while humor and narrative stories enliven the message.
These brief worship services with pastoral meditations are appropriate for any informal setting or special occasion. They will be particularly helpful for those who plan worship services for health care centers, retirement homes, hospitals, and nursing homes.
The selected theme of each meditation and service are of broad interest to a wide age spectrum, but will have special meaning for older adults. Beringer uses both humor and narrative stories to enliven the message.
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Worship Across Cultures
$28.99This book is a uniquely valuable resource whether for pastors who regularly lead Christian worship in cultural contexts beyond their own, or for persons visiting worship in another context to attend a marriage or a funeral. By approaching the study of worship through description of actual practices, it will inspire cross-cultural sensitivity, as well as providing food for thought and new ideas for worship.
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Planning Blended Worship
$24.99Planning Blended Worship: The Creative Mixture of Old and New is a guide to planning creative worship for congregathat follow the traditional fourfold pattern of worship (gathering, word, table, and dismissal), as well as for those who prefer a free-church, evangelical style or more contemporary or blended approaches to worship. Robert Webber designed this volume to show pastors, music directorand other worship leaders the practical, structural, and theological steps for designing worship services characterized by biblical depth, historical awareness, and contemporarelevance. The author includes charts and forms at the end of each chapter that clearly show how music and other arts can be integrated with liturgical texts.
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Spectacle Of Worship In A Wired World
$23.99Examining the three central elements of electronic culture the author demonstrates that for those steeped in this culture, meaning arises from the convergence of these elements rather than from any one of them individually. He goes on to discuss how these are already present in Christian worship and how they might be made more evident. In adition, he explains that worship can serve as a corrective to electronic culture and concludes the book with suggestions on how to build worship around an awareness of this new kind of human perception.
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Special Days And Seasons Of The Christian Year
$6.99This resource offers a concise survey of the special days and seasons of the Christian year. In addition to a brief explanation of the lectionary, it also includes the key symbols, customs, Scriptures, and hymns most associated with each season.
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Advent Worship And Activities For Families
$6.99Offers brief family worship services for each Sunday in Advent and Christmas Day. Each service centers around the use of the Advent wreath. Additional activites help families focus on the meaning of the season.
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Book Of Reformed Prayers
$38.00Prayer has undergirded the achievements, sacrifices, and faithfulness of the Reformed tradition since its beginning. And the ways in which Reformed Christians pray have been as varied throughout the centuries as the many denominations that are included in the reformed tradition. Howard Rice and Lamar Williamson have gathered more than 200 prayers from the Reformed tradition, organizing the prayers chronologically by century. They provide historical information and biographies of each author to enhance readers’ understanding of each prayer within its own context.
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Holy Things : A Liturgical Theology
$48.33Now in softcover! In his lively exploration of the Christian liturgy, Lathrop argues that Christian communities need to re-examine the ways liturgical symbols respond to human need, reconsider the meaning of liturgy, and reform their liturgies to more clearly reflect the Christian faith. “Heartily recommended,”—Theological Studies.
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Patristic Age
$49.99“The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church” is a multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old that canvasses the history of preaching from the words of Moses at Mount Sinai through modern times. Volume 2, “The Patristic Age,” continues Old’s historical survey by focusing on preaching as it was developed and practiced by the Greek schools of Alexandria and Antioch. Old then goes on to consider preaching in the Syriac church and the flourishing of Latin Preaching in the Christian Empire, concluding with the ministries of Leo the Great, Peter Chrysologos,and Gregory the Great.
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Music And Ministry
$16.99Contemporary or traditional? Many churches find themselves mired in debate over which type of worship music to use. In this updated resource, Johansson addresses pastoral, theological, and musical concerns in a comprehensive discussion of this topic. He challenges pastors and choir directors to reflect seriously on the biblical principles foundational to music ministry.
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Biblical Period
$45.99“The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church” is a multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old that canvasses the history of preaching from the words of Moses at Mount Sinai through modern times. In Volume 1, “The Biblical Period,” Old begins his survey by discussing the roots of the Christian ministry of the Word in the Worship of Israel. He then examines the preaching of Christ and the Apostles. Finally, Old looks at the development and practice of Christian preaching in the second and third centuries, concluding with the ministry of Origen.
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Listening In : A Multicultural Reading Of The Psalms
$24.99Every reader of the biblical text, Stephen Breck Reid contends, places it in the context of other texts and narratives, whether they be the stories of the reader’s own experiences, or the broader myths and communal narratives of their culture. The value of such a reading is that it helps render the Bible intelligible in our contemporary context. The danger, however, is that we will import false and destructive elements form our cultural context into our understanding of the Scriptures.
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These Are The Candles
$9.93Here is a resource that will dramatize the lighting of the Advent candles during your worship service. The lighting of each candle is proceeded by a statement, which the author suggests may be read from offstage.
The series of statements reveal the significance of the traditional Advent characters: the angel, the shepherds, the wisemen, Mary and the Christ child.
This simple but dramatic resource provides an explanation of the deeper meaning of the events preceding Jesus’ birth, as they spell out the relationship of these individuals to Christ, the Light of the World.
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Contemporary Worship Music
$20.99240 Pages
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Is contemporary worship music shallow and self-centered? Does it “dumb down” worship, as some critics claim? This noted professor of apologetics and systematic theology answers these and other objections with a clear defense of contemporary worship music. He exposes careless and divisive criticisms and demonstrates the music’s biblical strengths and benefits in worship.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Showtime : Worship In The Age Of Show Business
$24.9814 Chapters
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Chambers provides a defense of our traditional worship by contrasting it with the style and content of the contemporary worship assemblies dominated by drama, singing, and lifting hands.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Childrens Guide To Worship
$12.00This original “mouse” book is a sequential guide to worship for young children illustrated by mice that help explain Sunday worship services and encourage participation in worship by children and their parents. Designed for children ages three to third grade with the help of parents or teachers.
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Worship Community And The Triune God Of Grace
$20.99Here is a book that sets our worship, commumion and language of God back on track. In a day when refinement of method and quality of experience are the guiding lights for many Christians, James Torrance points us to the indispensable who of worship, the tribune God if grace.
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Prayer Book Through The Ages
$24.95An exploration of the history of the Book of Common Prayer and its revisions, beginning with the 1549 English Prayer Book and continuing up to the present. This revised and expanded version of The Story of the Real Prayer Book (this book’s original title) finishes the story of the final adoption of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Sydnor explores why each revision was necessary, what was changed, added, omitted, as well as what was retained in the “new” book.
By understanding the delicate balance between the need for change and the preservation of what is timeless, William Sydnor believes that Episcopalians will “find anew that common ground of common prayer which is our legacy, our inspiration, and our joy.”
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Liturgical Spirituality
$74.95Well-known liturgical scholar and author Philip Pfatteicher turns his attention in this book to “liturgical spirituality,” a holistic concept that brings together both liturgy and spirituality with reference to the interior life of the spirit that is formed and nurtured by the church’s liturgy – the ordered form of Christian worship, East and West, Catholic and Protestant.
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Contemporary Worship : A Sourcebook For Spirited Traditional Praise And See
$31.99This handbook contains everything a congregation needs in order to plan, launch, and stabilize contemporary worship services. Three formats for contemporary worship are shown: spirited-traditional, contemporary praise, and contemporary seeker (or outreach-oriented) services. The resources include sample formats, sample messages that are appropriate for the format, sample skits, interviews, or dramas, and a database of worship choruses that are appropriate to each of the three contemporary formats.
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Lectionary Worship Aids Series 4 Cycle C
$26.18Lectionary Worship Aids by James R. Wilson is a lectionary book based on Cycle C of the Revised Common Lectionary. Here are some of the topics covered in this lectionary book:
– Worship
– Worship resources
– Worship services
– Worship aids
– Lectionary
– Cycle C of the Revised Common Lectionary
– Lectionary worship aids
– Lectionary resources
A Call to Worship, Collect, Prayer of Confession, and three suggested hymns based on each lectionary text (First Lesson, Second Lesson, and Gospel) are provided for every Sunday of the year in cycle C. Additional non-lectionary days such as All Saints’ Day, Thanksgiving Day, Fourth of July, World-wide Communion Sunday, and Parent’s Days arc also included.A scripture index makes this one of the most useful and necessary worship helps in any pastor’s library.
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Cathechetical Helps Simplified Chinese – (Other Language)
$33.31A 26-lesson study guide on Luther’s Small Catechism. Sections cover the Law and Gospel, Apostles’s Creed, the Lords Prayer, the sacraments, Martin Luther, The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and more. Lessons provide hymns, prayers, proof texts and a review.
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Lagloire – (Other Language)
$17.99A must for those desiring to enter new dimensions of praise and worship and for those who want to know the glory realm. This bestseller has crossed every denominational barrier and has launched revival the world over.
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African American Special Days
$16.9915 Chapters
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By blending the traditional elements of the worship service with African American culture, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan provides a practical resource for planning those special Sundays that congregations celebrate throughout the year. African American Special Days contain fifteen services for special occasions, including:Children and Youth Days
Sunday School, Graduation, and Promotion Days
Homecoming and Family Reunions
Mother’s and Father’s Days
Women’s and Men’s Days
Pastor’s Appreciation Day
Officers’ Rededication Day
Board and Auxiliary Days
Choir Anniversary
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Calendar
$24.99)”Stookey’s command of the literature on sacred time and the history of the liturgical year is impressive, but his ultimate concern is clearly the praying, worshiping community gathered for proclamation and sacraments. Preachers, in particular, will find much useful material,”—Princeton Seminary Bulletin.
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Alabadle : Hispanic Christian Worship
$20.99By looking at the wide variety of Hispanic Christian worship that exists within the Hispanic community, Alabadle! highlights the cultural, generational, and denominational elements that comprise the spectrum of Hispanic worship.
Justo L. Gonzalez and seven other contributors provide an insightful look into the variety of worship styles that exist among numerous church traditions including Assemblies of God, United Methodist, Catholic, American Baptist, Presbyterian, and Disciples of Christ. And yet, in the midst of this variety, is a common thread of excitement – about worship and about the gospel!
Anyone interested in exploring worship, music, and liturgy styles from a particular Hispanic perspective will find Alabadle! a valuable learning tool.
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Worship Come To Its Senses
$20.99What makes Christian worship both true and relevant to ever-changing human circumstances? How can our gathering about the Scriptures, the Table of the Lord, and the waters of baptism shape and express authentic Christian faith in the world of everyday life? In this book, Don Saliers finds a fresh way of answering these questions by exploring four “senses” of God: awe, delight, truth, and hope. Why are wonderment, surprise, truthfulness, and expectancy so often missing or diminished in Christian liturgy today, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, “high church” or “low church”, “traditional” or “contemporary”? These are essential qualities of both worship and life. Saliers contends that we are still restless for communion with God, and suggests how these essentials may be rediscovered by every worshiping congregation. At stake are the means of grace received from Christ, attested to in the Scriptures and shown in every faithful worshiping assembly.
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Praise The Lord
$18.68This book will become the most used resource in the pastor’s library when looking for help in preparing a worship service that has a fresh approach.
Liturgies and occasional services for …
Advent, Christmas Eve, Epiphany, Ash Wednesday
Baptism, Confirmation, Appointment of a pastor
Celebration of music ministryWorship services for …
Morning, Noontime, Evening
Healing
Death and resurrection
Funeral, memorialCelebrations and observances …
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Service of Christian unity
Thanksgiving Day
Renewal of wedding vows
Blessing of a home
Church anniversary, Men’s Day, Church leadersMany pages of thoughtful, inspiring prayers for every gathering and occasion …
Opening a church meeting
For successful surgery
For success in school
For a new job, new carIntercessory prayers …
For comfort in time of grief
For relief from depression
For healing a broken relationship
For safe travelPrayers for times of fellowship and celebration …
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United Methodist Altars (Revised)
$17.99This revised edition of the english bible includes modern, attractive typeface and layouts, Old Testament, apocrypha New testament wiht short intorducatios to each, talbe of wights, measures values and food notes.
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Visions Of Lent Year 3
$16.18A new and unusual service for Lent…!
At the beginning of Lent each family in the congregation is invited to lend a plant from home (silk or live), following a Jewish Shavuot custom. The following Sundays in Lent build on this focal point as an object is added each week. Two readers participate in a dialogue explaining the symbol for that day. A child brings the symbol forward and holds it during the dialogue. In this way several families are able to participate.
Visions of Lent Year 3 also includes:
* Sample bulletin insert prior to Lent
* Example of plant reminder that can be used in bulletin
* Sample Torah for bulletin inserts
* A suggested worship service for Palm/Passion SundayAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Last Covenant
$9.93These two dramatic choral readings will place a permanent imprint on the conscience of all who speak and hear them. They won’t be heard as much as they will be felt. The pain and the anguish, the emptiness and hatred of that Friday long ago will fill the senses with such powerful rage that anyone in attendance will be transformed from passive bystanders to active participants in the quest for life as the glorious news of the risen Christ is known on Sunday.
Both choral readings involve five voices, which may be chosen from the congregation or can be performed as a choir litany. The combination of these voices will convey the strong emotions and images of the drama of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Both can be substituted for the sermon. No costumes or props are required.
With an order of worship, Easter Day’s reading includes congregational singing of nine hymns with the choral reading. The Last Covenant is a wonderfully effective way to involve the entire congregation in “”The Greatest Story Ever Told.””
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Leading In Prayer
$34.99A straightforward, practical guide to doing prayer in corporate worship. Based on Hughes Oliphant Old’s lifelong experience as a pastor and his extensive work in the area of worship, this personal handbook discusses the historical and theological background of prayer, instructs pastors and worship leaders in the various kinds of prayer as they are used in the church, and examines the ordering of prayer in congregational worship.
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Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down
$33.99Boomers vs. busters, clergy vs. laypeople, organists vs. guitarists—“worship wars” are tearing our churches apart! In this provocative book, Dawn calls us to more God-centered worship and away from the “entertain me” attitude. You’ll learn practical ways to determine the best methods for deepening worship life, nurturing new and mature believers, and strengthening your ministry in the church and the world.
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Young Children And Worship
$32.001. Introduction
2. Getting Ready To Be With God
Worship Center Order
3. Presentations
Stories
4. Patterns And InstructionsAdditional Info
Young children need a special environment where they can meet and worship God. They should have their own experiences where their faith can be nurtured and they can be prepared to join in the full life of the congregation.Sonja M. Stewart and Jerome W. Berryman have taken the needs of children into account and devised. an exciting way to introduce three- to seven-year-olds to the wonder of worship. Their approach, which integrates religious education and worship, has been presented at numerous workshops and training sessions. Based on the authors’ experiences, the methods described here will be invaluable to teachers helping children understand and participate in worship. For their part, children will be led to experience God, using all their senses.
Activities are developed around the order of worship commonly used in Reformed churches: assemble in God’s name; proclaim God’s Word; give thanks to God; go in God’s name. Stewart and Berryman suggest
beginning with the most essential parts of the service, adding to these as the children progress.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Lectionary Worship Aids Series 4 Cycle A
$26.18Lectionary Worship Aids by James R. Wilson is a lectionary book based on Cycle B of the Revised Common Lectionary. Here are some of the topics covered in this lectionary book:
– Worship
– Worship resources
– Worship services
– Worship aids
– Lectionary
– Cycle B of the Revised Common Lectionary
– Lectionary worship aids
– Lectionary resources
Call to Worship, Collect, Prayer of Confession, and three suggested hymns based on each lectionary text (First Lesson, Second Lesson, Gospel) are provided for every Sunday of the year in cycle A. Additional non-lectionary days such as All Saints’ Day, Thanksgiving Day, Fourth of July, World-wide Communion Sunday and Parent’s Days are also included.A scripture index helps to make this one of the most useful and necessary worship helps in any pastor’s library.
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Visions Of Lent Year 2
$9.93Visions of Lent Year 2 — Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) offers congregations a weekly presentation to be included in the regular Lenten worship service. This follow-up to Volume 1 (which concentrated on the Feast of Passover) focuses on the Palm Sunday story and six elements within that story that were significant parts of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles or Booths. The festival is rooted in Leviticus 23:33f, where God commanded Moses to declare the festival to the people of Israel as a reminder of the temporary shelters they lived in when He delivered them out of Egypt.
Preparation for this worship series is very simple. Lent I begins with a plain, “symbolic” booth which is placed somewhere within the sanctuary. For the next five weeks objects are gradually added inside the booth.
Objects include:
Lent 2 — citron (or other citrus fruit) in an attractive yet simple container
Lent 3 — musical instruments (flute, cymbal, lyre, harps, trumpets, etc.)
Lent 4 — donkey figure or picture
Lent 5 — a large crown
Lent 6 (Palm Sunday) — palm branchesEach presentation involves four participants including: minister, a youth and two other readers. Parts are brief and need not be memorized.
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Words For Worship
$18.99This collection by Arlene M. Mark is a ready resource for pastors and leaders to enrich and deepen worship together. When offered in bulletins, these words can become congregational statements that unify believers and nourish faith and discipleship. Responsive readings come from all ages of the church- our common Christian legacy.
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Reflections Of Light Ponderings Of Mary The Mother
$9.93Here are five brief dramatic monologues that tell the Christmas story through the eyes of Mary. A suggested order of worship includes hymns, scripture and a candlelighting ceremony, but the monologues could be used throughout Advent during the lighting of the Advent candles, in Sunday school or even weekday programs.
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Contemporary Lectionary Prayers Cycle A
$19.93Lord of the harvest, we hear that you need laborers.
For our benefit, please review the qualifications.
Will biblical knowledge be a consideration?
Is there an age limitation?
How about ethnic origin? Any preferences there?
Does family background enhance our chances of a good assignment?
Excuse me? These things are irrelevant? Jesus is the only reference required?
Forgive me for asking too many questions.
I am ready to work, Lord. It is quite obvious that you are going to have to help me.
Thank you, Lord. Amen.
(Prayer for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost)These and other prayers for each Sunday of the Cycle A Lectionary may be used for congregational worship as is or modified for antiphonal reading. The style is conversational and written in the language of today.
On the corresponding page of each prayer is:
a listing of the assigned lectionary Gospel
a Gospel theme
a Gospel note
the liturgical color of the day
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Mothers Of The Bible
$16.18We often hear of the lack of and the need for, strong role models in our society. This worship service, about 10 biblical women who overcame seemingly impossible situations by being faithful to God, provides just such role models, The traumatic experiences and depths of faith of these women, though poignant, are rarely considered in today’s society.
These 10 women came from various levels of society and had different types of problems. Yet, they all knew God as their only hope and refuge. An excellent resource for Mother’s Day, it is also great for other special occasions.
Characters included are:
* Hagar
* Sarah
* Moses’ mother
* Rahab
* Deborah
* Naomi and Ruth
* Hannah
* Esther
* ElizabethAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Exploring Our Lutheran Liturgy
$21.18Preface
IntroductionChapter One
The Building
Vestments
Music
The Church Year
Liturgical ColorsChapter Two
Invocation
The ConfessionChapter Three
Entrance Hymn/Hymn Of Invocation
Greeting
Kyrie
Hymn Of PraiseChapter Four
The Prayer Of The Day
The Lessons
The Gospel
The SermonChapter Five
The Hymn
The Creed
Prayer
The PeaceChapter Six
The Offering
The Great Thanksgiving/The Common Preface
The Words Of InstitutionChapter Seven
The Lord’s PrayerChapter Eight
The Communion
Lamb Of God
Dismissal
Post-Communion Canticle
Prayer
The BlessingConclusion
Sources
Additional Info
An exploration of the “how” and “why” of Lutheran worship. Ideal for worship or new member classes, worship and music committee workshops, a sermon series, or as a liturgy handbook for worship leadersAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Worship As Theology
$30.99In Worship As Theology, Don Saliers discusses how worship is both theological and anthropological (embodied and embedded in specific human and cultural contexts). He illuminates theology “prayed, sung, and enacted.” At the same time, by focusing upon specific dimensions of liturgical action such as praising, thanking, invoking, confessing, proclaiming, interceding, and blessing, he addresses the differences between the liturgical/ sacramental and the “free – church”/ evangelical church traditions.
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Community Of Joy
$22.99If congregations are to reach new generations of people, they must explore new styles of worship. Timothy Wright stikes a balance between liturgical worhip and worship that seeks to meet the needs of the unchurched and those who have a “hi-tech”, baby-boomer mentality. Written by a pastor in a vital and growing congregation, A COMMUNITY OF JOY suggests practical, innovative, and nontraditional forms of worship, enabling churches to minister more effectively.
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Old Wine In New Skins 1
$21.18“Worship must be directly connected to our daily lives,” writes George A. Nye. “It must address our fears, our hopes, even our indifferences.”
Old Wine In New Skins provides pastors many resources to make the connection. These include 66 calls to worship, 13 preparations for pastoral prayers and 52 reflections.
Calls to worship categories include:
With praise and celebration
Using traditional hymns and praise hymns
Relating to a story
With a commitment theme
Involving personal preparation
By seasonA preparation for pastoral prayer section helps pastors broaden a congregation’s understanding of how to approach God in prayer. Thirteen “preparations” are provided, including one for Advent-Christmas.
Fifty-two short reflections cover eight major themes for countless pastoral uses. These are easily adopted for mini-devotions, sermon illustrations, and newsletter meditations.
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And Him Crucified
$9.93Crowd: (Each person selects a phrase and repeats at random) Let him be crucified! Death! Crucify him! Let him die! Away with him!
Pilate: Why. What evil has he done?
Crowd: (At random) Let him be crucified! Away with him! Crucify him! Let him die!
Narrator 1: So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd.
Based on Matthew’s Gospel, And Him Crucified is a complete worship service in readers’ theater format. It brings the events of Jesus’ last days into the lives of your congregation. It needs few rehearsals and no costumes or experienced actors. A vivid and powerful picture of the crucifixion of Jesus is drawn from these pages. Six readers and two narrators are recommended, however you may use nearly 25 different speaking parts. The theater is part of the complete order of service, lasting about one hour.
The service includes suggested choir anthems.
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Restore Me
$16.18Restore Me includes a large collection of Lent and Easter season worship resources created to draw congregations into closer relationship with God.
Specific chapters for both Lent and Easter include:
Calls to worship
Common prayers
Prayers of dedication
Benedictions
Prayers of confession and pardon
Gospel dialogues“These resources grew out of my continued interest in the whole use of scripture in weekly worship,” Craig M. Sweet writes. “The dialogue use of scripture adds an extra dimension to the ‘dramaturgical’ experience of worship.”
In the gospel dialogue section are scripture readings based upon various lectionary texts. Dialogues are offered for Ash Wednesday, the Sundays of Lent, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter.
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Sunday Morning Readers Theater Cycle B
$19.93A fresh look at scripture, a new presentation of the gospel, a deeper communication for God’s truths — this is what church drama has to offer.
“Sunday Morning Readers’ Theater, B,” offers nineteen skits for use during the church year. Each skit’s performance falls between five and 10 minutes with the exception of readings for major church days.
“What I hope to do is to help people see the gospels, Jesus and the other scripture passages with new vision, unclouded by familiarity,” writes Pamela Urfer of these readings.
This series provides one more form of worship designed to unfold the meaning of the lectionary readings, either as a replacement or a supplement to the sermon. The style varies from comic to tragic and the skits are set in both biblical and modern times.
Readings include the Sundays of Advent and Lent, Christmas Eve/Day, Martin Luther King Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week selections, Pentecost Sunday, All Saints’ Sunday, and Reformation Sunday.
This is a three-book series. It closely follows the Revised Common, Lutheran, Episcopal, and Roman Catholic lectionaries.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Promise Kept At Christmas
$9.93We approach the worship of God this evening with a hushed awareness of Christ’s presence in our midst. God again breaks through the calm and darkness to reveal himself to us in the stillness of our hearts. (From the order of worship)
Light and darkness is a powerful biblical metaphor to talk about God’s compelling activity in the world. This Christmas Eve resource focuses on this metaphor.
A Promise Kept At Christmas offers congregations a complete order of service with suggested carols, lighting of Advent candles and scripture readings from the Old and New Testaments using a narrator and lay readers.
Scriptures are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
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Adoremos – (Spanish)
$14.991. Accion De Gracias
2. Alabanza
3. Antes De Ser Un Adorador
4. Adoracion
5. Por Que La Escasez De Verdaderos Adoradores
6. Un Encuentro Con Dios
7. La Importancia De Alabar Y Adorar
8. Los Moradores De Sion
9. Alla En El Cielo
10. Problemas Comunes En La Alabanza Y Adoracion P. 219Additional Info
Sabe Lo Que significa adoracion? La Biblia nos ensena que existen muchas formas de adorar a Dios, como por ejemplo la oracion, la alabanza, el canto, el ayuno, la fiesta, la oracion de gracias. Pero a traves de este libro descubrira una refrescante interpretacion de la palabra adoracion, que le ayudara a comprender que es un estilo de vida mas que una forma de expresarse con el Senor. marcos Witt le ayudara a descubrir algunas de las claves para ser un verdadero adorador.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Sheep Will Be Scattered
$9.93The Sheep Will Be Scattered is an impressive Maundy Thursday communion service. It involves the symbolic recreation of the Upper Room experience through an easy-to-create Last Supper tableau.
Members of the congregation, invited beforehand, make up the tableau.
The service focuses on the tensions and circumstances surrounding the disciples on this night. It encourages worshipers to identify with those tensions in their own faith lives.
Elements include a suggested order of service, a brief commentary, introduction of each guest at the table, holy communion, a reading from Mark (for one to three voices), and a conclusion. The reading is the NRSV of Mark 14:26-50.
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Lectionary Worship Aids Series 3 Cycle B
$21.18“Hear the good news! The victory that defeats the world is our faith, for who is victor over evil, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. Friends, believe the good news!”
— Declaration of God’s Forgiveness for Easter 2
“Lectionary Worship Aids,” Series III, Cycle B, follows in the CSS tradition of providing creative worship resources for congregations.
Series III is based on the Revised Common Lectionary and New Revised Standard Version.
Each Sunday offers:
– Listing of the four lectionary texts for the day
– Call to Worship
– Prayer of Confession
– Declaration of God’s Forgiveness
– Exhortation
– Prayer of the Day
– Prayer of Thanksgiving
– Prayer of Dedication
– Psalm (congregational reading)Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Worship And Warfare
$9.40Worship and Warfare is a treasury of truths which can enrich your prayer ministry. This booklet includes names of God, reminders of His character, hymns, quotes, and scripture verses which will stimulate, guide and refresh your prayer times.
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New Handbook Of The Christian Year
$39.99”A valuable source of services for the Christian seasons. One of the best currently available for all denominations,”—Christianity Today. A Christmas Eve family service, Ash Wednesday liturgy, and John Wesley’s covenant service among others.
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Trouble At The Table
$23.99How can we resolve the crsis and revitalize the worship in our church? Too often we evaluate worship as a matter of taste without examinging the presuppositions that inform worship in a given congregation. Exploring and developing techniques for handling resistance to change, the authors help church leaders see that worship is a public event, which must be continually renewed and revitalized.
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ABCs Of Worship
$30.00If you’re curious about the terms and practices used in worship, you’ll enjoy this dictionary. Stake includes 150 concise (not wordy) articles on topics such as ecumenicism, Maundy Thursday, anointing, symbols, Pentecost, and the Christian Year. Clearly written, the articles are arranged in alphabetical order and are cross-referenced so you can get the most out of them. Satisfy your curiosity!
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