A comprehensive resource for preaching and worship, this nondenominational guide is the best source for sermons, prayers, insights, and inspiration for all, from pastors and lay leaders to Sunday school teachers and choir directors ... complete sermons for the entire year, featuring both topical and lectionary preaching and worship aids to expand Sunday services, thought-provoking quotations and questions on life and religion to add breadth to your messages, a treasury of practical sermon applications and commentaries, children's sermons for engaging young minds and a wealth of topics to ponder during small group discussions, calendars to help you remember important historical, cultural, and religious anniversaries.
Contents:
Preface -- Sec. 1. General aids and resources -- Sec. 2. Sermons and homiletic and worship aids for fifty-two Sundays -- Sec. 3. Resources for congregational music -- Sec. 4. Messages for communion services -- Sec. 5. Messages for funerals and bereavement : an odyssey of consolations -- Sec. 6. Lenton and Easter preaching -- Sec. 7. Evangelism and missions -- Sec. 8. Resources for preaching from Psalms -- Sec. 9. Messages for Advent and Christmas -- Sec. 10. Resources for preaching on Revelation -- Sec. 11. Children's sermons -- Sec. XII. A little treasury of illustrations -- Contributors and acknowledgements -- Index of contributors -- Sermon title index -- Scriptural index -- Index of prayers -- Index of materials useful as children's stories and sermons not included in Section 11 -- Index of materials useful for small groups -- Topical index.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.