To Nativity and Beyond
1st Edition
Published on 20. October 2016
208 pages
978-0-86153-849-2 (ISBN)
Description
Packed with practical ideas and original, ready to use seasonal material, this volume will be widely welcomed by hard-pressed ministers and worship leaders looking for fresh inspiration in Advent
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Content
- Intro
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- An Advent Candle Ceremony for Pilgrims
- WEEK ONE
- WEEK TWO
- WEEK THREE
- WEEK FOUR
- THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT
- The Opening Place
- An Act of Opening
- Four Readings and Reflections
- Watching Luke 2:25-32
- Expecting Luke 2:36-38
- Living Isaiah 56:1-8
- Prayer
- Reflection on the Magnificat
- Giving Birth
- The Image of God
- An Imperfect World
- Glory and Grace
- Prayer
- Finding a Voice: A Service Based on the Magnificat
- THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT
- The Turning Place
- An Advent Repentance
- Facing Up to Repentance
- Facing Up to Reality
- Facing Up to Ourselves
- Facing Up to God
- The Path of the Prophets
- John Muir
- Käthe Kollwitz
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Three (Connected) Meditations on Hope
- Parish Pilgrimage
- The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
- THE THIRD WEEK OF ADVENT
- The Dreaming Place
- Meditation: The Dream in the Desert
- Reflections on the Call to Dream
- Jeremiah 33:14-16
- Reflection: O come, O come, Emmanuel
- A Liturgy of Expanding Dreams
- THE FOURTH WEEK OF ADVENT
- The Freedom Place
- Freedom Is Coming: A Service for Advent
- Prayer: The God Who Comes in Freedom
- The Service of Angels
- Silent Night
- Longest Night
- ALL-AGE SERVICES
- A Gift Service
- A Christmas Tree Service
- A Manger Service
- Santa Claus and St Nicholas
- MEDITATIONS, PRAYERS AND HYMNS FOR CHRISTMAS EVE
- Prayer of Approach
- Meditation: 'Take No Thought for Tomorrow'
- Meditation: Mary
- Prayer: Our Time and Our Place
- Meditation: Christmas Time
- Prayer: 'Your Light Has Come'
- Prayer: 'The Glory of the Lord Shone Around Them'
- Meditation: 'The Light Shines in the Darkness'
- Prayer: 'The Reflection of God's Glory'
- Prayer: For the City
- Meditation: The Theft of Baby Jesus
- Hymn
- Meditation: The Approach to Midnight
- Responses at Midnight
- Hymn: 'Baby Lying in a Manger'
- CHRISTMAS STORIES
- Dan, the Shepherd
- The Night Porter
- Eleazar the Scribe
- The Christmas Angels
- Rachel the Gossip
- Martha Remembers
- Snow at Christmas
- PRAYER RESOURCES FOR EPIPHANY
- Heaven Knows
- Prayer of Adoration
- Prayer for Stargazers
- Prayers for Cultural Openness
- Prayer of Intercession
- Prayers for Bethlehem
- Prayer of Lament
- Prayer for Peace
- Prayer for Justice
- Prayer for Protection
- Prayers on the Gift of Gold
- Prayers on the Gift of Frankincense
- Prayer of Praise
- Prayers on the Gift of Myrrh
- Prayer of Adoration and Thanksgiving
- Prayer of Intercession
- Prayer of Consecration
- Prayer of Blessing and Sending
