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Companion to The Africana Worship Book
Safiyah Fosua, Valerie Bridgeman Davis
Worship is when "God shows up and shows out!"
African-American worship affirms that an active God embodies human lives through companionship and communion.
This volume of essays, interlacing worship pieces with reflections from prominent leaders and emerging thinkers in Africana life, is designed to help churches, professors, and students reflect more deeply on worship and practice.
Building a bridge of understanding through collective experiences, the Companion to the Africana Worship Book s...
The Children's Minister
Rita B. Hays
Your church's outreach to children and their parents are top-notch. The nursery and Sunday school classes are full and offer great faith-learning experiences. The daycare and parents-day-out services are thriving.
But what if a child who's a part of your church family reveals his dog just died? Her mom and dad are divorcing? The family is moving to another city? These are pastoral (not programming) issues.
Is your church prepared to be in ministry with children? To relate with children where ...
From Your Heart to Theirs, Participant's Guide
Delivering an Effective Sermon
Tony Franks, David Carroll
"Let me tell you a story." Since childhood, those introductory words capture our attention like few others. Sharing our faith story can be just as captivating and influential. Yet even the most experienced public speaker may need help preparing a sermon that's both engaging and compelling. Franks and Carroll will help you develop such a sermon. The parts of this helpful experiential guide for novice and already certified lay speakers include
types of sermons, from exegetical to topical to t...
From Your Heart to Theirs, Instructor's Guide
Delivering an Effective Sermon
Tony Franks, David Carroll
The instructor's guide for From Your Heart to Theirs breaks down the important ideas to relate as you plan your study, the preparatory tasks, logistical steps, and the session goals in short, practical outlines.
The objective of this guide is to help you lead a 10-hour advanced course for certified lay speakers who want to hone their preaching skills. During the training, you'll lay the groundwork to help each speaker present a short sermon, and you'll be equipped to coach them to do their be...
Retreats for Renewal
5 Models for Intergenerational Weekends
Nancy Ferguson
We run through our days—going from appointment to appointment, responsibility to responsibility, activity to activity. Harried and hurried, we disconnect with family, friends, and God.
From the moment of creation, God's intention was that we would stop on a regular basis for rest and renewal.
God also made us to yearn for relationships and community.
Hosting a weekend intergenerational retreat encourages sabbath time and deepens relationships within the whole congregation. It will offer a cha...
Afire with God
Becoming Spirited Stewards
Betsy Schwarzentraub
Stewardship is a dirty word in most churches.
Pastors preach about it knowing they must while members sit uncomfortably through the "it's-that-time-again" sermons and other appeals. Afire with God urges ministries and congregations to become stewards-in-action of all God has entrusted to us. Members go beyond thinking in terms of dollars contributed to see stewardship as becoming living examples of the gospel.
"Real stewardship is radical, which means going to the roots of our faith," writes ...
Living into the Mystery
A United Methodist Guide for Celebrating Holy Communion
Taylor Burton-Edwards
Available only as a PDF
Rituals help us identify with a group of people and pledge what we share. Such communal events help us express the often inexpressible. "United Methodists strongly affirm that the Lord's Table is the Lord's," the writers of this timely resource say. "We also affirm with the whole church that in the Great Thanksgiving 'we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving, a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us.'"
The sacrament of the Eucharist is...
Reclaiming the Wesleyan Tradition
John Wesley's Sermons for Today
Robert McDonald-Walker, Kevin Watson, Douglas M. Strong, ...
Come back home to God!
Salvation is a central theme in John Wesley's writings. Wesley urged people to become and continually grow as committed disciples of Jesus Christ. His appeals and reasoning are just as relevant today as they were in the 18th century.
"Wesley's 'Way of Salvation' is a road map of the journey of humanity toward God," write the authors. "It's a pathway of grace in which we respond to God with increasing self-awareness of our separation and our need to come back home. Our a...
The Africana Worship Book (Year B)
Safiyah Fosua, Valerie Bridgeman Davis
The second volume of this compilation includes all new Africana worship references and great new features?including a worship plan for young adults, articles on the Africana worship praxis, short dramatic monologues and sound files. Like the first volume, Volume 2 offers new, specially written… calls to worship liturgies prayers litanies offertory prayers doxologies choral readings creeds chants and benedictions Contributors includ...
Let the Children Give
Time, Talents, Love, and Money
Delia Halverson
Let the Children Give provides adults the resources to demonstrate and teach a stewardship lifestyle to kids.
Stewardship is more than a church committee assigned to raise money for the budget. Christians are expected to act as responsible caretakers of everything we've been given by God. All have abilities to accomplish this work, and the apostle Paul reminds us that everyone, including children, must work together. Each of us holds an important role in Christ's mission.
"With our abilities ...