A complete guide for churches that want to focus on prayer. It contains ideas, helps, and tips for pastors, individuals, and your whole church. In these 33 chapters of prayer strategies, you'll discover information on concerts of prayer, solemn assemblies, houses of prayer, prayerwalking, and other effective techniques. You'll learn how to develop prayer retreats, organize evangelism prayer groups, start a prayer telephone ministry, enrich family prayer, and much more. The Praying Church Sourcebook also features valuable teaching on prayer, true stories of prayer in action, a directory of selected prayer ministries in the United States and Canada, and a reading list of classic and contemporary books on prayer.

A companion to the popular Praying Church Sourcebook, this resource includes dozens of prayer strategies that can work in your church. Also includes sample worship services, retreat plans, and a comprehensive list of prayer initiatives.

The Worship Sourcebook is a collection of more than 2,500 prayers, litanies, and spoken texts for every element of traditional worship services held throughout the seasons of the church year. This indispensable resource for worship planners and pastors includes texts that can be read aloud as well as outlines that can be adapted for your situation. Teaching notes offer guidance for planning each element of the service. Thought-provoking perspectives on the meaning and purpose of worship help stimulate discussion and reflection. This second edition includes new and revised liturgies, additional prayers for challenging situations facing today's church, and new appendices.

A guide to a deeper understanding and richer relationship to the Book of Common Prayer, and a more profound faith. In this guide for newcomers as well as lifelong Episcopalians, author Vicki Black helps readers navigate the currents of Anglican liturgy and discover its richness and beauty. As we use the Book of Common Prayer, Black says, “we discover we are not alone, and this liturgical current of worship, prayer, and praise will indeed take us where we want to go–union with the God we seek to love.” Welcome to the Book of Common Prayer shows readers everything from where to find the Sunday collect to how to pray the Daily Office. But it’s more than a how-to. It offers history and background that help make the prayer book a more meaningful part of the worship life of individuals and congregations. With thoughtful reflection questions, this is a perfect volume for parish study groups.

Do you desire a more meaningful study and prayer life?Do you feel the need to reach out to others for Christ?If so, youve come to the right place.This book contains 40 days of devotional studies designed to strengthen your relationship with Christ and enable you to lead others to Him. God wants to do something significant in your life, too. Not only does He long to draw you into closer fellowship with HimHe also wants to minister to others through you. And as you spend 40 amazing days with God, He will prepare you for earths final crisis and Christs long-anticipated second coming.

Prayer can have great effects if we are devoted to spending the time on our knees before our Father God. Throughout the history of the Bible, the greatest men of those ancient truths were all men who were willing to pray to affect change in their world and to draw closer to their Lord and Saviour. This book shows how all these great men approached prayer and the changes it can bring out our own lives.

This handbook is a collection of substantive reflections on prayer. Contributors include global and national leaders, as well as Church of God authors, leaders and intercessors. The completed set includes 4 volumes: Volume II--Personal and Family Prayer; Volume III--The Pastor and the Congregation; Volume IV--Intercessory Prayer and Missions to be released in 2016. The chapters are sprinkled with prayer quotes, and interjected with prayer vignettes. Each chapter is introduced with an historic note or prayer story. The book is contemporary, relevant, addressing cutting edge issues--contextualizing prayer, prophetic and priestly intercession, spiritual mapping, unreached peoples and prayer, a history of prayer including a special focus on the family and prayer, fathers and prayer. Each chapter of the book opens with a wonderful Window Through Time--a story of our history including the call to prayer that led to the mysterious release of Herman Lauster from the Nazi Prison Camp; pioneer stories of such legendary figures as J. W. Buckalew and Paul H. Walker, the stories of prayer and our early Church of God history; profiles of praying leaders and churches; testimonies of God's intervention. It is a relevant book, one that will help you build a strong foundation for the future, without forgetting the past.