Gary G. Jenkins, retired Christian Church minister, collects some entertaining and edifying resources from his life and ministry. These consist of 20 stories, as well as materials he groups under sections as Poems and Prayers, Close to My Heart, Second Printings, Skits and Sermons. Clergy and laity alike will find this a fun and helpful book.

Brief Meditations When the Church Is Gathered Around the Lord's Table provides enough material to fill a year with fresh inspirations for the Lord's Supper. In his career as a Christian Church minister, Gary G. Jenkins was tasked with the creation of Communion Meditations as a basic component of worship in all churches of the Campbellite Movement. Most of these meditations should be shared in no more than 60 seconds. This does several things. (a) It enables the one charged with this responsibility to memorize without great difficulty what will be said. It can then be shared without obviously...