Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, founding first senior minister of The Riverside Church in New York City, once declared that "prayer is a tremendous spiritual force." Those words underline the legacy of a church inspired by the Holy Spirit. This updated collection includes new prayers from current ministers, including the female clergy on staff and a previously published prayer from past senior minister, James A. Forbes, Jr., as well as new prayers for special times and holidays.
Rice and Williamson have done a remarkable job of sifting through five centuries of the recorded prayers by Reformed Christians to produce this collection. --The Presbyterian Outlook.
In honor of the one-hundredth anniversary of the 1908 Social Creed and the development of a Social Creed for the twenty-first century, Chris Iosso and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty have compiled new prayers from well-known church and community leaders. This seminal volume includes the words from the new Social Creed and prayers reflecting social justice themes referenced in the creed, including poverty, economic justice, and care for the environment. Walter Brueggemann, John Buchanan, Tony Campolo, Katie Geneva Cannon, and Marian Wright Edelman are among contributors, making this an important resource for laity and congregational leaders in every denomination for the next century.
The daughter of renowned theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who wrote The Serenity Prayer, reclaims the true history of the prayer and recounts the efforts made by those who, like Niebuhr, devoted their lives to the causes of social justice, racial equality, and democratic freedom.
Committee Serial No. 9. Considers numerous House Joint Resolutions and House Concurrent Resolutions proposing amendment to the Constitution relating to prayers and Bible reading in public schools.
In this powerful and motivating book, international pastor Phil Pringle invites readers to activate their spiritual lives by understanding prayer as a journey to the highest places of God. He sees prayer as an "art," a craft to be developed and nurtured. Prayer is much more than muttering religious words. It is a connection with the God of heaven Himself. Too often believers fail to bridge the gap between earth and heaven, but active prayer releases the spirit into communion with God in another world: His world. As readers grow, they will draw close to a loving God who desires relationship with all who are made in His image. When we pray in close contact with God, we see greater results on earth and in our lives. Pringle appeals to the imagination and the soul, and all who engage with these visionary teachings will discover a new dimension to the act and the art of prayer.
All worshippersno matter what their religionbelieve in the efficacy of prayer. Yet although the belief in prayer is vast and deep, it is often misunderstand and bedeviled by endless questions. Still, prayer may be the most therapeutic way of quieting our fears, broadening our concepts, deepening our faith, and bringing aid to those among us. Throughout his ministry and life, Vernon McDaniel has set out on his own quest to find prayer promises, instructions, and the rewards of praying. In a thought-provoking and insightful book of nearly three hundred prayer principles, McDaniel encourages others to grow in their faith by sharing principles from familiar biblical verses and personal wisdom that help deepen the prayer experience for all spiritual seekers. His principles include valuable insight into the chain of command related to prayer, the ability of Gods grace, how to pray for those who are lost, how to transform a Why? prayer into a How can this be used? prayer, and why we should trust God to keep us in perfect peace. Prayer Principles for Walking with God shares scriptures and biblical wisdom for believers wishing to become prayer warriors for God.
It’s been said that prayer is the vocabulary of faith. This book offers a wealth of resources from forgotten places to help us create a new vocabulary for worship and prayer, one that is located amidst the poor and the major issues of violence and destruction around the world today. It is a collection of prayers, songs, rituals, rites of healing, Eucharistic and baptismal prayers, meditations and art from four continents: Asia-Pacific Islands, Africa, Americas, and Europe. Liturgies from Below is the culmination of a project organized by the Council for World Mission (CWM) during 2018-2019. Approximately 100 people from four continents worked with CWM, collaborating to create indigenous prayers and liturgies expressing their own contexts, for sharing with their communities and the rest of the world. The project was called “Re-Imagining Worship as Acts of Defiance and Alternatives in the Context of Empire”. The author and others spent weeks living in each of four communities for several weeks/months, getting to know the people, and then facilitating the people’s own creation of prayers and liturgies. The author, other scholars, pastors, artists, activists and students all came from radically different ethnicities, races, sexualities, churches and Christian theologies. The people in each location were poor, living in very challenging communities, living in oppressive and seemingly hopeless situations. After some time, they wrote prayers and stories of their experience trying to live the Christian faith in utterly abandoned places. What we have here is an immensely rich and varied collection of liturgical sources from various communities dealing with issues of violence, immigration/refugees, drugs, land grabbing, war on the poor, attack on women, militarization, climate change, and so on.
