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    • Holy Psalmody

      $45.00

      SKU (ISBN): 9780995363410ISBN10: 0995363412Coptic Orthodox ChurchBinding: Cloth TextPublished: September 2016Publisher: St Shenouda Monastery Print On Demand Product

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    • Liberating King

      $12.99

      Worship Is Our Remedy

      Christ has delivered believers from the power of sin, but instead of living in true freedom, we struggle with the same failures every day. This is not how it’s supposed to be. We need someone stronger than us to release us from the prison of sin. Enter Jesus, the liberating king. With passion and purpose, worship pastor Stephen Miller calls readers to draw near to Christ in worship, allowing his Word and the Holy Spirit to loose our chains by exposing the lies that imprisoned us in the first place. When we do, we see everything more clearly–from the sinking sand of our man-made security to the solid rock of Jesus’s unshakeable power. Miller shows that holy living is within our grasp when we keep our eyes and our adoration on the one who was sent not only to save us, but to make us into new creations.

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    • Next Worship : Glorify God In A Diverse World

      $21.99

      What happens when a diverse church glorifies the global God? We live in a time of unprecedented intercultural exchange, where our communities welcome people from around the world. Music and media from every culture are easily accessible, and our worship is infused with a rich variety of musical and liturgical influences. But leading worship in multicultural contexts can be a crosscultural experience for everybody. How do we help our congregations navigate the journey? Pioneering worship leader Sandra Van Opstal is known for crafting worship that embodies the global, multiethnic body of Christ. Likening diverse worship to a sumptuous banquet, she shows how worship leaders can set the table and welcome worshipers from every tribe and tongue. Van Opstal provides biblical foundations for multiethnic worship, with practical tools and resources for planning services that reflect God’s invitation for all peoples to praise him. When multiethnic worship is done well, the church models reconciliation and prophetic justice, heralding God’s good news for the world. Enter into the praise of our king, and let the nations rejoice!

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    • Ancient Christian Worship

      $40.00

      This introduction to the origins of Christian worship illuminates the importance of ancient Christian worship practices for contemporary Christianity. Andrew McGowan, a leading scholar of early Christian liturgy, takes a fresh approach to understanding how Christians came to worship in the distinctive forms still familiar today. Deftly and expertly processing the bewildering complexity of the ancient sources into lucid, fluent exposition, he sets aside common misperceptions to explore the roots of Christian ritual practices–including the Eucharist, baptism, communal prayer, preaching, Scripture reading, and music–in their earliest recoverable settings. Students of Christian worship and theology as well as pastors and church leaders will value this work.

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    • Washing Feet : Imitating The Example Of Jesus In The Liturgy Today

      $14.95

      More than half a century after its introduction into the Easter liturgy, the rite of the washing of feet on Holy Thursday goes to the heart of what it means to take part in Christian liturgy-as well as to live a Christian life. In Washing Feet: Imitating the Example of Jesus in the Liturgy Today, Thomas O’Loughlin explores the significance of mutual foot washing in early Christian communities and in the rituals of churches today.

      Washing Feet is a sound and engaging combination of liturgical theology, historical exploration, and practical pastoral guidance. Clergy, liturgy committees, and RCIA leaders involved in Holy Week liturgies will find this a useful and accessible resource for understanding how this practice is a key to how ordinary Christians understand the nature of the church and their relationship to others within their particular communites.

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    • Children Worship

      $24.00

      Children Worship! offers planned experiences that help children understand what is expected in worship, how to participate, and what our words and actions mean. This thirteen-session worship education resource helps congregations incorporate young children into the worshiping community. Sessions focus on the six actions of worship and cover the following topics: Gathering, Giving, Praise and Thanks, Praying, Proclaiming, Responding, and Sending.

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    • God We Worship

      $23.99

      In The God We Worship Nicholas Wolterstorff takes a ground-up approach to liturgical theology, examining the oft-hidden implications of traditional elements of liturgy. Given that “no liturgy has ever been composed from scratch,” Wolterstorff argues that the assumptions taken into worship are key to perceiving the real depths of historical Christianity’s understanding of God.

      Across the liturgies of the Orthodox, Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, and Reformed churches, Wolterstorff highlights theologically neglected elements of God, such as an implicit liturgical understanding of God as listener. A dissection of liturgy is not only interesting, Wolterstorff argues, but crucial for reconciling differences between the God studied by theologians and the God worshiped by churchgoers on Sunday.

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    • Missional Worship Worshipful Mission

      $29.99

      A rich, fresh take on the meaning and practice of Christian worship

      A common perception among Christians is that worship is only a Sunday morning activity done within the walls of the church, while, by contrast, mission involves how the church engages the outside world. But Ruth Meyers argues that there is a dynamic correlation between worship and mission, and she explores that relationship in this book.

      Meyers takes the reader chapter by chapter through the various parts of the Sunday worship service, incorporating stories of worship practices in different churches, and shows how the actions of worship relate to mission in the world. The book’s last chapter offers a conceptual tool for preparing worship that is a rich celebration of the mystery of God’s love.

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    • Rite Place : Kids Do Church Adults Do Too

      $28.95

      Ready-to-use liturgies with music, for all seasons of the church year

      * Offers a practical guide for child-directed, inclusive worship

      Grace Episcopal Church, Oak Park, Illinois has become a model for how to
      engage all generations in an experiential and fully inclusive Eucharistic liturgy. The
      Rite Place is a 30-minute service designed for young children and their households
      in response to the congregation’s desire to offer welcoming worship for all ages.
      This book has three parts: the theology of intergenerational worship, including
      pastoral issues and how a church might get started to implement such a model;
      the use of music as an integral piece to worship as formation; and complete
      liturgies for Advent/Christmas/Epiphany, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Maundy Thursday/
      Good Friday, Easter, and the Season of Pentecost/Summer that are accessible for
      other congregations to use in their own settings.

      For clergy, Christian educators, musicians, liturgists, Episcopal schools, chaplains,
      children’s hospitals, seminaries, and faith formation organizations.

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    • Worship Ways : For The People Within Your Reach

      $25.99

      Accelerating diversity of lifestyles has created a crisis for worship designers. One size does not fit all. No worship service can be “blended” to address the complete needs of a congregation. Moreover, church “shopping” is ending as people are choosing a worship service that directly meets their fundamental anxieties about life (regardless of style). Learn to use lifestyle information in worship planning to design a service that truly reaches the people in your community. This book explains why people worship and guides leaders to design relevant worship services that address people’s sense of urgency. It is both practical and theological. The decline of worship attendance in all denominations, and across all “traditional” or “contemporary” styles, is reshaping the quest for relevance. Church leaders are turning away from methods to outcomes. People will only participate in worship if it really matters to the fundamental issues that they face.

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    • Reformed Worship (Revised)

      $8.99

      When the church assembles on the Lord’s Day, what is it supposed to do? Does Scripture instruct us? Does God provide directions? Or is it up to us? Is it left to ministers and “worship leaders” and worship committees to make things up as we go, settling on whatever they think might be edifying, or exciting, or neat? Thankfully, God has not left us to our own devices in this most vital of realms. Jesus says we “must” worship in “spirit and truth” (Jn 4:24). Correct worship is not optional: Scripture provides the details, that none should fail to worship with the “reverence and awe” of which God approves (Heb 12:28). Explore in this work what it means to worship God “according to Scripture.”

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    • Resources In The Ancient Church For Todays Worship

      $22.99

      There is much that the church today can learn from the worship of the early church, particularly in the second century. This was a time when increasing numbers of gentiles were coming to the church with little or no previous knowledge of the Judeo-Christian tradition. How did the church train and instruct those who wished to join it? How did its worship, particularly in baptism and in communion, respond to the challenge of shaping and nurturing believers who would have to live their faith in a hostile environment? Today the church begins to face similar conditions. Growing numbers around us have little or no idea what our faith is all about. As such people seek membership in the church, and as we all seek ways to be faithful in the present environment, we have much to learn from the church in those earlier times, and particularly from its worship.

      La iglesia de hoy tiene mucho que aprender del culto de la iglesia antigua, particularmente de la iglesia durante el siglo segundo. En aquel tiempo cada vez eran mas los gentiles se acercaban a la iglesia sin saber mucho de la tradicion judeo-cristiana. Como era que la iglesia instruia y adiestraba a quienes deseaban unirse a ella? En que modos el culto de la iglesia respondia al reto de formar y nutrir a aquellos creyentes que tendrian que vivir en un ambiente hostil? Hoy la iglesia se enfrenta a retos semejantes. Cada vez son mas nuestros contemporaneos que saben bien poco acerca de la fe cristiana. Cuando tales personas piden unirse a la iglesia, y cuando nosotros mismos buscamos como ser fieles en el ambiente de hoy, la iglesia de aquellos tiempos tiene mucho que ensenarnos, particularmente en lo que se refiere al culto.

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    • Wake Up For Heavens Sake

      $18.11

      Endorsements
      In striking similarity to the message of John the Baptist, the words of Pastor Crummer will find you hearing the voice of one crying out into the wilderness. A call to cut through the distractions most experience in the often hectic church life of the Believer today, pleading for a return of the readers heart to experience an intimacy with Christ that exceeds current expectation. A timely reminder that we have been called “to make (and keep) straight the way of the Lord”.
      H. Jay Kuhlman

      “If you or someone you know has been the victim of the devil’s tactics to create a church that is short sighted in its understanding of the true nature of worship, then “Wake Up for Heaven’s Sake” is part of the cure. Crummer’s book will challenge you to return to your created purpose and once again see worship as a relational reality that permeates every part of who you are.”
      Pastor, The Bridge Birmingham,
      President, Patria Ministries,
      Author, The Elisha Way and The Remedy

      If there was ever a restart button, “Wake Up” is the book you’ve been looking for…This book will reboot your spirit…
      Scott Evelyn,
      Pastor, The Bridge Pinnacle Mountain

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    • Seeing The Voice Of God (Reprinted)

      $17.99

      Many believers strive to discover why they can’t hear God’s voice–but they fail to realize that they can have “20/20 hearing” through their dreams. God is never silent. He longs to communicate, and if his voice falls on deaf ears, he will speak in pictures.

      Sadly, instead of nurturing and nourishing their dream lives, many believers feel forgotten by God and miss out on his godly counsel. But they don’t have to. With absorbing insight, prophetic leader Laura Harris Smith demystifies nighttime dreams and daytime visions. Topics include:
      * making sense of symbols
      * the top ten kinds of dreams
      * how a life of holiness readies God’s people to see
      * REM sleep, dream cycles, and open visions
      * the counterfeit dark sources of “vision”
      * biblical dreams and modern testimonies

      God is always speaking, even when his words come as pictures. There is no reason to miss a single word.

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    • Liturgical Spirituality : Anglican Reflections On The Churchs Prayer

      $39.93

      Of particular interest to scholars and practitioners across the Anglican Communion
      with contributions from a wide breadth of scholars

      Liturgical Spirituality is a collection of Anglican reflections on the spirituality of the liturgy,
      inviting readers into the Church’s patterns of prayer, seasons of the year, and sacramental
      action. With contributions from all over the world, from the North Atlantic to Australia,
      the collection helps develop a comprehensive understanding of contemporary Anglican
      spirituality.

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    • Let Us Worship

      $15.99

      Let Us Worship shares vital principles about worship and how to lead others into worship. Judson Cornwall loved to worship God, and his love for worship shows on every page of this Spirit-filled classic. He wrote, Worship is best learned by worshiping. We learn by associating with the object of our worship, for He is an excellent teacher.

      In this book Dr. Cornwall shows the reader that worship is: The beginning of revival, An interpersonal relationship between man and God, A present-moment activity, Love responding to love, An expression of faith, The total release of the spirit to God’s Spirit. And so much more!

      Let Us Worship provides us with a comprehensive overview of the importance of worship. It is a believer’s manual that leads the reader into the very presence of God. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand Psalm 95:6-7

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    • Worship The Lord With Gladness

      $24.98

      Lessons:
      1. Come, Let’s Worship God! What Is Worship?
      2. Come To The Water: Baptism
      3. Come To The Table: Holy Communion
      4. Worship Leaders Help Us Praise God
      5. Church Symbols Help Me Worship God
      6. Music Helps Me Offer Praise To God
      7. One Service, Many Parts
      8. One God, Many Ways To Worship
      9. We Worship And We Welcome
      10. I Have A Part In Worship
      11. Special Times Of Worship
      12. We Gather To Worship, We Leave To Serve
      13. Children Lead In Worship

      Additional Info
      Worship the Lord with Gladness: God’s Children in Worship is designed to teach children about worship. Each lesson is based upon a scripture verse or passage that the children would examine in detail. Activities, games, drama, role-play, reproducibles, and music are incorporated into the lessons. Each lesson provides an opportunity for the children to put into practice what they have learned. In addition, there are take-home sheet explaining the lesson and providing parents ideas for reinforcing the lesson at home.

      Each lesson contains the following:

      WORSHIP WIDSOM: Background material for the teacher.

      ENTER WITH GLADNESS: Gathering activities for children as they arrive for the worship study.

      BIBLE PRAISE NOTES: Children will examine the scripture for the day.

      LET’S LEARN TO WORSHIP: Activities, games, drama, role play, reproducibles and music help the children learn about the particular worship theme.

      WE WORSHIP GOD: A time to put into practice what the children have learned.

      MY FAMILY HELPS ME WORSHIP: Take-home ideas for worship in the home and reinforcing the lesson

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    • Story Shaped Worship

      $33.99

      Acknowledgements
      Introduction
      Part I: Biblical Patterns: Story-Shaped Liturgy
      1. Genesis And The Gospel: Worship In The Beginnings
      Workshop
      2. Worship And Identity: Yahweh And Shbath In The Torah, Prophets And Gospels
      Workshop
      3. Abad: Worship As Holy Service
      Workshop
      4. The Shape Of Biblical Worship
      Workshop
      5. Worship By The Book
      Workshop
      6. Worship And Holiness
      Workshop
      7. Worship In Exile, Synagogues And The Early Church
      Workshop

      Part II: Historical Patterns: The Interpretations Of Worship
      8. Patristic Patterns For Christian Worship: Clarifying The Faith
      Workshop
      9. Reformation Patterns For Christian Worship: Recovering The Faith
      Workshop
      10. Contemporary Patterns For Christian Worship: Keeping The Faith
      Workshop
      Glossary
      Topic Index
      Scripture Index For Further Reading

      Additional Info
      What is the right way to worship? Right worship does not require a return to the identical forms found in the early church or later in Rome or after that in Westminster. What it calls for is a faithful response today to the God of our salvation in light of those biblically ordered and historically informed patterns. In this study Robbie Castleman uncovers the fundamental shape of worship. What she unearths is a shape that is outlined in Scripture, enacted in Israel, refocused in the New Testament community, regulated and guarded by the Apostolic fathers, and recovered in the Reformation. It is a worship that can and does still shape the liturgy of many congregations today.

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    • New Wedding Service For You (Revised)

      $16.18

      Every wedding should be sacred and unique. Written with that in mind, A New Wedding Service for You is a distinctive collection of nineteen wedding services that have been designed with fresh perspective and modern language. Throughout the author’s ministry, Arthur Homburg has helped couples prepare for their wedding services, and this book is a reflection of his conviction that every couple deserves an individual and thoughtful wedding celebration.

      This revised version of CSS’ A New Wedding Service for You presents variations on the traditional wedding format, and it offers creative approaches to the classic wedding ceremony. Each service reflects the careful and heartfelt phrasings of men and women who sought to personalize their holy unions, and the words found within each ceremony remain rooted in the principles of Christian love and faith. Beginning with the assertion that every wedding service should “belong to the couple,” A New Wedding Service for You serves as an innovative resource for any couple pursuing a wedding ceremony that reflects a renewed version of enduring promise and hope.

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    • Lectionary Worship Aids Series 9 Cycle A

      $34.93

      The Revised Common Lectionary is not just to provide a guide to scripture reading during the church year. It can help shape the entirety of our worship. The themes for each Sunday service, as created by the lectionary, can be further explored and appreciated through Reed’s poetic prayers and responsories, as well as through musical selection suggestions. By involving all of the senses in worship, congregations can gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for the various themes highlighted in the lectionary, themes such as grace, mercy, justice, and others.

      Lectionary Worship Aids for Cycle A allows ministers and worship leaders to tie the entire worship experience together for their congregations. Reed’s insights will prove invaluable in leading congregations into the presence of God not only on Sunday but also on holidays and other special occasions.

      Topics covered in this resource include:
      * Calls to Worship
      * Suggested Hymns
      * Collects for the Day
      * Prayers of Confession

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    • Liturgical Sense : The Logic Of Rite

      $29.26

      * A premier Anglican liturgical theologian reviews the history of the liturgical movement
      in North America and anticipates next steps in liturgical “sensibility”

      Louis Weil looks back on his work shaping the liturgical life of the Episcopal Church
      through his involvement with the development of The 1979 Book of Common Prayer-
      and looks forward to the future of the church and its liturgical life. Through stories and
      first-person anecdotes, Weil does “narrative theology” as only he can.

      Although most points of reference are to the 1979 BCP, the book is aiming at a more
      fundamental level-not just Episcopal or even Anglican liturgy, but liturgical rites as
      such: how do they “do what they do”?-or NOT do when they are done badly! “Liturgical
      Sense” is two dimensional: both the “common sense” of liturgical rites and also their
      “aesthetic sense.”

      It is Dr. Weil’s contention that in American culture we have an inherent inability to “think
      symbolically.” Dr. Weil seeks to encourage a return to “liturgical sense” across the church.

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    • Altars For Everyone

      $26.99

      The altar sits at the heart of the worship space, reminding everyone that here is where we lift our hearts up to God. Often the altar is decorated, but almost always in the same way: with flowers, candles, or a cross. But what if the altar could be made a more integral part of the worship experience? What if the visual elements on the altar could be designed to fit in with that Sunday’s scriptures, hymns, prayers, and sermon? And what if it could be done, not only beautifully, but simply and inexpensively, so that churches of any size could benefit from this enhancement to their worship?

      That is just what Nancy Townley and Stephanie Davis are offering in this helpful and practical book. Worship leaders and artists, they have assembled dozens of beautiful, worshipful altar designs, pictures of which appear in the book. Detailed instructions accompany the artwork and illustrate how to create the design, and how and where to find or purchase the component elements with the least effort and expense. Designed with the needs of small membership and mid-size churches in mind, this volume offers indispensable guidance for anyone who wants to make worship a more enriching and transforming experience.

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    • Adoracion Cristiana – (Spanish)

      $12.99

      Este libro examina el tema de la adoracion cristiana desde el punto de vista del protestantismo y la diversidad dentro de este. Es en esta diversidad que se han configurado modelos distintos en la organizacion eclesiastica y ha resultado en una adoracion marcadamente creativa y flexible. El autor nos guiara por el desarrollo historico de esta adoracion y expondra algunos de los modelos basicos.

      Written in Spanish, this book examines the topic of the Christian worship and its diversity from the Protestant perspective. This diversity has contributed to the configuration of different worship models in the ecclesiastical organization that results in a flexible and creative worship. The author will guide us for the historic development of Christian worship and discuss some of the basic models.

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    • Bringing The Word To Life

      $21.99

      The New Testament books were written to be read aloud. The original audiences of these texts would have been unfamiliar with our current practice of reading silently and processing with our eyes rather than our ears, so we can learn much about the New Testament through performing it ourselves. Richard Ward and David Trobisch are here to help. Bringing the Word to Life walks the reader through what we know about the culture of performance in the first and second centuries, what it took to perform an early New Testament manuscript, the benefits of performance for teaching, and practical suggestions for exploring New Testament texts through performance today

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    • Saint Bernards Three Course Banquet

      $29.95

      Saint Bernard s famous work, The Steps of Humility and Pride (in Latin, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae), is a short book consisting of a mere fifty-seven paragraphs. In it, the Abbot of Clairvaux unpacks the doctrine of the very crucial chapter 7 of Saint Benedict s sixth-century Rule for Monks, which explores the dynamic steps or degrees of both humility and pride. This chapter by Benedict could well be considered the spiritual basis of all Benedictine existence.

      In Saint Bernard s Three-Course Banquet, Dom Bernard Bonowitz makes the teaching of both Bernard and Benedict accessible to modern readers in a set of conferences originally conceived for and delivered to a group of Cistercian juniors, that is, monks and nuns who had completed their novitiate but had not yet made their solemn vows. With Dom Bernard as a guide, many more readers can be sure of drinking at the purest sources of the monastic tradition, which at that depth becomes one with the Gospel itself.

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    • Imagining The Kingdom (Reprinted)

      $31.76

      How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith’s three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received Desiring the Kingdom. He helps us understand and appreciate the bodily basis of habit formation and how liturgical formation–both “secular” and Christian–affects our fundamental orientation to the world. Worship “works” by leveraging our bodies to transform our imagination, and it does this through stories we understand on a register that is closer to body than mind. This has critical implications for how we think about Christian formation.

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    • Worship In The Garden

      $14.99

      SKU (ISBN): 9781426765940ISBN10: 1426765940J. Wayne PrattBinding: Trade PaperPublished: February 2013Publisher: Abingdon Press

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    • Lectionary Worship Aids Series 9 Cycle C

      $21.18

      The Revised Common Lectionary is not just to provide a guide to scripture reading during the church year. It can help shape the entirety of our worship. The themes for each Sunday service, as created by the lectionary, can be further explored and appreciated through Reed’s poetic prayers and responsories, as well as through musical selection suggestions. By involving all of the senses in worship, congregations can gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for the various themes highlighted in the lectionary, themes such as grace, mercy, justice, and others.
      This special edition for Pentecost, Cycle C of the popular” Lectionary Worship Aids” allows ministers and worship leaders to tie the entire worship experience together for their congregations. Reed’s insights will prove invaluable in leading congregations into the presence of God not only on Sunday but also on holidays and other special occasions.
      Topics covered in this resource include:
      – Calls to Worship
      – Suggested Hymns
      – Collects for the Day
      – Prayers of Confession

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    • Dangerous Act Of Worship

      $21.99

      Foreword By John Ortberg
      Acknowledgments
      1. What’s At Stake In Worship?
      2. The Real Battle Over Worship
      3. False Dangers
      4. Real Dangers
      5. Waking Up To Where We Live
      6. Doing Justice Starts With Rest
      7. When Worship Talks To Power
      8. Dwelling In Exodus Or In Exile?
      9. An Imagination For Justice
      10. Living Awake
      Epilogue
      Study Guide
      Notes

      Additional Info
      What’s at stake in our worship? Everything. Worship is the dangerous act of waking up to God and God’s purposes in the world. But something has gone wrong with our worship. Too often worship has become a place of safety and complacency, a narrowly private experience in which solitary individuals only express their personal adoration. Even when we gather corporately, we often close our eyes to those around us, focusing on God but ignoring our neighbor. But true biblical worship does not merely point us upward–it should turn us outward as well. In this prophetic wake-up call for the contemporary church, pastor Mark Labberton reconnects Christian worship with biblical justice. From beginning to end, worship must pursue justice and seek righteousness, translating into transformed lives that care for the poor and the oppressed. Labberton shows how to move beyond the comfort of safe worship to authentic worship that is awake to the needs of the world.

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    • Freedom To Give

      $32.00

      What is tithing? Is it 10% of gross income due to the church? Or was it only food from inside HOLY Israel in the Old Testament.
      Is tithing for today? Or are there better giving principles given to the church after Calvary with the Holy Spirit’s blessings?
      This book tackles both the biblical and theological idea of tithing throughout the ages. Although it is exhaustive, the subject itself is exhaustive and cannot be fairly handled in any other way.

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    • Lectionary Worship Aids Series 9 Cycle C

      $16.18

      The Revised Common Lectionary is not just to provide a guide to scripture reading during the church year. It can help shape the entirety of our worship. The themes for each Sunday service, as created by the lectionary, can be further explored and appreciated through Reed’s poetic prayers and responsories, as well as through musical selection suggestions. By involving all of the senses in worship, congregations can gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for the various themes highlighted in the lectionary, themes such as grace, mercy, justice, and others.
      This special edition for Lent and Easter, Cycle C of the popular” Lectionary Worship Aids” allows ministers and worship leaders to tie the entire worship experience together for their congregations. Reed’s insights will prove invaluable in leading congregations into the presence of God not only on Sunday but also on holidays and other special occasions.
      Topics covered in this resource include:
      – Calls to Worship
      – Suggested Hymns
      – Collects for the Day
      – Prayers of Confession

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    • Collect In The Churches Of The Reformation

      $96.99

      The Collect is a form of prayer which is a core part of the liturgical worship of most Christian traditions, certainly in the Christian West, yet, relatively little work has been done to reflect on the use of this common form of prayer in different traditions, and the Protestant tradition in particular. In this representative collection of essays Bridget Nichols draws together a range of leading scholars who reflect on the history and the development of this form of prayer common to all churches of the western tradition. As well as offering a historical introduction the book offers reflections on the collect in the Methodist tradition, in Baptist worship, in Scandinavian Lutheran traditions, in American Lutheranism and on collect writing today. aContributors include: Jeremy Haselock, Karen Westerfield-Tucker, Michael Perham, John Lampard and David Kennedy.

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    • Intercessory Worship : Combining Worship And Prayer To Touch The Heart Of G (Rep

      $21.17

      A glorious spiritual awakening is on the horizon, sparked by the combustible mix of worship and prayer. Dick Eastman calls this combination “intercessory worship,” and in this one-of-a-kind guidebook, he explains how worship-saturated prayer rises like a fragrance before God’s throne to declare His glory and reign over all circumstances, relationships and governments. He shows readers how to engage in life-transforming intercessory worship. He also reveals why intercessory worship is the greatest last-days prayer movement in history and invites believers to join the worldwide Body of Christ in fanning the flames of revival through biblical worship and scriptural prayer. The world will be transformed as the presence and power of the Spirit pour forth from the heart of God.

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    • Facedown (Reprinted)

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      Most believers understand that worship is not a compartmentalized aspect of the Christian experience, but rather it is the motivation–the driving force–behind all that we do and are. We exist to worship God. For years we have been basking in God’s love and worshipping Him with uplifted hands and hearts. Now we need to go deeper and see that God is also an awesome, mysterious being who should engender our silent, even dumbstruck, reverence for His holiness, His “otherness.” Until we are undone by the knowledge of who God is in all His glory, we will only touch the edges of true worship. Matt Redman says, “When we face up to the glory of God, we find ourselves face down in worship.” This book shows the biblical record of those who found themselves prostrate before God.

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    • Created To Worship

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      For pastors and worship leaders, planning a meaningful, relevant, and theologically rich communal worship experience for their local churches is of the upmost importance. They are forced to consider how to meet the demands of the modern congregation without getting in the way of what God is doing through worship.

      Created to Worship: God’s Invitation to be Fully Human is a resource that provides a theology of worship in the Wesleyan tradition that will help church leaders consider and be discerning in both how they plan for a worship service, as well as the actual planning that goes into crafting a meaningful and authentic experience. It will teach them to ask, and answer the question, What does God want to say and do today?

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    • Worship As Repentance

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      Against contemporary trends that conceive of Christian worship primarily as entertainment or sheer celebration, Walter Sundberg argues that repentance is the heart of authentic worship. In Worship as Repentance Sundberg outlines the history of repentance and confession within liturgical practice from the early church to mid-twentieth-century Protestantism, advocating movement away from the “eucharistic piety” common in mainline worship today and toward the “penitential piety” of older traditions of Protestant worship.

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    • Sacraments And Worship

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      The church’s development and use of sacraments has evolved in many ways from the days of the early church to the present. This sourcebook presents key theological texts that played a role in those movements. Johnson traces the history and theology of individual sacraments along with their liturgical context in the church’s worship, while contributing helpful background notes to give the reader the full breadth and depth of the church’s thought on these important topics. The book will be a useful resource to those studying the history of Christian worship and the development of the sacraments.

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    • Engage : A Guide To Creating Life Transforming Worship Services (Reprinted)

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      No matter how great Sunday’s worship service was, there’s always another Sunday lurking at the end of the next week that must be planned. Church leaders often fall into ruts, working on automatic pilot just trying to get things together, which does not allow for much creativity or focus on designing services that lead to transformation for those involved in them.
      Engage is a step-by-step, stress-free guide to planning worship services that allow for and foster true life change. Comprehensive in scope, Engage provides teaching pastors, worship leaders, and volunteers with the tools they need to work together to develop and implement a worship planning system that improves communication, enhances creativity, and honors Jesus every week.

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    • Preaching As Worship

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      Much current literature on church worship rarely mentions preaching, and vice versa. Worship is often seen as restricted to music and liturgy while preaching is assumed to operate on different principles for different purposes. But veteran preacher Michael Quicke argues that preaching should be viewed as worship, as both worship and preaching belong within the same Trinitarian dynamic, serving the same purpose and marked by similar characteristics. Drawing on insights from wide-ranging literature and practitioners on both sides of the gap, this insightful book confronts and corrects ten characteristics of preaching that are disconnected from worship.

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    • Grand Entrance : Worship On Earth As In Heaven

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      Can we understand worship in a way that transcends style, relevance, and aesthetics? Taking into account the most contested issues of the “worship wars,” Edith Humphrey shows how the act of entering into God’s presence is central to all true Christian worship. Regardless of worship style, when we come into God’s presence, we praise God alongside angels and with the whole of creation. Seeking to reclaim the forgotten theme of worship as entry into God’s presence, Humphrey shows its prominence in the Bible, providing an accessible but thorough study of the Old and New Testaments. She analyzes key moments in church history to show how worship developed in Eastern and Western churches. She also draws insights from healthy worshiping communities around the globe. The book offers practical guidance on leading worship today to worship leaders, pastors, thoughtful lay readers, and students.

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    • Worship And Mission After Christendom

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      Today, as Christendom weakens, worship and mission are poised to reunite after centuries of separation. But this requires the church to rethink both “mission” and “worship.” In post-Christendom mission, God is the main actor and God calls all Christians to participate. In post-Christendom worship, the church tells and celebrates the story of God, enabling members to live in hope and attract outsiders to its many tables of hospitality.

      In this passionate and thoughtful study, Alan Kreider and Eleanor Kreider draw upon missiology, liturgiology, biblical studies, church history, and the vast experience of today’s global Christian church. Academically responsible but also practical and accessible, Worship and Mission After Christendom is a much-needed guide for people who take seriously God’s call to be the church in a world where institutional religion is no longer taken for granted.

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    • Dance Gods Gift To You

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      “The aroma of God is being sensed throughout the earth, awakening those who God has ordained to carry forth the anointing of the dance in the earth.” In the 21st century church, God is calling ministers of the dance in record numbers to fulfill His purpose-revealing His glory in the earth. This calling has prompted a myriad of questions in the minds of leaders and laypersons in the body of Christ. In Dance, God’s Gift to You, Dr. Crawford presents a fresh, clear biblical understanding of how God views the dance, elaborating on how and why dance should be used in the worship experience. This book will answer many questions and help open the eyes of your understanding to: * The origin and purpose of the dance * How dance is used as a powerful weapon against the enemy * How dance is used to restore and bring order out of chaos * Why God takes pleasure in the dance * How to pursue the presence of God through the dance * The healing qualities of the dance * What God expects of His ministers of the dance May this book stir the gift of dance in you and cause you to “move out” in obedience to the call of God on your life!

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    • Holy Conversation : Spirituality For Worship

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      Despite widespread interest in spirituality, its most common corporate form, congregational worship, is rarely discussed in those terms. This book explores liturgical spirituality as a holy conversation between God and us.

      Linking the themes of spirituality and worship and giving each needed focus in ways that are biblically and theologically rich and consistent with ecumenical traditions, this book specifically explores the relationship of sacred reading (lectio divina) to worship. Linman sees this practice as one element in the larger liturgical action of Gathering, Word, Meal, and Sending. Our “spiritual worship” (cf. Rom 12:1), he argues, is the holy conversation between worshipers and the triune God who leads us to greater participation in Christ and to transformation through Christ’s presence.

      Raising important issues for worship renewal and interspersed with practical insights and suggestions, this book serves as a primer for those who want to more fully learn how to worship, and, through the power of the Spirit, to deepen their awareness of the encounter with Christ made known in Word and Sacrament.

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    • Heart Of Worship Files (Reprinted)

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      Together, we journey . . . to learn more and more of what it really means to bring meaningful offerings to the heart of God. Thoughts, words, deeds, and songs–the whole of our lives can be a response to His immeasurable worth. This book is for all those who find themselves on such a pilgrimage: lead worshippers, pastors, musicians, dancers, singers–anyone with a heart to pursue the depths of worship. Within these pages you’ll find a mixture of creative Bible insights and hands-on advice for how to lead worship and write congregational songs. The Heart of Worship Files will sharpen you in your quest to know Jesus and make Him known to others.

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    • Our Own Time

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      The End Of The Mainline

      Billy Graham (1918-)

      A “New Breed” Of Presbyterians

      Protestant Preaching In Black Africa

      Liberation Theology In Latin America

      Vatican II And American Catholic Preaching

      The Romanian Revolution And The Preaching Of Joan Alexandru

      Black Preaching

      The Charismatics

      A New Age In Britain

      The Megachurch

      The Young Churches Of East Asia

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      This magisterial volume is the seventh and last of Hughes Oliphant Old’s history of preaching. Here Old takes up the story with the sixties and the Second Vatican Council and follows it all the way through to the house churches of China and the preaching of the Archbishop of Uganda, known as the “Billy Graham of Africa.” Along the way he looks at the engaging preaching found in Latin America, the rise of the modern megachurch, the role of Joan Alexandru’s preaching in bringing down the house of Ceausescu, and other historically significant moments in preaching. / Full of surprising details and inspiring stories of ministry, this book is a fitting work to round out Old’s monumental, comprehensive series written by a preacher for preachers on the history of preaching in the Christian church.

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    • Taste Of Sabbath

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      Sundays are feast days. But sometimes, that’s awfully hard to remember. We often get too busy trying to keep track of all the things we’re “not supposed to” do. Yet, as Stuart Bryan explains, this is not the emphasis of Scripture. The Lord’s Day is a day of freedom, a day defined by thanksgiving–for God’s grace, for the opportunities to share that grace with others, and for the hope we have in the glorious rest to come.

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    • Worshiping With The Church Fathers

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      Christopher Hall invites us to accompany the church fathers as they enter the sanctuary for worship and the chapel for prayer. He also takes us to the wilderness, where we learn from the early monastics as they draw close to God in their solitary discipline. Readers will enjoy a rich and rare schooling in developing their spiritual life in this unique survey of the life of worship from the perspective of the early Church.

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    • Serving The Word

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      This book invites the reader to see how God’s word can become the crux not only of the sermon but of the worship service as a whole. Over the past half-century, worship scholars have found a substantial ecumenical worship pattern in Luke’s story of Jesus’ post-resurrection appearance on the road and at the table in Emmaus. In that word-and-meal structure, the relationship between preaching and worship as distinct aspects of liturgical experience breaks down. The preached word, then, and the liturgical event within which preaching is located become integral to each other. This book invites the reader to explore how-through God’s word-preaching informs and is, in turn, supported by the worship event as a whole.

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    • Prayers For An Inclusive Church

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      The author has prepared a special American edition of his book, first published in the UK, to conform to the calendar of the Episcopal Church.

      Prayers are appropriate to conclude the Prayers of the People in the Eucharist

      Includes a scriptural index keyed to the lectionary readings

      Includes 3 Eucharistic prayers, Eucharistic preface, general confession, and post-communion prayer for each season in the church year.

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    • Introducing The Lessons Of The Church Year (Revised)

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      3rd edition of a known and trusted guide to Scripture for pastors, deacons, and lay people.

      Thoroughly revised and updated to the Revised Common Lectionary by an Episcopal and Lutheran scholar and church leader, author of many books.

      A one-volume resource with multiple uses: sermon preparation, public reading of scripture, sermon discussion groups, lectionary Bible study, Christian education planning, bulletins, and web sites.

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