This resource book for busy pastors provides homilies for marriage services as well as two unique orders of service and a service for a fiftieth wedding anniversary.
Ministers from around the United States have contributed to this collection of classics. Each of the homilies is biblically based and can be used as is or adapted to different circumstances.
The contents include:
*A Contemporary Wedding Service
*Marriage Likened to a Wedding Cake
*Leeches or Lovers
*Marriage as a Crisis
*We Belong to Each Other
*Let God Be the Go-between
*A Motto for...

This collection of best funeral meditations provides a wide range of messages that address almost every death situation from the anticipated to the tragic. These classic meditations have been gathered from the writings and contributions of pastors, church leaders, and teachers of many denominations. Among the situations addressed are: For the nominal church member For a little child For a non-Christian For the death of a child shortly after birth For a college student killed in an auto accident For a sixteen-year-old shot to death For a woman who committed suicide For a church member who...

"Our Christian Worship: Resources For Palm Sunday Through Easter," contains original and selected, contemporary resources for worship for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter.
"Our Christian Worship" features opening sentences, invocations, introits, collects, Scripture suggestions, hymn suggestions, prayers, welcome to visitors, offertory sentence, and prayers.
"Our Christian Worship" offers everything at your fingertips with such programs as: Maundy Thursday -- A Communion service and Tenebrae; Good Friday -- Passion story based upon the Seven Last Words; and Easter...

Faith, Hope, Love, Joy, and The Light Of The World are themes in this candlelighting service for the four Sundays of Advent and Christmas Eve.
Each service includes a scripture, message and prayer with optional listing of hymns and calls to worship.
"Lights Of Love" provides a banner instruction section, a Christmas Eve candlelighting suggested order of service, and a brief explanation of the meaning of Advent.
In addition to public worship, the services can easily be used in a family worship or Sunday school setting.
Charles T. Brown is a pastor in the Maine Conference of the...

"Let your life be the two of you looking together to a future, and what will be best for each in that tomorrow. You have some significant decisions to make about that future. Your labor of love will have to include each other in the process of deciding."
-- from the sermon by W. Gregory Martin
"This New Life Together" includes over twenty "field-tested" wedding meditations. The collection comes from clergy from six denominations and fourteen states.
As an anthology, this book fits many settings facing clergy. Included is a ceremony for an older and once widowed couple, a...