Lent

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  Visions Of Lent Year 3

  $16.18

  A new and unusual service for Lent…!

  At the beginning of Lent each family in the congregation is invited to lend a plant from home (silk or live), following a Jewish Shavuot custom. The following Sundays in Lent build on this focal point as an object is added each week. Two readers participate in a dialogue explaining the symbol for that day. A child brings the symbol forward and holds it during the dialogue. In this way several families are able to participate.

  Visions of Lent Year 3 also includes:
  * Sample bulletin insert prior to Lent
  * Example of plant reminder that can be used in bulletin
  * Sample Torah for bulletin inserts
  * A suggested worship service for Palm/Passion Sunday

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  Whispering The Lyrics Cycle A

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  Based on texts from the Revised Common and Catholic lectionaries, Thomas Long provides inspirational messages to motivate and help preachers through their most difficult preaching time of the year, the seasons of Lent and Easter.

  The road to Easter takes us through the most sacred stretch of the Gospel story, and the narratives simply overwhelm us … Congregations who blithely assume that their pastor eagerly relishes the chance to preach the passion and resurrection of Jesus are, for the most part, mistaken. To be sure the pews are more crowded as Easter approaches, the choirs are well-rehearsed and in full voice, and an electric charge courses through the sanctuary, but the preacher stands there with the obligation to proclaim the truths of Jesus’ death and resurrection, and it seems, at one and the same time, to be a set of claims too little to go on in a secular and cynical age and a range of mysteries too profound to speak. (from author’s foreword)

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  Visions Of Lent Year 2

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  Visions of Lent Year 2 — Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) offers congregations a weekly presentation to be included in the regular Lenten worship service. This follow-up to Volume 1 (which concentrated on the Feast of Passover) focuses on the Palm Sunday story and six elements within that story that were significant parts of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles or Booths. The festival is rooted in Leviticus 23:33f, where God commanded Moses to declare the festival to the people of Israel as a reminder of the temporary shelters they lived in when He delivered them out of Egypt.

  Preparation for this worship series is very simple. Lent I begins with a plain, “symbolic” booth which is placed somewhere within the sanctuary. For the next five weeks objects are gradually added inside the booth.

  Objects include:
  Lent 2 — citron (or other citrus fruit) in an attractive yet simple container
  Lent 3 — musical instruments (flute, cymbal, lyre, harps, trumpets, etc.)
  Lent 4 — donkey figure or picture
  Lent 5 — a large crown
  Lent 6 (Palm Sunday) — palm branches

  Each presentation involves four participants including: minister, a youth and two other readers. Parts are brief and need not be memorized.

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  Show Me The Way

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  Nouwen invites readers to join him on a 40-day Lenten path as fellow pilgrims, from the solemn beginning of Ash Wednesday to the joyous climax of Easter. This inspirational “search for the way” speaks directly to the heart during this time of reflection and prayer.

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  Lenten Labyrinth

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  The journeys of Lent and of life are seldom straight roads, but are usually like complicated mazes or labyrinths. While we often can feel lost along the complex twisting patterns of the labyrinth path, to travel the maze of the Way is the greatest of all adventures. This guidebook of daily reflections for this journey of transformation has the power to change “to radically enrich” our way of thinking, loving and believing. Each day’s reflection–which takes but a few minutes to read–is followed by brief questions/exercises aimed at inspiring personal implications. Short of time? A few minutes daily with Father Hays can nourish a hungry soul for 24 hours. Both books of daily Lenten reflections–The Ascent of the Mountain of God and The Lenten Labyrinth–maximize our limited resources of time, making our journey through Lent into the heart of Holy Week a time of real renewal.

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  Walking To Walking With Walking Through Cycle C

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  Someday … Someday … perhaps the impact of God’s grace and love and forgiveness will move us in the depths of our being to live the new life he offers for us. Someday. Maybe, this day.

  Glenn E. Ludwig writes that Lent has often been called a journey, and what better metaphor to describe that journey than a “Walk.” We truly “walk to” Jerusalem in this season. But we do not walk alone, for we walk with One who calls us into discipleship.

  The author adds that these sermons invite us to walk with Jesus through death to life. The walk is a journey that changes our lives.

  The 17 sermons in this book are based on Gospel texts from Luke and John. Sermons follow the Revised Common Episcopal, Lutheran and Roman Catholic lectionaries.

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  Kneeling In Jerusalem (Large Type)

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  In a powerful and creative way, renowned author and speaker Ann Weems brings new insights into the Lenten season by providing seventy-one poems of inspiration. With her intutive and heartening poems, Weems takes the reader on a pensive journey through Lent and Easter.

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  7 Last Words Of Christ

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  Seven times Jesus spoke from the cross, and each of those seven last words still speaks to us today. Judith Mattison reminds us that the death of Christ is the clearest expression of God’s redeeming love for us. The cross, once a sign of defeat and shame, has become a sign of victory over sin and death. The author’s meditations on each of Jesus’ seven last words are accompanied by hymns and poetry that enlarge the possible meanings of each word, and by questions for reflection or discussion. Filled with messages of grace and love, this book is ideal for devotional reading and group study, or for use as a preaching resource.

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  Journey Of Decision

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  This Way of the Cross combines the traditional with the innovative. As a traditional presentation, the Stations of the Cross are followed around the church and the usual prayers are said and songs are sung. But where appropriate, the Way of the Cross can be presented in tableaus by students or actors in the sanctuary. In the second presentation, each station highlights a particular character who, in monologue style, responds to the question, “Were you there?”

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  40 Days Plus Three

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  This book invites us to ponder the consistency between what we say we believe about human dignity and how we live that dignity. Who we say Christ is, is one thing; who we say we are may be quite another. If Lent becomes a daily journey whereby we consent to become one with the visible features of Christ’s risen life, waiting to be raised from the dyings of our lives, then the paschal mystery becomes a marvelous experience.

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  Meditations For Lent

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  The forty days of Lent represent a special time of preparation. James G. Kirk’s meditations are meant to help Christians use this time well. Based on Scripture readings from the lectionary, his meditations lead individuals to center their attention on the Easter mystery. Daily, a biblical theme such as mercy, forgiveness, or judgment is highlighted and each day’s meditation concludes with a prayer. Classic illustrations by Virgil Solis, a contemporary of Martin Luther King, enhance the volume.

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  Sevenfold Path To Peace

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  Jesus made peace by the blood of his cross. What more appropriate theme for a Lenten preaching series could there be than “The Sevenfold Path to Peace”? Here is a sample of this skillful proclaimer’s insight (from the first sermon):
  “I saw a sixth grader, on his way up the alley to school, throw a firecracker over the fence of our yard and into the chicken coop. I was as angry as I ever have been in my whole life. The chase was on! Down the alley, a hesitating wonder as to how he had vanished into thin air, spotting him darting from under a bush like a rabbit, over a five-and-a-half foot wall, then over a six-and-a-half foot back wall, I took the gate, across the church parking lot, and finally trapped him under the camper parked in a neighbor’s yard. Winded and outaged, I yelled that I wanted to “kill” him, but instead took him to the school principal to do the disciplining. I didn’t like the feeling that raged in me. I was even frightened by it. I certainly experienced the truth of the words of Eleanor of Aquitaine: “We are the origin of war.””
  Messages include:
  – Is Peace Attainable?
  – Desire Peace
  – Peacemaking: Active, not Passive
  – Peace as Shalom
  – The Gift of Peace
  – Peace Through Sacrifice
  – Proclaim Peace

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