United Church Publishing House The United Church Of Canada imprint: 29 books
Everyday Skeptics
Devotions for Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
How do the words of past prophets continue to live today? How do they inform our faith formation and our actions as a church? Wrestle with these questions through daily scripture, reflections, and prayers for individual devotions or group study written by a wide variety of contributors. Study guide included.
Feisty and Fearless
Glimpses into the Life of Lois M. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Meet the many sides of Lois M. Wilson: Moderator, senator, minister, mother, chancellor, activist, wife, canoeist, feminist. Feisty and Fearless explores the legacy of an accomplished, vibrant public and religious leader, a woman of firsts who shattered the stained-glass ceiling. With access to Wilson...
Advent Awakenings
Daily Devotions for the Season of Advent, Year B
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
This book is a gift to help us step off the frenetic treadmill that the Advent season too often becomes. Its help comes by enabling us to listen deeply each day to the Advent scripture readings and John the Baptist's repeated Advent call to "prepare the way" for the holy babe who is coming.
Advent Awakenings
Daily Devotions for the Season of Advent, Year C
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book is a gift to help us step off the frenetic treadmill that the Advent season too often becomes. Its help comes by enabling us to listen deeply each day to the Advent scripture readings from the Daily Common Lectionary, Year C, and John the Baptist's repeated Advent call to "prepare the way" for the holy babe who is coming.
Diving Deeply
Daily Devotions for Lent
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Diving Deeply is a Lenten reflections resource for 2013. The daily devotions, for both individual and small group study, are written by spiritual directors and chaplains and are drawn from their work on university campuses, at airports, correctional facilities, and hospitals, and from their visitations...
by David Guiliano
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
This collection of David Giuliano’s previously published articles and more recent writing is both a personal reflection on his own journey toward the heart of God and the journey being made by many mainline churches. The personal journey is one made through a valley of shadows carved out by cancer....
by William S. Kervin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Each topic raised by Kervin in this collection of discussion starters for worship planners is a catalyst for a new kind of thinking around how we frame our worship. Creeds, intercultural worship, architecture, language, song, new technology...whatever the subject, Kervin combines an enlightening appreciation...
Preaching The Big Questions
Doctrine Isn't Dusty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
What is the meaning of grace, of sin, of the sacraments? How are we to understand our dependence on God or relate to the person of Jesus? What roles do the Bible and the church play in our life of faith? Talking about theology needn't be boring or stuffy, the authors argue. Rather, it is exhilarating...
Worship in the City
Prayers and Songs for Urban Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Chosen to reflect the urban context, Worship in the City’s rich collection of prayers and songs shows that in its diversity and creativity, the city can offer an environment that is good for the soul.
A Good Ending
A Compassionate Guide to Funerals, Pastoral Care, and Life Celebrations
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Wow, that was a good funeral. Comments like this are not an accident but the result of care and planning, contends David Sparks in A Good Ending. This practical book gives advice and ideas for every step along the way, from supporting the dying person, to planning a funeral, life celebration, or memorial,...
by Betty Lynn Schwab
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Voices from a surprising range of ages and backgrounds (Canadian Forces chaplains, youth, ministers, UCW members) are united in a common theme in I Am Listening—this year’s Lenten devotional. Although the contributors’ reflections are based on scripture passages that span the Bible and life...
by Betty Lynn Schwab
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Today, creation is in distress, human beings hurt one another with increasing violence, and church communities use numbers—head counts and dollars—to measure faithfulness. Yet the health of soul, community, and creation are so intricately interwoven that we cannot have one healthy without the...
With Us Always
Daily Devotions Framed by the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This book of devotions demonstrates how our faith journey can be explored and energized through vehicles of popular culture like movies. Using lectionary readings, the weekly themes remind us that God is with us in every situation. Designed for Lent, it can also be used at any time in the year. Includes a study guide and movie guide.
Advent Awakenings
Daily Devotions for the Season of Advent, Year A
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A series of daily devotionals for the season of Advent, Year A. This collection encourages reflection on the true meaning of the Christmas season--reminding us to exchange material gifts for spiritual ones, and to examine why and how we anticipate and celebrate the birth of the Christ child.