Author: Administrator
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To Strengthen Christ’s Body
Conflict is a part of life even within the church. Conflict is not, in and of itself, either good or harmful. Conflicts contain the potential for both, depending on how they are handled. This resource identifies and explores basic concepts and tools that can help address the conflict and disagreements that are a part of
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Vital Values Assessment
Discover what is really important to you. Questions answered in this tool evaluate four major areas: Values in your work, life and relationships Values important to you in training or equipping others Decision-making values Team values
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The Pastor As Newcomer
All too often when a pastor takes up a new assignment or call the same frustrating series of events occurs: everyone experiences a burst of enthusiasm and hope, with Lay people and clergy finding that doors seem to open to new possibilities a few things go wrong, some hopes get dashed, personal differences emerge, old.
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Call to Worship: Children and Youth in Worship
Volume 42, Issue #2. Features/Authors are listed, Columns are not. Introduction Long, Kimberly Bracken v Children in the Sanctuary Dawson, Kathy 1 Are Baptized Children Welcome at the Table? Mikoski, Gordon S. 7 Rethinking Youth Sunday Drury, Amanda; Dean, Kenda Creasy 14 Choosing a Children’s Bible Pritchard, Gretchen Wolff 21 The Work of Our Hands:
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Call to Worship: Living the Christian Year
Volume 43, Issue #3. Features/Authors are listed, Columns are not. Introduction Long, Kimberly Bracken v Sacraments and Seasons Wasserman, Marney A. 1 Majoring in Minors Copeland, Brant S. 11 How the Liturgical Year (God’s Time) Encounters Us Bower, Peter C. 17 Let Us Our Songs Employ Wall, Eric 23 New Psalms for Holy Week (Year C)
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Call to Worship: Scripture
Volume 41, Issue #4. Features/Authors are listed, Columns are not. Introduction Long, Kimberly Bracken v Scripture in the Reformed Tradition Small, Joseph D. 1 The Place of the Decalogue in Reformed Liturgy Dorn, Christopher 7 Decalogue: A Musical Setting for Congregational Singing Gambrell, David 15 Sing to the Lord a New Psalm Scheer, Greg 16 The
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Call to Worship: Year B
Volume 42, Issue #1. Features/Authors are listed, Columns are not. Introduction Long, Kimberly Bracken v Lutherans and Reformed Living Together in Full Communion: Ten Years Daniels, Harold M. 1 One Curch, One Sanctuary West, Fritz 9 Eating What is Set Before You Brown, A. Michael 13 Lectionary Commentaries Bartlett, David 19 An Overview of the Revised
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Call to Worship: Healing and Wholeness
Volume 43, Issue #2. Features/Authors are listed, Columns are not. Introduction Long, Kimberly Bracken The Invisible Wounds of War Dorn, Christopher; Zemler, John 1 The Work of Our Hands: A Wing and a Prayer Vandermeer, David A. 9 A Service for Healing after Relinquishing a Child for Adoption Glass, Marci Auld 13 Sing, Touch, Remember Johnston,
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Call to Worship: Beauty, Justice, and Liturgy
Volume 42, Issue #3. Features/Authors are listed, Columns are not. Introduction Long, Kimberly Bracken v Inspector Brunetti’s Dilemma Torvend, Samuel 1 Liturgy for the Meantime Smith, Ted 6 Violence, Beauty, and the Eucharist Hotz, Kendra G.; Mathews, Matthew T. 15 The Work of Our Hands: Walking Toward the Cross with Jesus Sokolove, Deborah 25 Three Good
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Call to Worship: Year C
Volume 43, Issue #1. Features/Authors are listed, Columns are not. Introduction Long, Kimberly Bracken v Seeing the World through Scripture-colored Glasses Flemming, Matthew 1 The Work of Our Hands: Reframing the Framer Rider, Kelly 9 Calvin as Liturgical Theologian Moore-Keish, Martha 17 The Reform of Church Prayers Gambrell, David 26 New Songs of Celebration Render Morgan,
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Off To A Good Start
Written especially for church groups, these fifteen installation services offer a variety of themes for installation ceremonies and suggestions for carrying them out. Unique themes, unusual challenges to officers, simple props and detailed instructions for conducting the ceremonies make these services helpful to any church group that wishes to present a memorable installation. Each ceremony
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Steadfast Hope
Steadfast Hope: The Palestinian Quest for Just Peace is a 48-page perfect-bound booklet with a companion DVD. Steadfast Hope challenges common myths and misperceptions about the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, presents a compelling snapshot of the present situation on the ground, and offers a guide to the challenges that lie ahead in the quest for