Category: Booklets & Journals

  • A Season of Discernment

    A Season of Discernment

    Theological task force on final report of the Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church.

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  • Call to Worship: The Sacramental Word

    Call to Worship: The Sacramental Word

    Volume 40, Issue #4. Features/Authors of articles are listed, Columns are not. Introduction Long, Kimberly Bracken  v Shouting the Whisper Willson, Patrick J. 1 Preaching as the Presence of Christ Janowiak, Paul A. 8 Leading from Font, Table, and Pulpit Wasserman, Marney A. 15 Praying the Great Thanksgiving Byars, Ronald P. 25 The Long and…

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  • Basic Mission Support Manual

    Basic Mission Support Manual

    A manual designed to assist committees as they plan for Presbytery-Session Basic Mission Support consultations. Includes an overview of the purposes for consultations, concrete help for the actual consultation, suggestions for follow-up & evaluation, a glossary, & resource section.

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  • Call to Worship: Year A

    Call to Worship: Year A

    Volume 31, Issue #1. Features/Authors are listed, columns are not. Introduction Long, Kimberly Bracken v The Shaping of the Liturgy Trinidad, Tom 1 Reading Theology with a Preacher’s Eye Fleming, Matthew 6 On Art and Worship Miller, Patricia Lynn 13 On Media and Worship Goode, Edward 16 God’s Ever-Changing Song Dobbins, R. Craig 23 Table…

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  • Long-Term Recovery Manual

    Long-Term Recovery Manual

    This Manual is intended to give a quick overview of the major players in your community’s disaster response and recovery, help you look at some successful models for organizing for long-term recovery, and offer some tools and samples for you adaptation to your situation.

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  • Call to Worship: Christian Marriage

    Call to Worship: Christian Marriage

    Volume 41, Issue #3. Features/Authors are listed, Columns are not. Introduction Long, Kimberly Bracken v A Pastor’s Reflection on the Marriage Rite Copeland, Brant S. 1 Front and Center Miller, J. Scott 10 Marriage: A New Way of Life Moore-Keish, Martha 18 Who’s to Do the “I Do’s?” Gamble, Eugenia A. 25 How Can We Not…

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  • Being a Welcoming Congregation

    Being a Welcoming Congregation

    Designed to help congregations practice hospitality and become truly welcoming congregations. It has training models for “Making People Feel Welcome”, “Greeters in a Welcoming, Hospitable Congregation”, “Ushers in a Welcoming, Hospitable Congregation”, as well as ways to identify areas that need improvement.

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  • Calvin, Ecumenism And Justice

    Calvin, Ecumenism And Justice

    Both essays were given as addresses to the “International Consultation on the Impact of Calvin’s Social Thought in Reformed Witness.”

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  • A Brief Statement of Faith

    A Brief Statement of Faith

    In 1983 the two largest Presbyterian churches in the United States reunited. The “Plan for Reunion” called for the preparation of a brief statement of the Reformed faith for possible inclusion in The Book of Confessions. This statement is therefore not intended to stand alone, apart from the other confessions of our church. It does not…

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  • Introductory Guide To A Brief Statement of Faith

    Introductory Guide To A Brief Statement of Faith

    A guide written for the understanding of “A Brief Statement of Faith,” which was approved by the 202nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 1990.

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  • Social Witness In Generous Orthodoxy

    Social Witness In Generous Orthodoxy

    George Hunsinger asserts that the polarity of “progressive politics and traditional faith” is not true to the gospel and not true to the church’s own tradition. More directly, Hunsinger demonstrates that the Presbyterian Church’s new “Study Catechism” embodies theology and social witness together in fidelity to the gospel. Social Witness in Generous Orthodoxy — Theology and…

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  • Growing Up Theologically

    Growing Up Theologically

    In Theology and Worship Occasional Paper No. 15, Leanne Van Dyk develops a lively metaphor for thinking theologically. Growing Up Theologically spins out the process of organic growth as an imaginative way of understanding ourselves as people who can and do reflect on Christian faith and life, and who can mature in our theological thinking.

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