Download or read book Interactive Readings for Christian Worship written by Edwin Zackrison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need some revitalization of your worship service with more involvement on the part of the congregations? Or do you need more focus on the sermon subjects? This book may well be your answer. The 53 responsive readings in the book differ from the traditional approach. Here you may find the audience cast in various roles (such as in drama) where they will respond as a character in a story (such as in readers theatre). Good reading is easy to achieve (as in choral reading) and the audience gets to answer and suggest corporately (as in traditional responsive readings). The audience may play the fool, the pharisee, the publican, God, the believer, or the skeptic. At all times we worked at keeping the responses short so that the long monotony of untrained reading would be avoided, and a minimum of rehearsal instruction would be needed to have maximum expression. Both youth and adults have enjoyed these responsive readings. We think your congregation will as well!!
Download or read book Interactive Worship Readings from the Book of Psalms written by Melvin D. Campbell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reading in the book focuses on worship is a community activity from the book of Psalm. Through these readings the experiences of the writers of Psalms become our experiences in praise and adoration to God. The readings are short, using traditional translations, but updated in language. Dr. Campbell holds graduate degrees in both chemistry and education, having taught on the collegiate level in both areas. He is prolific writer of Readers Theatres for classrooms and worship services. He is very active in providing readings for large congregations including his own church. He along with colleagues have authored 3 other books on Readers Theatre. He has made numerous presentations at professional meetings and has given many workshops. At the present time he is Adjunct Professor of Education at La Sierra University.
Download or read book She Reads Truth written by Raechel Myers and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of the experiences of hundreds of thousands of women who Raechel and Amanda have walked alongside as they walk with the Lord, She Reads Truth is the message that will help you understand the place of God's Word in your life.
Download or read book The Big Picture Interactive Bible Stories in 5 Minutes Padded Cover written by B&H Editorial Staff and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give kids the big picture of God’s story with the new Big Picture Interactive 5-Minute Bible Stories comprised of 12 different five-minute stories, perfect for before bed reading. Help to shape your child’s spiritual growth in an engaging new Big Picture Interactive book that features four-color illustrations, as well as pop-up imaging and story narration with free Augmented Reality app. The Big Picture Interactive 5-Minute Stories is the latest in the family of Big Picture Interactive books – a series designed to grow with families and strengthen relationships in Christ through Bible-centered, multi-platform products that engage readers of all ages.
Download or read book Profile of a Religious Man written by Edwin Zackrison and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a “journey book.” Sitting down at a computer and producing the story has been a grand trek. I have learned that there is a principle in nature that some things need to mellow, calm down, and soak in. The refusal of winemakers to take a wine before its time is a notion I am coming to understand. It works with writers as well. Like a fetus signaling its mother that it is time to head for the hospital, a literary work stays in the mind until its time. In my education, I have read of the battles of great Church leaders who were eventually thrown out of their churches. In my denominational education, I was largely led to see them as heretics, rebels, eccentrics, revolutionaries, apostates, and as generally representing a lower form of spirituality. Church education often asked me to surrender my biases in favor of accepting a new set of assumptions—my denominational ones. We were to be critical of everything except our organization. I submit that there is danger in that. This book will cover incidents from the first forty years of my life as a religious addict. You may find something here that you can identify with.
Download or read book Ancient Christian Worship written by Andrew B. McGowan and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Important Study on the Worship of the Early Church This introduction to the origins of Christian worship illuminates the importance of ancient liturgical patterns for contemporary Christian practice. Andrew McGowan takes a fresh approach to understanding how Christians came to worship in the distinctive forms still familiar today. Deftly and expertly processing the bewildering complexity of the ancient sources into lucid, fluent exposition, he sets aside common misperceptions to explore the roots of Christian ritual practices--including the Eucharist, baptism, communal prayer, preaching, Scripture reading, and music--in their earliest recoverable settings. Now in paper.
Download or read book Christians Are Recovering Human Beings written by Edwin Zackrison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will examine some of the perspectives of reality that can help us realize the pattern of our recovery. In our notions of improvement there are elements of value and worth, which stress direction and evaluation. These elements are closely related to rationale, aim and goal. We call them wishes. Christianity does not just talk of desire. Appeal often falls short of action. The reality of healing through our faith is directed by divine action. Theologians write about concepts like covenant, sacrifice, depravity and vindication. And they put meanings in those terms which often escape the “man on the street.” We will look at some of these perceptions in our study of this reality. Love is demonstrated in our acts. Sometimes the Bible writers refer to this as ‘right-doing’ of loving response. Our love finds its convincing expression in good acts. Actions attract equivalence from others. Educators refer to this the contrast between cognition and affection.
Download or read book About Tomorrow Let God Worry written by Edwin Zackrison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful human existence is wrapped up in how humans deal with their time. Everyone talks about the pursuit of happiness. Unpacked, that means how they ration and spend their time. The past gives direction to the present as well as the future. But the future never comes. Everything humans are in is present. The place of time is of utmost concern to spiritual people. The place of God in helping them deal with it is crucial.
Download or read book For the Love of the World written by Edwin Zackrison and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "world" can be subject to interpretations that cause Christians to disagree and even fight. Interpretations often end in startling disputes. For some, that world includes the inheritance of denominational interpretations. Historically conditioned conclusions are taken out of their context. Booklets have been produced for young people that largely define the world as dancing, smoking, drugs, music, theater, and music. This book will not spend time on these parochial notions. Rather, it will deal with God's love for the world. While Christians are often warned against the world, God loved the world from a different standpoint and made the ultimate sacrifice to give this world the chance to be restored to rightness with him.
Download or read book Living in Anticipation of the End Time written by Edwin Zackrison and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long ago, those who wrote about the “end-time” were preachers—the more fundamentalist, the more extreme by some standards. “The end is coming soon,” they said, and cartoons were rampant with guys carrying placards captioned by “The End is Near!” From the time of Christ, whose noncritical predictions included such inspiration for the placards, the religious prophets could not resist emphasis on such topics. Today things are different. The “scientists” and “politicians” make the predictions. “Twelve More Years” is what we hear from the latter. But they don’t attack with religious terms. They speak of time in the context of “climate change” and “global warming.” They do not agree on how to interpret the evidence, but the religionists also had trouble with agreement. Strange interpretations of biblical texts have now gone the way of so-called science. Various elucidations carry one thing in common: none gain consensus. Some arguments enter discussions by censuring those who disagree with them. Their opponents are not allowed to speak. They must remain silent. They are called nasty names, and unfair methods are used to punish them. They try to stop the incongruous from speaking at all. Living in the “end-time” demonstrates the conflict between good and evil.
Download or read book People Under Construction written by Edwin Zackrison, Ph.D. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People under Construction By: Edwin Zackrison, Ph.D. The issue of recovery is not new to twenty-first-century human beings. We struggle with the need for recovery from injury, disease, and pain. These are largely medical concerns and they can fill our lives with details. People under Construction deals with spirit and relationship. Often a “self-help” book presents a series of steps and secrets. This is not a “self-help book” and the author does not plan to present many steps or secrets. Every chapter will deal with the Spirit and build an understanding of what Christianity does to show the working of the Spirit.
Download or read book God s Camelot written by Edwin Zackrison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The allusion of Camelot came long after the scriptural pictures of heaven. But human vision has always idealized what began in the story of the Garden of Eden. Camelot produces gardens in our minds, though it is far broader than a simple garden. It represents that vision of perfection or more demonstrably utopia with justice and mercy and others. Visioning everything to be precise is a possibility that the human mind freely involves itself. There is no attempt to see Camelot allegorically in this book. But we all have the vision of the knights of the round table and their desires to make the kingdom successful. Yet Lancelot also plays a kind of role that is not uncommon to the human condition.
Download or read book Manna and Mercy written by Daniel Erlander and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through imagination, clarity, humor and cartoon, Daniel Erlander retells the Bible's story. Follows the themes of bread and forgiveness.
Download or read book Christian Worship written by Michael N. Jagessar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonialism has greatly influenced biblical and theological criticism but has not yet entered the realm of church worship and practice. 'Christian Worship' brings the insights of postcolonial thinking to the rituals of religious life. The book critically analyses liturgical theology through the lens of postcolonialism and explores the challenges of appropriating postcolonial perspectives in Christian worship. Ranging from liturgical texts and song to Scripture, lectionaries, festivals and sacraments, this volume offers a fresh approach to liturgy that will be of interest to students of theology, seminarians and church practitioners.
Download or read book Common Worship Times and Seasons President s Edition written by Common Worship and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised, expanded edition of the Common Worship President’s Edition contains everything to celebrate Holy Communion Order One throughout the church year. It combines relevant material from the original President’s Edition with Eucharistic material from Times and Seasons, Festivals and Pastoral Services, and the Additional Collects.
Download or read book Connecting with God written by Renovare and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we experience god? God has communicated with his people throughout the ages in many ways. Adam and Eve encountered him directly in the Garden of Eden, Teresa of Avila experienced him through visions, and Francis of Assisi heard his voice in nature. This book gives practical advice for connecting on a deeply personal level with God. It uncovers new places to look for God, while providing reflection questions and activities to reinvigorate communication with God in such traditional areas as prayer and Bible study. Divided into twelve chapters conveniently organized for individual or group study, each section explores a different area in which we can deepen our individual communion with God. The RenovarÉ Spiritual Formation Guides, created by Richard J. Foster and the team that developed The RenovarÉ Spiritual Formation Bible and the longstanding A Spiritual Formation Workbook, provide tangible lessons that help us become spiritually formed, conformed, and transformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Geared for either individual study or use in small groups, each RenovarÉ Spiritual Formation Guide explores one facet of our life with God, providing readings from Scripture as well as classic and contemporary works of spirituality. The combination of readings, reflection questions, exercises, and activities makes these books invaluable interactive guides that prompt true spiritual growth.
Download or read book Everyone Must Eat written by Mark L. Yackel-Juleen and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural contexts are often over-looked, treated as "flyover land." But because everyone must eat, rural communities and their work in food production are vitally important to the whole of society. Mark Yackel-Juleen spent many years in rural ministry and is the founder and executive director of Shalom Hill Farms, and so offers valuable insight on the present issues of food production and environmental sustainability, and connects it in profound and practical ways to the biblical and theological tradition. The result is a clear set of powerful and actionable tools for rural leaders and ministers to help them address issues of sustainability and land use in their ministry. Everyone Must Eat masterfully shows how one can integrate the sociology of community, the secular realities of economics and public policy, and the powerful presence of God's word in order to practice faithful leadership.
