101 Staff Prayers And Reflections

Companion volume to '101 Staff Prayers and Reflections' (2001), presents a further 101 prayers and reflections for use by Catholic school staff, school boards or prayer groups, at the start of meetings or gatherings. They can also be adapted for use in student prayer times in the classroom. Themes include parent-teacher interviews, challenges of teaching, conflict, God language, negotiation, and time. Author has been teaching since 1980 and is a religious education coordinator and is completing a doctorate.

On-the-Job Prayers contains 101 prayers designed for those who work. Whether readers are blue collar or white collar, manual labor workers or highly paid professionals, this book will offer wisdom, comfort and guidance. Each prayer begins with an inspirational quote from Scripture. This is followed by a reflection on topics such as ?Finding Time to Pray, ? ?Handling Stress, ? and ?Corporate Soul? by people like Rudolph Giuliani, Florence Henderson and Thomas Moore. Finally, a ?Workplace Prayer? by William David Thompson concludes each on-the-jo & prayer. This format provides readers with a complete reflection and prayer on particular issues related to work, helping them find a spiritual center on the job.

Dangerous woman? Ordained by God? Gender matters! What do pastors really do beyond the pulpit? What’s it like to be a woman pastor? It’s complicated. People leave congregations when the pastor wears a skirt. Other congregations become advocates for women clergy. Rev. Dorothy Nickel Friesen, an ordained Mennonite pastor, digs deep into the soul of a pastor with humor, pathos, and passion. Her memoir, a collection of short stories based on true events, visits the agony of bedside death, lost dreams, and angry parishioners who walk away from her leadership. She also shares the laugh-out-loud stories of weddings (a missing groom), rituals of deep meaning (with water from the Jordan River), and tension-filled advocacy for peace (on a military base). With honesty and warmth, Rev. Dorothy beckons women, especially, to love God’s people as a leader, preacher, and friend. She hopes this book will help you see beyond the “Bible wars” and deepen your faith that God generously gifts women for spiritual leadership.

A variety of experienced church leaders, missioners and other practitioners share simple and effective ideas for enhancing the life, worship and witness of every local church. With humour, realism, real-life stories and top-tips for dealing with challenging situations, here is a welcome aid for all clergy and lay church leaders.

This revised, expanded edition of the Common Worship President’s Edition contains everything to celebrate Holy Communion Order One throughout the church year. It combines relevant material from the original President’s Edition with Eucharistic material from Times and Seasons, Festivals and Pastoral Services, and the Additional Collects.

Drawn from the eponymous blog essays on faith, culture, and lives of Christian discipleship by young Jesuit priests and seminarians for young adult seekers.

At the heart of this study is a biblical-theological approach to central passages on intercessory prayers in the OT. After examining these largely prophetic prayer dialogues, Widmer argues that they provide an important key to biblical theology and spirituality. Furthermore, a close reading of prayers by Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, and Amos reveals fascinating insights into the portrayals of these characters and confirms strong conceptual associations with Moses, Israel’s archetypal mediator. Widmer reads these prayers in both their immediate literary and wider canonical contexts. The ultimate aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the God whom the church worships and confesses to be the Father of Jesus Christ. Particularly pertinent is the finding that many OT prayers interact with God’s nature as revealed to Moses in Exod 34:6–7. Yhwh’s fullest revelation is also given in the context of an intercessory prayer. Widmer argues that intercessory prayer and theology have a hermeneutical-spiral relationship, mutually informing and correcting each other. It is in engaging with a loving and holy God that the phenomenon of divine mutability must be understood. Overall, Standing in the Breach suggests that fundamental biblical themes such as God’s mercy and judgment, divine retribution and forgiveness, covenant mediation, substitutionary suffering and atonement, and eventually the dynamics of the cross are all intrinsically related to and illuminated by prophetic OT intercessory prayers.