Ready-to-use funeral services for difficult situations.
Each service is set in a ministry context and includes a sample sermon, Scripture text, and prayers.
Miscarriage, Premature Delivery, Stillbirth, Infant Dies in Sleep, Infant is Fatally Injured, Infant Dies In Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Infant Dies Due to Mistreatment, Child Drowns, Child Dies of Serious Illness, Child Dies in Accident, Child Dies Due to Mistreatment, Youth Dies as Driver in Car Accident, Youth Dies as Passenger in Car Accident, Youth Dies of Serious Illness, Youth Murdered, Youth Dies Accidentally, Youth...
Ready-to-use funeral services for difficult situations.
Each service is set in a ministry context and includes a sample sermon, Scripture text, and...
Understanding the concept of stewardship in a broader context as management of our God-given gifts, this book provides material for twenty-four services including: suggested liturgies, prayers, Scripture passages, and sermon briefs to help pastors minister more effectively.
Contents include:
1. Make Your Money Work for You (Luke 16:1-13) 2. Owning Up to Our Greatest Obligations: Death and Taxes (Matthew 22:15-22) 3. Make a Difference: Be the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:12-31a) 4. Who Needs Bigger Barns? (Luke 12:13-21) 5. Playing the...
Understanding the concept of stewardship in a broader context as management of our God-given gifts, this book provides material for twenty-four servic...
Ready-to-use worship and preaching resources for the four Sundays in Advent including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Includes biblically-based sermon briefs, suggested Scriptures, hymns, prayers, and litanies for lighting the Advent Wreath. To help pastors minister more effectively during this important church season.
Contents include: Introduction: The Ways We Know Jesus First Sunday in Advent: Emmanuel Second Sunday in Advent: Son of Man Third Sunday in Advent: Example Fourth Sunday in Advent: Lord Christmas Eve: Son of God ...
Ready-to-use worship and preaching resources for the four Sundays in Advent including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Includes biblically-based sermo...
The Just In Time series offers brief, practical resources of immediate help for pastors at an affordable price.
Part of a pastor's role in the community is to pray publicly. The pastor is often the official "pray-er" at all kinds of community events--the high school football game, the opening of the new grocery store, the county school board meeting, kindergarten graduation--to name a few. But the pastor must also pray knowing that there are believers (of many persuasions) and non-believers present. In addition to the prayers in this book, there are brief setting descriptions and...
The Just In Time series offers brief, practical resources of immediate help for pastors at an affordable price.
Just In Time Series offers brief, practical resources of immediate help for pastors at an affordable price.
This book introduces the practice of Communion and offers a collection of Communion prayers and ready-to-use resources for worship. Included is information on Communion elements, vessels, and methods with answers to commonly asked questions. Rev. Knowles Wallace gives four possible orders of Communion, various ways to offer Communion, and prayers and resources for specific seasons and holy days in the church year from Advent through Thanksgiving. Also includes: Communion...
Just In Time Series offers brief, practical resources of immediate help for pastors at an affordable price.
Based on the Revised Common Lectionary and broadly ecumenical, this addition to the Just In Time series provides creative liturgies, sermon helps, and prayers for Easter Vigil, Easter Sunday, and the 40 days of Easter.
Based on the Revised Common Lectionary and broadly ecumenical, this addition to the Just In Time series provides creative liturgies, sermon he...