This book draws from a compilation of pastoral prayers written each Sunday morning for worship over a seven-year tenure of ministry at the Black Mountain Presbyterian Church in Black Mountain, NC. Following the Christian liturgical calendar, these prayers lift the scriptural themes of Sunday worship along with many of the societal and ecclesial issues facing the community and the United States of America. In addition, there are more than twenty poems that lift additional personal and societal issues, written from the faith journey of an ever-growing Presbyterian minister. Collectively, there...