Church Publishing imprint: 289 books
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.
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...
Radical Welcome
Embracing God, The Other, and the Spirit of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
An inspirational and practical guide to embracing those who are often marginalized into a welcoming, inclusive Christian community.
For two years, Stephanie Spellers conducted over two hundred interviews with people in urban, suburban, and rural congregations around the United States to find...
Parables, Prayers, & Promises
Daily Devotions on Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
PREFACE: A few years ago somebody asked me how I could be so sure of my love for Jesus, a historical figure whom I can never meet. I had a really hard time answering this question in a way that did not sound fanciful and cliché. My love grew and deepened out of a relationship, and that relationship...
Celebrating the Eucharist
A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In this first new Eucharistic customary in nearly 20 years, Patrick Malloy, an Episcopal priest and liturgical scholar, presents a clear, illustrated guide for the presider and other leaders of the liturgy, contemporary in approach but based on ancient and classic principles of celebration. Like its...
Loonie
Crazy Talk about Faith and Finances
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The relentless pull to buy more stuff, our love/hate relationship with money, and the disconnect between how we spend our time and money and what makes life meaningful—LOONIE covers these topics and more using humour and a chatty style
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 Byron D. Stuhlman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
A liturgical manual that discusses each service of the Church according to shape, theology, past practice, and varieties of local expression. The book contains helpful material not only for clergy and worship committees, but also for church musicians.
Music and Vital Congregations
A Practical Guide for Clergy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Congregations that are alive and vibrant have vital music programs. How did they get that way? There are sensible and practical steps to develop such a program which begins with a clear vision of the end product. This new book addresses the many interrelated issues of defining and embracing the leadership...
Faithful Celebrations
Making Time for God from Mardi Gras through Pentecost
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
• Experiential activities for celebrating secular and sacred seasons of the year • For use in churches, schools, camps, at home Many of our experiences in life happen when several generations are together—at church, at home, in our communities. Holidays and family events are times for celebration,...
Faithful Celebrations
Making Time for God from Advent through Epiphany
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Many of our experiences in life happen when several generations are together – at church, at home, in our communities. Holidays and family events are times for celebration, learning, rituals, food, and fun. This edition of Faithful Celebrations focuses on Advent, the Annunciation, Our Lady of Guadalupe,...
Faithful Celebrations
Making Time with Family and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
• Add meaning to family celebrations and create new ones • Multiple resources for church, home, and community celebrations • Multi-generational Holidays and family events are times for celebration, learning, rituals, food, and fun. This edition of Faithful Celebrations focuses on the months...
In the Company of Christ
A Pilgrimage through Holy Week
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
With In the Company Christ, Sister Benedicta Ward, a church historian, guides us through the history of Christian procession. Through the practice of pilgrimage we live the resurrection, and join a wide Christian community. Pilgrimage is a way into the eternal Jerusalem, a way into the Gospel. Over...