Ritual Practices category: 1070 books
Altar Guild and Sacristy Handbook
Fourth Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
S. Anita Stauffer's original work for altar guilds has been a fixture in churches everywhere since the 1970s. This fourth, revised edition of her classic reflects recent developments in liturgical practice and gives attention to the Evangelical Lutheran Worship family of resources.Altar guild members...
Bringing the Word to Life
Engaging the New Testament through Performing It
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
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...
by Barbara Day Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Worship
A down-to-earth guide to planning and implementing meaningful worship experiences for pastors, written especially for those new to the job.
This practical book is for new pastors as they move into the role of worship leader and planner. When faced with the weekly rhythm of planning...
Divine Worship and Human Healing
Liturgical Theology at the Margins of Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Would many believers consider a wake or funeral an act of worship? What does it mean to say that in anointing the sick or administering Viaticum to the dying humans are healed? Such questions plumb the biblical and traditional depths of the paschal mystery. Just as Jesus' ministry at the social-religious...
One Love
A Pastoral Guide to The Order of Celebrating Matrimony
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The publication of the second edition of The Order of Celebrating Matrimony provides new liturgical and pastoral opportunities for presiders and parishes. In One Love, Fr. Paul Turner—one of the most reliable experts in Catholic liturgy today—provides sound guidance and instruction on the rite....
The Music Architect
Blueprints for Engaging Worshipers in Song
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Guidance for Leaders Seeking a Richer Way to Employ Worship Music
Worship expert Constance Cherry offers comprehensive guidance to Christian leaders seeking a deeper, richer way to employ worship music in engaging ways for twenty-first-century worshipers. Following Cherry's successful book...
Habits for Our Holiness
How the Spiritual Disciplines Grow Us Up, Draw Us Together, and Send Us Out
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Not your typical spiritual disciplines book
Most books on the spiritual disciplines follow the same pattern: introduce the discipline, prove it from Scripture, and give tips for how to do it.
Habits for our Holiness does more than that: It connects the disciplines to all of life. By...
by Susan Fournier Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A user-friendly guide to reading and understanding the last and enigmatic book of the New Testament, ideally suited for parish adult Bible study groups and college level inquiry.
by Dennis Prutow
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Biblical Baptism presents a defense of infant baptism based upon questions raised by those seeking to settle the issue in their own hearts, especially expectant young couples where either husband or wife has reservations regarding the propriety of having their child baptized. The twelve short chapters...
Seek the Living God
Five RCIA Inquiry Questions for Making Disciples
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
We all know that a one-size-fits-all approach to RCIA catechumenate formation doesn’t work. But until now, many of us were stumped trying to find a viable alternative*. Seek the Living God: Five RCIA Inquiry Questions for Making Disciples* is the answer to your prayers. After just a few meetings...
by Lorraine S. Brugh, Gordon W. Lathrop
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The Sunday Assembly, written by Lorraine S. Brugh and Gordon W. Lathrop, addresses the general principles that have guided the shaping of Evangelical Lutheran Worship, with an in-depth look at the central liturgy of Christian worship, Holy Communion. Examines how worship interacts with environment, music,...
The Spiritual Meaning of the Liturgy
School of Prayer, Source of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
“I am increasingly convinced that the decisive question that demands an answer from us is not so much how believers experience the liturgy, but whether believers live from the liturgy they celebrate.”With these few words Goffredo Boselli captures the essence of this present work.
Believers...
by NETLANCERS INC
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Holy Bible (Multilanguage) Volume 2
'Holy Bible - Multi Language' is Supports Twenty Eight languages. They are :-
Norwegian Bible
Portuguese Bible
Potawatomi Bible (Partial)
Romani Bible
Spanish Bible
Scottish Gaelic Bible (Gospel of Mark)
Wolof Bible
Xhosa Bible
Hungarian Bible
Georgian...
Raised on Christian Milk
Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A fascinating new study of the symbolic power of food and its role in forming kinship bonds and religious identity in early Christianity Scholar of religion John Penniman considers the symbolic importance of food in the early Roman world in an engaging and original new study that demonstrates how “eating...