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Just in Time! Pastoral Prayers in Public Places
by Dr F. Belton Joyner JR.Part of a pastor's role in the community is to pray publicly. The pastor is often the official "pray-er" at all kinds of community events--the high school football game, the opening of the new grocery store, the county school board meeting, kindergarten graduation--to name a few. But the pastor must also pray knowing that there are believers (of many persuasions) and non-believers present. This book will contain sample prayers for many civic functions that can be used with little modification. Belton Joyner is a retired United Methodist pastor and author of Being Methodist in the Bible Belt: A Theological Survival Guide for Youth, Parents, and Other Confused Methodists
Just in Time! Prayers and Liturgies of Confession and Assurance: Prayers And Liturgies Of Confession And Assurance (Just in Time)
by Rev Kenneth H. Carter JR.In a brief introductory chapter, the author addresses the question of why we need to confess our sins, and offers three reflections in response: Sin as Pride, Sin as Violation of Boundaries, Sin and the Possibility of Forgiveness. The book includes seventy prayers of confession and words of assurance, with accompanying liturgies and music suggestions (Scripture and hymn indexes included!). The prayers are offered in three sections, confession and pardon related to: The Human Condition, The Holy Scriptures, The Liturgical Year. The Just in Time! Series offers brief, practical resources of immediate help for pastors at an affordable price.
Just in Time! Prayers for Advent and Christmas (Just in Time)
by David N. MosserHandy, helpful prayers to use in public worship during Advent and Christmas. The collection includes invocations, opening prayers, prayers of confession, and pastoral prayers for the Sundays of Sundays of Advent, and Christmas Eve services. Drawn from a variety of traditions, the prayers in this collection will aid any congregation as it worships throughout the journey of Advent.
Just in Time! Prayers for Lent and Holy Week: Just In Time Series
by David N. MosserThis resource includes helpful prayers to use in public worship during Lent and Holy week. The collection includes invocations, opening prayers, prayers of confession, and pastoral prayers for the Sundays of Lent, Palm/Passion Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday services. Drawn from a variety of traditions, the prayers in this collection will aid any congregation as it worships throughout the journey of Lent.
Just in Time! Prayers for Ordinary Time - eBook [ePub] (Just in Time!)
by Robert A. RatcliffHandy, helpful prayers to use in public worship during Ordinary Time. The collection includes invocations, opening prayers, prayers of confession, and pastoral prayers for the Sundays after Pentecost. Drawn from a variety of traditions, the prayers in this collection will aid any congregation as it worships throughout the journey of this season of the Christian year.
Just in Time! Stewardship Services
by David N. MosserProvides ready-to-use worship and preaching resources for themes related to Stewardship. Understanding the concept of stewardship in a broader context as management of our God-given gifts, this book provides material for twenty-four services including: suggested liturgies, prayers, Scripture passages, and sermon briefs to help pastors minister more effectively. Contents include: 1. Make Your Money Work for You (Luke 16:1-13)2. Owning Up to Our Greatest Obligations: Death and Taxes (Matthew 22:15-22)3. Make a Difference: Be the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:12-31a)4. Who Needs Bigger Barns? (Luke 12:13-21)5. Playing the Price is Right (Luke 12:49-56)6. Counting the Cost Means Quality not Quantity (Luke 14:25-33)7. Why God Doesn’t Want Your Money (Isaiah 1:10-18)8. What God Deserves (Matthew 22:15-22)9. Risking to Make the Right Investment (Matthew 25:14-30)10. The Miracle of Immortal Giving (I Cor 15:35:38, 42-50)11. Give Me Your Money or Your Life! (Luke 12:13-21)12. Hold Nothing Back (2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18)13. Who Do You Really Want to Be? (Matthew 21:33-46)14. Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (2 Corinthians 8:7-15)15. God, You've Got to be Kidding (Mark 10:17-31)16. But It's Not What I Signed Up For! (Luke 14:25-33)17. Give Me More than Possessions (Luke 16:19-31)18. Yes, Sometimes the Directions Do Help (Mark 10:17-31)19. Getting What We Pay For...or Not (Romans 6:12-23)20. Life is Unfair? (Matthew 20:1-16)21. Joy Fully Serving (Mark 9:30-37)22. There is Nothing Wrong with Being Shrewd for God's Kingdom (Luke 16:1-13)23. Be Empowered and Gifted (1 Corinthians 12:3b-13)24. Jesus was no Fool (Matthew 22:15-22)
Just in Time! Wedding Services
by Rev J. Wayne PrattThe pastor fills a unique role in wedding service planning. This slim volume helps the pastor offer care with sensitivity while addressing the spiritual needs and complexities of weddings in today’s world. Following a brief introduction to a variety of wedding situations, including interfaith and second marriages, the author provides prayers, litanies, Scripture readings, and meditations for every aspect of the wedding service from processional to declaration of intention, Scripture and other readings, prayers, exchange of vows and rings, unity candle and other uniting rituals, and more. The Pastor’s Wedding Toolkit includes guidance on: Local Legal Requirements Church Policy Statement Pastor’s Policy Statement Interfaith Marriages Second and Subsequent Marriages Wedding Information Form Basic Music Guidelines Brief Wedding Meditations on: A Christmas Wedding The Music of Love The Genesis of Marriage To Blossom in Marriage To A Well Known Young Couple There Is Love Renewing Your Vows And more . . .
Justice Awakening: How You and Your Church Can Help End Human Trafficking
by Eddie Byun2014 Readers' Choice Award Winner
Justice Calling: Live Love, Show Compassion, Be Changed
by Palmer ChinchenFrom the author of Barefoot Tribe, whose "manifesto offers hope and inspiration for people of all faiths" (Booklist), comes a spiritually exhilarating guide toward living a life full of purpose, authenticity, and justice.Do you feel stuck in your faith? Are you searching for purpose? Do you desire a more authentic life? If your faith experience has been in the Western church, you have probably missed an essential part of spiritual growth without even knowing it. For decades, the church has been focused on personal piety instead of the needs of the world around it. But Christians have not been entrusted with the story of the Gospel to simply start building campaigns and run programs, rather we are to bring the world the message of hope and love. And to meet the needs of those we come in contact with. In Justice Calling, Palmer Chinchen offers a call to a fuller expression of following Christ. He says our faith must be a faith of doing, not just hearing. Our gaze must shift from ourselves and our small enclave like-minded individuals to the world filled with opportunities to bring justice and mercy. We must go. To the poor, the enslaved, the lost, and the lonely. There we will find fulfillment as we live out our calling. Are you ready to join the movement toward living with a purpose, loving authentically, and engaging in the cause of justice around the globe? In Justice Calling, you will find that not only will you bring change to the lives of those you seek to serve but in so serving you will be indelibly changed as well. Live, Love, Show Compassion, Be Changed--justice is calling...
Justice Mission: Justice Mission Identity: Classified Undercover Jeopardy (True Blue K-9 Unit #3)
by Lynette EasonCaught in a killer’s sights…Introducing the True Blue K-9 Unit seriesAfter K-9 unit administrative assistant Sophie Walters spots a suspicious stranger lurking at the K-9 graduation, the man kidnaps her—and she barely escapes. With Sophie’s boss missing and someone determined to silence her, NYPD officer Luke Hathaway vows he and his K-9 partner will guard her. But he must keep an emotional distance to ensure this mission ends in justice…not cold-blooded murder.
Justice Overdue
by Lisa ChildsNot enough clues. Too many secrets.And someone out to silence them…Three decades. Untold victims. A Michigan town in fear. It's a case Sheriff Hogan Moore promised his father he would crack on his own. But when DNA expert Eve Collins finds a hidden lead, he must team up with her to uncover the truth. Now with devastating secrets—and a determined killer—ambushing them at every turn, will they live to tell?
Justice Undercover
by Connie QueenKeeping her true identity a secretis the only way to stay alive.Going undercover as a nanny brings presumed-dead ex-US Marshal Kylie Stone closer to catching the man who murdered the witness in her protection—and also killed Texas Ranger Luke Dryden’s sister. When someone tries to kidnap the twins in her care, Kylie must tell their uncle the truth…and convince Luke to help her. But will revealing her identity put all their lives at stake?
Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage: Towards Egalitarian Ethics and Laws
by Mulki Al-Sharmani Jana Rumminger Ziba Mir-Hosseini Sarah MarssoThe model of marriage constructed in classical Islamic jurisprudence rests on patriarchal ethics that privilege men. This worldview persists in gender norms and family laws in many Muslim contexts, despite reforms introduced over the past few decades. In this volume, a diverse group of scholars explore how egalitarian marital relations can be supported from within Islamic tradition. Brought together by the Musawah movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family, they examine ethics and laws related to marriage and gender relations from the perspective of the Qur&’an, Sunna, Muslim legal tradition, historical practices and contemporary law reform processes. Collectively they conceptualize how Muslim marriages can be grounded in equality, mutual well-being and the core Qur&’anic principles of &‘adl (justice) and ihsan (goodness and beauty).
Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings
by Raimond Gaita'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sense of our common humanity. For Gaita, we are never more fully alive than when we are fully present to one another in conversation. In a time when modes of communication tend to superficiality and self-promotion, when political debates are increasingly inured to lies and even violence, and the moral demands of dialogue give way to a torrent of competing monologues, Gaita's invitation to rediscover what genuine conversation requires of us could not be more timely. These collected writings at once invite us into that conversation and enact its severe demands. Gaita asks us to confront the distinctive evil of genocide, to examine the true cost of the 'War on Terror', to interrogate what justice requires in response to Australia's dispossession of its First Peoples, to understand our need for truth in politics, especially during war, to see what is at stake in the decline of the universities, to grasp what was lost during the Black Summer bushfires, and to reckon with the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic-when we learned, he writes, 'how much we needed to touch and hold other people'. Gaita's astonishing range of concerns is held together by the consistency and unrelenting tenderness of his moral vision. To see the world through Gaita's eyes is to discover, once again, what it means to love the world and to remain faithful to it. He tells us that an unconditional love of the world is the deepest form of hope and the truest source of our energies to honour the demands of justice. This is how we learn to be human.
Justice and Peace in a Renewed Caribbean: Contemporary Catholic Reflections
by Anna Kasafi Perkins Donald Chambers Jacqueline PorterThis collection of critical essays and personal reflections explores the insights provided by official statements of the Roman Catholic Bishops of the Caribbean. In so doing, it presents a critical reading of the corpus with a view to presenting its relevance to the regional and global conversation on matters of human flourishing.
Justice and Peace: A Christian Primer
by J Milburn ThompsonThe third edition of this popular classroom text provides thoroughly revised and updated discussions of key topics including ethno-nationalist conflict, terrorism, and poverty and development. The author provides an introduction to current obstacles to justice and peace across the globe, and encourages Christians to draw upon an informed faith to transform themselves and the world.
Justice and Peace: Our Faith In Action
by Joseph StoutzenbergerUses key themes from Scripture to explore the virtues of justice and peace and examines such contemporary issues as environmental degradation, racial prejudice, global conflict, poverty, and sexism.
Justice and Truth Shall Meet: A Dominican Exploration
by Albert Nolan Mary O'DriscollThis is a reprint of book originally published in the 1980s but its message is still as relevant today as it was when it was first published. In this book two Dominicans, Albert Nolan OP and Mary O'Driscoll OP, write on biblical and theological themes of justice and truth from a Dominican perspective. On truth, Mary O'Driscoll writes that it 'is evident [that] when we look at Dominic or Catherine or any of our great Dominican brothers and sisters ... all of these responded to truth not merely with their intellects but with their whole beings ... [and that] the greatest Dominicans have always been those who have combined the pursuit of speculative truth with that of existential truth, who have known how to maintain these two dimensions of the search for truth, not in conflict but as complementing one another.'. While on justice, Albert Nolan writes that justice is first and foremost an attribute of God. God is just not only because [God] is fair and honest in all [of God's] dealings with human beings but also because all God's activity is a matter of putting right what is wrong in the world and all God's laws and commandments are simply demanding that justice be done. In fact, justice is the distinguishing characteristic of the God of the Bible.' Both authors were vocal critics of the apartheid regime. What they wrote in the 1980s regarding race, poverty, injustice and inequality, the fruit of many years of study and theological reflection, remains of relevance for today.
Justice and the Politics of Memory: Religion And Public Life (Religion And Public Life Ser. #Vol. 33)
by Gabriel R. RicciMemory is not a mere repository for past events. This was Henri Bergson's fundamental claim about consciousness. In distinguishing our psychic constitution by its sense of the past, Bergson differentiates our perception of time from a process in which one instant merely replaces another. While Bergson cast his ideas in terms of the biological sciences, his analysis did not neglect the moral impulse that accompanies the condensation of history with which we continuously live. Classifying human existence in this way bears on ethical and political questions. How such questions can plague the memory of a people and the entire human community is addressed in Justice and the Politics of Memory. The contributors explore the manner in which cultural and psychic violation undermine collective identity, and destroy traditions. They raise troubling questions on how recompense and reconciliation is possible after abominable wrongs have been systematically perpetrated against a community. Faced with the burden of memory, those committed to the righting of wrongs are faced with pursuing an elusive justice that sometimes includes levying reparations and memorializing horrific historical episodes. Guided by the muse of forgiveness, restoration and a more harmonious future are likely to be rooted in the sources of spirituality that had been previously eclipsed by the conquering and homogenizing historical processes. This volume includes Heribert Adam's "Collective Reckoning with a Criminal Regime," Jeffrey Olick's "Lessons from and for Germany," James Hatley's "Levinas, Witness and Politics," James E. Young's "Germany's Holocaust Memorial Problem--and Mine," Tim Giago's "Killing the Indian to Save the Child: The Near Death of Spirituality," Jordan B. Peterson's and Maja Djikic's "Running Ahead: You Can Neither Remember Nor Forget What You Do Not Understand," Derick Wilson's "Where Religion Confuses yet Faith Gives Hope: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland," and Leonard Kaplan's "Justice Perfected: Cinematic Exemplifications," and an introduction, "Morality and Memory," by the editor.
Justice and the Way of Jesus: Christian Ethics and the Incarnational Discipleship of Glen Stassen
by David P. Gushee and Reggie L. WilliamsThis edited volume will offer a rich engagement with the theological ethics of Glen Stassen (1936-2014). Eighteen Christian theologians and ethicists, mainly of senior status, will particularly engage Stassen’s last major theological-ethical proposal, encapsulated in his term “incarnational discipleship.” By this term, Stassen intended a statement of the central norm or framework for Christian ethics grounded in the holistic sovereignty of God over all of life, the Lordship of a thick, historical, incarnate, realistic Jesus, and a Holy Spirit who frees believers from any ideological captivities that block our obedience to our Sovereign God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Stassen thought he had arrived at such a pivotal insight that he hoped it would catch on and become a major concept across the discipline, something like Christian realism, liberation ethics, or narrative ethics. However, he died before he had the opportunity to do more than propose the concept.
Justice as a Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective
by Jean Porter“Aquinas,” says Jean Porter, “gets justice right.” In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it — and as most people think of it today. Porter presents a thoughtful interpretation of Aquinas’s account of the complex virtue of justice as set forth in the Summa theologiae, focusing on his key claim that justice is a perfection of the will. Building on her interpretation of Aquinas on justice, Porter also develops a constructive expansion of his work, illuminating major aspects of Aquinas’s views and resolving tensions in his thought so as to draw out contemporary implications of his account of justice that he could not have anticipated.
Justice as a Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective
by Jean Porter&“Aquinas,&” says Jean Porter, &“gets justice right.&” In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it — and as most people think of it today. Porter presents a thoughtful interpretation of Aquinas&’s account of the complex virtue of justice as set forth in the Summa theologiae, focusing on his key claim that justice is a perfection of the will. Building on her interpretation of Aquinas on justice, Porter also develops a constructive expansion of his work, illuminating major aspects of Aquinas&’s views and resolving tensions in his thought so as to draw out contemporary implications of his account of justice that he could not have anticipated.
Justice at Morgan Mesa (Mills And Boon Love Inspired Suspense Ser.)
by Jenna NightHer father’s killer is back—and now he’s after herAttorney Vanessa Ford was only a child when her father was murdered, but now she’s returned to her hometown, determined to find answers to the unsolved case. When the attacks start, she knows she’s close to the truth…too close. But with policeman Levi Hawk volunteering to work with her on the investigation, can Vanessa finally find answers…or will deadly trouble strike them first?From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Justice for All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics (JPS Essential Judaism)
by Jeremiah UntermanJustice for All demonstrates that the Jewish Bible, by radically changing the course of ethical thought, came to exercise enormous influence on Jewish thought and law and also laid the basis for Christian ethics and the broader development of modern Western civilization. Jeremiah Unterman shows us persuasively that the ethics of the Jewish Bible represent a significant moral advance over Ancient Near East cultures. Moreover, he elucidates how the Bible’s unique conception of ethical monotheism, innovative understanding of covenantal law, and revolutionary messages from the prophets form the foundation of many Western civilization ideals. Justice for All connects these timeless biblical texts to the persistent themes of our times: immigration policy, forgiveness and reconciliation, care for the less privileged, and attaining hope for the future despite destruction and exile in this world.