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Congregations celebrate various rites and rituals as a way of commemorating the significant life events and experiences of their members. By blessing something or someone, God’s presence is invoked and the sacred is invited into the mundane, the holy into the ordinary. This book offers pastors and other church leaders a collection of ready-made, easily adaptable blessings and rituals for a variety of occasions. The book is divided into four major chapters: Children, Adults, Everyday Life, and Pastoral Care. It includes blessings and rituals for such occasions as: welcome into a home or neighborhood, receiving a first Bible, graduation from high school, receiving a driver’s license, blessing the backpacks and lunch-boxes for a new school year, and pet funerals. Pastoral care rituals include such occasions as grief, lost love, anger, and declining health. Key Benefits: • Provides readers with a source of blessings and rituals for key moments in congregational members’ lives and meaningful ways to celebrate and support their life experiences and transitions • Shows readers how the intentional use of blessings and rituals within the congregation helps reveal to the community God’s presence in every phase of life
A collection of blessings for the people, celebrations, sadnesses, artefacts, special occasions and journeys of our lives.
Traveling to Brookhaven on business, Kathleen decides to take a detour to Caroline Porters hometown of Maple Glen. Although it is quite different from Carolines 1880 description, Kathleen is moved by the remnants of the past that still remain. Still determined to get to the bottom of the questions she has regarding the foreclosure on Mrs. Evobas mansion, Kathleen travels on to Brookhaven. Follow as Kathleen marvels at what God wants to teach her through Carolines compassion and through the handsome man of faith who is waiting for her in Brookhaven.
Includes the Rite of Dedication of a Church and an Altar, a rite to use in a sacred place that has been desecrated, and a ritual for a church that is being closed.
They say promises are made to be broken, and, too often, we’re quietly cynical about them, even when they come from God. But His Word is true, and He’s promised to infuse our lives with His grace and blessing! It’s a solemn promise—Scripture calls it an everlasting covenant—and you can count on it. Andrew Murray explains: The secret of abiding joy God’s strength for daily living Freedom from the power of sin The delight of blessing others The intimacy of a Spirit-filled life Why struggle to live for God when you can experience the joy of the Spirit of Christ living in you and receive His promise of new life?
Sixteen-year-old Alan Greene has to cope with some sudden changes when his life seems to take a wrong turn. Thankfully, he can count on his family, friends, and Heavenly Father to help him through his struggles and adventures. Alan learns that blessings can be found in many unlikely places. He and his friends also learn about the values of diligence, perseverance, and cooperation.
Flame Dancer Kelva of Arukan seeks the missing elements--Stone and Sea, Wind and Soul--that must join to preserve their world from destruction. Seeing that the Stone Dance, the master of Earth magic, would be found in the icy north, she and her dragon companion fly to a country mired in an unnaturally long winter. When at last they find Jareth, the Stone Dancer's own anger and pain make him reluctant to accept his destiny. His need for vengeance against the old gods who betrayed his people is pwerful--powerful enough to lead the group farther into the snows, searching for the lengendary Ice Maiden, who may be responsible for the forced winter. But betrayal doesn't come only from the gods--and the forces against them are vast. Before their quest is over, Kelva must realize that while Flame can break through the chill of the winter, Stone can withstand anything...