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Prayers for Reflection offers an abundant selection of over 250 prayers from some of our best-loved authors. Bringing together words of warmth and contemplation across a variety of subjects and situations, this helpful collection provides a wealth of resources for both personal and group prayer.

Prayers for Joy and Thanksgiving brings together words of warmth across a range of subjects and situations. These timeless prayer collections can be used for both personal and group prayer and provide a wealth of resources.

Prayers for Healing offers an abundant selection of 300 prayers from some of our best-loved authors. Bringing together words of warmth across a range of subjects and situations, these timeless prayer collections can be used for both personal and group prayer and provide a wealth of resources.

A huge selection of prayers from some of our best-loved authors including Nick Fawcett, David Adam, Susan Sayers, and Ray Simpson. Bringing together words of warmth across a range of subjects and situations, these timeless prayer collections can be used for both personal and group prayer and provide a wealth of resources.

More and more people are living with the challenges of dementia, whether having been diagnosed themselves or caring for a loved one. These moving prayers and reflections do not shrink from the feelings of helplessness and confusion that accompany dementia, but they do offer insight and understanding. Drawn from the author's experience and extensive study of the care needs of people with dementia, Petals for Prayer also provides a resource section containing valuable information, and a list of helpful books and organizations for reference.

Patterns for Daily Prayer is a wonderful resource for those who would like to be prayerful people but do not see how this is possible with all the demands of daily life. It is also for those who already say their prayers but sense a need to get closer to God. Best described as a spiritual coloring book, the outlines are drawn and you are helped and encouraged to color them in whatever colors suits you best. With creative exercises, a prayer pattern for a week of days, and a year of inspirational and motivational reflections, you are sure to feel nurtured and renewed in God.

While the entire Bible is important, certain verses capture our imagination or speak to us in a way that few others can begin to. Who can forget the words of the 23rd psalm, the parables of Jesus, or the wonderful teaching of Paul in 1 Corinthians on the gift of love? These are just some of the countless passages to have encouraged, comforted, strengthened, and inspired Christians across the centuries. In this selection of readings, reflections, and prayers, Nick Fawcett highlights some of the most unforgettable passages in the epistles of the New Testament and the book of Revelation. Drawn from his book Daily Prayer and from three of his Fawcett Bible Studies, here are readings to encourage, renew, and inspire.

Only Connect is a companion of 150 prayers to aid reflection and worship in a variety of settings--for personal use, for use on a retreat, or as a focus for groups. These honest, searching, and inviting prayers connect us with God, ourselves, and with God's world around us through the themes of contemplation, reconciliation, exploration, transformation, transition, and consolation. As a resource for times of sadness as well as celebration, this book will be a real help to both the mature Christian and the new Christian, the lost and the found.

Does anyone like Monday mornings? The weekend is over and a week of work lies ahead. Days filled with traffic jams, deadlines, grumpy coworkers, meetings, coffee breaks, e-mails . . . it's not surprising that most of us would rather stay in bed and hide than get up and face work. It's easy to forget what having God in our lives really means. In this collection of prayers, David Gatward takes us through the experiences of a typical week, from Monday morning to Sunday evening. Monday Mornings and Traffic Jams shows us that God wants to get involved, get his hands dirty, get to know us, and that he's with us every hour of every day, even on Monday mornings!

In Heaven Touchinging Earth, the commonplace and the ordinary provide the backdrop to an encounter with God so that every part of life might be enlightened by his presence. Does prayer seem remote from daily life? Out of touch with the modern world? It can. Yet to be worth anything, faith must relate to our day-to-day existence, touching us where we are.

Health, Healing, and Wholeness is written to recognize and fulfill the need for a book which can be the basis for study groups and individuals in the ever-increasing number of churches who want to discover more about the healing ministry. This book honestly explores the experiences and disappointments that we all meet at some time. He encourages us to see that this is a normal part of Christian experience and growth, shows us what the Scriptures teach about such experiences, and how we can learn from them to follow Jesus more closely.

In this selection of fourteen readings, reflections, and prayers, Nick Fawcett highlights some of his most unforgettable passages in the Gospels. Drawn from his book Daily Prayer and from three of his Fawcett Bible Studies, these readings from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are made to encourage, renew, and inspire.

For clergy, chaplains, and those with pastoral responsibility, requests to conduct blessings are frequent and diverse. While no book can cover every contingency, God Bless You provides a resource covering a broad spectrum of life both within the church and further afield.

From the Foot of the Cross is written for those who sit beside hospital beds, visit the sick, or are home caregivers, perhaps attending to the needs of someone who is terminally ill. We know our powerlessness, but nevertheless try to respond as best we can, waiting, watching, caring, being there; just like Mary. Each of the twelve short chapters contains passages from Scripture and prayers which represent the struggle to pray through and find God within the watching and waiting hours.

Based on Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God, a spiritual classic for three hundred years, Finding God in the Fast Lane is a practical guide for Christians who long to find God in the relentless busyness of modern life. This book is for all seasons and all situations. Each of the six chapters contains questions, practical guidelines, and suggestions on how to pray at work or on the road, how to celebrate both stillness and busyness, and how to achieve inner silence, even in the midst of chaos.

Many people offer committed care--to a family member, friend, neighbor, or fellow church member. The caring can last a few months or go on for years. It is frequently demanding and often rewarding. Talking about it in a supportive environment can make the caring more effective and manageable. This ten session course provides a framework for such conversations. Suggestions for discussion arise from what carers have written about the experience, from reflection on some things Jesus said and did, and from the ideas of thinkers and writers from different epochs. Sessions cover topics such as looking after yourself, listening, getting support, and anger. This book is best used in a group set up specifically to study it. But the material also provides a rich resource for individual reflection on how to care better.

From his own experience of chronic fatigue syndrome, Raymond Tomkinson demonstrates how weariness, whatever its cause, and the rest it demands can be blessed by God. He challenges the apparent assumption that strength and busyness are good, weakness and stillness are bad. His aim is to release people from unnecessary burdens of guilt and lack of self-worth. Each chapter examines a different aspect of our perception of strength and weakness and includes follow-up material for reflection, discussion, and prayer. The intention is to provide encouragement to all those, sufferers or carers, who need to know that God is at work in our weakness, in our passivity, and in our receptivity. Some aspects of our relationship with God can only develop fully if we take advantage of the times when we are laid aside from the bustle and routine of twenty-first century living.

Few passages in Scripture are better loved than the Beatitudes. The verses have an innate beauty, a poetry about them that appeals to something deep within, but what do they actually mean? In this selection of readings, reflections, and prayers, Nick Fawcett seeks to explore what each of the eight Beatitudes has to say to us today. Drawn from his book Daily Lent Reflections, here are readings to encourage, renew, and inspire as we seek more faithfully to exhibit beatitude attitudes in our daily lives.

Prayer can seem like a closed book to many. God can feel remote from daily life and thus hard to communicate with. A World in Need approaches things from a different perspective, exploring through down-to-earth prayers how he can speak in the most ordinary of experiences and so help us to respond in turn.

A Walk and a Prayer by Nick Fawcett shows us God is always there in the everyday experiences of life--in our work and leisure, in everything and anything that might be talked about when friends get together. Celebrate and respond to that truth through these down-to-earth prayers.

A time of wonder, daily reflections, and prayers for advent by Siobhan O'Keeffe invites us to ponder with childlike trust the beauty and mystery of the incarnation during the holy season. We are invited to ponder with childlike trust the beauty and mystery of the incarnation during the holy season of Advent. A gift is bestowed upon us that is much greater than anything available in the marketplace. We hear God's words of promise to us: When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:13). God wishes to renew our hearts, our churches, and our world. He desires that we are deeply in tune with what is really important and sacred in our lives--the presence of the holy. We are invited to savor this presence ever more deeply, to share the light of his grace with others, and to rejoice!

Many people look upon prayer as a long-distance call when in reality God is present and waiting to meet us. Our God comes today and comes to us. Advent celebrates this joy. Let the prayers in this book help you to celebrate who God is, who is with you, and who comes to you. A Prayer a Day from Advent to Epiphany by celebrated author David Adam features succinct prayers that are full of meaning and easy to read.

In this selection of nine readings, reflections, and prayers, Nick Fawcett offers brief thoughts and prayers on Matthew's version of the Lord's Prayer and on the teaching of Jesus that preceded it. Drawn from his book Daily Lent Reflections, we begin where Jesus began, focusing on the need to make time and space for God in personal devotion. From here we move to a recognition that prayer is not about imposing our wishes on God but about seeking his will and guidance. This leads us into the Lord's Prayer itself--so familiar, so well loved, yet with so many hidden depths still to be explored.

Here Am I is about discipleship, personal encounters with God, and responding to God's call. This book encourages all Christians, young and old, to become aware of God's presence. Concentrating on the background and call experience of three biblical characters: the child Samuel, Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the prophet Isaiah. Here Am I examines their pivotal, formative experiences and looks at what we can learn from them about our own unique call and disciplehood. Each chapter ends with a set of questions that highlight the theme of that chapter and encourages individual reflection and group discussion.

Graham Kendrick takes readers behind the songs and into the inspiration which created them. At the age of 15 Kendrick dreamed of becoming a songwriter. Since that time his songs have become the soundtrack for the spiritual journeys of millions. Through the window of his lyrics, Kendrick takes us behind the songs into the inspiration and circumstances which brought them into being. Behind the Songs features photographs of Kendrick's life and career throughout the text.

The Letter to the Hebrews is one of the more sophisticated new testament writings, with the author connecting the Old Testament passages to the present concerns of the community of faith. This study takes six big questions based in the text and challenges participants to explore them thoughtfully together.

The heart of the cross is an element of mystery that can't be resolved either easily or entirely. Making Sense of the Cross, gives leaders the opportunity to guide a conversation on question from the participant book Making Sense of the Cross.

Martin Luther had a way with words and an eye toward instruction as he wrote the Small Catechism. Written to awaken and affirm faith as well as provide a helpful tool for households and congregations, the Small Catechism delivers the precise and profound words that have become the heart of Lutheran teaching about the Christian faith. As you will see in the story of the Small Catechism, Luther saw firsthand how far removed the gospel was from the people's experience. So, he set about crafting a simple Q & A on the basics of God's word, aimed at bringing the Holy Spirit into the hearts of sixteenth-century readers, readers ever since, and into your heart too.

These 52 meditations explore in a fresh and imaginative way what it must have been like to be a contemporary of Jesus. We hear from characters both familiar and unknown to us--from Mary and Martha to the woman who touched the hem of Jesus' garment. These meditations can be used to aid and inspire both personal prayer and group Bible study.