A Study Series For Pastoral Study Groups
Peter C. Garrison
How do you deal with the unspoken, yet continuing dilemmas of your ministry?

Are you seen as a good luck charm?
Are you put on a pedestal of undue adoration?
Are you discouraged in evangelism and stewardship efforts?

Pastor

First Lesson Sermons For After Pentecost (First Third), Cycle B
Charles Curley
”Somewhere within each of us is a great hunger, a great empty space which will never be filled until we identify it correctly. It is a hunger for God,” writes Charles Curley. ”Nothing else can fill the emptiness which that hunger creates.

The Mystique Of Prayer & Pray-er
George K. Bowers
Prayers of Kierkegeaard never before translated into English with special permission of the Det kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Translated by Lois S. Bowers and Edited by George K. Bowers

Here, for the first time in English tran

Series II, Cycle C
Dallas A. Brauninger
While this book offers information for the sermon writer, the design of its contents provides more than the ho-hum. It avoids presenting a ready-made cloak of words for a morning sermon. Instead it invites preachers and their audiences to explore the gap between the "back then" and the "now." It not only helps answer questions, it generates them- a

Sermons on 10 Who Jesus Touched
Gordon Pratt Baker
”His name was Jesus, and his cause was humanity. It was a cause Jesus did not have to meet alone. There was a cloud of witnesses to bear him out.” (from the Introduction)

Gordon Pratt Baker offers ”cameos of 10 who testified...

Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir, Cycle A
Dallas A. Brauninger
Dallas Brauninger offers all who plan Sunday services of worship rich varieties of uses of one lectionary passage for every Sunday: a variety of voices and groupings of voices, and a variety of settings within the service of worship itself, from c...

Lenten Season Sermon Outlines And Program Ideas
Karen Helsel
Prepare everyone in your congregation for a meaningful Lenten season with this collection of six sermon outlines, accompanied by program suggestions, worship aids, and a dramatic reading based on Mark's passion narrative. The resources all stress the

Dramatic Sketches In Divorce Recovery
Robert Alan Ward
For Christians who have suffered through the traumatic experience of a divorce, these presentations provide the components for maintaining a deep faith while working through the process of suffering and healing.

These

A Good Friday Tenebrae Service
Stephen V. Doughty
On this most solemn of all Christian holy days the worship area is in semi-darkness. On the alter or table burn eight candles. As the service progresses readers share scripture from the Passion story according to Saint Mark, impart brief meditations

Becoming Who I Am
Jack C. Westman
The breakdown of our ability to handle complex social problems can be traced to a breakdown within ourselves. Unlike Eastern societies, which emphasize the inner spiritual being, our Western society emphasizes the manipulation of our external environ