This 5-week adult study is designed for small or large groups to be used during the Season of Peace or any time of the year. It focuses on the inner and outer path to peace as foundational to faithful discipleship. Each session has a “dig deeper” section for study through the week. Session 1: Recognizing Peace The introduction is a study of Luke 19:37-44 and Ephesians 1:18. It explores the differences between peace as the world often defines it, and peace as Jesus teaches and models it. Session 2: Finding Peace “So that you may live deep within your heart” …
This hymn text by David Gambrell, set to the familiar tune Leoni (“The God of Abraham Praise”), seeks to illustrate the various dimensions of the “Word of God” in the Reformed tradition: “Scripture – the Word written, preaching – the Word proclaimed, and the Sacraments – the Word enacted and sealed, bear testimony to Jesus Christ, the living Word.” (Directory for Worship, W-1.1004). Permission is granted for congregational use in worship or educational settings.
Download a sermon from the World AIDS Day Packet 2013 by the Rev. Emily Rose Proctor.
A service to use for Race Relations Sunday.
From 2006. This year we reflect on the significance of Race Relations Sunday by honoring the legacy of women of color in active leadership in the Presbyterian Church. We celebrate the gifts of racial ethnic women who have led the church to foster an environment of wholeness, peace, and reconciliation.
These guidelines are provided for persons who are invited to read Scripture aloud in public worship. It is vital to the proclamation of the gospel that readers be well prepared for this important task.
See related pages: Scripture Readings, Revised Common Lectionary, Invitation to the Word
Reading and studying large sections of Scripture in sequence – a time-honored practice in the Reformed tradition – provides a way to hear and understand the words and stories of the Bible in their broader theological, historical, cultural and literary contexts.
Reading or hearing these passages aloud has a number of benefits: Scripture takes on a whole new dimension when you can hear its rhythms, its cadences and its poetry, features often overlooked when only read silently; the oral / aural presentation of these texts is probably closer to the way their intended audiences received them, in most cases, and …
A Service for the Public Reading of the Gospel According to Luke
Have you heard the good news? Host a public reading of the Gospel of Mark in your congregation during lectionary Year B (Nov. 27, 2011 – Nov. 25, 2012). The earliest and shortest of the four gospels, Mark offers a compact, concise, and compelling account of “the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God” (Mark 1:1). It takes less than two hours to read the whole Gospel of Mark out loud. By the gift of the Holy Spirit, this can be a life-changing, faith-shaping, disciple-making encounter with the living Word of God.
16 de septiembre de 2012
El Domingo de Educación Teológica se celebra el 16 de septiembre de 2012. Los recursos están basados en el leccionario para el domingo número 24 del Tiempo Ordinario, año B.