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Cada celebración
Un anuario litúrgico y algo más para la iglesia de habla hispana
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Este recurso cumple una variedad de propósitos al ofrecer ayuda en la planificación de la adoración, sugerencias para ayudas visuales, ideas para la liturgia, e información concisa sobre celebraciones litúrgicas relacionadas con las temporadas de Adviento, Navidad y Epifanía.
El material de Cada celebración, en esta edición revisada, consta de tres partes:
Adviento, Navidad y Epifanía
Cuaresma y temporada de Resurrección
Tiempo Ordinario
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The Most Important Space in the Church
The Nursery
Rita B. Hays
A strong children's ministry is the foundation for the future vitality of any church—whether it is a small family community or a robust neighborhood church.
In The Most Important Space in the Church, Rita Hays emphasizes that evangelism and spiritual formation begin in the nursery. It is in the nursery that many visitors first interact with church members and experience an outpouring of warmth and acceptance—known as radical hospitality.
By building a rich, spiritually rooted ministry with in...
Songs of Grace
New Hymns for God and Neighbor
Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
Sing a new song! The book, Songs of Grace, includes over 70 new hymns written to be sung to the tunes of many well loved and well known hymns. The new words offer expressions of hope, celebration, and spiritual enrichment. Accompanying each new hymn is a devotion or meditation to be used in reflection of the melodic prayers. The hymns are written to celebrate the ministry of a wide range of church activities, from older adult ministries and stewardship to social justice and many other topics ...
Safe Sanctuaries for Ministers
Best Practices and Ethical Decisions
Joy Thornburg Melton
As an attorney, Joy Thornburg Melton understands the need to educate clergy concerning basics of ethical practice within their particular leadership role in the church. She also wants to help clergy become aware of the potential traps they face: isolation, improper self-care, and lack of accountability.
Safe Sanctuaries for Ministers explores three large areas of special concern to clergy:
Counseling and the potential improprieties within the counseling relationship
Finances and the potenti...
Not Just a One-Night Stand
Ministry with the Homeless
Karen Vannoy, John Flowers
The story of how a church dying for more than two decades found its soul—and a new identity.
In the foreword to this book, Tex Sample says: "The Christ who is Lord of the Church stands at the margins of the world. To forget either Christ as Lord or the Christ at the margins is to lose our ways as the church…In this faith-inspiring book, John Flowers and Karen Vannoy call the church again to the Christ who is Lord who appears at the margins of established, respectable life."
Not Just a One-Nig...
Does Your Church Have a Prayer? Leader's Guide
In Mission Toward the Promised Land
Kathy Merry, Marc Brown, John Briggs
Does Your Church Have a Prayer? presents a model of revitalization, transformation, and discipleship for congregations to fulfill Jesus' prayer in John 17. Your church can move from maintenance to mission, from defending current realities to living into a joyful future.
The authors provide pastors and church leaders with a step-by-step planning guide that will equip them for the task of leading the church in a scripturally grounded visioning and strategic ministry planning process.
"Every chu...
Does Your Church Have a Prayer? Participant's Workbook
In Mission Toward the Promised Land
Kathy Merry, Marc Brown, John Briggs
Finally! A resource that guides a congregation from settling for survival to embracing joyful service.
This Participant's Workbook consists of 6 weeks of Bible studies that lead to adopting a collaborative 24-month congregational action plan. Each week's study offers a prayer to open the time together, questions to encourage scriptural reflection, and questions to facilitate feedback as the congregation makes intentional decisions about its mission and ministry.
A Leader's Guide is also avail...
Lay Pastoral Care Giving
Tim M. Farabaugh
A distinguished historian, academic and occasional evangelist I know was hushed by his stunned wife after he said to a friend he was visiting in the hospital, "I hope you don't die." A sentiment delivered sincerely but oh-so-awkwardly.
Expressing care to someone in need—whether within the community of faith or beyond—may seem the most natural thing in the world. For some, it is; for others, it's less so. All can improve.
Learn to reach out with God's love and care for others as outlined in th...
Extending the Table
A Guide for a Ministry of Home Communion Serving
Mark Stamm
"Who is missing?" Mark Stamm says this is a quesion the church should ask every time its members gather around the Lord's Table. Participation in the Lord's Supper is not a ritual action we perform as isolated individuals, Stamm points out. Instead, we partake of the sacrament with the whole church in mind, even those who cannot attend. In Extending the Table Stamm discusses historical, theological, and pastoral questions about home Communion demonstrates the central role Communion has play...
Contemplative by Design
Creating Quiet Spaces for Retreats, Workshops, Churches, and Personal Settings
Jane J. Young, Gerrie L. Grimsley
It's hard to hear yourself think in today's culture, much less refresh your soul.
Sights and sounds—from ads placed on toilet stall doors to loud ringtones or cars pulsing with bass—assault us every day. Peace and quiet seem out of place in 21st-century everyday life.
It's time to mute the cacophony.
Meaningful and serene contemplative silence is possible. And it doesn't require an expensive trip to a spa.
"We yearn for rest, and our souls hunger to be fed, yet we seldom give ourselves permis...