Lenten Congregational Resources
Betty Lynn Schwab
Visions of Lent Year 2 -- Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) offers congregations a weekly presentation to be included in the regular Lenten worship service. This follow-up to Volume 1 (which concentrated on the Feast of Passover) focuses on the Pa...

Reflections On The Ten Commandments
Robert G. Tuttle
Suppose you are flying alone at night. It is stormy and you are lost. Your fuel is running low.... You are about to give up when suddenly there is a break in the clouds and there below you is a narrow string of lights. A place to land! Thank God! Wou

Gospel Sermons For Sundays After Pentecost (Last Third), Cycle A
George S. Johnson
This collection of sermons carries us once again to the unquenchable challenge of discipleship ... following the Christ in pursuit of his vision of God's reign of justice and righteousness. A careful reading of these sermons is as spiritually rene

The Reign of God and Missional Churches Today
Ron Lavin
In this book, Ron Lavin explores in great depth exactly what witnessing is as well as what it is not. Whether the witness comes from an unnamed high school math teacher or a person one is hoping to marry, a pastor or a priest, it is always the same thing--it is simply the planting of a seed. The

Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir, Cycle B
Dallas A. Brauninger

Lenten Congregational Resources
Betty Lynn Schwab
A new and unusual service for Lent...!

At the beginning of Lent each family in the congregation is invited to lend a plant from home (silk or live), following a Jewish Shavuot custom. The following Sundays in Lent build on this focal point as

Hymnfest For The Church Year
Ruth M. Buenting
This companion volume to Gloria: Letters From Hymnwriters provides:

a brief commentary for each season of the church year
imaginative letters from the writers of traditional hymns
suggested hymns by the writer of each letter to

First Lesson Sermons For Sundays After Pentecost (Last Third), Cycle A
Robert S. Crilley
This volume makes clear why Robert Grilley has won awards and wide acclaim for his preaching. These messages bring the reality of God to contemporary life.
He listens as we sometimes speak of how difficult it is to find God and how we receive onl...

How the Supreme Court's First Amendment Decisions Affect Organized Religion
Kathryn Page Camp
An unbiased account of the effect Supreme Court decisions have on organized religion.

  • Features the largest number of actual cases in one volume ever made available to the general public.
  • A perfect resource for the library of those who are touched by the First Amendment and freedom of religion issues.
  • A great reference for

Worship Resources For The Day Of Pentecost
George Paul Mocko
The Day of Pentecost calls Christians to celebrate the power of God for life. In times when the faithful feel powerless, and fear that God and the church may have nothing to say to the world, these resources provide a word of strength.

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